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MCHENRY, Ill., Aug. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Medela, the #1 recommended breast pump brand¹, announced the global expansion of its Corporate Social Responsibility Program, Medela Cares. The priorities of Medela Cares are synthesized into three pillars – people, planet and society – in an effort to drive global change where Medela has the greatest impact among employees, customers and partners:

• People: Committed to creating a workplace that values all team members, Medela is focused on growth and wellbeing, and enabling an ethnically diverse and a gender-balanced workforce that also supports evolving employee and family needs. In an effort to support parents transitioning back to the workforce after having a child, Medela has amplified its parental benefits offering 16 weeks paid parental leave for all Medela U.S. employees, and encourages other companies to do the same. All parents, regardless of hourly status and gender, are eligible.

• Planet:  Medela has committed that every new product developed must improve both the lives of Medela customers while contributing to the company’s sustainability goals. Aligning Medela’s innovation strategy with sustainability goals, including developing quality environmentally-friendly products that reduce environmental impact, including reducing plastic used in packaging and designing with recycling in mind, Medela is committed to making every new Medela product better for customers and the planet.

• Society: Medela’s mission of improving the lives of moms, babies and patients through education and support, as well as through technologies, research and services, has remained constant for nearly 60 years. To expand resources and programs available to encourage breast milk feeding and protecting mothers’ and babies’ lives, Medela is partnering with The Wellbeing Foundation Africa to combat maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria. Nigeria ranks 6^th highest in the world for infant mortality and complications due to prematurity is the leading cause of death², with one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world³.

«We are excited to introduce new initiatives and reaffirm our commitment to parents, patients and babies, and health care professionals by expanding Medela Cares and joining the United Nations (UN) Global Compact initiative,» said Annette Brüls, CEO of Medela worldwide. «Our dedication to being responsible stewards drives us to ensure we develop not only sustainable products, but also sustainable programs that support our global community.»

As part of this initiative, Medela has also joined the United Nations (UN) Global Compact, a voluntary leadership platform to align their operations and strategies with the UN’s ten universally accepted prinicples in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues embodied in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

«At Medela, we are on a mission to improve the lives of our customers and patients through research-based technology and solutions that improve health outcomes,» said Melissa Gonzales, executive vice president of the Americas for Medela. «Through Medela Cares, we look forward to the road ahead to foster a more environmentally and socially conscious workplace and community.»

Medela continues to support mothers who are disproportionately impacted by health disparities. Through Medela Cares, Medela will donate to the COVID-19 Birth Worker Relief Fund, supporting families and birth workers across Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) communities, the Black Mother’s Breastfeeding Association, and the Trayvon Martin Foundation’s Circle of Mothers. Through this ongoing work, Medela Cares has provided breastfeeding support to more than 135 nonprofit organizations across the United States, giving more than $1,000,000⁴ since their launch in 2015.

¹ IQVIA, using ProVoice Survey; September 2019-August 2019
² http://www.childmortality.org 
³ https://data.unicef.org/resources/state-worlds-children-2017-statistical-tables/ 
⁴ https://www.medela.us/breastfeeding/medela-cares

About Medela & Medela Cares
With headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, and a U.S.-based manufacturing and development facility in McHenry, Illinois, Medela supports millions of moms and babies and patients in 100 countries all over the world with medical vacuum technology solutions. Medela is family-owned medical device company that prides itself on being research based. For more information about Medela, the company and its offerings, visit Medela.com.

Medela has aligned its strategies and operations with the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact through Medela Cares, joining in 2020. Medela Cares is focused on solutions for global issues, including maternal and infant health amidst critical transitions such as the return to work, coming home from the hospital or fostering the mother-baby bond in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), with an emphasis on serving the underrepresented and populations experiencing crisis. Medela Cares provides products and educational resources to nonprofit organizations aligned with these goals. For more information about Medela Cares, visit MedelaCares.com.

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BOSTON, Aug. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Public Consulting Group, Inc. (PCG), a leading provider of solutions implementation and operations improvement services to the public sector, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the contract to support the State of New Jersey’s COVID-19 contact tracing initiative. This news follows an announcement made late last month by the New Jersey Department of Health confirming the award. PCG was selected from a competitive field of applicants based on its record of success, resources, and commitment to serving the diverse communities of New Jersey. New Jersey is the latest state to partner with PCG in their efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus since May 2020. The firm is also supporting contact tracing programs in New York State, Wisconsin, and Arkansas.

«Public Consulting Group has always been guided by our mission to help our public sector partners deliver the best possible outcomes to the communities they serve,» said William Mosakowski, Founder, President and CEO of PCG. «While this pandemic has caused unprecedented, widespread disruption, we remain committed to helping our government clients across the country rise to the challenges of COVID-19 and are proud to continue to deliver innovative solutions that matter, like our new contact tracing services.»

In New Jersey, PCG will build and deploy a robust workforce of contact tracers to support local health departments across the state in their efforts to quickly identify and alert individuals who may have been exposed to the virus. PCG is proud to work with the state’s Community Contact Tracing Corps, which has been developed through the New Jersey Department of Health, the administration of Governor Phil Murphy, and the Rutgers School of Public Health. To ensure the program’s success, PCG will work alongside a team of three subcontractors with recognized expertise in workforce recruitment, healthcare staffing services, and community outreach: The Computer Merchant LTD, Staffing Etc., and Kivvit respectively.

John Danieli, President and CEO of The Computer Merchant Ltd., said, «TCM has long been a workforce solution resource for private sector New Jersey companies and we are thrilled to now work directly with state government as well.»  Added Hope Porter, Co-Founder of Staffing Etc., «As a healthcare professional whose company provided Newark Airport screeners during the 2014 Ebola crisis, we are honored to offer help to New Jersey once more.» 

Maggie Moran, Kivvit Managing Partner, said, «We recognize the vital importance contact tracing plays in creating a safer environment for people across the state, especially for minority communities hit hardest by the pandemic. Kivvit is eager to use our expertise as we partner with PCG to bolster the ongoing efforts of health officials to combat COVID-19. New Jersey is our home. It’s where our families live, our children play, and our friends work. We stand ready to do our part in helping our state overcome this dreadful disease.»

PCG’s contact tracing services combine the best of the firm’s offerings for public health, project management, and human capital management in addressing the pandemic. With programs successfully underway in New York State, Arkansas, and Wisconsin, PCG has proven experience supporting thorough and effective contact tracing programs, providing a dedicated team with the experience and skills sets to meet this unprecedented challenge.

About Public Consulting Group
Public Consulting Group, Inc. (PCG) is a leading public sector solutions implementation and operations improvement firm that partners with health, education, and human services agencies to improve lives. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, PCG has over 2,500 professionals in more than 60 offices worldwide—all committed to delivering solutions that change lives for the better. The firm has four designated practice areas with extensive experience in all 50 states, clients in six Canadian provinces, and a growing practice in Europe. Often combining resources from two or more practice areas, PCG offers clients a multidisciplinary approach to solve their challenges or pursue opportunities. To learn more, visit www.publicconsultinggroup.com.

About The Computer Merchant
The Computer Merchant, Ltd. (TCM) is a Veteran-Owned, national provider of workforce solutions and staffing services in business since 1980. TCM has deep national public and private sector, health and human services and information technology delivery expertise across all 50 states. Since 2010, it has deployed over 10,000 consultants in 34 Fortune 500 companies, 150 Fortune 1000 businesses as well as government agencies across the United States.

About Staffing Etc.
Staffing Etc. is a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Woman-Owned (WO), Small Disadvantage Business (SDB). Since 2003, Staffing Etc. has provided RNs, LPNs, CNAs, Social Workers, Physicians and Allied Health Professionals and administrative staff to our clients at their time of need, staffing over two million hours of quality staff throughout the nation.

About Kivvit
Kivvit, an award-winning independent public affairs and strategic communications firm with decades of experience in government, politics, issue advocacy campaigns and community relations efforts in the state. Kivvit has partnered with Jeannine LaRue on this critically important effort. Larue has spent almost 40 years serving the public on policy, governmental and political issues in the public and private sectors. She is a founding board member of the Wynona’s House Child Advocacy Center in Newark and has served on numerous boards and commissions across the state.

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ALBANY, N.Y. and EDISON, N.J., Aug. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — CS Energy, LLC, a leading integrated energy firm that designs and builds optimized projects in the solar, storage and emerging energy industries, has opened its first office in New York state. Located in Albany, the regional office is a testament to the firm’s commitment to the New York solar and energy storage markets.

CS Energy is already a leader in New York’s renewable energy industry, with more than 120 megawatts (MW) installed across the state. Recent projects include a 27 MW facility in Dryden, a 24 MW project in Spencer, and an 18 MW project in Norwich. The company expects to be playing a major role in New York’s renewable energy transition and is gearing up to support the massive growth of solar and energy storage installations throughout the state. As the state continues to safely reopen, CS Energy expects to build approximately 130 MW of community solar and large scale solar projects in the state—an ambitious goal strengthened by the central location of the new office.

«We are redoubling our commitment to New York,» said Matthew Skidmore, CEO of CS Energy. «This office will allow us to grow quickly and recruit more local workers. As we aim to be the top solar EPC firm in New York, this new base is a big step in achieving our objective.»

The move also positions CS Energy to help the state with two of its 2030 energy goals: to receive more than 70 percent of its electricity from renewable sources and to develop 3,000 MW of energy storage. CS Energy was recently ranked the #1 solar installation company in New York by Solar Power World.  

Establishing the office isn’t the only growth the company is doing in New York: CS Energy will help restart the local economy by increasing its local workforce by more than 300 percent this year. The company has already established relationships with universities and developed internship programs in order to fast track the recruitment process.

«We have a long-term strategy in New York,» Skidmore added. «Every step we’ve taken in the state has been designed to set ourselves up for success over the next decade as we help New York achieve it’s clean energy goals.»

«Under Governor Cuomo’s leadership, New York’s renewable energy policies are helping to attract new businesses to the state and proving to be a significant economic driver and job creator across as we work to rebuild our economy,» said Doreen M. Harris, Acting President and CEO, NYSERDA. «Congratulations to CS Energy on the opening of their new office in the Capital Region – a welcomed demonstration of their continued investment in New York and support in the achievement of the Governor’s nation-leading climate and clean energy goals.»

About CS Energy
CS Energy, LLC is a national EPC, O&M, and energy storage company. CS Energy’s attention to detail, flawless execution and collaborative culture has enabled them to successfully design and install nearly 1 GW of solar projects since their early initiatives in 2004. CS Energy leverages established partnerships with solar developers, IPPs, utilities, off-takers, suppliers and landowners to streamline project development, design, construction and operations, driving down project costs and creating value across all project stakeholders. Majority-owned by Ares Infrastructure and Power with a minority position retained by The Conti Group, CS Energy is well positioned with a diversified network of industry experts and the financial resources to be a trusted, long-term partner.

CS Energy Media Contact:
Dianaliz Santiago-Borcan
732.520.5143
244643@email4pr.com

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DUBLIN, Aug. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The «Rekeep: Resilient Business Mix & Strong Liquidity to Manage Through Coronavirus» company profile has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

Why Read?

• Understand why Rekeep’s revenue and Adj EBITDA are likely to be significantly more resilient to the coronavirus shock than its peer group (Atalian, ISS, Sodexo and Compass) in spite of its geographic concentration in hard-hit Italy
• Understand why Rekeep’s liquidity position is resilient across our base and stress cases, without even considering any potential access to state guaranteed loan schemes
• Understand why we believe Rekeep can successfully refinance ahead of its significant debt maturities (RCF and non-recourse factoring facilities maturing Dec-21 and Senior Secured Notes, SSNs, Jun-22)
• Understand why, even though there is only a very small equity cushion in our stress case and potentially priming risks that could dilute SSNs recovery, we view Rekeep as our preferred debt play in the HY Facility Management sector, over and above Atalian
• Understand Rekeep’s history of litigation and the FM4 fine
• Understand the Facility Management and Laundering & Sterlisation businesses and Rekeep’s positioning within them

What’s New?

• Peer group comparison of client mix – segmenting revenue by client for Atalian, ISS, Sodexo and Compass into the structure reported by Rekeep (Healthcare, Public, Private) to identify how much more exposed Rekeep is to healthcare / public sector / essential services contracts that remain in operation even in hard-hit Italy
• Peer group comparison of liquidity positioning and resilience
• Financial projections (including of liquidity) and valuation to capture intensification of coronavirus crisis, informed by recent peer company data

Major Questions Answered

• What are our base and stress case liquidity and net leverage projections for Rekeep through each quarter of coronavirus-impacted FY 20 and beyond?
• How does Rekeep’s liquidity vs annual expenses (ex. D&A) compare with that of peers?
• Why do we think our revenue and cost flexibility assumptions through FY 20 are consistent with peers’ actual experience thus far and forward guidance, taking into account geographic and end client differences across firms?
• How do the Italian SACE and CDP State guarantee-based loan schemes work in case Rekeep needs them?
• What are the likely working capital drivers and movements in Q2 (likely the key coronavirus quarter) and FY 20?

Key Topics Covered

1. View, Variant Perception & Recommendations
2. Q2 2020 Results Analysis
3. Capitalization & Group Structure
4. Disposals, Entity-By-Entity Decomposition Of Adj EBITDA
5. Major Areas Of Opportunity To Increase Adj EBITDA
6. Pro Forma & LFL Performance By Segment
7. What Will It Take For Boparan To Be Refinanced?
8. Could Mr Boparan Pay For Assets Using SSNs?
9. Distressed Sum Of The Parts & SSNs Recovery Rate
10. Boparan’s Pension Deficits & Priority In Insolvency
11. Adj EBITDA Sensitivity To Input Feed Costs & Other Perspectives On Adj EBITDA Margin
12. Business Overview & Analysis
13. Business Acquisitions, Disposals, Key Events & Sector M&A Activity
14. Historic Financial Analysis
15. Working Capital Analysis
16. Seasonality
17. Financial Model
18. Valuation & Sensitivities
19. Indenture Review
20. China Poultry Shortage. Export Opportunity?

Companies Mentioned

• Rekeep
• Atalian
• Servest
• ISS
• Compass
• Sodexo

For more information about this company profile visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/j80n8i

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KAWANISHI-CITY, Japan, Aug. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Photocatalytic reaction can directly convert solar energy to chemical energy so that it can produce hydrogen and oxygen, by decomposing water by utilizing the sun light energy.  Therefore, research over photocatalytic reaction is becoming very active because energy and environmental problems are becoming very serious problem nowadays and demands for reducing the usage of fossil-based fuel and energy is getting stronger. If one could produce hydrogen efficiently from the sun light and water, it will be a great progress to create a hydrogen energy-based society, instead of a coal and petroleum based modern society.  

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs), also known as porous coordination polymers (PCPs), are materials composed of metal cations and organic ligands that bridge component metals. MOFs are synthesized as super-porous materials by modifying their metal and organic ligand, as well as the shape and size of pores. Pore size can be controlled in less than nm order, and MOFs possess a very large specific surface area (1000 – 9000 m2/g). Additionally, their chemical group can be tailored at the molecular level. One can obtain super-porous highly crystallized chemical compounds with high periodicity by reacting an appropriate robust organic linker and a metal cluster at appropriate position and direction. With conventional porous materials such as activated carbon, zeolite, and mesoporous silica, it was difficult to create the exact porous structure with the desired shape, pore size and specific surface area.  With MOF, one can artificially design the structure, surface area, shape and size of the pores at the molecular level, as well as creating high dimensional functional materials with complex structure.  Theoretically, MOFs can be prepared by combining numerous types of metals and organic ligands; more than 40,000 kinds of MOFs have been reported already. Because MOFs are completely new ultimate inorganic–organic hybrid porous materials, the chemical industry and academic field have recently been highly focused on them.  

Green Science Alliance has been synthesizing various types of MOFs and has been trying to apply MOFs to rechargeable batteries, fuel cell, CO2 adsorption, water vapor adsorption, metal adsorption, deodorizing, artificial photosynthesis, etc.    

This time, Dr. Tsutomu Koninata and Dr. Ryohei Mori at Green Science Alliance have developed one kind of MOF which exhibited photocatalytic activity under metal halide lamp illumination.  Methylene blue was degraded by MOF’s photocatalytic activity in aqueous solution.   It is necessary to produce hydrogen efficiently with low cost, although conventional photocatalytic material such as TiO2 can only utilize ultraviolet light which is only the 3～4% portion of solar energy.  Therefore, the conversion efficiency of water to hydrogen is low with the help of solar energy.  WO3 could be good visible light response photocatalytic material, although tungsten could be expensive is not abundant element on the planet.

In this regard, MOF can be the good catalytic material to be scrutinized because the meticulous structure, surface chemical group and the pore size can be controlled by modifying the synthetic procedure.  On top of that, various types of MOF can be prepared by choosing appropriate metal and organic linker, which may result in creating MOF with visible light response type photocatalytic activity and high conversion efficiency.  

Green Science Alliance will keep making an effort to create MOFs with high photocatalytic activity which responses to visible light, for real practical application in the near future. 

Contact Information

Green Science Alliance Co.,Ltd.

Dr. Ryohei Mori

2-22-11 Obana Kawanishi-city, Hyogo prefecture

666-0015 Japan

TEL : +81-72-7598543 / 8501

FAX : +81-72-7599008

Mail : 244403@email4pr.com

WEB : https://www.gsalliance.co.jp/en/

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DALLAS, Aug. 4 , 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Jib Zaidi, accident attorney of the personal injury law firm Witherite Law Group, has been named Top 40 Under 40 by the American Institute of Trial Lawyers.

«It’s a huge honor to be recognized for these awards when I work around so many distinguished and talented attorneys,» said Zaidi. «I’m thankful to be part of a firm that places such a huge emphasis on expertise and enables us to get the best results for our clients.»

An attorney who is selected as a Top 40 Under 40 is considered a rising star in their field.  This elite group include not only the new faces of the legal field–they also are the best. 

Zaidi has also been recognized in the 2019 Top 100 Personal Injury Verdicts in Texas by Top Verdicts and the 2019 Top 40 under 40 by the National Trial Lawyers.

The American Institute of Trial Lawyers is an invitation only professional organization composed of premier trial attorneys from each state. These attorneys exemplify the very best qualities and qualifications of an attorney and are selected based on stringent criteria and a thorough multi-phase process which includes peer-nominations and third party research.

ABOUT WITHERITE LAW GROUP

Witherite Law Group is a Dallas-based personal injury law firm founded in 2001 with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth and Atlanta, GA. The firm’s attorneys specialize in helping those injured in a car or truck accident and can be reached by calling 1-800-TruckWreck or 1-800-CarWreck, 24 hours a day.

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