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FMI Offers Free Online Carbon Calculator

Food Marketing Institute (FMI) Offers Members Free Online Carbon Calculator

New Resource from Verisae Provides Opportunity for Retailers to Reduce Carbon Footprint

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Arlington, VA - May 10, 2010 -- The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) introduced today a carbon calculator for its members developed by Verisae, a global leader in Sustainability Resource Planning (“SRP”). The calculator is available free on FMI's website, accessible only to members.

"This extremely useful resource will help retailers learn their company's impact on the environment and measure progress as they implement sustainability programs. We appreciate Verisae providing this calculator at a time when the industry is focusing intensely on these issues," said FMI President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie G. Sarasin.

Using the FMI Carbon Calculator, retailers can measure their company's carbon footprint, establish a baseline, and learn the potential savings if they institute programs to reduce energy use and emissions. It will help retailers set goals and measure progress using the calculator.

"By offering FMI the Carbon Calculator, it's our goal to support the grocery retail industry. We think these emissions baselines will allow organizations to take steps necessary to improve," said Paul Hepperla, vice president of product strategy for Verisae. "We think this will awaken many companies to their carbon journey and put them on a path to improve many areas of their business."

FMI's Sustainability Task Force, composed of 26 member company experts, worked with Verisae to make this tool available to the industry at no cost. Verisae will demonstrate the calculator as an exhibitor (Booth 6403 in the Technology Pavilion) May 11-13 at FMI 2010 in Las Vegas, NV.

"As a small company, Buehlers would not have had the capacity to calculate emissions in such an effective manner if not for the carbon reporting software provided by Verisae," commented Scott Buehler, President of Buehler's Fresh Foods and FMI Sustainability Task Force Member. "We have used these results to benchmark where our company stands among peers. More important, we now know where we can improve and take action. This tool is a huge help to our efforts thus far. We're excited to build upon what we accomplished already."

FMI offers numerous resources to help the industry address a wide variety of sustainability issues. For a complete listing, visit www.fmi.org/sustainability

About FMI
Food Marketing Institute (www.fmi.org) conducts programs in public affairs, food safety, research, education and industry relations on behalf of its 1,500 member companies - food retailers and wholesalers - in the United States and around the world. FMI's U.S. members operate approximately 26,000 retail food stores and 14,000 pharmacies. Their combined annual sales volume of $680 billion represents three-quarters of all retail food store sales in the United States. FMI's retail membership is composed of large multi-store chains, regional firms and independent supermarkets. Its international membership includes 200 companies from more than 50 countries. FMI's associate members include the supplier partners of its retail and wholesale members.

About Verisae, Inc.
Verisae, Inc., (www.Verisae.com) helps measure, manage and reduce equipment and energy costs including the related business and environmental impacts of carbon emissions. The Sustainability Resource Planning (“SRP”) platform improves operational efficiency, protects brand integrity, and helps ensure regulatory compliance for distributed enterprises across many industries. Verisae delivers a broad range of sustainability solutions to over 45 clients globally with more than 65,000 daily users including a network of more than 7,500 third-party suppliers. Verisae’s integrated sustainability platform actively tracks over 2.5 million assets across more than 20,000 sites worldwide.

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