On Wednesday, Dean Foods Co (NYSE:DF)’s shares declined -2.97% to $17.33.
Dean Foods’ Frostbite Novelty plant in Toledo, Ohio, was awarded the 2014 Dean Foods Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Award for ice cream. The award is the company’s top honor and the plant was selected over Dean Foods’ 8 other ice cream plants after a rigorous, one-year judging process.
Dean Foods CEO Gregg Tanner presented the award to Tom Jenkins, EHS Manager, Frostbite Novelty.
The Dean Foods CEO EHS Award is the culmination of an intensive assessment process. This year, three fluid milk plants, three logistics locations, and two ice cream plants, counting the Toledo facility, received the Excellence in EHS Award. The awards are based on multiple criteria counting: injury rates, workers compensation statistics, behavior-based safety elements like observation and coaching, internal audit scores and employee training.
Next, these eight locations were scrutinized further by Dean Foods’ senior leadership who took into account employee engagement, best practices and the ‘safety culture’ within the location. The Frostbite Novelty plant in Toledo emerged as the cream of the crop for the ice cream category.
Dean Foods Company, a food and beverage company processes and distributes milk, and other dairy and dairy case products in the United States. It manufactures, markets, and distributes dairy case products, counting fluid milk, ice cream, cultured dairy products, creamers, ice cream mix, and other dairy products; and produces and distributes juices, teas, and bottled water.
Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL)’s shares gained 0.27% to $47.58.
Princess Cruises is joining the International Maritime Organization in celebrating the 5th annual Day of the Seafarer on June 25, which is also a United Nations international observance day. Day of the Seafarer brings awareness to and recognizes the world’s 1.5 million seafarers to thank them for their service and contribution during their career at sea.
Around the world, there are organizations that support the well-being of seafaring crew by providing important humanitarian services that directly benefit the shipboard crew at Princess, in addition to all international maritime workers. Princess Cruises actively supports these organizations located in ports of call the cruise line visits often counting Seafarers’ House (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida); Seafarers UK (Southampton, England); Mission to Seafarers (Seattle, Washington); and International Seafarer’s Center (Long Beach/Los Angeles, Calif.).
Carnival Corporation operates as a cruise company worldwide. It provides vacations to various cruise destinations. The company offers cruise services under the Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn brand names in North America; and AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard, and P&O Cruises names in Europe, Australia, and Asia. It operates 100 cruise ships. It also owns and operates 12 hotels or lodges, and about 300 motor coaches and 20 glass-domed railcars.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Hartford Financial Services Group Inc (NYSE:HIG)‘s shares dipped -0.38% to $41.87.
Millennial men (18-33) are leading the paternity leave trend, with 52 percent taking extended time off from work to assist care for a baby, according to a national survey1 from The Hartford.
While this generation of 80 million is known for putting off parenthood, increasingly more Millennials are entering this new life stage. Presently, about 10.8 million Gen Y households have children.2
Parenthood influenced the careers of both women (75 percent) and men (53 percent), according to The Hartford’s survey. Millennial dads said the top impacts were a reduction in their hours (16 percent), moving to a job with a higher salary (15 percent), and a slowdown of their career (12 percent). Millennial moms said the top impacts were changing to a job with more flexibility (25 percent), reducing their hours (22 percent), and experiencing a slowdown in their career (18 percent).
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., through its auxiliaries, provides insurance and financial services to individual and business customers primarily in the United States. The company’s Commercial Lines segment offers workers compensation, property, automobile, marine, umbrella, liability, and livestock coverage’s, in addition to customized insurance products and risk administration services, counting professional liability, bond, and specialty casualty coverage’s. Its Personal Lines segment provides standard automobile, homeowners, and personal umbrella coverage’s to individuals.
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR), ended its Wednesday’s trading session with -0.75% loss, and closed at $51.76.
First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) declared it has set yet another world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) module conversion efficiency, achieving 18.6 percent aperture efficiency for an advanced full size module. For the first time ever, First Solar has demonstrated a record module that is more efficient than the best multi-crystalline module recorded.
First Solar, Inc. provides solar energy solutions worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Components and Systems. The Components segment designs, manufactures, and sells solar modules that convert sunlight into electricity. This segment manufactures cadmium telluride and crystalline silicon modules for project developers and system integrators, in addition to owners and operators of photovoltaic (PV) solar power systems.
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