Compliance Programs: Social Accountability Is A Good Place To Start

While programs like WRAP and FLA have merit, they just address one area of compliance—and they may not transfer through to your organization.

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When Do You Have Enough Compliance?

I was recently asked this question by an industry-leading distributor. He regularly has to field compliance inquiries from his customers and is frustrated by the wide range of responses he gets from suppliers.

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Should I? Or Shouldn’t I? The Value Of A Compliance Program

Our industry seems to be struggling with the question of whether or not to commit time, effort and money to developing compliance programs. It’s an oversimplification, but you can group our industry into five basic categories on this topic.

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Are You Meaningfully Different?

Today there are more brands, more products and more choices. But, in reality, it’s just more of the same.

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You Can’t Test In Safety

As I follow up on the many conversations that were started at the recent PPAI North American Leadership Conference and the PPAI Product Safety Summit, my belief that the rate of change in our industry is accelerating continues to be confirmed.

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Indemnification: Are You—And Your Clients—Really Protected?

While the concept behind indemnification agreements is understandable, they fail to address one crucial question: How do indemnification agreements protect the end buyer’s brand?

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