About Mergent

Mergent, Inc., a Xinhua Finance company (TSE Mothers: 9399), is the preferredprovider of critical business and financial data on global publicly listed companies, indices and exchanges. The company is headquartered in New York, NY, and Charlotte, NC, with sales offices in key North American cities as well as London, Tokyo, Toronto, Sydney and Shanghai. Its product and service offerings include: Mergent Online; Mergent Manuals, Handbooks and Investment Guides; EventsData, web-based reporting of corporate actions and news events; access to municipal and corporate fixed income data and end-of-day evaluation pricing; Ford Equity Research, independent equity research with buy, sell and hold recommendations; Mergent Active, a quantitative analytical research tool; Dividend Achievers Indexes, licensed index solutions, including ETF's and other investment funds; China Insight, comprehensive information for investment in China. Mergent's databases include information on more than 35,000 global listed companies in more than 100 countries. More information about Mergent, Inc. can be found at www.mergent.com.