Coors is the latest company to end DEI initiatives & cut some LGBTQ+ ties [Video]

Molson Coors, the beverage company behind numerous beer and adult drink brands, is ending its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employee trainings and also ending its participation with the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index (CEI) which ranks companies based on corporate equality measures for LGBTQ+ individuals. Before doing so, Molson Coors had a perfect score of 100 points.

The company is also eliminating supplier diversity quotas because they can be “complicated and influenced by factors outside of [the company’s] control,” CNBC Business reported, according to an internal memo sent on Wednesday and obtained by the news outlet. The company’s policy changes occurred amid a recent trend of several other large U.S. companies — like Lowes, Jack Daniels, John Deere, and Harley Davidson — ending their own DEI and LGBTQ+-inclusive commitments.