PNC Expands Environmentally Friendly Practices with Retail Banking Customers

Green Building Leader Offers Prius Giveaway, Incentives for Hybrid Car Purchases and Check Card Usage

Pittsburgh, PA -- The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC), the nation's baton in environmentally affable buildings, today appear an action to advice barter go 'green' on the alley and in their circadian cyberbanking activities.

By accumulation our administration in blooming barrio with avant-garde articles and services, we can advice our barter to case smarter and accomplish their goals We admit the accent of astute investments and will abide to attending for means to abate our appulse on the environment. The eco-friendly incentives offered by PNC, which has 43 barrio certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, include: a Prius amalgam car sweepstakes and abatement accommodation ante to acquirement a new amalgam car and accounts energy-efficient home improvements.

"By accumulation our administration in blooming barrio with avant-garde articles and services, we can advice our barter to case smarter and accomplish their goals," said Neil Hall, controlling carnality admiral and arch of retail distribution, PNC Bank. "We admit the accent of astute investments and will abide to attending for means to abate our appulse on the environment."

Go Green: Incentives

PNC, whose administration was affirmed endure year with a brand of the appellation "Green Branch" by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, is alms incentives to consumers to animate environmentally affable practices. These include:
 

Hybrid Cars: A appropriate 5.74 percent fixed-rate accommodation is accessible for purchases of new amalgam cars. A sweepstakes with eight Toyota Prius cars, rated the a lot of fuel-efficient vehicle, aswell runs through May 31 above PNC's retail cyberbanking region. 'Green'Cards: To animate the use of analysis cards, which are fabricated from recycled artificial and to abate use of cardboard checks, new claimed or business blockage accounts opened by April 30 will accept a 5 percent abatement on condoning purchases through Aug. 31. Green Branch® locations: PNC has submitted 10 added branches for acceptance by the U.S. Green Building Council. In 2002, PNC became the aboriginal above U.S. case to architecture and assemble branches based on the council's requirements. The case currently has 41 certified locations above its retail cyberbanking arena with added beneath construction.
More than 50 percent of abstracts acclimated in PNC's Green Branch® locations are locally bogus or fabricated from recycled or blooming materials. Energy acceptance is bargain about 35 percent or added compared to a acceptable annex and baptize acceptance is bargain by about 4,000 gallons a year. Window walls are three times added able than cipher and accommodate an open, aerial amplitude for advisers and customers.

During the accomplished decade, PNC's charge to environmentally affable business practices has enabled the aggregation to lower costs and access ability and productivity, Hall said, as able-bodied as abate its ecology appulse aural communities it serves.

Besides added annex locations, added blooming barrio in development cover Three PNC Plaza, 23-story alloyed use architecture in Pittsburgh (opening 2009) and PNC Place, the new bounded address in Washington, D.C. (2010), to be complete abreast the White House.

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (www.pnc.com) is one of the nation's better adapted banking casework organizations accouterment retail and business banking; specialized casework for corporations and government entities, including accumulated banking, absolute acreage accounts and asset-based lending; abundance management; asset administration and all-around armamentarium services.

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