PR Newswire and Ipreo Integrate Services to Create Best-in-Class Investor Relations Solutions
PRNewswire
NEW YORK

PR Newswire and Ipreo, a premier global provider of market intelligence and productivity software to corporations and investment banks, announced today the formation of a strategic alliance agreement whereby Ipreo's BD Corporate platform will be integrated with PR Newswire's suite of investor relations solutions to bring to market a complete set of investor relations tools and services designed to enable companies to effectively manage the full spectrum of market strategy and public company communications.

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Joint services immediately available through the arrangement include: Total Disclosure with BD Corporate (formerly Bigdough), which combines Ipreo's premier global investment community database and investor prospecting platform with PR Newswire's industry-leading news distribution, filing, webcasting and IR website hosting tools to provide an end-to-end research, communications and compliance solution; and IR Room with BD Corporate, which combines PR Newswire's industry-leading IR website hosting tool with Ipreo's BD Corporate platform.

"Our partnership with Ipreo enables PR Newswire to deliver the industry's most comprehensive and efficient solutions for investor targeting, communication and compliance," said Scott Mozarsky, executive vice president, PR Newswire. "The launch of Total Disclosure with BD Corporate and IR Room with BD Corporate represents the initiation of what we envision as a long-lasting, highly-cooperative relationship with Ipreo aimed at re-defining how investor relations professionals manage every aspect of their workflow, from market research and analysis to investor outreach to the full and timely disclosure of all corporate news and material information."

At the core of the alliance between PR Newswire and Ipreo are the industry-leading investor relations services that each company offers that, when combined, empower public companies with a full range of investor targeting and communications capabilities.

  --  Intelligence & Research: Access to the industry's most robust database
      of institutional investor and hedge fund profiles and portfolio
      holdings
  --  News & Earnings Dissemination: Full and instantaneous disclosure of
      quarterly results and corporate news via the industry's leading news
      release distribution and EDGAR filing system
  --  Integrated Investor Communications: IR website management and event
      webcasting for direct, dynamic communications between a public company
      and institutional investors, the investing public and the media

Kevin Marcus, president and COO of Ipreo, added, "For today's publicly traded company, it is simply not enough to announce quarterly results and wait for the market to respond. Investor relations professionals must be experts in their entire investing audience and have the ability to engage them continuously. This combined offering will give clients the end-to-end solution they need to fully engage with current and potential investors efficiently and effectively."

About Ipreo

Ipreo is a global leader in the provision of market-leading intelligence, robust technology, and superior customer service to publicly listed companies and investment banks around the world. Built on a legacy of experience and a thorough understanding of the capital markets, Ipreo provides critical insights and flexible solutions to help our clients run better investor relations programs. Ipreo's corporate services include global market intelligence, shareholder and bondholder ID, institutional investor targeting, perception studies, proxy solicitation, and the industry's premier database of buy-side contacts & investor profiles. Ipreo has more than 500 employees and operations throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Ipreo is majority-owned by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (www.vss.com). For more information, please go to www.ipreo.com.

About PR Newswire

PR Newswire is the global leader in innovative communications and marketing services, enabling organizations to connect and engage with their target audiences worldwide.

Through its multi-channel distribution network, audience intelligence, targeting, measurement and compliance services, PR Newswire helps corporations and organizations conduct rich, timely and dynamic dialogues with the media, consumers, policymakers, investors and the general public, in support of building brands, generating awareness, impacting public policy, driving sales, and raising capital.

Pioneering the commercial news distribution industry 55 years ago, PR Newswire connects customers with audiences in more than 170 countries and in over 40 languages through an unparalleled network of offices in 16 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and via unique affiliations with the leading news agencies across the globe. PR Newswire is a subsidiary of United Business Media Limited (UBM.L), a leading global business media company that serves professional commercial communities around the world. For more information, go to www.unitedbusinessmedia.com.

CONTACT: Rachel Meranus, Vice President, Communications, PR Newswire, +1-201-360-6776, rachel.meranus@prnewswire.com

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SOURCE: PR Newswire Association LLC; Ipreo

CONTACT: Rachel Meranus, Vice President, Communications, PR Newswire,
+1-201-360-6776, rachel.meranus@prnewswire.com; or Kate McKay, Director,
Global Marketing & Communications, Ipreo, +1-212-849-5060,
kate.mckay@ipreo.com