On Tuesday, Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:WFM)’s shares declined -0.66% to $31.77.
Whole Foods Market (WFM) and one-hour grocery delivery service, Instacart, marked the one-year anniversary of a partnership that has assisted Whole Foods Market customers conveniently purchase groceries and have them delivered in as little as one hour.
Most notably, in the first year of the partnership Whole Foods Market customers collectively saved 970,0001 hours to spend however they liked because we did the shopping for them.
Instacart delivered millions upon millions of items from America’s healthiest grocery store over the past year, counting:
- 2.2 million bananas, enough to stretch from Boston to Philadelphia if placed end-to-end
- 1.25 million apples, enough to bake an apple pie that would cover the entire infield at a professional baseball game
- 4 million cage free eggs, enough to serve an omelet to all 971,000 residents of Austin, Texas
- 500,000 avocados, enough to make a cup of guacamole for every fan at four sold out pro football games
Whole Foods Market shoppers had a clear favorite when ordering groceries delivered by Instacart: fresh produce. In-fact, more than 40 percent of all Whole Foods Market shopping baskets delivered by Instacart featured fresh produce items. The top five most frequently purchased products over the past year were bananas, avocados, carrots, lemons and limes.
Whole Foods Market, Inc. operates as a retailer of natural and organic foods. The company’s stores offer produce and floral, grocery, meat, seafood, bakery, prepared foods and catering, coffee, tea, beer, wine, cheese, nutritional supplements, vitamins, and body care products, in addition to lifestyle products, counting books, pet products, and household products.
Liberty Interactive Corp (NASDAQ:QVCA)’s shares dropped -1.05% to $27.29.
Liberty Interactive Corporation (QVCA), declared that it has extended the expiration of its exchange offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of zulily, inc. to 12:00 midnight (one minute after 11:59 p.m.), Eastern Time, on September 30, 2015. The extended expiration date is predictable to allow for a quarter end closing of the transaction, which will enable Liberty Interactive to start consolidating zulily as of the starting of the fourth quarter.
The depositary for the exchange offer has advised that, as of 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on September 18, 2015, a total of about 28,529 shares of zulily Class A common stock were validly tendered and not validly withdrawn in the Offer and no shares of zulily Class B common stock were validly tendered in the exchange offer.
Liberty Interactive Corporation, through its auxiliaries, engages in the video and on-line commerce industries in North America, Europe, and Asia. It markets and sells various consumer products primarily through live televised shopping programs, Websites, and mobile applications.
At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Trina Solar Limited (ADR) (NYSE:TSL)‘s shares dipped -1.41% to $9.11.
Trina Solar Limited (TSL) declared it has published its 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, which provides an update on Trina Solar’s environmental, social and community performance.
As detailed in the report, the Company built upon existing programs and launched new concrete initiatives to promote sustained environmental and social development, as a result of which, Trina Solar achieved unparalleled results in realizing its CSR targets and aims in 2014. Below are a few highlights:
- Green Sustainable Development.Trina Solar incorporates environmental protection and social responsibility into every step of its manufacturing and operational processes. As such, Trina Solar was ranked No. 1 globally in environmental and social performance in the 2014 solar Scorecard, an award system established by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC). This is the third successive year that the Company has won the award. The Solar Scorecard covers 12 assessment indexes counting extended producer responsibility, emission transparency, worker rights, health and safety, chemical reduction, supply chains, biodiversity and Energy & GHSs etc.
- Global Warming and Environmental Protection.Trina Solar won the Excellent Low Carbon Green Administration Award by the British Standards Institution (BSI) for its unremitted efforts to promote global warming awareness and continuous reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
- Establishment of ISO50001/GBT 23331 Energy Administration System (EnMS).In April 2014, Trina Solar started implementing a system for continuous reduction of energy consumption and higher utilization of energy, and putting energy saving measures and technologies into practice. As a result of these efforts, the Company recently received ISO50001/GBT23331 EnMS certification in July 2015.
Trina Solar Limited operates as an integrated solar-power products manufacturer and solar system developer in the People’s Republic of China, Europe, the United States, and other Asia Pacific regions.
Air Lease Corp (NYSE:AL), ended its Tuesday’s trading session with -1.94% loss, and closed at $32.89.
Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) and Air Lease Corporation (AL) signed long-term lease agreements for four (4) new Airbus A350-900s. The transaction also comprises a lease option for two additional A350-900s and two A330-900neo aircraft.
Powered by two Rolls Royce Trent XWB-84 engines, the A350-900 aircraft are from ALC’s order book with Airbus and will be delivered between the fourth quarter of 2017 and the second quarter of 2018.
Malaysia Airlines CEO Christoph Mueller said, “We are excited to have this aircraft as part of our fleet. The A350 is the most technologically advanced aircraft and we are confident that it will deliver exceptional passenger comfort and improve the overall efficiency of our fleet. We are very happy to partner with Air Lease Corporation on this planned transaction.”
Air Lease Corporation engages in the purchase and leasing of commercial jet transport aircraft to airlines worldwide. The company also sells aircraft from its operating lease portfolio to third parties, counting other leasing companies, financial services companies, and airlines.
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