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As gleaned from MLB.com:
LOS ANGELES — For Southern California business owners, All-Star Week 2022 offered a unique opportunity for professional growth.
Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the inaugural “Doing Business With Baseball” event, a luncheon and network reception held at Dodger Stadium’s Stadium Club and emceed by Billy Bean, MLB’s senior vice president of diversity, equity & inclusion. Attendees included entrepreneurs and representatives from over 30 local businesses, representing a wide range of industries, including food and beverage, promotions and infrastructure.
Different as these businesses may be, they each had at least two things in common. All are helmed by underrepresented business owners (including Black-owned, Latino/a-owned, Asian-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, LGBTQ-owned and other underrepresented small businesses). And all are vying for future or continued partnerships with Major League Baseball.
Formed in 1998, Major League Baseball’s Diverse Business Partners program has cultivated new and existing partnerships with underrepresented businesses. The program increases opportunities for women-owned or minority-owned business enterprises to participate in procurement activities of MLB entities and MLB clubs.
Since the formation of this program, MLB and its clubs have spent nearly $2 billion with diverse-owned businesses.
Each business owner in attendance on Friday had the chance to share a little about themselves and their company’s services, essentially making an elevator pitch for why they’d be a good match to work with MLB, the Dodgers — and each other. #baseball
