Component Changes Made to Dow Jones Sector Titans and Dow Jones Country Titans Indexes
Posted on: Thursday, 21 July 2005, 18:00 CDT
NEW YORK, July 21, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Dow Jones Indexes today announced component changes to the Dow Jones Food & Beverage Sector Titans 30 Index and the Dow Jones U.K. Titans 50 Index.
Allied Domecq PLC (Great Britain) will be deleted from the Dow Jones Food & Beverage Sector Titans 30 as well as the Dow Jones U.K. Titans 50 indexes. The changes are a result of the acquisition of Allied Domecq PLC by Pernod Ricard S.A. (France).
In the Dow Jones Food & Beverage Sector Titans 30 Allied Domecq PLC will be replaced by Orkla ASA (Norway).
In the Dow Jones U.K. Titans 50 Allied Domecq PLC will be replaced by SABMiller PLC (Great Britain).
The changes in the Dow Jones Food & Beverage Sector Titans 30 and Dow Jones U.K. Titans 50 indexes will be effective at the start of trading Monday, July 25, 2005.
Further information on the Dow Jones Sector Titans and Dow Jones Country Titans indexes can be found on the Dow Jones Indexes' web site http://www.djindexes.com.
Company additions to and deletions from the Dow Jones Sector Titans and the Dow Jones Country Titans indexes do not in any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company.
Journalists may e-mail questions regarding this press release to: PR-Indexes@dowjones.com or contact a member of the Dow Jones Indexes public relations group:
New York: Sybille A. Reitz, +1-212-597-5735
Frankfurt: Simona Deckers, +49-69-97142894 Nicole Wesch, +49-69-97142893
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Dow Jones Indexes is a premier global provider of investable indexes, including the Dow Jones Averages, the Dow Jones Global Titans 50, the Dow Jones Asian Titans 50, the Dow Jones Sector Titans, the Dow Jones Country Titans Indexes and is co-owner of the Pan-European Dow Jones STOXX Indexes. Dow Jones Indexes is part of Dow Jones & Company, which publishes the world's most vital business and financial news and information.
In addition to Dow Jones Indexes, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ) (dowjones.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Newswires, MarketWatch and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC Universal of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.
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