During Wednesday’s current trade, Avon Products Inc. (NYSE:AVP)’s shares dropped -1.91% to $8.98.
Avon Products, will provide a live webcast of its first-quarter 2015 earnings conference call on Thursday, April 30, 2015, at 9 a.m. EDT.
Those wishing to access the webcast can do so from www.avoninvestor.com. The webcast will also be archived on the website for one year.
Avon Products, Inc. manufactures and markets beauty and related products worldwide. It offers beauty products, such as skincare, and personal care products, in addition to fragrances and color cosmetics; and fashion and home products comprising of jewelry, watches, apparel, footwear, accessories, gift and decorative products, housewares, entertainment and leisure products, children’s products, and nutritional products.
During morning trade, Regions Financial Corporation (NYSE:RF)’s shares climbed 1.57% to $9.69.
Today, Regions Bank, declared that Sarah Stewart, Branch Service Leader in Bassfield, Mississippi, is the April 2015 recipient of the Regions Bank Better Life Award. The Better Life Award is the top honor given to a Regions associate for outstanding dedication and job performance, as well as exemplary involvement and commitment to the community.
In addition to the recognition, Regions donates $1,000 in the name of the recipient to a nonprofit organization of the winner’s choice. Stewart chose the American Cancer Society’s Jefferson Davis County Relay for Life, an annual event she assisted start in 2003 after fighting her own battle with breast cancer. A video of Stewart is accessible on the Regions Financial YouTube channel.
Sarah Stewart has stood behind the Regions Bank counter in Bassfield since 1960. In those 55 years, Stewart has seen many changes in the banking industry and served many generations of customers, all while remaining true to a vow she took her first day on the job.
Stewart volunteers with the Jefferson Davis County Relay for Life every year. When she learns of a cancer diagnosis in her community, she often reaches out to the patient, shares her story of fighting the disease and encourages the patient not to give up.
Stewart also serves as her church treasurer and volunteers as a Bible school teacher each summer.
Regions Financial Corporation, together with its auxiliaries, provides banking and bank-related services to individual and corporate customers in the United States. Its Corporate Bank segment offers commercial banking services, such as commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, and investor real estate lending, in addition to equipment lease financing services.
Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT), during its Wednesday’s current trading session gained 0.90%, to $22.40.
Yesterday, Glow Energy Public Company Limited (Glow), a leading independent power producer (IPP) in Thailand, has placed an order with Applied Materials for two superconducting fault current limiters (SCFCL). Glow intends to commission the SCFCLs in its utility grid located in the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate. Glow anticipates that the fault current protection offered by the SCFCLs will enable Glow to raise generation and supply more power at higher quality to its customers. Representing the first use of SCFCLs in Thailand, these systems support adding capacity to address growing energy demand by offering a robust approach to reducing fault currents while minimizing voltage dips on distribution and transmission utility networks.
A fault current is an unintended, excessive current flowing through an electrical system that can damage power equipment and disrupt electricity supply. Higher fault levels typically raise as power capacity grows and grid meshing raises. SCFCL technology is designed to reduce the first peak of a fault current on a power line to limit the destructive forces on the power system and improve equipment reliability. Glow has ordered two 115KV SCFCL systems for its high-voltage transmission network.
In developing its SCFCL technology, Applied utilized its high-voltage engineering experience gained from its ion implant tools used in the semiconductor industry and its expertise in large-equipment systems engineering.
The declaration builds on the momentum of the utility industry`s adoption of Applied`s SCFCL systems. Presently, an SCFCL installed by Central Hudson Gas and Electric in New York state is performing to expectations, having successfully protected the grid from damage or loss of power due to a number of faults.
Glow is a major energy player in Thailand. Glow`s combined installed capacity is 3,188 MW of electricity and 1,206 tons per hour of steam. Glow generates and supplies electricity to the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) under Thailand`s SPP (Small Power Producer) and IPP programs, in addition to electricity, steam, industrial water and services to large industrial customers principally located in the Map Ta Phut area and nearby.
Applied Materials, Inc. provides manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, flat panel display, solar photovoltaic (PV), and related industries worldwide. The company’s Silicon Systems Group segment develops, manufactures, and sells a range of manufacturing equipment used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits.
Finally, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO), gained 1.31% Wednesday.
Cisco Systems, and Globo, the leading free to air TV broadcaster in Brazil and one of the largest content producers worldwide, are working together on a large-scale project to provide Globo with greater business agility by virtualizing and orchestrating the network functions and workflows required to manage, deliver and share produced content within its New Media content partners.
Using virtualized video processing (V2P) and content administration technologies from the Cisco Videoscape portfolio will assist Globo reduce the cost and complexity to manage and modify video workflows, while increasing efficiency across their hardware and software resources. Combining the virtual Videoscape and content administration components with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers, Cisco Nexus switches, and Cisco Services gives Globo the ability to manage and deliver dozens of forms of video, media content and metadata from a centralized network architecture to various Globo properties and New Media content partners.
Globo reaches almost the entire Brazilian population through its TV stations, at 99.5% of potential viewers, and produces around 2,400 hours of entertainment annually. Its international operations comprise seven pay-per-view TV channels and a production and distribution division that distributes domestic sports and entertainment content to more than 190 countries around the world.
Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP) based networking products and services related to the communications and information technology industry worldwide. It provides switching products, counting fixed-configuration and modular switches, and storage products that provide connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, wireless access points, and servers; and NGN routing products that interconnect public and private wireline and mobile networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications.
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