Special Report: Go for the Green

Retailers report five primary benefits of sustainability programs: reduced costs, enhanced reputation, risk management, improved employee enthusiasm and proactive regulatory strategies. On average, top-performing companies find that this wealth of benefits extends to increased revenues and profits.

To grow and improve business sustainability programs, companies must track and report key metrics. Three commonly tracked sustainability-related metrics are facility energy consumption, transportation fuel usage for private and/or third-party fleets, and waste volumes. In addition, water usage, supplier audits, renewable energy generation and chemicals of concern will see a significant uptick in measurement over the next five years.