BROOMFIELD,
COLORADO – Corporate Express, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEXP) announced today in
connection with Earth Day the launch of an environmental tree
planting program for its customers called "A Case for Trees,"
co-sponsored with Hewlett-Packard.
The program allows Corporate Express’ large customers the
opportunity to have trees planted in their company’s name when they
purchase Hewlett-Packard paper products. For every five cartons of
Hewlett-Packard Office Paper, Multipurpose Paper, Multipurpose
Recycled Paper or LaserJet Paper that a company purchases over the
course of a year, Corporate Express will donate one seedling in the
participating company’s name to one of several reforestation
projects throughout the country. The seedlings will be acquired
through the National Arbor Day Foundation, which will supervise the
planting.
"Maintaining and preserving our natural resources has always been
a core value of Corporate Express," said Sam Reese, Corporate Vice
President of Sales and Marketing. "This program is an example of an
excellent way we can partner with one of our leading suppliers and
provide a value-added environmental service for our customers."
Since it was founded in 1986, Corporate Express has been
committed to preserving and enhancing the environment through
partnerships with customers, suppliers, employees and the community.
One way that Corporate Express fulfills this goal is through its
1999 Office and Computer Products Catalog, which offers customers
over 1,400 EarthSaver® products. These EarthSaver products contain
recycled materials, produced through an environmentally friendly
process, free of toxins and other ecologically harmful substances,
or degradable or recyclable.
Corporate Express is a leading supplier of essential office and
computer products and services to corporations that value innovative
procurement solutions. In its continuing operations, Corporate
Express currently operates in nearly 300 locations, including 89
distribution centers, and employs approximately 15,000 people in the
United States, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the United
Kingdom, Switzerland, Ireland, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
Hewlett-Packard Company – a leading global provider of computing
and imaging solutions and services for business and home – is
focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the
proliferation of electronic services. HP had computer-related
revenue of $39.5 billion in its 1998 fiscal year.
Contacts:
Linda Dill,
Corporate Express VP
Strategic Planning and Investor Relations,
(303)
664-3949
Doug Cole,
Hewlett-Packard Public Relations Manager of
LaserJet Supplies,
(208) 396-2515