May 25, 2011
SR Inc welcomes Genentech to the Sustainable Real Estate Roundtable
SR Inc is pleased to select Genentech as a Charter Member. Considered the founder of the biotechnology industry, Genentech, founded 35 years ago, is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. The company, a member of the Roche Group, is headquartered in South San Francisco, California and has over 11,600 employees. Genentech conducts basic and applied research in the areas of in Oncology, Immunology, Metabolism, Neuroscience, and Infectious Disease. The company’s pipeline includes both breakthrough innovations and new indications for existing, well-understood products that may fight more than one disease or more than one form of a disease. Genentech has been included on Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work For” for 13 consecutive years and the company has a strong corporate commitment to environmental sustainability and to health, safety and wellness. They have implemented a variety of projects that delivered improved energy efficiency, water conservation and waste-to-landfill diversion rates. In addition, in early 2010, a new Genentech Sustainability Council was formed to ensure effective collaboration among its sites, to formulate company-wide goals and programs where appropriate, and to support monitoring and reporting of Genentech-wide progress towards key corporate goals. Leading Genentech’s participation in SRER are Katie Excoffer, Sustainability Manager and Gig Codiga, Associate Director of Real Estate. www.genentech.com
