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A Word From Our Leadership

Our Leadership Team is dedicated to furthering our diversity and inclusion efforts with a firm foundation built on awareness and education. It continues with the development and rollout of an aggressive strategy to implement our D&I platform across the organization. We will share our initiatives and rollout plans as the timeline progresses.

With your help, we will establish Diversity Councils and Business Resource Groups (BRGs) across all regions to further enhance our talent acquisition, employee engagement, local market, impact, and community involvement efforts. Our mission is to build a wholly inclusive and diverse culture that ensures everyone in the Southern Glazer’s community is respected, engaged, and motivated to grow professionally and personally. In doing so, we hope to realize our vision of attracting and retaining a diverse talent pool of employees to support company growth as we remain the industry leader.

Please join us on this journey.

Cheers,

  • Wayne E. ChaplinCEO

  • Sheldon “Shelly” SteinPresident

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    “It is very important to create an atmosphere where all people bring their experience and background to advance our business goals.”

    - Jag Jeyabalan, Sr. Application Developer

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    “Inclusion is action. It's purposeful. It takes effort.”

    – Terence Goods, National Director, Diversity & Inclusion

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    "We want innovation and creativity. Diversity & inclusion brings that out."

    – Tony Green, HR Manager

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    "Middle managers have to role model diversity and inclusion. They are an integral part of making this long term endeavor successful."

    – Terry Arnold, SVP HR, Chief Human Resources Officer

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At Southern Glazer’s, our Leadership Team embraces and supports diversity and inclusion at all levels. It’s not only the right thing to do, but it’s the smart thing to do to grow our business. We must be as diverse as the brands that we offer, the customers that we supply and the communities where we work.

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We care about our people and believe that culture should be a valued commodity. Our companywide Diversity and Inclusion strategy is focused on creating a welcoming workplace where employees can bring their whole selves to the office and the marketplace. When we actively embrace our differences, we learn that success looks the same for all of us!

Our Commitment to Diversity

As we continue to grow, our diversity and inclusion efforts are paramount to our future. Our mission is to build a wholly inclusive and diverse culture that ensures each member of the Southern Glazer's community is respected, engaged, and motivated to grow professionally and personally. To accomplish this goal, we rely on leaders in our organization to share their experiences, viewpoints, and perspectives.

April is responsible for marketing efforts across SGWS business channels to positively impact sales execution and engagement across multicultural markets, including the development and application of VISTA – a SGWS proprietary account segmentation tool. Last year, she played a pivotal role in launching the Austin-based CHEERS to Diversity group, which is highly engaged providing an array of professional development, mentorship and community service opportunities.

Detrick is one of the founding members of the Dallas-based CHEERS to Pride business resource group, which supports the cultivation of a diverse culture based on inclusivity, equality, fairness, and awareness for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) community. Last year, he played a key role in the execution of the company’s first ever sponsorship of the Dallas Pride Music Festival, which attracted nearly 10,000 people.

Julie has been a part of the Southern Glazer’s family since the company launched in the Pacific Northwest and has been in the alcohol beverage industry for 33 years. Last year, she received the local “Diversity Champion” award for her outstanding work in the D&I space from our Pacific Northwest-based CHEERS to Women in Wine & Spirits group. Growing up in a military family, Julie’s passion for service has led to tremendous work in the community with local non-profit organizations.

Janine is a founding member of the Illinois-based CHEERS to Diversity business resource group that launched in September 2018. The group is actively engaged in fostering a culture of diversity & inclusion and encourages other leaders to join in this effort. In January, CHEERS to Diversity IL conducted its first industry panel – made up of SGWS leaders, as well as supplier and retail customer partners – highlighting the three CHEERS IL pillars of Awareness, Engagement, and Education.

Shon is a founding member of the Louisiana-based CHEERS to Diversity business resource group. Inspired by her personal mantra, “leave every place better than you found it”, Shon is actively involved in her sphere of influence. She partners with organizations such as Junior League of New Orleans, an organization committed to promoting voluntarism and improving communities, as well as Dress for Success, a non-profit organization that works with over 50 New Orleans agencies to identify women who can gain employment and economic independence.

Stephen, a 14-year SGWS corporate team member, leads the Office of Strategic Management (OSM). SGWS leadership has steadfastly supported OSM’s role as a company “on-ramp” for diverse, highly-skilled talent. Describing his approach for recruiting high-performing and diverse talent, Stephen says, “It begins with a mindset that reflects what’s best in the culture and values of Southern Glazer’s… Like our company’s will to win, diversity 'is not a sometime thing; it’s an all-the-time thing.

Our Strategic Diversity Pillars

Create succession planning, mentoring, leadership opportunities

Align with suppliers and customers to reinforce multicultural business development

Drive employment branding, community support and brand recognition

Maintain an effective communication strategy and highlight our successes

Provide avenues to enhance the careers of our employees

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits salutes the men and women who defend our country. It is an honor to pay tribute to our veteran employees and to their families to whom we say THANK YOU with the deepest gratitude.

We are proud to have launched a national veteran and military strategy to support our veteran workforce. Our goal is to provide our veteran and military employees with the tools and professional support to create a successful career.

Brian O, Director of Sales and Operations

"The leadership, mentoring and teamwork skills I acquired in the US Army helped prepare me to successfully lead a variety of different teams at Southern Glazer's. The Army instilled a 'lead by example' mindset that I try to model for my teammates and direct reports alike."

Sarah M, Warehouse Manager

"My time in the military afforded me the opportunity to work alongside fellow service members who were from all walks of life, backgrounds, ethnicities, religions, and also different ranks in the chain of command. Because of these experiences I feel comfortable jumping into almost any workplace setting regardless of the background or title of the person."

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Our Diversity Councils and Business Resource Groups

At Southern Glazer's, employees have the opportunity to join and launch Diversity Councils and Business Resource Groups (BRGs) that promote a culture of inclusion through employee engagement, professional development, career growth, peer mentoring, and other actions that align with our company's Mission, Vision, and Values.

"C.H.E.E.R.S. To Diversity" is the national umbrella that drives this important companywide imperative. C.H.E.E.R.S. stands for Connecting, Hard-Working, Empowering, Educating, Respecting, and Serving.

With a total of 10 chapters across the nation, "C.H.E.E.R.S. to Women in Wine & Spirits" is dedicated to the professional development and empowerment of women at Southern Glazer's and is currently our fastest-growing BRG.

We continue to launch an array of additional BRGs throughout our organization, as showcased below.

Recent Events

Our National Office of D&I hosted an all-day Summit for the Diversity Connections Consortium, a networking group of over 50 corporate diversity professionals from top companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Attendees enjoyed rich conversations about current D&I-related topics and a workshop around best practices for employee-led resource groups. Dr. James Pogue, a powerful motivational speaker and D&I expert, also led a session focused on emergent strategies to engage leaders and facilitate change at all levels in organizations around bias. This Summit was a valuable teaching, learning, and networking experience for all attendees who are consistently working to foster D&I in the workplace.

In celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, our CHEERS to Diversity business resource group in Missouri partnered with SGWS suppliers to support Pride Events in Springfield and St. Louis. MO-based employees volunteered to pass out over 1000 bottles of water during Springfield’s Pride Parade and partnered with several customers in the “Grove” neighborhood to provide complimentary shuttles to and from the PrideFest in St. Louis, making sure attendees had a safe, enjoyable time.

South Florida Members of our South Florida-based VolunCheers and Cheers to Women in Wine and Spirits groups participated in the ‘Turquoise Takeover’ Lung Cancer Awareness Campaign during National Women's Lung Health Week. Throughout the week, employees across the state wore turquoise, participated in local events, and posted photos on social media to raise awareness of the impact of lung cancer as the number one cancer killer of women and men in the U.S. Southern Glazer’s was able to match up to $12,000 for every dollar raised for research funding in the hope of finding a cure.

The North Texas-based CHEERS to Women in Wine & Spirits business resource group welcomed over 50 female and male employees across various SGWS divisions/functions for an outstanding panel discussion event entitled, “Balancing Career & Family”. This professional development opportunity explored how SGWS employees can effectively balance responsibilities at home and at work. The panel featured women with families and leadership roles within the education, legal and wine industries. Throughout the discussion, they provided great insight and advice around having a successful career while enjoying a fulfilling personal life.

Our Corporate & Community Diversity Partners

To ensure our strategy is current and aligned with industry best practices, we are honored to collaborate with like-minded national and local organizations. Together, our efforts will continue to make a difference within the communities where Southern Glazer's and our client partners operate.

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  • Plano Culture & Inclusion alliance
  • Visit Dallas
  • Womans Foodservice Forum

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