On Friday, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA (ADR) (NYSE:BBVA)’s shares declined -0.30% to $10.04.
BBVA Compass declared that information security veteran Caleb Merriman has been named its new chief security officer.
Merriman joins the bank from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, where he served as the chief information security officer since 2012, responsible for the company’s security programs. He has more than 20 years of experience, formerly holding senior information security positions in a broad range of industries, such as health insurance, retail, financial services and medical technology. He will be based in Birmingham.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. engages in the retail banking, wholesale banking, asset administration, and private banking businesses primarily in Spain, Eurasia, Mexico, South America, and the United States. It offers deposit products, counting personal accounts, housing accounts, savings accounts, deposit accounts, etc.; and loan products, such as personal loans, mortgages, etc.; credit cards; investment products comprising mutual funds, warrants, and pension plans; and telephone and on-line banking services, in addition to ATMs for individual customers.
TJX Companies Inc (NYSE:TJX)’s shares gained 0.04% to $70.60.
The TJX Companies, Inc. (TJX), the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide, recently declared that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Trade Secret, an off-price retailer that operates 35 stores in Australia, from Gazal Corporation Limited (GZL.AX) for a purchase price of AUD$80 million. The potential acquisition of Trade Secret provides TJX an opportunistic entry into Australia, where TJX presently operates one of its 13 buying offices. TJX anticipates the transaction, which has customary conditions to closing, to be consummated by the end of calendar 2015.
Trade Secret offers branded apparel for women, men and children, as well as footwear, accessories and home fashions at great values. Virtually all of the Trade Secret stores are located in the eastern part of Australia. Trade Secret opened its first store in 1992 and since then, has grown to AUD$164.5 million in revenue for its fiscal year ended June 2015.
The TJX Companies, Inc. operates as an off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the United States and internationally. It operates through four segments: Marmaxx, HomeGoods, TJX Canada, and TJX Europe. The company sells family apparel, counting footwear and accessories; home fashions, such as home basics, accent furniture, lamps, rugs, wall décor, decorative accessories, and giftware; and other merchandise.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ:KHC)‘s shares surged 0.57% to $76.42.
The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) stated second quarter results for Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (“Kraft”) and H.J. Heinz Holding Corporation (“Heinz”) for the periods ended June 27, 2015, and June 28, 2015, respectively. Kraft Heinz filed a Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) containing a detailed talk aboution of Kraft’s second quarter results in addition to a Form 10-Q containing a detailed talk aboution of Heinz’s second quarter results. Subsequent to the end of the second quarter, the company successfully accomplished the merger of Kraft and Heinz.
The company remains confident in its ability to deliver against its initial financial expectations for the merger of Kraft and Heinz, counting its expectation to generate aggressive, run-rate cost savings of $1.5 billion by the end of 2017, inclusive of savings from productivity and cost savings initiatives contemplated preceding to the merger. As a matter of practice, however, Kraft Heinz does not expect to issue or update earnings guidance going forward.
The Kraft Heinz Company, through its auxiliaries, operates as a food and beverage company in North America and internationally. It primarily offers food and beverage products, counting cheese, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, packaged dinners, refrigerated meals, snack nuts, dressings, ketchup, condiments and sauces, frozen food, soups, beans and pasta meals, infant nutrition, and other food and grocery products.
Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL), ended its Friday’s trading session with 0.63% gain, and closed at $52.44.
Carnival Cruise Line and its partner Dr. Seuss Enterprises teamed up to celebrate the release of the new Dr. Seuss book, “What Pet Should I Get?” with celebrity book readings by Tampa Bay Rays all-star Evan Longoria aboard Carnival Paradise in Tampa and local broadcasting legend Angela Hill aboard Carnival Dream in New Orleans.
In conjunction with the event, Carnival is matching Longoria’s donation of $100 to Pet Pal Animal Shelter for every home run he hits during the 2015 season. The cruise line is also donating monies to the Tampa Bay and Louisiana chapters of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).
Donning Dr. Seuss’ signature striped hat and surrounded by rescue dogs from the SPCA, Longoria and Hill delighted children with spirited readings of “What Pet Should I Get?” which is based on an original manuscript and accompanying sketches by Dr. Seuss, aka Ted Geisel, that was discovered in the La Jolla, Calif., home of the late beloved children’s author.
Following the reading, children and their chaperones joined The Cat in the Hat, Sam I am, and Thing 1 and Thing 2 for Carnival’s popular Green Eggs and Ham Breakfast with The Cat in the Hat and Friends, part of the line’s exclusive Seuss at Sea program.
Carnival Corporation operates as a cruise company worldwide. It provides vacations to various cruise destinations. The company offers cruise services under the Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland America Line, Princess Cruises, and Seabourn brand names in North America; and AIDA Cruises, Costa Cruises, Cunard, and P&O Cruises names in Europe, Australia, and Asia. It operates 100 cruise ships.
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