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Momentum Stocks in Focus - Dunkin Brands Group Inc (NASDAQ:DNKN), SLM Corp (NASDAQ:SLM), United Natural Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ:UNFI), Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS)

On Tuesday, Shares of Dunkin Brands Group Inc (NASDAQ:DNKN), lost -0.27% to $47.57.

As football fans welcome a new season, Dunkin’ Donuts is ongoing its support of ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown, announcing a renewed multi-season sponsorship for exclusive rights to Field Pass segments that air during each Monday Night Countdown telecast, which airs at 6:00 pm ET. Dunkin’ Donuts will enhance its involvement, which began in 2011, with #DDFieldPass on-air, digital and social marketing to engage fans with innovative content starting with the first game of the season through Wild Card weekend. This will comprise unique #DDFieldPass videos created by viral sensation BdotAdot5, and weekly opportunities to engage with ESPN analysts for an inside look at top football stories. Hill Holliday and Trilia, Dunkin’ Donuts’ creative and media agencies of record, negotiated the sponsorship and developed creative for the campaign.

The #DDFieldPass segment during Monday Night Countdown presents football fans with expert analysis and insider access to trending NFL topics. Monday Night Countdown features host Chris Berman and NFL analysts Cris Carter, Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson, Keyshawn Johnson, Chris Mortensen and NFL Insider Adam Schefter who review Sunday’s games, look ahead to the Monday Night Football matchup and give fans an update on the latest league news. Suzy Kolber, Trent Dilfer, Ray Lewis and Steve Young also contribute to the show from the site of that evening’s Monday night game.

Dunkin Brands Group, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, develops, franchises, and licenses quick service restaurants under the Dunkin Donuts and Baskin-Robbins brands worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Dunkin’ Donuts U.S., Dunkin’ Donuts International, Baskin-Robbins U.S., and Baskin-Robbins International.

Shares of SLM Corp (NASDAQ:SLM), inclined 1.11% to $8.18, during its last trading session.

Sallie Mae – the nation’s saving, planning, and paying for college company – will be recruiting for a variety of positions at the Philly Veterans Career Fair on Sept. 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. aboard the Battleship New Jersey, which is located on the Camden, N.J., riverfront at 100 Clinton St. Forty companies are participating in the fair, and about 300 active duty military service members, veterans, and military spouses are predictable to attend.

Talent acquisition specialists from Sallie Mae will be on hand to discuss a wide range of career opportunities and conduct on-the-spot interviews. The company’s current openings comprise jobs in information technology, customer service, internal audit, finance, vendor administration, corporate security, risk administration, quality control, human resources, and loan servicing.

SLM Corporation, together with its auxiliaries, operates as a saving, planning, and paying for education company in the United States. The company offers private education loans to students and their families.

At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Shares of United Natural Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ:UNFI), gained 1.56% to $50.67.

United Natural Foods, declared an executive team transition plan. Michael Zechmeister has been designated Senior Vice President, effective recently, and he will succeed Mark Shamber as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, effective mid-October, 2015. Mr. Shamber will assist with the executive team transition and continue to assist the Company with business strategy and development through December 31, 2015.

“Mark has played an integral role in our growth and development over the last nine years and, on behalf of our board and administration team, I want to thank him for his contributions,” said Steve Spinner, the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “Over the next several weeks Mark will work closely with Mike through this transition. We are excited to have Mike on board as a seasoned leader in finance with noteworthy experience successfully managing and growing multi-billion-dollar businesses as we further adapt to meet the ever-changing needs of customers in an expanding and evolving marketplace.”

United Natural Foods, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, distributes and retails natural, organic, and specialty foods, in addition to non-food products primarily in the United States and Canada.

Finally, Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), ended its last trade with -3.37% loss, and closed at $13.19.

Rambus, declared the Smart Data Acceleration (SDA) Research Program designed to tackle major issues facing data centers in the age of Big Data. The SDA Research Program has been exploring new architectures for servers and data centers that are optimized for rack-level Big Data computation, targeting noteworthy improvements in performance and power efficiency, as the industry brings computing closer to data.

“Modern servers are out of balance with today’s needs – data centers are under stress due to escalating demands of real-time access to large amounts of information driven by Big Data and new applications,” said Laura Stark, senior vice president and general manager of the Emerging Solutions division at Rambus. “This research platform focuses on architectures that offload computing closer to very large data sets at multiple points in the memory and storage hierarchy.”

As part of the program, Rambus has created a platform to investigate system architectures that comprise software, firmware, FPGAs and large amounts of memory. The platform can be used to test new methods to optimize and accelerate data analytics for extremely large data sets.

Rambus Inc. operates as a technology solutions company in South Korea, the United States, Japan, Europe, Canada, Asia, and internationally. The company’s technology solutions comprise memory, chip interfaces and architectures, end-to-end security, and advanced LED lighting.

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