9 Companies and Brands Blacks Should Support and Boycott
Marriott
For five consecutive years, Marriott International has been ranked as one of the “40 Best Companies for Diversity” by Black Enterprise. In DiversityInc’s list of “Top 50 Companies for Diversity,” the hotel chain ranked fourth overall in 2009, 11th in 2008 and 46th in 2007.
As part of its mission to focus on diversity, the company reaches out to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Association of Black Accountants and the National Black MBA Association.
“[Marriott] is doing the most, by far, to recruit and support black business owners for hotels,” Anderson said. “There are so many companies that don’t do nearly enough business with our entrepreneurs. They market to us, but don’t do business with us and sometimes won’t even locate their business in our neighborhoods.”
