The company is based in Mountain View, California.(C) 2009 by Guzik Technical Enterprises. All rights reserved.SOURCEGuzik Technical EnterprisesSvetlana Yepanechnikova, +1-650-296-4684, or Customers, Guzik TechnicalEnterprises Main, +1-650-625-8000, fax, +1-650-625-9325, . Farmers Will Honor Seattle and Evergreen State College at the Seattle CityCouncil Meeting May 13, 2009SEATTLE--(Business Wire)--Those seeking a place to live, work or raise a family in a safe and secureenvironment should consider the Pacific Northwest, according to the fifth annualMost Secure U.S. Places to Live rankings from Farmers Insurance Group ofCompanies®. The Seattle area encompassing Puget Sound topped all large metropolitan areas(population of 500,000 or greater) in the 2008 Farmers study. A high job growthrate and long life expectancy, along with minimal housing depreciation and lackof extreme weather contributed to the area`s top rating in the study.
The areais home to such Fortune 500 companies as Amazon , Nordstrom, Starbucks,Safeco Corp and T-Mobile USA. "We are very pleased to recognize Seattle as the top secure place to live in theFarmers survey," noted Susan Bithell, Farmers Vice President and WashingtonState Executive Director. "The extremely clean air and the long life expectancyof Seattle`s residents also helped make the number one ranking." The rankings, compiled by database experts at , took intoconsideration crime statistics, extreme weather, risk of natural disasters,environmental hazards, terrorism threats, air quality, life expectancy and jobloss numbers in 379 U.S municipalities. The study divided the communities intothree groups: large metropolitan areas, mid-size cities and small towns. Farmers will conduct a special ceremony on May 13 to honor Seattle FarmersSurvey plaques, a video on what it means to be a Secure City, and comments by MsBithell. What:Farmers Secure Cities Presentation to Seattle Representatives.When:May 13, 2009, 12 p.m.Where: Seattle City Council meeting located City Hall at 600 FourthAvenue Seattle, Washington.Who: City Representatives:Seattle City Council:Richard Conlin Seattle Police:Acting Chief John DiazFarmers Group, Inc.
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services,an insurance-based financial services provider with a global network ofsubsidiaries and offices in North America and Europe as well as in Asia Pacific,Latin America and other markets. Farmers is the nation's third-largest PersonalLines Property & Casualty insurance group. Property and casualty products areunderwritten and issued by the Farmers Exchanges and their subsidiaries, whichFarmers Group, Inc manages but does not own. Headquartered in Los Angeles,Farmers Insurance provides homeowners, auto, business, life insurance, specialtyproducts insurance and financial services to more than 10 million households.For more information about Farmers, visit our Web site at Farmers Insurance GroupJerry Davies, Copyright Business Wire 2009. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 07 (MARKET WIRE) -- The results of v's first independent evaluation are published today -confirming that eighty-five percent of the investments made by the youthvolunteering charity between May 2006 and September 2008 could not havetaken place without v funding. The findings, delivered by independentconsultancy WM Enterprise, demonstrate the significant added value of v'srole in co-ordinating and commissioning youth volunteering programmesacross England, and confirm that there is little deadweight(1) across v'searly investments.The report also shows that v has significantly enhanced the provision ofvolunteering opportunities for 16 - 25 year olds, with over 148,000 youngpeople taking part in volunteering activities in the period covered bythe evaluation.
