Staples 2014 Annual Report Download - page 94

2 STAPLES Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders
SUMMARY OF 2014 STAPLES CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Overall, racial and ethnic diversity has increased 7% from
2013 to 2014, including a 35% increase for Directors
and above.
• Women make up 30% of our formal succession plan
and 45% of associates in our Rising Stars leadership
development program for high-potential associates.
• Global Engagement Survey results show a positive
perception of Staples’ commitment to diversity and
inclusion, with favorability up from 88% in 2013 to 91%
in 2014.
• The Staples Supplier Diversity Mentorship Program,
now in its sixth year, promotes professional and
business development among diverse business
enterprises. Staples is also an active supporter of several
organizations that promote minority- and woman-owned
business development.
ENVIRONMENT
At Staples, our vision is to generate business and environmental
benefits — for ourselves, our customers and our communities
— by leading the way in sustainable business practices. We’re
working to achieve this vision through a continued focus on
sourcing more sustainable products; improving our offering
of recycling and other green services; maximizing our energy
efficiency and renewable energy use to reduce our climate
impacts; and eliminating waste.
In 2014, we continued to make progress towards our
global sustainability goals. Highlights of contributing
accomplishments include:
• Globally, we offer more than 12,000 products with
environmental attributes in our stores and online,
representing more than $5.7 billion in annual sales.
• We have industry leading customer recycling programs
for ink and toner cartridges and electronics. In 2014, we
helped our customers recycle more than 60 million ink and
toner cartridges across our markets. We also expanded
our US technology recycling program to include our
Contract customers, and collected more than 26 million
pounds of electronics globally for responsible recycling.
• We continued to roll out right-size packaging technology
in the US and Europe. In the US, the Smart-size
technology has been launched in more than 75% of our
distribution centers, and in Europe we have 12 active
Jivaro machines.
• We remain focused on energy efficiency through our
renewable energy initiatives. In 2014, our US solar
installations generated 4,660,000 kWh of solar power,
and we ended the year with 645 buildings certified to the
ENERGY STAR standard.
• The ISO14001 Environmental Management System
standard is held in 112 facilities across Staples
International in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the UK, Ireland,
China, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY RECOGNITION
As a result of the collaborative effort of our leadership team
and our associates globally, several organizations recognized
Staples in 2014 for excellence in corporate responsibility.
• For the eleventh consecutive year, selected as a
component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
(DJSI) for 2013/2014.
• Named to Newsweek’s 2014 Green Rankings Top 100
U.S. companies list.
• In 2014, Staples won the ENERGY STAR Partner of the
Year – Sustained Excellence award.
• Staples ranked in the Top 10 US companies with installed
solar power capacity by the Solar Means Business 2014
report.
• For the fifth straight year, earned perfect 100% score on
the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index.
• Included on Black EOE Journal’s 2014 Best of the Best
Lists: Top Disability-Friendly Companies and Top LGBT-
Friendly Companies.
• Included on The Hispanic Network Magazine’s Fall 2014
Best of the Best Lists: Top Disability-Friendly Employers
and Top LGBT-Friendly Employers.
• Staples Director, Supplier Diversity, Lesa Rivers,
recognized as 2014 Top 25 Women in Power Impacting
Diversity by Diversity Plus.
• Staples Canada named to Corporate Knight’s 2014 Top
Foreign Corporate Citizens list.
• Staples Canada Senior Vice President, Merchandising,
Peter Gibel, and Staples Canada Director, Facility,
Environmental & Procurement Services, Leigh Pearson,
named to Canada’s 2014 Clean50 list, one of Canada’s
most prestigious environmental recognitions.
• Staples Canada’s Recycle for Education Contest won the
Canadian Office Products Association (COPA) Award for
Corporate Social Responsibility Leadership – Program.