Award for NORDENIA: Procter & Gamble Business Partner Excellence Award

This year NORDENIA enters an elite circle of companies, by receiving a Procter & Gamble’s Business Partner Excellence Award, P&G is the world´s largest consumer goods manufacturer. The award was presented at a festive ceremony in Cincinnati (Ohio), where P&G’s headquarters are situated.

In total 86 companies out of the 75,000 global P&G suppliers were honored with the coveted award. This represents approximately the top 0.1% of P&G´s global supply base. The ceremony was attended by NORDENIA CEO Ralph Landwehr, Tim Stoltz, Global Sales Director – P&G, and Georg Baldauf, Director Componentry Business. NORDENIA business partnership with P&G spans nearly 30 years, in the use of diaper components, film and packaging materials for the production of a variety of P&G products.

Bob McDonald, P&G’s President and Chairman of the Board, praised the companies honored: “I want to commend the awardees for the strategic role they play to help us win in the market place and serve our consumers better than anyone else,” he said at the event in Cincinnati. “These partnerships are powerful because they are focused on a common purpose - to touch and improve people's everyday lives.”

Rick Hughes, Chief Purchasing Officer at P&G, emphasized the role of the business partners:”Our external business partners are an important part of the Company’s ability to innovate and grow, and critical to the work we do at P&G every day”. Every consumer who uses a P&G brand benefits from these relationships, he added.

This honor brings NORDENIA great joy and motivation to further develop the successful partnership with P&G. „This award really means a lot to us, “ said Ralph Landwehr, CEO of the NORDENIA INTERNATIONAL AG. „To get this kind of feedback from one of our most important customers and one of the most important producers of consumer goods is a motivation for every employee to keep working at this high level.” Each year P&G honors the suppliers that have achieved the Excellence Level. “We want to continually improve ourselves, especially in the fields of product- and service quality, to be one of P&G´s top suppliers again in 2012,” said Ralph Landwehr.