Peiros Honored at ACI Annual Meeting

Larry Peiros, the retiring executive vice president and chief operating officer for The Clorox Company, received the Elva Walker Spillane Award, the distinguished service award of the American Cleaning Institute, during the ACI annual meeting in Orlando last week.

Peiros, accepted the award via video. He was unable to attend the event due to illness in his family.

“I worked with Elva on the ACI board. She was a terrific business person,” Peiros recalled. “It is humbling to get the award named in her honor.”

Peiros was active in the work of ACI for over 15 years. He served on ACI’s Board of Directors for 12 years, as chair of the Finance Committee and Treasurer from 2008-2009, contributing to ACI’s strong financial position. He further provided leadership, serving on the Board’s Executive Committee from 2008-2010.

“Larry Peiros has been a tremendous asset to ACI and to the cleaning products industry at-large,” said Ernie Rosenberg, ACI president & CEO. “Those of us on the staff who have worked with him directly have deep respect and affection.

“A mere recitation of the positions he’s held does not capture how much of a contribution he has made and how important his leadership has been to the development of the Institute and its staff.I am personally deeply grateful that I had the opportunity to work with and learn from Larry,” Rosenberg added.

Peiros joined Clorox in 1980 as a summer intern, was appointed a member of the company’s executive committee in 1999 and elevated to the COO role in 2007.

Most recently, he had overall responsibility for all of the company’s businesses, and oversaw the marketing, sales, research & development and product supply functions, as well as Clorox’s Eco Office, which is responsible for implementing the company’s global environmental sustainability strategy. He is retiring on April 1, 2013.

ACI’s Distinguished Service Award is named in honor of the late Elva Walker Spillane, the former National Purity LLC chief executive who served on the association’s Board for 20 years.

The award honors an individual for extensive or exceptional service to ACI, who promoted the growth and interests of the Institute and the industries it represents; and who exercised outstanding leadership within the Institute.