ESTERO, Fla., April 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Hertz Global
Holdings (NYSE: HTZ) recently earned top honors from The GBTA
Foundation, the education and research arm of the Global Business
Travel Association (GBTA), and Project ICARUS in their fourth
annual Sustainability Outstanding Achievement Awards. Hertz
received the award for sustainability in the Travel Supplier
category, noting that the company's work in negotiating bespoke
contracts to support travel buyer carbon reduction goals stands
out.
The awards recognize travel buyers, suppliers and intermediaries
who can demonstrate outstanding leadership, innovation and
commitment to delivering best-in-class sustainability programs,
products and services across North America. Project ICARUS is
a leading source of information, education and support on
sustainability issues impacting the corporate travel and meeting
industry, globally.
"Hertz is committed to providing sustainable transport and
travel options to our customers that deliver a great experience
with cost and environmental savings," said Matt Jauchius,
Hertz executive vice president and chief marketing officer. "We are
honored to receive this recognition from GBTA and Project
ICARUS."
As part of Hertz's commitment to sustainability:
- Nearly 80 percent of the company's vehicles have a minimum
fuel-efficiency rating of 28 highway miles per gallon.
- Environmental efficiency programs' efforts resulted in
recycling over 2 million gallons of used oil and auto waste in 2015
and approximately 80 percent of the company's car washes use
reclaimed water.
- The Hertz Living Journey sustainability program also includes
mixed recycling at Hertz rental locations, as well as tire
recycling, which resulted in nearly 300,000 tires diverted from
landfills in 2015.
- Hertz has installed solar panel systems at 16 rental locations
and corporate offices that produce over 2,270,000 kWh annually,
which is enough energy to power about 208 U.S. homes for a
year.
Additionally, Hertz's corporate headquarters in Estero, Florida, recently received LEED Gold
certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED
(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) sets the national
standard for green building excellence, and the certification
recognizes Hertz's adherence to sustainable design and practices.
The Hertz headquarters' cafeteria was certified by the Green
Restaurant Association as a 4 Star Certified Green Restaurant®, the
first of its kind in Florida and
one of only three 4 Star Certified Green Restaurant® corporate
cafeterias in the world.
About Hertz Global Holdings
Hertz Global Holdings
operates the Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty and Firefly car rental brands
in approximately 9,980 corporate and licensee locations throughout
approximately 150 countries in North
America, Europe,
Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle
East and New Zealand. Hertz
Global Holdings is the largest worldwide airport general use car
rental company with approximately 1,635 airport locations in the
U.S. and more than 1,320 airport locations internationally. Product
and service initiatives such as Hertz Gold Plus Rewards,
NeverLost®, Carfirmations, Mobile Wi-Fi and unique vehicles offered
through the Adrenaline, Dream, Green and Prestige Collections set
Hertz Global Holdings apart from the competition. Additionally,
Hertz Global Holdings owns the vehicle leasing and fleet management
leader Donlen Corporation, operates the Hertz 24/7 hourly car
rental business in international markets and sells vehicles through
its Rent2Buy program. The Company also owns Hertz Equipment Rental
Corporation ("HERC"), one of the largest equipment rental
businesses with more than 280 locations worldwide offering a
diverse line of equipment and tools for rent and sale. HERC
primarily serves the construction, industrial, oil, gas,
entertainment and government sectors. For more information about
Hertz Global Holdings, visit: www.hertz.com.
About Project ICARUS
Project ICARUS, a GBTA Foundation initiative, is the most widely
recognized and respected Corporate Sustainability/Corporate Social
Responsibility program within the global business travel and
meeting industry. This is a project led by and targeted primarily
at national and international travel buyers/managers and their
suppliers/intermediaries, who wish to integrate sustainability into
the way they manage, run and supply travel and meetings programs.
For more information, visit www.gbta.org/foundation/ICARUS.
About the GBTA Foundation
The GBTA Foundation is the education and research foundation of the
Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the world's premier
business travel and meetings trade organization headquartered in
the Washington, D.C. area with
operations on six continents. Collectively, GBTA's 7,000-plus
members manage more than $345 billion
of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually. GBTA
provides its growing network of more than 28,000 travel
professionals and 125,000 active contacts with world-class
education, events, research, advocacy and media. The Foundation was
established in 1997 to support GBTA's members and the industry as a
whole. As the leading education and research foundation in the
business travel industry, the GBTA Foundation seeks to fund
initiatives to advance the business travel profession. The GBTA
Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For more
information, see gbta.org and gbta.org/foundation.
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