News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the hospitality industry.
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08-27-10
/PRNewswire/ - Happiness and smiles were abundant today as 85 homeless students from the Tampa area received a private visit from the Harlem Globetrotters and $15,000 -- the grand prize in the Howard Johnson (HOJO) hotel brand's The Give Happy Challenge, a national competiti...
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08-12-10
(Marketwire) - Wyndham Worldwide (NYSE: WYN), one of the world's largest hospitality companies, supports a variety of environmentally friendly projects through its Wyndham Green sustainability initiative and is pleased to welcome Tom Jones to New York City as he makes the fi...
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06-10-10
Darden Restaurants today announced the launch of its newly redesigned corporate website at www.darden.com as well as a new microsite dedicated to chronicling the company's sustainability efforts at
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05-20-10
(Marketwire) -- 05/20/10 -- Wyndham Green by Wyndham Worldwide is proud to announce the sponsorship of The Wyndham Green Paddle 2010 featuring ultra-endurance athlete Tom Jones and his quest to raise public awareness about the great risks to the environment and the world's o...
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05-03-10
From turning cooking oil into bio-fuel and potatoes into gas, McDonald's Corporation today announced a world of sustainable best practices in its supply chain and restaurants. The "Global Best of Green", updated from 2009, and the "Best of Sustainable Supply" can both be acc...
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04-21-10
Darden Restaurants today announced that its new corporate headquarters building in Orlando has been officially awarded Gold certification for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for New Construction (NC) from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC)....
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04-07-10
Darden Restaurants today announced it has committed to reducing energy and water usage by 15 percent by the year 2015 in each of its 1,800 restaurants across North America. The company also announced that, as part of its approach to supply chain sustainability, it has joined...
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02-23-10
Gala Coral’s 2009 report focuses on how the Group used the Corporate Responsibility strategy “Our People, Our Places and Our Products” to drive through and support community based initiatives and reduce its environmental impact. The report can be viewed
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02-23-10
Darden Restaurants today announced that it has begun a system-wide sustainable restaurant design initiative involving the use of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards in its restaurant design process for all new restaurants and, where feasible, resta...
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01-26-10
McDonald's Corporation today issued a report outlining its latest global best practices in the areas of sustainable supply chain, nutrition and well-being, environmental responsibility, employment experience, community and corporate governance and ethics. This all-digital, ...