Abrasca, the Brazilian Association of Public Owned Companies, was created 35 years ago to act in defense of the positions of public companies vis-à-vis the decision-making centers and public opinion, and also work toward the development of capital market mechanisms and the dissemination of information about securities. The scope of this mission is closely in line with the understanding that the capital market should be the principal channel for transferring private savings in the direction of economic and social growth, enabling the healthy capitalization of national companies. The Brazilian public companies represent the modern phase of our economy, facing the immense challenges of a universe in permanent mutation with the resources improved by the increasing maturity of management and by absorbing the best management techniques and technologies.

The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service provides real- time and archived data, news, research and analytics to Investor Relations officers around the world.  Successful IROs depend on Bloomberg to help them stay ahead of their analysts and investors, keep their firm's executives informed, and proactively manage their company's message.  Investor targeting and surveillance, consensus earnings estimates, industry events and transcripts, competitive intelligence, and industry news and research are just some of the reasons why IROs depend on Bloomberg.  In addition, with Bloomberg, IROs  are not only able to access and understand trading  in their own stock, but also the role that related instruments like bonds, options and credit default swaps may play in their company's share price.  Each of these solutions is available on the same single, integrated platform used by institutional investors and analysts around the world. 

In today's investor relations climate, success is defined by access to information and the ability to use it. It's defined by Bloomberg.

BNY Mellon acts as depositary for more than 2,100 American and global depositary receipt programs, acting in partnership with leading companies from 67 countries. With an unrivaled commitment to helping securities issuers succeed in the world's rapidly evolving financial markets, the company delivers the industry's most comprehensive suite of integrated depositary receipt, corporate trust and stock transfer services. Learn more at www.bnymellon.com/dr.

IBRI (Brazilian Institute of Investor Relations) is a not-for-profit private law association, with a membership of professionals linked to the investor relations area. The institute’s mission is the formation and fostering of the professional and the IR area, as well as intensifying his/her participation in the debating of themes with the regulators, legislators and the government for establishing guidelines and the development of the capital markets. IBRI also promotes the exchange of experience and information on IR techniques with companies, professionals and entities connected to the capital markets in Brazil and overseas.

The Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce is an independent, not-for-profit business organization. A non-governmental association, the chamber aims to promote trade and investment flows between Brazil and the US and to forge closer ties between the business communities of both nations.

Since its inception in 1968 and founding in 1969, the chamber’s membership base has mushroomed from a few companies to more than 500 corporate members. Chamber members range from small firms to Fortune 500 corporations and operate in a variety of sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, legal services, hospitality and trade.

Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor’s business, provides the most accurate financial information available to financial professionals at more than 4,200 firms worldwide. Investor relations professionals at many of the world’s leading corporations use Capital IQ to identify potential investors, monitor and influence the sell side, understand current shareholder bases, perform stock valuation analysis, monitor industry events and corporate calendars, and find detailed equity ownership data on public and private companies. To learn more, contact a dedicated member of our team at information@capitaliq.com, or visit Capital IQ’s website at www.capitaliq.com.

Chorus Call is a world-class teleconferencing service provider with headquarters in Pennsylvania and satellite offices in Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, India and South Africa. As a pioneer of high-quality conferencing, Chorus Call offers a broad spectrum of audio, video, data and web-based conferencing services. Chorus Call’s sister company – Compunetix – is an international leader in the design and manufacture of multipoint conferencing systems. The distinctive relationship between Chorus Call and Compunetix creates a teleconferencing think tank environment that aids in promoting innovative and customized solutions.

About Citi

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com | Twitter: @Citi | YouTube: www.youtube.com/citi | Blog: http://new.citi.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/citi | LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/citi

Citi Depositary Receipt Services is a leader in bringing quality issuers to global capital markets and in promoting Depositary Receipts (DRs) as an effective capital markets tool. Citi began offering DRs in 1928 and today is widely recognized for providing companies with access to the powerful global platform Citi has to offer. For more information on Citi Depositary Receipt Services, visit www.citi.com/dr.

Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank with a substantial private clients franchise. Its businesses are mutually reinforcing. A leader in Germany and Europe, the bank is continuously growing in North America, Asia and key emerging markets. With more than 100,000 employees in 74 countries, Deutsche Bank offers unparalleled financial services throughout the world. The bank competes to be the leading global provider of financial solutions, creating lasting value for its clients, shareholders, people and the communities in which it operates.

Established in the country in 1911 to support foreign trade with Germany , Deutsche Bank Brasil is currently a multiple bank with commercial and investment portfolios. It offers structuring mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions and a wide portfolio of treasury, cash management, custody, agent, documentary credit and trade finance, in addition to brokerage services. With global presence and expertise, it serves large national and international companies, financial institutions, and local and foreign investors.

Deutsche Bank has been awarded “Best Global Investment Bank 2010” by Euromoney Magazine and “Bank of the Year” by IFR. It has also been nominated “Derivatives House of the Year” by Risk Magazine in 2011.

Deutsche Bank's ADR Group provides depositary bank and related services on more than 250 sponsored programs worldwide.
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FD is a leading strategic communications consultancy dedicated to helping companies protect and enhance their enterprise value by providing integrated solutions for their most critical communications issues. We offer a combination of industry leading human capital, diverse specialist practices, a deep understanding of key industry sectors, broad global reach, and access to the expertise of our parent company FTI Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: FCN).

The Goldman Sachs Group is a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

The HSBC Group is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with well-established businesses in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. HSBC Holdings is incorporated in England, with its head office in London. It has more than 7,500 offices in 87 countries and territories worldwide, and 100 mn customers worldwide.

HSBC Global Banking and Markets is an emerging markets-led and financing-focused business that provides tailored financial solutions to major government, corporate and institutional clients worldwide. HSBC Global Banking and Markets in the US offers a full range of tailored financial products through HSBC Bank USA, NA and HSBC Securities (USA).

For more information, please visit www.hsbcnet.com.

When companies need to access investors beyond their borders, they turn to the recognized leader in depositary receipts (DRs). At JPMorgan, we commit the entire resources of our firm to your success – that means focused investor relations advisory up front, aggressive support in the aftermarket, and the strength of our research and global reputation throughout. This helps firms raise capital, conduct mergers and acquisitions, expand their investor base, and much more.

JPMorgan’s DR programs are the largest and most liquid in the world. Our DR professionals use their market knowledge and strong deal execution capabilities to support issuers with innovative, well-invested, liquid and cost-effective DR programs. We have been a market leader committed to our customers since we created the world’s first DR program nearly 85 years ago.

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King Worldwide is the leader in capital markets intelligence, investor relations, financial communications, online communications and proxy solicitation services in the Americas, Europe and Asia. King Worldwide’s Taylor Rafferty and Capital Precision help clients to better understand their investors, raise their profiles in the capital markets, increase international investment, and plan and execute their investor relations programs. From IPO to M&A, there is no corporate event or requirement in which King Worldwide is not integrally involved, thoroughly versed and uniformly successful. Learn more at www.king-worldwide.com.

Media Group is a corporate communication agency focused on the capital markets and the strategic communication of sustainability. It provides services to large companies and its staff are specialists in various areas who work in an integrated manner. Media Group's services range from the creation of content to its final appearance in printed or online form. The whole process is carried out in one location and with the single aim of creating value through communication.

Visit our site and familiarize yourself with our work: www.mediagroup.com.br.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with more than 3,600 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries.  NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com. *Please follow NASDAQ OMX on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/NASDAQ-OMX/108167527653) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx).

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.

OTC Markets Group operates the world's largest electronic marketplace for broker-dealers to trade unlisted stocks. Our OTC Link platform supports an open network of competing broker-dealers, providing investors with the best prices in more than 10,000 OTC securities. In 2010 OTC Link was the third-largest US equity trading venue after NASDAQ and the NYSE. We categorize the wide spectrum of OTC-traded companies into three tiers: OTCQX (the quality-controlled marketplace for investor-friendly companies), OTCQB (the US reporting company marketplace for development stage companies) and OTC Pink (the speculative trading marketplace) – so investors can identify the level and quality of information companies provide.

PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 56 years ago, PR Newswire today is the preferred newswire for thousands of listed companies and provides the industry's most comprehensive and efficient end-to-end solutions for investor targeting, communication and compliance. Services include news release distribution that meets U.S., European, and Canadian disclosure regulations; full-scale EDGAR filing services and high-end printing services for financial documents through Vintage Filings; online investor engagement tools; multimedia and broadcast production services for IR events; and comprehensive market intelligence and research through a strategic alliance with Ipreo. Combining the world's largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world's enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a United Business Media company.

Revista RI, a Brazilian investor relations magazine, was launched in March 1998, and in its 13 years of uninterrupted monthly issues is considered the leading Brazilian publication for financial and IR professionals in the investment market. With a monthly circulation of more than 10,000 copies, the publication is distributed to directors and executives of finance and investor relations in more than 480 public Brazilian corporations. The magazine is widely read by institutional investors, financial analysts and investment professionals involved in the leading institutions of the financial capital markets. Its circulation and distribution make Revista RI a presence in the most important sectors of the Brazilian economy, representing an indispensable reference point for those responsible for the investment decisions made in Brazil. Please see our website: www.revistari.com.br.

Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. It combines industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, healthcare and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than 55,000 people and operates in over 100 countries. Thomson Reuters' shares are listed on Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE (symbol: TRI).

Vale is a global leader in mining, as well as a global leader in sustainable value creation. We produce iron ore, nickel, copper, fertilizer nutrients and other important minerals and metals that are essential in people’s lives. With a market capital over US$ 170 billion, Vale’s shares are traded on the NYSE, BM&F BOVESPA, Euronext Paris and HKEx.

These days, Valor has 171,000 readers on a daily basis, and a paid circulation of 58,524 copies daily. Its online version reaches 596,414 unique visitors and has 3,339,710 page views per month. Beyond Valor Online, readers can access the newspaper content using a cellphone through a mobile site. Valor also has apps for the iPhone, BlackBerry and iPad.

A 2010 survey carried out by Meio & Mensagem, a media specialist publication, reveals for the second consecutive year that Valor Economico is regarded as the third-most respected newspaper in Brazil, following O Estado de São Paulo  and Folha de São Paulo.

Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich) is a leading multi-line insurance provider with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East as well as other markets. It offers a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services for individuals, small businesses, mid-sized and large companies and multinational corporations.

Zurich employs about 60,000 people serving customers in more than 170 countries. Founded in 1872, the group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich Financial Services is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American depositary receipt program, which is traded over the counter on OTCQX. Further information about Zurich is available at www.zurich.com.