Hugin Group
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The Hugin Group ("Hugin") is a group of companies that distributes full-text, unedited News releases from companies around the world. With a focus on European newswire distribution to the news media , Hugin has strategic relationships with partners in the US (Marketwire) and in Asia (Japan Corporate News Network, Asia Corporate News Network.)
Hugin was founded in Oslo, Norway in 1995, beginning with annual report distribution on CD-ROM. With the advent of the commercial Internet, distribution quickly switched to the then new medium. Hugin was the first company to offer a comprehensive do-it-yourself publishing system via the Internet, and by 2007 Hugin had expanded to have a presence in 11 European countries.
Hugin distributes with both Investor Relations and more general Public Relations content. Content distribution services are provided to companies in 26 countries.
Hugin distributes news directly to mainstream news agencies such as Reuters, Bloomberg, Yahoo, Comtex and Dow Jones, is licensed to handle regulatory news disclosure under the European Transparency Directive (part of the MiFiD (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive)), maintains a database of over 152,000 journalists, provides website creation products, provides webcasts & Public relations training services.
As of December 2006, Hugin is a wholly owned subsidiary of NYSE Euronext.
