About Marketwire

Marketwire is a commercial news release service. The company distributes news via traditional methods (Associated Press, Bloomberg, etc.) as well as new media methods (social media, blogs, etc.)

Marketwire's President and Chief Executive Officer is Michael J. Nowlan. The company's headquarters is in Toronto, Canada. It has more than 8,000 clients worldwide and has 17 offices on four continents.

In 2006, Marketwire was acquired by CCNMatthews, a 25-year-old news distribution company in Canada. The company adopted the name Marketwire unilaterally. The company is now majority-owned by OMERS Capital Partners, the private equity arm of one of Canada's largest pension funds.