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influencing profiling communicating connecting Annual Report 2 013.14 members Consumer, Cosmetic and PZ Cussons Australia Associate Members Personal Care Reckitt Benckiser Corporate Travel Services Advanced Skin Technology Revlon Australia Unique Group Travel Amway of Australia SC Johnson & Son Apisant Scental Pacific Graphic Design and Creative AVON Products Shiseido (Australia) Ident Beautiworx Australia Syndet Works Beautopia Hair & Beauty The Heat Group Legal and Business Beiersdorf Australia The Purist Company Management BrandPoint Three Six Five FCB Lawyers Chanel Australia Trimex K&L Gates Clorox Australia True Solutions International KPMG Colgate-Palmolive Ultraceuticals TressCox Lawyers Combe Asia-Pacific Unilever Australasia Conair Australia Vitafive accord is recognised as Regulatory and Technical Cosmax Prestige Brands Australia Weleda Australia Consultants Coty Australia Clare Martin & Associates De Lorenzo Hair & Cosmetic Research Hygiene and Specialty Products Competitive Advantage the peak representative Elizabeth Arden Australia Albright & Wilson (Aust) Engel, Hellyer & Partners Emeis Cosmetics Antaria Robert Forbes & Associates Energizer Australia Applied Australia Seren Consulting Estée Lauder Australia BP Castrol Australia Sue Akeroyd & Associates body by governments Evolve Hair Concepts Brenntag Australia Toxikos Frostbland Castle Chemicals GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Chemetall (Australasia) Specialist Laboratories Helios Health & Beauty Clariant (Australia) and the media for and Testing iNova Pharmaceuticals – Deb Australia ams Laboratories A Valeant Company Dominant (Australia) Dermatest Integria Healthcare (Aus) Ecolab formulated products International Beauty Supplies Huntsman Corporation Australia Life Members Johnson & Johnson Pacific Jalco Group W P Barry KAO Australia Jet Technologies Australia Bruce Brown KAO Brands Australia Lab 6 Ken Clark Keune Australia Novozymes Australia Graeme Howard Kimberly-Clark Australia Nowra Chemical Manufacturers Stuart Macdougall La Biosthetique Australia Peerless JAL W C Monteith La Prairie Group Recochem Inc D Phillips L’OCCITANE Australia Rohm and Haas Australia K Scampton L’Oréal Australia Solvay Interox LVMH Perfumes and Cosmetics Sopura Australia Mary Kay Cosmetics Tasman Chemicals contents Natural Australian Kulture Thor Specialties About Our Industry 4 Nutrimetics Australia True Blue Chemicals About Accord 6 NYX Univar Australia Chairman’s Message 8 Panamex Group Whiteley Corporation Procter & Gamble Australia Sustainability 10 Global connections 14 Snapshot of the Year 16 Executive Director’s Letter 18 Achievements 20 Directors and Secretariat 25 Thank You and Farewell 26 Dream Week and Dream Ball 27 Our industry’s products are used every day all across the nation to about our industry enhance quality of life Our industry makes a significant contribution to national prosperity Product sales: Products for healthy living and a quality lifestyle • Approximately $10 billion at retail level • Close to 75% of members export product Our industry’s products are used every day across the nation 12% in homes, public places, commercial premises, institutions, 1-10 Employment: industry and agriculture. • More than 14,000 full-time equivalent positions • Small Australian-owned businesses to large multinational Cleaning agents, personal care products, disinfectants, companies hygiene products, cosmetics, sunscreens, perfumes & fragrances, oral hygiene products, adhesives, sealants, Operations: protectants – these products play vital roles in: • Over 180 offices in all Australian states and territories 37% • Close to 50 Australian manufacturing sites Safeguarding public health 11-50 • Approx. 60% of members have their head office Maintaining essential standards of hygiene and sanitation in Australia in institutions, hospitality, manufacturing and agriculture • Approx. 50% of members use local contract formulators • Supporting a range of other industries including beauty Promoting personal wellbeing & haircare, contract cleaning, catering & hospitality, Helping keep us clean and healthy, and helping shield manufacturing operations including food and agriculture, us from harmful effects of the environment restaurants, hospitals, clinics and other care institutions 20% Maintaining comfortable homes 51-100 Innovation: Enabling us to keep our everyday surroundings clean and • Approx. 57% of members invest in local research comfortable, making the home a relaxing place to unwind and development or to welcome and entertain guests Highly regulated: Enhancing quality of life • Over 66% of members have dealings with at least Giving us greater personal freedom through innovative 3 of the 5 major national product/ingredient regulators time- and effort-saving technologies 22% APVMA, AQIS, FSANZ, NICNAS & TGA*, and over 101-500 30% have dealings with at least 4 Boosting confidence and emotional wellbeing • Over 97% of members have dealings with NICNAS Assisting us to look and feel our best, as well as providing opportunities for self-expression, individuality and pampering *Respectively: Australian Pesticides & Veterinary Medicines Authority; Keeping the wheels of commerce and industry turning Australian Quarantine Inspection Service; Food Standards Australia & New Fulfilling specialised applications in households, institutions, Zealand; National Industrial Chemicals Notification & Assessment Scheme; industry, manufacturing and agriculture 9% Therapeutic Goods Administration >500 Results from Accord Industry Size & Scale Survey 2014 All these benefits are essential to safe, healthy living and maintaining the quality Size of Accord member companies lifestyle we often take for granted. by number of employees 4 Accord Annual Report 2013-14 5 We are the national voice of the Australian hygiene, cosmetic and specialty products about accord industry Indispensable Membership Accord Australasia is the peak national industry association Profiling Priority: Member Services representing manufacturers and marketers of hygiene, Enhancing industry’s reputation as an innovative solutions cosmetic and specialty products, their raw material suppliers provider through our many proactive industry sustainability Outcome: Indispensable Membership through Provision of Essential Member Services and service providers. initiatives Promoting the positive social, economic and environmental We are the respected and influential voice of a dynamic contribution of our industry’s products Priority: Priority: Priority: and innovative industry, representing over 100 leading Regulation & Sustainability – Social & Public Affairs & businesses – ranging from large multinational firms to See page 24 for current achievements Regulatory Reform Environmental Contribution Communications smaller Australian-owned enterprises, as well as both local manufacturers and product importers – in the pursuit of Communicating common, uniting objectives that create a strong business Active issues management to address environment for our members. public concerns Membership brings many benefits, including access to the Delivering information and expertise to keep your company expertise of Accord’s professional team, our leverage as the ahead of the pack respected national industry voice, and relationship-building Issuing critical member updates on Outcome: opportunities through our networks. • Regulatory changes • Government policy initiatives Respected, Credible & Influential Industry Voice Accord’s core activities can be summarised as: • Key commercial and industrial developments • Breaking media stories Enhanced Industry’s Reputation & Consumer Confidence as an Innovative Solutions Provider Influencing Advocacy to simplify the regulation of industry products See page 24 for current achievements and reduce red-tape costs Brilliant Multi-stakeholder, Multi-media Communicator Harnessing local industry partnerships to ensure Connecting industry is heard Ensuring current global awareness on key issues through active engagement with our industry’s global and regional Globally and Regionally Connected Maintaining relationships with key policy makers network Active involvement in Events to expand our Members’ networks, knowledge • Key regulatory decision-making and influence • Consultation • Informative seminars • National policy development • Strategy & policy briefings • International regulatory alignment • Technical training • Conferences See page 20 for current achievements • Social gatherings See page 20 for current achievements 6 Accord Annual Report 2013-14 7 Thank you to members for your ongoing support and engagement, enabling accord to deliver a membership strong industry voice Message from the Chairman Continued strong member engagement As such, it is no surprise that Accord continues to be the ‘go to’ point for governments, government departments in Accord is essential if we are to seize and regulators on our industry matters. We should the opportunities ahead to reduce leverage this privilege to both encourage the elimination of unproductive over-regulation and promote the commitment regulatory burden and many benefits of our industry to society. As we enter a new phase in the national political cycle Look Good…Feel Better, our Hygiene for Health, Washwise that opens up fresh opportunities to rebalance Australia’s and Furphies websites, the What’s in it? initiative and the regulatory system, it is more important than ever that Accord Recognised® environmental labelling scheme all demonstrate Members leverage their engagement
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