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Laurence Fishburne
Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
Kevin Cohee
Joe Fortunato, GNC
Larry Merlo, CVS
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Business World Index
---NAACP Timeline---
The NAACP and the Verizon Foundation has unveiled a multimedia web site featuring the story of the civil rights organization and the first interactive timeline of Black history. The web site, the NAACP Interactive Historical Timeline, is funded through a $500,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation and is being launched in conjunction with Black History Month. Through highlighting NAACP involvement, the timeline opens an important window on American history. Each point on the timeline includes a written narrative, historic video or photos as well an audio narrative read by a celebrity such as Laurence Fishburne.
---American Airlines honors African-American Aviation Pioneers---
American Airlines has a new virtual museum, BlacksinAviation.com, that explores the history of African Americans in aviation from pre-civil rights to the present. The virtual museum highlights the challenges and accomplishments of African-American aviation professionals, including the struggle for racial equality in commercial airlines, the military and aerospace. Some of today's most accomplished aviators assisted American Airlines with Blacks in Aviation, including NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, who was chosen to lead the aerospace agency in 2008 and members of the Tuskegee Airmen.
---ONEUNITED BANK ANNOUNCES NEW HOME LOAN PROGRAMS FOR URBAN COMMUNITIES--New Super Smart Home Loan Program Available 24/7---OneUnited Bank announces the launch of new lending programs for urban communities. Its Super Smart Home Loan Program offers 30-year and 15-year fixed rate loans at great rates to provide an opportunity for customers to refinance out of undesirable home loans or obtain a mortgage to buy a new home or investment property. OneUnited is also introducing a multi-family loan program to finance affordable housing. To review the full story, please click here.
---GNC and China---
General Nutrition Centers, Inc. (GNC), a leading global retailer of nutritional products, announced that it, together with its parent company, has entered into a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic partnership with Bright Food (Group) Co., LTD (Bright Food). The partnership, to be named GNC China, will participate in China's nutritional products market. Bright Food, a leading state-owned conglomerate in China's food industry, is a direct subsidiary of Shanghai Municipal government and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shanghai Municipal Government. Shanghai Yantang Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bright Food, will be responsible for undertaking the collaboration with GNC. "Based on our research on the nutrition industry in China, GNC believes there are significant growth opportunities in the PRC marketplace. Joe Fortunato, Chief Executive of GNC. "Our partnership with Shanghai Yantang Group will lay a solid foundation for GNC's market entry into China. We believe Chinese consumers will bring GNC products into their daily lives and we hope to raise levels of health awareness in China."
---CVS/pharmacy enters Puerto Rico---
CVS/pharmacy, the nation's leading retail pharmacy, announced that it will open nine stores in Puerto Rico in 2010. The first two locations, in San Juan and Bayamon, will officially opened Monday, February 15. "We are pleased to introduce the CVS/pharmacy brand to the growing Puerto Rico market," said Larry Merlo, President of CVS/pharmacy. "CVS is committed to providing high quality pharmacy care and offering convenient products and services at a great value to the Puerto Rican community." CVS/pharmacy's new stores in Puerto Rico will feature all of the products and services for which millions of CVS customers in the U.S. visit its stores every day.In addition, CVS/pharmacy is partnering with many local vendors and suppliers in Puerto Rico to ensure its stores meet the needs of Puerto Rican consumers. More than 12,000 products carried by CVS stores will be sourced from local companies and many of these products are made in Puerto Rico.
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