Safeway Contributes over $300 Million to eScrip Partner Schools
03 Febrero 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Safeway Inc. (NYSE:SWY) and eScrip, the premier year-round
national fundraising program especially for schools, today
announced that Safeway has contributed over $300 million to the
eScrip program since it began in 1999.
The eScrip fundraising model is a proven and powerful program
that allows thousands of partner merchants, like Safeway, to
contribute a percentage of a participating customer’s purchases
back into education – and is free to participating schools.
“We applaud Safeway for all they have done and continue to do
through the eScrip program — they are an outstanding community
partner example,” said Ian Diery, CEO of ESI. “eScrip allows
parents to designate who receives the percentage of sales from
their purchases – the choices parents make on where and how they
shop can make a huge difference to their school.”
Safeway has made extraordinarily generous contributions to the
local communities they serve, and are committed to giving $18
million in annual support, making a huge difference in children’s
education. The eScrip program is a fundraising program that allows
Safeway customers to register their Safeway Club Card with eScrip
so that a percentage of their qualifying purchases are contributed
to their child's school or group.
Safeway’s contributions help fund critical programs at schools
and provide supplies to help students succeed. Together with
eScrip, Safeway is making a difference, one school at a time.
ABOUT eScrip
Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, eScrip is a subsidiary of
Electronic Scrip Incorporated (ESI). eScrip is the longest
running, most successful shop-to-fundraise program in the United
States. With the introduction of eScrip, ESI pioneered a new phase
of cause-related marketing and remains the committed leader in the
market. eScrip is dedicated to establishing relationships between
commerce and community by providing resources to organizations that
support children. To date, with participation from millions of
families and over 45,000 schools, the eScrip program has generated
more than $420 million in merchant contributions to schools across
the country. For more information, visit www.escrip.com; to visit
the shopping site, go to https://shopping.escrip.com/.
ABOUT Safeway
Safeway Inc., which operates Safeway, Vons, Pavilions,
Randalls, Tom Thumb, and Carrs stores, is a Fortune 100 company and
one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United
States with sales of $36.1 billion in 2013. The
company operates 1,331 stores in 20 states and the District of
Columbia, 13 distribution centers, 19 manufacturing plants, and
employs approximately 138,000 employees. The company's common stock
is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol
SWY. For more information, please visit www.Safeway.com.
ABOUT The Safeway
Foundation
Founded in 2001, The Safeway Foundation supports
causes that impact our customers' lives. Safeway stores
provide the opportunity to mobilize funding and create awareness in
our neighborhoods through the generous contributions by our
customers, our employees' passion and partnerships with our
vendors. We focus on giving locally in the areas of health and
human services, hunger relief, education and helping people with
disabilities. Safeway Inc. and The Safeway
Foundation have invested $1 billion in our
neighborhoods since 2001. For more information about The
Safeway Foundation, visit www.safewayfoundation.org.
Big Mouth PRAmy Bonetti Price,
415-407-9008amy@bigmouthpr.comorSafeway Inc.Brian Dowling,
925-467-3787Brian.Dowling@safeway.com
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