IRtrack offers IR professionals a single solution for ownership identification, market intelligence, stock surveillance, analysis, investor targeting and integrated relationship management of institutional investors.

These services will be made available through the NASDAQ Corporate Services Network, a forum of products and services from leading providers designed to help companies maximize the effectiveness of their investor relations and compliance functions, while saving time and money in the process. Georgeson's IRtrack product has been integrated into a secure online application that delivers the standard shareholder intelligence services of NASDAQ-Online with the enhanced capabilities of IRtrack Contact Data and Management.

"NASDAQ's goal is to provide listed companies with integrated access to products and services that increase the effectiveness of a company's investor relations and make doing business more efficient," said Bruce Aust, Executive Vice President, NASDAQ Corporate Client Group. "Through our alliance with Georgeson Shareholder, our companies will be able to access an outstanding array of shareholder intelligence. Through this, they can develop highly targeted activities, which are critical to the success of any public company's investor relations program."

Paul Conn, Global Head of Computershare Analytics, added, "We are delighted to be associated in this way with The NASDAQ Stock Market and we look forward with confidence to working closely with many of the world-class companies listed on NASDAQ."

NASDAQ sets the standard in providing its listed companies with key investor relations services such as the Market Intelligence Desk, International Visibility programs and NASDAQ-Online. Further, through the NASDAQ Corporate Services Network, NASDAQ-listed companies are provided access to products and services, from leading third party vendors, that cost- effectively enhance their investor relations programs, including press release distristribution to all major news bureaus, webcasting of CEO profiles and interviews from the MarketSite, IR website hosting, webcasting, event briefs and transcripts.