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A benchmark for high quality products and services across all areas of commercial and investment banking, The Euromoney Awards for Excellence define banking excellence across 25 global categories and across 110 individual countries. These awards, based on outstanding performance, quality service, innovation and momentum, have set the standard for banking and global market excellence amongst the top ranking financial institutions around the world.

"We believe that our recent achievements confirm our position as the leading investment banking house in the Czech Republic and our leading position in stock broking services in the whole CEE region," said Vladimir Jaros, Wood & Co partner. Euromoney was founded in 1969 and is listed on the Stock Exchanges in London and Luxembourg. It is a leading international business to business publisher, focused primarily on international finance. It publishes more than 100 magazines, newsletters and journals as well as surveys, directories, books and maps. Apart from this, it runs business conferences, seminars and training courses, and is a leading provider of electronic business information through its capital market databases and its Internet-based emerging markets information service.

Since its foundation, Wood & Co has been the most active stockbroker on the Prague Stock Exchange ("PSE"), dating back to the launch of the Czech capital market in 1993. Wood & Co executed on the PSE the first ever transaction for foreign institutional investors and, since then, has maintained its leading position in equity broking services. In the past five years, Wood & Co has consistently reached a market share of 20-25% and kept its leading position on PSE and in SPAD, the PSE’s core trading platform. At present, the company has offices in Prague, Bratislava and Bucharest and is a member of the Prague, Vienna, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Budapest and Bucharest stock exchanges.

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Radek Narovec
Wood & Company
radek.narovecwood.cz
+420 222 096 254
www.wood.cz