The founding members
Electrolux is the world's leader in the household appliances and professional use equipment. Every year, it sells approximately 40 million products in 150 countries all over the world. A company focused on innovating products with careful and accurate design, developed on the basis of a deep understanding of the consumers and professionals needs in order to meet their true requirements. The Group counts prestigious brands as Rex, AEG, Eureka, Frigidaire and Zoppas. In 2008, it has attained a turnover of approximately € 11 billion and an aggregate number of 55,000 employees.
Since several years, Electrolux has undertaken an environmental commitment with an integrated approach, which deals with any step of the chain and any phase of the life cycle, to reduce the environmental impact at its lowest level, committing to a process of constant improvement. As reward of this environmental policy, for the tenth consecutive year Electrolux was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, which selects the best opportunity of sustainable investment in the world. To obtain more information, click here.
Established in a garage in 1939, HP has today become a leading company in the IT and technology innovation field. Its 321,000 employees work worldwide to offer a wide span portfolio of products and services in 170 countries to over 1 billion clients. HP is currently at the ninth place of the companies listed by ‘Forbes 500 list’.
Despite its huge size, HP has remained faithful to its values and its social and environmental ethical responsibilities, imposing also to its suppliers the same standards and leading the IT segment towards the solution of environmental issues. It is further strongly engaged with a productive role in the drawing up of laws and regulations on technology and innovation at local, regional, federal and international level. HP supports all these regulations encouraging the innovative and creative use of technology to solve problems, generate economic development and improvement of life quality.
Some examples of HP’s commitment for the environment:
- between 1997 and 2007, HP has recycled 450,000 tonnes of electronic products, with the aim of recycling another billion between 2008 and 2011;
- San Diego and Ireland HP sites use almost exclusively solar and wind power;
- in three years HP has consolidated 85 data centres in 6.
For further information on HP’s environmental commitment, visit the website www.hp.com/ambiente
Procter & Gamble is a leading company in the large consumer products with registered office in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). It operates in more than 200 countries, generating an annual turnover equal to more than 80 billion US dollars. It is composed of 3 different business units: beauty and grooming, household care and health and well being. Among its brands, stand out Duracell for batteries and Braun for household appliances.
P&G is a multinational company close to the needs and requirements of its customers; since ever, innovation is used to improve life quality of present and future generations, with the aim of achieving an economic progress concerned by environment and social equity. A well-specified goal and even a stronger will to pursue it, having recourse to three viable means:
- implementing sustainable innovations appreciated by consumers and improving the environmental performance of the P&G products (2012 goal: development and marketing of “sustainable innovation products” for at least 120 billion of US dollars turnover with new products or through improvement of the existing ones, in order to obtain a significant reduction (>10%) of environmental impact);
- keep on improving the environmental performance of the production activity (2012 goal: deliver an additional 10% reduction CO2 emissions, energy consumption, water consumption and waste per product unit, leading to a total reduction over the decade of at least 40%);
- improve the life quality through social responsibility programmes.
The International Advertising Festival of Cannes has awarded Procter & Gamble as “Advertiser of the Year 2008”, one of the most important acknowledgements of the communication and advertising industry, rewarding the company for its creativity and the excellence in its worldwide communication.
Sony is a worldwide leading company, producer of pioneering audio, video and Information & Communication Technology equipment for consumer, companies and professional markets. By its complete HD offer and its operation in the electronic, music, image, videogames and online commerce businesses, Sony ranks among the leaders in the digital entertainment, with approximately 170,000 employees all over the world.
Sony constantly commits to review its products and processes, for the purpose of monitoring the potential impact on the planet. Product: Sony undertakes to ensure the constant cut of products energy consumption, aiming at reducing the average annual per product energy consumption by 30% by the end of 2015. Process: the processes are performed with an eco-compatible view along the whole chain of supply, from the conception of the product till its waste disposal, striving to reduce the CO2 emissions generated by the Sony facilities by 30% by the end of 2015. Planet: Sony requires that the business practices be implemented according to the environmental liability criteria, aiming to reduce to zero the environmental impact of its products and operations in the long-term. For further information, on the Sony environmental activities, click here.
The founding members
Procter & Gambleis composed of 3 different business units: beauty and grooming, household care and health and well being. Among its brands, stand out Duracell for batteries and Braun for household appliances.
The Electrolux Group is the world's largest producer of powered appliances for kitchen. More information is available at http://www.electrolux.com.
HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. More information is available at http://www.hp.com
Sony manufactures audio, video, communications and information technology products for the global consumer and professional markets. More information is available at http://www.sony-europe.com.
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