Summit

Staples has launched a new corporate strategy to drive sustainability in the supply chain for product manufacturing, packaging and distribution. The office products retail chain is challenging its key suppliers to compete in a “Race to The Top” to find innovative sustainable solutions in these three areas. Announced at this week’s Supplier Summit in Boston, Staples says the strategy aims to increase environmental, economic and social sustainability and remove waste and inefficiency of all types. “We’re letting our key suppliers know that sustainable business practices will join price, quality and service as a major factor in driving purchasing decisions,”

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Diamond Packaging was named a “Supplier of the Year” by the Procter and Gamble Company during P&G’s first-ever global Supplier Summit on Oct. 15, 2008. P&G hosted the event with its 350 top global suppliers to discuss their continued collaboration for a sustainable future and to honor top performing suppliers. “We are thrilled to have won this award,” said Karla Fichter, CEO of Diamond Packaging. “Our partnership with Procter & Gamble is especially rewarding because of our shared commitment to innovation and sustainability.” “Suppliers of the Year” achieved this award by consistently scoring the highest in broad-based quantitative and qualitative evaluations by