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Gold Sustaining Member Profiles
Ecolab Inc. is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies
and services that protect people and vital resources. Ecolab delivers
comprehensive solutions and on-site service to promote safe food, maintain
clean environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational
efficiencies for customers in the food, healthcare, energy, hospitality and
industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.
Ecolab's approach to food safety and brand protection is comprehensive. The company's integrated program
approach leverages technology, service, training, information and actionable reporting to prevent and solve food safety
challenges. Through this approach, Ecolab helps customers across the food supply chain meet their operational and
sustainability goals while ensuring product integrity and brand reputation.
With customized programs, Ecolab provides solutions to meet the
individual needs of food and beverage processing plants and foodservice
and food retail businesses, from preventing cross-contamination at animal
production and food processing facilities to providing hand hygiene
programs for restaurant employees.
Through a combination of on-site service provided by the industry's
most knowledgeable sales-and-service technicians and innovative
solutions, including automated dispensing systems; specialized detergents,
disinfectants and sanitizers; antimicrobial food tissue treatments; and water
management and process improvement technologies; Ecolab has the
expertise and solutions to help keep food safe.
In addition to product solutions, the company also provides a
comprehensive compliance program. Ecolab's quality assurance food safety
management program helps customers establish a routine self-inspection
program, provide comprehensive employee training and conduct periodic
independent audits to identify any areas in need of improvement.

Flying Food Group (FFG) is a leading, large-scale producer of quality meals and snacks destined
for discerning passengers of the world's leading airlines and for retail partners in the grocery, food
service and specialty markets. FFG produces approximately 300,000 quality meals and snacks
daily, operating from a network of 17 U.S. kitchens that stretches from Honolulu to New York City,
plus a kitchen at Shanghai's Hong Qiao International Airport.
Advanced packaging and preparation technologies, plus FFG's extensive production
network, support maximum shelf life for retail products nationwide. Advanced computerized
purchasing and operations systems add efficiencies.
FFG has over 70 airline customers, primarily international carriers including Air France, Air
India, Alitalia, ANA, Asiana, British Airways, JAL, Lufthansa, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, SWISS and TAM. FFG retail
partners are leading global brands, including Starbucks.
FFG VP of Food Safety & Quality (FS&Q) Dr. Paul Hall and his team maintain close oversight of compliance,
initiatives and procedures. These include Retail ServeSafe Food Safety Management Certification, HACCP Certification
and company-wide training towards BRC Certification - an international Gold Standard of Food Safety.
Diversity is a key driver of the company's success. Creative, multi-ethnic chefs team with airline customers and retail
partners on cuisines ranging from Chinese, French, Italian and Western to Halal, Indian and Middle Eastern. Over 80%
of FFG's nearly 4,000 employees are women or minorities. FFG was ranked one of the top 100 job-creating private
companies in the U.S. by Inc. magazine's 2012 Hire Power Awards. Hire Power also ranked FFG among the top
10 job-generating private companies in the U.S. Food & Beverage industry.
In 2013, FFG marks 30 years of steady growth under the leadership of founder (1983) and CEO Sue Gin. FFG is
ranked by Crain's Chicago Business as the Chicago area's second largest female-owned and second largest minorityowned company for 2012.

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