Jude Research Hospital, and the United Negro College Fund. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity supports a variety of community service programs including Habitat for Humanity, St. Abbott, founder of the Chicago Defender, Michigan Congressman John Conyers, and Washington, D.C. The fraternity has had many notable members including former Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley, librarian Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, CBS newscaster Ed Bradley, radio personality Tavis Smiley, composer William Grant Still, entertainer Kevin Eubanks, Robert S. The total membership of the fraternity exceeds 150,000. Today the fraternity has over 700 undergraduate and alumni chapters in every state of the United States as well as chapters in the United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea, Japan, the Caribbean, and South Africa. A second chapter was established at the University of Illinois in 1912 and by 1921 there were chapters throughout the Midwest,the East, and one in the South. The fraternity, originally called Kappa Alpha Nu, was established by ten black men partly to provide an alternative to the racially exclusive student organizations on campus and partly to strengthen the bonds of friendship among these and other African American students.

It is the first black Greek-letter organization founded west of the Appalachian Mountains.

(Kappa), a predominantly African American Greek-letter fraternity, was founded on Januon the campus of Indiana University. Smurfit Kappa will de-list from Euronext Dublin, the latest blow for the Irish bourse as building materials giant CRH prepares to leave later this month.Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. It will be listed in New York and also have a standard listing on the London Stock Exchange. Smurfit WestRock will be domiciled in low tax Ireland with its global headquarters in Dublin. Bowles said he was confident the synergies would ultimately go beyond that figure. That could make the deal more than 20% accretive to Smurfit Kappa's earnings per share, it said. The combined entity will target pretax cost savings of more than $400 million at the end of the first full year following completion at a one-off cash cost of around $235 million. Smurfit Kappa rejected a takeover proposal worth $9.5 billion in 2018 from International Paper. The companies' combined adjusted core profit of $5.5 billion and revenue of about $34 billion for the year ended June 30 would put it clear of nearest rivals International Paper (IP.N) and Ball Corporation (BALL.N) JP Morgan estimated the combined entity would have market shares of around 20% in the corrugated packaging market in Europe and North America. While WestRock beat Wall Street expectations for third-quarter profit, it said it remained focused on streamlining its portfolio and further reducing costs. Smurfit Kappa reported a fall in first-half core profit last month as it struggled to offset the decline in volumes but predicted inventory reductions by customers were coming to an end with scope to increase box prices again as demand recovers. Packaging firms benefited from a boom in demand for goods and e-commerce during COVID-19 lockdowns, but have struggled to match those volumes since consumers resumed spending on services and producers started cutting back packaged stocks. footprint, except for in Mexico which the companies would work to overcome.

Smurfit said he did not see any antitrust issues given the limited overlap of Smurfit Kappa's European, South and Central America-dominated operations and WestRock U.S.

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