SustainPro, October 29-30 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center is the official conference of the 2008 SUPR Seal® list and the Corporate Sustainability Alliance, CSANow.org. SustainPro is where to meet your 2,500 corporate B2B operations-level peers in procurement, corporate operations, energy, manufacturing, facilities, engineering, transport, marketing and communications in the 14 largest B2B industries. It’s also where to meet 400+ SUPR Seal®-rated firms and see over 100 industry-specific and functional expert speakers on today’s hottest professional topic: Building Sustainable Corporate Operations.
SustainPro Conference & Expo features the best of corporate B2B sustainability, since SUPR Seal firms, the best in their industries at building sustainable corporate operations, will be featured. SUPR Seal®, the ultimate sustainability ratings, from the publishers of CRO (Corporate Responsibility Officer) Magazine and TheCRO.com, the corporate environment, social, governance and compliance authority since 2006.
The SUPR Seal® sustainable productivity ratings have become vitally important, since recent studies show that up to 48% of B2B purchasing decisions now hang on sustainability concerns. The 2008 SUPR Seal® list ranks 400+ Russell 1000 firms in the top 14 business-to-business segments that rate top 2 quartiles in their industries in Sustainable Productivity, as ranked by ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) ratings leader IW Financial. And the SUPR Seal® Conference & Expo is the only place you can see the companies with the best environmental, social and governance ratings in 14 industries all in one place at one time, live. Attending the SUPR Seal® Conference is the shortest path to understanding the leaders in corporate sustainability and sustainable productivity.
The 14 B2B industries featured in the 2008 SUPR Seal® list are:
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The corporate operations-level Sustainable Productivity, or SUPR market for short, is now $400 billion and growing fast. When sustainable productivity and sustainability matters, the SUPR Seal® is the only buying decision-making ranking used by B2B operations leaders with titles including Procurement, Corporate Operations, IT, Manufacturing, Marketing, Safety/Health, Energy, Distribution, Transportation, Engineering, Environment and Facilities.
While corporate strategy-level executives use CRO Magazine, TheCRO.com and CRO Conferences to understand sustainability, compliance, governance and CSR strategy, the SUPR Seal® rankings and Conferences are where operating-level executives go when making product and service buying decisions.

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