Office Depot names winners of Green Customer Awards

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. Office Depot has announced the winners of the company’s second annual Green Customer Awards.

The 2008 Green Customer Awards will be given out at a special reception hosted by Office Depot on Nov. 18. The ceremony coincides with the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Greenbuild International Conference & Expo in Boston, Mass., at which Office Depot is a platinum sponsor.

Office Depot’s Green Customer Award recipients for 2008 are: DLA Piper, Edelman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), New Balance Athletic Shoe, Ricoh Electronics and U.S. Communities.

“Office Depot is very proud to recognize these influential organizations with our 2008 Green Customer Awards,” said Steve Schmidt, president of Office Depot’s business solutions division. “Few suppliers take the effort to publicly recognize customers - and even fewer do so with a focus on green. These awards show Office Depot’s commitment to recognizing environmental leadership in our customers, and increasingly displaying such leadership ourselves.”