During Wednesday’s Morning trade, Shares of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) (NYSE:TEVA), gained 0.05% to $59.96.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., will host a live audio webcast at the Jefferies Autumn 2015 Global Healthcare Conference. Eyal Desheh will present on Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 11:20 AM GMT.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes generic, specialty, and other pharmaceutical products worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Generic Medicines and Specialty Medicines. The Generic Medicines segment offers generic or branded generic medicines; specialized products, such as sterile products, hormones, narcotics, high-potency drugs, and cytotoxic substances; and active pharmaceutical ingredients.
Shares of CVS Health Corp (NYSE:CVS), inclined 0.81% to $94.55, during its current trading session.
CVS Health, declared that for the second year in a row it received a perfect score of 100 percent on the Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices pertinent to LGBT equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. CVS Health joins the ranks of 391 major U.S. businesses which also earned top marks this year.
“We pride ourselves on embracing and celebrating the rich diversity of our colleagues, customers and suppliers,” said Lisa Bisaccia, EVP and Chief Human Resources Officer for CVS Health and executive sponsor of the company’s LGBT resource group. “It is part of our culture to make every individual feel equally valued, respected and appreciated. These core values are the fabric of who we are as a leading health care company and make us one of the best places to work.”
Some of the programs and initiatives that account for CVS Health’s top score comprise:
- an inclusive benefits package which provides health insurance coverage for the medically necessary health care services that transgender people need, counting transition-related treatment;
- support for 11 national Colleague Resource Groups, counting PRIDE, which offer employees the opportunity to share or support a particular ethnicity, culture or perspective;
- the CVS Health Supplier Ethics Policy that supports the inclusion of LGBT vendors and suppliers; and
- financial sponsorship and participation in annual LGBT-related and multi-cultural events and causes across the country where the company operates.
The 2016 CEI rated 1,024 businesses in the report, which evaluates LGBT-related policies and practices counting non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBT community. CVS Health’s efforts in satisfying all of the CEI’s criteria results in a 100 percent ranking and the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality.
CVS Health Corporation, together with its auxiliaries, provides integrated pharmacy health care services in the United States. The company operates through Pharmacy Services and Retail Pharmacy segments.
Finally, Shares of Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM), gained 0.40%, and is now trading at $37.34.
With the opening of two plants in China on two successive days this week, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has raised its capacity to serve growing regional demand for value-added food-ingredients and animal-nutrition products.
ADM CEO Juan Luciano joined government officials and representatives from Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., for a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the northeastern coastal city of Tianjin, marking the opening of a plant to produce Fibersol® soluble dietary fiber. And on Thursday, Luciano stood alongside officials from the eastern city of Nanjing to mark the opening of a feed-premix plant—ADM’s third in the country.
Fibersol—sold and marketed through an ADM/Matsutani joint venture—enables food and beverage manufacturers to improvement the fiber content of their products without impacting flavor, color or viscosity. With the global market for soluble dietary fiber growing at an annual rate of 13 percent, the Tianjin plant’s production capacity of 15,000 metric tons per year will assist address food industry customers’ increasing demand.
“As more and more Chinese citizens enter the middle class, we expect that demand for Fibersol and other value-added food ingredients made by ADM will remain robust well into the future,” Luciano said in remarks at recently’s ribbon-cutting event.
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company procures, transports, stores, processes, and merchandises agricultural commodities and products. The company’s Oilseeds Processing segment originates, merchandises, crushes, and processes soybeans and soft seeds into vegetable oils and protein meals.