Evonik Industries receives the Procter & Gamble Supplier of the Year Award 2009

11/16/2009

The business unit Consumer Specialties of Evonik has received the highest honors as “Supplier of the Year” 2009 among P&G’s 80,000 suppliers.

The award recognizes top performing global suppliers and acknowledges performance, collaboration and partnership. The award was handed over to the Evonik representatives Dr. Claus Rettig (President of the BU Consumer Specialties), Dr. Johannes Ohmer (Senior Vice President BL Superabsorber) and David Del Guercio (Senior Vice President BL Household Care) by P&G’s president and chief executive officer Bob McDonald and Keith Harrison, P&G’s Global Product Supply Officer.

“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.”


About Evonik
Evonik Industries is the creative industrial group from Germany which operates in three business areas: Chemicals, Energy and Real Estate. Evonik is a global leader in specialty chemicals, an expert in power generation from hard coal and renewable energies, and one of the largest private residential real estate companies in Germany. Our strengths are creativity, specialization, continuous self-renewal, and reliability. Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world. In its fiscal year 2008 about 41,000 employees generated sales of about €15.9 billion and an operating profit (EBITDA) of about €2.2 billion.

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