ADVISORY, Sept. 29, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
What:
Television Stars of "The Fabulous Beekman Boys", and founders of the Beekman 1802 Lifestyle Brand, Dr. Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to officially ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell. Kilmer-Purcell and Ridge are the founders of Beekman1802.com, one of the fastest-growing lifestyle brands in the United States, and authors of the upcoming book, The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook which will be available at bookstores everywhere on October 4th from Sterling Epicure.
Where:
NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio
When:
Friday, September 30th, 2011 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET
Contact:
Darren Bettencourt
(917) 686-3840
darrenbettencourt@aol.com
NASDAQ MarketSite:
Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com
Feed Information:
The Opening Bell is available from 9:20 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. on AMC3 / C20, downlink frequency 4100 vertical. The feed can also be found on Ascent fiber 1623. If you have any questions, please contact Jen Knapp at (212) 401-8916.
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Photos:
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About Beekman1802.com Founders Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Dr. Brent Ridge:
Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Dr. Brent Ridge are the founders of Beekman1802.com, one of the fastest-growing lifestyle brands in the United States, and authors of the upcoming book, The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook which will be available at bookstores everywhere on October 4th from Sterling Epicure.
Their decision to leave city life behind has been chronicled in Kilmer-Purcell's national best-seller, The Bucolic Plague, and on the hit Planet Green TV show, "The Fabulous Beekman Boys". Their website, Beekman1802.com, has previously been nominated for a James Beard Award and Epicurious hailed them as "The Next Martha Stewarts." Their company, based out of their 60-acre goat farm in Sharon Springs, NY, designs products that are sold throughout their website, www.beekman1802.com, and at major national retail stores as well as smaller shops and boutiques across the country. Kilmer-Purcell is a New York Times best-selling author and Ridge is a physician and the former Vice President of Martha Stewart Healthy Living.
About NASDAQ OMX:
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 3,500 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).
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