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ABBOTT RECOGNIZES WINNERS OF SUPPLIER EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR QUALITY SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
Abbott Park, Illinois, May 2, 2006 - Abbott recognized 19 companies with its Supplier Excellence Award. Winners were recognized for exceptional contributions to Abbott in 2005, and were chosen from over 25,000 worldwide suppliers because of outstanding performance and continuous improvement in supplying materials, equipment and services to Abbott.
"As a global health care company, Abbott's business requires excellence from its supply chain around the world and the Supplier Excellence Awards recognize those suppliers that meet the highest standards," said Sarah Catterson, divisional vice president, Purchasing, Abbott. "These companies make significant contributions to the success of Abbott and we thank them for their continued commitment to excellence."
The Abbott Supplier Excellence Award program began in 1991 and utilizes an assessment process that combines performance data along with feedback from internal stakeholders, including manufacturing, material control, quality, engineering, administrative services and select others. The program identifies Abbott's highest performing suppliers by assessing performance in the categories of logistics, quality, service, cost leadership and process improvement.
This year, Abbott is proud to recognize the following companies as recipients of Abbott's Supplier Excellence Award:
- Ball Corporation (Findlay, Ohio plant)
- Colbert
- Copapharm Group (Grafica Zannini)
- CSE
- Danisco
- Gordon Food Service
- Insight
- Invitrogen
- Midori (Japan)
- Nosco
- Nypro
- Pharmagraphics
- Sigma
- Staples
- Smurfit Stone (Labeling Division)
- Sonoco Phoenix
- Sumitomo (Japan)
- Tekni Plex
- Vetter
About Abbott
Abbott is a global, broad-based health care company devoted to the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceuticals and medical products, including nutritionals, devices and diagnostics. The company employs more than 60,000 people and markets its products in more than 130 countries.