Business Wire’s New Canada Website Focuses on Products for Canadian News Issuers

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Business Wire (www.BusinessWire.com) today announced the launch of a dedicated website serving the Canada market, focusing on North American news, products and services for Canadian news issuers and regulatory filers, and professional resources for this key market.

Business Wire Canada (www.businesswire.ca), with full site content available in both English and French, spotlights Business Wire’s news distribution options throughout Canada, the US and around the world, including an exclusive relationship with CanWest News Service, Canada’s leading media ownership group. Also featured are regulatory filing options for SEDAR and EDGAR filers, including Business Wire’s full-service. in-house departments for regulatory filing and XBRL services. The site also includes information on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services, helping Canadian issuers to optimize their press releases for search engine users and web readers.

“This new site, along with our presence in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, allows us to serve all of Canada with customized information about the services that will benefit our users the most,” said Derick Tjin, Business Wire’s country manager for Canada. BusinessWire.ca joins local sites in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Japan in featuring local content in growing markets worldwide.

Continued Growth in Canada

This new site demonstrates Business Wire’s commitment to providing superior service to the Canada market. Business Wire began its operations in Canada in February, 2008 with the opening of its full-service Toronto bureau, followed by the addition of sales representatives in Calgary and Vancouver.

“Canada is a key market for Business Wire, given its close connections with US capital markets, the financial community and consumers,” said Gregg Castano, co-chief operating officer. “Our rapid growth since beginning operations in Canada, and our continued development of news distribution opportunities and partnerships there, demonstrate that Business Wire’s distribution networks and financial disclosure services provide unmatched value for news issuers across Canada.”

About Business Wire

Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is utilized by tens of thousands of member companies and organizations worldwide to functionally enhance and communicate investor relations and public relations content to target audiences. As a recognized disclosure service in the United States, Canada and a dozen European countries, Business Wire facilitates the simultaneous flow of market-moving press releases from corporations to financial markets and their audiences, including regulatory authorities, media, investors, financial information systems and consumer news services. Business Wire also handles XBRL tagging, document formatting and regulatory filing into EDGAR, SEDAR, FSA and other systems.

Communications professionals turn to Business Wire to optimize and issue press releases, photos and multimedia to news organizations, journalists, trade publications, search engines, and individuals, with full-text posting to web sites, online services and databases. A range of distribution options enables members to target by geography, industry, news theme and audience demographics.

Founded in 1961, Business Wire has dual headquarters in San Francisco and New York, with 30 bureaus in cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Tokyo, Toronto and Sydney and reciprocal offices throughout the world. Business Wire's patented NX data platform supports XML, XHTML and XBRL code that enhances news release interactivity, social media sharing and search engine optimization. More information about Business Wire and its services is located on its website at www.BusinessWire.com.

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