Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative
Second Scheme Applies for SSCI Benchmarking: BRCGS
PARIS, 7 September 2020 – The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI) is pleased to announce it has received a benchmark application from the BRCGS, the first step in recognising the BRCGS as meeting industry expectations for...
Sustainable Retail Summit
Sustainable Retail Summit Experts Series: Ignacio Gavilan, Environmental Sustainability, CGF
Registrations for the virtual Sustainable Retail Summit will be opening soon. Click here to visit the event website.
Food Waste
Introducing the CGF’s Coalition of Action on Food Waste
In this episode of the CGF Sustainability Podcast, we catch up with the two Co-Chairs of the CGF’s newly launched Coalition of Action on Food Waste, Francisco Cordero from the Kellogg Company and Brittni Furrow...
Corporate
Getting to Know the CGF’s New Managing Director, Wai-Chan Chan
In the June episode of The Consumer Goods Forum’s Corporate Podcast, special guest host Madelaine VanDerHeyden sits down with an even more special guest star: Wai-Chan Chan, the new Managing Director of the CGF. In...
Plastic Waste
The Recyclable Toothpaste Tube: Colgate’s Journey
In 2014, Colgate issued its first formal packaging sustainability goals, which included a commitment for all packaging to be recyclable by 2020 for three categories: Pet Nutrition, Home Care, and Personal Care. Conspicuous for its...
Corporate
From Farm to Fork: Supply Chain Transparency
Are consumers as interested in sustainable products as we might like to think? How can technology empower the industry to connect the data dots from farm to fork? Marjan De Bock-Smit, Founder and Owner of...
People
Member Spotlight on Grupo Éxito
In the first episode of Season 2 of the CGF’s Sustainability Series, host Louise Chester talks to Pablo Montoya Dávila, Head of Sustainability at Grupo Éxito, one of the CGF’s key members in Latin America....
Corporate
Full Interview: CGF Talks to Olaf Koch, Chairman of the Management Board, METRO AG
In the latest edition of our CEO Interview Series, we speak to Olaf Koch, Chairman of the Management Board of METRO AG. In this chat, Olaf talks about the importance of collaboration in driving positive...
Planet
Reflections as We Move into a New Decade
When it comes to sustainability, we know that our current system is still far from bringing effective change. 2019 wasn’t an exception. Scientists and NGOs point to an existential threat and call for urgent action; businesses...