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EMCOR GROUP INC. ANNOUNCES SPONSORSHIP OF THE NATIONAL CENTER
FOR MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN’S CODE ADAM PROGRAM
Initiative Further Expands EMCOR-NCMEC Partnership To Help Find Missing
Children
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT – August 22, 2006 —
EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME), a Fortune 500® leader in mechanical
and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and facilities services
for a diverse range of businesses globally, has become corporate sponsor
of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s®
(NCMEC) Code Adam program, further expanding the Company’s efforts
in to help find missing children.
Code Adam, one of the country’s largest child-safety programs,
is a nationwide initiative named in the memory of Adam Walsh who, at the
age of six, was abducted from a department store 25 years ago. Originally
developed by Wal-Mart associates, Code Adam is activated when a child
is first reported missing within a facility and prior to the arrival of
law enforcement personnel. Employees of participating businesses, who
are trained in Code Adam procedures, are able to respond quickly and effectively
if an abduction occurs in their establishment. EMCOR is sponsoring Code
Adam with the hope of getting as many stores, amusement parks, museums,
and other public facilities as possible to adopt the program as their
missing child protocol.
“We are exceedingly proud to be the sponsor of such an extraordinary
initiative,” said Frank T. MacInnis, Chairman and CEO of EMCOR.
“Our relationship with NCMEC is very special to all of us at EMCOR.
By expanding our teamwork even further, through support of the Code Adam
program, our intent is to make an even greater impact nationwide in helping
find missing children.”
Last year EMCOR launched “Taking KidSafety to the Street®,”
a major, three-pronged national initiative that is an in-the-buildings
and on-the-streets program designed to help find missing children across
the country and promote child safety. Under this innovative program, EMCOR’s
national fleet of more than 6,000 service vehicles display NCMEC’s
posters of missing children, serving as moving billboards to increase
public awareness of children reported as missing. Because EMCOR’s
vehicles move daily from its 130 offices, to over 12,500 job sites and
facilities, frequented by millions of people, in thousands of communities
throughout the U.S., it is EMCOR’s hope that this effort will exponentially
increase the chances of finding missing children. Tailored to six different
geographic zones encompassing the entire U.S., the posters are creatively
designed for maximum visibility and include NCMEC’s 24-hour hotline
number – 1-800-THE-LOST – that can be called with information
about a missing child.
The second prong of EMCOR’s program goes inside buildings and involves
EMCOR’s more than 2,000 facilities services personnel---who maintain
thousands of public and private facilities across the country, many of
which are visited by or have particular attraction for children---being
trained to implement Code Adam. The third prong of its unique program
is an on-line initiative at www.emcorgroup.com/kidsafety, a specially
created, online child safety education forum.
“EMCOR has been fantastic to partner with on all of these initiatives,
and we’re very pleased that they are even further expanding their
support of NCMEC’s mission through their sponsorship of Code Adam,”
said Ernie Allen, president and CEO of NCMEC. “By continuing to
educate and train organizations in what they can do to help prevent child
abductions, we truly can help keep our families safer.”
About EMCOR Group, Inc.
A Fortune 500 company with over $4.7 billion in annual revenues,
EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME) is a global leader in mechanical and electrical
construction, energy infrastructure, and facilities services. EMCOR gives
life to new structures and sustains life in existing ones by its planning,
installing, operating and maintaining the sophisticated and dynamic systems
that create facility environments---such as electrical, mechanical, lighting,
air conditioning, heating, security and power generation systems---in
virtually every sector of the economy and for a diverse range of businesses
around the world. EMCOR’s “knowledge in action” slogan
reflects its rare combination of global reach with local execution, combining
the strength of an industry leader with the knowledge and care of 140
locations worldwide. The 26,000 skilled employees of EMCOR have made the
company, in the eyes of leading business publications, amongst America’s
“Most Admired” and “Best Performing.” EMCOR’s
diversity---in terms of the services it provides, the industries it serves
and the geography it spans---has enabled it to create a stable platform
for sustained results. The Company’s strong financial position has
enabled it to attract and retain among the best local and regional talent,
to undertake and complete the most ambitious projects, and to redefine
and shape the future of the construction and facilities services industry.
Additional information on EMCOR can be found at www.EMCORGroup.com.
About the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization, that works in cooperation with the U.S. Department
of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. NCMEC's
congressionally mandated CyberTipline, a reporting mechanism for child
sexual exploitation, has handled more than 401,200 leads. Since its establishment
in 1984, NCMEC has assisted law enforcement with more than 122,600 missing
child cases, resulting in the recovery of more than 104,900 children.
For more information about NCMEC, call its toll-free, 24-hour hotline
at 1-800-THE-LOST or visit its web site at www.missingkids.com.
CONTACT:
Mava Heffler
Vice President, Marketing & Communications
203.849.7814
Linden Alschuler & Kaplan, Inc.
Josh Epstein
212.575.4545
Communications Department
NCMEC
703.837.6111
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