Supplier Diversity benefits both diverse and non-diverse businesses. Similar to any manufacturer-to-distributor relationship, supplier diversity programs activate another level of sales and funding for manufacturers.

Using a database of 30 million profiles, Zippia estimates demographics and statistics for Owners in the United States. Estimates are verified against BLS, Census, and current job openings data for accuracy. After extensive research and analysis, Zippia's data science team found that:

• There are over 726,076 manufacturing owners currently employed in the United States.

• The most common ethnicity of Owners is White (81.8%), followed by Hispanic or Latino (6.7%) and Asian (6.6%)

This lack of ownership diversity makes supplier diversity programs even more important to manufacturers to help leverage business development opportunities.