ADVISORY/California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency: Major Corporations Gather At Capitol to Show Support for the State's Energy Conservation Initiatives.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday (April 12) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Media Event Highlights the Broad Partnerships Between the State of California and the Business Community as They Work Together to Resolve California's Energy Emergency Company executives from The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , Safeway Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Intel Corp., and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Electronics will meet in Sacramento Thursday to voice support for the State of California's energy conservation programs in view of the state's energy emergency. These firms represent a large segment of industries across the state that is answering the state's challenge to cut back on energy consumption. Each of these companies have shared information on energy conservation "best practices," which are featured on a new Web site hosted by the California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency (TTCA TTCA Trinidad & Tobago Contractors Association TTCA Traditional Tae Kwon Do Chung Do Association (Louisville, Kentucky) TTCA Tax Technical Corrections Act of 1998 TTCA TRADOC Training Center Assessment ) at www.commerce.ca.gov. Called the "Energy Conservation Best Practices" Web site, it provides useful information on how all California businesses can play a role in helping to conserve energy. Visitors will be able to read about the featured firms and their conservation measures, nominate nom·i·nate tr.v. nom·i·nat·ed, nom·i·nat·ing, nom·i·nates 1. To propose by name as a candidate, especially for election. 2. To designate or appoint to an office, responsibility, or honor. other firms for inclusion, and follow helpful links to information on conservation for businesses. The Home Depot and Safeway will be recognized for their proactive energy conservation outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. campaigns, which include partnering with the State on company advertising campaigns. TTCA Secretary Lon S. Hatamiya will also present executives with Flex A development system for Flash-based applications from Adobe. Introduced in 2004 as a J2EE application, Flex compiles ActionScript code and XML-based user interface descriptions (MXML) into binary Flash files (SWF files). Your Power Certificates honoring their company conservation programs.
WHO: Lon S. Hatamiya, Secretary
California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency
Aileen Adams, Secretary
California State and Consumer Services Agency
Jim Morris, The Home Depot
David Bowlby, Safeway Inc.
Mark Nelson, Hewlett-Packard
Emily Harris, NEC Electronics
Bill Mueller, Intel Corp.
Gene Endicott, Agilent Technologies
WHEN: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., Thursday, April 12, 2001
WHERE: West Steps, The State Capitol
VISUALS: Energy efficient products display, energy efficiency
catalogues, grocery bag messages, certificates honoring
business partners.
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