LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.,
April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/
-- As part of its efforts to help ensure a sustainable planet,
Panasonic is sponsoring, participating in and providing support for
an international exchange of the latest ideas on sustainability
through a dialog among the environmental community and enterprise
leaders at Fortune Brainstorm Green 2013, which opens today
and runs to May 1.
Panasonic executives including Joseph M.
Taylor, Chairman and CEO, Panasonic Corporation of
North America, Jim Doyle, President of Panasonic Eco Solutions
North America and Paul Margis, CEO
of Panasonic Avionics Corporation, will participate in sessions
with other industry leaders to discuss the future of
transportation, sustainable and green building practices and how
sustainability drives innovation. The intent is for businesses to
share ideas and collaborate on approaches to improving corporate
sustainability, energy, smart cities and promoting investment in
future economies.
"Panasonic has long seen sustainability practices as central to
our business strategy and we have worked to embed them in our
global business operations since the 1970s, detailing our
environmental performance as a key part of our disclosures in the
company's annual report," said Joseph M.
Taylor, Chairman & CEO of Panasonic Corporation of
North America. "Sustainability,
especially as it relates to renewable energy, is also an
increasingly important element in the company's business
transformation here in North
America and I expect that trend to continue. Our energy
solution strategy is to provide integrated solutions to create,
store, save and manage energy. We have a very broad range of
technology from solar panels to lighting controls to high-capacity
energy storage batteries, to apply to solutions for our enterprise
customers."
At last year's Fortune Brainstorm Green, the company
announced the establishment of Panasonic Eco Solutions North
America, a unit that focuses on the design, implementation and
financing of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the
U.S. and Canada. Panasonic
Eco Solutions has also created a strategic relationship with
Coronal Management, LLC, for the formation of a new company to
provide financing for distributed generation solar systems. Since
its establishment one year ago, Panasonic Eco Solutions North
America has undertaken solar energy generation projects for the
Conrad G. Hilton Foundation, leading retail property owner and
developer Macerich Company, the University of
Colorado at Boulder and others.
Panasonic is also showing its commitment to engineering a more
sustainable world with the construction of a state-of-the-art North
American headquarters in Newark,
NJ. Adjacent to the largest public transit hub in
northern New Jersey, it is a model
of environmental responsibility. The building is designed to
be LEED Gold Certified and the interior Panasonic space to be LEED
Platinum Certified. Speaking of the company's relocation to his
city, Newark's Mayor Cory A. Booker put it this way: "Panasonic's
investment in Newark is like an
ignition switch for our city. They're bringing life to a part of
our city that badly needs it and putting Newark on the map as a magnet for smart green
design."
About Panasonic Corporation of North America
Based in Secaucus, NJ, Panasonic
Corporation of North America
provides a broad line of digital and other electronics products and
solutions to meet consumer, business and industrial needs. The
company is the principal North American subsidiary of Osaka, Japan-based Panasonic Corporation, and
the hub of Panasonic's U.S. branding, marketing, sales, service and
R&D operations. In the 2012 Interbrand Annual Best Global Green
Brands ranking, the Panasonic brand jumped four spots to number
six:
http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/Best-Global-Green-Brands/2012-Report.aspx
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