Ann Tracy

“We've been driving efficiencies in our operations since 2002 and since we've begun measuring that, we've avoided close to a billion dollars of energy or electricity bills. Um, but so in other words, if we hadn't have taken those steps to be more efficient, we would have spent that money. So that's called avoidance.”

— From Reimagining A Healthier Future: A Conversation with Colgate-Palmolive's Ann Tracy, Worth Media (September 01, 2025)

“We are going to get more disciplined about the value creation aspect. We consider that as a transformative enabler for our overall business strategy.”

— From Reimagining A Healthier Future: A Conversation with Colgate-Palmolive's Ann Tracy, Worth Media (September 01, 2025)

“We have avoided close to a billion dollars in electricity costs since we've been measuring this in the supply chain. So, you know, that's a significant number. It's a significant number for anyone.”

— From How Colgate-Palmolive Is Turning Sustainability Into Value Creation, Trellis Group (July 17, 2025)

“Unlike other companies, we are staying true to our targets. We're not announcing any dial backs or readjusting our targets.”

— From How Colgate-Palmolive Is Turning Sustainability Into Value Creation, Trellis Group (July 17, 2025)

“We recognize that even though we make a lot of tubes, we don't make all the tubes. And by the way, we make many of our own tubes. That to truly get tubes as a packaging format to be recyclable, we had to scale it quickly. We had to scale it and the best way to do that was to share the technology. So, working with our l...”

— From Ann Tracy, from Colgate-Palmolive, on Sustainable Leadership, Efficiency and Collaboration, CSO Impact Podcast by Futurio Institute (July 17, 2025)

“We moved the role from supply chain to now reporting to the head of growth and strategy, which I think is an important pivot because there was a recognition that sustainability is part of our company growth strategy, not just in the supply chain.”

— From Ann Tracy, from Colgate-Palmolive, on Sustainable Leadership, Efficiency and Collaboration, CSO Impact Podcast by Futurio Institute (July 17, 2025)

“I think we need a more standard carbon pricing mechanism because we don't we don't value you know the impact that's coming is a forward-looking thing and it's hard to put money against something that may happen in the future right but if we start to monetize that risk in a standard way I think that will really start to...”

— From Path to Zero Podcast: Sustainability and Supply Chain Innovation with Ann Tracy of Colgate-Palmolive, Propane: Energy for Everyone (September 01, 2024)

“96% of the people when polled say yes we want to buy more sustainable products or live more sustainably but when actually they get to the shelf 16% of the people follow through because people especially for our type of products don't want to compromise on quality price or convenience.”

— From Path to Zero Podcast: Sustainability and Supply Chain Innovation with Ann Tracy of Colgate-Palmolive, Propane: Energy for Everyone (September 01, 2024)