Success Stories
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, San Leandro
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company replaced cardboard boxes with a fleet of reusable totes for internal distribution of its chocolate products. Besides preventing 350 tons of soiled cardboard waste each year, this eliminates the purchasing cost for cardboard boxes as well as disposal fees, and even reduces chocolate breakage.
The bottom line: $500,000 in annual savings after just over one year of payback period.