Prudential Retirement honors three plan sponsors with Day One Award

Recognizing plan sponsors who have demonstrated and implemented innovative thinking, Prudential Retirement recently honored three employers with Day One Awards. Those receiving the awards are helping their plan participants to successfully prepare for Day One of retirement and all the days that follow. The honorees were presented with the award at Prudential Retirement’s 2014 West Client Conference held in Marina del Rey, CA. Prudential Retirement is a business unit of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU).

“We’re proud to celebrate the contributions of these plan sponsors, who have gone above and beyond in their quest to address retirement challenges,” said Sean McLaughlin, senior vice president, Client Relations & Business Development, Total Retirement Solutions at Prudential Retirement. “All of these plan sponsors have increased participant enrollment, deferral rates and account balances by leveraging both innovative plan design and participant engagement strategies.”

The winners of the Day One Awards include the following plan sponsors:

• Dyno Nobel, a leading global manufacturer of industrial explosives.
• GKN, a global engineering business that serves the aerospace, automotive and land systems markets
• JM Eagle, the world’s largest manufacturer of PVC and PE plastic pipe.

Prudential Retirement delivers retirement plan solutions for public, private, and non-profit organizations. Services include defined contribution, defined benefit and non-qualified deferred compensation record keeping, administrative services, investment management, comprehensive employee education and communications, and trustee services, as well as a variety of products and strategies, including institutional investment and income products, pension risk transfer solutions and structured settlement services. With over 85 years of retirement experience, Prudential Retirement helps meet the needs of over 4.0 million participants and annuitants. Prudential Retirement has $330.5 billion in retirement account values as of June 30, 2014. Retirement products and services are provided by Prudential Retirement Insurance and Annuity Company (PRIAC), Hartford, CT, or its affiliates.

Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU), a financial services leader with more than $1.1 trillion of assets under management as of June 30, 2014, has operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Prudential’s diverse and talented employees are committed to helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth through a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds and investment management. In the U.S., Prudential’s iconic Rock symbol has stood for strength, stability, expertise and innovation for more than a century. For more information, please visit www.news.prudential.com.

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