Business Wire, CCBN Launch Break-through Webcast Disclosure Product.Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Logos are available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home page at www.businesswire.com or on Newstream.com's Home page at www.newstream.com. 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 & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2001 Fair Disclosure Webcast (FD Webcast) to Assist the Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Community in Meeting Regulation FD Requirements Business Wire (www.businesswire.com) and CCBN CCBN Central Coast Bancorp CCBN Charles County Business Network (www.ccbn.com) announced today a major expansion of their strategic alliance, providing an unparalleled combination of disclosure services to investor relations and corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. professionals. Under the new agreement, CCBN and Business Wire will co-market a bundled webcast product, FD Webcast, combining a CCBN Webcast with a Business Wire Advisory News Release to assist companies in meeting the disclosure requirements of Regulation FD. In addition to a broadly disseminated news release providing advance notice of the event, FD Webcast includes a CCBN Webcast that will be widely distributed Adj. 1. widely distributed - growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" cosmopolitan bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms to extend the company's message to an all-inclusive investor relations audience. The FD Webcast package includes posting to the company's Web site, the Business Wire site, and CCBN's powerful Investor Distribution Network, including Yahoo!(R) Finance, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Personal Finance, Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. It is made up by two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research Corporation (FMR Co. (R), Lycos Quote.com, The Motley Fool, Money.com, and CCBN's own StreetEvents.com site among others. The combined reach of this distribution network exceeds an estimated 90% of all Web users. Additionally, a link to the webcast will be embedded in the subsequent earnings release for Business Wire members. "IR on the Internet is fundamentally about reach and distribution," comments Jeff Parker Jeff Parker can refer to more than one person:
"Regulation FD, which went into effect on October 23, seeks to create a level playing field See net neutrality. for all investors. Webcasting of company conference calls and other news of investor interest, in conjunction with the issuance of a broadly disseminated news release, satisfies the spirit of FD by reaching out to the total universe of potential investors," said Cathy Baron Tamraz, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Business Wire. "CCBN's alliance with Business Wire utilizes the most effective communications platform available to alert institutional and individual investors of scheduled webcasts," she continued. "FD Webcast expands the comprehensive notification elements of our current financial disclosure services and products and links Business Wire's members to CCBN's unique network of institutional and individual investors," said Tamraz. "Providing top-quality investor relations products and services to our corporate clients and the media is the core of our business, and further solidifies our position as the premier Internet and satellite information distribution service in the world." CCBN, a leading provider of Internet-based shareholder communication services, recently announced that it webcast more than 7,600 investor events last year and more than 2,800 conference calls in the fourth quarter alone. As an early online pioneer to harness the Internet's power, Business Wire delivers the day's top business stories directly to the desktops of major decision-makers, management executives, public and investor relations professionals, and media from around the world. Business Wire's disclosure, news and feature, and media relations products and services are mainstays in the communication arsenal of corporate communicators, investor relations and 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 professionals and journalists worldwide. About CCBN Co-founded in 1997 by Jeffrey P. Parker, creator of First Call, and Robert Adler Robert Adler (December 4 1913 - February 15 2007) was an Austrian-born American inventor who held numerous patents. Achievements Adler was born in Vienna, and earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Vienna in 1937. , CCBN is the global leader in enabling direct communications between public companies and the investment community over the Internet. CCBN builds, manages and hosts the investor relations sections of Web sites for more than 2,000 public companies, providing detailed shareholder information through interactive, multi-media solutions. In addition, CCBN hosts live and archived quarterly conference calls for more than 2,500 corporations each quarter. Through its StreetEvents institutional event management database, (www.streetevents.com) and partnerships with leading retail financial portals, CCBN has created a revolutionary investor distribution network that delivers an unprecedented body of direct corporate information to the largest collective audience of institutional and individual investors in cyberspace. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., CCBN has offices in San Francisco, Atlanta and London. About Business Wire Founded in San Francisco in 1961 by its president, Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations executive, Business Wire delivers more news from more sources to more destinations than any other service in the world. With content from more than 17,000 organizations, including major U.S. corporations, Fortune 1000 and 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 companies, Business Wire remains the fastest-growing and largest independent commercial news wire in the world. The company electronically disseminates full-text news releases for public and investor relations professionals simultaneously to the news media, the Internet, online services and databases, and the investment community worldwide. Business Wire combines a brick-and-mortar foundation with the vision of an Internet company. Business Wire's family of Web sites includes www.businesswire.com, www.tradeshownews.com, www.EntertainmentWire.com and the joint-venture multimedia news portal, www.newstream.com. The company has 26 offices throughout the United States, with an international hub in Brussels and reciprocal offices throughout the world. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.020501/bb9 http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.020501/bb9a |
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