HOUSTON, TX – (March 13, 2013) – Comerica Bank and storage and information management services company Iron Mountain Incorporated today announced they will reunite to host the second annual Shred Day Houston, a document shredding event, on Saturday, April 5, 2014, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The free shredding event, held at Comerica Bank’s Mangum Banking Center (2201 Mangum Road, Houston, 77092), is offered as a public service to the Houston community and is designed to raise awareness of identity theft prevention and the importance of recycling. In addition, volunteers from the Houston Food Bank will be onsite to collect suggested donations of non-perishable food items.
The event is free and open to the public, and Iron Mountain will shred up to four boxes or bags of personal or business paper documents per vehicle. All of the paper collected at Shred Day Houston will be turned into pulp and recycled after being securely destroyed.
“While identify theft affects millions each year, one effective preventive step everyone can take is to securely destroy sensitive paper documents that contain personal information by shredding. Shredding and recycling paper also conserves natural resources, saves energy, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and saves landfill space, said J. Downey Bridgwater, Comerica Bank’s Houston Market President. “Comerica Bank again is pleased to join Iron Mountain in securely shredding and recycling paper documents for free at Shred Day Houston. Our efforts also will assist the Houston Food Bank in serving our community by encouraging participants to bring much-needed, non-perishable food items.”
This marks the second community shredding event in the Houston market hosted by Comerica Bank and Iron Mountain. The two companies have hosted similar Shred Day events in Michigan, California and in Dallas, Texas. In 2012, Shred Day DFW, the event held in North Texas, earned a Guinness World Records® honor for the most paper collected and shredded in a 24-hour period.
To learn more about the event, and what types of documents should be shredded, please visit www.comerica.com/ShredDayHouston. The official media partner of Shred Day Houston is KPRC Local 2.
About Comerica Bank
Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned by three business segments: The Business Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica focuses on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico. To find us on Facebook, please visit www.facebook.com/ComericaCares. Follow Comerica on Twitter at @ComericaCares and follow Comerica Chief Economist Robert Dye on Twitter at @Comerica_Econ.
About Iron Mountain Incorporated
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of storage and information management services. The company’s real estate network of 64 million square feet across nearly 1,000 facilities in 32 countries allows it to serve customers around the world with speed and accuracy. And its solutions for records management, data backup and recovery, document management, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information for business advantage. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including business documents, backup tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.
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