2009 Financial Performance Report
Focusing on Today, Envisioning Tomorrow
Results for the Food, Beverage, and Consumer Products Industry

The 2009 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)/Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) Financial Performance Report, Focusing on Today, Envisioning Tomorrow, represents the annual financial performance analysis and overview of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry and is the most comprehensive report to date. The 2009 report focuses on tactical ways that CPG companies are defying the recession - by containing costs, re-investing in core competencies, and a continued commitment to environmentally sustainable and responsible growth. It offers strategic perspectives on current marketplace realities, including a discussion of the implications of higher-priced credit and the implications private label proliferation. It also considers some of the ways our industry is working to emerge from this recession stronger, leaner and better poised for future success.

Click here to download "Focusing on Today, Envisioning Tomorrow" from the GMA's website

Among the questions webcast panelists will explore are:

• How are leading CPG organizations addressing the current credit crisis and other liquidity issues?
  
• In a protracted period of weakness, how can CPG companies dig even deeper to implement cost reductions that are sustainable? 
  
• How can companies leverage state tax and transfer pricing policies to achieve tax savings?
  
• In what ways are CPG manufacturers preparing to seize opportunities in the upturn?

Please join us as some of the report authors discuss the 2009 report including key industry trends, how the CPG business landscape might be quite different for some time and how companies are responding. 

Who should attend?
Chief financial officers, controllers, other C-suite executives, and anyone who can benefit from financial insights into the retail and food, beverage and consumer products industry.

Register today. For more information and to register for this webcast, click on the link at the top of this page, or the button on the left. Once you register, you will receive a confirmation email with access instructions for joining the webcast. Register by 11:00 AM ET the day of the webcast to receive your confirmation in time for the 2:00 PM ET start.

About the Grocery Manufacturers Association
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) represents the world’s leading food, beverage and consumer products companies. The association promotes sound public policy, champions initiatives that increase productivity and growth, and helps to protect the safety and security of the food supply through scientific excellence. The GMA Board of Directors is comprised of chief executive officers from the Association’s member companies. The $2.1 trillion food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods industry employs 14 million workers and contributes over $1 trillion in added value to the nation’s economy.

For more information, visit the GMA Web site at www.gmaonline.org

About PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com) provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders.  More than 154,000 people in 153 countries across our network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.

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For more information about PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Retail and Consumer Products Industry Practice, visit  www.pwc.com/us/retailandconsumer