The 2012 PRWeek Awards to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell


ADVISORY, Feb. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

To celebrate the 2012 PRWeek Awards, Steve Barrett, Editor in Chief of PRWeek, will ring the Opening Bell.

The PRWeek Awards 2012 presentation dinner will take place on the evening of Thursday, March 1 at the Grand Hyatt, New York City, and will honor the best campaigns, companies, and people in the PR and communications industry.

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 – 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET  

Contact:

Gideon Fidelzeid
(646) 638-6000
Gideon.fidelzeid@prweek.com

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp
(212) 401-8916
Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

Feed Information:

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Gal 3C/06C 95.05 degrees West
18 mhz Lower
DL 3811 Vertical
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DR 18.295411
MOD 4:2:0
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Webcast:

A live webcast of the NASDAQ Opening Bell will be available at:
http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx or http://social.nasdaqomx.com.

Photos:

To obtain a hi-resolution photograph of the Market Open, please go to http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_events.stm and click on the market open of your choice.

About PRWeek:

PRWeek is the leading title for the public relations industry. In addition to a monthly print magazine, its offerings include PRWeekus.com, its daily updated website, a weekly online edition, Twitter, and a recently launched Tumblr site. PRWeek also presents a variety of annual events, such as Thursday evening's PRWeek Awards. With only 33 trophies given away at the annual gathering, it has become the highest accolade in the PR industry.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with more than 3,500 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX first North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com. *Please follow NASDAQ OMX on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/NASDAQ-OMX/108167527653) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). 

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