Who is Paul J. Brown?

In 2018, Paul J. Brown became the Co-Founder and CEO of Inspire Brands, an international company that owns brands such as Dunkin’, Sonic, Baskin-Robbins, and Arby’s. Prior to becoming Inspire’s CEO, Paul was the CEO of Arby’s. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors at Neiman Marcus Group, a board member at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Tech Foundation, and a Fellow at the Culinary Institute of America. Paul received a bachelor’s degree from Georgia Institute of Technology and a master’s degree from Northwestern University. While he previously had a “focus on innovation,” where is that innovation when it comes to fulfilling his company's cage-free egg promise?

In 2021, Inspire Brands promised consumers it would end the abuse of hens throughout its global supply chain. A decision that would impact approximately 2.5 million egg-laying hens globally each year. After two years, Inspire has still not publicly reported its cage-free egg progress in all of its regions. Now, Inspire is at the center of a global campaign that is gaining attention and support worldwide. Consumers are outraged and want Inspire to take its commitment seriously by publicly reporting its global cage-free progress.

While competitors like Famous Brands, Restaurant Brands International, and Food Delivery Brands are reporting progress towards—if not already fulfilling—their commitments to be 100% cage-free globally, Inspire has yet to publicly report its global progress. Is it reneging on its commitment? Has it failed to make growth in all regions towards the goal it set for itself? This lack of accountability and transparency is unacceptable.

As consumers—as well as Inspire’s own leaders—know, making a promise is not the same as making good on a promise.

Caged egg-laying hens spend their lives crammed together in barren wire cages. They cannot dust-bathe or express most of their other natural behaviors. Often, they suffer from broken bones and mental anguish. Each hen is unable to even spread her own wings, and she only has as much space as the size of a sheet of paper within which to live her entire, miserable life. Inspire Brands claims it is an achiever and has a “culture of innovation,” so is continuing to support archaic cages really how it hopes to inspire trust in customers?

Will Paul J. Brown choose to do the right thing and encourage his fellow leadership to publicly report global progress to end animal cruelty, or will he continue to ignore the public promise Inspire Brands made?

Click “Take Action” below to tell Paul J. Brown that consumers demand transparency and animals deserve better. Now is the time to demonstrate true leadership by showing the world that Inspire Brands is committed to upholding its promises and ending the abuse of animals in its supply chain.