IGNITE:
WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS EXPO
IGNITE provides a venue for women-owned businesses to exhibit their products and services to the supplier diversity professionals searching for them. Come meet your goals through face-to-face networking with customers and vendors. While you are there, share and learn from the diversity programs implemented by your peers and gain valuable strategies and tactics for completing the women-owned business certification process. Be a part of creating more opportunities for women's economic advancement.
EXHIBIT
Save yourself from cold calling, and travel expenses
Women-owned businesses can showcase their products and services directly to some of the largest multinational companies in the world, such as Cargill, Land O’ Lakes, and Wells Fargo.
ATTEND
Achieve your company’s supplier diversity goals
Supplier diversity professionals come to connect with businesses that offer the products and services you need while proactively demonstrating support of women's economic advancement.
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Procurement professionals may attend the expo for free. Sign up to let us know you are coming.
SPONSOR
Step up to support supplier diversity in the food and ag sector.
Become a Founding Sponsor and raise awareness of the programs and opportunities your team offers to women-owned businesses. Sponsor packages include the opportunity to invite your women-owned vendors to exhibit at IGNITE and attend the WIA Summit. Contact Joy O'Shaughnessy for more information.
Snapshot of the products and services corporations are looking for:
Commodities
Baked Goods / Cookie
Pieces
Cherries
Chicken Meat
Cocoa / Chocolate
Confectionary / Fudge
Corn
Dairy
Dried fruit
Edible Oils
Eggs
Energy
Flavors
Fruit Juices / Fruit Purees
Herbs / Spices
Nuts
Pasta
Salt
Soybean
Spices
Sugar
Tea Leaf
Vinegar / Soy Sauce
Wheat
General Office Supplies/Services
Office supplies
Office equipment
Office furniture
Printing
Promotional products
Signage (exterior)
Hotels
Global relocation services
Marketing & advertising
services
Legal services
Financial services
Consulting & professional
services
OEM
Bins/tanks
Boiler equipment
Dust control systems
Flour milling equipment
Liquid filtration
Material handling equipment
Pellet mills
Railcar loading/unloading
equipment
Roller mills
Temperature sensors
Weighing systems
Services - Maintenance
Contractors (roofing)
Lab services
Pest control
Temporary Labor
Tank inspection
Warehouse management
Waste management
Distributors — MRO
Batteries
Bearings
Belt drive components
Conveyors
Drives
Electrical supplies
Gear reducers
HVAC and controls
Hydraulics
instrumentation
Lab supplies
Lamps/lighting
Motors
Personal protective wear
Pneumatics
Information Technology
IT hardware and
computers
IT software
LAN infrastructure
hardware
Telecommunications
IT services
Packaging
Bags (multiwall/poly/single
wall/vacuum)
Bottles
Boxes
Bulk bags
Casings
Containers-solid fiber
Foam trays
Folding cartons
Pallets
Paper trays
Paper boards
Slip sheets
(plastic/corrugated)
Stretch wrap
Tape
Transportation
Air freight
Freight (LTL)
Logistic Services
Overnight freight services