04/05/2012 | 06:28am
NYSE Euronext and CFB Communication launch 7th Smallcap
Event
12 13 April 2012 – Hôtel Pullman Paris Tour
Eiffel

Paris, 5 April 2012–NYSE
Euronext (NYX) and CFB Communication today announced that
the 7th annual Smallcap Event will take place on April
12 and 13 at the Hôtel Pullman Tour Eiffel in Paris. This
high-profile forum will bring together businesses and
investors – some 80 companies with up to €500 million market
capitalisation that are listed on NYSE Euronext’s European
market, and around 180 investors from the euro zone.

CFB Communication created the Smallcap Event in 2005
to help listed companies meet institutional investors and
promote small-cap growth by forging links with fund managers
that are potential investors.

Key events during this unique two-day event
include:

• 55-minute meetings with companies, investors and
  partners;
• “Meet our company” spots where entrepreneurs present
  their business profile and strategy to a group of
  investors;
• Subject-specific presentations/Presentations on
  selected topics.

“We are delighted to support the launch of the 7th
annual Smallcap Event, where smallcaps can present their
strengths and growth potential to
investors,”said Marc Lefèvre, Head of European
Coverage at NYSE Euronext. “When companies list on NYSE
Euronext, they immediately benefit from secure market access,
leading-edge technology, the world’s widest pool of investors
and made-to-measure advice. As market operator, we organise
events like the Smallcap Event, ceremonies and conferences to
raise companies’ visibility and help them make the most of
their listing and presence on the
market–which includes outreach to
investors keen to identify the successful businesses of the
future.”

Francis Bader, Chairman and CEO of CFB Communication,
said: “We are very pleased to partner with NYSE Euronext in
providing very active support to small and midcaps listed
here in Europe. The Smallcap Event offers smaller listed
businesses a unique opportunity to meet a large number of
institutional fund managers, all of them potential investors.
Combined with the Midcap Event to be held in Paris in
September this year, it gives small- and midcaps ample
opportunity to present their business and make their voices
heard with institutional investors.”

Contacts:

NYSE Euronext – Press relations

Caroline Tourrier:ctourrier@nyx.com

CFB Communication – Press relations

Caroline Gilliume:c.gilliume@cfbcom.fr

About NYSE Euronext

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 Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE
Arca – represent one-third of the worlds 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 SP 500 index, and
is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500. For more
information, please visit:www.nyx.com.

About CFB Communication

CFB Communication is an independent financial
communications agency founded in 1984.

Specialised in relations between listed companies
institutional investors, as well as non-listed companies and
investors specialised in private equity/VCs, CFB
Communication has set up its own database of European fund
managers investing in smallcaps, midcaps and private
equity/VCs. This includes 9,000 institutional and specialised
investors in Europe, classified by investment
strategy.

CFB Communication has organised midcap events in all
major European markets since 2002, and private equity events
since 2010.

These enable top company executives and investors to
make a maximum number of useful contacts in a minimum amount
of time, thanks to pre-booked meeting schedules.

In 2010-2011, CFB organised over 30 such events in
partnership with 42 financial intermediaries acting as
advisers to companies – demonstrating their know-how to many
institutions not yet in their client base – and over 700
listed companies in Europe, representing a total of over
11,000 meetings with institutional investors.www.midcapevents.com

In November 2010, CFB Communication introduced the
first “Clean Green Event” for venture capitalists and private
equity specialists, focusing on unlisted companies, fund
managers and specialised intermediaries. The aim was to
facilitate relations between specialised investors and
companies from cleantech and green businesses seeking to
raise capital.www.cleangreenevent.com

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