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Columbia Chamber Announces 2020-2021 Board Of Directors
The Columbia Chamber is pleased to announce the 2020-2021
Board of Directors with the addition of nine new members. Tim Arnold, CEO and President of Colonial Life, has agreed to serve as Chairman of the Board for the Greater Columbia
Chamber of Commerce. He succeeds Kim Wilkerson,
South Carolina State President,
Bank of America. Jean Cecil Frick, NP Strat, will serve as Chair-elect. New members joining the Chamber’s Board this year include: John Cadena, Dominion Energy; Renee Chow, Historic Columbia; Patrick Cleary, Bowman and Brooke; Bo Cofield, Prisma Health; Solon Flowers, Starbucks; Karen Jenkins, KRJ Consulting, LLC; Keller Kissam, Dominion Energy; Montague Laffitte, South State Bank; and Ann Thomason, Ann Thomason
Real Estate.
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Brazil Meat Giant JBS Pledges To Axe Suppliers
Brazilian meat giant JBS said on Wednesday that it will monitor its entire supply chain by 2025, including problematic “indirect supplier†Amazon farms it currently has no control over, some of which have been linked to illegal deforestation.“As a company we are assuming our responsibility to be a transformation agent for society, to be a catalyst. To build together with everyone a better world, a more sustainable Amazon and a better brazil,†said JBS global CEO Gilberto Tomazoni in a virtual launch of the JBS Green Platform.The announcement marks a turnaround for the world’s biggest meat company. Environmentalists saw it as a positive step, but some said the deadline was too long to resolve such an urgent issue.Cattle ranching is the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon and Brazil has come under increasing pressure from international investors and other countries over rising devastation and fires. With Wednesday’s announcement, JBS is the third Brazilian meat company to begin responding to the pressure.The company said its Green Platform will use blockchain technology and cattle movement documents, called GTAs (used for sanitary control), and suppliers that fail to cooperate and comply will be blocked from selling to the company. It will initially roll out the platform in Mato Grosso state, which has Brazil’s biggest cattle herd.“What we are doing will impact the life of future generations in a relevant way,†Tomazoni said.
