Press Releases
ConsumerPowerline grants foreign-born employees May 1 holiday in recognition of International Workers' DayNEW YORK, April 18, 2006 -To recognize the impact and value its foreign-born employees have had on its business growth, ConsumerPowerline, a strategic energy asset management firm announced that it is giving them a day off on May 1, in celebration of International Workers' Day.
ConsumerPowerline is one of the nation's leading energy management firms. The company has 34 employees of which more than 20 percent are of foreign birth, and hail from India, South Africa, Israel, Ukraine, Poland, and represent many of the world's major religions including Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Christianity.
Vinay Gupta, chief operating officer of ConsumerPowerline stated, "This initiative aims to respect, not only diverse backgrounds, but diverse aspirations. We sponsor those with extraordinary talent--a firm that seeks to create the best for clients needs to hire the best as well."
Mike Gordon, ConsumerPowerline's founder and president added, "we all work quite hard to drive change into the system each day. This one day, those of us who were born with the advantages of the United States' system will work a bit harder to cover those who were not."
"ConsumerPowerline maintains a diverse workplace, and we want to make sure that all who choose to stand for rights and opportunities are protected in their own workplace," said Richard Berger, vice president of marketing.
About ConsumerPowerline
ConsumerPowerline (CPLN) (www.consumerpowerline.com) provides strategic energy asset management (SEAM) to its customers under an aligned incentive model while seeking to transfer power and financial returns to the end user. ConsumerPowerline's products and services help its customers pay the least for energy, get the most for energy they buy, and earn the most for what they can reduce. The firm is unique in how it approaches the market - using deregulated market opportunities to first create new revenue for customers. This new income, and the accompanying new information, facilitates customers achieving a lot more a lot sooner. Among the firms comprehensive strategic services are energy curtailment services, engineering, strategic commodity purchase and industrial procurement. These services include advisory plans for companies on how to manage their energy use in times of 'grid crisis,' and to sell the results of this managed use (reduced consumption at emergency moments) back to the local and regional energy markets.
The firm's clients include: CB Richard Ellis, Morgan Stanley, Macy's, Starwood Hotels, Hines Property Management, Forest City Ratner Corporation, Co-op City, Macklowe Properties, RFR Realty, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Newmark Properties, Douglas Elliman Property Management, Cooper Square Realty, Wentworth Management, and dozens of other substantial end-users of energy.