Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) is a private sector led, not-for-
profit membership organization created to provide a direct link between its corporate members and ethnic minority businesses to enable the building of mutually beneficial business relationships.
MSDUK is demand-led and corporately driven. MSDUK is the market leader in assisting corporations deliver practical supplier diversity programmes in the UK. MSDUK is in a position to be able to provide its corporate members with an efficient and effective direct link to some of our country’s most innovative and entrepreneurial businesses and provide assistance in the development of of the best practice supplier diversity programmes. MSDUK’s Charter Members include BT, Cisco Systems, Compass Group Plc, Cummins, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, ExxonMobil, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Johnson Controls Inc, Merck Sharp and Dohme, PepsiCo UK and Ireland, Pfizer Inc, Xerox. Regular members include Accenture, Aramark, Bank of America, Capital One Bank (Europe) plc, Deloitte LLP, Delphi, Elior UK, Eversheds LLP, Frank Haslam Milan Ltd, Goldman Sachs & Co, Hewlett Packard, JPMorgan, KPMG, Linklaters LLP, Lovell Partnerships Ltd, Marriot Hotels International Ltd, Marsh & McLennan Companies, MasterCard Worldwide, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Serco, Tyco Fire and Security, Wyndham Worldwide.
MSDUK offers a range of programmes and services to its corporate members and minority businesses. Members have access to a range of services which support the development of their supplier diversity programme and engagement with minority businesses. MSDUK provides minority businesses with a unique opportunity to get direct access access to the procurement teams for some of the largest companies. The MSDUK awards were established in 2008, and recognise and award ethnic minority businesses (EMB’s) that excel in building and expanding their firms to meet market and client demands, and also for corporations who have embraced the ethos of supplier diversity and supplier development, and use the UK minority supplier base. The first awards were held in 2008, where top executives from corporate companies, including PepsiCo, BT and JP Morgan, joined MPs and community business leaders to applaud the achievements of suppliers from Britain’s ethnic minorities. Five awards were presented on one evening, with more than 250 guests in attendance. The awards ceremony was a testimony of the mutually beneficial partnership between corporations who are the country’s leaders in supplier diversity and minority businesses.
This year’s three new Supplier of the Year categories will showcase the qualities of businesses that clients and customers are demanding. These include innovation and evidence of responsible business practices and these are the qualities that can distinguish and push a small company ahead of the competition. Amongst this year’s candidates are web design and online marketing agencies. Standoutuk.com has been shortlisted for this year awards
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