ACCESS Newswire Inc.

ACCESS Newswire Inc., originally incorporated as Issuer Direct Corporation in 1988, is a communications and compliance company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, having adopted its current name in January 2025. The firm delivers an extensive suite of services designed for public relations and investor relations professionals, serving clients across the United States and internationally. Its diverse offerings include the Media Advantage Platform, which facilitates press release distribution, provides access to comprehensive media databases, offers media monitoring services, and enables custom newsrooms. Furthermore, the company operates ACCESSWIRE, a dedicated service for news dissemination and media outreach. For virtual engagements, its Webcaster Platform offers a cloud-based environment for live and on-demand webcasts, webinars, and virtual meetings, allowing users to efficiently create, produce, and broadcast events to audiences of all sizes. The company also provides advanced professional conference and events software, featuring a mobile application that empowers organizers, issuers, and investors to streamline registration, request and approve one-on-one meetings, manage schedules, handle event promotion and sponsorships, print attendee badges, and coordinate lodging. An investor relations content network supplies vital data feeds, encompassing news updates, stock information, financial fundamentals, regulatory filings, corporate governance insights, and other critical data points. In the realm of compliance, ACCESS Newswire offers a whistleblower hotline for secure incident notifications and essential workflow management, ensuring alignment with corporate governance policies. It also includes a stock transfer module, providing clients with real-time access to shareholder information, stock ledgers, and reports, alongside capabilities for issuing new shares. A proxy module further delivers a real-time voting platform for its customers and their registered shareholders. The company's clientele is broad, encompassing public and private corporations, mutual funds, law firms, brokerage houses, investment banks, individuals, and various other institutional organizations.