Amid DEI Pullback, Meijer Expands Diverse Supplier Program

In early February, Meijer released a press release stating that the company “reaffirmed its commitment today to growing its selection of Black-owned brands.” 

The supplier inclusion program at Meijer started in 2021 and has grown the number of Black-owned brands by 35% since then. Meijer joins a growing list of companies that support DEI in recent months.

Here’s everything you need to know about Meijer’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policy.

Meijer’s DEI Timeline

• 2019: Meijer Makes Tim Williams its VP of Inclusion, the first in the role at the company (from publicly available data)
• 2020: Meijer invested more than $5 million to support racial equity
• 2021/2022: Meijer donated $1 million to 19 different chapters of the Urban League
• 2023: Meijer releases its “2022 Corporate Impact Report” with a section on DEI 
  • The report had 15 mentions of the phrase “DEI”
• 2024: Meijer wins a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” award (eight years in a row)
• 2024: Meijer scored 100 in a benchmark index of practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality
• 2024: Meijer releases its “2023 Corporate Impact Report” without any mention of diversity, equity, or inclusion
  • The report had 0 mentions of the phrase “DEI”
• 2025: Meijer reaffirmed its commitment to increasing Black-owned brands on shelves

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