P&G should release a press statement themselves in the coming days. They have in the past. Here is an excerpt from last year :
"Among P&G’s more than 50,000 suppliers and agencies, the twelve that received the highest honor of being named Excellence Award winners and “External Business Partner of the Year” were:
- EY*
- Fameccanica.Data S.p.a.
- FIBERTEX PERSONAL CARE
- Firmenich
- Logoplaste
- Nippon Shokubai Company Limited
- Novozymes
- PEGAS NONWOVENS*
- Rialto Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
- RONCHI MARIO S.p.A.*
- SUPERPAC, INC.* ++
- Technimark LLC
* These four companies were named External Business Partner of the Year in 2015 as well.
++ This company is a women- and/or minority-owned business.
In addition to the select few “External Business Partner of the Year” awards, the following 32 companies received Excellence Awards for consistent high performance:
- Arkay Packaging
- Brammer Europe Limited
- Citizen Relations
- DAWSON Integrated Marketing Communications Co. Ltd
- Diamond Packaging++ ^
- The Dow Chemical Company
- DuPont
- Fluor Corporation*
- Grupo Plastar
- Gulsan Sentetik
- Hitachi Metals America, LLC
- Ho Tung Chemical Corp.
- Jones Lang Lasalle*
- Kelheim Fibres GmbH
- Kostwein Maschinenbau GmbH
- Mindtree Ltd.
- MonoSol, Kuraray WS Film Division#
- MULTI-COLOR CORPORATION
- Nihon Kolmar Co., LTD.
- Nippon Shokubai Company Limited
- NORDSON CORPORATION
- One Asia Network
- Publicis Worldwide
- Quigley-Simpson++
- Saatchi & Saatchi X
- SAP
- Sasol
- Tata Consultancy Services
- Van Genechten Packaging
- Warwick Chemicals
- Yamada Electric Ind. Co. Ltd.
- ZRP Printing Group Limited
http://news.pg.com/press-release/pg...l-partners-re-inventing-business-partnerships
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What I find really interesting is that OBJ jumped the queue past all these Excellence Award winners to be among the select few Partners of the Year. I would like to suggest that giving OBJ this award is as much for P&G own benefit as it is for OBJ. In other words, P&G are bringing OBJ out of obscurity in order to give greater credibility to the micro-array and Tech II products to come.
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