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January 5th, 2008 | 
Author: RADNOR, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Airgas, Inc., (NYSE:ARG) today announced it has acquired the assets and operations of Pima Welding Supply, Inc., an industrial gas and welding supply distributor in Tucson, AZ. Effective January 1, 2008, the business has been integrated into Airgas West, one of the regional companies within Airgas. Read the rest of this entry »
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Qwest Customers Can Enroll, Select School Districts and Support Education
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE:Q) today announced a new program to benefit school districts across its residential-service region. The Qwest “1% Back to Schools” program will donate one percent of a residential customer’s Qwest bill every month to a school district of the customer’s choice, when the customer signs up for online billing and auto-pay. Read the rest of this entry »
Recognized as the Specialty Distribution Leader in Six Categories Including Most Sourced, Most Strategic, and No. 1 in Relationships, Vendor Relationships, Pre-Sales Support, and Available Credit
TEMPE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Avnet Technology Solutions, a value-added distributor of enterprise computing products, embedded subsystems, software and services, and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announced today that it has been recognized by solution providers as the No. 1 specialty distributor across six categories in CMP Channel’s 22nd annual CRN Sourcing Study. The CRN Sourcing Study recognizes the industry supplier organizations solution providers are most satisfied with and most commonly do business Read the rest of this entry »
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Buyers came from as far away as Australia, Qatar and Mexico to attend the US$28 million unreserved industrial auction conducted by Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (NYSE: RBA) (TSX: RBA) in Phoenix, Arizona, last week. Almost 1,700 construction, transportation and other industrial equipment items were sold on behalf of more than 250 consignors at the public auction, attracting over 1,600 registered bidders from 27 countries, including 46 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces. Buyers from outside the state of Arizona purchased almost half of the equipment in the auction, representing US$19 million in gross auction proceeds (almost 70 per Read the rest of this entry »
Health Benefits Company Plans to Open Call Centers in Phoenix and Tempe
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) today announced plans to add more than 530 positions to its current workforce of 665 employees in Arizona, as the health benefits company opens a new state-of-the-art telemarketing call center in Phoenix to support its rapidly growing Medicare Advantage business and a separate call center in Tempe for the company’s mail-order prescription services.
Direct Marketing Services (DMS) Center – Phoenix, which will employ 330 employees by January 2008, will open in November to support Humana’s Medicare Advantage benefit plans and senior products nationwide. An additional 200 employees will be hired in Tempe to staff a new call center opening in support of Humana’s RightSource Home Delivery mail-order prescription service. Once the two call centers are open and staffed fully in January of 2008, Humana’s Arizona workforce will exceed 1,195 employees.
“The Phoenix area has a national reputation as an outstanding site for customer call centers,” said Debbie Smith, regional president of Senior Products for Humana’s Western Region. “With its abundant, well-trained labor pool, excellent business climate and great quality of life, the Valley of the Sun is a natural choice for our call centers.”
Humana signed a long-term lease for 62,946 square feet of office space for the new DMS Center – Phoenix located at the Corporate Center business park, 10400 North 25th Avenue, Suite 200, in Phoenix. Space is being leased from Crown West Realty/St. Paul Travelers. Crown West Properties is the building management.
The RightSource Customer Care Call Center will relocate to the Tempe Commerce Center at 7333 S. Hardy Drive in October. About 112 employees at the RightSource Customer Care Center currently located at the RightSource Pharmacy location at 4031 Buckeye in Phoenix will be moved 17 miles to the new office location in Tempe. By early 2008, an additional 200 employees will be hired to join the existing call center staff.
The RightSource Pharmacy will continue in operation at the Buckeye Road location with approximately 360 employees.
RightSource Pharmacy, a Humana-owned, home-delivery pharmacy continues to experience tremendous growth. Starting off as a small operation in Phoenix in January of 2006, RightSource has grown to a state of the art facility that employs over 300 pharmacists, technicians, and clerks. The RightSource Pharmacy in Phoenix continues to hire pharmacists, technicians and clerks.
Humana signed a long-term lease for 81,789 square feet of office space from Invesco for the RightSource Customer Care Call Center in Tempe. The Lincoln Company provides building management.
“The convenience of mail-order prescription delivery to our members’ homes and the continued growth of Humana’s membership have expanded RightSource’s business significantly,” said Smith. “We anticipate continued robust growth in our RightSource operations and we’re committed to providing our Medicare members with a well-serviced health care experience.
Positions being hired for the RightSource Customer Care Call Center include customer care associates, team leads, front line leaders, workforce analyst and managers. The Tempe facility also has the capacity in the future for additional growth to reach 550 to 600 employees.
Job applications for the DMS Center – Phoenix call center positions are also now being accepted. Available positions include telesales specialists, Rx enrollment specialists, client specialists, quality assurance specialists, administrative assistants and supervisors.
Humana offers a comprehensive benefits package including a competitive salary with the possibility of an annual bonus. Successful candidates will have communications skills, problem-solving ability and a post-high school education or equivalent experience. Experience in a customer service or call center setting is also preferred. The company asks job seekers to visit www.humana.com or www.monster.com to complete an online application.
DMS Center – Phoenix is Humana’s sixth telemarketing unit. Other DMS Centers are located in Tampa Bay (2), Miramar, FL, Doral, FL and Puerto Rico. Humana has more than 4.6 million Medicare members nationally, including more than 79,400 in Arizona.
Humana has 160 employees headquartered in Phoenix at 20860 N. Tatum Boulevard in sales and operations support for the company’s Arizona commercial and Medicare products. The company also has an office at 5210 E. Williams Circle in the Williams Center in Tucson housing 25 staff from Humana MarketPOINT senior products and commercial health insurance products, as well as personnel in provider contracting, clinical innovations and provider relations.
About Humana Inc.
Humana Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation’s largest publicly traded health benefits companies, with approximately 11.3 million medical members. Humana offers a diversified portfolio of health insurance products and related services – through traditional and consumer-choice plans – to employer groups, government-sponsored plans, and individuals.
Over its 46-year history, Humana has consistently seized opportunities to meet changing customer needs. Today, the company is a leader in consumer engagement, providing guidance that leads to lower costs and a better health plan experience throughout its diversified customer portfolio.
More information regarding Humana is available to investors via the Investor Relations page of the company’s web site at http://www.humana.com, including copies of:
Annual reports to stockholders;
Securities and Exchange Commission filings;
Most recent investor conference presentations;
Quarterly earnings news releases;
Replays of most recent earnings release conference calls;
Calendar of events (includes upcoming earnings conference call dates and times, as well as planned interaction with research analysts and institutional investors);
Corporate Governance Information.
Contacts
Humana Corporate Communications
Ross McLerran, 210-617-1771
rmclerran@humana.com
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Humana Corporate Communications
Anna Hobbs-Little, 972-643-1723
ahobbslittle@humana.com
Company Recognized as Environmental Leader for Third Straight Year
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–For the third straight year, Pinnacle West Capital Corp. (NYSE: PNW) has been selected for the 2007 U.S. Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), the premier index recognizing sustainable business practices for publicly held corporations.
Pinnacle West, parent company of Arizona Public Service (APS), was one of 93 companies, taken from a universe of the 600 largest North American companies, to be included in the U.S. index. Of those 93, only seven were electric power providers. The evaluation criteria provides investors and asset managers a number of sustainability benchmarks including climate change strategies, energy consumption, human resources development, knowledge management, stakeholder relations and corporate governance.
“The quality of a company’s strategy, management and performance in dealing with opportunities and risks deriving from economic, environmental and social developments can be quantified and used to identify and select leading companies for investment purposes,” the Dow Jones stated in this year’s index summary.
The results of the annual review will influence the investment decisions of asset managers in 15 countries who have licensed the DJSI family for a variety of sustainability-driven portfolios – including mutual funds, segregated accounts and structured products, as well as an exchange traded fund (ETF).
“Sustainability is increasingly a core strategy for successful companies,” said Ed Fox, APS Vice President, Communications, Environment & Safety. “There is no doubt that successful companies must be financially sound in the short term, but sustainable companies also must have a longer term view that equally focuses on the environmental and community impacts of their business decisions and their ethical governance. We are honored to be recognized for our efforts to incorporate this triple bottom line into our business strategies.”
Pinnacle West is a Phoenix-based company with consolidated assets of about $11 billion. Through its subsidiaries, the Company generates sells and delivers electricity and sells energy-related products and services to retail and wholesale customers in the western United States. It also develops residential, commercial, and industrial real estate projects.
Contacts
Pinnacle West Capital Corp., Phoenix
Media Contacts:
Alan Bunnell, 602-250-3376
Steven Gotfried, 602-250-3040
Analyst Contacts:
Rebecca Hickman, 602-250-5668
Lisa Malagon, 602-250-5671
Web site: www.pinnaclewest.com
Expands Security Certifications for New T4200 Platform
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hypercom Corporation (NYSE: HYC) announced today that the three smart card-based 32-bit multi-application electronic payment terminals in its new Optimum T4200 series have received Interac Association Chip PED Device Certification for use within the Interac Direct Payment (IDP) network. The new certification from Canada’s leading electronic payment exchange Read the rest of this entry »
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CSK Auto Corporation (NYSE: CAO), parent company of CSK Auto, Inc., a specialty retailer in the automotive aftermarket, announced today that it has commenced a comprehensive, strategic review of the Company aimed at improving profitability and restoring top line growth. Under the leadership of its new President and Chief Executive Officer Lawrence Mondry, the Company’s management and its Board of Directors will be evaluating all aspects of the Company’s operations over the next few months. As an initial step in this process, the Company announced today that it is reducing the number of anticipated new store openings planned for Read the rest of this entry »
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Avnet Electronics Marketing, a division of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), and Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) announce a new workshop series featuring high-speed interfaces for Lattice’s latest series of FPGAs. Designers, developers and engineers interested in leveraging the latest high-speed interface technologies with FPGAs can get hands-on experience by attending the Avnet Lattice High Speed Interface SpeedWay Design Workshops, scheduled to begin September 18, 2007, in locations throughout the U.S. and in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »
TEMPE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TSYS Acquiring SolutionsSM today announced that it has appointed Roger A. Barrios as chief information officer.
Barrios will be responsible for all TSYS Acquiring Solutions information technology functions and will report to Robert J. Philbin, president of TSYS Acquiring Solutions.
“Operational excellence surrounding systems security, reliability and compliance are a strategic priority for TSYS Acquiring Solutions,” Read the rest of this entry »
