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London - Reuters has signed an exclusive deal with SeeNews, a Bulgaria-based provider of financial news and information, to bring its customers access to detailed coverage on the fast-growing companies, economies and markets of nine South-Eastern European nations.

SeeNews is an independent newswire providing coverage of corporate, business, economic, market, political and general news from a network of correspondents based in Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Albania, Moldova, Serbia and Montenegro.

Its coverage, which complements Reuters own reporting from the region, will be available as an optional extra service to financial professionals exclusively over Reuters financial desktop information products such as 3000 Xtra, Reuters Trader and Reuters Wealth Manager.

Michael Stott, Reuters Global Head of National News Services, said “Our deal with SeeNews gives Reuters clients a unique source of high-quality news about fast-growing conomies such as Bulgaria and Romania, where investor interest is growing ahead of EU entry. SeeNews content will complement Reuters own highly regarded news from the region to form  an unbeatable package.”

Dessislava Popova, SeeNews Editor-in-Chief, said “This alliance creates a powerful news source. Combining SeeNews unique content and local knowledge with Reuters world class financial data and news means we can offer financial professionals covering these markets with one, authoritative source.”

Reuters offers the world's most comprehensive set of domestic financial news coverage spanning 26 key markets in 19 languages. Earlier this year Reuters made a series of investments in its local language news services including the launch of a French language

news service for financial professionals in Switzerland, and the expansion of its Chinese language news service. It also signed an exclusive partnership with ANP in the Netherlands to provide market-leading Dutch news.

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Contacts

Reuters

Susan Allsopp Tel: + 44 207 542 8404

Media Relations Mobile: + 44 7990 568404

SeeNews

Daniela Todorova Tel: + 359 2 9376 472

Marketing Director Mobile: + 359 887 358918

Notes to Editors

Reuters

Reuters (www.reuters.com), the global information company, provides indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Its trusted information drives decision making across the globe based on a reputation for speed, accuracy and independence. Reuters has 15,300 staff in 91 countries, including staff from the acquisition of Moneyline Telerate (MLT) in June 2005. It also includes 2,300 editorial staff in 196 bureaux serving 129 countries, making Reuters the world’s largest international multimedia news agency. In the 2004 Annual Report and Form 20-F, Reuters Group revenues were ?2.9 billion.

In 2004 Reuters filed over two and a half million news items, including 440,000 alerts, from 209 countries around the world published in 18 languages. Every day its team of 600 photographs produces up to 1,000 pictures from countries spanning the globe. Reuters news is seen by over 1 billion people every day and used by over 1,000 key newspapers and publishers. Over 330,000 financial professionals around the world have Reuters news on their screens and over 10 million people visit the Reuters global network of websites every month.

Reuters and the sphere logo are the trade-marks of the Reuters group of companies.

SeeNews

SeeNews is published by AII Data Processing Ltd. AII Data Processing Ltd. is a Bulgaria-based private company active in three main business fields - information services, data processing and business services, including credit management, telesales and telemarketing.

AII Data Processing Ltd. releases over 700 news items a day covering corporate, financial, economic and political events from 74 countries. The company employs over 150 multi-lingual journalists and style editors. AII Data Processing’s news reach over six million users of business and industry information through the world leaders in information distribution.

AII Data Processing Ltd. has established itself as a leading business processes outsourcing centre in the region with its high-quality, high-turnaround capacities and skilled personnel.

AII Data Processing Ltd. operates 24/7 and employs a total staff of over 250 people working in 27 languages, including all European languages, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, all Nordic languages, all languages of the Balkan region, all Central European languages, etc.

SeeNews (www.see-news.com) marks the first stage of a larger integrated product for financial professionals, corporate executives and market researchers with business interests in Southeast Europe. The next step of the project’s development is the release of a company, industry and country information database and a PR platform. The aim of the product is to support customers with an extensive tool for building up their business and investment strategies and to enhance their ability to explore new revenue opportunities in the region.