January 24, 2014
Founded in 1982, Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held company providing financial software tools such as an analytics and equity trading platform, data services, media and news to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg terminal, a wire service, a global television network, a radio station, websites, subscription-only newsletters and two magazines.
Headquartered in New York City, Bloomberg delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world to more than 310,000 professionals globally with over 15,000 employees in 192 locations and 4.5 million square feet of office space. The company is moving towards having 50% of these employees working in LEED certified space by 2017. To date, 14 LEED-certified projects (7 Platinum and 7 Gold) have been completed, and the company has committed to any new office space with more than 100 employees seeking LEED Gold certification or higher.
Bloomberg started integrating sustainability data into its analytics in 2008, and now boasts 55% landfill waste reduction since 2007; a 50% carbon footprint reduction two years ahead of schedule; over 7,451 customers using Bloomberg’s ESG data (increasing 48% annually since 2009); over 31,796 employee volunteer hours for Company-sponsored community engagements; and over $200,000 in savings annually from clean energy production and solar efforts.
