Business Wire's Company Information Center, which automatically displays at the top of public company releases published on Business Wire's popular website, http://www.businesswire.com/ , offers a range of new features and functionality. These include: the issuer's complete corporate archive of SEC EDGAR filings, annual and quarterly reports, company financials including balance sheets, cash flow and income statements, and stock quotes and trend charts.
Historical financial documents are available in XBRL, the interactive financial data format that is rapidly being adopted by leading regulatory agencies and the investment community. XBRL promotes comparative analysis among companies, and facilitates the extrapolation of key data.
Companies that use Business Wire's EDGARit service for their electronic filings enjoy the added benefit of having their EDGAR filings available in HTML format for 30 days on Business Wire's website. Business Wire, the newswire industry leader in electronic filings to the SEC's EDGAR database, is the world's seventh largest EDGAR filer, and fourth largest filer of 8-Ks and 6-Ks.
"Business Wire is pleased to provide investors with important new tools that will help them make intelligent investment decisions," said Wehrmeister in making the announcement. "Retail investors, in particular, will benefit from more convenient, easy-to-use access to corporate background information."
Business Wire's Company Information Center is accessible via multiple presentation platforms, including RSS feeds.
The enhancements to Business Wire's Company Information Center are part of a series of web-related upgrades that have streamlined the "look-and-feel" of Business Wire's heavily trafficked website.
Visitors are now able to view releases faster than before; releases display more quickly even with all the additional information.
A "printer-friendly" version of the release is now available, eliminating extraneous web-only content, such as site navigation.
With Business Wire rapidly expanding internationally, coupled with the dramatic growth in global news distribution, direct links to all foreign-language translations are now available from the original release, providing for one-stop multi-lingual access.
About Business Wire:
Business Wire, was founded in 1961 by chairman Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations executive.
The company's multi-channel delivery network, with access to some 60 international and national news agencies, financial information providers and Web-based news services throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, provides real-time, simultaneous access to key audiences -- the news media, trade publications, institutional and individual investors, business-to-business decision-makers and consumers.
Business Wire electronically disseminates some 1,000 full-text news releases daily to the media, the Internet, online services and databases, and the global investment community in 150 countries in 45 languages. Business Wire has 24 U.S. offices, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Tokyo and Sydney offices, and reciprocal offices throughout the world.
