Sentences with phrase «director of consumer group»

Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?

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Ellen Haas has spent a good portion of her adult life trying to improve the nutrition of the nation's school lunch program, first as the founder and director of the consumer group Public Voice, and in the last two years as Department of Agriculture undersecretary of food, nutrition and consumer services.

Not exact matches

Voice roaming calls, said Monique Goyens, the director general of the Brussels - based group, typically cost three times what consumers pay domestically; data roaming charges can be up to 50 times what consumers pay in their home markets.

An Oval Office bill signing attended by lawmakers and financial services interest groups devolved into a venting session about Richard Cordray, the embattled director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to six people in the room and two people briefed on the conversation.

«Younger consumers are more likely to watch shows on mobile devices but life milestones such as the purchase of a home or starting a family will increase adoption of TV sets for this age group,» says Barbara Kraus, another director of research at Parks Associates.

Awareness of these products has grown tremendously over the past year, and there are a diverse number of products on the market offering a variety of features and price points,» said Ben Arnold, Executive Director, Industry Analyst, Consumer Electronics, The NPD Group.

CFPB director Richard Cordray announced that rights of groups of consumers to a day in court is «a cherished tenet of our justice system» and «that no one, no matter how big or how powerful, should escape accountability if they break the law.»

Criticism of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Mick Mulvaney's recent comments to a banking group has largely focused on his advocating a pay - to - play system for interest groups to access government officials.

The group spearheading a campaign against Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), is a project of a low - profile progressive dark money organization with large assets.

Mimi Chakravorti, executive director of strategy at the brand - consulting firm Landor, part of WPP PLC, said in a Feb. 27 phone interview that firms are making fast decisions about their affiliations with politically controversial groups like the NRA because consumers are reacting quickly to how brands respond to political controversies.

The independent directors of Newell Brands on March 14 criticized the tactics of activist hedge fund Starboard Value and its allies, which are waging a proxy fight for control of the consumer - brands group, and urged shareholders to back management's turnaround plan.

Conversation catalysts: Arjan De Boer, Head of Markets, Investments & Structuring, Asia, Indosuez Wealth Management Lavanya Chari, Managing Director, Head of Global Products & Solutions, Asia Pacific, Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Mark Tinker, Head of Framlington Equities Asia, AXA Investment Managers Asia Ltd Nick Ring, Global Head of Distribution, Jupiter Asset Management Rajesh Manwani, Head Markets and Advisory Solutions Asia, Julius Baer Soon Chong Lim, Managing Director, Regional Head of Investment Products & Advisory, Consumer Banking Group and Wealth Management, DBS Bank

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

Global CEOs from Alibaba, ICA Gruppen, Mars, Incorporated, SCA Group and Target Corporation Join The Consumer Goods Forum Board of Directors PARIS, 9th December 2016 — The Consumer Goods...

Investigating Shifts, Patterns & Trends Between Health Food Choices & Lifestyle Trends To Deliver Claims & Products Which Meet Evolving Consumer Requirements Derek Sarno, Chef - Director of Plant Based Innovation, Tesco Pippa Murray, Founder, Pip & Nut Damien Kennedy, Co-Founder, Wheyhey - Innovator Steve Walpole, Head of Food, Ugo Foods Group

«Noticeable this year was a strong commitment to the greater good, with a focus shift from just package functionality to more solutions - based packaging, which provides consumers greater access to products that make their life better,» said Lead Judge David Luttenberger, CPP, global packaging director of Mintel Group Ltd. «We also are seeing a real demand from consumers for on - pack communication that is authentic, not overwhelming.»

Lead Judge David Luttenberger, CPP, global packaging director for the Mintel Group, said, «Helping consumers understand the importance of packaging [is a challenge], whether it's in food, drink, medicine or just giving them economical access to the products that they need every day... to make their lives easier, more convenient, safer and make them feel more confident not only about the products they buy, but the role packaging plays in helping ensure that those products maintain their freshness, their quality and their efficacy.»

«We follow consumer trends very carefully and have built a degree of flexibility into our plants that allows us to respond to specific developments and customer requests,» explains Mike Dick, sales director, Ardagh Group, Glass UK.

In the spring of 2007, the Project expanded its Board of Directors to include representatives from all stakeholder groups in the natural products industry, including consumers, retailers, farmers, and manufacturers.

TWE's Managing Director for Australia & New Zealand, Angus McPherson, said the Company is continually focused on finding opportunities to bring new consumers into the category: «When we launched Gentleman's Collection a few years ago, this was the first range of wines we specifically targeted to millennials, a group that under - indexed in wine at the time.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

«If you want to start selling supplements today, you don't have to register, you don't have to show your product to be effective,» says Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, a consumer advocacy organization.

«It is clear that the complex array of federal food safety programs doesn't adequately protect America's schoolchildren,» said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.

«A la carte is a huge problem,» said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington consumer group.

Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, agrees.

The group managing director of SSE's retail business, which owns Swalec, has defended the level of the company's dividend payments to shareholders, while raising prices for consumers.

«The end of session is affectionately known as Whac - a-Mole season,» said Blair Horner, the legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a consumer and environmental watchdog gGroup, a consumer and environmental watchdog groupgroup.

Swan, the director of a consumer advocacy organization called Connecticut Citizen Action Group, was an experienced local organizer.

In this context, switching from high - cost diesel to a low - carbon alternative fuel isn't just the green thing to do; it's key to ensuring consumer products stay at affordable prices, Elizabeth Fretheim, director of business strategy and sustainability logistics at Wal - Mart Stores Inc., explained at a symposium last week hosted by the nonprofit group Business for Social Responsibility (BSR).

«The law requires that a food safety plan be written up and that the farms keep a record of the way it is administering the plans,» said Alexis Baden - Mayer, political director of the Organic Consumers Association, a nonprofit advocacy group.

«A lot of people worry that what's on the books right now is very much geared toward the biggest agricultural players,» said Patty Lavera, assistant director of the nonprofit consumer group Food and Water Watch.

«What we really need is silver buckshot: A suite of policy and technology options that will cut oil use while protecting consumers and strengthening our economy,» said Michelle Robinson, director of the group's clean vehicles program, in a statement.

«There is, right now, a bit of a price - up charge that we are absorbing, not passing it along to consumers,» Lisa Manley, Coca - Cola's group director of sustainability communications, says of the PlantBottle.

«They matched the same size, color, texture and shape of the microbeads found in popular consumer products,» said the group's executive director, Marcus Eriksen.

As long - time research director at Washington - DC based Environmental Working Group, she led a diverse team of scientists and programmers to create online, data - driven guides to chemicals in tap water, sunscreen, cosmetics, bottled water, and other common consumer products.

Sidney Wolfe, MD, director of the Health Research Group at the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, notes that weight - loss products have a dismal history in terms of safety and effiGroup at the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, notes that weight - loss products have a dismal history in terms of safety and effigroup Public Citizen, notes that weight - loss products have a dismal history in terms of safety and efficacy.

As Executive Director of the Environmental Working Group, Heather leads the national charge to make our modern marketplace safer for consumers.

Orla Sheridan, consumer channels group director, Microsoft Ireland, said: «The partnership between Microsoft and CJ Fallon is a great example of how Cloud applications like Windows Azure can enable the ability of all sectors to transition to the cloud.

Judges for this live event are Hannah Telfer, group director of consumer and digital development at Penguin Random House UK; Dan Kieran, founder and chief executive of Unbound; and Eileen Burbidge, partner at Passion Capital and one of the UK's most influential tech venture capitalists.

«Velocity Micro is taking advantage of the energy - efficient performance of the Intel Centrino Duo Mobile processor technology to bring to both its gaming and mainstream consumer customers an incredible PC experience,» said Erik Reid, marketing director, Intel Mobile Platforms Group

But taking the time to learn about and shop for coverage could pay off for millennials — and all renters, says Linda Sherry, director of national priorities for the consumer advocacy group Consumerconsumer advocacy group ConsumerConsumer Action.

Shop around «A funeral is a major business transaction,» says Nicole Renwick, executive director of the Memorial Society of British Columbia, a consumer advocacy group for the bereaved.

Neil Gross, executive director of investor rights group FAIR Canada, says for the most part Canadian consumers are too complacent in terms of tolerating fees from companies such as banks, rather than switching to lower - cost options such as credit unions or some of the emerging financial technology startups.

«There are quite a few offers out there,» says Linda Sherry, director of national priorities for the nonprofit advocacy group Consumer Action.

«If you pay twice the amount of the minimum, that repayment period gets cut in half,» says Ed Mierzwinski, who lobbied for laws requiring these disclosures as the consumer program director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a federation of nonprofits.

Here at Speedy Payday Cash, we want to educate our consumers as much as possible about using payday loans and financial tips; and this blog will be one of several avenues we introduce for us to do this,» said Teri White, Director of Public Relations for Green Leaf Loan Group, the owner and operator of Speedy Payday Cash.

Kruse has more than twenty years of private equity experience, most recently as a partner at SMCP and previously as a managing director at Warburg Pincus, where he was responsible for sourcing and executing transactions in the North American Consumer and Industrials Group.

Instead of a pet store, consumers may want to look to either a reputable local breeder or an adoption group, says Melanie Kahn, senior director of the Humane Society's puppy mills campaign.