News Update03 Apr 2020Corporate
Special Edition: Industry Actions to Tackle Covid-19 and Support People The strength of the CGF lies in its collaborative efforts and ability to bring our industry together to discuss challenges impacting our people, our customers and our businesses, and to share best practices and knowledge....
News Update10 Mar 2022Corporate
CGF MD Wai-Chan Chan Speaks on Decarbonisation of Consumer Goods at FT Climate Capital Live in London On 8th March, Managing Director of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), Wai-Chan Chan, spoke at the FT Climate Capital Live event in London. The three-day event was heavily focused on what needs to happen to...
Press Release05 Jun 2019Corporate
Online Global Growth of 163% Predicted By 2023, Adding $257bn to Food and Consumer Goods Industry LONDON and PARIS, 5th June 2019 — Digital technologies are revolutionising the way the food and consumer goods industry operates and online sales are forecast to grow 163% by 2023 across major markets, according to a...
Blog12 Oct 2020Sustainable Retail Summit
Sustainability: the Key to Resilient Recovery For most of 2020, businesses have been absorbed by one thing: COVID-19. They’ve been rapidly adapting and doggedly surviving as the global pandemic disrupts what they do or, in many cases, shuts them down altogether....
Blog02 Sep 2020Product Data
Data Transparency Takes Centre Stage Throughout the Pandemic The rate of change in consumer demand witnessed over the past few months has been unprecedented, calling attention to the importance of effective lines of communication between suppliers and retailers. As demand for certain products spiked and supply...
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...
Blog20 Jun 2022E2E Value Chain
The Future of Ethical Commerce and Sustainability in Fast Moving Consumer Goods Companies (FMCG) The UN World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Sustainability is therefore the process by...
Blog03 Mar 2022E2E Value Chain
Brand and Social Impersonation Frauds Affect Organizations of All Sizes Theft of sensitive information and money can damage the consumers’ confidence and ultimately lead to financial and reputational harms for your organization. This article will analyze the many sorts of impersonation and how companies can...
Blog20 Apr 2017
Are You Committed? The Time to Act on Refrigerants is Now New research shows that our society is only four years away from keeping the global average temperature of rising to no more than 1.5C. Reductions of CO2 through measures such as the phasing out of...
Blog09 Jun 2015
Can Changing How World Trade is Financed Actually Change the World? The work in question is the BEI’s ‘Sustainable Shipment Letter of Credit’, the first product development output of the Compact, which aims to pave the way for banks to promote and incentivise the trade...
Blog14 Apr 2020Corporate
The Values of Values: Setting the Course (Defining Values) This is the first of three articles in a series about ‘the value of values’ in which we will highlight values as a guiding principle for positive impact. We’ll begin by defining what values are,...
Press Release23 Jun 2021Global Summit
The Global Summit 2021: Day Three Summary Industry Leaders Discuss Ways to Build Better Lives Through Better Business PARIS, 23rd June 2021 — On the penultimate day of The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) virtual Global Summit, the conversation hinged around some of...
Blog05 Oct 2023Food Waste
Can Farm Food Loss be Reduced by Retailers and Growers Working Together? Fresh fruit and vegetables are lost and wasted throughout the supply chain at higher rates than other categories of food. In part, this is because of their perishability and handling requirements, and in part, it’s...
Blog21 Feb 2022Global Summit
Overview of the Irish Retail Landscape When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, Ireland implemented some of the strictest lockdown restrictions in the world. Initial hopes that “two weeks to flatten the curve” – as then-Prime Minister Leo Varadkar put it...
Blog05 Jun 2018Corporate
Time To Tackle The Food Paradox: A Call to Action, Insieme It is by now a well-known fact that there is a striking paradox within our global food system: so many still go hungry, while so many others face staggering rates of overweight and obesity. Nowhere...
Press Release03 Nov 2011
Consumer Goods Forum Recommends Improved Collaboration Between Governments and Business on Sustainable Growth and Job Creation CANNES, France, 3rd November 2011 – Speaking yesterday at the B20 Summit, the Co-Chairs of the Consumer Goods Forum, Muhtar Kent, Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company and Lars Olofsson,...