Jacada Retains Fleishman Hillard for Strategic Public Relations and Investor Relations Counsel
Company Will Work with "Agency of the Decade" in Expanded Public Relations Effort
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000-- Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ: JCDA - news) has retained the consulting services of Fleishman Hillard International Communications, one of the world's leading communications consultancies recently named ``Agency of the Decade' by Inside PR, as part of an expanded public and investor relations effort. Jacada provides a complete software infrastructure to rapidly transform business critical systems into e-business solutions to empower enterprise developers to build Internet applications.
``This partnership signals a new era for Jacada,' said Mike Potts, president, Jacada Inc. ``Fleishman Hillard, the second largest public relations firm in the United States, is a leader in financial communications, technology and investor relations. It is our priority to broaden our visibility in the financial and trade communities. Fleishman Hillard will play an integral role in assisting us in this and other efforts as we continue as a leader in our industry.'
Earlier this week, Jacada announced Jacada© Wireless, a suite of solutions enabling wireless devices to quickly and easily integrate with existing applications. Jacada Wireless supports any Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) enabled device such as mobile phones, as well as Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) such as the Palm VII(TM). Jacada's offerings also include Jacada© for Java, Jacada© for HTML and Jacada© Connects. Jacada solutions are in use today by major corporations such as Caterpillar, Porsche, Enterprise Rent-a-Car and AIG.
About Fleishman Hillard
Fleishman Hillard, recently named ``Agency of the Decade' by Inside PR, is one of the world's leading public relations firms. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Fleishman Hillard is the fifth-largest public relations firm worldwide. The firm has offices in 42 locations in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and South Africa. The agency, founded in 1946, has the best reputation for quality service of any major public relations agency, according to two independent surveys of the U.S. public relations industry and is consistently ranked first or second in several key practice areas: investor relations, business to business, public affairs, corporate positioning, technology, consumer and healthcare. For more than a decade, the firm has been the fastest growing public relations agency, with a compound growth of more than 20 percent. The agency has more than 1,700 employees around the globe and is a member of the Omnicom organization of advertising, public relations and marketing services companies. For more information, visit their Web site at fleishman.com.
About Jacada Ltd.
Founded in 1990, Jacada Ltd. provides a complete software infrastructure to rapidly transform legacy systems into e-business solutions and to empower enterprise developers to build Internet applications. The company operates globally with headquarter offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Herzliya, Israel; and London, UK. Jacada can be reached at www.jacada.com or at 1-800-773-9574. The company's shares are traded on Nasdaq under the symbol JCDA.
Statements in this press release or otherwise attributable to the Company regarding the Company's business which are not historical fact, including those regarding growth in its business, are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as ``expects,' ``anticipates,' ``intends,' ``plans,' ``believes,' ``seeks,' ``estimates,' and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including risks detailed in the Company's Offering Prospectus of October 14, 1999 and filings with the SEC, that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. |
