“This represents a change in the way our industry’s trading partners will be equipped to meet the complex challenges of a global value chain,” said Pierre-Olivier Beckers, CEO and president of Delhaize Group. “I’m particularly pleased that we’re showing as an industry that we can move this forward in the present economic context. Ultimately, this will bring more value to consumers and more benefits to all stakeholders.”
“In the consumer goods industry, our goal is to provide shoppers with brands and products that deliver better performance, quality and value, day in and day out,” added AG Lafley, CEO, chairman and president of Procter & Gamble. “With this new industry body, we’ll be able to address noncompetitive issues together so that shoppers benefit even more from the wide assortment and the outstanding everyday value this industry can, and does, bring to the economy and to society.”
The new global platform will focus on collaborative, noncompetitive issues within the consumer goods industry, including:
The next step will be to assemble the interim governing bodies to lay the groundwork for the launch of the new association after submitting the project for approval to the GCI Board and CEO Forum participants and the CIES General Assembly.
The CIES General Assembly will take place on 18 June 2009 in New York during the CIES World Food Business Summit. Pierre-Olivier Beckers and AG Lafley will co-chair the Interim Board, which will provide active governance of the Future Association during the Interim Period (February-June 2009).
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