KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., June 6, 2001 (PRIMEZONE) -- Beacon Street Partners today announced that they are the exclusive provider of Webcasting services for U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray's "21st Annual Consumer Conference" being held June 7-8, 2001 in New York City.
Beacon Street Partners, Inc., is a financial communications firm specializing in the production and distribution of financial and investment conferences and public company events such as earnings calls, shareholder meetings, general announcements and analyst presentations. The broadcasts will be available live on the following sites: www.pjc.com, www.ccbn.com, www.thefirstnews.com and www.emergingequities.com.
Beacon Street Partners offers companies and financial institutions the ability to distribute their Webcast events on CCBN's StreetEvents service (www.streetevents.com) and on more than twenty leading investment portals with which CCBN has relationships, including the largest investor site, America Online (NYSE:AOL). StreetEvents.com is Wall Street's leading repository of investment event information and Webcasts.
About Beacon Street Partners
Beacon Street Partners was founded as a financial sales, services and communications firm. The core business consists of providing production and distribution of events on the Internet. These events consist primarily of investment conferences (both virtual & brick and mortar), as well as shareholder meetings, analyst presentations, and corporate earnings calls of public companies. Beacon Street Partners (www.beaconstreetpartners.com) will also, through existing strategic alliances and partnerships, function as an ASP (Application Services Provider), to bring together the necessary components of shareholder management-communication services, marketing, IR/PR, transfer agent/record keeping.
About U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray
U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray provides a full range of investment products and services to individuals, institutions and businesses and has a national reputation for its expertise in fundamental and technical research as well as debt and equity financing for growth companies in key industries.