News Update24 Apr 2023Health & Wellness
CGF Healthier Lives Employee Wellbeing Group Shares Learnings at the Workforce Wellbeing LIVE Event in London In partnership with Life Science eXecutives (LSX), Director of CGF Collaboration for Healthier Lives Coalition of Action (CHL), Sharon Bligh, brought together global business leaders from AS Watson, Barilla, Ferrero, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Haleon, Kenvue, Mars, Migros Ticaret A.Ş and Tesco at the Workforce Wellbeing LIVE event on 20th April 2023 to […]
News Update28 May 2018Health & Wellness
CGF Health & Wellness Director Sharon Bligh Speaks at EuroCommerce event in Brussels On 15 May, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)’s Health & Wellness Director Sharon Bligh spoke at an event on health & nutrition entitled ‘Retail & Wholesale Working for a Healthy Lifestyle’, hosted by EuroCommerce, the European Association for Retail and Wholesale. The event was held in Brussels and marked the launch of the EuroCommerce brochure on health […]
News Update04 May 2018Health & Wellness
CGF Health & Wellness Director Sharon Bligh Speaks at ‘Innovating a Healthier Future’ Summit in Washington, DC The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) was pleased to participate in “Innovating a Healthier Future”, a summit hosted by ‘Partnerships for a Healthier America’ (PHA), an organisation devoted to working with the private sector to ensure the health of the youth in the United State by solving the childhood obesity crisis. Sharon Bligh, CGF Health […]
Press Release06 Mar 2019Collaboration for Healthier Lives
Consumer Goods Companies Make ‘Significant Improvement’ in Supporting Healthier Lives, According to New Data Consumer goods retailers and manufacturers’ participation in food banks and school programmes continues to rise. 320,000 products have been reformulated to reduce levels of sugar and salt, etc, since survey began in 2015. Some 2,000,000 employees now involved in company-led health and wellbeing programmes. PARIS, 6th March 2019 — The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) today […]
Press Release11 May 2023Health & Wellness
Healthier Lives Co-Chairs Carrefour and Danone Create Appetite For Flexitarian Diets with “Le Meilleur du Végétal” Montesson, 11th May 2023 – Carrefour and Danone, Co-chairs of the CGF Collaboration for Healthier Lives Coalition of Action working group in France, along with partners Alpro, Barilla, Bel, Bonduelle, Catalina, CPM, Savencia and Nutrition & Santé, convened at a Carrefour hypermarket in Montesson, for the launch of the “Meilleur du Végétal” project. The goal […]
News Update08 Aug 2016
The Employee Health & Wellness Commitment – It’s Time to Get Involved Our Health & Wellness Director Sharon Bligh recently sent a letter to members calling for participation in our Employee Health & Wellness Commitment. The letter highlights a number of great resources that are available to companies looking for inspiration and ideas, as well as for contribution to our upcoming case studies booklet. Dear Members, […]
News Update03 May 2018Health & Wellness
Health & Wellness Director and Committee Co-Chair Speak at Japan Day Last month, our Health & Wellness Director Sharon Bligh and Health & Wellness Committee Co-Chair Isabelle Grosmaitre (Alimentation Initiative Catalyst, Danone) travelled to Tokyo to speak at ‘Japan Day’, the annual event of our Japanese membership. Sharon and Isabelle talked about the work of the Health & Wellness Pillar and thanked the Japanese companies in […]
Press Release08 Feb 2019Collaboration for Healthier Lives
Inspiring Healthier Lives in London Boroughs Focus of Cross-Sector Collaboration LONDON and PARIS, 8th February 2019 — The Consumer Goods Forum is calling on members and stakeholders to show their commitment to helping solve today’s most important health and wellness challenges by acting together in the Collaboration for Healthier Lives (CHL) UK initiative. The initiative will take place in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, which […]
News Update22 Jun 2018Health & Wellness
CGF Member Barilla Hosts First Asian-Edition of Annual Summit ‘Barilla Insieme Day’ The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF)s Health & Wellness Director Sharon Bligh took part in a panel discussion on 11 June, hosted by CGF member, Barilla. The session, moderated by Food Industry Asia and entitled ‘Nutrition and Well-being of People’ aimed to bring partners and experts together to better understand the state of nutrition in the […]
News Update22 Jun 2018Health & Wellness
Ahold Delhaize CEO Dick Boer & Danone CEO Emmanuel Faber Speak about Health & Wellness at the Global Summit Sharon Bligh, CGF Health & Wellness Director moderated a discussion with CEOs Dick Boer, Ahold Delhaize and Emmanuel Faber, Danone, entitled ‘Inspiring Healthier Lives: One community at a Time’. Sharon asked Boer about the distinction between being leaders and being victims in the health and wellness space. Boer said food had never been safer, and […]
Podcast05 Apr 2019Health & Wellness
CGF Podcast: Celebrating World Health Day The fourth episode in our CGF Podcast series, “Celebrating World Health Day”, features Sharon Bligh, Director of the Health and Wellness at the CGF alongside one of our Health and Wellness Steering Committee co-chairs, Alex Hurd, from Walmart. To mark the occasion of World Health Day on April 7th, Sharon and Alex discuss this year’s […]
News Update26 Nov 2018Health & Wellness
CGF Health & Wellness Director Speaks at the Responsible Retailing Forum in Amsterdam On 21 November, The Consumer Goods Forum’s Health & Wellness Director, Sharon Bligh attended the Responsible Retailing Forum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Organised by SPAR, the event was an opportunity for SPAR partners to share ideas and exchange knowledge across the six pillars of Responsible Retailing including Health, Sourcing, Community, Environment, Climate, and People. During […]
Press Release19 Oct 2018Collaboration for Healthier Lives
The Consumer Goods Forum, in Partnership with Capgemini, Publishes its Global Health and Wellness Digital Framework PARIS, 19th October 2018 – The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Health and Wellness Digital Framework, developed in partnership with Capgemini. The aim of the Framework is to provide CGF members and stakeholders with a guide to how digital can support the goal of positively impacting behavioural change to […]
News Update30 Apr 2021Collaboration for Healthier Lives
Barilla Provides Insights into Its Own Transformation Journey with Wisdom Works in Support of Employee Health & Wellbeing and a Better Brand In the latest episode of the Collaboration for Healthier Lives (CHL) Employee Experts Conversation Series, CHL Director Sharon Bligh was joined by CGF member Julia Schwoerer, VP of Marketing, Mulino Bianco, Barilla Group, and Renee Moorefield, CEO, and Dianne Culhane, Brand Strategist & Executive Wellbeing Coach, at Wisdom Works Group. As part of the CHL […]
News Update02 Mar 2021Collaboration for Healthier Lives
CHL Coalition Showcases Industry Support for Vulnerable Communities During COVID-19 The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Collaboration for Healthier Lives (CHL) Coalition has published a case studies booklet highlighting the actions of member 51 companies and organisations to assist vulnerable communities most impacted by COVID-19. This comes after the December 2020 CGF announcement that its members would work together on a series of key actions to […]
News Update04 Jul 2022Collaboration for Healthier Lives
First Lady of Colombia Visits the CGF in Paris to Talk About Impact on Healthier Lives in Latin America As a follow up to the recent meeting of the CGF’s Latin America Board, which was attended by the First Lady of Colombia , the CGF welcomed the First Lady Maria Juliana Ruíz Sandoval and Carolina Salgado, the High Counsellor for Youth and Adolescents, in Paris on 29th June to discuss how the industry can […]