Honda moves to increase diversity of supplier base

摘要

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio - Early last month, gasoline trucks owned by Hightowers Petroleum Co. started refueling a Honda Motor Co. in-house service station, where company employees buy gasoline. For Honda - with a North American direct purchasing budget of $26 billion a year - it's a small contract for a small business. But Stephen Hightower, a black entrepreneur who has run his family's fuel delivery business since 1981, says it could lead to bigger things.