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The 2025 Small Business Impact Report

More teams are turning to small suppliers to drive resilience, agility, and strategic influence across the business.

The 2025 Small Business Impact Report shows where your peers are spending with small suppliers, which categories offer the biggest impact, and where they’re able to source.

This report gives you the actionable insights to grow your small business impact, so you can build a more resilient supply chain, deliver measurable value to your organization, and strengthen the communities you serve.

The Ripple Effect: How Enterprise Spending with Small Suppliers Powers $200B+ in US Growth

What’s inside:

Actionable steps to take: Our data-backed recommendations for procurement teams to turn percentage-of-spend metrics into outcome-based KPIs — jobs supported, income generated, and taxes contributed.
The impact of spend: How small business spend multiplies through local communities.
Industry breakdown: Which categories your peers are spending with to deliver the highest job and income impact.
Regional Leaders: Where your peers are finding small business sourcing plays that arescreating the greatest value.
Corporate Champions: Recognition of the 20 enterprises leading the charge, from HP Inc. and FanDuel to Regions Bank and Amazon.

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Key findings include:

Small business sourcing drives big results.

$122.7B in small business spend produced $202.7B in economic output, proving that small suppliers are a high-leverage growth engine for both enterprises and communities.

Local and small partnerships create real jobs and income.

Spending with small and local suppliers supported 828,000 jobs and $66.3B in earned income across the U.S.

Dollars spent with small suppliers go further.

Each $1 invested with small suppliers generates $1.65 in total economic impact, amplifying returns across supply chains and communities.

Purchasing and geographical impact.

We’ll reveal the purchasing categories and geographies accounted for the highest job creation.

Champions are setting the standard.

Companies like HP Inc., Regions Bank, Amazon, and CVS Health were recognized as 2025 Small Business Impact Champions for embedding local sourcing into enterprise strategy and culture.