Canada Awards 2010 - Sponsors

Bell provides convenient and cost-effective solutions to help you communicate and collaborate. It's easier than ever to meet, share information, speed up decision making, improve productivity, and save time and the environment by reducing carbon emissions associated with travel.

Broadridge is the trusted partner for security holder communications. Our integrated proxy and continuous disclosure solutions connect corporate issuers, banks and brokerages, institutional and retail investors through the timely, efficient exchange of information, setting the standard for good corporate governance and best practices in strategic investor communications.

Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global leader in multi-platform press release distribution and financial disclosure services. Thousands of organizations and communications professionals turn to Business Wire for superior optimization, presentation and distribution of their news, photos and multimedia to news media, websites, search engines and wireless services. With more distribution options in more countries than any other commercial newswire, Business Wire provides members with targeted reach to virtually any market or industry worldwide. We also provide complete disclosure services for all companies listed in Canada, and full-service in-house SEDAR filing services. For more information, visit us online at www.businesswire.ca.

CCR Solutions is your source for creative event staging and state of the art audio-visual and presentation technology. We work with you to skillfully combine sound, light, images and words to achieve premier performance and lasting impact for every event.

The Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) is
a professional, not-for-profit association of executives responsible for communication between public corporations, investors and the financial community. CIRI is dedicated to advancing the stature and credibility of the investor relations profession and the competency of its members.

CNW Group operates Canada’s leading financial newswire and offers quality disclosure solutions for public companies including webcast, regulatory filing services comprising SEDAR, EDGAR, SEDI and a XBRL-tagging solution in partnership with EDGAR Online, conference calls, transcription and translation services. Toronto Stock Exchange exclusively endorses CNW Group’s financial results webcasting and newswire service.

Georgeson Inc. is the world’s leading provider of strategic proxy and corporate governance advisory services to corporations and shareholder groups working to influence corporate strategy. For over half a century, Georgeson has specialized in complex solicitations such as hostile and friendly acquisitions, proxy contests and takeover defenses. www.georgeson.com

The Globe and Mail provides Canada's leading sources of business and investor news, analysis and commentary including its award-winning business section, Report on Business, reportonbusiness.com, globeinvestor.com and Report on Business magazine.

The Laurel Hill Advisory Group is a leading provider of governance, advisory and proxy solicitation services. We have offices throughout North America, giving our clients first-rate cross-border facilities, especially in annual meeting solicitation, information agent services, M&A, special meeting solicitation and shareholder asset recovery programs. We also provide our clients with the most comprehensive corporate governance advisory service available. We believe public issuers need to be proactive rather than reactive. If you agree, give us a call.

Marketwire is the industry's most innovative leader in global news and information distribution, delivering our clients’ news to the world’s media and financial communities, as well as to social networks. A full-service partner to investor relations professionals, Marketwire’s disclosure, regulatory filing and custom news page solutions help IROs and financial communicators maximize their effectiveness while ensuring accuracy and best practices. Visit www.marketwire.com.

NASDAQ OMX Group is the world’s largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with over 3,700 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital-raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its US listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First North and the US 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes, and NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries.

NYSE Euronext is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company’s exchanges in Europe and the US trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With more than 8,000 listed issues, NYSE Euronext’s equities markets – the NYSE, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent nearly 40 percent of the world’s equities trading. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, the leading European derivatives business and the world’s second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. For more information, please visit www.nyx.com.

OTCQX International is a new market tier in the U.S. Over-the-Counter (OTC) market that gives companies a visible cross-listing in the U.S. without duplicating the regulatory costs required to list on a traditional U.S. exchange. Reserved for international companies listed on a qualified stock exchange in their home country, OTCQX International provides easy access for U.S. investors and increased market transparency and liquidity. OTCQX is the only highly visible electronic trading venue in the U.S. that does not require SEC registration.

RR Donnelley is integral to the capital raising and regulatory processes. We help corporations, securities law firms and investment banks prepare, produce and deliver financial communications worldwide. We add value through highly personalized and around-the-clock service, project management, worldwide regulatory expertise and insight that comes from a history of experience and achievement. For more information, visit us at www.rrdgcm.com.

The Works has developed IR and CSR communications for many of Canada’s most well known and well-respected organizations. We offer a full-range of in-house communication services, including strategic counsel, writing, design, multimedia development and print production. Drawing on more than two decades’ worth of experience, we help clients define their objectives and then work with them to create compelling messages and breakthrough communications.

TMX Group, a cornerstone of Canada’s financial system, is at the center of Canada's capital market. TMX Group's key subsidiaries operate cash and derivative markets for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Montreal Exchange, Natural Gas Exchange, Boston Options Exchange (BOX), Shorcan, Equicom and other TMX Group companies provide trading markets, clearing facilities, data products and other services to the global financial community.