WellPoint’s Pat Murphy Named to Treasury & Risk Magazine’s ’40 Under 40′

Annual list includes outstanding corporate financial executives under the age of 40 who have made significant contributions to their companies and industries

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) announced today that Pat Murphy, staff vice president of corporate reporting and analysis, was named to Treasury & Risk’s “40 under 40″ as an outstanding corporate financial executive under the age of 40.

Murphy was selected, in part, because of…

Travelex Launches New Customer Care Team:

Team to Assist Prospective Partners Interested in Selling Travelex Products and Services

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Travelex Outsourcing Americas recently launched a new Customer Care Team designed to provide assistance to potential partners, such as banks, credit unions and travel agents, who are interested in selling Travelex products and services.  The team will help potential partners during critical early phases of implementing Travelex products.

“Prospective partners regularly have questions…

Greater Louisville Inc. Recognizes Emerging Minority Businesses

America’s Finest Filters winner of new award

October 16, 2009 (Louisville, KY) – Greater Louisville Inc. – the Metro Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Louisville Defender, announced the winner of its Emerging Minority Business Award at the newspaper’s Annual Business and Professional Achievement Recognition Luncheon today.  America’s Finest Filters, a manufacturer and supplier of filtration management solutions for hospitals, schools, office building and shopping…

UPDATE: National Safe Place Launches New Safety Program ‘Txt 4 Help’ to Get Immediate Help to Youth in Crisis

New program will connect youth with a Safe Place via text message to 69866

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ — National Safe Place (NSP) is launching the “Txt 4 Help” program, a 24-hour text-for-support service for youth in crisis. The “Txt 4 Help” program, announced today at a news conference in Washington D.C. hosted by Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., will make getting help for teens easier.  Youth in crisis can…

National Safe Place Launches New Safety Program ‘Txt 4 Help’ to Get Immediate Help to Youth in Crisis

New program will connect youth with a Safe Place via text message to 69866

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ — National Safe Place (NSP) is launching the “Txt 4 Help” program, a 24-hour text-for-support service for youth in crisis. The “Txt 4 Help” program, to be announced today at a news conference in Washington D.C. hosted by Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., will make getting help for teens easier.  Youth in…

Auction of Manufacturing, Industrial Equipment Among State’s Largest

Kentucky shop operators encouraged to participate

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Kentucky operators of industrial and manufacturing facilities are encouraged to participate in one of the region’s largest auctions of industrial/manufacturing equipment and office furniture, scheduled for October 17 in Louisville.

More than 150 individual pieces of equipment – including punch presses, plate roll, press brakes, manual brakes, drill presses, fork lifts, welders, cranes and air compressors and four trucks…

Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp. Named ‘Vendor of the Year’ by Do it Best Corp.

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Metal Sales Manufacturing Corp. has been named “Vendor of the Year,” in the lumber and building materials commodities division, by Do it Best Corp., the only U.S.-based, member-owned hardware, lumber, and building materials buying cooperative in the home improvement industry. With annual sales over $2 billion, Do it Best Corp. is the second largest co-op in the industry, serving 4,100 member-owned locations in…

Louisville, Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana, Residents To Benefit From Verizon Wireless Network Enhancements

New Cell Sites Mean Clearer Reception, Fewer Dropped Calls

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon Wireless has activated three new cell sites in Louisville and New Albany, Ind., which enable more customers to use their wireless phones concurrently to make calls; send and receive email and text, picture and video messages; access the Internet; view high-quality videos; and download music, games and ringtones, while enjoying clearer reception and fewer…

Smoothstone Streamlines Communications for Eminent National Law Firm Constangy, Brooks & Smith

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ — Constangy, Brooks & Smith LLP, a national labor and employment law firm specializes in counseling employers on a wide variety of workplace situations.  With over 250 employees in 19 offices across the country, its own workplace needed assistance when it came to its communications platform.

The firm’s IT team spent a tremendous amount of time managing their many different technologies for telephone and wide…

WellPoint Honored With BlueWorks(R) Award for Journey Forward, an Initiative to Provide Coordinated Follow-Up Care for People Surviving Cancer

Pioneering program is partnership between National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, UCLA, Genentech and WellPoint

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ — WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE:WLP) was recognized today as a 2009 BlueWorks® award winner.  BlueWorks is a unique partnership between the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) and the Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy that honors health care innovation that improves the quality and value of health care for…