Press Release24 Jun 2015Environmental Sustainability
Consumer Goods Industry Commits to Food Waste Reduction PARIS and NEW YORK, 24th June 2015 – The Consumer Goods Forum (the CGF) today announced its commitment to tackling the global food waste challenge by agreeing to halve food waste within the operations of...
Blog23 Nov 2021E2E Value Chain
How Factories Can Achieve Net Zero: The Increasing Importance Of Stakeholder Alignment By early 2021, over 1,000 companies in 60 countries, representing nearly 20% of global market capitalisation, had committed to ambitious Science-Based Targets. More than 25% of the world’s largest 2,000 companies had set Net Zero targets....
Press Release13 Jun 2013
Business Basics More Important Than New Approaches to Growth, The Consumer Goods Forum and KPMG Find — Sales growth, product innovation and cost reduction programs come top for senior executives in 2013, over newer trends including mobile sales and online media — Findings released during The Consumer Goods Forum’s annual summit...
Blog27 Mar 2017Food Waste
Taking a Stance on Food Waste for a Greater Purpose I’ve tried to take a stance through the personal choices I make in my everyday life. I’ve been a vegetarian for over 10 years, I’m a strong advocate for recycling, and I compost all of...
Press Release07 Mar 2017Environmental Sustainability
New Research Finds Companies Saved 14 Dollars for Every 1 Dollar Invested in Reducing Food Waste PARIS, 7th March, 2017 – One-third of all food produced in the world is never eaten, which has tremendous economic, social and environmental consequences. New research on behalf of Champions 12.3 finds that for every...
Blog15 Apr 2021Food Waste
Reducing Food Waste Through Technology Solutions Food waste can contribute to the ongoing issue of malnutrition in many countries worldwide, as well as the squandering of valuable natural resources. Slashing food waste is a challenge many businesses are beginning to tackle...
Blog30 Nov 2021E2E Value Chain
Accelerating Sustainability Transformation: Six Proven Levers For Decarbonising Your Supply Chain No company’s action plan is complete without considering how to remove greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its supply chain. Corporations are ratcheting up their efforts and using Science Based Targets (SBT) to set supplier emissions targets and...
Blog20 Nov 2020E2E Value Chain
COVID-19 Causes a Stutter Step in Sustainability Progress, What’s Next? Sustainability Then and Now Prior to the pandemic, consumers around the world were focused on sustainability; reuse and recyclables, organic and natural food products, to do their part in managing the effects of climate...
Blog15 Nov 2021E2E Value Chain
The Path to an Intelligent Enterprise Digital transformation is not limited to the introduction of appropriate software systems, but above all reorganises business relationships, corporate processes, and value chains. The corresponding software supports and drives this transformation. However, it is primarily...
Podcast21 Oct 2020E2E Value Chain
Responsive Supply Chains In this episode of the End-to-End Value Chain podcast series, CGF’s Ruediger Hagedorn speaks to Rebecca Liao, Co-Founder and COO at Skuchain about the role deep-tier financing and blockchain play in achieving responsive supply chains....
Blog13 Jan 2022Plastic Waste
Stronger Together: Plastics & Packaging Solution Requires Innovative Partnerships Packaging protects the products we love and provides information about how to use them safely and responsibly – but packaging needs to become part of a circular economy. We, at Asahi Europe & International have...
Blog18 Jan 2022E2E Value Chain
5 Retail-Consumer Products Trends to Watch in 2022 Retail struggling!? Not quite in 2021 according to IHL Group[1]. US Retail growth in 2021 through November was $831B USD. The growth for November alone was $91.1B USD. Total retail growth year to year is...
Press Release04 Oct 2017Sustainable Retail Summit
The Consumer Goods Forum Sustainable Retail Summit: Day Two MONTRÉAL, 4th October 2017 – The second and final day of The Consumer Goods Forum’s Sustainable Retail Summit drew to a close yesterday. It was full of fascinating discussions addressing three of the consumer goods industry’s...
Blog20 Aug 2017Food Waste
Food Loss and Waste: Have You Heard? By now you’ve probably heard that about 1/3 of all food produced in the world is lost or wasted. And you’ve likely heard about all the impacts this huge inefficiency causes. Food loss and...
Blog06 Dec 2017
Tackling HFCs: Why Retailers Should Make the Most of the Refrigeration Transition Keeping produce cold is a fundamental part of food retailing. Yet often we inherit refrigeration systems without questioning whether they’re really the best cooling solution. Retailers know that maintaining low temperatures requires high levels...
Blog25 Jun 2021Food Safety
How Companies Are Preparing for the Next Pandemic Public health experts have been sounding the alarm on pandemics for years. Now that we have been living and working for more than a year in the COVID-19 pandemic, what have we learned and how...