birminghambusinessalliance.com Responding to a challenge issued last year by Mayor Randall L. Woodfin, 10 Birmingham companies and institutions on Friday released a report that discloses their record of hiring minority and female vendors. The report is tied to a city initiative called VITAL, or Valuing Inclusion to Accelerate and Lift, and the goal is to be transparent about how much business is currently going to diverse vendors and suppliers, and to create a baseline for future efforts to improve those results. The 10 entities included Alabama Power, Birmingham Business Journal, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, Hoar Construction, Mayer, Protective Life Corp., Regions Financial Corp., Shipt, The University of Alabama at Birmingham and The World Games 2022.