Environmental Practices — Going Green Drives Sales

This was a reference to ISO 9001 quality management certification, but the company came across ISO 14001 environmental management certification in its learning process. Gary Samuels, the third managing partner, thought it didn’t make sense to have to pursue the two certifications separately.

“We asked about doing that and they (the standards body) said no one had ever done it before. They thought it would be too much work to tackle both at once,” Donald Samuels recalls.