FACTBOX-Companies offer aid to Haiti after earthquake

Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:37pm EST

- Campbell Soup Co (CPB.N) is contributing at least $200,000 and putting a mechanism in place for employees to make contributions.

- Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) is donating $100,000 to the American Red Cross relief fund.

- Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) is donating $500,000 to Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti and sending prepackaged food kits valued at $100,000 to Haiti at the request of the Red Cross.

The world's biggest retailer has launched an Internet page, www.walmartstores.com/haiti, where customers and employees can make donations to nonprofits supporting relief efforts.

- Lowe's Cos Inc (LOW.N) is donating $1 million to the Red Cross' efforts in Haiti. The No. 2 U.S. home improvement chain also plans to seek cash donations from its customers.

- American Airlines, a unit AMR Corp AMR.N, scheduled three flights to Port-au-Prince on Wednesday with 10,000 pounds of aid, including material for hospitals. Three more flights are scheduled for Thursday.

American is working with the Red Cross on a program through which members can make donations toward relief in return for frequent flier miles. American has 100 employees in Haiti.

- ConAgra Foods (CAG.N) Foundation said it would pledge $100,000 to the International Red Cross Relief Fund.

- Cereal maker Kellogg Co (K.N) will donate $250,000 to the American Red Cross for its relief effort.

- Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) has committed $1 million to the effort with half going to the American Red Cross for the Haitian Relief and Development fund.

- Drugmaker Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N) will provide $1 million in humanitarian aid, including donations of medicines and nutritional products.

- BMO Financial Group pledged $250,000 to Red Cross effort in Haiti.

- Internet services company Go Daddy will donate $500,000 to aid quake victims.

- Rogers Communications (RCIb.TO) and the Rogers family will donate $250,000 in funds and goods to Partners In Health :Haiti and other relief organizations.

- Home Depot (HD.N) and the Home Depot Foundation will donate $100,000 to the American Red Cross for relief efforts in Haiti.

- Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) pledged $100,000 in humanitarian aid. (Compiled by Nicole Maestri and Abhinav Sharma; Additional reporting by Brad Dorfman in Chicago, Scott Malone in Boston, John Crawley in Washington, and Dhanya Skariarchan in New York; Editing by Toni Reinhold, David Holmes and Gopakumar Warrier)

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