ARLINGTON, VA – Food Marketing Institute (FMI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Matz, as director, food and health policy. Matz will lead issue development and advocacy efforts in the food and health legislative areas on the government relations team.
His diverse background in legislative and regulatory strategy as well as communications enables him to represent the food retail industry’s interests on Capitol Hill and with regulators. Matz has spent the past decade at OFW Law as a government relations advisor where he guided regulatory affairs and legislative strategies for companies and trade associations across the food, beverage and agriculture sectors.
FMI Chief Public Policy Officer, and Senior Vice President of Government Relations, Jennifer Hatcher, commented on Matz’s new role at FMI, saying, “Peter is an accomplished, versatile public policy and communications expert whose passion for food and nutrition complements his track record for consensus-building on Capitol Hill. We look forward to having him join the FMI team.”
Matz earned his bachelor’s in political science and sociology from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
About FMI
Food Marketing Institute proudly advocates on behalf of the food retail industry, which employs nearly 5 million workers and represents a combined annual sales volume of almost $800 billion. FMI member companies operate nearly 33,000 retail food stores and 12,000 pharmacies. FMI membership includes the entire spectrum of food retail venues; single owner grocery stores, large multi-store supermarket chains, pharmacies, online and mixed retail stores. Through programs in public affairs, food safety, research, education, health and wellness and industry relations, FMI offers resources and provides valuable benefits to almost 1,000 food retail and wholesale member companies and serves 85 international retail member companies. In addition, FMI has almost 500 associate member companies that provide products and services to the food retail industry. For more information, visit www.fmi.org and for information regarding the FMI Foundation, visit www.fmifoundation.org.
Source: Food Marketing Institute
