“A thirty-year-old employee network in provincial manufacturing is a harder signal than a campaign in retail.”— PrideShow Editorial Board
Ford GLOBE was founded in 1994, making it the oldest LGBTQ+ employee resource group in the automotive industry — a fact that matters less as trivia than as evidence of durability. Ford has held a Corporate Equality Index 100% score for more than twenty consecutive years.
The Thai connection is industrial rather than retail: Ford Thailand Manufacturing in Rayong produces the Ranger for regional and global markets, employing a large provincial workforce well outside the Bangkok service economy where most of this ranking's evidence concentrates.
Ninth at 80 points. Manufacturing is the segment where inclusion policy is hardest to implement and least visible to consumers, which makes a thirty-year-old network a more meaningful signal here than in most sectors.