DALLAS, March 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Comerica Bank
and storage and information management company Iron Mountain
Incorporated® (NYSE: IRM) will reunite to host the
seventh annual "Shred Day DFW," a free community document shredding
event, on Saturday, April 29, 2017,
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The secure
shredding event will be held at its new 2017 location—Iron
Mountain's flagship, secure shredding plant at Mercer Business Park
in northwest Dallas, 12121 N.
Stemmons Freeway 75234, just off I-635 and I-35. The free event is
offered as a public service to raise awareness of identity theft
prevention and the importance of recycling. In addition, volunteers
from the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) will be onsite to collect
cash donations and non-perishable food items. The first 1,000
guests to donate money or food at the event will receive a
commemorative cloth grocery bag.
"Identity thieves have stolen more than $107 billion from U.S. consumers in the last six
years, keeping identity theft one of the country's fastest growing
crimes. Fortunately, consumers can take easy steps to help protect
themselves, and this includes securely destroying documents
containing personal identifiable information, such as names,
addresses, dates of birth and account numbers, for example,"
said Peter Sefzik, Comerica
Bank's Texas Market President. "We're pleased that our
event's impact and popularity also have grown, so much so that
we've moved Shred Day DFW to Iron
Mountain's new, larger secure shredding plant in northwest
Dallas to accommodate even more
document shredding. It's an honor to join with Iron Mountain and the North Texas Food Bank to
provide this valuable service and to collect food for hungry
North Texas children."
The public is invited to bring personal or business paper
documents to be securely destroyed and recycled. There is no limit
to the amount of paper any person can bring, and there will be
special lanes to accommodate large loads, including trucks and
trailers. All paper collected at Shred Day DFW will be turned into
pulp and recycled after being securely destroyed onsite.
And since summer is the hungriest season of the year for
low-income children who typically receive free or reduced lunches
at public schools, Comerica and Iron
Mountain will match, pound-for-pound and dollar-for-dollar,
the first 20,000 meals donated to the North Texas Food Bank; this
match, along with all event donations, will benefit NTFB's
childhood feeding programs. The nonprofit estimates that one in
four children in North Texas are
food insecure.
This marks the seventh Comerica Bank/Iron Mountain community shredding event in
North Texas. Since 2011, the two
companies have helped North Texans securely destroy and recycle
nearly 1.8 million pounds of sensitive and other paper documents.
In addition, event-generated food and cash donations to the North
Texas Food Bank over the last six years have provided more than
195,000 meals for hungry North
Texas residents.
The two companies host similar Shred Day events in Michigan, California, Arizona and in Houston, Texas. In 2015, the North Texas event, Shred Day DFW, earned its
third Guinness World Records® honor for the most paper collected
and shredded in a 24-hour period—nearly 460,000 pounds of paper in
a single Saturday.
To learn more about the event, the new location and what types
of documents should be shredded, please visit
www.comerica.com/ShredDayDFW. The official media partner of Shred
Day DFW is FOX 4 News.
About Iron
Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated® (NYSE: IRM) is
the global leader in storage and information management services.
Trusted by more than 230,000 organizations around the world,
Iron Mountain's real estate
network comprises more than 85 million square feet across more than
1,400 facilities in 46 countries dedicated to protecting and
preserving what matters most for its customers. Iron Mountain's solutions portfolio includes
data management, document management, data centers, art storage and
logistics, and secure shredding, helping organizations to lower
storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and
better use their information. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of
information assets, including critical business documents,
electronic information, medical data and cultural and historical
artifacts. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more
information.
About Comerica Bank
Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company
headquartered in Dallas, Texas,
and strategically aligned by three business segments: The Business
Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica focuses on
relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In
addition to Texas, Comerica Bank
locations can be found in Arizona,
California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in
several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Comerica reported total assets of
$73.0 billion at December 31, 2016. To find us on Facebook, please
visit www.facebook.com/Comerica.
Follow Comerica on Twitter at @ComericaCares and follow Comerica
Chief Economist Robert Dye on
Twitter at @Comerica_Econ.
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