Member Spotlight
58 Business Group members included in 2009 Fortune 100 Listing
The following member companies are included in the 2009 Fortune 100 listing:
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Chevron
General Electric Company
General Motors Corporation
AT&T
Hewlett-Packard Company
Bank of America
IBM Corporation
McKesson Corporation
JPMorgan Chase
Verizon Communications
Cardinal Health
CVS Caremark
Procter & Gamble
UnitedHealth Group
The Kroger Co.
Costco Wholesale Corporation
The Home Depot
Target Corporation
Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc.
State Farm Insurance Companies
WellPoint
Dell Inc.
The Boeing Company
Microsoft Corporation
Walgreens Health & Wellness Division
The Dow Chemical Company
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Wells Fargo
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United Parcel Service (UPS)
Medco Health Solutions
Pfizer Inc
Lowe's
Time Warner
PepsiCo, Inc.
Kraft Foods Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Best Buy
Cisco Systems, Inc.
FedEx
The Walt Disney Company
Intel Corporation
Honeywell
Sprint Corporation
Comcast Cable Corporation
Northrop Grumman Corporation
The Coca-Cola Company
American Express
DuPont Company
Aetna, Inc.
Abbott Laboratories
General Dynamics Corporation
Prudential Financial
Humana Inc.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Deere & Company
Occidental Petroleum Corporation |
19 Business Group member companies included in BusinessWeek's 2009 list of "The 50 Most Innovative Companies"
| Toyota Motor |
Verizon Communications |
| Microsoft |
IBM |
| Cisco Systems |
Hewlett-Packard |
| Intel |
Wal-Mart Stores |
| ExxonMobil |
Procter & Gamble |
| Nestlé |
General Electric |
| Nike |
Walt Disney |
| Johnson & Johnson |
AT&T |
| JPMorgan Chase |
Coca-Cola |
| Target |
Congratulations, Dawn Werle!
Employee Benefit News gives prestigious 2009 Benefits Professional of the Year Award to Dawn Werle, Executive Director for Benefits at Time Warner and recognizes her commonsense approach to revamping the company’s benefits.
Baptist Health South Florida awarded prestigious Pioneering Innovation Award
Baptist Health South Florida is being recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for their work in advancing policies and environmental strategies to prevent and control obesity.
For more information, visit CDC's Newsroom and ModernHealthcare.
21 Business Group members recognized by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption for "The Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces in America"
The list includes the top 100 organizations that provide exceptional support to employees who adopt.
- Wendy's/Arby's Group
- Time Warner
- JPMorgan Chase
- Abbott Laboratories
- General Mills, Inc.
- Metropolitan Life Insurance
- Prudential Financial
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Bank of America
- The Hershey Company
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Willis HRH
- Thomson Reuters
- AstraZeneca
- American Express
- Carlson Companies Inc.
- Genentech, Inc.
- Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
- ChoicePoint Inc.
- Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS)
- Microsoft Corporation
17 Business Group member companies listed in Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work for in 2010"
Congratulations to the following member companies for being named as one of Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For 2010":
Edward Jones
Wegmans Food Markets
Cisco Systems
Genentech
Baptist Health South Florida
Microsoft
Paychex
Mayo Clinic
PricewaterhouseCoopers
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McCormick & Co., Inc.
American Express
Marriott International
Accenture
Publix Super Markets
General Mills
FedEx
Intel Corporation
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35 Business Group members included in 2009 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity
The following member companies are included in the 2009 DiversityInc listing:
Abbott
Accenture
Aetna
American Express
AT&T
Bank of America
CSX Corp.
Cummins
General Mills
Health Care Service Corp.
IBM
Johnson & Johnson
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JPMorgan Chase
Kaiser Permanente
Marriott International
Master Card Worldwide
Merck & Co.
MetLife
MGM Mirage
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Pepsi Bottling Group
PepsiCo
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Procter & Gamble
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Prudential
Sodexo
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
The Coca-Cola Co.
The Walt Disney Co.
Time Warner Cable
Toyota Motor North America
Verizon Communications
WellPoint
Wells Fargo & Co.
Xerox Corp.
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44 Business Group members included in 2009 Working Mother 100 Best Companies Listing
The following member companies are included in the 2008 Working Mother 100 Best Companies listing:
Abbott Laboratories
Accenture, Ltd.
American Express
AstraZeneca
American Express
Bank of America
Baptist Health South Florida
Bayer Corporation
Blue Cross Blue Shield
of North Carolina
Bristol-Myer Squibb
Carlson Companies
Cisco Systems
Chrysler
Dell Inc.
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Eli Lilly & Co
General Electric Company
General Mills
GlaxoSmithKline
Hewlett-Packard Company
Dow Chemical
Dupont
IBM Corporation
Intel Corporation
Johnson & Johnson
JPMorgan Chase
Kellogg Company
Kraft Foods Inc.
Marriott International, Inc.
Master Card Worldwide
Merck & Co.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance
Microsoft Corporation
Morgan Stanley
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Pearson
Pfizer
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Principal Financial Group
Procter & Gamble
Prudential Financial
Sanofi-Aventis
Texas Instruments Incorporated
Verizon Communications
WellPoint
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Business Group recognizes 63 large employers as winners of 2009 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyle Awards – demonstrating strong employer commitment to workplace health and wellness programs.
PepsiCo's global wellness program, HealthRoads, was designed to reinforce the organization's commitment to healthier lifestyles. PepsiCo believes that the key to creating and sustaining a health and wellness culture is to bring it to life at the local level. HealthRoads is customized to match local interests and needs, making wellness more relevant to each individual. This local approach, dubbed the Worksite Wellness Program, has resulted in better outcomes and greater employee engagement.
UPMC's MyHealth program is a comprehensive set of programs designed to address the cost challenges of health care, absenteeism and productivity loss through engagement of the workforce. UPMC's 'Take a Healthy Step' campaign includes an annual MyHealth Questionnaire HRA, a biometric screening, and a set of other "healthy steps" that employees can select.
Well at Dell includes on-site fitness facilities at the Round Rock headquarters, in Austin and in Tennessee, as well as discounts at local gyms in all other U.S. locations that lack on-site fitness facilities; a weight maintenance program; an on-site cafeteria offering healthy choices; online health action programs for low-risk employees; and telephonic health coaching for employees designated as "high risk." A major component of Well at Dell is personalized health coaching programs based on health risk status for smoking cessation, diabetes, pre-diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, weight management, back pain, pregnancy and stress management.
IBM's Children's Health Rebate: Making Wellness a Family Enterprise, 2009
IBM's Children's Health rebate is a unique, action-oriented program designed to help parents support children in maintaining healthy weight. Over a twelve-week period, the program targets: adequate physical activity; consistent healthy eating; appropriate screen time; and positive parental role modeling.
HealthyQuest: Helping Employees Find Their Way to Healthy Living, Quest Diagnostics, 2009
The HealthyQuest initiative reflects Quest Diagnostics' ongoing commitment to improving the health of its employees. The program specifically focuses on improving employee awareness of personal health risk factors and suggested steps to mitigate those risks. HealthyQuest health promotion teams focus on meeting specific goals, such as achieve high levels of participation in the company's health risk assessment; support or initiate efforts to improve physical fitness, weight, and stress management; and raise employee compliance with regular cancer screening.
FPL's "The Back in Action Healthy Back Challenge," was designed to educate office and field workers on the importance of remaining in good musculoskeletal health, while simultaneously avoiding strain and sprain injuries.
Medtronic's comprehensive "Total Health" program makes the health coach the center of the program. On the basis of an annual health risk questionnaire and claims data, coaches identify at-risk employees and invite them to join a lifestyle management or a disease management coaching program.
At Occidental Petroleum Corporation, OxyWellness site-based health programs help all employees deal with preventable illness, improve productivity and reduce company health care costs.
Company wellness programs improve health, cut costs as health care costs continue to rise, more employers — especially large companies — are turning to wellness programs as a way to potentially help the bottom line.
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