On Wednesday, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA)’s shares declined -1.08% to $86.15.
In the lead up to National HIV Testing Day on June 27, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) and Greater Than AIDS, a leading national public information response e to the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic, are teaming with more than 180 health departments and local AIDS service organizations (ASOs) in 150 cities across the country to offer free HIV testing. National organizations counting NAACP and Black AIDS Institute will support the events by encouraging community members to know their HIV status and take advantage of free HIV testing.
State and local health departments and ASOs will provide trained counselors to conduct the testing and will provide results on-site within minutes. Free tests, counting those donated by Alere North America, BioLytical Laboratories and The D.I.V.A. Foundation, will be accessible at the testing sites located at select Walgreens in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, St. Louis and San Francisco, among other cities during a three-day period:
- Friday, June 26 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- Saturday, June 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advises that all Americans be screened for HIV as a routine part of medical care1, many Americans have never been tested or are not being tested as often as recommended, according to national surveys by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Of the more than 1.2 million people living with HIV in the U.S., an estimated one in seven do not know that they are infected and only three in 10 are in ongoing care and treatment.2
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates a network of drugstores in the United States. It provides consumer goods and services, pharmacy, and health and wellness services through drugstores, in addition to through mail, and by telephone and online.
Knight Transportation (NYSE:KNX)’s shares dropped -4.61% to $26.72.
Knight Transportation, Inc. (KNX) declared that its Board of Directors declared the company’s quarterly cash dividend of $0.06 per share of common stock. This quarterly dividend is following a cash dividend policy approved by the Board of Directors. The actual declaration of future cash dividends, and the establishment of record and payment dates, is subject to final determination by the Board of Directors each quarter after its review of the company’s financial performance.
The company’s dividend is payable to shareholders of record on June 5, 2015 and is predictable to be paid on June 26, 2015.
Knight Transportation, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates as a short-to-medium haul truckload carrier of general commodities primarily in the United States. It operates through two segments, Trucking and Logistics. The Trucking segment offers truckload carrier dry van, temperature-controlled (refrigerated), and drayage services between ocean ports, rail ramps, and shipping docks.
At the end of Wednesday’s trade, Aramark (NYSE:ARMK)‘s shares dipped -1.10% to $1.80.
Aramark (ARMK) the global provider of award-winning services in food, facilities administration and uniforms, has the food and merchandise needs of guests attending Tall Ships® Philadelphia-Camden 2015 covered.
Aramark will provide food, beverage and retail merchandise service to the 325,000 predictable festival visitors, who will gather on the banks of the Philadelphia and Camden waterfronts from June 25-28, to catch a glimpse, step aboard or even set sail on some of the world’s most majestic ships along the Delaware River, as part of the largest sailing event in the United States this year.
Aramark will oversee the entire concessions operation on the Camden waterfront, where attendees can find more than 20 food vendors and assorted refreshment stations.
Aramark provides food, facilities, and uniform services to education, healthcare, business and industry, sports, leisure, and corrections clients primarily in North America. The company offers managed services, counting dining, catering, food service administration, convenience-oriented retail operations, grounds and facilities maintenance, custodial, energy and construction administration, and capital project administration. It also provides non-clinical support services, such as patient food and nutrition, and retail food services; and facilities services comprising clinical equipment maintenance, environmental, laundry and linen distribution, plant operations, planned/technical, energy and supply chain administration, purchasing, and central transportation.
Petroquest Energy Inc (NYSE:PQ), ended its Wednesday’s trading session with -1.90% loss, and closed at $2.06.
Petroquest Energy Inc (PQ) declared that it has initiated production from its Thunder Bayou discovery well (NRI – 37%) in Vermilion Parish, LA. The Company plans to monitor the production facility’s performance over the next week as it enhances the well’s production to its formerly declared predictable gross rate of about 38,000 Mcfe per day.
PetroQuest Energy, Inc. operates as an independent oil and gas company. The company is involved in the acquisition, exploration, development, and operation of oil and gas properties in Oklahoma and Texas, in addition to onshore and in the shallow waters offshore the Gulf Coast Basin. As of December 31, 2014, it had estimated proved reserves of 2.4 thousand barrels of oil, 73.5 billion cubic feet equivalent of natural gas liquids, and 309 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
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