Announcing Best Buy as 2015 Summit Sponsor
Best Buy Supports 2015 Building a Healthier Future Summit
The world’s largest consumer electronics retailer sponsors leading gathering of experts in childhood obesity space
Washington, D.C. (February 17, 2015) — The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) today announced that Best Buy, the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer, will sponsor its Building a Healthier Future Summit. The Summit is an annual gathering of private sector, government, academia and philanthropic leaders to discuss real solutions to ending America’s childhood obesity crisis, and takes place in Washington, D.C., Feb. 25 – 27, 2015.
From wearable activity trackers and accessories to personalized devices, scales and blood pressure and heart rate monitors, Best Buy offers consumers the latest and greatest health and fitness devices.
“Best Buy offers its customers easy ways to track their health and wellness. We welcome the company’s support of the 2015 Summit and of this important issue,” said Lawrence A. Soler, president and CEO of PHA. “This year’s event is the biggest opportunity to bring leaders from all sectors together to create new solutions to end childhood obesity.”
The 2015 Summit features breakout sessions focused on topics that include corporate innovation for food and health and wellness, marketing to younger consumers, sustainability and the future of food, and the path forward to health equity, among many others. Leaders from corporations and organizations including Campbell Soup Company, The Coca-Cola Company, Hampton Creek, Luvo, Mars Food North America, PepsiCo, Self magazine, Share Our Strength and Walmart Foundation will speak at the event. PHA Honorary Chair First Lady Michelle Obama will keynote. For more information, visit www.ahealthieramerica.org/summit.
Media interested in covering the event should register for credentials by visiting www.ahealthieramerica.org/summit/press. For more information please contact news@ahealthieramerica.org.
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About PHA: The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) is devoted to working with the private sector to ensure the health of our nation’s youth by solving the childhood obesity crisis. In 2010, PHA was created in conjunction with – but independent from – First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! effort. PHA is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that is led by some of the nation’s most respected health and childhood obesity experts. PHA brings together public, private and nonprofit leaders to broker meaningful commitments and develop strategies to end childhood obesity. Most important, PHA ensures that commitments made are commitments kept by working with unbiased, third parties to monitor and publicly report on the progress our partners are making. For more information about PHA, please visit www.aHealthierAmerica.org and follow PHA on Twitter @PHAnews.