The Corte Inglès operates Spain's leading chain of department stores which span the country. As well as everything you would expect to find in a big department store the Corte Ingles offers financial and travel services, insurance, online shopping, retail consulting, and telecommunications services. Its chain of 70-plus Sfera clothes shops specialise in middle price range, young adult fashion, competing directly with Zara. Beyond Spain, the Corte Ingles has stores in Belgium, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, and the Middle East. The Corte Ingles also runs the Hipercor supermarket chain.
Now this retail giant has announced it is getting greener by starting various initiatives within the company. Among these is a plan to raise public awareness about the use of plastic bags and in some of its departments it will be substituting their traditional plastic bags for biodegradable bags made from potato starch. It is also introducing energy saving schemes and is to start recycling all its paper and plastic waste, waste which makes up over 80 per cent of the rubbish generated in its supermarkets. The company is also starting environmental awareness training for employees, a responsible energy consumption plan and is looking into the use of cleaner energy sources.
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