Limited Brands presents 2008 Diverse Supplier Awards

July 01, 2009

Limited Brands awarded Vista Industrial Packaging, Commercial Cutting & Graphics and CB Tech with its 2008 Diverse Supplier Award. These minority and women-owned companies were chosen for their tremendous service excellence and competitive cost savings.

• Vista Industrial Packaging has partnered with Limited Brands for the past 12 years and have continued to improve the inbound process to our distribution centers while dramatically reducing the time needed to receive merchandise during our peak holiday season. Although they were without electricity for a week last year as a result of Hurricane Ike, Vista continued to operate their inbound operation during daylight hours by keeping the dock doors open and using a generator and wireless card for their computers instead of shutting down operations.
• Commercial Cutting & Graphics provides high-quality finishing work on marketing and visual elements and continues to work with the company to lower costs. Recognizing that much of their work is deadline-based, they started providing their employees with temporary daycare last year so projects could be completed efficiently and on time without parents having to worry about their children.
• CB Tech, which manages and coordinates Limited Brands company-wide window cleaning, floor care, housekeeping and cleaning programs, established a national store cleaning initiative which consolidated more than a thousand invoices from individual suppliers into one. They also developed an exclusive technology to allow subcontractors the ease of signing off on work orders electronically.

In addition, two Limited Brands business were honored for increasing their spending with minority and women-owned suppliers last year despite significant overall expense reductions. Both identified and secured suppliers that were competitively priced, efficient and innovative.

• Beauty Avenues, which sources and produces our personal care and beauty products for Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret Beauty and Pink, increased their supplier diversity spending by 85 percent.
• Store Design & Construction, which manages the design and construction of all Limited Brands' stores, increased their spending with minority and women-owned business by 19 percent.

Learn more about Limited Brands' Supplier Diversity Program

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