DALLAS—Brinker International has awarded three vendor partners the company’s highest honor, the Supplier Partner of the Year Award. In addition to improving profit margins through cost reductions, these vendors also helped Brinker and its brands successfully execute several integral company-wide initiatives.
The 2011 Brinker International Supplier Partner of the Year Award recipients include:
- SureGrip Floor Safety Solutions. Operating in Tallahassee, Fla., SureGrip enabled Brinker to consolidate to a single floor cleaning product designed to improve traction on restaurant floors.
- Aon Hewitt. Based in Lincolnshire, Ill., the global human resource consulting and outsourcing business of Aon Corporation conducted an audit to verify eligibility of dependents covered under the company’s health care plan.
- Simmons Prepared Foods. This Siloam Springs, Ark., company is a key poultry provider, whose innovation and flexibility led to the development of high quality chicken solutions meeting rigorous performance requirements for current restaurant and kitchen retrofit initiatives.
“Each of these three companies went above and beyond, offering innovative business solutions that enabled Brinker to not only effectively manage our bottom line in a tough economic environment, but also provide our guests, team members and restaurants better products and services,” said David Parsley, senior vice president of supply chain management for Brinker International. “In the last year, the services of these exceptional vendors have made a significant impact on our business.”
The Supplier Partners of the Year were feted at a Brinker corporate all-team member meeting in Dallas Aug. 19.
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