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Office Depot publishes Sustainable Value Report 2004-2005 - ReportAlert.info!

Posted By iain_mcghee On August 9, 2006 @ 11:30 am In +english, ReportAlert | Comments Disabled

Office Depot (NYSE:ODP), a leading global provider of office products and services, today announced the publication of its Sustainable Value Report. This landmark report highlights the Company’s commitment to ethical business practices, community investment, diversity, and the environment. To view Office Depot’s Sustainable Value Report in its entirety, please visit [1] www.community.officedepot.com/

The Sustainable Value Report also demonstrates Office Depot’s active engagement in the Business Roundtable’s S.E.E. Change Initiative, which encourages leading U.S. companies to embrace business strategies and projects that measurably improve Society, the Environment and the Economy.

“At Office Depot, we recognize that the traditional business imperative of driving shareholder value is merging with a 21st century notion of delivering value to a broader set of stakeholders,” said Steve Odland, Chairman and CEO of Office Depot, and Chairman of the Business Roundtable’s Corporate Governance Taskforce. “The successful business today does not choose between actions benefiting shareholders and those benefiting other stakeholders, but finds ways to deliver value to both.”

Report content covers the following:

Corporate Governance and Ethics: Corporate Governance, Code of Ethics, Social Accountability
Community Investment: Taking Care of Education, Taking Care of Communities, Taking Care When Disaster Strikes, Affiliate Program
Commitment to Diversity: Vendor Diversity, Women in Business, Workforce Diversity
Environmental Performance: Green Products, Wood & Paper Sourcing, Forest & Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, Solid Waste Reduction, Customer Recycling, Greenhouse Gas Reduction, Customer Recycling, UK/Ireland/Germany/Benelux Highlights
Of Note: Independent Review by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Office Depot provides more office products and services to more customers in more countries than any other company. Incorporated in 1986 and headquartered in Delray Beach, Fla., Office Depot has annual sales of nearly $15 billion, and employs approximately 50,000 associates around the world. Currently, the Company sells to customers in 33 countries, and has affiliates in another five.

Visit [2] www.CorporateRegister.com to access this publication together with a further 12,000 CSR reports.


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