CCBN Clients From Latin America Receive Top Investor Relations Industry Awards; CEMEX S.A. Among Clients Recognized for Superior Investor Relations Programs.

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2002

CCBN (www.ccbn.com), the leading provider of Internet-based financial communications services, today announced that more than a dozen of its Latin America clients recently received awards for demonstrating outstanding performance in key areas of investor relations (IR).

In addition to bringing home eight awards from the Investor Relations Magazine Latin American IR Awards ceremony, CEMEX (NYSE: CX) of Mexico was selected as one of the Top 5 Web sites in Latin America by Latin Finance Magazine because of its "rich historical financial information, interactive graphs, a good company presentation and solid navigation structure."

"CCBN's IR Online service is a turnkey solution for our Web site needs," said Beate Melten, manager of investor relations, CEMEX. "It helps us meet new corporate disclosure requirements by displaying all of the necessary financial information for our investors."

The Investor Relations Magazine Awards have become recognized as the most accurate and valid measure of excellence in the global IR community. Winners of the high-profile awards are determined by a survey of thousands of portfolio managers, securities analysts and retail investors who identify companies that have achieved the year's most impressive IR performances in various awards categories and market cap ranges.

CCBN clients won top honors at the Investor Relations Magazine
Latin American Awards 2002 ceremony held in New York City on May 14.
These clients include:

Aracruz Celulose--Grand Prix for Best Overall IR (Small-Cap)
winner, as well as Best IR by a Brazilian Company honorable mention

AmBev--Best IR by a Brazilian Company and Best IR Officer honorable
mentions

Banco Bradesco--Most Improved IR honorable mention

BBVA Bancomer--Best IR by a Mexican Company honorable mention

Buenaventura--Best IR by a Peruvian Company honorable mention

CEMEX--Grand Prix for Best Overall IR (Large-Cap), Best IR Officer,
Best Communications with the Retail Market, Best Debt IR and Best IR
by a Mexican Company winner, as well as Best IR Web Site, Best Annual
Report and Best Corporate Governance honorable mentions

Credicorp--Best IR by a Peruvian Company winner

Coca-Cola FEMSA--Best IR by a Mexican Company honorable mention

Endesa--Best IR by a Chilean Company honorable mention

ENERSIS--Best IR by a Chilean Company honorable mention

FEMSA--Best IR Officer honorable mention

Telecom Argentina--Best IR by an Argentinean Company honorable mention


CCBN's Latin America clients honored at the Investor Relations
Magazine US Awards 2002 ceremony, held in New York on March 21
include:

CEMEX--Best Investor Relations by a Latin American company
honorable mention

Coca-Cola FEMSA--Best Investor Relations by a Latin American company
honorable mention

Additionally, a number of CCBN clients were honored at the Latin Finance Magazine IR Web site awards ceremony held in January. The Latin Finance Magazine conducted its annual survey of 280 public companies from Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Brazil, evaluating Web sites for content, design, technology and data manipulation, interactivity, timeliness and mutability of language and currency.

The following CCBN clients received awards: FEMSA, CEMEX, Vitro, Coca-Cola FEMSA, Globocabo, AmBev, Quilmas, Telcom Argentina, ENERSIS.

"CCBN congratulates all the winners of this year's investor relations awards," said Rob Adler, president, CCBN. "We are proud that so many of our clients were recognized for their outstanding efforts and are happy to be able help them with their online IR communications and play a part in their industry leading investor relations programs."

About CCBN

Co-founded in 1997 by Jeffrey P. Parker, creator of First Call, and Robert Adler, 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 2,500 public companies, providing detailed shareholder information through interactive, multimedia solutions. In addition, CCBN hosts live and archived quarterly conference calls for more than 3,000 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, MA, CCBN has additional offices in San Francisco and London. For more information, visit www.ccbn.com or call 866-228-CCBN (2226).