Comerica Bank and Iron Mountain to Host First Annual "Shred Day Phoenix" on Saturday, October 11

Community shredding event to help consumers, business owners securely destroy sensitive paper documents, free of charge

Phoenix Police Department and St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance partner to raise awareness of identity theft, hunger and recycling

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Sep 09, 2014, 12:05 ET

PHOENIX, Sept. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Comerica Bank and storage and information management services company Iron Mountain Incorporated today announced that they will team up to host the first annual Shred Day Phoenix, a free document shredding event, on Saturday, October 11, 2014, from 8am to 3pm. The secure document shredding event, to be held in front of Comerica Theatre on West Washington Street in downtown Phoenix, is offered as a public service to the Phoenix community and is designed to raise awareness of identity theft prevention, hunger and recycling.

Free of charge and open to the general public, the event will allow Phoenix consumers and business owners to securely destroy up to four boxes or bags of sensitive paper documents per vehicle. Additionally, volunteers from St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance will be onsite to collect suggested donations of non-perishable food items. One hundred percent of the paper collected at Shred Day Phoenix will be turned into pulp and recycled after being securely destroyed.

"Comerica Bank is thrilled to join Iron Mountain to help Valley residents and business owners protect themselves from identity theft and fraud by securely destroying sensitive paper documents for free at Shred Day Phoenix," said Annette G. Musa, Comerica Bank's Arizona Market President. And, since all paper collected and destroyed at the event will be recycled, we'll help reduce pollution, preserve landfill space and save trees. We encourage all area residents to do some 'financial fall cleaning' and to bring a suggested donation of two non-perishable food items to support the St. Mary's Food Bank and our local community."

Shred Day Phoenix marks the first community shredding event in the Arizona market hosted by Comerica Bank and Iron Mountain. The two companies have hosted similar shredding events throughout Michigan, California and Texas. Two-time world record holders, Comerica Bank and Iron Mountain earned Guinness World Records® honors for the most paper collected and shredded in a single day at their Shred Day DFW event in North Texas in 2012 and again in 2014.

To learn more about the event, and what types of documents should be shredded or retained, please visit www.comerica.com/ShredDayPhoenix.

About Iron Mountain Incorporated

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of storage and information management services. The company's real estate network of over 67 million square feet across more than 1,000 facilities in 36 countries allows it to serve customers around the world. And its solutions for records management, data management, document management, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including business documents, backup tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.

About Comerica Bank

Comerica Bank is a subsidiary of Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA), the 22nd largest U.S. financial holding company, and is strategically aligned by three business segments: the Business Bank, the Retail Bank and Wealth Management. Comerica focuses on relationships and helping people and businesses be successful. Comerica currently operates 18 full-service banking centers throughout the Phoenix-Scottsdale area. In addition to Arizona, Comerica Bank locations can be found in its headquarters state of Texas, as well as in California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico. For more information, please visit www.comerica.com. To find us on Facebook, please visit www.facebook.com/ComericaCares. Follow Comerica on Twitter at @ComericaCares and follow Comerica Chief Economist Robert Dye on Twitter at @Comerica_Econ.