Cross-Border Publishing Announces Diversification and New Corporate Identity.

LONDON -- Publisher and events organizer celebrates first 15 years, launches IR conference in India and expands into contract publishing for financial and corporate communications 

Cross-Border Publishing Ltd, publisher of IR magazine and organizer of IR Magazine Awards, has adopted a new name - Cross Border - and a new corporate identity. It has also announced its expansion into contract corporate and financial publishing and events. An IR conference will be launched in India in January 2006. As part of its reorganization, the group also announces the appointment of Neil Stewart to the senior role of vice president and editorial director of Cross Border Publishing (USA). The new Cross Border web site (www.thecrossbordergroup.com) is currently live.

Janet Dignan, managing director, and Ian Richman, president of Cross Border Publishing USA, along with two other private investors founded Cross-Border Publishing Ltd in London in 1993. A New York office quickly followed in 1995. Dignan, who was with the Economist Group in London from 1982 to 1993, founded Investor Relations Magazine in 1988 for the investor relations professional dealing with the changing environment of shareholder activism and corporate governance in the early 1990s. Three regional editions are published in New York and London monthly. IR magazine (as the magazine is now called) is the only publication focused on the interface between companies and their investors and reaches a global audience of 10,000 individuals.

On the back of the success of the magazine in the UK, the IR Magazine Awards began in London in 1991 to acknowledge those companies considered to be leading exponents of investor relations. IR magazine now hosts annual awards ceremonies in the US, Canada, Brazil, the UK, continental Europe, Central & Eastern Europe (including Russia), the Nordic region, China and Singapore. Combined annual attendance at Cross Border events is around 8,000 IR and IR-related professionals.

Award-winning companies and individuals are selected on the basis of annual independent surveys of the investment community in each country. Research conducted for the awards also encapsulates industry changes, reviews investors' requirements and investigates contemporary developments affecting the IR profession. Differing from many studies, the intent of this research is to reflect the needs of the entire investment universe: buy-side portfolio managers and analysts, sell-side analysts and individual investors. This primary research, which serves as a benchmark of best practice IR, is published for each region where IR Magazine Awards are held as an Investor Perception Study.

Cross Border also publishes Corporate Secretary for the North American governance professional. In June 2005 it launched CorpComms magazine, aimed at the 10,000 corporate communications professionals in the UK.

Janet Dignan, MD of Cross Border, says, 'Having worked at the heart of the investor relations world for over 15 years Cross Border is now expanding. We are offering that same communications community Cross Border's top-flight journalistic and publishing skills and event management for their in-house products. The financial world has its own regulatory constraints, which we think demand the level of quality our organization can deliver.'

Note to editors:

Cross Border (formerly Cross-Border Publishing), was founded in the UK in 1993 and is the publisher in New York and London of IR magazine, the only global publication focused on the interface between companies and their investors. IR magazine hosts annual awards ceremonies in the US, the UK, continental Europe, Canada, the Nordic region and China, with a combined annual attendance of around 8,000 investor relations professionals. An IR conference will be launched in India in January 2006. Cross Border also publishes Corporate Secretary in North America and the new title CorpComms in the UK. The Cross Border contract division offers publishing and event management to the financial and corporate communications sectors in Europe. www.thecrossbordergroup.com

Biographies and photos of the senior managers Janet Dignan, Ian Richman and Neil Stewart are available on request as well as a fact sheet by contacting Claire Hunte on [e-mail]