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Executive Summary ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY Approximately 43 percent of the Top Shops believe environmental re- sponsibility is either important or highly important to the success of their business. This value was lower for the rest of the surveyed shops at just 33 percent. Of all the shops surveyed, nearly 14 percent reported that a push to become more environmentally responsible was not a key compo- nent to the success of their business. Some of those shops cited added cost as a reason not to integrate technologies or practices to be more environmentally responsible. The Top Shops are more proactive about identifying ways to reduce energy usage than the other shops. In 2010, they reduced the amount of energy consumed per unit of product output by an average of 5.1 per- cent. Because two survey participants reported unusually high percent- age reductions for this question, however, the median value for this data sample, 2 percent, may be a more realistic representation of consumption reduction. Virtually all of the Top Shops actively recycle, and more than half of them have energy management programs in place. However, approximately 5 percent of the Tops Shops and 23 percent of the other shops report that they do not perform any major measures to be more environmentally responsible. All of those shops are clearly missing out on opportunities to recoup manufacturing costs via recycling, for example, not to mention reducing their overall environmental impact. How important is environmental responsibility to the success of your business? Not important Minor importance Somewhat important Important 8.2% Highly important 0 2.7% 9.8% 10 20 30 40 50 13.8% 13.1% 16.2% 24.5% 24.3% 24.6% 26.4% 16.2% 29.5% 27.0% 40.5% 23.0% All Shops Top Shops Other Shops SPONSORED BY AMT amtonline.org | IMTS imts.com 27