Merchant Warehouse Goes Green
Merchant Warehouse, a Boston-based provider of merchant accounts and credit card equipment, today announced it has implemented a company-wide initiative to “go green.” The program is designed to help the company offset any potential negative environmental impact being made and to also promote a culture of environmental responsibility among its 110 employees.
The company’s first step was the purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), or “Green Tags” from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. The Green tags will be used to offset energy consumption by replacing traditional polluting sources of electricity with clean, sustainable and renewable sources of energy. Currently, Merchant Warehouse plans to purchase 433 Green Tags per year to add 433,000 kilowatt-hours of renewable energy into the country’s power grids — the equivalent of avoiding 606,200 pounds of air pollution.
In addition, Merchant Warehouse has formed an employee-managed committee to study the impact of the Green Tag program and develop recommendations for taking the company’s green initiative even further in the coming months and years.
“Our initiative proves a company does not have to own or run its own facility to make a difference,” said Henry Helgeson, Co-CEO of Merchant Warehouse. “By leveraging available green programs and technologies, we aim to turn our office space, and company, into something that returns a positive impact on the environment, and to do so in a way that makes sense for our employees and our bottom line.”
About Merchant Warehouse
Merchant Warehouse was founded in 1998 on the principle that businesses should be able to purchase credit card processing software, POS equipment, and merchant services at a reasonable price. With over 40,000 merchants, Merchant Warehouse now sets the standard for price, innovation, customer service, and integrity. For more information, please visit www.MerchantWarehouse.com. For information on the Merchant Warehouse agent and ISO network, please call (800) 491-4580.
Contacts:
Brian Waldman, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy
Merchant Warehouse
800.941.6557 x2050
bwaldman (at) merchantwarehouse (dot) com
Jeff Dillow or Sandra Proulx
PAN Communications
978.474.1900
merchant (at) pancomm (dot) com
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