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Huntington Bank Named Winner of the 2013 TNS Choice Award for Consumer Banking in Central Region

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Huntington Bank Named Winner of the 2013 TNS Choice Award for Consumer Banking in Central Region

Bank recognized for outperforming competitors in acquiring, retaining and developing customers

COLUMBUS, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Huntington (NASDAQ: HBAN; www.huntington.com) has been named the winner of the 2013 TNS Choice Award for Consumer Banking in the Central Region. TNS, the largest custom research firm in the world, presented the award to Huntington for outperforming its competitors in acquiring, retaining and developing customers.

Huntington was selected based on an analysis of more than 7,900 consumer interviews conducted in the Central Region in 2012, as part of TNS‘s Retail Banking Monitor research program, which evaluates the competitive momentum of individual financial services firms.

“At Huntington, our customers are our top priority. They have told us they want banking solutions that matter and easier ways to do business with us, and we have responded with continued investments in service and convenience,” said Mary Navarro, Huntington’s retail and business banking director. “It is this foundation of service and dedication to caring about our customers, in addition to making banking easy, that has allowed Huntington to differentiate itself from its competitors.”

Over the past two years, Huntington has developed 24-Hour Grace®, a unique service that provides Huntington consumer checking customers until the next business day to cover overdrafts without any fees. Additionally, the bank has introduced an innovative checking account called Asterisk-Free Checking®, developed mobile applications for the iPhone and Android operating systems, strengthened its commitment to small business by lending $4 billion in the last three years, extended Saturday hours, and opened 107 new branches in Giant Eagle and Meijer grocery stores.

The 20-state Central Region includes: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.

The TNS Retail Banking Monitor research program is developed to identify strong achievement on both the national and regional level. TNS measured customer acquisition, retention, satisfaction, and share of wallet, across a comprehensive set of competing firms, to identify top performers.

“Customers of Huntington are among the most satisfied bank customers in the country. Among consumers in the 20-state Central Region, Huntington is achieving faster organic growth than any significant competitor,” said James Meyer, executive vice president for TNS. “Huntington is winning new ‘primary bank’ relationships at an exceptional rate, and client loyalty scores are among

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Pervasive Software Deepens, Extends Document Exchange Managed Services for Marathon Oil Corporation

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Pervasive Software Deepens, Extends Document Exchange Managed Services for Marathon Oil Corporation

Windows Azure-Based Pervasive Business Xchange Strengthens Trading Partner Efficiency, Relationships

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pervasive Software® Inc. (Nasdaq: PVSW), a global leaderin cloud-based and on-premises data innovation, is enhancing its 10-year business relationship with Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) with a new initiative to onboard hundreds of additional Marathon Oil suppliers. The initiative will almost quadruple the number of suppliers with which Marathon Oil exchanges e-invoices, remittances and other electronic business documents using Pervasive Business Xchange™ managed services. This service enables Marathon Oil to reach hundreds of additional vendors to efficiently process business documents according to accepted industry standards.

With increasing activity in the Eagle Ford Shale, Marathon Oil has seen rapid growth in the number of suppliers that help it conduct efficient production operations. Powered by Windows Azure, Pervasive Business Xchange leverages the platform’s scalability and economics to make it cost-effective to electronically onboard the additional Marathon Oil suppliers.

Pervasive Business Xchange, which is hosted on the Windows Azure platform-as-a-service, provides customers like Marathon Oil with the advantages of a scalable, economic cloud-based architecture.

“With our services on the Windows Azure elastic cloud, we can rapidly scale to accommodate hundreds of additional suppliers, as we are now doing for Marathon Oil,” noted Markus Bockle, senior director for Pervasive Business Xchange. “We also have the flexibility to deliver innovative subscription- and usage-based pricing that makes automated trading relationships affordable for Marathon Oil and their suppliers, enabling the company to cost-effectively extend B2B exchange services access to the long tail of their suppliers.”

“Pervasive Business Xchange exemplifies the kind of innovative businesses that successfully embrace the Microsoft Windows Azure platform,” said Tom Matthews, Azure Sales Manager, Central Region at Microsoft. “Our platform’s robustness, scalability and economics enable Pervasive Business Xchange to provide a seamless and affordable experience to users, from onboarding to document exchange and monitoring.”

Pervasive Business Xchange, a member of the Petroleum Industry Document Exchange (PIDX) International standards group, provides electronic exchange of procurement and supply chain-related documents and transactions to many of the world’s largest oil and gas producers, as well as their operators and suppliers. Its managed services accept electronic documents for translation into a trading partner’s required format and enables users to track the documents’ progress throughout the process.

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Hershey Continues Innovative Distance Learning Program Connecting U.S. and Rural Ghanaian School Chi

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Hershey Continues Innovative Distance Learning Program Connecting U.S. and Rural Ghanaian School Children

HERSHEY, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Hershey Company (NYS: HSY) :

  • Social studies class at Milton Hershey School in Pennsylvania shares cultural experiences with students in Assin Fosu, Ghana
  • The first-of-its-kind program was developed by Hershey in partnership with Source Trust and Milton Hershey School

The Hershey Company (NYS: HSY) today announced that it will continue through the end of the 2013 school year its successful Hershey Learn to GrowGhana Distance Learning Program, a unique distance learning program launched last fall. The program links school children in Hershey, Pa., and Ghana through real-time, high-definition technology that creates a common, virtual classroom experience.

The program allows approximately 80 middle school students in classrooms on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean to connect and share cultural experiences. The Milton Hershey School students connect to the students in Assin Fosu, Ghana, a rural town located in the Central Region, from The Hershey Story, The Museum on Chocolate Avenue in downtown Hershey, Pa.

This semester, teachers are encouraging the students in Hershey, Pa., and Assin Fosu, Ghana, to research selected topics of interest, plan how to engage in the topic and then lead parts of the actual live classroom sessions.

“We are excited about this new approach, which is less teacher-driven and will allow the children to lead the sessions, directly engage with each other and truly share the best of their cultures,” said David Bruce, sixth-grade social studies teacher at Milton Hershey School. “We believe this new approach will be more meaningful and provide a deeper understanding for the students of what it’s like to live in each country.”

During the spring semester, students will cover a range of topics that will enable them to explore each other’s culture and country’s practices. For example, one session covers “festivals” and looks at how and why each country celebrates important cultural events or special occasions. In another session, students in Ghana plan to talk about how children are named in their country and the cultural significance of different names.

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