Black Box Corporation Added to Standard & Poor's Smallcap 600 Index.PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 1999-- Black Box Corporation (Nasdaq:BBOX) today announced that it was added to Standard & Poor's SmallCap 600 Index effective Tuesday, July 6, 1999. Commenting on the addition to the Index, Fred C. Young, Chief Executive Officer of Black Box Corporation, said, "We are pleased to be included in Standard & Poor's SmallCap 600. This is another acknowledgement of our strong and consistent financial performance becoming more visible to the investment community." Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., provides financial, economic and investment information and analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. services to the global financial community. S&P calculates and maintains the S&P Global Index, which includes the S&P Euro and Euro Plus for Continental Europe Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent, is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands and, at times, peninsulas. , the S&P/TSE 60 for Canada, the S&P 500 for the U.S. and new components under construction for Japan, Asia/Pacific, U.K. and 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. . S&P also publishes the S&P MidCap mid·cap adj. 1. Or or relating to corporations whose retained earnings and outstanding shares of common stock have a value between those of small cap companies and large cap corporations. 2. 400, S&P SmallCap 600, S&P SuperComposite 1500 and S&P REIT REIT See: Real Estate Investment Trust REIT See real estate investment trust (REIT). Composite for the U.S. and the S&P/TSE Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. MidCap and S&P/TSE Canadian SmallCap. Over $700 billion is indexed to S&P indices. The S&P SmallCap 600 Index is the small company segment of the U.S. market. The SmallCap 600 is gaining wide acceptance as the preferred benchmark for both active and passive management due to its low turnover and greater liquidity. Over $7 billion is indexed to the S&P SmallCap 600. Black Box Corporation is a leading worldwide technical service provider of computer communications and networking services and related products to businesses of all sizes operating in 77 countries throughout the world. |
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