Food Bank For New York City Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell
ADVISORY, Nov 4, 2012 (Menafn - GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) --What:
Food Bank For New York City, the city's major hunger-relief organization, will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square. Food Bank is working to distribute critical food supplies to emergency feeding programs, operational soup kitchens, food pantries, senior centers and agencies in areas of the city impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
In honor of the occasion, Margarette Purvis, President and CEO, along with Madison Cowan, Food Network Chef will ring the Opening Bell.
Where:
NASDAQ MarketSite -- 4 Times Square -- 43rd & Broadway -- Broadcast Studio
When:
Monday, November 5th, 2012 -- 9:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET
Contact:Lana Gersten(212) 784-5714lgersten@groupgordon.com
Andrew Wadium(917) 254-1140awadium@hotmail.com
NASDAQ MarketSite:Jen Knapp(212) 401-8916Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com
Feed Information:Fiber Line (Encompass Waterfront): 4463
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Webcast:
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About the Food Bank For New York City:
Food Bank For New York City recognizes 29 years as the city's major hunger-relief organization working to end food poverty throughout the five boroughs. As the city's hub for integrated food poverty assistance, the Food Bank tackles the hunger issue on three fronts -- food distribution, income support and nutrition education -- all strategically guided by its research. Through its network of 1,000 community-based member programs citywide, the Food Bank helps provide 400,000 free meals a day for New Yorkers in need. The Food Bank's hands-on nutrition education program in the public schools reaches 40,000 children, teens and adults. Income support services including food stamps, free tax assistance for the working poor and the Earned Income Tax Credit put millions of dollars back in the pockets of low-income New Yorkers, helping them to achieve greater dignity and independence. Ninety-four percent of donations go directly toward programs in all five boroughs. Learn how you can help at foodbanknyc.org.
About NASDAQ OMX Group:
The inventor of the electronic exchange, The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., fuels economies and provides transformative technologies for the entire lifecycle of a trade - from risk management to trade to surveillance to clearing. In the U.S. and Europe, we own and operate 23 markets, 3 clearinghouses and 5 central securities depositories supporting equities, options, fixed income, derivatives, commodities, futures and structured products. Able to process more than 1 million messages per second at sub-40 microsecond speeds with 99.99% uptime, our technology drives more than 70 marketplaces in 50 developed and emerging countries into the future, powering 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Our award-winning data products and worldwide indexes are the benchmarks in the financial industry. Home to approximately 3,400 listed companies worth 6 trillion in market cap whose innovations shape our world, we give the ideas of tomorrow access to capital today. Welcome to where the world takes a big leap forward, daily. Welcome to the NASDAQ OMX Century. To learn more, visit www.nasdaqomx.com. Follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NASDAQ) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx). (symbol:NDAQ and member of S&P 500)
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