Month: March 2024

March 14, 2024 /3BL/ – Today Bath & Body Works announces its inclusion on Forbes’ list of Customer Experience All Stars.

In partnership with the data analysis company HundredX, Forbes surveyed 175,000 U.S.-based consumers who rated 3,100 brands on products, services and treatment of customers. The top 300 overall scores made the list. Bath & Body Works ranked 35th overall and #1 in their category. Many respondents shared their own customer experiences, offering a first-person sense of why certain brands rose to the top. The one commonality among all companies on the list was intense customer devotion.

“Every day, we relentlessly focus on offering an exceptional experience that builds a deeper relationship with our customers,” says Maurice Cooper, Chief Customer Officer for Bath & Body Works. “Care for our customers is at the heart of everything we do. From the highest quality craftmanship in our packaging and beloved fragrances, to engaging storytelling and seamless shopping experiences, to brand defining service in stores and online, we work to strengthen emotional connection to our brand, and increase the value it delivers to all who we reach.”

Bath & Body Works is a global leader in fragrance with the brand’s products currently in approximately 40% of U.S. households, and many more around the world. They continue to build on their winning track record by meeting customer demand for head-to-toe fragrance and expanding into new categories including Men’s, haircare, laundry and lip care.

A key feature of Bath & Body Works deep customer connection is their award-winning loyalty program, My Bath & Body Works Rewards. It now boasts over 37 active members and offers points to redeem for free products, exclusive access to special events and collections, and birthday gifts to surprise and delight their customers.

In addition to making Forbes’ list of Customer Experience All-Stars, Bath & Body Works recently has been recognized in several other ways including:

America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women by NewsweekBest Managed Companies by the Wall Street JournalAmerica’s Most Responsible Companies by NewsweekAmerica’s Greatest Workplaces for Veterans by NewsweekAmerica’s Greenest Companies by NewsweekWorld’s Most Trustworthy Companies by NewsweekAmerica’s Greatest Workplaces by NewsweekAmerica’s Best Workplaces for Women by ForbesAmerica’s Greatest Workplaces for LGBTQ+ individuals by NewsweekMost Trustworthy Companies in America by NewsweekDiversity in Business Award by Columbus Business FirstForbes List of America’s Best Large EmployersForbes List of America’s Best Employers for WomenA Diversity First Top 50 Company by the Diversity Research Institute

For more information about Bath & Body Works, visit bbwinc.com.

ABOUT BATH & BODY WORKS

Home of America’s Favorite Fragrances®, Bath & Body Works is a global leader in personal care and home fragrance, including top-selling collections for fine fragrance mist, body lotion and body cream, 3-wick candles, home fragrance diffusers and liquid hand soap. Powered by agility and innovation, the company’s predominantly U.S.-based supply chain enables the company to deliver quality, on-trend luxuries at affordable prices. Bath & Body Works serves and delights customers however and wherever they want to shop, from welcoming, in-store experiences at more than 1,850 company-operated Bath & Body Works locations in the U.S. and Canada and more than 480 international franchised locations to an online storefront at BathandBodyWorks.com.

Atlantic City Electric has partnered with Gateway Community Action Partnership, the Borough of Paulsboro, and KABOOM! to construct a new playground for West Buck Street Park in Paulsboro, New Jersey. The project kicked off in January with Design Day, where local students and community members were given a blank canvas to create the playground of their dreams.

Gateway Community Action Partnership has been actively working in the Paulsboro community for almost 35 years. “The beauty of this KABOOM! project is that it is in the neighborhood we are working to revitalize, and we think it is a focal point. It is a jumpstart to a larger revitalization effort,” said Edward Bethea, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Gateway Community Action Partnership.

The excitement was high as students took crayons to paper to illustrate their dream playground. “Design Day is all about the community and local children having an opportunity to not only envision the ultimate play space, but play an active role in bringing that vision to life,” explained Kristin McEvoy, Director of External Affairs at Atlantic City Electric. “We encourage children to show us what they want to see in a playground in their community, and then we send it off to the builders, who will soon turn the children’s imagination into reality.”

The students came up with unique ideas, featuring slides, turtles, and lava pits, and the team at KABOOM! merged their designs to create an exciting outdoor play area. On April 10, Atlantic City Electric employees and the local community will join forces to build the playground.

Atlantic City Electric

Atlantic City Electric is a unit of Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC), a Fortune 250 company and the nation’s largest utility company, serving more than 10 million customers. Atlantic City Electric provides safe and reliable energy service to approximately 572,000 customers in southern New Jersey.

To learn more about Atlantic City Electric, visit The Source, Atlantic City Electric’s online newsroom. Find additional information by visiting atlanticcityelectric.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/AtlanticCityElectric, and on X, formerly known as Twitter, at twitter.com/AcEleCconnect. Atlantic City Electric’s mobile app is available at atlanticcityelectric.com/MobileApp.

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Atlantic City Electric has partnered with Gateway Community Action Partnership, the Borough of Paulsboro, and KABOOM! to construct a new playground for West Buck Street Park in Paulsboro, New Jersey. The project kicked off in January with Design Day, where local students and community members were given a blank canvas to create the playground of their dreams.

Gateway Community Action Partnership has been actively working in the Paulsboro community for almost 35 years. “The beauty of this KABOOM! project is that it is in the neighborhood we are working to revitalize, and we think it is a focal point. It is a jumpstart to a larger revitalization effort,” said Edward Bethea, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Gateway Community Action Partnership.

The excitement was high as students took crayons to paper to illustrate their dream playground. “Design Day is all about the community and local children having an opportunity to not only envision the ultimate play space, but play an active role in bringing that vision to life,” explained Kristin McEvoy, Director of External Affairs at Atlantic City Electric. “We encourage children to show us what they want to see in a playground in their community, and then we send it off to the builders, who will soon turn the children’s imagination into reality.”

The students came up with unique ideas, featuring slides, turtles, and lava pits, and the team at KABOOM! merged their designs to create an exciting outdoor play area. On April 10, Atlantic City Electric employees and the local community will join forces to build the playground.

Atlantic City Electric

Atlantic City Electric is a unit of Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC), a Fortune 250 company and the nation’s largest utility company, serving more than 10 million customers. Atlantic City Electric provides safe and reliable energy service to approximately 572,000 customers in southern New Jersey.

To learn more about Atlantic City Electric, visit The Source, Atlantic City Electric’s online newsroom. Find additional information by visiting atlanticcityelectric.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/AtlanticCityElectric, and on X, formerly known as Twitter, at twitter.com/AcEleCconnect. Atlantic City Electric’s mobile app is available at atlanticcityelectric.com/MobileApp.

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Last week, AB, in partnership with Columbia Climate School hosted the Biodiversity Training for AB Investors with biodiversity expert Dr. Jenna Lawrence. Second in the training series, this module introduces investors to the risks and opportunities stemming from biodiversity and nature loss and examines how issuers’ impacts and dependencies on nature can affect their businesses.

AllianceBernstein

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals, and private wealth clients in major world markets. We believe corporate responsibility, responsible investing and stewardship are intertwined. To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We also believe that strive to hold ourselves as a firm to similar practices that we ask of issues. Our stewardship practices, investment strategy and decision-making are guided by our purpose, mission and values.

Our purpose—pursue insight that unlocks opportunity—inspires our firm to act responsibly. While opportunity means something different to each of our stakeholders; it always means considering the unique goals of each stakeholder. AB’s mission is to help our clients define and achieve their investment goals, explicitly stating what we do to unlock opportunity for our clients. We became a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2011. This began our journey to formalize our commitment to identify responsible ways to unlock opportunities for our clients through integrating material ESG factors throughout most of our actively managed equity and fixed-income client accounts, funds and strategies. AB also engages issuers where it believes the engagement is in the best financial interest of its clients.

Because we are an active manager, our differentiated insights drive our ability to deliver alpha and design innovative investment solutions. ESG and climate issues are important elements in forming insights and in presenting potential risks and opportunities that can have an effect on the performance of the companies and issuers that we invest in and the portfolios that we build.

Our values provide a framework for the behaviors and actions that deliver on our purpose and mission. Values align our actions. Each value emerges from the firm’s collective character—yet is also aspirational.

Invest in One Another means that we have a strong organizational culture where diversity is celebrated and mentorship is critical to our success. When we invest in one another, we empower our employees to reach their potential, so that they can help our clients realize theirs. This enables us to partner with clients to design and deliver improved investment outcomes.Strive for Distinctive Knowledge means that we collaboratively identify creative solutions to clients’ economic, ESG and climate- related investment challenges through our expertise in a wide range of investment disciplines, close collaboration among our investment experts and creative solutions.Speak with Courage and Conviction informs how we engage our AB colleagues and issuers. We seek to learn from other parts of our business to strengthen our own views. And we engage issuers for insight and action by sharing ideas and best practices.Act with Integrity—Always is the bedrock of our relationships and has specific meaning for our business. Unlike many other asset managers, we’re singularly focused on providing asset management and research to our clients. We don’t engage in activities that could be distracting, or create conflicts—such as investment banking, insurance writing, commercial banking or proprietary trading for our own account. We are unconflicted and fully accountable.

As of September 30, 2023, AB had $669B in assets under management, $458B of which were ESG-integrated. Additional information about AB may be found on our website, www.alliancebernstein.com.

Learn more about AB’s approach to responsibility here

Last week, AB, in partnership with Columbia Climate School hosted the Biodiversity Training for AB Investors with biodiversity expert Dr. Jenna Lawrence. Second in the training series, this module introduces investors to the risks and opportunities stemming from biodiversity and nature loss and examines how issuers’ impacts and dependencies on nature can affect their businesses.

AllianceBernstein

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals, and private wealth clients in major world markets. We believe corporate responsibility, responsible investing and stewardship are intertwined. To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We also believe that strive to hold ourselves as a firm to similar practices that we ask of issues. Our stewardship practices, investment strategy and decision-making are guided by our purpose, mission and values.

Our purpose—pursue insight that unlocks opportunity—inspires our firm to act responsibly. While opportunity means something different to each of our stakeholders; it always means considering the unique goals of each stakeholder. AB’s mission is to help our clients define and achieve their investment goals, explicitly stating what we do to unlock opportunity for our clients. We became a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2011. This began our journey to formalize our commitment to identify responsible ways to unlock opportunities for our clients through integrating material ESG factors throughout most of our actively managed equity and fixed-income client accounts, funds and strategies. AB also engages issuers where it believes the engagement is in the best financial interest of its clients.

Because we are an active manager, our differentiated insights drive our ability to deliver alpha and design innovative investment solutions. ESG and climate issues are important elements in forming insights and in presenting potential risks and opportunities that can have an effect on the performance of the companies and issuers that we invest in and the portfolios that we build.

Our values provide a framework for the behaviors and actions that deliver on our purpose and mission. Values align our actions. Each value emerges from the firm’s collective character—yet is also aspirational.

Invest in One Another means that we have a strong organizational culture where diversity is celebrated and mentorship is critical to our success. When we invest in one another, we empower our employees to reach their potential, so that they can help our clients realize theirs. This enables us to partner with clients to design and deliver improved investment outcomes.Strive for Distinctive Knowledge means that we collaboratively identify creative solutions to clients’ economic, ESG and climate- related investment challenges through our expertise in a wide range of investment disciplines, close collaboration among our investment experts and creative solutions.Speak with Courage and Conviction informs how we engage our AB colleagues and issuers. We seek to learn from other parts of our business to strengthen our own views. And we engage issuers for insight and action by sharing ideas and best practices.Act with Integrity—Always is the bedrock of our relationships and has specific meaning for our business. Unlike many other asset managers, we’re singularly focused on providing asset management and research to our clients. We don’t engage in activities that could be distracting, or create conflicts—such as investment banking, insurance writing, commercial banking or proprietary trading for our own account. We are unconflicted and fully accountable.

As of September 30, 2023, AB had $669B in assets under management, $458B of which were ESG-integrated. Additional information about AB may be found on our website, www.alliancebernstein.com.

Learn more about AB’s approach to responsibility here