International homebuyer activity adds $7.8 billion to Texas economy from 2018-2019

September 23, 2019

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — International homebuyer activity added $7.8 billion to the Texas economy from April 2018 to March 2019, according to the Texas International Homebuyers Report released today by Texas Realtors.

Texas ranked third in the nation for homes sold to international buyers, behind Florida and California. Texas accounted for 10% of all homes purchased by international homebuyers in the United States, with 18,310 home sales out of 183,100 nationwide. The U.S. saw a 31% decrease in the number of foreign buyer purchases compared to the last reporting period.

Texas was particularly popular with buyers from Mexico and India. Of all homebuyers from Mexico, 28% purchased a home in Texas. The next closest state, California, had 10% of the total homebuyers from Mexico. Among buyers from India, 13% chose Texas—just behind first-place Florida, with 14%.

On the commercial side of real estate, Texas is the third-most popular destination for buyers who work with Realtors, according to the 2019 Commercial Real Estate International Business Trends report from the National Association of Realtors. Dallas was the fifth-most popular U.S. market for commercial real estate purchased by international buyers with a dollar volume of $2.9 billion, and Houston was ninth at $2.2 billion.

“Texas is seen as a solid state for investments due to our strong economy, business environment and large metropolitan areas,” said Tray Bates, chairman of Texas Realtors. “Investors are interested in residential and commercial real estate in Texas where they can deploy their resources to make an attractive return. Specifically, we’re seeing international investors look to Texas for large-scale investments in subdivisions and master planned communities.”

Early in 2019, delegates from Texas Realtors traveled to the leading international real estate development conference, Le marché international des professionnels de l’immobilier (MIPIM), in Cannes, France to meet with international real estate investors and showcase Texas’ attractive investment climate.

“One of the key learnings we brought home from MIPIM was the increasingly diversified interest in both residential and commercial real estate in Texas,” said Hanne Sagalowsky, a Realtor from Dallas and the National Association of Realtors Coordinator to Western Europe, Israel and Turkey. “With this increased foreign interest, we want international homebuyers eyeing Texas to know that Realtors can help them navigate common issues such as taxes and currency conversion to successfully complete their real estate transaction.”

Bates concluded, “The world continues to see Texas as a strong environment for international real estate investment opportunities. Whether international buyers are seeking to purchase large-scale properties or single-family homes, they can count on Texas Realtors to help them find the right home or property.”

About the Texas International Homebuyers Report

The Texas International Homebuyers Report is based on survey data from the 2019 Profile of International Home Buying Activity by the National Association of REALTORS®, the 2013-2017 American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, the 2017 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics by the Department of Homeland Security and the 2019 edition of the Commercial Real Estate International Business Trends. Texas REALTORS® distributes insights about the Texas housing market each month, including quarterly market statistics, trends among homebuyers and sellers, luxury home sales, condominium sales and more. To view the current Texas International Homebuyers Report in its entirety, visit texasrealestate.com.

About Texas REALTORS®

With more than 130,000 members, Texas REALTORS® is a professional membership organization that represents all aspects of real estate in Texas. We are the advocate for REALTORS® and private property rights in Texas. Visit texasrealestate.com to learn more.

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One in five people in Latin America and the Caribbean experiences sexual extortion, or knows someone who has, survey says

September 23, 2019

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BERLIN, Sept. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — A new report from Transparency International reveals that more than half of all citizens in 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries think corruption is getting worse in their country and governments aren’t doing enough to tackle it. Corruption is a major concern for ordinary people; 85 per cent of those surveyed believe government corruption is “a big problem”.

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The report, entitled, Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) — Latin America and the Caribbean, for the first time shows one in five people experiences sexual extortion when accessing a government service, like health care or education, or knows someone who has.

Data also shows that 71 per cent of people think that sextortion happens at least occasionally.

Equally troubling, one in four people was offered a bribe in exchange for votes at national, regional or local elections in the past five years. In a damning indictment of low trust in government, 65 per cent think their government is run by and for a few private interests.

These alarming statistics underscore the disproportionate effect that corruption has on women, and suggests a significant lack of political integrity among government leaders. The office of the President and Prime Minister, as well as Members of Parliament, are seen as the most corrupt group or institution by 53 and 52 per cent of people respectively.

“Too often, presidents, parliamentarians and other political leaders act in their own self-interest, at the expense of the citizens they serve,” said Delia Ferreira Rubio, Chair of Transparency International. “In a region where anti-corruption efforts are building momentum despite recent setbacks, citizens continue to demand more and better from their governments.”

People’s actual experience with bribery is similarly concerning. More than one in five people who access public services, have to pay a bribe. This is equivalent to approximately 56 million citizens.

Across the region, police earn the highest bribery rate (24 per cent), while other services like utilities, including electricity and water, are close behind (19 per cent).

Despite these challenges, an overwhelming majority of people remain hopeful. Seventy-seven per cent believe ordinary citizens can make a difference in the fight against corruption.

“Citizens have the right to report corruption and expect that politicians act with integrity,” said Patricia Moreira, Managing Director of Transparency International. “Corruption eats away at society and undermines institutions. Political leaders need to listen to the clear demands of citizens to tackle corruption and strengthen democracy.”

Transparency International recommends political leaders take the following actions:

Recognise and address specific gendered forms of corruption, including with gender-sensitive reporting mechanisms.
Strengthen integrity of elections and enforce sanctions against vote-buying, with transparent campaign finance and support for fact-based journalism.
Empower individuals, civil society and media to report corruption, including with comprehensive legislation to protect whistleblowers.
Implement the Lima Commitment, including publicly reporting on progress since the VIII Summit of the Americas.

For more information, including a full list of recommendations, go to: anticorru.pt/gcb2019lac

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About Transparency International
Through chapters in more than 100 countries and an international secretariat in Berlin, Transparency International has been leading the fight against corruption for the last 25 years.

About the Global Corruption Barometer
The GCB is the largest, most detailed survey of citizens’ views on corruption and their experiences of bribery in Latin American and the Caribbean. Between January and March 2019, the GCB surveyed more than 17,000 citizens in 18 countries across the region. The surveys were conducted by Ipsos in 13 Latin American countries, Market Research Insights in 4 Caribbean countries and by Public Domain Limited in the Bahamas. For more details on the methodology, a full list of countries surveyed and information on the survey approach, please see here.

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Herta, Honda Win Monterey Season Finale, Manufacturers’ Title

September 23, 2019

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Honda’s Colton Herta (#88) leads the field into the first turn of today’s season-ending NTT IndyCar Series event at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Herta went on to score his second win of the season, and Honda won the Manufacturers’ Championship for the second successive season.

MONTEREY, California, Sept. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Rookie standout Colton Herta led 83 of 90 laps in today’s season-ending Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey to earn his second NTT IndyCar Series victory of 2019, and the eighth win of the year for Honda, which claimed its second consecutive Manufacturers’ Championship over season-long rival Chevrolet.

Starting from the pole, Herta led throughout the day, but was pursued for the duration of the 90-lap contest by a series of rivals, including fellow Honda driver Scott Dixon, championship contender Simon Pagenaud and eventual second-place finisher Will Power. Power provided the strongest challenge to Herta following the final round of pit stops around Lap 65, but the rookie proved up to the task, and held on to take the victory by just over a half second at the checkers.

Just over six seconds behind the lead pair, five-time series champion Dixon battled with Pagenaud throughout the final 25 laps, edging his rival at the finish by 11 one-hundredths of a second to finish third and help secure the Manufacturers’ Championship for Honda by 49 points [1436-1387]. The title is the eighth for Honda in IndyCar Series racing with multi-manufacturer competition, and its second in succession.

Although Herta won twice this season – his first victory coming at Circuit of the Americas in March – Felix Rosenqvist capped his own year of consistent high finishes with a fifth-place result today to claim Rookie of the Year honors. Rosenqvist had six top-five results this season, including second-place finishes at Mid-Ohio and Portland.

Social media content and video links from this weekend’s IndyCar Series action from Monterey are available on the HPD Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/HondaRacingHPD) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/HondaRacing_HPD) channels. Produced by the Carolinas Production Group, YouTube video packages can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/HondaRacingHPDTV.

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Sunday’s race concludes the 2019 NTT IndyCar Series. The 2020 season gets underway on March 15 with the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Florida.

Quotes
Colton Herta (Harding Steinbrenner Racing Honda) Started first, finished first, second race win of 2019 in his rookie IndyCar Series season: “It was a tough race. I was either getting hounded by Dixon, or Pagenaud, or Power the whole time, so they definitely didn’t make it easy on me. But yeah, happy to kind of put together what we had in Portland and learn from our mistakes of the tire-wear issues and go forward with it. Whenever you win an IndyCar race, it has to be a perfect race. You can’t really make mistakes and get away with it, just because there’s always two or three other guys on that day that can win. For sure, there were a few guys that could win today, and we just outdid them. We had the pace on them, and we were definitely the best today, so we definitely deserved to win.”

Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing Honda) Started second, finished third to clinch Honda’s eighth IndyCar Series Manufacturers’ Championship: “The car was by far better on the ‘Red’ [alternate, softer compound] Firestone tires than the black primaries. There was a ton of tire degradation, and it kind of threw us for a loop. It’s a great result for [primary sponsor] PNC Bank; great for Honda winning the Manufacturer title; and great for [teammate] Felix [Rosenqvist] for the Rookie title. It was a hard-fought battle with Simon [Pagenaud] at the end, and I hope it was a good show as we haven’t been back at Laguna Seca for some time.”

Alexander Rossi (Andretti Autosport Honda) Started third, finished sixth, third in the Drivers’ Championship: “I think the ‘blacks’ [harder compound primary tires] were much friendlier for us, which was unfortunate because we started on the used [softer compound] ‘reds’. We made the decision to go opposite of the two cars in front at the start because we knew we were ultimately racing them. We took a gamble. We were pretty committed to trying to do something different, and if we ended up third swinging, it was better than just being complacent and coming home second. It was a risk that didn’t pay off, unfortunately, but yeah, it was — it just wasn’t meant to be.”

Felix Rosenqvist (Chip Ganassi Racing Honda) Started 14^th, finished fifth, won 2019 IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year honors: “Today was exciting, with [fellow rookie] Colton [Herta] starting P1 and us in 14^th for the Rookie battle. He led almost every lap. We managed to pass a ton of cars and executed perfectly. It’s well-deserved for all the NTT DATA guys on a season-long effort. I think I used a lot of anger from yesterday to move forward [in the race]. It was a great way to finish the season and I can’t wait until next year with this team.”

Ted Klaus (President, Honda Performance Development) on Honda’s championship-winning 2019 IndyCar Series season, second consecutive Manufacturers’ Championship for Honda and eighth in IndyCar Series competition: “This award is shared equally by all of our associates at Honda Performance Development. It is through their unstinting efforts that we now get to share this award with them. I also want to thank all of our partner teams, each of which contributed to our successful title defense. A win today from our youngest driver, and newest team, helps demonstrate the overall depth of the Honda Racing effort and bodes well for the future. We were fortunate to have multiple promising rookies as part of our IndyCar program this year, so congratulations to Felix Rosenqvist for becoming Rookie of the Year. Thanks to Alexander Rossi and Scott Dixon for again taking the title chase down to the final race of the season, and to all of our drivers for their commitment to excellence.”

NTT IndyCar Series Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey
Circuit:	WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (2.238-mile road course) Monterey, Calif.
Weather:	Sunny, mild, 73 degrees F

Top-10 Race Results:
Fn.	St.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Notes
1.	1.	Colton Herta-R	Harding Steinbrenner	Honda	90	106.057 mph average
2.	7.	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	90	+0.5878 seconds
3.	2.	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	90
4.	6.	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	Chevrolet	90
5.	14.	Felix Rosenqvist-R	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	90
6.	3.	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	Honda	90
7.	19.	Sebastien Bourdais	DCR with Vasser-Sullivan	Honda	90
8.	4.	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevrolet	90
9.	5.	James Hinchcliffe	Arrow Schmidt Peterson	Honda	90
10.	9.	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Honda	90
Other Honda Results
11.	11.	Marcus Ericsson-R	Arrow Schmidt Peterson	Honda	90
12.	8.	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Honda	90
14.	22.	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Honda	90
18.	17.	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	Honda	90
19.	24.	Jack Harvey	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	90
21.	16.	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Honda	89	Running
22.	13.	Conor Daly	Andretti Autosport	Honda	89	Running
24.	12.	Santino Ferrucci-R	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	48	Did not finish – contact

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Blue Shield of California and UCLA Health Expand Their Network Relationship By Entering Into a New Medicare Advantage Agreement Beginning Oct. 1, 2019

September 23, 2019

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Blue Shield of California and UCLA Health have signed a new multi-year agreement that gives the nonprofit health plan’s Medicare Advantage plan members in-network access to UCLA Health providers as of October 1, 2019.

The new agreement expands the network relationship between the two organizations. Blue Shield of California members enrolled in its commercial plans already have been enjoying in-network access to UCLA Health. In addition to UCLA Health, Blue Shield offers a wide-range of in-network medical providers for its Medicare Advantage plan members.

“At Blue Shield, we are passionate about offering our members many options when choosing in-network medical providers who share in our vision of providing quality healthcare that is worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable,” said Krista Bowers, general manager and vice president of Medicare for Blue Shield of California. “We are very pleased to offer our Medicare Advantage plan members access to UCLA Health and look forward to working with their team to help improve the health and wellness of our members.”

“UCLA Health looks forward to becoming a participating provider in Blue Shield’s Medicare Advantage plan to offer Medicare enrollees expanded access to UCLA physicians and services for their healthcare needs,” said Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health and CEO of its hospitals and clinics.

Medicare’s Annual Election Period is October 15, 2019 to December 7, 2019. For more information about Blue Shield’s Medicare plan offerings, please visit https://blueshieldcamedicare.com/.

About UCLA Health
UCLA Health includes four hospitals on two medical campuses — Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center; UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica; Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA; and Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA — and more than 180 primary care and specialty offices throughout Southern California. UCLA Health ranks #1 in California and Los Angeles, and #6 in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals survey. Click here for more information.

About Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield of California strives to create a health care system worthy of our family and friends that is sustainably affordable. We are a not for profit, independent member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association with 4 million members, 6,800 employees and more than $20 billion in annual revenue. Founded in 1939 and headquartered in San Francisco, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare health care service plans in California. The company has contributed more than $500 million to Blue Shield of California Foundation since 2002 to have an impact on California communities.

For more news about Blue Shield of California, please visit news.blueshieldca.com.
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September 23, 2019

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Herta Leads Honda Sweep Indy Car Qualifying In Monterey

September 23, 2019

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IndyCar Series rookie sensation Colton Herta captured his third pole of the season Saturday in qualifying at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for Sunday’s season-finale race.

MONTEREY, Calif., Sept. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — NTT IndyCar Series rookie standout Colton Herta edged five-time series champion Scott Dixon to claim the pole today for Sunday’s season-ending Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey. In an exciting final round of knockout qualifying, Herta’s last lap time of 1:10.1405 bettered Dixon’s best effort by just over four one-hundredths of a second. Today’s run is the third pole of the season for Herta, and the eighth of the 2019 season for Honda.

Dixon will start on the outside of the front row, second, as the Chip Ganassi Racing driver maintains an outside shot at claiming his sixth series championship in tomorrow’s 90-lap contest. Primary championship contenders Alexander Rossi and Josef Newgarden will start third and fourth, respectively. Advancing to the “Fast Six” final qualifying round for the third time this season, James Hinchcliffe qualified fifth in his Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda; while the fourth and final championship contender, Simon Pagenaud, will start sixth.

Heading into tomorrow’s season finale, Honda holds a 34-point advantage over Chevrolet in the battle for the 2019 Manufacturers’ Championship (1351-1317). In the Drivers’ Championship fight, Rossi trails Newgarden by 41 points (593-552). Pagenaud lies third with 551 points, while Dixon rounds out the title hopefuls with 508 points. This weekend’s season-finale race is a “double-points” event, with 100 points awarded for a race win rather than the usual 50.

Television coverage of the final round of the 2019 season begins at 2:30 p.m. EDT Sunday on NBC.

Colton Herta (Harding Steinbrenner Racing Honda) Pole qualifier, third pole of 2019 in his rookie IndyCar Series season: “This team has been great all weekend, and the car is phenomenal. We’ve had such good pace. It seems like we’ve made some real gains in recent weeks, both on the team side and my side. At the start of the year, I was hoping to be in this position by the end of the season – fighting for top six starting positions. Once you know you can do it [qualify on the pole] it kind of relieves a lot of the stress. You know you can make the fast six [final qualifying] and will be really disappointed if you don’t. I’m really looking forward to the start of the race tomorrow from the best seat in the house!”

NTT IndyCar Series Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey
Circuit: WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (2.238-mile road course) Monterey, Calif.
Weather: Sunny, warm, 86 degrees F

Top-12, Honda Qualifying Results:
Ps.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Best Time	Notes
1.	Colton Herta-R	Harding Steinbrenner Racing	Honda	1:10.1405	114.867 mph average
2.	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	1:10.1831	+0.0426 seconds
3.	Alexander Rossi	Andretti Autosport	Honda	1:10.2105	Fast Six Final Qualifying
4.	Josef Newgarden	Team Penske	Chevrolet	1:10.6719	Fast Six Final Qualifying
5.	James Hinchcliffe	Arrow Schmidt Peterson	Honda	1:10.8003	Fast Six Final Qualifying
6.	Simon Pagenaud	Team Penske	Chevrolet	1:10.8616	Fast Six Final Qualifying
7.	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	1:10.6086	2^nd Round Qualifying
8.	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Honda	1:10.6296	2^nd Round Qualifying
9.	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Honda	1:10.6919	2^nd Round Qualifying
10.	Max Chilton	Carlin Racing	Chevrolet	1:10.7257	2^nd Round Qualifying
11.	Marcus Ericsson	Arrow Schmidt Peterson	Honda	1:11.1666	2^nd Round Qualifying
12.	Santino Ferrucci-R	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	1:12.4137	2^nd Round Qualifying

Other Honda Results
13.	Conor Daly	Andretti Autosport	Honda	1:10.7787	1^st Round, Group 1
14.	Felix Rosenqvist-R	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	1:10.5649	1^st Round, Group 2
16.	Takuma Sato	Rahal Letterman Lanigan	Honda	1:10.8393	1^st Round, Group 2
17.	Zach Veach	Andretti Autosport	Honda	1:10.8407	1^st Round, Group 1
19.	Sebastien Bourdais	DCR with Vasser-Sullivan	Honda	1:11.0095	1^st Round, Group 1
22.	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Honda	1:11.0527	1^st Round, Group 2
24.	Jack Havey	Meyer Shank Racing	Honda	1:11.2710	1^st Round, Group 2

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Dawn Foods Completes Sale of Puerto Rico Distribution Center to Able Sales Company

September 23, 2019

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JACKSON, Michigan, Sept. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Global bakery manufacturer and ingredients supplier Dawn Foods today announced the sale of its Puerto Rico distribution operation to Puerto Rico-based Able Sales Company, the leading supplier of sweeteners and ingredients to the food and pharmaceutical industries in Puerto Rico.

As part of the transaction, Dawn’s local Puerto Rico team members will transition to the Able Sales Company. Dawn will continue to maintain a presence in the market with a local sales leader who remains a Dawn Foods employee. Able Sales will take full control of the Dawn facility, located in the Central Plaza Industrial Park in Cataño, Puerto Rico, in October 2019.

“This deal allows Dawn and Able Sales to focus on our respective core capabilities in the market,” said Eric Metzendorf, Chief Corporate Affairs & Strategic Partnerships Officer at Dawn. “Additionally, we will continue to supply Dawn’s broad range of sweet bakery products and ingredients to Able Sales to ensure our local customers and the market have access to the Dawn products they know and trust.”

“We are excited by the synergies created by teaming up with Dawn,” said Luis Silva, President of Able Sales Company. “The quality of their products and their capabilities for innovation are important additions to our product portfolio, while their outstanding local personnel will broaden our service capabilities. The bakery industry in Puerto Rico will grow as a result of this collaboration.”

About Dawn Food Products, Inc.
Global bakery manufacturer and ingredients supplier Dawn Foods has established itself as the premier bakery service provider, inspiring bakery success every day. Committed to delighting its customers around the world, Dawn Foods delivers the partnership, insights, innovations, products and bakery expertise that empowers them to achieve their aspirations. Headquartered in Jackson, Michigan, Dawn Foods partners with more than 40,000 artisanal and retail bakers, food service leaders and manufacturers located in more than 100 countries and has 5,000 Team Members globally. For nearly 100 years, Dawn Foods has been a trusted advisor to its customers, helping drive their business forward. For more information about the company, its products and culture, please visit www.dawnfoods.com.

About Able Sales
Established in 1972, Able Sales is the leading supplier of sweeteners and raw materials for the food and pharmaceutical industries in Puerto Rico. Its brand, Dulce Caña, is #1 in sugar sales and present in most bakeries and manufacturing plants on the island, as well as most homes. Able Sales sees their clients as strategic partners, and has invested heavily in logistics and new technologies to enable local manufacturers to compete in the global market. Through the efforts of its over 130 committed employees, Able Sales has gained the trust of its clients by forging a strong reputation for reliability. For more information about the company, please visit www.ablesales.com

CONTACT:
Ashley Currie	Jonathan Aplin
Zeno Group for Dawn Foods	Vice President, Global Communications
312-396-9763	517-780-4370
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