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Ageas is an international insurance group with a heritage spanning more than 180 years. Ranked among the top 20 insurance companies in Europe, Ageas has chosen to concentrate its business activities in Europe and Asia, which together make up the largest share of the global insurance market.

These are grouped around four segments: Belgium, United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Asia and served through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors around the world. Ageas operates successful partnerships in Belgium, UK, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, China, Malaysia, India and Thailand and has subsidiaries in France, Hong Kong and UK.

It is the market leader in Belgium for individual life and employee benefits, as well as a leading non-life player, through AG Insurance, and in the UK, it has a strong presence as the fourth largest player in private car insurance and the over 50's market. It employs more than 13,000 people and has annual inflows of more than EUR 21 billion.

BNY Mellon acts as depositary for more than 2,700 American and global depositary receipt programs, acting in partnership with leading companies from 68countries.  BNY Mellon is committed to helping securities issuers access the world's rapidly evolving financial markets and delivers a comprehensive suite of depositary receipt services.  Learn more at www.bnymellon.com/dr.

BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment management and investment services in 36 countries and more than 100 markets. As of March 31, 2013, BNY Mellon had $26.3 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $1.4 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com, or follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon.


Company Webcast is the number one provider of Investor Relations webcasts in the Benelux region. Since 2004, we have been a proven and reliable partner in situations where "failure is not an option" and trust is imperative. With a Webcast from Company Webcast, you will have a high-quality, professional and reliable means of simultaneously reaching shareholders, analysts and journalists online, wherever they may be in the world.

Whether your business is a large or smaller listed company or isn't even listed, the use of Webcasting will enhance the impact and the range of your message in a modern and innovative way. Company Webcast works all over the world for its Investor Relations clients such as AkzoNobel, AEGON, Nyrstar, Delta Lloyd, KPN and Exact. For these clients we regularly webcast in countries such as the US, England, Germany, Belgium and Italy.

For further information please visit our website www.companywebcast.com

Euroclear is the world’s largest provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity, derivatives and fund transactions.  In 2012, the total value of securities transactions settled by the Euroclear group was EUR 542 trillion, while assets held for clients exceeded EUR 23 trillion.

The Euroclear group includes the international central securities depository Euroclear Bank, based in Brussels, as well as the national CSDs of Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK.

Thomson Reuters Extel professionally receives, collates and presents perception opinions and ratings from the investment community worldwide.

Specifically Extel provides assessment and rankings of brokerage firms and individuals for research, equity sales and trading; of buyside firms and analysts; of corporate firms for IR expertise; and in-depth analysis of industry and market trends.

Extel Pan-European Survey: Thomson Reuters Extel measures the performance of the investment community, in three principal ways,

  • Brokerage firms and investment analysts are ranked by fund managers and IR professionals
  • Fund management firms and buyside analysts are ranked by investment analysts and IR professionals
  • Corporate firms and IR professionals are ranked by both sellside and buyside

The results, which are available online year-round, are used by investment professionals across Europe to inform buying decisions and service provision. Investor/analyst feedback and perceptions are central to how IR teams measure effectiveness, and the Extel delivers the most authoritative, recognized benchmark of IR excellence in Europe. Additionally Extel has been gathering views from corporates on the key trends and issues in IR.

Extel has a reputation founded on integrity, the independence and professionalism with which it is run, coupled with the high quality of the information it provides, has established its leading position and profile in Europe. Data and processes are independently assessed and verified by Deloitte.

Visit Extel website: www.extelsurveys.com

FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm that provides multidisciplinary solutions to complex challenges and opportunities. Our investor relations practice is one of the world's most highly regarded capital markets communications consultancies. With more than 25 years of experience advising companies across the globe, we help our clients protect, enhance, develop and defend their enterprise value by more effectively engaging with the capital markets, including in critical crisis and transactions situations.

Our more than 250 investor relations and financial communications consultants are located in all of the major capital markets in Europe, the Americas, and Asia, seamlessly delivering the global reach and critical local capital markets knowledge needed to serve our clients in an increasingly complex global investment landscape.

FTI Consulting offers:

• Unmatched support across transactions support, crisis communications, and investor relations
• Unparalleled strategic counsel driven by capital markets domain knowledge and investment community and media relationships
• Access to institutional investors and investment analysts across key global investment centers through research-driven targeting and engagement strategies.

To learn more, please visit our website at www.fticonsulting.com

ING's global equity products holds a leading presence in both the Netherlands and Belgium as well as the other CEE markets we are located in. We offer a Pan-European research coverage, with over 230 Western European corporates being covered by 27 analysts from our key hubs Amsterdam and Brussels.Moreover we are located in a number of Eastern European capitals and operate from Moscow and Warsaw, with a further 22 analysts covering some 250 CEE corporates.

As the Equity House of KBC Group, one of Europe's largest financial institutions, we have operations across the world - in Western and Central Europe, North America and China. We operate in both the institutional and retail market place.

  • Corporate Finance: We specialise in strategic and financial advice together with capital raising solutions for both private and listed companies.
    With over 50 corporate finance professionals across Europe we can help you with capital markets advisory; mergers and acquisitions; and general strategic and financial advisory.
  • Institutional: We specialise in cash equities, equity derivatives and global convertible bonds.
    Our equity services include equity research, sales and sales trading, market making, corporate finance and corporate broking.
  • Securities Services: Our Securities Services teams manage clients' brokerage, settlement, clearing and custody.
  • Retail: We offer execution and portfolio management through a number of local country trading platforms, in Belgium (Bolero), Czech Republic (Patria Direct), Hungary (KBC Equitas) and Poland (KBC Makler).

MobGen is one of Europe's biggest Mobile IT Solutions Specialists with offices in Amsterdam, Singapore and Spain. MobGen helps companies to use mobile devices as a personalized, contextual relevant, interaction channel for key stakeholders groups.

In the Investor Relations (IR) segment MobGen is working with Shell International, VimpelCom, National Express, Aegon and others, to deliver mobile IR Applications as a long term, direct channel for the investor community.

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies.

The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets (the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE MKT, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca) represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group.

NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index.

For more information, please visit: www.nyx.com

Rabobank International (RI) has the ambition to be the leading Dutch Wholesale and Global Food&Agri bank. RI's Equities Chain (consisting out of Equity Capital Markets (ECM), Research, Sales and Client Facilitation) plays a relevant role in achieving this ambition by servicing our core corporate clients in all their equity capital market transactions (Origination, execution of IPOs, preferred shares, rights issues and share buy backs).

Frequent interaction with our corporate clients and our institutional clients (investors) allows us to offer the best equity market related solutions and add value to all of our corporate clients. RI's Equities Research covers all core corporate clients of RI with a highly reputated research product, which is being marketed and distributed to high profile institutional investors all around the globe. This investor base gives us the platform to execute equity capital market transactions for our corporate clients with a high level of professionalism and quality (matching our ambition). RI's Equities has a leadership position (research quality, company acces and market shares) as a broker in the Benelux region and in the global Food&Agri arena, which is being recognized by our institutional clients.