Award Recipients Reduce Emissions, Improve the Environment and Companies'
Bottom-line
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Limited Brands
received an Environmental Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency SmartWay(SM) Transport Partnership for its leadership in
conserving energy and lowering greenhouse gas emissions from its
transportation and freight activities. Included in these activities is a
project that has resulted in the switch of 30% of inbound freight from
truck to rail. By utilizing rail instead of truck, the company has been
able to significantly reduce diesel fuel consumption and emissions. This
program has been so successful that Limited Brands is working with
additional partners to expand the program by 300% in 2007. The company
anticipates the rollout of this project in 2007 will result in savings of
175,000 gallons of diesel fuel and reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide
by approximately 1,820 metric tons during the first year.
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"Our partnership with SmartWay Transport demonstrates that companies
can save money and help the environment," said Greg Cunningham, director of
regulatory assurance for Limited Brands. "The partnership provides us with
tools and information, and contributes on a daily basis to significant
improvements in our efficiency and environmental performance. We urge all
of our colleagues in the freight industry to consider joining SmartWay."
Limited Brands was one of 34 companies and organizations, from among
the Partnerships' more than 600 Partners, to receive this distinction. The
awards were announced today at the annual conference of the Council of
Supply Chain Management Professionals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"EPA is pleased to recognize Partners with SmartWay Excellence Awards.
The award winners are leading the way toward a cleaner, more efficient
transportation future with strategies that reduce emissions and increase
profits," said Margo T. Oge, Director of EPA's Office of Transportation and
Air Quality.
SmartWay was introduced by EPA and a select group of fifteen shipping
and business leaders in 2004 as an innovative, market-based partnership to
reduce fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions, and air pollutants from the
freight sector. Today, more than 600 businesses and organizations have
joined the Partnership, including companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500
companies to family-owned businesses, each working to improve their
environmental performance. Together, based on their three-year commitments,
these companies, including Limited Brands are conserving more than 600
million gallons of diesel fuel per year, saving the trucking industry
nearly $2 billion in annual fuel costs, and eliminating nearly 7 million
metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.
By 2012, the SmartWay program, with full industry participation, estimates
nationwide that it will achieve annual fuel savings of 3.3 to 6.6 billion
gallons of diesel fuel, eliminating 33 - 66 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide emissions and up to 200,000 tons of nitrogen oxide emissions.
For more information about SmartWay visit: http://www.epa.gov/smartway
or call (734) 214-4767.
For more information about the SmartWay Award recipients, visit:
http://www.epa.gov/awards.
ABOUT LIMITED BRANDS:
Limited Brands, through Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works, C.O.
Bigelow, La Senza, White Barn Candle Co. and Henri Bendel, presently
operates 2,890 specialty stores. The company's products are also available
online at http://www.VictoriasSecret.com, http://www.BathandBodyWorks.com
and http://www.LaSenza.com.
2007 SmartWay Environmental Excellence Award Winners
The U.S. EPA SmartWay Excellence Awardees are listed by partner category:
Truck Carriers
Contract Freighters, Inc. (CFI)
CSX Transportation
John Christner Trucking LLC
Knight Transportation, Inc.
Langford, Inc.
Meijer
Metropolitan Trucking, Inc.
Orlicks Inc.
P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc.
Quad/Graphics, Inc.
Roehl Transport, Inc.
Schneider National, Inc.
Smithfield Transportation Co., Inc.
Swift Transportation Company
TransAm Trucking, Inc.
Wal-Mart
Shippers
IBM Corporation
Johnson & Johnson Sales & Logistics Company, LLC
JCPenney
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Lowe's Companies Inc.
Michelin North America, Inc.
Office Depot
Sharp Electronics Corporation
STERIS Corporation
Logistics Companies
Alliance Shippers, Inc.
Exel
Limited Brands Inc
National Logistics Management, Inc.
Affiliates
4 State Trucks
American Trucking Associations
Cascade Sierra Solutions
North Central Texas Council of Governments
Superior Financial Group
SOURCE Limited Brands
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