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Last week, Packworld  published a great recap of speakers at the Contract Packaging Association’s  annual meeting, which was held last month in Braselton, GA.

At the meeting, Sherilyn Brodersen, ethical sourcing manager for Cadbury, outlined how and why a company needs ethical sourcing and compliance practices throughout its supply chain. A successful program should include uniform standards (for workplace procedures, materials selection, and sourcing) and an open data exchange between companies and their suppliers, Brodersen explained.

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I was invited to speak at the Forbes Ethisphere Conference in New York last week – an intimate “roundtable” style conference hosted by Steve Forbes and Forbes Magazine. The event was focused on business ethics, CSR and sustainability and attracted CEOs and senior executives from a wide array of companies ranging from Waste Management and Kelloggs to Pepsi and Mattel. I spoke about sustainable supply chains, and in particular the trends we’re witnessing around large enterprises using their leverage to enforce compliance, ethical and social responsibility standards upstream to their suppliers.

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