Haiti’s Francis mango is back for a short six to eight weeks at Whole Foods Market. Starting now and for a limited time, shoppers will find this exclusive Fair Trade™ Certified fruit under the grocer’s Whole Trade program, which drives meaningful dollars into the struggling Haitian economy. Whole Foods Market is the sole buyer of Fair Trade Certified mangos and purchases the fruit from small Haitian growers, sometimes buying from a family with just one tree. The Whole Trade Guarantee ensures growers receive equitable pay – a key point since this mango crop is often the only source of cash income for many of these farmers. Additionally, many stores will offer organic Haitian mangos. This is the third year the company has brought Whole Trade Haitian mangos to stores, and Whole Foods Market is working to expand the number of growers it works with, providing more mangos to shoppers and more money in Haitian grower’s pockets.
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Chili’s® Grill & Bar sizzled in snow-covered Moscow’s hottest nightspot and historical city center, Novy Arbat, when the doors opened to the first Chili’s in Russia. The American brand that paved the way for casual dining chains as the restaurant industry grew in the United States, was welcomed to Russia with great fanfare earlier this month.
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Four leading green fashion designers made news today – “yesterday’s news’’ that is – by turning recycled newspaper into eco-friendly fashions. The unique, trend-setting designs were unveiled at the Yesterday’s News® Green Catwalk Event and Workshop in New York City. Made with recycled newspaper, Yesterday’s News® brand cat litter served as inspiration for eco-friendly designers Anthony Lilore of RESTORE CLOTHING™, Bahar Shahpar, Lara Miller and Samantha Pleet, who debuted their original fashions made from newspaper at the New York City event. The designs will all be auctioned off for charity from Sept. 22-29, 2010 (www.DoGooderChallenge.com), with proceeds going to each designer’s green charity of choice.
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Esurance, the direct-to-consumer personal car insurance company, today announced that the company donated $50,000 to The Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.
Esurance recently launched the charitable giving campaign on its Facebook page. For each new “Like,” the company donated $10 to The Trevor Project to help support the Trevor Lifeline, a 24/7 crisis intervention phone hotline offering free and confidential suicide prevention counseling to youth nationwide.
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TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, will launch a series of YouTube videos to help consumers traverse all the recent changes to checking accounts. The first video offers people tips and things to consider when opening or updating their checking accounts.
In celebrating its 150th anniversary year, Bacardi Limited highlights its long-standing legacy of philanthropy and community involvement with special focus on employees giving back through volunteerism. Through its “Spirit for Life, Caring Together” program, Bacardi celebrates its year-round corporate responsibility (CR) activities and declares the month of May for employees to work together on community projects around the world including home building and meal distribution for needy families; fundraisers for educational, arts and cultural programs; clothing and blood drives; young adult mentorship programs; park and community center clean-ups; recycling programs; bat conservation efforts; among others.
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Summer is right around the corner and although we wear sunscreen to protect our skin we often forget about our eyes. Women of color are at higher risk for vision complications which can be linked to UV exposure. Transitions® lenses automatically change from clear indoors to dark outdoors, blocking harmful UV rays and reducing glare, and they can be fitted with your favorite designer frame styles.
A dropped bottle or slipped martini olive can jeopardize a bartender’s chance of being crowned the world’s best. It’s all on the line at the 21st annual World Bartender Championship (WBC) taking place on February 26, 2012, where the top T.G.I. Friday’s® bartenders from across the globe have more reason than ever to step up their game. Mixology authors, TV personalities and internationally-renowned bartenders will judge the skill and showmanship of each of the nine finalists as they take center stage at the Glass Cactus in Dallas. Among the celebrity guest judges are Kim Haasarud, Charlotte Voisey and Phil Wills
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Speakeasy (www.speakeasy.net), one of the nation’s leading broadband and voice services providers and a Best Buy company (NYSE:BBY), today announced the extension of their free phone offer, which has successfully eliminated one of the last barriers to VoIP adoption. In March, Speakeasy began offering free Polycom SoundPoint IP 321 VoIP-enabled phones to new business customers who purchase unlimited or global Hosted Voice calling plans and have a minimum of five lines. The promotion was so successful that Speakeasy has made the decision to extend the promotion through the end of June.
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After precipitous declines during the prior two quarters, CEO confidence bounced back at year’s end with the largest quarterly gain since the start of the recovery in 2009. The Vistage CEO Confidence Index was 98.8 in the 4th quarter 2011 survey, up from 83.5 in the 3rd quarter, and reaching the highest level since 105.2 was recorded at the start of 2011. The Q4 2011 Vistage CEO Confidence Index reflects responses from 1,641 U.S. CEOs, surveyed between Dec. 12 and Dec. 22, 2011.
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Visit www.youtube.com/BritishRedCross to download footage of the Food Insecurity Market hosted by the British Red Cross and TV broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli.
Last Thursday 13th October, shoppers at Spitalfields market were shocked when food prices soared from between 500–800 per cent as part of a British Red Cross campaign highlighting the cost of living in developing countries.
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As kids hit their “tween” years, they begin to develop their own personal style in clothes, music, food, hobbies—even their oral care. That is why Crest® and Oral-B® are proud to announce the launch of Pro-Health FOR ME™: the FIRST AND ONLY complete line of oral care products for tweens (kids eight and up), created to protect the areas dentists check in kids—in the flavors and designs older children will like.
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