The Consumer Goods Forum Healthier Lives Steering Committee Accelerates Action on Health and Well-Being at Key Retail Gathering in Copenhagen

The key themes that ran throughout the meeting included: (consumer) behaviour change; healthier and more sustainable diets; employee health and wellbeing; and preventive health. These were based on the Coalition of Action’s revised ‘Better Options, Better Choices and Better Communities‘ strategy.

The Coalition of Action reviewed progress and results across its local Coalition for Healthier Lives (CHL) initiatives in China, France, Italy, Japan, Latin America, Portugal and Turkiye respectively. For Portugal, Jeronimo Martins made 35 health and sustainability commitments around compliance, reduction, and elimination of harmful substances in their private label products. 

You can learn more about how more impactful initiatives can be built in CHL’s toolkit ‘Behaviour Change Playbook’ that has recently been released.

CHL SteerCo Members meet in the Tivoli Hotel in Copenhagen before the commencement of the 8th edition of the CGF’s Sustainable Retail Summit.

The following day, a panel discussion on health, food waste and human rights, explored the intersections between sustainability and health. Panellists highlighted the need to break down silos between these topics and how central to business success people’s well-being is.

From left to right: Isabelle KUMAR, Plenary Moderator – Presenter and Journalist, Chris FRANKE, Senior Manager, Global Sustainability, Walmart, Ayla ZIZ, Senior Vice President Global Sales, Chief Customer Officer, Danone, Paul LALLI, Global VP, Human Rights, The Coca-Cola Company.

In June 2023 the CGF elected its new Co-Chairs Frans Muller, President & CEO of Ahold Delhaize, and Dirk Van de Put, Chairman and CEO of Mondelēz International who called to amplify the Forum’s ambition on boosting employee health and wellbeing across all 400+ CGF members. Thus, the CHL is committed to working with CGF members to help promote  workplace cultures that actively promote and support well-being. This makes the work of the CHL Employee Wellbeing Working Group vital in driving change. The priorities of the working group, which include leadership advocacy, healthier food at work and developing tangible programme impact metrics, were presented in an interactive discussion on Day 2 at SRS.

From left to right: Helen WRAY Global Mental Health & Energy Lead Mars, Inc., Maria Fernanda POSADA Sustainability Director Grupo Éxito, Bärbel WEILIGMANN Global Lead Workforce Nutrition Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Isabelle KUMAR, Plenary Moderator and Journalist. 

Learn more about: 

• CHL’s Employee Well-Being Campaign;
• Latest results in healthier and sustainable diets local initiatives 
• Playbook on Winning Behavior Change (Executive Summary) 

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