Procter and Gamble Honors Dow as External Business Partner of the Year

(Business Wire) MIDLAND, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Earlier this month at its bi-annual External Business Partner Summit, The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) recognized its top-performing partners for their contributions to help power the company’s global supply chain network transformation, productivity and citizenship. Among the honored companies, Dow was recognized as a “Partner of the Year,” demonstrating its commitment and collaboration with P&G to enable a synchronized, end-to-end supply network.

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“As a longtime partner to P&G, we are not only honored to be recognized as a Partner of the Year, but also to take this journey with them as they continue to redesign their supply chain to enhance productivity for all P&G brands,” said Eric Peeters, global business director for Dow Home & Personal Care. “We look forward to continuing to be a trusted, valued partner and exceed customer expectations for us both.”

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Bolstering seamless collaboration, Dow partners with P&G for innovations in fabric care, home care, dish care and personal care to help optimize inventory, increase on-shelf availability of products and drive productivity to fuel innovation and superiority. P&G’s supply-chain network includes more than 50,000 diverse suppliers from around the world and across a wide range of industries and services.

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In addition to being named one of only 10 “Partners of the Year” recipients, Dow was also awarded alongside 29 other companies with the Supplier Excellence Award for sustained business contributions. Six other companies received honors based on contributions to P&G’s global supply chain transformation or as diverse, upcoming business partners.

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To learn more about the recognition, read P&G official announcement, visit www.consumer.dow.com and follow @DowHomePersonal.

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About Dow Home and Personal Care Solutions

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The Dow Home and Personal Care business (part of the Dow Consumer Solutions Portfolio) offers unique innovations that empower brand owners around the world to create products with exceptional performance and exciting new benefits consumers can see and feel. Our expansive portfolio serves a wide range of applications across home and personal care markets from skin and hair care to fabric care and beyond. Our novel solutions help enable products that are unique and memorable, and meet the growing demands of today’s consumers. We continue to bring forward innovative technologies and formulation solutions that differentiate our customers’ products, enhance the consumer experience and sustain the environment. With business centers, research and development (R&D), manufacturing plants and customer applications centers around the globe, Dow has the expertise and foundation to foster global and local innovations. Please visit consumer.dow.com for more information.

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About Dow

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Dow combines science and technology knowledge to develop premier materials science solutions that are essential to human progress. Dow has one of the strongest and broadest toolkits in the industry, with robust technology, asset integration, scale and competitive capabilities that enable it to address complex global issues. Dow’s market-driven, industry-leading portfolio of advanced materials, industrial intermediates and plastics businesses deliver a broad range of differentiated technology-based products and solutions for customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure and consumer care. Dow is a subsidiary of DowDuPont (NYSE: DWDP), a holding company comprised of Dow and DuPont with the intent to form three strong, independent, publicly traded companies in agriculture, materials science and specialty sectors. More information can be found at www.dow.com.