American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC (AST) is part of the LINK Group, an international network of best in class providers of transfer agent services and employee plan solutions. AST is your link to leading technology, top-rated personalized service and comprehensive services that include: transfer agent, employee plan services, proxy services, asset reunification services and all types of corporate actions. AST’s clients are located throughout the United States and in over 22 foreign countries, ranging in size from initial public offerings to Fortune 100 companies. For more information, contact 888.267.8625 or visit www.amstock.com.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch focuses on middle-market and large corporations, institutional investors, financial institutions and government entities. It provides innovative services in M&A, equity and debt capital raising, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. It serves clients in more than 150 countries and has relationships with 99 percent of the US Fortune 500 companies and nearly 96 percent of the Fortune Global 500.

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.

In addition to its top-ranked stock transfer services, BNY Mellon Shareowner Services offers a comprehensive suite of products and services ranging from record keeping and corporate actions to demutualizations, direct investment, dividend reinvestment, proxy solicitation and employee stock plan administration. BNY Mellon Shareowner Services is part of The Bank of New York Mellon's Issuer Services group, which is also a leading provider of corporate trust services and the market leader in servicing depositary receipts with more than 1,300 sponsored programs.

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 34 countries and serving more than 100 markets. The company is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, providing superior asset management and wealth management, asset servicing, issuer services, clearing services and treasury services through a worldwide client-focused team. It has more than $23 trillion in assets under custody and administration, more than $1.1 trillion in assets under management and services $12 trillion in outstanding debt. Additional information is available at bnymellon.com.

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. 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. We also provide complete disclosure services for all companies listed in Canada, and full-service in-house SEDAR filing services. For more information, visit us online at www.businesswire.ca.

Computershare (ASX:CPU) 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 services, tax voucher solutions, bankruptcy administration and a range of other diversified financial and governance services. Georgeson Inc., a Computershare company, is the world’s leading provider of strategic proxy and corporate governance advisory services to corporations and shareholder groups working to influence corporate strategy. Georgeson specializes in complex solicitations such as hostile and friendly acquisitions, proxy contests and takeover defenses.
www.computershare.com, www.georgeson.com.

Innisfree provides sound advice and results-oriented implementation in domestic and cross border proxy solicitations, tender/exchange offers, mergers and other corporate actions, as well as consulting services on strategic management issues, including corporate governance and investor relations.

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 investor relations products and services include: global market intelligence, shareholder identification and analysis, institutional investor targeting, investment community perception studies, online investor relationship management software.

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 1-888-742-1305 or visit us at Laurelhill.com

MacKenzie Partners is a full-service proxy solicitation/financial relations consulting firm based in New York City, specializing in mergers and acquisitions-related transactions.

Marketwire electronically delivers news and information to media and financial communities around the world via traditional and social media channels including newspapers, magazines, databases, analyst terminals, online portals, blogs, and more.  Leveraging the latest in search engine optimization (SEO), multimedia, social media, monitoring and reporting, Marketwire maximizes the power and reach of its clients’ communications.  Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Serving more than 12,000 clients worldwide through 20 offices on four continents, Marketwire is a dominant distributor of company news releases and other communications. For more information, visit us online at www.marketwire.com and blog.marketwire.com, or on Twitter @marketwire. 

NASDAQ OMX Group is the world’s largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with over 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, and NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries.

Founded in 1969, NIRI (www.niri.org) is the professional association of corporate officers and investor relations consultants responsible for communications among corporate management, shareholders, securities analysts and other financial community constituents. The largest professional investor relations association in the world, NIRI's more than 3,500 members represent 2,000 publicly held companies and $5.4 trillion in stock market capitalization.

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.

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