4Kids Entertainment Added to the Russell 2000 & 3000 Indices.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000 4Kids Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : KIDE), a leading domestic and international merchandise licensing, production and product development company, announced today that it has been added to the Russell 2000 and 3000 indices. Russell is a provider of global investment performance measurement products and portfolio analysis tools. The Russell 1000, 2000 and 3000 indexes, as well as midcap, and growth style indexes, are part of a family of U.S. market benchmarks that measure the leading 3,000 securities listed in the U.S. equity market. Russell equity indexes for Australia, Canada, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and Japan (calculated with Nomura Research Institute) offer broad market or style benchmarks for investors in these regions. Today, more than $100 billion has been invested in portfolios that use Russell's U.S. indexes as a model. Commenting on the achievement, Al Kahn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer stated, "This is a significant milestone for our company and its shareholders. Gaining membership in the Russell 2000 and 3000 indices underscores our exceptional growth to date, but most important, it helps to expose 4 Kids to a larger institutional audience." About 4Kids: Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , 4Kids Entertainment, Inc., (NASDAQ:KIDE) is a vertically- integrated entertainment company whose wholly-owned subsidiaries include: Leisure Concepts, Inc., a leader in domestic and international merchandise licensing and product development; 4Kids Productions, a television, film, music and home video production company, and Summit Media, a domestic and international television distribution, media buying and planning company. About Frank Russell Frank Russell may refer to the following people:
Frank Russell Company, one of the world's leading investment management and advisory firms, provides investment advice, analytic tools and funds to institutional and individual investors in 35 countries. Russell's investment management business employs a manager-of-managers approach with $60 billion in assets under management Assets Under Management (AUM) is a term used by financial services companies in the mutual fund and money management or investment management business to gauge how much money they are managing. . The company has retainer-consulting relationships with clients representing more than US $1 trillion worldwide. Frank Russell became a subsidiary of The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in January 1999. Founded in 1936, Russell is headquartered in Tacoma, Wash., and has offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Toronto, London, Paris, Sydney, Auckland, Singapore and Tokyo. This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . Due to the fact that the Company faces competition from toy companies, motion picture studios and other licensing companies, and the uncertainty of public response to the Company's properties, actual results or outcomes may differ materially from any such forward looking statements. This release and prior releases are available on the KCSA KCSA Krannert Center Student Association KCSA Kentucky Crushed Stone Association (Frankfort, KY) KCSA Kyiv City State Administration KCSA Kalamazoo Christian School Association KCSA Kentucky-Canadian Studies Association Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Worldwide website at www.kcsa.com |
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