The Consumer Goods Forum has named a Belgian bakery, an Azerbaijani supermarket group and a shipping giant as its new members for January 2020.
Araz Supermarket, which boasts more than 100 stores across Azerbaijan, joined the Forum "to leverage its global know-how in the areas of environmental sustainability and its End-to-End Value Chain & Standards work," the retailer's chairman Holger Wagner, explained.
"Our company and country are in transition to achieve global standards and to achieve this target we need the support of the CGF’s global membership," he added.
Elsewhere, La Lorraine Bakery Group (LLBG), one of the leading bakery firms in the Benelux region, has also joined the Forum, to help position itself for future growth.
"Growing a bakery business in a sustainable way requires a solid vision on key-drivers as sustainability, future-proof innovations and disruptive opportunities to explore new business models throughout the whole food chain," commented Guido Vanherpe, the group's CEO.
"We believe that CGF can provide us a top-notch forum to interact with very experienced & respected business stakeholders, which will inspire us to live up even better to our LLBG mission: better bakery better life, together."
Lastly, integrated container logistics firm A.P. Moller – Maersk has also been named as a Forum member, as it seeks to bolster its sustainability credentials amidst a changing logistics environment.
"We are challenging ourselves with our sustainability strategy and our bold CO2 target to be carbon neutral by 2050," said Soren Skou, CEO, A.P. Moller – Maersk.
"The CGF mission follows the same thinking and, together with its members, we are looking forward to work on joint actionable solutions to the fundamental challenges the planet and its people are facing”.
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