WASHINGTON, March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Partnership
for a Healthier America (PHA), which works with corporate America
to improve the food supply and increase physical activity, today
announced sponsors for the 2019 Accelerating a Healthier Future
Summit taking place April 1-2 at
Swissôtel in Chicago, Ill.
Leaders from the private sector, government, academia and
nonprofits will discuss challenges and solutions to ensure all
children will live healthier lives, growing up to be adults free
from obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic conditions.
Following are the Premier, Gold and Silver-level sponsors for this
year's event:
- Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 95
years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage
has given the company experience and capabilities to help people
defeat other serious chronic conditions: rare bleeding disorders,
growth hormone related disorders and obesity. Novo Nordisk is the
Premier sponsor of the 2019 PHA Summit.
- McLane Company, Inc. is one of the largest supply
chain services leaders, providing grocery and foodservice supply
chain solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores
and chain restaurants throughout the
United States. The company buys, sells and delivers more
than 50,000 different consumer products to nearly 110,000 locations
across the United States.
- MINDBODY, Inc. is the leading technology platform for
the fitness, wellness and beauty services industries. Local
entrepreneurs worldwide use MINDBODY's integrated software and
payments platform to run, market and build their businesses.
Consumers use MINDBODY to more easily find, engage and transact
with providers in their local communities.
- McDonald's is the world's leading global foodservice
retailer with over 37,000 locations in over 100 markets around the
world. Approximately 93 percent of McDonald's restaurants worldwide
are owned and operated by independent local business men and women.
Since 2013, McDonald's has worked with The Alliance for a Healthier
Generation to set and achieve global goals to
help increase customers' access to fruits, vegetables, low-fat
dairy and water, including removing soda from U.S. Happy Meal
menu boards.
- PepsiCo is one of the world's leading food and beverage
companies with products sold in more than 200 countries and
territories around the world. PepsiCo has pledged that at least
two-thirds of all beverages sold globally have 100 calories or less
from added sugars per 12-ounce serving by 2025.
Bronze-level sponsors include The a2 Milk Company, Amazon, Inc.,
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Giant Food, Harold Levinson
Associates, Honest Tea, John
Hancock, KMPG United States, National Confectioners
Association, Peerfit, Inc., and Sprout Organic Foods.
The 2019 Summit is supported by the following media sponsors:
Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network, Convenience Store
Decisions, Convenience Store News, CSP Daily News, The
FoodNavigator-USA Summit: FOOD FOR
KIDS, NACS and Upworthy | GOOD.
This year's Summit will address the imperative to accelerate the
healthy innovation and market disruption necessary to make
nutritious food and safe play more accessible to all American
families. The 2019 Summit features breakout sessions focused on
topics that include recent advances in food and physical activity
designed with disposable income in mind, the opportunity for
equitable technologies that improve health, the movement to ensure
that those who choose to eat away from home have access to healthy
options and creating lasting partnerships that drive better
health.
Review the full agenda on Partnership for a Healthier America's
Summit website.
Credentialed reporters interested in covering the Summit should
register here by March
22, 2019.
About Partnership for a Healthier America
PHA's
mission is to leverage the power of the private sector to bring
lasting systemic changes that improve the food supply, increase
healthy choices, increase physical activity and contribute to a
culture of health. In 2010, PHA was created in conjunction with—but
independent from—Former First Lady Michelle
Obama's Let's Move! effort. PHA identifies, accelerates and
celebrates voluntary business practices that improve or increase
choice or lead to new norms and behavior around food and physical
activity. For more information about PHA, please visit
aHealthierAmerica.org and follow PHA on Twitter
@PHAnews.
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