Baza/Alan/Biscuit/Greyhound et al Hi,
Looks to me like my post last night is where it's all heading. a couple of weeks ago I was e-mailed the Wal-Mart announcement, and it was suggested I might like to put it on my website, and from this I now think this is a build up to the Packaging Strategies' Sustainable Packaging Forum where Wal-Mart will be presenting it's plans, and I believe these plans will include Greenseal and Starpol 2000, and would be accompanied by an agreement with Stanelco on that day.
As the interview states quite clearly, Wal-Mart want to use the power of the press to blitz the Wal-Mart bashers, yes they do want to reduce costs by reducing packaging, but they want to use the environmental benefits to their advantage, but if they announce then Stanelco will have to announce too, due to market regulation.
As we know very well, time will tell, but I hope I can call this phase of Stanelco development right :)
Cheers,
PM
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From last night, by Moi ....
It's all coming together, Greenseal, Starpol .... and Wal-Mart !
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WAL-MART TO ANNOUNCE SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES AT THE SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING FORUM
August 25, 2005
Wal-Mart is officially on board. Hold on, packaging industry.
The world's largest retailer and conductor of the global supply chain train will unveil and publicly outline for the first time its sustainable packaging initiatives at Packaging Strategies' Sustainable Packaging Forum, Oct. 17-19, 2005, in Philadelphia.
http://www.packstrat.com/
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What really happens when you get large is you have to be much better to get the advantages that come with being large. That is where something like (environmental) sustainability is a wonderful opportunity because our footprint is so large. As we do the right thing we have an impact across so many industries, so many countries. And we are finding tremendous cost savings while doing better things for the environment.
Packaging is one of the simple ones, and shame on us for not having done it earlier. We just changed the packaging on 16 private-label toys. It saved 230 containers coming from overseas, which is equal to so many barrels of oil, so many trees, and all the rest of that -- and we didn't change any of the product inside. It saved more than $1 million in transportation costs (during the spring).
I think we are going to find a lot of low-hanging fruit(PM1 - 'as howard would say - LOL !) in that area. In our energy management of our stores we have a number of things we're doing that we will be talking about publicly over the next month or two.