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If you spend more than about $1 million a year on energy, your potential savings are big enough to make this worth your time.
If you operate more than about 20 stores, your energy-management challenges are complex enough that you’ll welcome these ideas, specifically aimed at multisite retailers.
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FOOD MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE STORY
Food Marketing Institute (FMI) 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.
What is Sustainability?
Business practices and strategies that promote the long term well-being of the environment, society and the bottom-line. (FMI Sustainability Initiatives)
Sustainability is emerging as a critically important issue globally, and FMI is developing the tools and resources grocery retailers need most as they develop and implement sustainable business strategies.
Solution Summary:
Given the heightened priority of corporate sustainability, Verisae is positioned well to enable organizations to establish a carbon footprint baseline, outline energy management options, and provide a comprehensive corporate sustainability action plans.
Verisae delivered information the FMI Sustainability Task Force valuable carbon baseline information and “what-if scenario” reductions options with their associated ROI. This is being done in a simple to use, web based application that uses calculations by The Climate Registry for the determination of a “Carbon Footprint.”
All of which can be implemented with metrics in place to highlight bottom-line cost savings and return on investment timelines. For these reasons and more, the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) asked Verisae to consult and provide a simplified version of the Enterprise Emissions Tracking (EET), which provides a company with real time carbon footprint reporting across a distributed enterprise.
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