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Associated Press
30-07-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Wired for the Future: Announcing Southwire's 2024 Sustainability Report
July 30, 2025 /3BL/ -Southwire was founded in 1950 with the goal of bringing electric light to people who needed it. In 2025, as we celebrate the 75-year history of our company, we are pleased to mark the occasion with our annual sustainability report. 'Throughout 2025, we are taking the time to honor our legacy, celebrate our successes and drive excitement for the future,' said Rich Stinson, President and CEO of Southwire. 'We are proud of our accomplishments in Southwire's first 75 years and look forward to leading the charge in sustainable innovation and electrification for generations to come.' The latest sustainability report celebrates Southwire's progress toward its goals across the company's five core tenets of sustainability, including: Growing Green – Southwire reached a 65.2% reduction of Scope 1 and 2 emissions from a 2018 baseline, using various market-based methods. The company is transitioning away from its previous Carbon Zero goal to near-term science-based targets, recently validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. Living Well – Through our efforts to build a world-class safety culture, we achieved a record low total recordable incident rate (TRIR) of 0.65, exceeding our target of 0.68 in 2024. Giving Back – We engaged 92% of our local communities with at least two annual volunteer events in 2024. Southwire also celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Back to School giving efforts. Doing Right – For the second year in a row, Southwire was named to Ethisphere's World's Most Ethical Companies® list. Building Worth – Southwire expanded its sustainable innovation partnerships, including a project with Levidian to capture carbon from methane and investments into the next generation of smart power solutions through Southwire Technology Ventures. 'The world is changing, and we're evolving with it, from exploring the decarbonization of cable production to embracing new technologies such as artificial intelligence,' said Burt Fealing, Southwire's EVP, General Counsel and Chief Sustainability Officer. 'Through it all, hard work, collaboration and innovation keep us rooted in who we are – a company making a difference for this generation and the next.' In addition to the 2024 Sustainability Report, Southwire is proud to present our 2024 Sustainability Fact Sheet, which provides an overview of the company's progress toward our goals and key accomplishments throughout 2024. To view Southwire's 2024 Sustainability Report and 2024 Sustainability Fact Sheet, visit For more Southwire news, visit Visit 3BL Media to see more multimedia and stories from Southwire
Associated Press
30-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Georgia Chamber Panel: Innovations in Georgia Forestry
On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, The Georgia Chamber hosted a panel, Innovations in Georgia Forestry, that explored the ways companies in Georgia engage with Georgia's forestry industry, and the impact this has on Georgia's economy. Moderated by Burt Fealing, executive vice president, Southwire Company, LLC, the panelists included John Mulcahy, senior vice president, Georgia-Pacific, Matt Hestad, senior vice president, Georgia Forestry Association, and Katie Childers, director of State and Local Government Affairs, Delta Air Lines. John, along with the other panelists, discussed emerging opportunities in Georgia's forestry industry and how companies such as Georgia-Pacific are encompassing components of the industry into their projects and strategies. Georgia-Pacific believes businesses exist to help people improve their lives, with quality products and services they need, and they want to provide them responsibly. The company works to be a good steward of resources, understanding the impact of our businesses, and creating innovative ways to mitigate them. Watch the panel to learn more. Innovations in Georgia Forestry | Future of Energy & Sustainability 2025 GA Chamber About Georgia-Pacific Based in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries are among the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of bath tissue, paper towels and napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose and building products. Our familiar consumer brands include Angel Soft®, Brawny®, Dixie®, enMotion®, Quilted Northern®, Sparkle® and Vanity Fair®. Georgia-Pacific has long been a leading supplier of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers. Its Georgia-Pacific Recycling subsidiary is among the world's largest traders of paper, metal and plastics. The company operates more than 150 facilities and employs approximately 30,000 people directly and creates more than 80,000 jobs indirectly. For more information, visit: For news, visit: Follow Georgia-Pacific on LinkedIn, Meta, Instagram, X and YouTube. Visit 3BL Media to see more multimedia and stories from Georgia-Pacific Corporation
Associated Press
12-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Southwire Celebrates Inaugural Sustainability Week
View the original article at In honor of the company's 75th anniversary and in celebration of Earth Month, Southwire hosted its first ever Sustainability Week in April. The sustainability team hosted a week of communications, education and activities to engage team members across the globe. 'In order for Southwire to continue to be generationally sustainable for the next 75 years and beyond, we need everyone on board,' said Burt Fealing, Southwire's EVP, General Counsel and Chief Sustainability Officer. 'We hope that Sustainability Week helped all of our team members, 9,000 plus strong, better understand how they can get involved in sustainability and how they can be a leader in these efforts at home, at work and in their communities.' Each day of Sustainability Week was focused on one of Southwire's five core tenets of sustainability: Growing Green Monday highlighted success stories from the sustainability champions at Southwire's Denton, Tx., Lafayette, In., and North Campus, Ga. sites. Sustainability champions are volunteer roles at each site who are responsible for furthering local energy, water and waste efficiency projects. Living Well Tuesday featured health and wellness benefits available to all Southwire team members, including free therapy and coaching sessions from Spring Health, digital musculoskeletal therapy for back and joint pain from Hinge Health, webinars and resources for National Stress Awareness Month & Substance Abuse Awareness Month and more. Giving Back Wednesday promoted volunteer events in April including electronics recycling and our annual Walk for Water fundraiser. The day also highlighted Southwire's Dollars for Doers program, which enables team members to earn donation credits for volunteer hours served, redeemable to any 501(c)(3) nonprofit of their choice. Doing Right Thursday told the story of how Southwire's ethics & compliance program was built from the ground up and how it contributed to Southwire being named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere for the second year in a row. Building Worth Friday included an educational presentation on sustainable innovations happening within Southwire, as well as a panel discussion on Building a STEM Career in Green Technology in partnership with Georgia Tech and Envision Racing, one of the founding and most successful teams in Formula E racing. During Earth Month, Southwire also distributed nearly 400 trees to team members to plant at home or at a facility. Through the Arbor Day Foundation's community canopy program, team members signed up to have trees delivered directly to their home or to their manufacturing or distribution site, with web-based tools to help them identify the ideal planting location to maximize energy savings and carbon sequestration. Southwire also partnered with Neighborhood Forest to gift trees to students at our two 12 for Life facilities in Carrollton, Ga. and Florence, Al. to plant with their families at home. To learn more about sustainability initiatives at Southwire, visit Visit 3BL Media to see more multimedia and stories from Southwire
Associated Press
12-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Ethisphere Names Southwire One of the 2025 World's Most Ethical Companies® for the Second Consecutive Year
Southwire, North America's leading wire and cable company, has received the 2025 World's Most Ethical Companies® recognition by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. In 2025, Ethisphere recognized 136 companies spanning 19 countries and 44 industries. 2025 marks the second consecutive year that Southwire has been recognized. This year, Southwire is one of only four honorees in the electronics and components industry. 'It is an honor to be recognized once again by Ethisphere as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies,' said Rich Stinson, Southwire's president and CEO. 'Receiving this recognition for two years in a row is a testament to the fact that doing right is not only one of our core tenets of sustainability but a true pillar of Southwire's culture.' The World's Most Ethical Companies assessment is grounded in Ethisphere's proprietary Ethics Quotient®, which requires companies to provide 240+ different proof points on practices that support robust ethics and compliance, governance, a culture of ethics, environmental and social impact and initiatives that support a strong value chain. That data undergoes further qualitative analysis by Ethisphere's panel of experts who spend thousands of hours vetting and evaluating each year's group of applicants. The process serves as an operating framework to capture and codify best-in-class ethics and compliancepractices from organizations across industries and from around the world. 'Being named as one of the 2025 World's Most Ethical Companies® is an achievement and an honor we don't take lightly,' said Burt Fealing, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer. 'This recognition underscores Southwire's unwavering dedication to ethical business practices. Our commitment to integrity is not an empty promise; it's a guiding principle that informs the decisions we make in our work each and every day.' 'Congratulations to Southwire for achieving recognition as one of the World's Most EthicalCompanies®. Behind this honor is a true dedication and a commitment to advancing business integrity. This approach is good for business – employees and other stakeholders value companies that prioritize the kinds of practices we measure with our process,' said Erica Salmon Byrne, Ethisphere's Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair.
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ethisphere Names Southwire One of the 2025 World's Most Ethical Companies® for the Second Consecutive Year
Annual recognition honors organizations committed to business integrity through robust ethics, compliance and governance programs CARROLLTON, Ga., March 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwire, North America's leading wire and cable company, has received the 2025 World's Most Ethical Companies® recognition by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. In 2025, Ethisphere recognized 136 companies spanning 19 countries and 44 industries. 2025 marks the second consecutive year that Southwire has been recognized. This year, Southwire is one of only four honorees in the electronics and components industry. "It is an honor to be recognized once again by Ethisphere as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies," said Rich Stinson, Southwire's president and CEO. "Receiving this recognition for two years in a row is a testament to the fact that doing right is not only one of our core tenets of sustainability but a true pillar of Southwire's culture." The World's Most Ethical Companies assessment is grounded in Ethisphere's proprietary Ethics Quotient®, which requires companies to provide 240+ different proof points on practices that support robust ethics and compliance, governance, a culture of ethics, environmental and social impact and initiatives that support a strong value chain. That data undergoes further qualitative analysis by Ethisphere's panel of experts who spend thousands of hours vetting and evaluating each year's group of applicants. The process serves as an operating framework to capture and codify best-in-class ethics and compliance practices from organizations across industries and from around the world. "Being named as one of the 2025 World's Most Ethical Companies® is an achievement and an honor we don't take lightly," said Burt Fealing, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer. "This recognition underscores Southwire's unwavering dedication to ethical business practices. Our commitment to integrity is not an empty promise; it's a guiding principle that informs the decisions we make in our work each and every day." "Congratulations to Southwire for achieving recognition as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®. Behind this honor is a true dedication and a commitment to advancing business integrity. This approach is good for business – employees and other stakeholders value companies that prioritize the kinds of practices we measure with our process," said Erica Salmon Byrne, Ethisphere's Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair. To view the full list of this year's honorees, please visit the World's Most Ethical Companies website, at For questions about Southwire's Ethics and Compliance program, visit For more Southwire news, visit Southwire Company, LLC is North America's leading wire and cable company. The $8.4B organization is made up of more than 9,000 team members across the globe who unite as ONE Southwire each and every day to serve each other, their customers and their communities. Southwire and its subsidiaries provide solutions including building wire and cable, metal-clad cable, utility products, portable and electronic cord products and OEM wire products. In addition, Southwire offers electrical products, engineered solutions and a variety of field support services. For more on Southwire's products and solutions, its community involvement and its vision of sustainability, visit © 2025 Southwire Company, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Contact: Ashley Bush Director, CommunicationsPhone: (678) 684-7634 View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Southwire Sign in to access your portfolio
