| WellPoint Announces Realignment of Core Businesses; Names New ...
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Angela Braly, president and CEO of WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) , today announced organizational changes that will strengthen the company's ability to focus on and serve its customers. WellPoint is the country's largest health benefits company with nearly 35 million members. Effective October 15, 2007, the company will be organized around two new strategic business units - a Commercial Business Unit and a Consumer Business Unit. In addition, a new Comprehensive Health Solutions Business Unit will bring together the company's resources focused on optimizing the quality of health care and the cost of care management. "This simplified, customer-focused structure builds on the strength of our commercial and consumer businesses, and will create additional opportunities for cross-selling medical and specialty products," said Braly.
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Richard L. Aboulafia is vice president of analysis at Teal Group Corporation. He manages consulting projects in the commercial and military aircraft fields and analyzes broader defense and aerospace trends. He has advised numerous companies, including most prime and many second- and third-tier contractors in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He also writes and edits Teal Groups World Military and Civil Aircraft Briefing, a forecasting tool covering over 135 aircraft programs and markets. Before joining the Teal Group in 1990, Mr. Aboulafia analyzed the jet engine market at Janes Information Group, served as an aerospace industry consultant for an international trade advisory company, and supported research projects at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Aboulafia writes about aviation and defense and has published numerous articles in Aviation Week and Space Technology, Financial Times, Military Technology, Avmark Aviation Economist, Janes Intelligence Review, and the Asian Wall Street Journal.
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