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Supplier Diversity

Supplier diversity means ensuring that businesses owned by women and minority groups are included in a company's supplier selection process.

In the U.S., the government and many of our business customers require that we source from diversity suppliers. Beyond compliance, we recognize that supplier diversity promotes innovation and creativity and allows us to meet the needs of customers and consumers around the world.

Our supplier diversity team identifies diversity-owned businesses that can potentially bid on procurement opportunities. We have set goals to increase the proportion of our procurement spend with diversity businesses.

For inquiries regarding our supplier diversity program, e-mail us at supplier.diversity@motorolasolutions.com.

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Performance and goals

Since January 2004, Motorola, Inc. has spent more than $2.4 billion with diversity suppliers.

In 2010, Motorola, Inc. spent 9.6 percent of U.S. procurement spend with global diversity suppliers. Diversity businesses supplied us with a variety of products and services such as accessories, cables, engineering, logistics, packaging and travel.

Motorola, Inc. missed its goal for 11 percent of U.S. procurement spend to be with global diversity suppliers for the following reasons:

Existing diversity suppliers could no longer compete on either technology, quality or price
Existing diversity suppliers either sold to non-diversity owners or closed their businesses
Reduced demand for products supplied by diversity businesses

Percent of U.S. supplier spend with tier-one diversity suppliers
	Motorola, Inc.							Motorola Solutions
	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2010
U.S.	2.6%	5.7%	8.3%	9.9%	8.7%	9.2%	9.1%	12.2%
Outside the U.S.	n/a*	n/a*	n/a*	0.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.6%
Total	2.6%	5.7%	8.3%	10.4%	9.3%	9.9%	9.6%	12.8%

*Prior to 2007, Motorola did not identify diversity spend outside the U.S.

Supplier diversity plans

In 2011, Motorola Solutions will focus on achieving 14% of its U.S. procurement spend with businesses owned by minorities, women, veterans and other recognized diversity businesses.

Motorola, Inc. plans for 2010	Motorola, Inc. progress in 2010	Motorola Solutions plans for 2011
Achieve 11 percent of U.S. tier-one supply chain spend with diversity suppliers.	Motorola, Inc. spent 9.6 percent of U.S. tier-one supply chain spend with diversity suppliers.	Achieve 14 percent of U.S. tier-one supply chain spend with diversity suppliers.