Diversity and Inclusion

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2006--Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX) this week introduces Rwanda Blue Bourbon coffee, its first ever from Rwanda and the 10th coffee in its Black Apron Exclusives(TM) line-up.

"Until recently, high quality coffee...

Columbia, Md.- Enterprise Community Investment, Inc. (Enterprise) announced today that its board of directors has approved a restructuring of the company's lines of business, accompanied by a significant realignment of its senior management team. Enterprise is a natio...

New York City--For the first time ever, eight of the world's top jewelry retailers have pledged to move away from "dirty" gold sales and are calling on mining corporations to ensure that gold is produced in more socially and environmentally responsible ways. The retai...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This week marks the start of the 9th annual A Season for Nonviolence, a national 64-day educational, media and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform and empower peop...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hospitals and healthcare suppliers are making progress in efforts to use diverse suppliers, but much work remains to do, the director of Supplier Diversity Initiatives for Premier Inc. told a quarterly meeting of the National Minority Supplie...

MOSCOW--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SPIRIT DSP
(www.spiritDSP.com/voip), provider of award-winning embedded voice
& communication software products, announced today that PalTalk
(w...

(London/ Davos): Google's launch of a self-censoring Chinese search engine is the latest in a string of examples of global Internet companies caving in to pressure from the Chinese government. The service curtails the rights of Chinese Internet users to the freedom of...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have reached a new five-year contract representing approximately 175 employees at three plants in Louisville, Kentucky, and Richmond, Virginia.

STAMFORD, Conn., - Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) has awarded its annual Xerox Technical Minority Scholarships to 119 graduate and undergraduate students from across the country to recognize their high academic achievement in the fields of science, engineering and tech...

Boardman, Oregon--Marty Myers, General Manager of Threemile Canyon Farms, today announced that he has hired Rose Corral as Director of Human Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility. Ms. Corral joins the senior management team of this large farm and dairy operati...