Manchester United Go Green With The Carbon Trust

Posted on 14. Jun, 2010 by Ross in Corporate Policy, United Kingdom

Football is no longer simply a recreational activity with jumpers for goalposts followed by a couple of pints at the local boozer, but a sport dominated by multi-million pound global brands with celebrity superstars and worldwide followings. Sport clubs are businesses like any other, and few sports clubs compare to the business muscle of UK football club Manchester United.

Manchester United has joined the ranks of more conventional businesses in realising that cutting energy use, through projects such as energy efficient lighting, is now a fundamental business strategy in the face of rising energy prices and carbon emission legislation such as the CRC Energy Efficiency scheme. Energy efficiency has a direct impact upon a business’s bottom line and, with