On Friday, Shares of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM), gained 2.17% to $81.60.
Pizza Hut,is a partner of Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM), The Dallas Stars, Dallas Mavericks and American Airlines Center declared a multi-year agreement with Pizza Hut, designating the world’s largest pizza company as the Official Pizza Partner of all three properties.
As part of its partnership, Plano, Texas-based Pizza Hut will have use of team and arena trademarks across various marketing channels, counting branded content, advertising and promotional materials. In addition to the marketing rights, Pizza Hut will have six in-arena concession stands within American Airlines Center, with four located on the plaza level and two on the terrace level. The stands will debut a premium 9-inch Hand-Tossed Pizza, available in cheese, pepperoni or sausage, in addition to classic breadsticks and an Ultimate Hershey’s® Chocolate Chip Cookie.
“Cultivating strong partnerships with North Texas-based companies has always been a top precedingity of the Dallas Stars business strategy,” Dallas Stars Owner Tom Gaglardi said. “We are excited to bring a locally-based brand like Pizza Hut to American Airlines Center that we know that will provide our fans with a quality product. For almost 60 years, Pizza Hut has been one of the most recognizable and successful restaurant franchises around the world and we look forward to working with them for many seasons to come.”
YUM! Brands, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates quick service restaurants. It operates in five segments: YUM China, YUM India, the KFC Division, the Pizza Hut Division, and the Taco Bell Division.
Shares of Community Health Systems (NYSE:CYH), declined -1.36% to $42.21, during its last trading session.
Community Health Systems, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, provides general and specialized hospital healthcare services to patients in the United States. The company operates general acute care hospitals that offer a range of inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services, such as general acute care, emergency room, general and specialty surgery, critical care, internal medicine, obstetrics, diagnostic, psychiatric, and rehabilitation services, in addition to skilled nursing and home care services based on individual community needs.
Community Health Systems, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, provides general and specialized hospital healthcare services to patients in the United States. The company operates general acute care hospitals that offer a range of inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical services, such as general acute care, emergency room, general and specialty surgery, critical care, internal medicine, obstetrics, diagnostic, psychiatric, and rehabilitation services, in addition to skilled nursing and home care services based on individual community needs.
At the end of Friday’s trade, Shares of Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS), gained 0.81% to $52.17.
Online payments provider Checkout.com, and Diners Club, a business unit of Discover Financial Services and part of the Discover Global Network, recently declared that all Checkout.com merchants will have the opportunity to accept sales from cards running on the Discover Global Network starting on October 2.
This arrangement is part of Discover Global Network’s overall strategy to work with key payment solution providers like Checkout.com to assist drive raised acceptance. Checkout.com, which works with e-commerce merchants worldwide, will add acceptance of Discover, Diners Club and alliance partner cards to its payments processing services portfolio.
“Online cross-border purchases are on the rise as customers can now search around the world for the products and prices they want,” said Ricardo Leite, vice president, Discover Global Network. “Checkout.com is an important player in the online ecosystem and working with them aligns with our aim of expanding our portfolio of online merchants.”
Discover Financial Services operates as a direct banking and payment services company in the United States. It operates in two segments, Direct Banking and Payment Services. The Direct Banking segment offers Discover-branded credit cards to individuals; and other consumer products and services, counting private student loans, personal loans, home loans, home equity loans, prepaid cards, and other consumer lending, in addition to deposit products, such as certificates of deposit, money market accounts, savings accounts, checking accounts, and individual retirement arrangement certificates of deposit.
Finally, NextEra Energy Inc (NYSE:NEE), ended its last trade with 2.06% gain, and closed at $98.54.
Florida Power & Light Company, declared that it is deploying more than 500 employees and contractors to the Baltimore metropolitan area in support of power restoration activity anticipated in the wake of Hurricane Joaquin. FPL crews will assist Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) and other utilities with their respective restoration efforts.
“FPL is happy to step up and assist our partner utilities in their time of need, just as they often provide assistance to our company when FPL customers are influenced by a hurricane, tropical storm or other natural disaster,” said Eric Silagy, president and CEO of FPL. “Regardless of the time of year, FPL is always on call to support our colleagues at other utilities.”
The FPL workforce, counting 140 FPL lineworkers and support staff and 400 contractors from across Florida, will start its more than 1,000-mile journey Friday morning. In addition to their support of BGE, FPL crews will lend assistance to Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI) in the Washington, D.C. area and Dominion Power in Virginia. FPL crews will remain on the job for as long as their assistance is needed.
FPL is a partner of Juno Beach, Fla.-based NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE), a clean energy company widely recognized for its efforts in sustainability, ethics and diversity, counting being ranked in the top 10 worldwide for innovativeness and community responsibility as part of Fortune’s 2015 list of “World’s Most Admired Companies.”
NextEra Energy, Inc., through its auxiliaries, generates, transmits, and distributes electric energy in the United States and Canada. The company generates electricity from gas, oil, solar, coal, petroleum coke, nuclear, and wind sources. As of December 31, 2014, it served about 9 million people through about 4.7 million customer accounts in the east and lower west coasts of Florida.
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