NEW YORK, Oct. 8 NY-Best-Green-Busin.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Design & Source Productions is the proud recipient of New York Enterprise Report magazine's first "Best Green Business" award. The award was given to company founder and CEO Laura Tufariello on Sept. 26th at the magazine's 2008 Best Practice Awards Gala. The magazine, long considered essential reading by entrepreneurs seeking to grow a business in the New York area, annually honors the best of New York's small businesses in a variety of categories. This year the awards added an important "green" category. In selecting Design & Source Productions for the honor the judging panel of industry leaders based their decision on the company's competitive advantages, revenue profits and long-term value.
Founded in 1996, the company has an extensive, completely wind-powered showroom in midtown Manhattan, and offices in Miami, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shanghai. (Website www.designandsource.com). Chameleon Packaging, the company's Environmental Division, was established well ahead of the "green" trend, to offer clients environmentally friendly, cost-effective packaging options. Chameleon specializes in sustainable materials, from Terraskin(R) tree-free paper made from stones (for which they are the exclusive U.S. Distributor) to shopping bags made with a leather-like material created from littered grocery bags found on the streets of India. The company's innovative product selection also includes fabric made from recycled bottles, corn, and bamboo, as well as molded pulps made from bamboo, sugarcane and recycled fibers.
Design & Source Productions and Chameleon Packaging provide exceptional package designs for the luxury and secondary market, including product cartons, private label bags, accessories, promotional products and more. They service a broad client base that includes Starbucks, Burt's Bees, Liz Claiborne Cosmetics, Nordstrom, Method, Sephora, Juicy Couture, Hilton, Target, MoMA and Google, among many others. Of recent note was the company's widely recognized collaboration with Jurlique to introduce chlorine-free, 100% recycled & recyclable packaging, designed around an "egg crate" concept, for the skin care company's new Biodynamic Beauty product range.
Says Ms. Tufariello: "We are most grateful for this award, which recognizes our commitment to producing attractive and sustainable solutions. We also commend New York Enterprise Report for adding this important category. It will hopefully help focus more attention on the need for socially responsible packaging and business practices. We are proud that our sustainability initiatives have been success stories for our clients and educational experiences for their consumers."
Media contact: Judy Katz, 212-580-8833, judy@katzcreative.com
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