Knight-Ridder Information names Ethel Daly Senior Vice President, Marketing and Product Management.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 1995-- Knight-Ridder Information Inc. has named Ethel Erickson Daly to the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Marketing and Product Management.

In this capacity she will head an integrated marketing organization that encompasses the entire spectrum of Knight-Ridder Information products and services.

Daly is the former Managing Director of Charles Schwab & Company's International Division, where she was responsible for Schwab's stockbroking business for individual investors outside the United States. Prior to this, she was Senior Vice President (SVP) of the branch offices in the eastern half of the United States, SVP of all central customer sales/service, and SVP of the Investor Information Division, which developed consumer PC, online, and telephone services.

Before joining Schwab, Daly was vice president of marketing for the Atalla Corporation, a high technology company in Silicon Valley. She also spent several years in product development for Crocker National Bank and in sales and programming for National Cash Register Company. She has a Masters of Business Management degree from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University.

Jeff Galt, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Knight-Ridder Information, says the company is particularly pleased to welcome Daly. "We are in an era of rapidly advancing technology and changing business climates. Ethel Daly is a proven, successful manager who has operated in a variety of arenas and who specializes in applying innovative techniques to the challenges of changing environments."

The Marketing and Product Management organization Daly will oversee is responsible for marketing online and CD-ROM products and services to information professionals and end users in business and technical markets. The department also supplies library services to newspapers, plus current awareness products and document delivery services to all markets. Daly is confident that the group can meet the challenges of new products, markets and customers.

According to Daly, "While we recognize the importance of creating simple, innovative products for a new market of end users, we will not forget that our company's core customers are the information professionals who rely upon our extensive collection of business, intellectual property, and science and technology databases. We will continue to supply these valued customers with the information and the services they need to help them stay competitive in today's business world, while we create products for tomorrow's."

Knight-Ridder Information Inc. is the acknowledged world leader in electronic information access and delivery. The DIALOG(a) and DataStar(a) services contain more than 600 databases, primarily in the business, news, scientific, and technical areas, used by 200,000 customers in almost 150 countries. The KR Information OnDisc(a) collection of databases on CD-ROM consists of approximately 70 titles offered in six subject families: Business Information, Education & Humanities, Health & Biomedicine, Law & Government, Newspapers, and Science & Technology.

For more information on Knight-Ridder Information or its services, contact the company by mail at 2440 El Camino Real, Mountain View, Calif 94040; by fax at 415/254-7070, or by phone at 415/254-8800 (Mountain View) or 215/241-0131 (Philadelphia). In the U.S. and Canada, call 800-334-2564. In the U.K., phone [phone].

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Note (a): DIALOG is a service mark (registered U.S. Patent & Trademark Office), DataStar is a service mark, and KR Information OnDisc is a trademark of Knight-Ridder Information, Inc., a Knight-Ridder company.

CONTACT: Knight-Ridder Information

Zohreh Imam, 800/334-2564 or 415/254-8328