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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Business Week from Bloomberg Radio. I'm Carol

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Speaker 1: Masser and I'm Tim Stanovik. Welcome to the Bloomberg Business

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Speaker 1: Week Extra. It's our weekly podcast bringing you a highlight

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Speaker 1: our favorite interview from the week, and this week it's

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Speaker 1: with JM. Smucker Company, President and CEO Mark Smucker and Carol,

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Speaker 1: you had the chance to catch up with him, a

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Speaker 1: fifth generation member of the family running the company. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's a company that's been around for more than a century.

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Speaker 1: It's seen wars, depression, pandemics, oil shocks No. Eleven financial crisis,

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Speaker 1: seeing women get the right to vote, seeing segregation and

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Speaker 1: then the end of segregation. Yeah, I mean, listen, I

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Speaker 1: love talking to companies like this, to him, because it's

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Speaker 1: just they've seen so much. They've gone through crisis, they've

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Speaker 1: had to adapt to changing consumers and changing marketplaces. This

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Speaker 1: isn't Smucker's first pan downic. No, it isn't exactly, And

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Speaker 1: that's why I wanted to talk to him. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to get his perspective, especially with this current environment that

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Speaker 1: feels so stressful, feels so divided, and feel so uncertain.

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of where we began our conversation check

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Speaker 1: it out. Can't diminish the significance of this humanitarian crisis

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Speaker 1: that we all find ourselves in. But I think we

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Speaker 1: do have to try to look forward to the future

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Speaker 1: and think about how are we as a company helping society.

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Speaker 1: How are we making society a better place. We obviously

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Speaker 1: make food, we make things that are uh you know,

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Speaker 1: make the consumer happy, But we also have a responsibility

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Speaker 1: to the communities in which we work as well. So

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Speaker 1: all of the ways that we can support through through volunteerism, obviously,

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Speaker 1: UM education, feeding America, all of those things. It is

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Speaker 1: a it is a dual role that we have in

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Speaker 1: society today, Is it safe to say a stressful one?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm curious about what your employees might be asking

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Speaker 1: of you today and what you're asking of your leadership

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Speaker 1: to kind of get everyone through this environment. Well, the

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Speaker 1: first thing that we're asking our leadership is to number

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Speaker 1: one focus. But also in focusing, we have to take

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Speaker 1: care of our employees and that starts with UH mental health.

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Speaker 1: We have made a significant push with our employees to

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Speaker 1: make sure that they know what resources are available to them.

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Speaker 1: It is a trying time, but fundamentally we have to

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Speaker 1: start with keeping our own house in order, protecting our employees,

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Speaker 1: which will in turn allow us to do better in business. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting too, you know, you say to do better

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Speaker 1: in business business right now. I was talking to Richard

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Speaker 1: Edelman of the PR firm Edelman and they do a

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Speaker 1: trust barometer and they say that right now business was

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Speaker 1: more trusted than government in eighteen of twenty seven countries.

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Speaker 1: And the expectations are for ceo s to focus on

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Speaker 1: to deliver on profits. And I'm curious, do you are

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Speaker 1: you seeing that? Do you see that now? It's kind

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Speaker 1: of extra responsibilities in your role as a company, Carol.

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Speaker 1: We always have taken a view again that that we

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Speaker 1: do have a responsibility to society. I think what has

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Speaker 1: shifted in the last five to ten years is you

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Speaker 1: do see business leaders being more vocal and taking stances,

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Speaker 1: not necessarily political stances, but fundamentally it's about doing what's

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Speaker 1: right and so what even if we choose not to

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Speaker 1: make a statement publicly, even internally with seven thousand employees,

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Speaker 1: what have you. But we we do see a desire

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Speaker 1: a bit more vocal in those issues. Well, it's interesting

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Speaker 1: to this whole focus mark, you know this multiple stakeholders, right,

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Speaker 1: it's something that's come out, come out of the Business Roundtable.

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Speaker 1: Your history, and help me if I've gotten the genealogy right.

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Speaker 1: just pretty fascinating that it feels like the company in

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Speaker 1: many ways was ahead of its time considering the environment

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Speaker 1: very well. We have been focused on this for decades,

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Speaker 1: what the Business Roundtable said. There's no question that social

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Speaker 1: and so forth, but specifically to innovation. It's making sure

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Speaker 1: multi year journey with Folders, which starts with the consumer

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Speaker 1: so more to come. You mentioned advertising a couple of times,

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Speaker 1: I'm curious about social how important is that and kind

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Speaker 1: And I'm also curious about influencers or celebrities, like how

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Speaker 1: you know, a coker, Pepsi, right, They've often aligned with

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Speaker 1: So I'm just curious how that plays into it. Sure

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Speaker 1: so folders in particular as it relates to UM influencers

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Speaker 1: Keeping these consumers in the franchise is largely ab out targeting.

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Speaker 1: It's knowing which consumers are new and trying to push

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Speaker 1: push messaging to them through the social channels. UM. In

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Speaker 1: terms of celebrities, as you know, we are engaged with

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Speaker 1: it's influences or celebrities. Obviously, maybe our pockets aren't as

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Speaker 1: continue to look at those opportunities as well. More so

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Speaker 1: more to come stay tuned, all right, you'll fill us

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Speaker 1: As it relates to consumers, it's how we communicate them.

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Speaker 1: much over the last year. Is the digitization or further digitization,

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