GM: General Motors awards earth-friendly carpet contract to minority-owned business.

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3 M2 PRESSWIRE-4 May 1999-GM: General Motors awards earth-friendly carpet contract to minority-owned business (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD3 RDATE:030599 Detroit -- General Motors announced today a major agreement with minority-owned MPS Group Inc. to provide and service environmentally-friendly carpeting for the GM Technical Center in Warren, Mich.

"The agreement is a powerful example of how to balance economic, environmental and social responsibility," said Rod Gillum, GM vice president of Corporate Relations & Diversity, at the opening event for the National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America. MPS is based in the federal Empowerment Zone and located in GM's Clark Street Technology Park, site of the former Cadillac manufacturing plant....