THE ORGANISATION

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 400 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 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.

OUR VISION

“Better lives through better business”

OUR MISSION & GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Mission: “Working together to enable the industry to passionately serve shoppers, consumers and communities better, faster, with great value and in a responsible way.”

Guiding Principles: “A Collaborative Leadership Platform”

Collaboration:
- The Consumer Goods Forum addresses common issues collaboratively with actionable and measurable plans.

Strategic Focus:

- The Consumer Goods Forum builds its work on the Strategic Pillars that are defined by the membership as central to the future of the business they share.

- It will measure its effectiveness in the adoption of its principles and implementation of its work.

Inclusiveness:
- The Consumer Goods Forum reflects the diversity of the consumer goods industry in geography, size, sector and format.

- Its membership will be open to all consumer goods companies, large and small.

Organisation

- The Consumer Goods Forum will have a lean management structure.

- It will be staffed by people who are uncompromisingly professional, committed and energetic.

- It will draw extensively on the direct involvement of member companies in the stewardship and implementation of its work product.

Commitment

“The Consumer Goods Forum is your organisation!