What Is The Consumer Goods Forum?

The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is co-ordinated by The Consumer Goods Forum, an independent global parity-based Consumer Goods network. It brings together the CEOs and senior management of around 400 retailer and manufacturer members of all sizes, across 150 countries. Its members have combined sales of EUR 2.1 trillion (USD 2.9 trillion).

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 an equal number of manufacturer and retailer CEOs and chairmen.

It provides a real global platform for thought leadership, debate and networking between retailers, manufacturers and their partners. Its strength lies in the privileged access it offers to the key players in the sector and the development and sharing of best practice at the highest level. It has a mandate from its members to develop common positions on key strategic and practical issues affecting the consumer goods business and to focus on non-competitive collaborative process improvement.

With its headquarters in Paris and its regional offices in Washington, D.C., Singapore, Tokyo and Shanghai, The Consumer Goods Forum serves its members throughout the world.