LOS ANGELES and MEXICO CITY, Oct. 31, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- PrimeZone Media Network today announces it has entered into an agreement with Notimex, Mexico's leading news agency, to deliver Spanish-language press releases in Latin America.
Under the arrangement, Spanish-language press releases are transmitted via Notimex's satellite and Internet-based network to its media and online subscribers, which includes all key news agencies, newspaper, radio and television stations, as well as major online news and information sites throughout Latin America.
"PrimeZone is delighted to enter into this agreement," said Tom Madden, CEO of PrimeZone. "Notimex is a respected news service and we look forward to providing the Latin American community valuable news and information from the world's leading companies and organizations."
"The contract with PrimeZone represents a major opportunity for Notimex to offer truthful and timely information to our subscribers. I am convinced that with this contract, a new relationship is being established between Notimex and the distributors of Communiques, strengthening our Immediate Communique System," said Francisco Hernaiz Gonzalez, Commercial Director of Notimex.
About PrimeZone Media Network (www.primezone.com)
PrimeZone operates one of the world's leading full-text press release, photo and multimedia distribution services. Utilizing the latest in communications technology, PrimeZone's multi-channel delivery network provides real-time, simultaneous access to key audiences around the globe, including daily newspapers, wire services, online services, databases, trade publications, institutional and individual investors, and consumers. PrimeZone offers a suite of investor relations services including EDGAR filings, IR websites, photos, webcasts, teleconferences, as well as targeting and measurement services to thousands of customers worldwide. Launched in 1998, PrimeZone was the first press release newswire to offer new competition in the U.S. newswire industry, challenging a duopoly that had been held by its competitors for nearly 50 years.
PrimeZone's international distribution delivers to more than 80 countries and in more than 20 languages throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Its comprehensive distribution network allows targeted distribution to international newswires and news agencies, print and broadcast media, magazines and trades, financial information providers, and Web-based news services.
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About Notimex (www.notimex.com.mx)
Notimex was inaugurated on August 20, 1968, by President Diaz Ordaz, because a Mexican News Agency was needed to handle the information about the Olympics. Notimex has the support of a network of communications professionals made up of more than 300 writers, editors, photographers, reporters and correspondents.
The staff, distributed among various national and international bureaus, works to meet the demands for information of subscribers, customers and users.
An average of 500 news items per day from Mexico, Latin America and the rest of the world are distributed by satellite and Internet, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Notimex also produces specialized packages on sports, finance, shows and current events of world importance. In Notimex you will find a reliable and timely source of information through our web page at www.notimex.com.mx.
There are eight Notimex regional coordinating offices in Mexico, charged with organizing, gathering and managing information from the national bureaus (202 reporters and correspondents). Worldwide, four Notimex regional coordinating offices centralize the information gathered by the bureaus in North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean, as well as Europe and Asia. In each of them, the journalistic corps is made up of Mexican correspondents and correspondents from the country of residence, so as to maintain fairness in presenting the information, which reflects the LATIN AMERICA's VIEW of the NEWS.
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