direct/ Hugin Group (NO) - Hugin Group enters agreement with NetConnect to improve telephone conference services in Norway

Oslo, February 8th 2007. Listed companies are continually searching for solutions to improve communications with their share markets. Using a web-cast combined with a telephone conference, companies can now achieve a dialogue with their shareholders, brokers and investors through their presentations.

Hugin, Europe´s leading provider of innovative solutions for connecting communication professionals with their target audiences, and NetConnect Systems AS, a telephone meeting solution provider, have started a cooperation for the sale of communications solutions to listed companies. Today Hugin delivers around 300 web-cast services per year to companies in Europe. Many of these companies also wish to offer interested parties access to the web-casts via the telephone.

"A web-cast combined with a telephone conference, for example a Quarterly Report presentation, has become mission-critical, and a valuable way to communicate directly with interested parties both locally and internationally" says Per Christian Næsset, Managing director of Hugin Norway. "We are very happy to enter into a partnership with NetConnect Systems and their Meet24 Event service. In this way we are able to offer our clients the best solutions in web-cast and telephone meeting services."

Listed companies all over Europe have an increasing demand for effective solutions to execute a range of different company presentations. Over the last few years Hugin has helped a large number of companies with web-based services to achieve their goal.

Rolf Larsen, Managing director of NetConnect Systems: "Our "Meet24 Event" service is tailored for large presentations and meetings via the telephone, and through our cooperation with Hugin and their web-casting services, we are proud to deliver a product that contributes to a complete communications solution."

About Hugin
The Hugin Group is Europe´s leading provider of innovative solutions for connecting communication professionals with their target audiences. Hugin was founded in 1995, and in just a few years it has become one of Europe´s leading distributors of unedited corporate information. Since December 2006 Hugin is a fully owned subsidiary of Euronext, the Pan-European stock exchange.

Hugin currently distributes press releases on behalf of over 1200 companies throughout 20 European countries and employs around 86 people in 9 countries - Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
Our core business is offering real-time quality information by providing communication professionals with the most innovative, straight through processing solution for the delivery of unedited facts to their target audiences. Through the acquisition of Directnews in 2005, Hugin now offers tailored research and management of media data as well as press release distribution to targeted media world-wide.
Hugin offers investors and journalists real-time news through its Internet portal at http://www.huginonline.com/ and via free email subscription. Online portals, data vendors and newswires are provided real-time feeds to of all our news.
For more information go to http://www.hugingroup.com

About Euronext
Euronext was the first pan-European exchange, results from the September 2000 merger of equity and derivatives markets in Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris. BVLP, the Portuguese exchange and LIFFE, the international derivatives exchange, joined Euronext in 2002. Euronext offers services that include listing of financial instruments, trading in securities and derivatives, data dissemination and IT support. Measured by value and number of trades processed through its central order book, Euronext is the largest cash equity market in Europe. Euronext.liffe, the derivatives business of Euronext, is Europe´s second largest derivatives exchange by volume and the value of listings.

About NetConnect
NetConnect Systems AS was founded in 1998, and is a developer and supplier of phone- and web based meeting services. The company has offices in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Germany, Great Britain and Canada, and offers local conference dial-in numbers worldwide. The NetConnect meeting services include the use of web, traditional telephony, IP-telephony and video. The company works closely with Microsoft to offer Office Live Meeting, which is integrated with the NetConnect conference solutions. The meeting solutions reduce the need to travel to hold meetings.
NetConnect presently has several large Nordic and European corporate clients, and is also a significant supplier to the Nordic public sectors.

Journalist and media enquiries contact:

Per Christian Næsset,
Managing director Hugin Norway.
Telephone +47 95073085

Matthias Erler,
Director Marketing & Partner Development Hugin ASA
+49 8917959293

Rolf Larsen,
Managing director NetConnect Systems.
Telephone +47 41411111


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