Results for the Present, Preparation for the Future
Value Creation
As a growing driver of risk, valuation, profitability and competitive advantage, our focus on sustainability enables:
- Better investment decisions
- Enhanced results for investors, portfolio companies, stakeholders and TPG
- Better preparedness for future natural resource scarcity and related issues impacting business
Case Studies
Avaya
Initiative: Products & Packaging
Example: Avaya redesigned ten product families to reduce the material and logistics footprint of the product lines
Sample Results:
- Reduction in use of 6.3M ft2 fiber board, 15.5tons/188,000ft3 avoided landfill (foam) and 3900 wooden pallets from the system
- Reduction in Ocean / truck containers required by 19% & fuel consumption by 17,800 gallons
- Reduction in emissions over 210 tons of CO2
- Other benefits such as warehousing costs
Caesars Entertainment
Initiative: Energy efficient facilities & waste management
Example: Since Sept 2009, est. 6.8 million kWh electric savings & 3100 MT avoided Carbon - $775 K annual cost savings
Sample Results:
- Energy reduction: 2003-2010 Caesars invested more than $50 million in reducing energy usage, resulting in more than $17 million in annual run-rate savings across 110 projects, representing a 163 million kilowatt-hour reduction per year in energy usage (e.g. replacing almost all interior & exterior bulbs with energy-efficient lighting, replacing thermostats, upgrading HVAC equipment)
- Water Conservation: Upgrading laundry facilities, offering guests an opt-out linen cleaning option, serving guests water only on request, replacing irrigated turn on golf courses with drought-resistant landscaping
- Waste Management: All properties with recycling programs in place by 2010. 2009: Waste oil project (domestic properties recycling more than 640,000 gallons of waste oil each year), mapping of properties to reduce waste resulting in 50% increase in materials recovered for recycling & a 33% reduction in trash at the two properties
J. Crew
Initiative: Procurement
Example: J. Crew incorporated the use of the Environmental Paper Assessment Tool (EPAT) as a policy to procure paper for Direct Mail catalogs
Sample Results:
- Improved catalog efficiency metric (decreasing tons / $MM revenue) 44%
- Increased use of Forestry Stewardship Council and recyclable content in catalog to 99.99% of materials used
- Improved NGO reporting profile off 'offenders' list
Mey
Initiative: Manufacturing
Example: Mey incorporated energy efficiency, renewable energy and route optimization into its manufacturing operations
Sample Results:
- Improved boiler efficiencies, eliminated steam waste and produced free steam using waste water biogas generator
- Improved grape pressing equipment, presorting processes and routing and scheduling of 4000 grape trucks to decrease fermentation and losses
- Reduced annual energy cost 40% and grape costs 6%
Petco
Initiative: Energy efficient facilities and construction
Example: Petco implement company wide energy management (supply – side / demand-side) of new construction, retrofit, procurement and operations
Sample Results:
- Grew physical store footprint +200 over 3 yrs while reducing energy consumption -2% (avoiding use of over 26MKWhrs)
- Buy side annual improvements of 5% from 2009 - 2010
- First specialty retailer to win coveted EPA E*Leader Award demonstrating sustained annual improvement of 10% in energy consumption across entire portfolio
SunGard
Initiative: IT
Example: SunGard implement a multi-year plant to consolidate, virtualize, and institute data centre and other IT best practices
Sample Results:
- Consolidated over 25 data centers to 5
- Saved over 7MKWhrs electricity through virtualization of 1068 servers of the financial services business
- Managed print services reduced printer related energy consumption by over 141K KWhrs and paper consumption by over 3.4M sheets of paper
- Reduced need for 100K's ft2 of facilities
