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| ISI EMERGING MARKETS LAUNCHES AFRICA COVERAGE
New York, NY, January 17, 2005 – ISI Emerging Markets, the leading provider of Internet-delivered emerging markets business intelligence, today announced coverage of Africa in its flagship Emerging Market Information Service (EMIS). “Our customers have been asking for an African version of the products we have for other Emerging Markets.” says Executive Vice President, James Hammond. “And it’s certainly a challenging market. Finding reliable business information for the region is no easy task. Our Africa coverage comes after a long gestation during which we investigated the market in depth. We made a small but strategically important acquisition in October, which accelerated our pace. And today, we proudly bring our EMIS Africa service to the market.” In October of 2004, ISI acquired the assets of the Business Intelligence division of LiquidAfrica (Pty) Ltd, South Africa. Customers of LiquidAfrica business information services will be given access to ISI’s EMIS Africa service. The content in the new EMIS Africa product aggregates leading local and regional information sources including South African Press Association, McGregor BFA News, Nation Media Kenya, New Vision Uganda, Vanguard Nigeria, Kingdom Stockbrokers Zimbabwe, IJG Namibia, Databank Ghana, etc. As with all ISI Emerging Markets products, this new product also includes selected content from distinguished publishers such as the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the Financial Times, as well as ISI’s own IntelliNews editorial and sector reporting, adding significant proprietary data. “We’ve put extensive research and development efforts into our Africa product, and secured partnerships with the premier publishers and sources of information on this fast growing market. As with all our products, our Africa service will continue to evolve as we add more to it over time.” states Regional Product Manager Sinan Akkaya. The Africa product is structured in the same easy to navigate format as other country products within ISI’s Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) and is available on a stand-alone subscription-basis.
ISI Emerging Markets delivers hard-to-get information on over 70 emerging markets through its flagship Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS). Available through fifteen different language interfaces, it aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information. EMIS offers companies powerful search capabilities with in-depth, timely and comprehensive coverage, which are derived directly from more than 9,000 local and global publications. ISI Emerging Markets has just recently been nominated for a Codie Award from the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) in the “Best Content Aggregation Service” category. ISI has also been awarded “Best of the Web” ratings for the past four years by Forbes Magazine, and was named “Forbes Favorite” in 2004. The Company and its services has continuously earned outstanding recognition and product reviews, including "perfect scores" in all categories and a "must have" ranking from Information World Review. ISI Emerging Markets (trading as Internet Securities Inc.) is a subsidiary of Euromoney Institutional Investor. Based in New York, it operates European headquarters in London, and supports product development and sales through a network of 26 offices around the globe.
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