“Inclusion policy reaching frontline retail in secondary cities is where the pink economy stops being a Bangkok story.”— PrideShow Editorial Board
MR DIY is the only mass-market retailer in this quarter's multinational top ten, and its presence here is a useful corrective to the assumption that inclusion leadership belongs to hospitality and luxury.
The Thai business is a subsidiary of Malaysia's KLSE-listed MR DIY Group and inherits its documented LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion policy and ASEAN-wide DEI framework. What makes it notable is where that policy lands: home-improvement retail, in secondary Thai cities, employing the kind of frontline workforce that rarely appears in inclusion indices at all.
Seventh at 86 points. If the pink economy is to mean anything beyond Bangkok's tourism and luxury corridors, it will be through businesses shaped like this one.