Agencia Estado, Brazil's Largest News Agency, Joins Business Wire Global's Latin America News Network.MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 1998--Business Wire Global Thursday announced that Agencia Estado, the largest news agency in Brazil, has become the latest major news organization in the region to become part of its Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. network. Agencia Estado joins Notimex, the largest and most prominent news agency in Mexico, in Business Wire Global's expanding Latin America circuit. The exclusive agreements provide Business Wire Global with reciprocal news distribution, sales and marketing relationships with the two leading news agencies in Latin America. International Media Services, Business Wire's Latin America partner, negotiated the agreements. "Business Wire Global has clearly positioned itself as the leading commercial news service in Latin America, one of the world's fast growing regions A growing region is an area suited by climate and soil conditions to the cultivation of a certain type of crop. Most crops are cultivated not in one place only, but in several distinct regions in diverse parts of the world. ," said Cathy Baron Tamraz, executive vice president of Business Wire. "Our participation in the Business Wire Global consortium of global news agencies adds a substantial resource to our existing news distribution business in Brazil," said Agencia Estado's Rosana Loos. "Agencia Estado operates the most comprehensive news release distribution service in Brazil with more than 500 contract accounts. Now we can offer Brazilian multinational corporations
Agencia Estado is part of Grupo Estado, one of Brazil's media giants and the owner of two of the country's largest newspapers, O Estado de Sao Paulo and Jornal de Tarde. The news agency was founded in 1970 and today employs 300 journalists and maintains 14 regional bureaus. As Brazil's leading news source, Agencia Estado provides text, photos, audio and video feeds to more than 250 media. In addition to its Portuguese-language services, Agencia Estado produces the English-language Brazil Financial Wire, which includes detailed coverage and analysis of the Brazilian economy
Agencia Estado's comprehensive satellite network distribution is supplemented by International Media Services' targeted e-mail distribution to specific editors who have registered for the free service. Business Wire Global is a consortium of independent media relations wires and national news agencies headed by Business Wire, the global leader in news distribution. Business Wire Global has reciprocal offices in London, Paris, Tokyo and throughout Canada. IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. is a subsidiary of Inter Press Service Inter Press Service (abbreviated: IPS) is a global news agency. Its main focus is the production of independent news and analysis about events and processes affecting economic, social and political development. , the largest news agency in the Southern Hemisphere. IMS maintains 23 offices throughout Latin America and has more than 30 years experience in the region. IMS was recently named the official news service for the three largest trade blocs This is a list of trade-related international organisations only. For List of Free Trade Agreements between such 'blocs' and/or separate countries see List of Free Trade Agreements. in the region: Mercosur, The Andean Pact Andean Pact A regional trade pact that includes Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. and ALADI ALADI Asociacion Latinoamericana de Integracion (Spanish: Latin American Integration Association) ALADI Associazione Latino-Americana Di Integrazione (Italian: Latin American Integration Association) .
CONTACT: IMS
Hector Botero
305/649-0455
E-mail: botero@fla.net
International Media Services
(http://www.ips.org)
Agencia Estado
(http://www.agestado.com)
or
Business Wire
Michael Lissauer or Neil Hershberg,
212/752-9600
E-mail: michael@bizwire.com or neilh@bizwire.com
Business Wire Global
(http://businesswire.com/aboutbw/bwglobal.htm)
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