On Friday, Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG), lost -12.51% to $534.99.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, will reopen all 43 restaurants in the Seattle and Portland, Ore. markets that the company voluntarily closed. The restaurants are opening in the coming days with a fresh supply of all new ingredients.
Health officials have concluded that there is no ongoing risk from this incident. Chipotle has taken important steps to make certain that their food is as safe as it can be, counting:
- Conducting additional deep cleaning and sanitization in all its restaurants nationwide.
- Replacing all ingredients in the closed restaurants.
- Confirming that none of its employees in these restaurants had E. coli. Note: No Chipotle employees have had E. coli stemming from this incident.
- Working with health officials to improve food handling procedures.
- Testing fresh produce, raw meat, and dairy items (cheese and sour cream) preceding to restocking restaurants.
- Going above and beyond required testing, and enhancing nationwide testing of produce and fresh meat.
- Testing food, restaurant surfaces, and equipment in its restaurants (to date, Chipotle has received nearly 900 test results, all of which showed no E. coli).
- Implementing additional safety procedures, and audits, in all of its 2,000 restaurants to ensure that robust food safety standards are in place.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, develops and operates fast-casual and fresh Mexican food restaurants. As of November 10, 2015, it operated about 1,900 restaurants, counting 17 Chipotle restaurants outside the United States and 11 Shop House Southeast Asian Kitchen restaurants. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Denver, Colorado.
Shares of Centene Corp (NYSE:CNC), inclined 5.42% to $57.42, during its last trading session.
Centene Corporation and its partner, Cenpatico, declared that they have received national recognition by Modern Healthcare and Advertising Age for their anti-bullying campaign, “No Bullying Zone.” The companies received the Gold Award for Community Outreach Campaign of the Year at the Modern Healthcare’s Marketing Impact Awards.
Centene and Cenpatico partnered with Children’s National Health System and Howard University to put a stop to bullying through education, intervention and empowerment. The campaign was developed to educate students, teachers and parents across the country on how to prevent, identify and appropriately intervene with bullying in school-aged children.
Since the kickoff during National Anti-bullying Awareness Month in October 2013, the “No Bullying Zone” campaign has traveled more than 16,000 miles to 19 schools across the country from Washington, D.C., to California. This national initiative offered education and resources to 5,000 students in addition to their teachers and parents on how to prevent, identify and appropriately intervene when bullying threatens school-aged children.
Centene Corporation operates as a diversified, multi-national healthcare enterprise that provides programs and services to under-insured and uninsured individuals in the United States. It operates in two segments, Managed Care and Specialty Services.
Finally, Shares of Ameren Corp (NYSE:AEE), ended its last trade with 0.94% gain, and closed at $44.11.
Ameren Corporation, declared the pricing of a public offering of $700 million aggregate principal amount of its senior notes, comprising of $350 million aggregate principal amount of 2.700% senior notes due 2020 and $350 million aggregate principal amount of 3.650% senior notes due 2026. The 2020 senior notes and the 2026 senior notes are being offered to the public at 99.977% and 99.911% of their principal amount, respectively. The transaction is predictable to close on November 24, 2015.
Ameren intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to repay a portion of its outstanding short-term debt.
Barclays Capital Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Mizuho Securities USA Inc. are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering.
Ameren Corporation operates as a public utility holding company in the United States. The company engages in the rate-regulated electric generation, transmission, and distribution; and rate-regulated natural gas transmission and distribution businesses.