Los Angeles October 27, 2021 - CHG-MERIDIAN USA Corp., the international expert for Efficient Technology Management, was awarded the HSBC Sustainable Company of the Year by the Los Angeles Business Journal. This award was given to the company with the most sustainable achievements in the greater Los Angeles area.
“Sustainability is incorporated into our business model and has been a core part of it for more than 40 years” said Dr. Mathias Wagner, Chairman of the Board of Management at CHG-MERIDIAN. “Nevertheless, in recent years there has been an increasing awareness of sustainability by many corporations, including many of our customers. To fully address the changing and increasing customer requirements and to promote our sustainability efforts within the Group, we developed a comprehensive sustainability strategy including but not limited to specific sustainability goals, like our carbon footprint. From 2021, CHG-MERIDIAN will be carbon-neutral!”
“We offer technology management and financing with subsequent refurbishment in line with the principles of the resource-efficient circular economy,” said Simon Harrsen, VP of Sales, who accepted the award on behalf of CHG-MERIDIAN USA Corp. “To enhance our sustainable offering even further, we developed carbonZER0 in 2021, which enables companies to make carbon-neutral IT investments by offsetting the carbon emissions that are generated during the production, transportation, use, and end-of-lease phase of IT assets. By doing so, we can help our customers reduce their carbon footprint.”
Also included in CHG-MERIDIAN’s submission were a few of its ambitious corporate sustainability goals including:
- Carbon-neutrality (corporate emissions) by 2021.
- Ongoing development of information security management to achieve ISO 27001 certification readiness by 2022.
- Training and application of the code of conduct to ensure compliance across the Group and to combat corruption by 2022.
- Supplier assessment and standards for own procurement by 2023.
- Group-wide sustainability reporting with external audit by 2023.
- Increase the proportion of women in management positions to 30 % by 2025.
The CHG-MERIDIAN Group
The CHG-MERIDIAN Group is one of the world’s leading non-captive technology managers and financing experts in the IT, industrial, and healthcare technology sectors. A total of more than 12,000 customers – including large corporations, SMEs, the public sector, and hospitals – rely on CHG-MERIDIAN to manage their technology infrastructures in a holistic, user-oriented and digital way. Based on the concept of the circular economy, its service portfolio includes planning, financing, and operational implementation, as well as certified data erasure, refurbishment, and remarketing of used equipment at its two technology centers in Germany and Norway. The CHG-MERIDIAN Group is an international company employing nearly 1,200 people in 28 countries. By the end of 2020, it financed and managed a technology portfolio worth €7.5 billion. From 2021, CHG-MERIDIAN will be carbon-neutral. To achieve this, it avoids, reduces, or offsets all CO2 emissions generated by its business activities. The headquarters of CHG-MERIDIAN are in Weingarten, Germany.
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