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Article: Kodak To Receive 1999 Gold Medal From World Environment Center.
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- December 8, 1998
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8--The World Environment Center (WEC) today announced that the recipient of the 1999 Gold Medal for International Corporate Environmental Achievement will be the Eastman Kodak Company. The presentation will made next May 21 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Mr. George Fisher, Chairman and CEO, will accept the Gold Medal on behalf of Kodak personnel worldwide.
According to Dr. Joel I. Abrams, Chairman of the WEC Gold Medal Jury and Professor Emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh, "The Jury cited, from among Kodak's achievements, the significance of the reusable and recyclable single-use camera design and the ...