Disclosure Now

Recent SEC enforcement actions should remind everyone of the importance of establishing and maintaining a robust disclosure program. GlobeNewswire's comprehensive service offering can help:

Beginning with the introduction of Regulation FD more than two years ago, GlobeNewswire has continued to expand and enhance its service offerings, developing an integrated suite of services that can help public companies meet the growing regulatory demand for timely disclosure. Today, GlobeNewswire has the most comprehensive suite of services available in the industry, including:

• Wire Service -- GlobeNewswire's traditional press release wire service provides timely disclosure of earnings announcements, dividend reports, and other material events. Our comprehensive offering of newswire circuits can also satisfy your communication needs for product release and other announcements.
  
  
• EDGAR Filings -- GlobeNewswire provides two types of EDGAR filing services, supporting flexibility in document conversion, while offering cost effective solutions:
  
  
  • EDGAR Direct -- Reg. FD has already expanded the definition of "material events" that must be reported to the SEC. Additional proposed regulations, being promulgated under Sarbanes-Oxley, continue to expand the list of events that trigger an 8-K filing. To satisfy these requirements, we encourage our clients to focus on the creation of a press release announcing each material event. The press release can then be automatically filed to EDGAR (on Form 8-K or 6-K). This streamlined process, which is offered on a flat rate, no conversion basis, is called EDGAR Direct.
    
    
  • EDGAR Complete -- while EDGAR Direct is only available for news releases filed on Form 8-K or 6-K, our EDGAR Complete service includes EDGAR conversion and filing services for any SEC form type, including 10Q, 10-K, and 20F, as well as special purpose (non press release) 8K and 6K filings. This service includes conversion form virtually any source document (Word, Excel, Word Perfect, etc.) into the format required by EDGAR.
    
    
• IR Websites - IR Connect is GlobeNewswire's turnkey service for updating and maintaining a public company's investor relations Webpages. IR Connect offers content-rich services that include stock quotes, historical stock charts, news release archive, real-time SEC Filings, fundamental financial data, plus email alerts and other interactive features.
  
  
• Email Tracking -- Whenever you issue a news release using GlobeNewswire's wire service, we can also track the status of every email message sent to your media list. We call this our Email Tracking Service, and it allows you to closely monitor exactly who opened your release.
  
  
• Webcasting -- GlobeNewswire's PrimeCast services meet the Reg. FD requirements pertaining to "open" conference calls with investors and analysts. We provide both traditional telephone conference services, and well as Internet Webcasting. Our broad range of Webcasting services includes audio, slide shows, and even video presentation. The "public announcement" required under Reg. FD is distributed over GlobeNewswire's wire service free-of-charge. Optionally, we can manage the user registration process, making all collected information available online
  
  

  Each disclosure service is designed to meet (or exceed) specific SEC regulations.

  All of our services are fully integrated -- a news release distributed on the wire service can be filed with the SEC using EDGAR Direct, broadcast via the Email Tracking Service, and automatically posted on your IR Website.