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- Johnson Controls earned honors from Fortune magazine as the most admired company in the motor vehicle parts category in 2007. It was the second consecutive year for the recognition. Companies are rated on eight key areas of leadership, including people management, social responsibility, quality of management and innovation.
- Plastech Engineered Products, a minority-owned supplier to Johnson Controls, was selected as contract manufacturer at four of the company’s automotive interior parts plants in North America, effective April 1, 2007. Plastech has been a strategic supplier to Johnson Controls since 2001.
- Johnson Controls' chairman and CEO was named a recipient of a 2007 Diversity Leadership Award by Diversity Best Practices and Business Women’s Network.
- Among the suppliers honored by Toyota North America in 2007 was Johnson Controls, winner of a Superior Award for its supplier diversity initiatives. Johnson Controls received this award in four consecutive years. The Superior Award is Toyota’s top recognition.
- In 2007, for the sixth consecutive year, Johnson Controls exceeded $1 billion in purchases from diverse suppliers.
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- Johnson Controls is one of just 14 companies in the Billion Dollar Roundtable, an organization comprised of U.S. corporations that annually spend more than $1 billion with minority- and women-owned firms.
- Recognition for company-wide diversity initiatives in 2007 included Corporation of the Year from both the Michigan Minority Business Development Council and the Tennessee Minority Supplier Development Council.
- Johnson Controls has more than 300 diverse vendors. In addition, Johnson Controls is an equity partner in four minority equity joint ventures totaling $1 billion in annual revenue and employing more than 1,500 workers in their communities.
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