East-West Business Connection is a global matchmaking event attracting minority-owned businesses, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) practitioners, and business-to-business professionals. Corporate buyers will meet one-on-one with minority business owners (W/MBEs) for specific procurement needs.

Featured Commodities and Services of interest by Buyers at East-West Business Connection. 

Please come back often as the list is updated often. (Updated 2/25/25)

• 326211 TIRE MANUFACTURING (EXCEPT RETREADING)
• 332510 HARDWARE MANUFACTURING
• 332722 BOLT, NUT, SCREW, RIVET, AND WASHER MANUFACTURING
• 332911 INDUSTRIAL VALVE MANUFACTURING
• 332994 SMALL ARMS, ORDNANCE, AND ORDNANCE ACCESSORIES MANUFACTURING
• 332994-Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing,
• 332996 FABRICATED PIPE AND PIPE FITTING MANUFACTURING
• 332999 ALL OTHER MISCELLANEOUS FABRICATED METAL PRODUCT MANUFACTURING
• 332999-All other miscellaneous fabricated metal product manufacturing,
• 333613 MECHANICAL POWER TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING
• 333618 OTHER ENGINE EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING
• 333996 FLUID POWER PUMP AND MOTOR MANUFACTURING
• 334220 RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING
• 334412 BARE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD MANUFACTURING
• 334417 ELECTRONIC CONNECTOR MANUFACTURING
• 334419 OTHER ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MANUFACTURING
• 334511 SEARCH, DETECTION, NAVIGATION, GUIDANCE, AERONAUTICAL, AND NAUTICAL SYSTEM AND INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURING (DLA Land & Maritime Top North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes (FY2023)
• 335312 MOTOR AND GENERATOR MANUFACTURING
• 335314 RELAY AND INDUSTRIAL CONTROL MANUFACTURING
• 335911 STORAGE BATTERY MANUFACTURING
• 335931 CURRENT-CARRYING WIRING DEVICE MANUFACTURING
• 335999 ALL OTHER MISCELLANEOUS ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENT MANUFACTURING
• 336390 OTHER MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS MANUFACTURING
• 336413 OTHER AIRCRAFT PARTS AND AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING
• 336992 MILITARY ARMORED VEHICLE, TANK, AND TANK COMPONENT MANUFACTURING
• 336992-Military Armored Vehicle, Tank, and Tank Component Manufacturing,
• 339991 GASKET, PACKING, AND SEALING DEVICE MANUFACTURING
• 493190 OTHER WAREHOUSING AND STORAGE
• 541330-Engineering Services
• Accounting
• Accounts Payable
• Accounts Receivable Mgmt. Svc.
• Adhesive
• Administrative Services: Training, Temporary Help, Advertising, Printing and Facilities Management
• All Automotive Parts and Services and Indirect Services
• Aluminium
• Aluminum Diecasting
• Aluminum products (aluminum rolled sheet , aluminum extrusion )
• Apparel
• Architectural Services
• Assembly Services
• Attendance Line call in (call in for absences)
• Audit and Recovery
• Audit Services
• Auto parts
• Automation tools, experience, implementation services, anything security related
• AWS
• Background Screening Services
• Bad Debt Collections
• Banquets, Events, Conference Contracts,
• Biomedical services & repair (Clinical Engineering)
• BPO Outsourcing, niche boutiques similar to the big firms for SI, advisory services
• Bridge design and geotechnical
• Bridge painting 
• Building Construction
• Building maintenance
• Business process outsourcing
• Cabinets/Credenza/Wood Furniture
• Call Transfer services
• Castings
• Cathering
• Central kitchen services
• Chip seals
• Cleanroom supplies
• Coffee and Tea Supplies
• Cold milling
• Collection Services
• Commercial and Promotional Printing
• Communications & Marketing
• Components-Fasteners (bolts, dampers, clips)
• Concierge service, Greeter
• Construction
• Construction engineering
• Construction inspection and testing
• Construction paving and repair
• Construction services
• Construction surveying and road design.
• Consulting/Professional Services,
• Contracted Pharmacy Services for Student Health Center
• Corrugated packaging (within one hour of DENSO plants)
• Courier Services
• Cybersecurity Vendors
• Designing Services
• Die cast parts
• Die casting
• Die Casting- Domestic capabilities
• Die Casting products
• Direct material only, including steel, aluminum, transportation (asset based only)
• Diverse Needs from suppliers
• Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
• E-Catalogue
• Electric
• Electrical (harness, inflators, lighting, switches)
• Electrical services
• Electrical Support (Services)
• Elevator Maintenance
• Energy and Utilities
• Energy Storage Systems (Services)
• Enterprise Security professional services
• Executive Coaching
• Extrusions 
• F.P.& M Construction/Renovation,
• Fabric 
• Facilities Janitorial Supplies
• Facilities Maintenance and Infrastructure 
• Facilities Pest Control Services
• Final Mile (US)
• Financial Advisory Services
• Finished Carpentry
• Finishes
• Flooring
• Floral, Maintenance contracts, Supply items,
• Foam Armpads ( i-skin technology, ability to do Color/In mold paint, large volume, ISO-9000 Quality system, located in North America)
• Foam Molding
• Food & Nutrition Management Services (Inpatient dining services)
• Food (Fresh seafood) (Fresh bake goods - cakes, bread, pastries, specialties)
• Food Services supplies and bottled water.
• Forging
• Furniture
• Gas Construction (Services)
• Gaskets, Die Cuts (felt, foam, tape, label)
• General Contracting (Services)
• General contractors
• General IT Services.
• General Software & Maintenance
• Government Fees, Fines/Penalties,
• Guardrail
• Health Care Services: Wellness and other healthcare programs; care management and call centers
• Heavy construction trucking
• Hospital Bed Rentals and Maintenance
• Hospital Services (Inpatient and Outpatient)
• Housekeeping
• Human resource services
• HVAC/Electrical (HVAC and Chiller Services, Building Automation, Installation of products)
• Immigration Services
• Industrial (Warehouse, etc.)
• Information Technology: Hardware, Software, Communications and IT Consultant Services
• Injection Mold
• Injection mold makers
• Innovative products
• Instrument & Scope Repair
• Internal Communications Platform
• Interpretation services
• IT services (Consulting and VARS)
• ITS design
• Janitorial Supplies and Services (Environmental Services-EVS Distribution)
• Jigs/Fixtures
• Landscape architecture
• Landscaping Services (W. MI)
• Large Stampings
• Laundry (Laundry/Linen Services and Uniforms)
• Laundry Services. 
• Lawn service
• Leather Recycling/Fabric Disposal & Recycling
• Library Supplies,
• Local Produce Sourcing
• Lodging/Hotel, and Royalties
• Managed Print Services
• Marketing Consulting
• Mattresses for Residence Hall
• Mechanical
• Medical Billing Services for Student Health Center
• Medical Staffing
• Medical Surgical Products and Distribution
• Medical/Surgical Supplies
• Metal (stampings, springs)
• Metal Stamping
• Micro surfacing
• MRO parts management
• Non-Clinical Purchased Services (courier, printing, marketing/advertising)
• Office Furnitures
• Office Supplies
• On-site vending services
• Other construction related services. 
• Outdoor electrical construction
• Overhead Line Conversion (Materials)
• Packaging
• Paint / Paint Applicators
• Painters
• Parts Cleaning 
• Pavement marking
• Payroll Services (Global)
• Permanent signs
• Pest control
• Pickup Truck Lease
• Plastic (blow/ext./inj. Molding)
• Plastics
• Plumbing
• Plumbing supplies
• Power Generation, etc.
• Printed Circuit Board (PCB)
• Printed Materials,
• Printer/Scanner VAR
• Printers, Copiers, Maintenance Supplies and Repairs,
• Production Commodities such as casting
• Promotional Items
• Prototype
• Purchase Complete/Assembly
• Purchase Complete/Upholstery
• Rapid prototyping
• Raw Materials - Metal (aluminum, magnesium, steel) 
• Raw Materials - Rubber (carbon black, process oil, EPDM)
• Raw Materials-Plastics (ABS, ASA, PA, etc.)
• Recycling
• Renewables: Solar/Wind/Engineering (Services)
• Renewables: Solar/Wind/Substations System Hardening & Automation (Materials)
• Retail dining services / catering services
• Returnable packaging (East US and/or Mexico, warehousing services (within 20 miles of DENSO plants)
• Revenue Cycle Services
• Roofing
• Rubber (extrusions, molded, o-rings)
• Sample Producers/Swatching 
• Science Bench Top Lab Equipment
• Science Chemicals
• Science General Lab Supplies
• SDI
• Search and index company
• Security
• Security (Weapon Detection Systems)
• Service consolidation
• Shuttle service
• Small plastic injection
• Small stampings
• Snow removal
• Software developers
• Solid Wood Manufacturing
• Specialty Staffing
• Spindles
• Staffing
• Stains/Plating
• Stamping Parts
• Stampings
• Steel 
• Structural steel
• Supply Chain Services (Freight and Freight management)
• System Reliability (Services)
• Temporary Staffing
• Tool Crib Management
• Tool shops machine makers
• Transcription Services
• Transportation Services (Transportation and Transport of materials)
• Trim & Foam
• Tube/Wire Bending
• Uniform Service Provider 
• Uniforms/Scrubs Rentals
• Upholstery
• Utility
• Valet services
• Veneer Casegoods 
• Video marketing / visual media platform (cloud storage)
• VMS solution for contingent labor, like the software/SAAS solution
• Waste Management
• Website performance monitoring and alerting
• Wire harnesses
• Wood Products
• Wood Products, HPL, TFL, Particle Board, MDF