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MPS Group “Adopts” Section of I-75 for Roadside Clean-up
August 1, 2007, Detroit, MI &ndash Two miles of Michigan highway are now litter-free thanks to the efforts of MPS Group employees. The community-minded team, led by MPS' Senior Project Manager Brad Ledy, donned orange safety vests on Friday, July 20 and took to the roadsides to remove accumulated debris.
For the second consecutive year, Ledy organized the community service activity through Michigan Department of Transportation's popular “Adopt a Highway” program. “As a locally-based company, MPS Group wants metropolitan Detroit to put its best foot forward. This area is our home and we are compelled to give back,” he explains. “Cleaning up our highways is just one of many projects in which we have participated.”
MPS Group maintains its north and south-bound sections of I-75 from Rochester Road to Big Beaver with group clean-ups organized three times each year, according to the MDOT calendar. “Our employees report to their offices in the morning, and then proceed to the site to receive safety gear and instructions,” says Ledy. “A dozen volunteers typically spend about six hours cleaning assigned section of highway. We make sure our neighbors can enjoy an attractive drive home &ndash or a pleasant beginning to their trip Up North.”
Since 1990, Adopt-a-Highway local groups have collected over a million bags of trash. Currently 3,000 groups are participating in the program and have adopted over 6,900 miles of Michigan highways.
MPS Group's total minority employment now stands at 39% for 2007, up from 28% for 2006. Its employment of both minority and female staff members combined is 51%, an increase from 46% last year.
MPS Group is an affiliate of Soave Enterprises, L.L.C., www.soave.com. Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony L. Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others. Recently, Forbes Magazine ranked Soave Enterprises as the 251st largest privately held company in the United States.
