Thomson Financial Clients Take Top Honors at the Interactive
Investor Relations Awards
NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Financial, an operating
unit of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of
information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community,
today announced that seventeen clients, more than any other provider, have been
awarded top honors for their Thomson/CCBN hosted IR Web sites at the first
annual Interactive Investor Relations Awards (IIR Awards) for investor-oriented
Web site development. Entries competed with peers within more than 50 industry
categories as well as against an overall standard of excellence. Web sites were
judged on design, navigation, ease of use and use of technology to enhance the
investor's experience as well as specific content criteria relating to investor
and financial communication.
Thomson/CCBN is the leader in IR Web site hosting and webcasting, with over
3,000 public company clients worldwide. "The IIR Awards validate the services
we provide to help our clients improve online communications and promote
corporate transparency," said Steve Roycroft, Executive Vice President of
Thomson's Corporate Communications Services group. "To have a majority of the
IIR awards presented to Thomson/CCBN clients is an honor and a testament to our
mission of promoting best practices that contribute to shareholder value." Some of the Thomson/CCBN clients awarded honors include: Allied Capital
Corporation (NYSE:ALD) Best Professional Services IR Site
AmeriCredit Corp. (NYSE:ACF) Best Financial Services IR Site
Avaya Inc. (NYSE:AV) Outstanding IR Site
CVS Corporation (NYSE:CVS) Outstanding IR Site
Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) Best Computer Hardware IR Site
General Motors (NYSE:GM) Best Automotive IR Site
Keane, Inc. (NYSE:KEA) Outstanding IR Site
Nevada Gold and
Casinos, Inc. (AMEX:UWN) Best Entertainment IR Site
Pinnacle West
Capital Corp (NYSE:PNW) Best Energy IR Site
Redwood Trust, Inc. (NYSE:RWT) Outstanding IR Site
SI International (NASDAQ:SINT) Outstanding IR Site
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) Best Beverage IR Site
The Procter & Gamble Best Personal Care Products IR
Company (NYSE:PG) Site
W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE:GWW) Best Industrial Services IR Site A complete list of the winning sites can be found at the interactive Investor
Relations Award Web site at http://www.iirawards.org/iir/ About Thomson Financial Thomson Financial is a US$1.5 billion provider of information and technology
solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the widest range of
products and services in the industry, Thomson Financial helps clients in more
than 70 countries make better decisions, be more productive and achieve
superior results. Thomson Financial is part of The Thomson Corporation
(http://www.thomson.com/), a leading provider of value-added information,
software tools and applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of
law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference
information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and
healthcare. With revenues of US$7.6 billion, The Thomson Corporation lists
its common shares on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX:
TOC.) DATASOURCE: Thomson Financial CONTACT: Kerri Shepherd, Manager, Public Relations, Thomson Financial, +1-646-822-2077, Web site: http://www.thomsonfinancial.com/ http://www.iirawards.org/iir
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