On Monday, KB Home (NYSE:KBH)’s shares inclined 0.47% to $14.98.
KB Home (KBH) one of the nation’s largest and most recognized homebuilders, is pleased to announce the opening of its Forest Grove community in Round Rock. Homebuyers will have the opportunity to build a beautiful new home on an over-sized homesite within a wooded neighborhood located conveniently close to major employers in Round Rock and Austin.
Forest Grove is conveniently located near main transportation routes IH-35, SH 130 and Hwy. 79, as well as major employers, such as Dell and Emerson Process Management. Residents can also enjoy premium local entertainment and shopping destinations, including the Dell Diamond, Ikea and the Round Rock Premium Outlets.
This new KB neighborhood offers homebuyers their choice of a number of floor plans in a popular, customizable design collection that range in size from 2,325 to 4,036 square feet, with pricing starting in the $320,000s. All plans include natural wood garage doors, covered patios and exteriors featuring stucco, stone and brick combinations. Children living in the Forest Grove community will have the opportunity to attend well-regarded Round Rock public schools.
KB Home operates as a homebuilding company in the United States. It constructs and sells various homes, including attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes, and condominiums primarily for first-time, move-up, and active adult homebuyers under the name KB Home.
Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (NYSE:ALU)’s shares dropped -1.86% to $3.69.
Alcatel Lucent SA (ADR) (ALU) has learned that communications service providers have a tremendous opportunity to differentiate themselves in the marketplace with the use of innovative self-help customer service tools.
A comprehensive study of smartphone users carried out recently by Alcatel-Lucent in Brazil, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States found that consumers prefer to avoid dealing with service provider helpdesks, and that there is growing evidence of a preference for using app-based self-service tools to resolve many common service issues.
The market research found that:
- More than a quarter of Japanese, UK and US consumers prefer not to call assistdesks.
- Almost half of Brazilians are more likely to ignore a problem or allow it to persist to avoid contacting a assist desk.
- While customer service assist desks remain the primary channel for resolving services issues, it is not the only channel and consumers are showing a growing interest in self-service tools.
- Japanese consumers are most willing to use self-assist tools such as apps, with up to half of UK consumers and as many as 42% of those in the US willing to sort out their own issues. In Brazil, 53-59% did report a willingness to use self-service tools, depending on the service.
- The functions consumers most want to see in service providers’ apps comprise billing information, troubleshooting capabilities, usage tracking and security alerts.
The study, conducted with the market research firm Penn Schoen Berland, surveyed 5,500 consumer Smartphone users who had strong input/influence when it comes to communication purchases. The research looked at a range of consumer trends in mobile communications, counting how smartphone users prefer to interact with large companies, use of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Voice over Wi-Fi, wearable devices, future communications counting connected vehicles, and customer experience administration.
Alcatel-Lucent provides Internet protocol (IP) and cloud networking, and ultra- broadband access worldwide. The company’s Core Networking segment offers IP routing, carrier Ethernet, network functions virtualization, and software defined networking applications and infrastructure to meet the challenges of network traffic growth while supporting the delivery of cloud-enabled business, mobile, and residential services for service providers, mobile network operators, cable/multiple system operators, transportation, utilities, and large-scale enterprises.
At the end of Monday’s trade, Youku Tudou Inc (ADR) (NYSE:YOKU)‘s shares dipped -3.47% to $28.64.
Youku Tudou Inc (ADR) (YOKU) has partnered with Disney to be the exclusive online movie marketing platform in China for its Marvel collection of movies and TV series. This cooperation will see the popularity of Disney’s Marvel brand and Youku Tudou’s position as the #1 online video platform to drive online marketing through promotion of trailers, online ticketing, live events and original programming dedicated to silver screen movies.
Youku Tudou’s strength as the leading online movie marketing platform in China comes from its market position. Leveraging its 500 million unique monthly users across screens, marketing efforts are able to disseminate across Youku Tudou’s media and entertainment ecosystem resulting in greater audience impact than traditional offline movie advertising. Disney and Marvel titles resonate with Youku Tudou’s audience with over 530 million cumulative views of titles across movies, television series, trailers, Youku Tudou original productions, and live-streaming.
Youku Tudou Inc. operates as an Internet television company in the People’s Republic of China. Its Internet television platform enables users to search, view, and share video content across various devices. The company’s services for users comprise online video content library comprising primarily of professionally produced content, counting television serial dramas, movies, current event reports, variety shows, and music videos.
Coach Inc (NYSE:COH), ended its Monday’s trading session with -0.20% loss, and closed at $35.05.
Coach Inc (COH) declared that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.3375 per common share. The dividend is payable on June 29, 2015 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on June 5, 2015.
Coach, established in New York City in 1941, is a leading design house of modern luxury accessories and lifestyle collections with a rich heritage of pairing exceptional leathers and materials with innovative design. Coach is sold worldwide through Coach Stores, select department stores and specialty stores, and through Coach’s website at www.coach.com. Coach’s common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol COH and Coach’s Hong Kong Depositary Receipts are traded on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited under the symbol 6388.
Coach, Inc. provides luxury accessories and lifestyle collections for women and men in the United States and internationally. It offers handbags, money pieces, wristlets, rings, charms, and cosmetic cases for women; and business cases, computer bags, messenger-style bags, totes, wallets, card cases, and belts, as well as time management and electronic accessories for men.
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