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Foreign Affairs committee Thank you very much. It was my pleasure to be here. It was an honour.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee Generally the way these projects with USAID work is that whether there's a sanitation issue with the water or water scarcity in the communities we would be serving, there would be a list of where these places were, and we would work with USAID to ask what we need to put in there
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee Yes, I think that's fair to say. It's a combination of the two. As I keep saying, for anything, we can't do it on our own. I don't think anybody can do it on their own in this world. We have to find the right partnerships, businesses, communities, NGOs, governments.... Everythin
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee The project just started about a year and a half ago, because we realized, as we were expanding our juice business and were able to distribute more widely in Africa, that we were importing fruit into some very fertile areas. Mangoes, particularly, were coming from India to Africa
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee We are starting business in South Sudan, which is a challenging market. At every facility we have to do a water assessment in terms of the sourcing and look at how we are servicing the water, what our usage rate would be there, and we also look at how we can. We've done them in C
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee Yes. I can say first that we are expanding our juice portfolio and getting broader distribution. Refrigeration is part of having shelf-stable products, and the fortified beverage we've rolled out this year allows us to do that without refrigeration. Specifically, yes. We've talk
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee We take all the water from municipal or we have our own wells. We take it through processing, but it's done literally at the filling process. So the only way to get it distributed is through the bottle. But we have given money to local communities where there's a source well they
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you for the question. First of all, given that much of our business is in the developing markets, we feel that the role of women in our business has not been represented properly. Many people think of us as a heavy business—lifting, bottling, cases—but the truth is that we
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee Yes. I mean, I couldn't point to scientific data, but we know they're becoming a pillar. Their husbands will still most likely have a job and be gone during the day, but running their own business allows them to be flexible in terms of what they're doing, both in terms of generat
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee We will advertise for them locally, and that can be very different things in different countries, but we are a very local business. As you said, you can find us pretty much everywhere, so we know what's going on in the areas. We will actively search out. We will say that this is
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee Depending on the country. It's not growing everywhere.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee Here in Canada we are not growing our normal water business.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee Yes, we are trying to sell our beverages locally. I think on water, in the grand scheme of things, we're actually a very small user of total water. We are working, as I said, with USAID, the WWF, and others in programs on water usage. As I said, we are committed to giving back a
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee No. Water is a natural resource, and in some areas there are water scarcity issues, in parts of Africa as well. We've done many studies on that, working with independent firms on water scarcity and how we fit into that. It is certainly part of our planning, where we go in and put
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino
Foreign Affairs committee Certainly I don't want to get into.... We are concerned about having access to enough water and that we are able to replenish what we use. There are very different areas where there are water problems.
June 4th, 2012Committee meeting
John Guarino