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HEX Launches Investor Relations Service For Listed Companies

Date 04/04/2001

HEX launches investor relations service for listed companies HEX Group today launched a new investor relations service for stock exchange-listed companies. The service, produced by eHEX, a business unit of HEX Group, enables listed companies to outsource the distribution of comparable and consistent investor information in the Internet. The IR Service provides a valuable tool for listed companies pursuing their investor relations strategy and enables the companies to facilitate investors’ access to information.

Easy access to comparable information offers investors equal possibilities to evaluate a listed company´s future performance and price formation. It also allows the making of informed investment decisions. Relevant information provided by the service are, for example, shareholdings of a company´s major shareholders and insiders and changes in them.

The content of HEX’s IR service is based on trading information available from the HETI trading system and the ownership information by the centralised securities register of the Finnish Central Securities Depository (APK) as well as HEX’s solid experience in investor communications and technology know-how in the field of Internet solutions.

With this service, HEX offers listed companies an opportunity to outsource the maintenance and development of their investor relations sites. It also provides them with the tools needed to create successful IR solutions for electronic channels, such as the Internet, e-mail and SMS. The first company to implement the service will be Kyro Oyj.

As a market place, HEX is a credible, neutral and reliable producer and processor of market information useful to market participants. Producing reliable information is one of HEX’s core competencies. We strive to make the market as transparent as possible, which enables efficient price formation, says Mr Jukka Ruuska, President and CEO of HEX Group.