P&G Recognizes Top Performing Global Suppliers

Printing and package printing firms among award recipients acknowledging performance, collaboration and partnership: Havpack, RockTenn, Nelson Packaging, Premiere Packaging, Zhongrong Products of Paper Packaging

Source: Procter & Gamble -- Graphic Arts Online, November 9, 2009

INCINNATI, Nov. 4, 2009 -- The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) hosted its annual supplier awards event last night recognizing the company's top performing suppliers.

"P&G's growth strategy is to touch and improve more consumers' lives in more parts of the world more completely," said Bob McDonald, P&G's president and chief executive officer, while speaking to suppliers attending the Company's annual supplier awards dinner. "This strategy is inspired by P&G's Purpose and it can only be executed in partnership with our suppliers. We are all focused on touching and improving lives, which requires us - together -- to innovate, to streamline and improve the supply chain, to simplify the way we work, and to create sustainable solutions that improve lives today and for generations to come."

Receiving highest honors as "Supplier of the Year" for 2009 recipients among P&G's 80,000 suppliers were:

  --  BASF SE of Ludwigshafen, Germany, providing strategic chemicals and
      chemical innovations for P&G's laundry, fabric care and beauty
      businesses;
  --  The Cly-Del Manufacturing Co. of Waterbury, Connecticut providing
      battery parts to P&G's Duracell business in North America;
  --  Evonik Industries of Essen, Germany provides strategic chemicals and
      ingredients to P&G's laundry and diaper businesses;
  --  Havpak, Inc. from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and a certified
      woman-owned business provides P&G with packaging, assembly and
      contract manufacturing services;
  --  Jones Lang LaSalle of Chicago, Illinois providing facilities
      management services to P&G's office and laboratory locations
      worldwide.
  --  Novozymes of Bagsvaerd, Denmark is a strategic enzyme supplier for
      P&G's laundry and cleaning products;

  --  RockTenn of Norcross, Georgia is a strategic packaging, customization
      and display supplier to a number of P&G businesses around the world.


This was the second consecutive year of distinction for The Cly-Del Manufacturing Co., Jones Lang LaSalle and Novozymes as "Supplier of the Year" recipients. These companies achieved this recognition by consistently scoring the highest in broad based quantitative and qualitative evaluations by P&G employees throughout the supply chain.


"From market changing innovation to supply chain excellence, our supplier partners are foundational for building a stronger future," said Rick Hughes, vice president of Global Purchases. "P&G is at our best when we have fostered relationships with our external business partners that enable collaboration in achieving our mutual goals, addressing challenges, and delivering ongoing innovation."


In addition to the select few "Supplier of the Year" awards, all companies performing consistently at high levels within P&G's internal supplier performance management system earned the "Corporate Supplier Excellence Award." The 55 suppliers receiving this distinction were:


  Accenture LLP
  Albany International Corp.
  BASF SE
  Berman Printing
  Bischof+Klein
  CCL Label
  CLEVERTECH SRL
  Cosmint S.p.a.
  D.Cloostermans-Huwaert N.V.
  Ernst & Young
  Evonik Industries
  Farm Frites International B.V.
  Fastenal Company
  Fibertex Nonwovens
  FREJA Transport & Logistics A/S
  GoIndustry DoveBid
  Havpak, Inc.
  Hayco Ltd.
  HEINZ-GLAS, GERMANY
  Hewlett-Packard
  Hooven-Dayton Corporation
  HPV Engineering s.r.o.
  International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
  Interscope Mfg., Inc.
  JC Fiolet
  Jones Lang LaSalle
  Lingemann GmbH
  Millennium Specialty Chemicals
  Nelson Packaging Company Inc.
  Nippon Shokubai Company Limited
  Nordson Corporation
  Novozymes
  PAX Australia / One Asia
  PEGAS NONWOVENS
  Premiere Packaging, Inc.
  Promotion Execution Partners
  PT Ciptakemas Abadi
  Quality Associates, Inc.
  RKW SE
  RockTenn
  Sandler AG-Schwarzenbach / Germany
  Sasol Olefins & Surfactants
  Schneider National Carriers, Inc.
  Smith Transport, Inc.
  Spedition Services Limited
  Superior Bulk Logistics
  Tanax, Inc
  Technimark LLC
  The Cly-Del Manufacturing Co.
  The Oregon Potato Company
  The Specialized Packaging Group, Inc.
  Time Release Sciences Inc.
  Toyo Aerosol Industry Co., Ltd.
  Transportadora Jolivan
  Zhongrong Products of Paper Printing


"I want to acknowledge the tremendous contributions and commitments that our external business partners make to help us achieve our strategies and goals, as well as extend similar appreciation to the thousands of suppliers across the world that were not award recipients but still work very hard to help P&G touch and improve more consumer lives more completely," said McDonald.

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