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Originally published on newsroom.marykay.com

SHANGHAI, September 17, 2026 /3BL/ – As beauty continues to connect and inspire women across generations, Mary Kay China announces Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared™, bringing the iconic beauty and entrepreneurship company’s largest-ever global brand campaign to China.

The campaign invites a new generation of consumers to discover Mary Kay by celebrating a timeless truth at the heart of the brand: beauty becomes more meaningful when it is shared, bridging the love for Mary Kay across generations.

At a time when beauty routines are increasingly experienced through screens, algorithms, and individual performance, Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared™ champions something different: connection over comparison, encouragement over judgment, and community over competition.

For many women in China, beauty has long been a shared language, passed from one generation to the next through trusted advice, personal rituals, and moments of connection. Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared™ brings this legacy to life by celebrating the meaningful and enduring relationships built around beauty moments that matter, in a modern and compelling expression. The campaign conveys the powerful idea that the true meaning of Beauty reaches beyond products, elevating beauty as a shared experience revealing the transformative power of mutual companionship, community and solidarity among women.

“Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared™ is a reflection of who we are and what we have always stood for: women supporting women,” said Ryan Rogers, Chief Executive Officer of Mary Kay Inc. “As we enter our next era of growth, we are celebrating and empowering every Mary Kay woman – from our Independent Beauty Consultants to customers. Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared™ is more than a campaign; it is a movement.”

“Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared™ Campaign Launch Amplification:

Mary Kay China will leverage a diverse array of integrated online‑offline local initiatives to foster co‑created content together with Beauty Consultants, media, influencers and consumers. The Beauty is More Beautiful Shared™ activations will feature tailor‑made localized unmissable experiences for China:

• September 13, 2026: In celebration of the company’s 63^rd anniversary, the Mary Kay Pink Car Market has debuted at Bund Finance Center (BFC) in Shanghai. The inspiring beauty scenes from the campaign hero film step off the screen into reality: sixteen pink‑themed vehicles formed the city’s one‑of‑a‑kind, limited‑edition extended vanity station, delivering eight themed immersive brand experiences for the public to tangibly feel the beauty of sharing. Visitors enjoyed Mary Kay’s exclusive beauty classes across various themes: including a one-minute essential oil relaxation spa to refresh from work fatigue, wellness pairing experiences for inner and outer nourishment, sampling of the new TimeWise® 3D Foundation, and lip color matching to find the most flattering shades for four-season complexion types. Guests immersed themselves in this unique “pink ocean” for beauty experiences, while interactive activities on-site further boosted engagement.
• September to October 2026: Mary Kay will roll out pop‑up café experiences across ten cities nationwide to meet consumers where they are. This campaign centers on the concept: spend the time for a cup of coffee and let every woman discover her perfect formula. Partnering with famous internet cafes across 10 cities, the Mary Kay Coffee brand will launch a new round of trendy pop-up spaces. Within these spaces, visitors can not only try exclusive Mary Kay Coffee but also test Mary Kay’s new TimeWise® 3D Foundation to find their ideal shade. There are also plenty of delightful surprises, including beauty merchandise and custom photo spots.
• October 16 – 18, 2026: High‑profile landmark placements will be showcased in core business districts, and spectacular illuminations will grace the iconic giant screens along the Huangpu River in Shanghai. Mary Kay’s brand commercial will make its debut on the 6,000-square meter Citi giant screen on October 16^th. From October 17^th to 18^th, the 30-second clip will run on rotation from 19:00 to 23:00, airing once every four minutes.

These initiatives will collectively deliver engaging, surprise‑filled experiences that invite widespread public interaction with the brand campaign.

Discover Mary Kay’s Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared™ Campaign: 

• Watch the Campaign Film here.
• Experience the Campaign Creatives here.

Mark Chen, General Manager of Mary Kay China and Hong Kong, commented: “Sharing and connection are strengths embedded in Mary Kay’s DNA. As the global Beauty is More Beautiful Shared™ campaign arrives in China, we seek to move beyond a single‑sided definition of beauty and interpret beauty as rooted in mutual companionship, encouragement and shared success. By bridging online and offline touchpoints, we not only build a platform for new‑generation consumers to experience beauty but also empower thousands of Independent Beauty Consultants to become narrators of the brand story.”

Beauty Is More Beautiful Shared™ is rolling out globally through integrated marketing, social media, influencer partnerships, earned media, experiential activations, and market-specific consumer engagement efforts. Because while beauty may begin with a product, Mary Kay believes its greatest impact happens when confidence, encouragement, and opportunity are shared.

Did You Know:

• In 2026, Mary Kay celebrates its 31^st anniversary in China.
• Mary Kay ranked #8 out of 5,500 brands on Forbes’s 2026 Best Brands for Social Impact¹ moving up from stellar #9 achieved in 2025. Mary Kay is the only beauty brand in the Top 15 and the only direct selling company on the list.
• Mary Kay is the #1 Direct Selling Brand of Skin Care and Color Cosmetics in the World² four years in a row (2023-2026).
• Mary Kay ranked #2 on Forbes 2026 Best Customer Service list moving up from #93 in 2025³. Mary Kay is the only Beauty brand in the Top 15 and the only direct-selling company in the Top 50.
• Today, Mary Kay operates in 40 markets worldwide, connecting millions of people through beauty, community, and entrepreneurship.

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About Mary Kay

For more than 60 years, Mary Kay has empowered generations of women around the world to discover beauty together, build meaningful futures and find a community of women who celebrate one another. Founded by Mary Kay Ash in 1963, the global beauty company has connected women across 40 markets through innovative skincare, color cosmetics, fragrances, and wellness products. Mary Kay transforms purpose into action by advancing causes that support women and families, investing in scientific innovation, and working toward a more sustainable future. At its core, Mary Kay is dedicated to enriching women’s lives and creating opportunities for women to thrive together. Learn more at玫琳凯Mary Kay|你的潜力 我的动力 Find us on Weibo, Xiaohongshu, and Toutiao.

1. Alan Schwarz (March 17, 2026). Forbes – Best Brands For Social Impact 2026. https://www.forbes.com/lists/best-brands-social-impact/
2. “Source Euromonitor International Limited; Beauty and Personal Care 2026 Edition, value sales at RSP, 2025 Data”
3. Alan Schwarz (October 14, 2025). Forbes – Best Customer Service 2026. https://www.forbes.com/lists/best-customer-service/

DAVIDSON, N.C., September 17, 2026 /3BL/ – Trane® – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator, is introducing new AI and digital solutions spanning Trane Cloud applications, connected controls and intelligent thermal management. From analytics that can help turn building data into clearer operational priorities to connected tools that simplify maintenance workflows and coordinated controls for high-performance cooling, these innovations help customers bring greater visibility, responsiveness and consistency to how buildings and mission-critical environments are monitored, managed and maintained.

As digital infrastructure and automation become more central to building performance, Trane is expanding applications and controls that help address more complex operations shaped by growing volumes of building data, rising uptime expectations and service workflows that often remain fragmented across disconnected tools and teams. These solutions connect insight, workflows and system management across a wider range of building environments to support earlier action across day-to-day operations.

“As building operations become more connected and more complex, we’re evolving our AI and digital portfolio to help customers operate with greater clarity and control,” said Chris Tanaka, Vice President of Product Management, Trane Technologies. “With Trane Cloud Analytics and Maintenance Manager, customers can connect building data, service workflows and asset history to support earlier action, better coordination and more informed planning. Across the broader portfolio, these new solutions extend that same approach into controls and system management to help customers improve performance and reduce waste over time.”

That same focus on connected intelligence and coordinated system management also extends to mission-critical environments, including data centers, where cooling performance is increasingly shaping uptime, efficiency and long-term infrastructure strategy.

“As data center growth drives higher cooling loads, tighter performance requirements and faster response expectations, thermal management is becoming increasingly integral to uptime, efficiency and long-term infrastructure strategy,” said Oakley Roberts, President of Data Centers, Trane Technologies. “Intelligent, coordinated cooling systems are becoming essential to operating modern AI and mission-critical infrastructure at scale. These innovations help customers improve available capacity, strengthen resilience and maintain consistent thermal performance as computing demands continue to accelerate.”

Together, these innovations reflect a broader shift toward digital tools that bring greater clarity, tighter control and more coordinated system intelligence across the built environment.

For building owners, operators, and facilities teams, the new portfolio includes:

• Trane Cloud Analytics unlocks connected equipment and system data to provide prioritized insights tied to energy, comfort and reliability. Analytics help teams surface performance trends, highlight inefficiencies affecting energy use and occupant conditions, and support faster, more informed operational decisions across connected buildings.
• Trane® Maintenance Manager replaces spreadsheets, paper records and disconnected tools with one connected maintenance experience in Trane Cloud. Work orders, asset records, maintenance history and documentation are centralized to help streamline workflows, improve service coordination and support better-informed repair, replacement and capital planning decisions.
• Cloud Connected BACnet Thermostat connects light commercial buildings to cloud-based building management without requiring a full existing Building Management System (BMS). Fast cloud connectivity, remote monitoring, support for rooftop and heat pump applications, and compatibility with existing HVAC equipment help make it easier to manage building performance without replacing installed systems.
• Tracer® Zone Sensors deliver flexible wired and wireless 4-in-1 sensing technology with simplified setup, faster sensing performance and broader application flexibility. The expanded sensor portfolio is a seamless choice for new construction, upgrades, retrofits and remodeling projects without sacrificing responsiveness, functionality or aesthetics.
• AI Control for Water Systems brings AI, system-level thinking and trusted expertise to turn chiller plant management into a performance multiplier. The functionality continuously learns and helps adjust chiller plant setpoints to help improve plant efficiency, strengthen coordinated capacity management and enhance performance across existing chilled water systems.

For data center operators, featured solutions include:

• Chiller Plant Manager continuously interprets live operating data with built-in redundancy and rapid decision logic to coordinate cooling plant performance in mission-critical environments. These capabilities help protect uptime and critical assets, guide capacity allocation and simplify plant management to deliver intelligent performance in mission-critical environments.
• Data Hall Team Control embeds system-level intelligence directly at the unit level to transform multiple cooling units into one, resilient system. This approach simplifies deployment with built-in redundancy and automated failover, designed to help protect uptime, simplify operation and maintain consistent thermal performance across complex data center environments.
   

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About Trane
Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate innovator – creates comfortable, energy efficient indoor environments for commercial and residential applications. For more information, please visit www.trane.com or www.tranetechnologies.com.

About Trane Technologies
Trane Technologies is a global climate innovator. Through our strategic brands Trane® and Thermo King®, and our portfolio of environmentally responsible products and services, we bring efficient and sustainable climate solutions to buildings, homes and transportation. Visit tranetechnologies.com.

WHAT

September 17, 2026 /3BL/ – On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 1% for the Planet, B Lab, Fairtrade America, and The Change Climate Project will convene Certified for the Future, a Climate Week NYC conversation at PlanetHAUS.

Nonprofit leaders and brands will discuss how different standards and certifications can complement one another, strengthen accountability, and support credible corporate sustainability strategies. The conversation will address how businesses can move beyond broad commitments, substantiate their claims, and use independent frameworks to advance measurable action for people and the planet.

The event will include a leadership panel and practical examples from brands, followed by networking with business leaders, sustainability practitioners, certification experts, and advocates.

WHO

1% for the Planet, B Lab, Fairtrade America, & The Change Climate Project

WHEN

Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026
4:15-7:00 p.m. EDT
Leadership panel and brand discussion: 4:30-5:15 p.m. EDT

WHERE

PlanetHAUS at Chief Flatiron Clubhouse
13 E. 19th St.
New York, NY 10003

WHY

Businesses face growing pressure to back sustainability claims with credible evidence while also navigating concerns about greenwashing and climate inaction.

This event connects that challenge to practical solutions. Organizations working across business standards, fair trade, and funding environmental solutions will discuss how independent frameworks can strengthen accountability and help companies move from broad commitments to measurable progress. The conversation offers a timely source for reporters covering business, climate, sustainability, consumer trust, or corporate accountability.

INTERVIEWS

CEO / ED Panel:

– Kate Williams, CEO, 1% for the Planet
– Marcel Fukayama, Chief Impact & Movement Officer, B Lab
– Amanda Archila, Executive Director, Fairtrade America
– Austin Whitman, CEO/Co-founder, The Change Climate Project

Brand Spotlight:
– Jo Ehrenreich, VP of Brand Marketing, Bread Alone
– Kelley Brady, Director of Sustainability and Impact, Chomps
– Alicia Simmons, Director of Sustainability and Communications, Frontier Co-op

Moderated by: Dr. Kimberly McGlonn, Build it Boldly

ABOUT 1% FOR THE PLANET

Co-founded in 2002 by Yvon Chouinard (founder of Patagonia) and Craig Mathews (owner of Blue Ribbon Flies), 1% for the Planet® is a global organization on a mission to accelerate smart environmental impact so that our planet and future generations can thrive. Over the last decade, our network has grown to span more than 100 countries and 65 industries. Today, 1% for the Planet certification is one of the most trusted frameworks for corporate philanthropy, with more than $939 million in certified impact to date. By holding business members accountable to give at least 1% of revenue—not profits—each year, we ensure that their environmental commitments are real, verified and impactful. Learn more at www.onepercentfortheplanet.org and see Newsroom & Media Kit.

ABOUT B LAB

B Lab™ is the nonprofit organization behind the B Corp movement. B Lab creates standards, policies, tools, and programs to reimagine capitalism, and build a new economic system that benefits people and the planet. B Lab has created and led efforts to pass over 50 corporate statutes globally, advocating for stakeholder governance that requires business decisions to benefit workers, communities, and the environment.

Certified B Corporations™, or B Corps, are companies verified as meeting standards for social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. To date, the B Corp community spans over 10,000 B Corps across more than 100 countries and over 160 industries, collectively employing more than 1 million people. Around 300,000 companies proactively manage their impact with B Impact™.

To learn more and join the movement, visit www.bcorporation.net.

ABOUT FAIRTRADE AMERICA

Fairtrade America works to rebalance trade, making it a system rooted in partnership and mutual respect rather than exploitation. It’s about businesses, shoppers, farmers and workers all working together so we can all experience the benefits of trade. Fairtrade America is the U.S. branch of Fairtrade International, the original and global leader in fair trade certification with more than 30 years of experience working for fair trading practices in more than 30 countries across the globe. A non-profit 501(c)3 organization, Fairtrade America is part of the world’s largest and most recognized fair trade certification program — part of a global movement for change. Learn more at fairtrade.net, and by connecting with Fairtrade America on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Fairtrade takes human rights, sustainability and trade personally. Though consequences often go unseen, companies’ and consumers’ choices have human and environmental costs. By choosing Fairtrade, businesses, shoppers, farmers and workers can create a better world – one that puts people and planet over profits. Together, we can prioritize global partnership and our shared humanity.

ABOUT THE CHANGE CLIMATE PROJECT

The Change Climate Project works to reduce global emissions by driving private-sector funding into verified climate solutions. Since 2019, the organization has worked with hundreds of companies and helped catalyze more than $70 million of funding for decarbonization projects.

The nonprofit administers The Climate Label, its flagship climate certification for companies that fund verified climate solutions at a scale that matches their emissions. It also operates The Business Emissions Evaluator (The BEE), an accessible carbon management platform that helps companies measure emissions, develop reduction strategies and track progress. Together, The Climate Label and The BEE help companies and consumers move from climate aspirations to measurable action. Learn more at www.changeclimate.org.

MEDIA CONTACTS

Elizabeth Limbach
Senior Communications Manager, 1% for the Planet
760.579.8215 | elizabeth@onepercentfortheplanet.org

Karen Lickteigs
Senior Manager, Events & Activations, B Lab U.S. & Canada
316.207.7332 | klickteig@usca.bcorporation.net

Liz Davis
Media Relations Manager, Fairtrade America
202.930.4349 | ldavis@fairtradeamerica.org

Cristina Mestre
Communications Consultant, The Change Climate Project
cristina.mestre@changeclimate.org

By Catharine Grimes, Abhishek Shankar //05 August 2026

Originally published on Devex

Consider a patient: a woman in her forties who lives in Delhi and has never smoked. Neither has anyone in her family. She is aware that India’s cities carry high levels of air pollution. She has also read that low-dose computed tomography, or LDCT, scanning can detect lung cancer early, when treatment is most effective. She goes to a clinic and asks whether she should be screened.

The honest answer to her question today would be: We don’t know.

It is not because the science of lung cancer screening is immature. Two landmark trials, the U.S. National Lung Screening Trial and the Dutch-Belgian NELSON study, established lung cancer screening guidelines for people with a past or current history of smoking in high-income settings. Low-dose CT screening is now established in more than a dozen countries, with additional nations preparing to implement.

The reality is that current lung cancer screening eligibility criteria were not designed to consider nonsmokers or to capture risk across cultures and living conditions. This includes risk in India or other geographies with sustained PM2.5 exposure — fine particulate matter that can penetrate the lungs and further enter the body through the bloodstream, affecting all major organs. What we do know is that between 40% and 50% of patients living with lung cancer in India are never-smokers.

Lung cancer incidence in India is rising. Peer-reviewed forecasts project that trend will continue through at least 2030, with incidence rates already accelerating sharply across multiple regions. When diagnosed, the majority of patients present with disease that has already spread. Lung cancer in India also tends to present approximately a decade earlier than the global average, a reality that makes early detection an urgent problem.

The question that the female patient in Delhi asked— “Should I be screened?”— remains scientifically unanswered. It is the question driving two landmark research grants now underway at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, or AIIMS, funded by the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation.

What’s more, India’s answer could offer guidance for other countries facing the same question.

Quantifying air pollution as a lung cancer risk factor

Globally, air pollution is now estimated to be responsible for approximately 14%of all lung cancers. What is not yet established, particularly with the rigor required to inform national lung cancer screening policy, is the full picture of PM2.5’s role in India’s lung cancer burden. Understanding that picture requires distinguishing three related but separate questions: how carcinogenic PM2.5 exposure is in the Indian context (its inherent capacity to cause malignant cancer); what level of risk that exposure confers across India’s population (the quantified probability of developing the disease); and which individuals carry the greatest biological susceptibility to those exposures. It is also unresolved how PM2.5 interacts with other co-occurring risk factors, and what genetic signatures it produces. Each of these gaps must be closed before a scientifically defensible, India-specific screening policy can be effectively and sustainably built.

The first BMS Foundation-funded grant with AIIMS, the Air Pollution and Cancer Research Ecosystem, or AIRCARE, is designed to address those unknowns. Working from a cohort of approximately 3,200 participants across the Delhi National Capital Region, AIRCARE will: quantify the lung cancer risk associated with PM2.5 exposure; map its multiplicative interaction with behavioral and clinical risk factors; identify PM2.5-specific genomic signatures via next-generation sequencing; and define susceptible subpopulations. The output will be a validated and locally generated risk stratification model grounded in the impact of air quality on local Indian people.

The second grant — the Indian Lung Screening Trial — addresses a foundational question the existing evidence cannot answer: Does LDCT screening, developed and validated in high-income countries using smoking history as the primary eligibility criterion, have the same efficacy in India?

By screening 1,716 participants across 10 national institutions, the trial evaluates LDCT screening yield and staging outcomes in India’s context — generating the first locally grounded evidence of its effectiveness in India. Real-world evidence from other settings has confirmed that when screening shifts diagnosis to earlier stages, survival improves significantly — but whether that stage shift can occur under India’s conditions, for India’s patients, remains unproven. The trial will also assess, for those who screen positive, whether the care pathways exist to act on what screening finds: from diagnostic workup and molecular testing to surgical access and follow-up. Together, those two outputs will offer a blueprint for how LDCT screening can be responsibly integrated into India’s public health system.

AIRCARE and the Indian Lung Screening Trial are interdependent. A risk stratification model without a validated detection pathway has no operational home. A detection program without a locally grounded risk model cannot fully account for the range of patients who need it most.

Why India, and why now

The Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation’s investment in this work reflects a conviction that durable progress in cancer outcomes comes from locally led solutions, grounded in country context, and designed to strengthen the systems that sustain them. The evidence being generated at AIIMS for Indian patients, by Indian researchers, within the Indian health system will provide evidence the world does not yet have.

India’s national readiness is real. The Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare published evidence-based national lung cancer treatment guidelines, and these plans will require precisely the kind of locally generated, population-specific evidence that AIRCARE and the Indian Lung Screening Trial are designed to produce — screening guidelines. 

Since the Indian Lung Screening Trial and AIRCARE were registered on clinical trial databases this year, researchers from countries facing identical questions have reached out to AIIMS seeking to replicate it in their own settings.

The question a patient in Delhi is asking today is the same question being asked in regions around the world. AIRCARE and the Indian Lung Screening Trial are working to help provide the answer.

Visit Strengthening Care Systems — a series in collaboration with the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation on raising awareness of the scale of the global lung cancer burden and the systems-level changes required to address it.

About the authors

Catharine Grimes

Catharine Grimes serves as president of the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, an independent charitable organization committed to improving global health by strengthening local health systems. With more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and health care sector, she leads the foundation’s efforts across adult cancers, pediatric cancers and blood disorders, brain health, and clinical trials. Under Catharine’s leadership, the BMS Foundation focuses on capacity building and health systems strengthening programs, working with grantee partners to expand access to care and advance sustainable, community‑driven solutions for patients around the world.

Abhishek Shankar

Dr. Abhishek Shankar is a member of faculty in the department of Radiation Oncology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, India, an institute of national importance under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India. He serves on the WHO/IARC Lung Cancer Screening Handbook group, the IASLC Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation Committee, the Lancet Commission, the Lung Cancer Policy Network and ASPIRE for Lung Cancer. He leads Indian Lung Screening Trial and AIRCARE, generating evidence on screening beyond smoking and environmental risk factors in LMICs. Shankar’s primary expertise and research interests span community-based cancer prevention and screening, global oncology, cancer policy, quality of living in cancer care, and tobacco control.

 

 

Supporting the health, well-being, and long-term development of communities where it operates, Gildan recently launched a two-year partnership with Sightsavers Bangladesh to help improve access to quality eye care for employees and nearby communities. As part of the partnership, the Company will help fund vision diagnoses and treatments, including eye screenings, cataract surgeries, treatment for refractive errors, and provision of glasses and medicines.

In addition to offering essential eye care services, the project comprises an educational component. A dedicated school eye health program will equip teachers and students alike to perform basic eye tests on peers. Gildan employees will also be trained for the same, ensuring that eye care remains accessible to as many people as possible.

“More than offering short-term benefits, Gildan’s community investment program is about contributing to building sustainable, resilient communities,” says Claudia Sandoval, Vice President of Global Social Compliance and Environmental Affairs at Gildan. “I am proud of this partnership with Sightsavers, which, in addition to funding quality eye care in communities in Dhaka, will also empower members to take their health into their own hands and equip future generations to prioritize vision care over the long term.”

Under this initiative, more than 15,000 individuals are expected to receive eye care.

To date, nearly 4,000 individuals have received eye examinations across 22 eye screening camps. As a result of these screenings, beneficiaries were referred for cataract treatment and received refractive correction services, prescription glasses, and eye medications.

Ayesha Zaman, Superintendent of Global Quality System at Gildan, had been struggling with both near and distance vision. In August, two of the eye screening camps were held at Gildan’s facility in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where Ayesha received an eye examination. She was provided with eye drops at no cost to help address her symptoms, and following a refraction assessment, Ayesha was prescribed glasses.

Amrita Rejina Rozario, Country Director, Sightsavers, says, “By bringing eye care to patients’ doorstep, we are making quality eye care more accessible to Gildan factory workers and surrounding communities. Our partnership with Gildan demonstrates how private sector collaboration can create sustainable, long-lasting impact. Better vision not only improves individual well-being but also enhances productivity and supports economic growth.”

Gildan remains committed to its vision of Making Apparel Better^®, both in terms of its quality and in the way it is produced. Through strong partnerships such as with Sightsavers Bangladesh, the Company continues to create meaningful, long-term value in communities where it operates. Find out more about Gildan’s community investment efforts here.

Media inquiries:

Jonathan Binder
Director, Corporate Communications
(336) 519-6330
communications@gildan.com

AEG‘s LA Kings brought together players, fans, families and community members for the 2026 LA Kings 5K in South Redondo Beach, Calif., raising $124,799 to support Kings Care Foundation programs that advance youth wellness, social impact and community development across Los Angeles. The annual event demonstrated the power of sports to inspire community engagement while generating critical resources for nonprofit organizations serving local families and neighborhoods.

Held in the Riviera Village area of South Redondo Beach, the LA Kings 5K welcomed participants of all ages and abilities through both in-person and virtual participation opportunities, creating an inclusive experience centered on health, connection and philanthropy. Hosted by LA Kings alumnus and broadcaster Daryl Evans, the event brought together supporters from across Southern California in a shared effort to invest in stronger, healthier communities.

Several current LA Kings players attended the event to show their support for the community, including Adrian Kempe, Trevor Moore, Mikey Anderson, Darcy Kuemper, Joel Edmundson and Cody Ceci. Their participation provided fans and families with an opportunity to connect with the team while highlighting the organization’s commitment to giving back beyond the ice.

Proceeds from registrations, sponsorships and charitable contributions will support the work of Kings Care Foundation, the LA Kings’ charitable arm. Funds raised through the event will be reinvested in nonprofit organizations and community initiatives focused on youth wellness, environmental sustainability, social advocacy and inclusion, helping expand access to programs and resources that improve quality of life for individuals and families throughout the region.

“This 5K showed what is possible when a community comes together around a common purpose,” said Daryl Evans. “Every participant helped support programs that strengthen Los Angeles, from promoting youth wellness to creating more inclusive opportunities for families throughout our region.”

Beyond promoting physical activity, the event highlighted the LA Kings’ ongoing commitment to leveraging the platform of sports to address community needs and create positive social impact. Participants completed the scenic coastal course while contributing to programs that support young people, strengthen local nonprofit organizations and expand opportunities for underserved communities throughout Los Angeles County.

Through Kings Care Foundation, the LA Kings support initiatives that promote the mental and physical well-being of youth, encourage sustainable practices, address pressing community challenges and foster welcoming environments where individuals of all backgrounds and abilities can thrive. The Foundation works alongside nonprofit leaders, community organizations and local stakeholders to help create meaningful and lasting change across Southern California.

The LA Kings 5K reflects AEG’s broader commitment to strengthening communities through service, philanthropy and civic engagement. By bringing together sports, wellness and charitable giving, the event creates opportunities for individuals, families and organizations to make a tangible difference while supporting programs that help build healthier, more resilient and inclusive communities.

On September 9, women business owners, professionals, community leaders and entrepreneurs gathered at The Links at Erie Village in East Syracuse for KeyBank’s annual Central New York Key4Women Breakfast Forum. The event brought together members of the region’s business community for networking, learning and recognition of leaders making a difference across Central New York.

The highlight of the morning was an engaging fireside chat with Felisha Legette-Jack, head coach of Syracuse University’s women’s basketball team, moderated by Tamika Otis, KeyBank Corporate Responsibility and Community Relations Officer. Coach Jack shared personal reflections on leadership, faith, resilience, and the importance of investing in others, offering attendees valuable insights drawn from her experiences both on and off the court.

The event also celebrated individuals whose leadership has strengthened the Central New York community.

Carolyn D. Brown, Executive Director of PEACE, Inc., received the 2026 Key4Women Community Impact Award. Since becoming the organization’s first female executive director in 2021, Brown has helped expand programs that support families through early childhood education, housing assistance, senior services and poverty reduction initiatives. Her leadership has also strengthened partnerships that create greater access to resources and opportunities throughout the region.

As part of the award, KeyBank made a $2,500 donation in Brown’s honor. She elected to direct the funds to the Hiscock Legal Aid Society, where she serves as a board member, helping support the organization’s mission of providing critical legal services to those in need.

The forum also recognized Amy Bidwell as recipient of the 2026 Key4Women Champion Award. A former KeyBank Regional Community Sales Manager, Bidwell was instrumental in building and growing the Key4Women program in Central New York. Through her dedication to connecting clients, community partners and local leaders, she helped create many of the relationships and traditions that continue to define the program today. Her commitment to helping women succeed left a lasting impact on both the Key4Women network and the broader Central New York community.

The annual Key4Women forum is dedicated to supporting, connecting and celebrating women in business. Launched in 2005, the Key4Women program provides:

• Customized financial services and guidance from Key4Women Certified Advisors
• Exclusive educational and networking opportunities designed to foster professional and business growth
• Timely insights on financial and business trends
• Connections to a strong network of business and community leaders
• Support for organizations and initiatives that advance opportunities for women

In Central New York, the program continues to grow, currently serving 479 member businesses and supported by 181 Certified Key4Women Advisors committed to helping women achieve their personal and professional goals.

From Coach Jack’s inspiring message to the recognition of community champions and opportunities for new connections, the 2026 Central New York Key4Women Breakfast Forum showcased the power of leadership, partnership and investing in the success of women across the region.

More about Key4Women can be found here.

• Learn more about how KeyBank helps clients, teammates, and communities thrive by making meaningful investments in the places it’s proud to call home.

NEW YORK, September 16, 2026 /3BL/ – Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. (G&A), a leading corporate sustainability consulting and research firm, today released the 2026 edition of its annual Sustainability Reporting in Focus report. This research tracks corporate reporting practices by companies in the S&P 500® Index and the Russell 1000® Index for the reporting period 2025 – a year marked by uncertainty in the sustainability landscape.

Now in G&A’s 15th year of researching corporate reporting practices, long-range trends are presented in detail to illustrate the adoption of various reporting standards and frameworks. Findings for the past two years use an updated research methodology to reflect the latest corporate practices.

Key Findings 

Corporate sustainability disclosure expanded steadily from 2011-2023, reaching the vast majority of the largest companies in the U.S. However, today’s report announces that in the past two years growth in reporting has stalled, although the percentage of reporters remained high, especially among the largest companies.

The latest research shows that in 2025, 86% of the Russell 1000, and 94% of the S&P 500, published sustainability disclosures, both slightly lower than in 2024. Reporting remained strong for the large majority of companies on these indices, despite dramatic change in the sustainability and regulatory landscape.

The drop in overall reporting, both in 2024 and 2025, was concentrated in the smaller half of the Russell 1000 Index, where reporting fell by 6.3 percentage points.

Who reported? (see infographic)

• Russell 1000: 86.0% of companies reported, down from 91.1% in 2024
• S&P 500: 93.9% of companies reported, down from 97.8% in 2024
• Smaller Half of Russell 1000: 78.2% of companies reported, down from 84.5% in 2024

Which reporting behaviors increased?

• More reporters – especially smaller companies – aligned with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards
• More reporters also aligned with: the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Sustainability Disclosure Standards, the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
• More reporters responded to the CDP Water Security questionnaire

Which reporting behaviors decreased?

• Fewer reporters aligned with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), though it remained the most widely used sustainability standard.
• Fewer reporters aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) – but TCFD alignment increased among the smaller companies on the Index
• Fewer reporters responded to the CDP Climate Change questionnaire.

Signals of sustainability maturity

Despite an ebb in the number of companies reporting, many of the shifts in 2025 signaled growing maturity of how companies reported. G&A’s analysts observed a greater emphasis on the quality of sustainability data, evidence-based commitments, and consistency in tracking and reporting. Among the specific trends identified: more companies committed to science-based targets, and more reporters obtained external assurance.

G&A’s research also provides analysis of reporting trends within all 11 sectors of the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®), to offer additional insights into reporting behavior per industry sector – such as the sectors lagging behind the rest.

Louis Coppola, G&A’s Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, commented, “For over a decade, large U.S. companies steadily increased their level of sustainability disclosure. It turns out that these practices and commitments don’t go away overnight. While we found lower reporting levels in 2025 than a year before, I’d argue that we are now seeing a different kind of growth. Many of the companies that continued to disclose did so in a more robust way. And based on how companies aligned with various frameworks and standards, it appears that companies are “stacking” standards and frameworks, rather than replacing one with another.”

Hank Boerner, G&A’s Chairman and Chief Strategist, added, “The SEC has abandoned its draft rules for climate-related disclosures. Yet, it is evident that the practice of corporate sustainability reporting is not slowing down to a meaningful degree among the largest 500 or even among the next-largest 500 companies as represented in the Russell 1000 Index. That’s good news for stakeholders. There are many reasons for the continuance and expansion of corporate sustainability reporting – voluntarily in the U.S. and on a global basis as reporting mandates evolve.”

G&A proudly recognizes the research team that made significant contributions to this study:

• Research Architect and Manager: Louis Coppola, CEO and Co-Founder
• G&A Research Supervisor: Charlotte Perrottey, VP, Sustainability Consulting
• G&A Research Team Leader: Natali Alsunna, Senior Sustainability Analyst
• G&A Research Team:
  • Madeline Blankenship, Senior Sustainability Analyst
  • Neva Modric, Sustainability Analyst
  • Amelia Veleber, Intern Team Leader

ABOUT G&A’S 2026 SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING IN FOCUS 
This new report marks the 15th annual edition in G&A’s research series tracking the publication of sustainability reports by the largest U.S. publicly-traded companies. In 2012, G&A published its first annual research on the 2011 sustainability reporting trends of S&P 500 companies, which at the time showed just 20% of these companies publicly reporting on sustainability. In 2019, G&A expanded this research to include all companies in the Russell 1000 Index, and in 2024, it further expanded to provide detailed analysis by the 11 GICS sectors. The latest research, on 2025 reporting practices, uses an updated methodology in line with contemporary practices in corporate reporting.

ABOUT G&A INSTITUTE, INC.
Founded in 2006, Governance & Accountability Institute (G&A) is a New York–based sustainability consulting and research firm advising corporate leaders and investors at the intersection of strategy, governance, and regulation. For two decades, we have partnered with executive teams and boards to translate sustainability strategy into durable enterprise value — helping organizations navigate shifting market expectations, evolving policy landscapes, and increasing capital market scrutiny.

More information is available on our website at ga-institute.com.

ABOUT THE S&P 500®
The S&P 500 is widely regarded as one of the best gauges of large-cap U.S. equity market performance, measuring the stock performance of approximately 500 large-cap companies covering approximately 80% of the total U.S. equity market capitalization. At the end of 2025, S&P Dow Jones Indices estimated that $23 trillion in assets was indexed or benchmarked to the index. More information is available here.

ABOUT THE RUSSELL 1000®
The Russell 1000 Index includes the largest publicly-traded U.S. companies by market cap, which comprise approximately 93% of the total market capitalization of all listed stocks in the U.S. equity market. The index is provided by FTSE Russell, a wholly owned subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). More information is available here.

CONTACT:
Louis D. Coppola, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder 
Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. 
Tel 646.430.8230 ext. 14 
Email: lcoppola@ga-institute.com

Key Facts:

• School food waste costs $1.7 billion each year, with more than 530,000 tons of food wasted annually. Meanwhile, nearly 13 million children in the U.S. go hungry.
• Ninety percent of school waste could be recovered, recycled, or composted.
• If schools nationwide reduced food waste by just 3%, the environmental benefit equates to taking 12,400 passenger vehicles off the road for one year.

WASHINGTON, September 16, 2026 /3BL/ – A new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report details the impact and potential of Food Waste Warriors, a free program available for teachers and administrators to help students understand the importance of food and how to avoid wasting it. Since 2019, more than 1,000 schools have adopted Food Waste Warriors curricula, resulting in food waste reductions of up to 70% per school.

Food Waste Warriors is launching a national ambition to end wasted food in K-12 schools within a generation. Accomplishing this requires three principal activities: engaging students through annual cafeteria education, expanding edible food recovery strategies in schools – like share tables and refrigerators – and ensuring unavoidable food scraps never go to landfills.

“We need to ensure our children understand the connection between food and the planet. There’s no better place to learn this lesson than the school cafeteria,” said Pete Pearson, vice president of food loss and waste at WWF. “Food Waste Warriors empowers students to take meaningful action for the planet while recognizing where our food comes from, what’s involved in producing it, and why wasting it is not OK.”

All Food Waste Warriors materials are available at no cost. These include guidance and tools to conduct food waste audits, lesson plans and activities by grade level, a dashboard to track the environmental benefit of your school’s food waste reduction efforts, posters, presentations, and more. WWF also offers support by connecting schools to funding opportunities and providing one-on-one expert advice.

WWF’s new report includes real-world case studies written by teachers, students, food service professionals, and community leaders. Their stories demonstrate varied approaches to adoption and personal success stories.

The report also points to strong financial results. In Maine, projections show that similar reductions applied statewide could save schools an estimated $1.3 million a year, and in Maryland, student-led advocacy helped secure $1.25 million in state grant funding for composting and food recovery programs.

Gerin Hennebaul, STEM specialist for Lovin Elementary School in Georgia, has managed the Food Waste Warriors program at her school since 2019. “The impact of our work is evident in many ways,” Hennebaul said. “We’ve had so many families begin compost bins at home. We are seeing our students eating more of their food and eating healthier. And our students are so passionate about how their small changes are making a big impact.”

The report, Ending Wasted Food in K-12 Schools, is available here. Interested teachers, administrators, and community members are encouraged to contact FWWStaff@wwfus.org with implementation questions.

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Media Contact: Lorin Hancock, Lorin.Hancock@wwfus.org

About WWF:

Founded in 1961, WWF works to help people and nature thrive. As a global conservation organization, WWF operates in more than 100 countries, partnering with communities, companies, and governments to protect wildlife, conserve vital habitats, and advance sustainable solutions. Grounded in science and driven by collaboration, WWF works to help nature by conserving biodiversity, supporting resilient communities, and addressing climate change. Nearly 1 million people in the United States and more than 5 million globally are WWF members.

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