Allen Thomas Appointed Dialog Corporation Chairman.LONDON and CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1999-- The Dialog Corporation plc (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 :DIAL)(LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :DLG DLG - (DFA-based Lexical analyser Generator) The lexical analyser generator in the Purdue Compiler-Construction Tool Set. ), a leading provider of Internet-based information, technology and eCommerce solutions to the corporate market, today announced that Allen Thomas has been appointed Chairman, effective immediately. Today's announcement follows the May 28 announcement that Michael Mander was stepping down. Allen Thomas, American, aged 59, joined the Board of Dialog as a non-executive Director in September 1997, and was appointed Deputy Chairman in December 1998. A US and UK qualified lawyer, he is Chairman of Ockham Holdings plc, a Director of Penna pen·na n. pl. pen·nae A contour feather of a bird, as distinguished from a down feather or a plume. [Latin, feather; see pet- in Indo-European roots. Holdings plc and a non-executive Director of Eidos plc. From 1972 to 1992 he was a partner in Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, a leading 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 law firm, where he was founding managing partner of the Hong Kong office. He was also a non-executive Director of Mitsubishi Bank Trust Company of New York. The Dialog Corporation plc (http://www.dialog.com) is a leading provider of Internet-based information, technology and eCommerce solutions to the corporate market, created by the merger of M.A.I.D plc and Knight-Ridder Information Inc. Dialog provides a range of technologies and services for Internet and intranet- based knowledge management and eCommerce applications. The Company's InfoSort indexing technology is widely perceived to offer an industry standard for information categorization, while the DIALOG, DataStar and Profound range of products and services provide comprehensive, authoritative sources of information to professionals worldwide. The Dialog Corporation has world headquarters in London and US headquarters in Cary, NC. Its American Depositary Shares (ADS) are traded on NASDAQ under the symbol "DIAL" with four Ordinary Shares comprising one ADS; its Ordinary Shares trade on the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. under the symbol "DLG." |
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