BRIDGE Provides Financial Data and News to Virgin Atlantic.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000 'Financial Channel' Service Launched on Virgin Atlantic Website for Flying Club Members; Virgin Atlantic is First Carrier to Offer Financial Information BRIDGE Information Systems (BRIDGE(R)), the largest provider of financial information services See Information Systems. in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , announced today a strategic partnership with Virgin Atlantic, one of the world's most-acclaimed carriers. BRIDGE has been selected by Virgin Atlantic to provide financial information and news to the Financial Channel, a brand new service to members of Virgin Atlantic's frequent flyer frequent flyer Hospital practice A popular term for a Pt who is regularly admitted to a particular ER or health care facility, for various reasons program, Flying Club. The new service, developed by BRIDGE, features many of the same benefits of traditional BRIDGE workstations including comprehensive market data, analytics and news. Flying Club members will have access to real-time streaming quotes, charts, global news from BridgeNews and analysis of the world's financial markets in a total Internet offering available through www.virgin.com. "This relationship is a precise example of BRIDGE's Internet philosophy -- to assist various companies around the world in fulfilling their Internet goals," said Malcolm Stewart-Smith, Managing Director for BRIDGE Europe, Middle East and Africa. "Virgin Atlantic chose BRIDGE to provide the technology and information necessary to significantly enhance their leading Flying Club program. We look forward to continually maximizing the synergies between BRIDGE and Virgin Atlantic to meet the needs of our mutual customers." "This partnership with BRIDGE strengthens our position as a world-class carrier, recognised for one of the most generous frequent flyer plans," said Jeremy Simmonds, Virgin Atlantic's Partnership Marketing Manager. "Furthermore, Virgin Atlantic is the first airline to empower its elite members with premier financial information and news from BRIDGE." About BRIDGE BRIDGE, together with its principal operating units, BRIDGE Information Systems, Telerate(R), Inc., eBRIDGE(SM), Bridge Trading, and BridgeNews(SM) is the largest provider of financial information and related services in North America and one of the fastest growing in the world. BRIDGE information products include a wide range of workstations, market data feeds and web-browser-based applications, combined with comprehensive market data, in-depth news, powerful analytic tools and trading room The notion of "trading room" (sometimes used as a synonym of "trading floor", see below) is widely used in financial markets to refer to the office space where market activities are concentrated in investment banks or brokerage houses. integration systems. BridgeNews leverages a network of 600 BRIDGE journalists in more than 100 locations that break news that affect securities markets globally. BRIDGE is the co-producer of the Nightly Business Report Nightly Business Report is a financial news television program that is broadcast live, weekday evenings on most of the public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and and is a leading provider of financial news and information to media companies worldwide. BRIDGE, with 5000 employees worldwide, and over a quarter of a million users in over 65 countries, is 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. with the BRIDGE Trading and Technology center in St. Louis, and major regional centers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . For more information visit the BRIDGE web site at http://www.bridge.com. About Virgin Atlantic Virgin Atlantic, one of the world's most-acclaimed carriers, received top honors in 2000 as "Best Transatlantic Airline" by Conde Nast Traveler's readers for the third consecutive year; and "Best of the Best" by the Robb Report The Robb Report is a magazine about luxury life, featuring products of the lifestyle, such as cars, watches, and real estate. It was originally started by Robert White as a magazine to complement the purchase of a Rolls-Royce automobile. . Virgin Atlantic Airways serves London from 10 U.S. gateways: 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 (JFK), Newark, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Orlando, Chicago, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Washington (Dulles), Miami, Boston and Las Vegas. From London, the carrier serves South Africa, Greece, Japan, Hong Kong, the Caribbean, China and India. For further information, please contact the Virgin Atlantic Press Office on 01293 747373 or log onto the Virgin Atlantic website www.virgin.com |
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