DGAP-News: NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions Clients Awarded Gold and Silver in 'Best Online Newsroom' at the Digital Impact Awards


The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. 

17.10.2012 23:42
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LONDON, 2012-10-17 23:41 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Two NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions (Nasdaq:NDAQ) clients have been awarded Gold
and Silver in the 'Best Online Newsroom' category at Europe's prestigious
Digital Impact Awards. After being named finalists in September, Honda (UK) was
awarded Gold and Heathrow Airport was awarded Silver for demonstrating best
practice examples of digital stakeholder communications. 

Organized by stakeholder relations magazine, Communicate, the Digital Impact
Awards are Europe's leading established program to recognize and celebrate
excellence in digital stakeholder communications. All winners' projects,
including Honda (UK)'s Online Newsroom, will be showcased on the Digital Impact
Awards website and each category will have its own fully search optimized page.
Honda (UK) and Heathrow Airport's newsrooms were designed, built and hosted by
the NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions Communications Suite of products. 

'NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions is proud to be the partner of choice for Honda
(UK) and Heathrow Airport's winning online newsrooms,' said Demetrios
Skalkotos, Senior Vice President, NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions. 'We attribute
the success of our products to the cutting-edge design work of NASDAQ OMX
Corporate Solutions, and the in-house expertise involved in creating a positive
newsroom experience for which our companies and their key constituencies can be
proud. Leading brands such as Honda (UK) and Heathrow Airport recognize the
importance of an online newsroom, and we're delighted that they and NASDAQ OMX
have been recognized today.' 

The Awards ceremony was held at The Brewery in London, on October 16th. For
more information on the NASDAQ OMX Communications Suite, please visit:
http://www.globenewswire.com/Home/Media-Suite/Media-Newsrooms 

To view the Honda and Heathrow Airport Online Newsrooms, please visit:
http://newsroom.honda.co.uk/default.aspx and
http://mediacentre.heathrowairport.com/. 

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strategy. Neither The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. nor any of its affiliates makes
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NDAQG


         Jennifer Knapp
         +1 212 401 8916
         Jennifer.Knapp@nasdaqomx.com
News Source: NASDAQ OMX



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