Thomson Financial Announces a Business Alliance Agreement Between Nikko Investor Relations and Thomson Financial Investor Relations

NEW YORK (PROTEXT) - Thomson Financial (TF) today announced abusiness alliance agreement between Nikko Investor Relations(NIR), a subsidiary of Nikko Securities, and Thomson FinancialInvestor Relations (TFIR), a division of TF. The alliance aims toprovide Nikko Securities with international IR capabilities andTFIR with expanded access to the Japanese IR market. "We are pleased to align ourselves with an organization asprestigious as Nikko. The relationship will expand TFIR's IRbusiness in the Japanese market and provide Nikko with a globalIR capability for its clients," said Jay Nadler, CEO of TFIR. "Webelieve that targeting and valuation analysis, investor relationstechniques widely used today in North America and Europe, will bevaluable in Japan. Through this alliance we will be better ableto introduce these services to Japanese corporations," Nadlercontinued. Masashi Kaneko, President of Nikko Securities said, "Investorrelations is very important to assist our clients in the globalcapital markets today. We can now offer our clients a value-addedinvestor relations program through the business alliance withTFIR." The NIR-TFIR alliance will offer services including foreignshareholder identification, foreign proxy solicitation, messagedevelopment and a global investor relations database ofinvestment professionals, shareholding information and brokerageresearch reports. The alliance was announced on December 6th at the '99 IRConference sponsored by the Japan Investor Relations Association(JIRA) held at the Royal Park Hotel in Tokyo. Thomson Financial Investor Relations provides information andconsulting services that assist public corporations worldwide inidentifying, analyzing and communicating with their shareholders.Thomson Financial Investor Relations serves over 3,500corporations worldwide. For more information visit the TFIRwebsite at http://www.thomsonir.com. Thomson Financial is a US$1 billion provider of informationservices and work solutions to the worldwide financial community.Through the widest range of products and services in theindustry, Thomson Financial helps clients in more than 70countries make better decisions, be more productive and achievesuperior results. Thomson Financial is part of The ThomsonCorporation (TTC), one of the world's leading informationcompanies. TTC, with annual revenues of more than US$6 billion,has interests in specialized information and newspaperpublishing. TTC's common shares are traded on the Toronto,Montreal and London stock exchanges. For more information, visithttp://www.thomsonfinancial.com. ots Original Text Service:Thomson Financial Investor Relations Internet:http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Kim Collins, Vice President,212-509-5100, or Yoshiko Iwata, General Manager - Tokyo, 81-3-5218-6690, both of Thomson Financial Investor Relations Website: http://www.thomsonfinancial.com

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