Louis Vuitton Guam first with solar panels

Guam - Louis Vuitton has been associated with luxury and is synonymous with the art of travel featuring its iconic trunks, luggage and handbags. It can now add environmental stewards, as its global store on Guam became the first and only LV store in the world to install a solar panel system.

Although there are Louis Vuitton stores located in over 60 countries, its global store at the Tumon Sands Plaza is the first and only store to have a solar panel system. It's an initiative general manager Edouard Faure says has been a long standing priority for Louis Vuitton in protecting the environment. "We feel its very important and overall the responsibility of the company and probably its even more important in a small island like Guam where we know the resources are limited and so we need to try to do our beset to best part of the community in this sense," he said.

He says having a store on a tropical island makes it ideal to use solar panels and hopes it inspires other stores to follow. The store features 210 solar panels where Louis Vuitton will be producing 54 kilowatts of electricity making it the largest private power producer on Guam. "But basically it's helping us reduce our electricity conception as well as doing other initiatives with the air-conditioning the lighting and everything," he said.

Louis Vuitton meanwhile has been reinforcing environmental measures in areas such as architecture, merchandising and creative development for years. Locally, its staff and management have involved itself with environmental projects having established a green committee and taking part in beach cleanups, recycling and finding new and innovative ways to go green including participating in Earth Hour this past weekend.

"All the stores participated in earth hour, we dimmed the lights, and we try to do the small things, which are not a huge thing but I think the amount of the small things makes the big things happen at the end of the day and so we feel its very important and we're very proud of doing that," he noted.

Faure adds the solar panel installation was a significant investment in the beginning but in the long run it will not only help its goal of being environmentally friendly but make its team on Guam proud of the company they work for.

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