Volkswagen’s Keith Eakins, supplier diversity manager, informs attendees about how minority businesses can do work for VW Friday at the Chattanooga Convention Center.Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant has 15 minority suppliers so far, and officials for the carmaker Friday hoped to garner more.
“We want to continue to grow it,” said Keith Eakins, VW’s supplier diversity manager in Chattanooga.
More than 60 people attended a minority business trade show in Chattanooga set up by VW. The meeting was aimed at wooing minority companies that want to do business with VW or some of its big suppliers.
“We hope they walk out of the room and more deals can be made,” Eakins said.
Dennis Waggoner, executive vice president of information technology company Zycron Inc., said the trade show was a way of connecting with the German automaker.