Madison, Wisc. – Summit Credit Union, a member-owned financial cooperative, hosted its annual ShredFest on September 28. Held in partnership with the Better Business Bureau Serving Wisconsin and Pellitteri Waste Systems, the free event helps protect citizens and Summit’s members against identify theft by shredding paperwork that contains personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, banking information, bills, credit card statements, documents that include signatures and more.
More than 350 vehicles pulled through Summit’s headquarters in Cottage Grove to drop-off up to three boxes of material for shredding. Two shred trucks were on hand and 8.3 tons was shredded and recycled.
“ShredFest is another example of Summit’s commitment to keeping our members’ information safe. When people take care to shred documents containing sensitive information, they stop fraudsters in their tracks,” said Summit Credit Union CEO & President Kim Sponem. “We value this partnership with The Better Business Bureau Serving Wisconsin and Pellitteri Waste Systems and wish to thank all the volunteers who made another successful ShredFest possible.”
To learn more about how to prevent identify theft, visit summitcreditunion.com or call 608-243-5000 or 800-236-5560. To download photos from ShredFest, click here.
About Summit Credit Union
Established in 1935, Summit Credit Union is a member-owned financial cooperative. Summit holds $7.4 billion in assets and has more than 262,100 members and 932 employees across 60 locations throughout Wisconsin. Since 2002, Kim Sponem has been CEO & President of Summit Credit Union, formerly known as CUNA Credit Union/Great Wisconsin Credit Union.
In 2024, Summit was recognized for continued excellence in employee engagement as a Top Workplace USA by USA Today for the fourth consecutive year and a Top Workplace in the Madison area by the Wisconsin State Journal the fifth year in a row. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel named Summit a Top Workplace in Milwaukee in both 2023 and 2024. Additionally, and representative of its focus on financial education, Summit received the Governor’s Financial Literacy Award in 2010, 2014, and 2016 and the Governor’s Financial Literacy Award – Legacy in 2019.
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About The Better Business Bureau Serving Wisconsin
The Better Business Bureau Serving Wisconsin is a non-profit organization with a mission to advance marketplace trust by creating a marketplace where buyers and sellers can trust each other. We provide balance by calling out substandard business behavior (scams, fraud, etc.) and recognizing ethical, trustworthy businesses through the BBB Accreditation program. The BBB of Wisconsin Foundation supports local programs such as the BBB Students of Integrity Scholarship, BBB Torch Awards for Ethics and BBB Spark Awards. Go to ethicsawards.org for more.
About Pellitteri Waste Systems
Pellitteri Waste Systems is a Madison-based, family-owned, and state-of-the-art waste disposal and recycling business focused on outstanding customer service. With the Pellitteri tradition of service that has endured for more than 80 years, you can rest assured that you will receive the professional and high-quality level of service that has kept us in business all that time. We provide trash pickup, recycling, temporary dumpsters, compactor systems and confidential paper shredding services to Residential and Commercial customers in the Greater Madison Area and throughout Southern Wisconsin. We are always looking for better ways to meet the needs of our customers.
