Steiner Leisure Limited [STNR] to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell

NASDAQ Celebrates 2nd Annual "Fit Week" to Kick Off Healthy Living in the New Year


ADVISORY, Dec. 31, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

Steiner Leisure Limited [STNR], a premier provider of spa products and services, and its subsidiary Bliss, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square. To kick off the New Year, Steiner Leisure will join NASDAQ as part of the 2nd annual NASDAQ "Fit Week," a week of bell ceremonies featuring NASDAQ-listed companies which help America lead healthier lifestyles.

In tandem with "Fit Week," Bliss is launching Lean Machine - the first and only spa-powered system that combines a vacuum massager and a clinically proven skin-firming cream to help reduce the appearance of cellulite.

In honor of the occasion, Mike Indursky, Bliss President will ring the Opening Bell. 

Pictures from NASDAQ "Fit Week" will be available shortly following the ceremony at: http://www.nasdaq.com/marketsite/fitweek1102/fitweek2013.html

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Wednesday, January 2, 2013 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET        

Bliss Contact:

Katie Welch
(646) 502-1453
Katie.Welch@blissmail.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

Fiber Line (Encompass Waterfront): 4463

Gal 3C/06C 95.05 degrees West
18 mhz Lower
DL 3811 Vertical
FEC 3/4
SR 13.235
DR 18.295411
MOD 4:2:0
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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ OpeningBell will be available at:

http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx.

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Open, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market open of your choice.

About Steiner Leisure Limited [STNR]:

Steiner Leisure Limited is a worldwide provider and innovator in the fields of beauty, wellness and education. We are dedicated to maintaining the highest quality standards and continually evolving to include and anticipate new developments within our industry. We aim to maintain and expand our existing diverse portfolio of services, products and brands, as well as to seek out new opportunities to complement our business.

Our services include traditional and alternative massage, body and skin treatment options, fitness, acupuncture, herbal medicine, medi-spa treatments and laser hair removal. We are committed to providing our customers with a wide-ranging assortment of beauty products, including premium quality options developed by us under our own brands, as well as those purchased from third parties.

Our distribution channels include our shipboard and land-based spas and salons, destination spas, health clubs, department stores and third party retail outlets and distributors. We also sell our products on certain British Airways flights, on QVC, by catalog, and online through our websites, including www.timetospa.com and www.blissworld.com.

Our post secondary schools offer programs in massage therapy and skin care, among others, and, along with our recruiting and training operations, prepare spa professionals for careers in the health and wellness industry, including within the Steiner family of companies.

About NASDAQ OMX Group:

The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 23 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.99+% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth $6 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (Symbol: NDAQ and member of S&P 500)

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