CCBN Clients Receive Top Honors Around the Globe.

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2001

CCBN (www.ccbn.com), the leading provider of Internet-based shareholder communications services, announced today a list of its clients recently receiving awards for their investor relations programs.

United States

Thirty-nine of CCBN's corporate clients were honored at the Investor Relations Magazine U.S. Awards 2001 ceremony held in New York City on March 29. Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) was honored for Most Innovative Use of Technology for the Retail Market. Additionally, Cisco received the award for Best Corporate Advertising and Honorable Mentions for Best Overall Investor Relations, Best IR by a CEO, Best IRO, and Best Communication with the Retail Market.

"Cisco has a great partnership with CCBN and the results have been extremely successful," commented Blair Christie, head of IR at Cisco. "We use CCBN's innovative service as a strategic tool for us in our communications with investors."

Latin America

At the MZ Consult Web site Awards in February, Globo Cabo's (Nasdaq: GLCBY) investor relations Web site was voted #1 by the Brazilian financial community and was ranked among the top 5 Best IR sites as evaluated by MZ Consult. Globo Cabo selected CCBN to power their IR site in November, 2000, and CCBN maintains both Portuguese and English versions of Globo Cabo's Web site.

Mexican-based CCBN clients FEMSA (NYSE: FMX) and CEMEX (NYSE: CX) were also big winners at the IR Magazine Latin American IR Awards held in November, 2000. "The IR program at FEMSA has been greatly enhanced by the network of e-services provided by CCBN," said Arturo Ballester of FEMSA Investor Relations. "Their service doesn't stop at our web portal--we constantly rely on their advice for integrated communications strategies and widespread promotion of our Company."

"CCBN is proud to help these companies with their award-winning investor relations programs," comments Rob Adler, CCBN President. "These companies have realized that CCBN can add significant value to their program - we congratulate all the winners."

About CCBN

Co-founded in 1997 by Jeffrey P. Parker, creator of First Call, and Robert Adler, CCBN is a 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, multi-media 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, (http://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 additional offices in San Francisco and London.