Leading U.S.-Based Newswire Expands Management Team and Strengthens Key Business Units

Former Thomson Financial Sales Executive Joins Market Wire as Vice President of Sales, Bay Area

Market Wire, a full-service distributor of company press releases and material news, announced today the addition of Darin Wolter to its management team. Mr. Wolter, formerly a sales executive with Thomson Financial’s Corporate Group (Thomson), will lead Market Wire’s sales efforts in Northern California.

”We are pleased to have Darin on our team,” said Tom Wolkner, executive vice president of sales for Market Wire. “His deep financial industry knowledge and success in running growing sales organizations add significant bench strength to the Market Wire team, especially as we position our investor relations (IR) products and services to the finance community and public companies.”

While at Thomson, Mr. Wolter held key sales management positions including vice president and most recently, managing director of Thomson’s Outbound Sales organization. Mr. Wolter was responsible for building Thomson’s Outbound Sales group – the organization responsible for taking the company’s Website hosting, webcasting and online communications services to market. Mr. Wolter was also responsible for managing the sales component of Thomson’s relationship with PR Newswire. Prior to joining Thomson, Mr. Wolter held key sales positions with Miller Freeman and also with StreetFusion before it was acquired by CCBN.

“Market Wire is positioned for significant growth,” Wolter stated. “My primary focus will be to develop the company’s sales team and customer base in Northern California. With my background in the financial services industry and expertise in building results-oriented sales organizations, I am confident that we can develop more of our IR business and begin carving out our leadership position in that market.”

Mr. Wolter will run Market Wire’s Bay Area sales operations from San Francisco. He will report to Market Wire executive vice president of sales, Tom Wolkner. Mr. Wolter joined the company on September 20, 2004.

About Market Wire

Market Wire is a full-service distributor of company press releases and financial news announcements. Market Wire offers far and away the best value in the newswire industry, boasting the most secure, cost-effective, and comprehensive distribution of news with real-time newsfeeds to AP, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, Yahoo!, CBS MarketWatch, AOL, MSNBC, Motley Fool, Lexis-Nexis, Factiva and thousands of other leading Web sites, newswires, and databases. Market Wire's news is directly integrated into the editorial systems of hundreds of newspapers and broadcast outlets, and is also sent directly to more than 30,000 individual journalists. The Company has more than 3,000 clients. Incorporated in January 1999, the Company officially changed its name to Market Wire in April 2003, and entered into an alliance with NASDAQ, whereby Market Wire became the preferred provider of press release distribution services to NASDAQ-listed companies.

A full listing of the company's products and specific distribution points can be found at www.marketwire.com.

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