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TV Show Highlighs Boeing's Supplier Diversity Program

“We use supplier diversity as a key discriminator to enhance our opportunity to be competitive,”

said Joan Robinson-Berry, director of Strategic Work Placement for IDS Supplier Management

and enterprise Small Business Liaison Officer, when she appeared as a guest on the television program Making It! Minority Success Stories. The TV program, which highlights the triumphs, challenges, and contributions of minoritybusiness, originally aired March 30, 2008, on KTLA

Channel 5 in Los Angeles and KSWB Channel 5 in San Diego.

During the in-studio interview, which was produced in January 2008, Robinson-Berry,

then-director of Supplier Diversity, discussed the vital role a diverse supply base plays for the company. She offered this advice to the small business wanting to do business with Boeing:

They need to be “a discriminator, with technology or services. If they have high quality, or

they’re finding ways to help reduce our costs, and finding innovative solutions to help us

achieve our goals, then they should come to Boeing.”

The half-hour magazine format show also included segments on two Boeing small business

suppliers: Carrillo Business Technologies and Damar. CB Technologies is an information

technology reseller and solutions provider based inWestminster, Calif. For Boeing, the

company provides configuration development, acquisition, delivery and installation of

Hewlett Packard Intel and Unix server products. CB Technologies was the 2006 Boeing

Supplier of the Year in the Diversity/Small Minority Business Enterprise category.

Damar, located in Monroe, Wash., is a small, service-disabled veteran-owned business.

The company, which manufactures machined parts, complex assemblies and integrated kits

for the Boeing Renton plant, has been a supplier to Commercial Airplanes programs since 1973. More recently, Damar has supported military derivative aircraft programs, and is currently

a protégé supplier on the U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon program.

The Boeing-dedicated episode of Making It! also aired Saturday, April 5, 2008, on KKPX

Channel 65 in San Francisco and KSPX Channel 29 in Sacramento. The show also benefits

from KTLA’s extended reach coverage through cable and satellite carriers across the country.

Please check local listings for dates and times.

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