John Costello / Inquirer
At the Wachovia Center, Broad Street Atrium, Comcast workers get ready for "SportsNite." The cable giant is still striving to dominate the nation’s Internet and telephone service.
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Market cap and total return leaders
The region’s powerhouses and big producers are sparkling with projects for the future. Most of the companies’ stock-and-dividend returns were down.
NYSE: CPB
Market cap: $12.62 billion *
Stock-div return one year: down 10.9 percent **
Campbell reaches far beyond its iconic soups. Its products include ready-to-serve soups, pasta sauce, Mexican sauce, chili, canned pasta and gravies. It makes meal kits, juice drinks, cookies and frozen products in the United States. It sells biscuits in Australia and the Asia Pacific, and beverages in Europe, Mexico, Latin America and the Asia Pacific. Its brand is sold by food chains, mass merchandisers and convenience stores.
The Chatter: Sure, international sales have soared and its stock - despite a recent dip - has averaged 10 percent growth a year since 2003. But Campbell still couldn't overcome local preservationists and raze an abandoned Sears building in Camden.
1650 Market St., Philadelphia
215-761-1000
Founded 1792
Chairman/President/CEO: H. Edward Hanway
NYSE: CI
Market cap: $11.28 billion *
Stock-div return one year: down 14.6 percent **
Operating around the globe, Cigna's Health Care segment offers insured and self-funded medical, dental, behavioral health, vision, and prescription drug benefit plans. Its Disability and Life segment provides, among other things, group long-term and short-term disability insurance.
The Chatter: Looking to the next presidential term, Cigna has been trying to move down-market and attract smaller employers, partly to brace for changing health-care polices.
