SLS 19RS-462 ORIGINAL 2019 Regular Session SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 40 BY SENATOR LONG COMMENDATIONS. Commends Procter & Gamble Fabric Care Manufacturing Alexandria Plant in Pineville, Louisiana upon the celebration of their 50th Anniversary. 1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 2 To commend Procter & Gamble Fabric Care Manufacturing Alexandria Plant in Pineville, 3 Louisiana, on the celebration of their Fiftieth Anniversary. 4 WHEREAS, it is with great pride that the citizens and the Legislature of Louisiana 5 commend and honor Procter & Gamble on fifty years in Louisiana; and 6 WHEREAS, three billion times a day, Procter & Gamble brands touch the lives of 7 people throughout the world; and 8 WHEREAS, Procter & Gamble has one of the largest and strongest portfolios of 9 trusted, quality brands, including Pampers, Tide, Ariel, Always, Whisper, Pantene, Mach3, 10 Bounty, Dawn, Pringles, Folgers, Charmin, Downy, Lenor, Iams, Crest, Oral-B, Actonel, 11 Duracell, Olay, Head and Shoulders, Wella, Gillette, and Braun; and 12 WHEREAS, the Procter & Gamble community consists of almost one hundred forty 13 thousand employees working in more than eighty countries worldwide; and 14 WHEREAS, Procter & Gamble has been named among the top five Most Admired 15 Companies by FORTUNE magazine, and is the third Most Admired Company globally and 16 ranks fourth among Most Admired Companies in the United States; and 17 WHEREAS, Procter & Gamble started construction of the Louisiana plant on a one 18 hundred twelve acre site, located approximately eight miles north of Alexandria in 1968; and Page 1 of 3 SLS 19RS-462 ORIGINAL SCR NO. 40 1 WHEREAS, many of the employees who helped build the plant then became part of 2 the original one hundred forty member production startup team; and 3 WHEREAS, the team shipped the first box of Alexandria Plant Tide to the regional 4 mid-south market in the fall of 1969; and 5 WHEREAS, for over thirty-five years, production at the plant consisted of dry 6 laundry products, i.e. Tide, Cheer, Gain, Oxydol, Bold, Dash, Dreft, and Ivory Snow; and 7 WHEREAS, in 2004, they announced a major expansion project onsite and invested 8 over two hundred twenty million dollars to add production capability to produce liquid 9 detergent on four packing lines and added additional state-of-the-art warehouse space for the 10 new volume, which led to companies like Plastipak Packaging relocating to the area, as well 11 as several other companies back in 2005-2006 creating hundreds of additional jobs; and 12 WHEREAS, the plant now produces both dry and liquid detergent and pods and ships 13 to approximately one-third of the United States, with many of the brands produced there 14 being market leaders, including Tide, the nation's #1 laundry detergent brand; and 15 WHEREAS, Procter & Gamble commemorates the Fiftieth Anniversary of its Fabric 16 Care Manufacturing Alexandria Plant in Pineville, Louisiana, (although the Plant is located 17 in Pineville it is still known as the Alexandria Plant since that is where it first began); and 18 WHEREAS, it is a key facility for the production of Tide laundry detergent, and in 19 2006, it started producing liquid detergent, and in 2012, became one of only two sites to 20 produce the new Tide Pods, and later that same year they consolidated its dry detergent 21 manufacturing to the plant in Pineville; and 22 WHEREAS, in 2017 Procter and Gamble made a forty-six million dollar investment 23 in the Alexandria Plant which modernized and increased warehousing capability at the plant 24 adding at least twenty-six new jobs and in the process brought multiple companies relocating 25 to the area to supply the plant; and 26 WHEREAS, the team in Pineville, from employees to suppliers to partners, is one 27 of the largest and most successful operations of Fabric Care businesses globally; and 28 WHEREAS, the work they are doing for Procter & Gamble and the difference they 29 are making in their communities, Louisiana, the United States, and globally is to be 30 commended, honored, and celebrated; and Page 2 of 3 SLS 19RS-462 ORIGINAL SCR NO. 40 1 WHEREAS, this Fiftieth Anniversary celebration underscores Procter & Gamble's 2 commitment to economic development in Louisiana and the company's leading role in 3 helping improve the lives of people in the area and the surrounding communities where they 4 live and work; and 5 WHEREAS, Procter & Gamble employees and retirees contribute thousands of hours 6 of community service every year to benefit local education, arts, health, environmental, and 7 civic programs; and 8 WHEREAS, today, the Pineville/Alexandria plant has about six hundred employees 9 and provides jobs for four to five hundred contract employees; and 10 WHEREAS, during five decades of operation, the Alexandria Manufacturing Plant 11 has grown to become one of Procter & Gamble's largest detergent operations globally and 12 production volume has increased steadily over the years, reflecting the sustained growth in 13 Procter & Gamble's detergent business, which now represents approximately half of the total 14 North American detergent market. 15 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby 16 commend Procter & Gamble Fabric Care Manufacturing Alexandria Plant in Pineville, 17 Louisiana, on the celebration of their Fiftieth Anniversary. 18 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Plant 19 Leader, Taylan Uras. The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Tammy Crain Waldrop. DIGEST SCR 40 Original 2019 Regular Session Long Commends Procter & Gamble Fabric Care Manufacturing Alexandria Plant in Pineville, Louisiana, on the celebration of their 50th Anniversary. Page 3 of 3.