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Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Make for a Perfect Match in Denver
AlliedBarton Takes a New Approach to Sustainability and Leaves Its Trade Show Booth at Home in Favor of Donating Furniture to the Denver Children's Advocacy Center
| Source: AlliedBarton Security Services
DENVER, CO--(Marketwire - June 20, 2008) - BOOTH 902 -- AlliedBarton Security Services,
www.AlliedBarton.com, the industry's premier provider of highly trained
security personnel, signals its commitment to reducing its carbon footprint
and supporting important charities by exhibiting in Denver but leaving its
tradeshow booth in Pittsburgh, PA.
Instead of the usual corporate display, the security industry leader is
buying furniture to create seating areas within its booth space at the BOMA
2008 Office Building Show at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
AlliedBarton, located at Booth 902, will donate the new, stylish furniture
to the Denver Children's Advocacy Center (DCAC), www.denvercac.org, which
serves children who have been sexually abused, neglected, or traumatized by
witnessing violence. The multi-use furniture will create a comfortable and
welcoming environment for DCAC's at-risk children and youth.
"We are reducing our carbon footprint and supporting a very worthy
organization by purchasing furniture for our trade show exhibition space in
place of our traditional trade show booth," said Bill Whitmore, CEO,
AlliedBarton Security Services. "The trucks needed to transport a large
tradeshow booth take a toll on our environment. This new approach allows
us to be sustainable and also creates an opportunity to support a local
charitable organization."
The donated furniture, which includes sofas, chairs, a coffee table, end
tables, a buffet, tables and chairs, two refrigerators and carpeting, will
be used by the Denver Children's Advocacy Center which works tirelessly in
the best interests of the children, providing an immediate response and
ongoing support to help families recover from the trauma of abuse or
violence.
"By making this donation of furniture, AlliedBarton is helping us meet our
mission of hope and healing," said Gizane Indart, Executive Director,
Denver Children's Advocacy Center.
AlliedBarton's sustainable trade show efforts extend beyond the elimination
of a traditional trade show booth and donation to the Denver Children's
Advocacy Center. The contract security services firm is supporting BOMA's
paperless show by taking little to no literature to the convention and
emailing electronic versions of the marketing pieces to show attendees
visiting the booth. AlliedBarton is also providing tradeshow bags to
attendees which are made of recycled materials and can be reused. Finally,
a unique tradeshow giveaway of seed packets also supports the environment.
"Making a commitment to being sustainable often means being creative,"
Whitmore added. "Leaving our traditional tradeshow booth at home is a
little out-of-the-box, very sustainable and responsible and a different way
to do something right."
AlliedBarton introduced this sustainable, non-traditional trade show booth
approach at the 2006 BOMA show in Dallas where they made a donation of
furniture to Habitat for Humanity and continued that trend at the 2007 BOMA
show with a donation of furniture to that city's Covenant House.
AlliedBarton Security Services is the industry's premier provider of highly
trained security personnel to many industries including commercial real
estate, higher education, healthcare, residential communities,
chemical/petrochemical, government, manufacturing and distribution,
financial institutions, and shopping centers. Our more than 50,000
employees and 100 offices service a client base of several thousand which
includes approximately 200 Fortune 500 companies across the country.
AlliedBarton is the first security services company selected as one of
Training magazine's Top 125 training companies for three consecutive years.
For more information call 1-866-825-5433 or visit www.AlliedBarton.com.
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