The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) is a global, parity-based industry network, driven by its members. It brings together the CEOs and senior management of over 650 retailers, manufacturers, service providers and other stakeholders across 70 countries and reflects the diversity of the industry in geography, size, product category and format. Forum member companies have combined sales of EUR 2.5 trillion. Their retailer and manufacturer members directly employ nearly 10 million people with a further 90 million related jobs estimated along the value chain.
The Forum was created in June 2009 by the merger of CIES – The Food Business Forum, the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) and the Global CEO Forum. The Consumer Goods Forum is governed by its Board of Directors, which includes 50 manufacturer and retailer CEOs and Chairmen.
The Forum provides a unique global platform for knowledge exchange and initiatives around five strategic priorities – Emerging Trends, Sustainability, Safety & Health, Operational Excellence and Knowledge Sharing & People Development – which are central to the advancement of today’s consumer goods industry.
The Forum’s vision is: “Better lives through better business”. To fulfil this, its members have given the Forum a mandate to develop common positions on key strategic and operational issues affecting the consumer goods business, with a strong focus on non-competitive process improvement. The Forum’s success is driven by the active participation of the key players in the sector, who together develop and lead the implementation of best practices along the value chain.
With its headquarters in Paris and its regional offices in Washington, D.C., and Tokyo, the CGF serves its members throughout the world.
With the formation of The Consumer Goods Forum came the need to define the vision, mission and priorities of the Forum as well as some principles to guide the Forum in its work; this is gathered in our Manifesto.
This forum was created by the merger of CIES, the pre-eminent food and consumer goods industry body, with the Global CEO Forum and the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI), two global retailer and manufacturer collaborative platforms.
The new association unites not only the world’s leading consumer goods retailers and manufacturers, but also many regional specialists and independents. It has a mandate from its members to develop common positions on key strategic and practical issues affecting the consumer goods industry, to focus on non-competitive collaborative process improvement and to provide a network for thought leadership and knowledge exchange.
The organisation is co-chaired by retailer Lars OLOFSSON, Chief Executive Officer, Carrefour and by manufacturer Muhtar KENT , Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company.
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The Consumer Goods Forum, following the combining of CIES – The Food Business Forum, GCI and the Global CEO Forum, provides its members with a diverse range of activities that include international programmes, events, work groups, initiatives, publications and tailor-made member services.
These activities address strategic and operational issues of concern for consumer goods business’ companies. They provide opportunities for senior decision-makers to interact and network with international experts and meet senior managers from other companies around the world. Each programme is headed by a committee or a task force, whose role is to identify top-of-mind issues and to ensure our products meet the needs of the business.
To find out about the full range of our activities, please read their brochure in English here