In 2021, 57% of our team was represented by ethnic minorities.
We believe a diverse workforce fosters innovation and cultivates an environment filled with unique perspectives.
Hormel Foods is committed to having an inclusive workplace. We were proud to be named one of the Best Employers for Veterans by Military Times, and one of the World’s Top Female-Friendly Companies by Forbes. We have nine employee resource groups (ERGs) in place to support our mission to create a workplace where our team members feel welcomed, respected and valued. Membership in each group is open to all team members across the company. Our ERGs are:
- Black Leaders and Allies Advancing Cultural Knowledge;
- Hormel Asian American Professionals Association;
- Hormel Food and Agriculture Resource Members;
- Hormel Integrating Relevant Experiences;
- Hormel Military Veterans Engagement Team;
- Hormel Professionals Representing Out and United Individuals & Allies;
- Hormel Young Professionals Enterprise;
- Nuestra Gente (Hormel Foods Hispanic Resource Group); and
- Women’s Insights Network.
For more information about our ERGs, please visit our corporate website.
The company’s Inclusion and Diversity Guiding Coalition helps shape the business and people strategies of Hormel Foods. Additional information about our Inclusion and Diversity Guiding Coalition can be found below.
We partner with a wide array of business associations to support inclusion and diversity both internally and externally. Some of our partners include the National Association of Black Accountants, the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, and the Society of Women Engineers as well as other multicultural business organizations.
In 2021, we held a spotlight charities campaign to help support inclusion, diversity and hunger relief. The featured organizations for the spotlight charities campaign were: Hollaback!, The Trevor Project and Feeding America. Hormel Foods matched team member and retiree donations to the organizations during the campaign time frame. In total, more than $34,000 was donated to these nonprofits through this effort.*
The 2021-2022 academic year was the first year of our Inspired Pathways program, which provides the opportunity of a free two-year college education for the dependent children of our team members. This monumental program helps many first-generation college students. In 2021, we provided support to over 150 students. For additional information, please visit the philanthropy section of this report.
Executives of our company are held accountable for creating an inclusive, diverse workplace through their yearly incentive plans, which include a component focused on overall belonging scores and the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in our salaried positions. One of our 20 By 30 Challenge goals is to increase the number of women in salaried roles by 25% and the number of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in salaried roles by 25% by 2025. In 2021, we increased the number of women in salaried roles by 2.8% and the number of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in salaried roles by 9.1% compared to 2020.
*Some of these donations occurred in calendar year 2021.