Newell Brands

We are proud to share that Rubbermaid Commercial Products (RCP) has been selected as Grainger’s 2024 Supplier of the Year. This prestigious recognition is granted to only one of Grainger’s ~5,000 vendors. Newell Brands’ partnership with Grainger includes exceptional field sales collaboration, a robust innovation roadmap, consistent executive leadership engagement, productive factory visits and service level excellence over a sustained period. We are grateful for fantastic partners like Grainger and their role in helping us achieve our purpose. Congratulations to the RCP team on this recognition! 

Introducing the latest innovation from EXPO®, their new Wet Erase Markers! These vibrant, smudge-free tools act like permanent markers until you’re ready to erase them – then, they are easily removable with water. Watch this video to learn more! 

We’re proud to announce the winners of our annual CEO Awards program, which celebrates five employees who drive meaningful business results and go above and beyond in executing their responsibilities while consistently demonstrating our values of integrity, teamwork, passion for winning, ownership and leadership. Winners are nominated by their colleagues and selected through several rounds of judging. The program is an important step in fostering a culture where employees are rewarded for excellence. The first 2024 winner we are highlighting is Penny Bieber-Schreter, Key Account Manager, Sales for our Home & Commercial Segment. Penny exemplifies integrity by relentlessly advocating for the Rubbermaid Commercial Products® (RCP) brand with key customers, resulting in significant growth with new and existing partners. She has provided valuable feedback to RCP and customer leadership, ensuring alignment and product relevance with her frontline conversations and insights. Penny’s teammates say she has fostered a renewed sense of purpose and positively impacted morale and customer relationships. Penny’s integrity shines through her work, and we are thankful that she shares her talents with Newell Brands! Join us in congratulating Penny in the comments.

Newell Brands recently welcomed Andres Ramirez Salazar to our Americas go-to-market organization as our new SVP and General Manager of LATAM. Andrés brings vast experience and commercial acumen from international roles at an impressive resume of global companies. In his role, he will work to leverage the strong foundations we’ve built in the U.S. and Canada to unlock growth opportunities and enhance our operational effectiveness in the LATAM region. Andrés recently toured the region, stopping at our Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Miami, FL offices and facilities to meet employees from across the area and host his first Town Halls since joining the company. He noted our LATAM employees’ spirit of Teamwork, sense of resiliency and strong business acumen and believes our brands are well-positioned to grow in the region. Thank you to our LATAM teams for helping us welcome Andrés!

🇺🇸 Newell Brands has invested $2 billion in US manufacturing since the 2017 Trump tax cuts went into effect. Even still, it relies on China for more than 10% of its sourcing, Mexico for 5%, and a small amount from Canada. Newell Brands CEO Chris Peterson told me on the Yahoo Finance Opening Bid vodcast that the Trump tariff climate is different this time around. "In the first Trump administration, there were tariffs put on China, but he also went through a process where there was an exclusion process and the ability for companies to go and petition to have certain product categories exempted so that the tariffs were applied more selectively as opposed to universally," Peterson recalled. He adds, "In this administration, there's a different focus, I think, on the tariff discussion where the administration is looking at trade imbalances and trying to use tariffs against many different companies in a more universal fashion. And so that has created, at least in the short term, a lot more uncertainty." The company will be putting more "Made in the USA" labeling on its packaging soon. 👇 📈Yahoo Finance: https://lnkd.in/eT3Wj7PQ 🎧Apple Music: https://lnkd.in/es4QEwyS 🎙️Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ez-zwaiF 🎵Amazon Music: https://lnkd.in/eiZeinnt

Newell Brands’ leaders recently gathered at our annual Leadership Summit for three days of programming focused on our 2025 strategic priorities and accelerating our growth journey. This year’s theme, Inspiring Boldness Every Day, emphasized the importance of fostering a culture of action and innovation within the organization. It encouraged our leaders to step out of their comfort zones, take calculated risks, and confidently embrace new challenges to drive the company forward. Read about the Summit here: https://lnkd.in/ezf4Z3mt

Our commitment to operating with excellence includes transporting our products efficiently as we strive to save fuel, lower costs and reduce the environmental impact of our supply chain. One way we do this is through the SmartWay® Transport Partnership, which helps measure, benchmark and improve freight transportation efficiency with emission accounting methodologies and tools. We’re proud to share that we again exceeded our goal to use SmartWay-approved carriers for over 90 percent of the total ton-miles traveled in the U.S. and Canada. 99 percent of our total ton-miles traveled were on SmartWay carriers. These efforts help reduce emissions, energy and waste, ultimately benefiting the planet, our customers and consumers.🌎

We’re proud to be named to Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies list for the fourth consecutive year!⭐ Inclusion on this list, one of the most prestigious global recognitions of corporate reputation, underscores our drive to boldly execute our company strategy and create an effective, efficient, and aligned organization to enable success. Guided by our shared values, we’re working to foster innovation, high performance, and inclusion within our organization. We continue to make progress on our journey. Over the past year, we fully implemented our new operating model with brand management in place for our top 25 brands, created a “One Newell” geographic go-to-market organization, and centralized all supply chain and back-office functions. We are making significant progress toward unlocking the full potential of the organization and our portfolio of leading brands. Thank you to our dedicated teams for your continued hard work in pursuit of our aspiration of delighting consumers by lighting up every day moments. https://lnkd.in/gR9qGZpR

Newell Brands’ cross-functional leaders are checked in at our annual Leadership Summit and ready for three days of programming focused on our 2025 priorities and accelerating our growth journey. Stay tuned to learn more!

Sports fans recently gathered in New Orleans, LA, for football’s biggest event. To take advantage of the moment, Crock-Pot® and Sharpie® joined in on the action with a visit to Flavortown and the launch of the second annual Rookie of the Year program. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eb4JzE-9