Month: February 2024

MONROE, Mich., Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — La-Z-Boy Incorporated (NYSE: LZB), a global leader in the manufacture and retail of residential furniture, announced its investment and ongoing support of key industry furniture markets. La-Z-Boy Incorporated is formally extending the lease for its portfolio of showrooms at High Point Market in Furniture Plaza, High Point, NC and Las Vegas Market, B555 at World Market Center Las Vegas, NV. La-Z-Boy is also committing to major renovations of its showrooms in High Point, including showrooms for the La-Z-Boy brand, La-Z-Boy International, and England Furniture. These investments will allow La-Z-Boy Incorporated to better serve its customers, partners, and all stakeholders. “Our commitment today is wholly enabled by the continued market success and financial stability of La-Z-Boy Incorporated...

Two-year grant focuses on ways to save water and enhance the environment MARYSVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation and the Alliance for Water Efficiency (AWE) have announced an extension of their partnership that will support research to improve the efficiency of lawns and other landscapes. The grant helps to fund environmental programs through December 2025.  “We are honored to receive this funding from The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation, which continues our long-standing partnership to research how to design, grow, and irrigate lawns and other landscapes to save water and enhance the environment,” said Ron Burke, President and CEO, Alliance for Water Efficiency. “This 2024 funding will allow us to evaluate landscape transformation programs and create resources that can help water efficiency...

Press release05 February 2024 – N° 01 SCOR adopts blockchaincertification with Wiztrust To secure the information it publishes on its website and distributes, particularly to the media, analysts and investors, SCOR is now using the Wiztrust blockchain certification platform. Certification via Wiztrust helps to safeguard against the growing problem of corporate and financial “fake news” by giving each published document a unique fingerprint in the blockchain. This means that, if in doubt, recipients can verify the authenticity of documents they receive with a simple “drag and drop” on wiztrust.com. Alexandre Garcia, Group Head of Communications and Public Affairs, comments: “Given the rise of misinformation in today’s corporate world, we are delighted to be able to ensure the transparency and security of our content for all our stakeholders...

MONTREAL, Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) is pleased to announce it has achieved Mansfield Certification, a designation awarded by Diversity Lab that measures the structural changes and actions CN has taken to ensure the hiring and promotion processes and paths to leadership within our legal department are open and transparent to all qualified lawyers and other legal professionals. The Mansfield Rule Law Department Edition is a certification process designed to ensure all participating corporate legal departments provide a fair and equal opportunity to be hired, promoted and advance into leadership. Mansfield is focused on broadening the talent pool for consideration in hiring, including those historically underrepresented in the legal profession, and to facilitate transparent leadership pathways.  “We...

BOCA RATON, Fla., Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NewtekOne, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: NEWT), announced today strong growth in its total loan pipeline, across all lending products, year-to-date through January 31, 2024, compared to the same period last year. The total pipeline consists of loans that are in the Company’s three lending stages: prequalification, underwriting and approved pending closing. NewtekOne’s loan programs include SBA 7(a) loans, SBA 504 loans, alternative loan financing program (formerly referred to as our non-conforming conventional loan program), conforming C&I loans and conforming CRE loans. Newtek Bank’s flagship loan program, SBA 7(a) lending, and the Company’s alternative loan finance program, led the year-over-year pipeline growth for January. The following summarize the year-over-year pipeline...

NEW YORK, Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cumulus Media’s Westwood One today announced that talk radio host Dan Bongino will host former President Donald J. Trump on “The Dan Bongino Show” for a live interview at 2:30 p.m. ET. “The Dan Bongino Show” can be heard on Westwood One terrestrial affiliates or streamed live at Bongino.com or on the audio streams of affiliated radio stations, including WMAL Washington DC. The interview will subsequently be available on the The Dan Bongino Show Sunday special podcast on Sunday, February 18, which can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Podcasts, among other platforms. “The Dan Bongino Show” is a live broadcast from Cumulus Media (NASDAQ: CMLS)’s Westwood One hosted by former Secret Service Agent, best-selling author, television commentator, and podcast powerhouse...

UAB “Atsinaujinančios energetikos investicijos” (the Company) publishes its green bond report for 2023. The Company acknowledges its responsibility to ensure that its actions have a beneficial impact on the sustainability and energy independence of the region, hence it works toward investments tailored to the activities that enable the transition to a climate-resilient low-carbon and sustainable environment. Green Bonds Programme:As of 31 December 2023, the Company has issued 72.4 million Euros of nominal value Green Bonds. The eligible projects for these Green Bonds are in the category of renewable energy only, such as wind and solar PV energy parks aiming to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and Social Development Goal (SDG) 7 “Affordable and clean energy”. The Green Bond framework is available online on the Company’s...