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.

Broadridge Financial Solutions is the leading provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions for broker-dealers, mutual funds and corporations globally. Broadridge’s investor communication, securities processing and operations outsourcing solutions help clients reduce their capital investments in operations infrastructure and increase their focus on core business activities.  

With 50 years of experience, Broadridge’s infrastructure underpins proxy voting services for more than 90 percent of public companies and mutual funds in North America, processes more than $4.5 tn in fixed income and equity trades per day, and saves companies billions annually through its technology solutions.  

Broadridge employs approximately 6,200 full-time associates in 11 countries. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.chartingthecourse.ca

Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global leader in multi-platform press release distribution and financial disclosure services. Thousands of organizations and communications professionals turn to Business Wire for superior optimization, presentation and distribution of their news, photos and multimedia to news media, websites, search engines and wireless services.

A recognized disclosure service in the United States, Canada and a dozen European countries, Business Wire handles XBRL tagging, document formatting and regulatory filing into EDGAR, SEDAR and other systems. With more distribution options in more countries than any other commercial newswire, Business Wire provides members with targeted reach to virtually any market or industry worldwide.  For more information, visit us online at www.BusinessWire.com

CCR Solutions is your source for creative event staging and state of the art audio-visual and presentation technology. We work with you to skillfully combine sound, light, images and words to achieve premier performance and lasting impact for every event.

The Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) is a professional, not-for-profit association of executives responsible for communication between public corporations, investors and the financial community. CIRI contributes to the transparency and integrity of the Canadian capital market by advancing the practice of investor relations, the professional competency of its members and the stature of the profession.
With over 600 members, CIRI is the world’s second largest society of investor relations professionals. Approximately 88% of CIRI's public company members are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, 6% on the TSX Venture Exchange, and 30% are inter-listed on a US exchange. CIRI has active chapters in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia.
Since 2001, over 90% of IR Magazine Canada Award winners have been members of CIRI. To learn about the benefits of membership and professional development opportunities, please visit www.ciri.org.
Be informed. Be connected. Be current.
Be a CIRI member.

CNW is Canada’s leading financial newswire company and offers quality disclosure solutions for public companies including webcast, regulatory filing services comprising SEDAR, EDGAR, SEDI and a XBRL-tagging solution in partnership with EDGAR Online, conference calls, transcription and translation services. Toronto Stock Exchange exclusively endorses CNW’s financial results webcasting and newswire service.

Computershare is a global market leader in transfer agency and share registration, employee equity plans, proxy solicitation and stakeholder communications. We also specialize in corporate trust, mortgage, bankruptcy, class action, utility and tax voucher administration, and a range of other diversified financial and governance services.

Founded in 1978, Computershare is renowned for its expertise in high-integrity data management, high-volume transaction processing and reconciliations, payments and stakeholder engagement. Many of the world’s leading organizations use us to streamline and maximize the value of relationships with their investors, employees, creditors and customers. Computershare is represented in all major financial markets and has more than 12,000 employees worldwide.

For more information, visit www.computershare.com

Georgeson is the world’s leading provider of strategic proxy and corporate governance advisory services to corporations and shareholder groups working to influence corporate strategy. For more than half a century, Georgeson has specialized in complex solicitations such as hostile and friendly acquisitions, proxy contests and takeover defenses. The firm also provides issuers with expertise in corporate events solutions such as post-merger unexchanged holder programs and information agent services. For more information, visit www.georgeson.com.

Canadian Stock Transfer (CST) is a leading provider of equity administration services and a member of the Link Group, an international network of providers of transfer agent and employee plan services. Headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Calgary, Halifax and Vancouver, CST provides issuers with global solutions through local access points.

Also part of the Link Group, CST Phoenix Advisors (Phoenix) is a leading provider of proxy solicitation and corporate governance advisory services. Phoenix acts as a year-round adviser for its clients, executing all the traditional functions during the solicitation period but, increasingly more important, providing company-specific guidance and consultative advice year-round.

CST’s full suite of integrated services was designed to meet all of your equity administration needs. For more information, please visit www.canstockta.com and www.phoenixadvisorscst.com.

Ipreo is a global leader in the provision of market‐leading intelligence, robust technology and superior customer service to publicly listed companies and investment banks around the world. Built on a legacy of experience and a thorough understanding of the capital markets, Ipreo provides critical insights and flexible solutions to help our clients run better investor relations programs. Ipreo’s IR products and services include:

- Global market intelligence

- Shareholder identification and analysis

- Institutional investor targeting

- Investment community perception studies

– Online investor relationship management software

Visit us at www.ipreo.com 

Kingsdale Shareholder Services provides strategic shareholder communication and advisory services. Through its seamless, multi-dimensional mechanism for communicating with shareholders and seeking out timely, detailed and transaction critical information from third parties, clients are empowered to make well-informed key decisions. Operating in the context of takeover bids (hostile and friendly), proxy fights, special and routine shareholder meetings, Kingsdale offers an array of specialized programs, services and solutions including proxy solicitation, information agent, depositary, corporate governance advisory services, ISS-styled analysis and other shareholder-related services.

Kingsdale Communications, a division of Kingsdale Shareholder Services, offers tailored solutions and expertise in investor relations, public relations, multimedia, media management and corporate communications. A full service advisory firm with seasoned professionals experienced in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and proxy contests are focused to help your organization succeed.
For more information, please visit our websites at: www.kingsdaleshareholder.com and www.kingsdalecommunications.com

The Laurel Hill Advisory Group is the only independent provider of Shareholder Communication and Corporate Governance Advisory services in North America.  Our team of knowledgeable and experienced professionals gives our clients access to first rate cross border capabilities that specialize in Annual Meeting Solicitation, Information Agent services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Actions, Special Meeting Solicitation and Shareholder Asset Recovery Programs.  We also afford our clients with the most comprehensive Corporate Governance and Risk Assessment Consulting available anywhere.

Customer Relationship Management is paramount in our organization.  We are here to assist you with any questions or concerns you may have.  Feel free to call us anytime at 416 637-4661 or visit us at Laurelhill.com

Every day, Marketwire plays a critical role in shaping the conversations that happen in newsrooms, corporate boardrooms and social networks around the world, helping communicators move markets, change public opinion and affect consumer behavior.

For everyone from a start-up to a Fortune 500 enterprise, Marketwire is a social communications company that provides its clients with powerfully simple solutions: Global press release distribution, industry-leading social media monitoring and analytics, and a fully integrated marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution and measurement.

Marketwire is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity (www.omerspe.com), which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has $6.4 billion of investments under management. OMERS Private Equity is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in New York and London.

The NASDAQ OMX Group 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 US listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First North, and the US 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 more than 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.

OTC Markets group operates open, transparent and connected financial marketplaces for 10,000 US and global securities. Through our OTC Link® ATS, we directly link a diverse network of broker-dealers that provide liquidity and execution services for a wide spectrum of securities. We organize these securities into marketplaces to better inform investors of opportunities and risks:

OTCQX® ‒ the intelligent marketplace for the best OTC companies

OTCQB® ‒ the venture marketplace

OTC Pink® ‒ the open marketplace.

Our data-driven platform enables investors to easily trade through the broker of their choice at the best possible price, and empowers a broad range of companies to improve the quality and availability of information for their investors. To learn more about how we create better informed and more efficient financial marketplaces, please visit www.otcmarkets.com.

The Works Design Communications Ltd. is an award-winning integrated communications company. Providing a full range of in-house services, including strategy, writing, design, multimedia development and print production, The Works has developed annual reports and Corporate Social Responsibility reports for many of Canada’s most well-known and well-respected organizations. We help our clients define their objectives, sharpen their messages and connect with their most important audiences.

TMX Group owns companies that operate markets for multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives and energy products.   From its home base in Canada, TMX Group reaches internationally as its equity markets list more resource companies than any other exchange group in the world.  TMX Group provides trading markets, and trading and data products and services to the global financial community who access Canada's equity capital market. TMX Group’s exchanges are ranked as the 7th largest exchange group in the world and in 2007, where a record 150 billion of securities volume traded. TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and maintains offices in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.   For more information on TMX Group, visit our website at http://www.tsx.com.