Business Wire and Q4 Announce Exclusive, Strategic Partnership

Industry leaders join forces to provide combined news distribution
and advanced investor and public relations solutions to enhance
stakeholder engagement and increase workflow efficiencies for global
companies

SAN FRANCISCO & TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/investorrelations?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#investorrelationslt;/agt;–Business Wire, the global leader in press release distribution, and Q4
Inc.
, the leading provider of cloud-based investor relations
solutions, today announced an exclusive, global partnership that
combines Business Wire’s industry leading newswire and distribution
services with Q4’s best-in-class advanced technology.

Under the agreement Business Wire and Q4, who jointly serve the world’s
largest companies, will provide customers with access to a comprehensive
suite of distribution, web hosting and design, webcasting, intelligence,
analytics, and investor engagement solutions.

“As a trusted partner to the world’s largest global brands, we have a
unique vantage point from which to identify and provide the most
advanced solutions for our clients,” said Geff Scott, CEO, Business
Wire. “In Q4, we chose a partner who not only provides best-in-class
technology, but also shares our deep commitment to ensuring mutual
clients have access to the most powerful, efficient, and effective
solutions to meet the challenges of today’s complex business
environment.”

“Helping our clients achieve their strategic investor relations’
objectives is our core focus and we continue to build out our suite of
products and partnerships to support that mission,” said Darrell Heaps,
CEO, Q4 Inc. “We are honored to be partnered with Business Wire, a
respected and innovative brand that is entrusted with the world’s most
important news. Q4 is excited to offer Business Wire’s services and
together we look forward to delivering significant value to our clients.”

The companies will also collaborate on future solutions designed to help
global organizations drive valuation, reduce volatility, deepen
stakeholder engagement, and streamline the complex workflows involved in
creating, distributing, hosting, and updating critical content for
investors, influencers, and customers.

About Business Wire

Business Wire, a Berkshire
Hathaway
company, is the global leader in news
release distribution
and regulatory
disclosure
. Investor relations, public relations, public policy and
marketing professionals rely on Business Wire for secure and accurate
distribution of market-moving news and multimedia. Founded in 1961,
Business Wire is a trusted source for news organizations, journalists,
investment professionals, and regulatory authorities, delivering news
directly into editorial systems and leading online news sources via its
multi-patented NX Network. Business Wire has 18 newsrooms worldwide to
meet the needs of communications professionals and news media.

Learn more at www.BusinessWire.com.
Follow us on Twitter @businesswire.

About Q4 Inc.

Q4 is a leading global provider of cloud-based investor relations, with
the mission of partnering with customers to achieve their strategic IR
objectives. Through best-in-class customer experience and an innovative
suite of IR technology, Q4 is a trusted partner to over 1,200 of the
world’s largest brands. Q4’s comprehensive portfolio of IR
communications and intelligence solutions, supported by an
industry-leading customer experience model, empower customers to build
impactful and strategic IR programs. Q4 has offices in New York,
Toronto, Copenhagen, and London. To learn more, visit: www.q4inc.com.

Contacts

Media
For Business Wire
Claudia Carasso, 1-415-986-4422
[email protected]

For Q4 Inc.
Taryn Shulman, 1-416-540-9832
[email protected]

For more than 50 years, Business Wire has been the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure.

For the last half century, thousands of communications professionals have turned to us to deliver their news to the audiences most important to their business through the sources they trust most. Over that time, we've gone from a single office with one full time employee to more than 500 employees in 32 bureaus.