Charys Holding Company, Inc. (fka CHYSQ)

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Charys Holding Company Enhances Investor Visibility Via Standard & Poor's Market Access Program

Monday November 27, 1:24 pm ET


ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Charys Holding Company, Inc. ("Charys") (OTCBB: CHYS - News) is pleased to announce today that it has been approved for listing in Standard & Poor's Market Access Program. This program, specifically designed for OTC companies, will allow Charys to share its information with the global investment community through S&P's four distinctive and proprietary distribution channels.

Standard & Poor's Corporation Records, with more than 1 million readers, is regarded as the premier reference source for investors and compliance professionals alike covering more than 12,000 US and international public companies. It is also a recognized securities manual for secondary trading in approximately 37 states that provide a "Manual Exemption" under the "Blue Sky" Laws. Brokers widely rely on this exemption to facilitate secondary trading of OTC issues. As part of the program a full description of Charys, including share price, volume, dividends, shares outstanding, company financial position and earnings, will be published in the Daily News section of Standard Corporation Records.

Standard & Poor's Advisor Insight, a turnkey investor relations Internet presence, will display a timely and accurate Charys profile, a public version of the site is available at http://www.advisorinsight.com/, while Standard & Poor's MarketScope provides real-time market intelligence for thousands of brokers, traders, researchers and financial advisors throughout North America. Lastly, the Stock Guide Database furnishes comprehensive, fundamental financial data to virtually every major stock quote vendor including Reuters and ADP.

For more than 140 years Standard & Poor's has provided investors with the independent benchmarks necessary for them to make confident and informed investment and financial decisions. An essential part of the world's financial infrastructure, S&P is the foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research, data and valuations.

Billy V. Ray, Jr., Charys' Chief Executive Officer, stated, "Our acceptance in Standard & Poor's Market Access Program is a significant achievement in Charys' overall financial and market growth strategy. The broader dissemination of information relating to Charys' progress as well as the extended visibility this will give us in capital markets strengthens our commitment to create and build value for our shareholders. Given the manual exemption for registration in over 37 states provided by the S&P listing, we can now meet the expressed interest in broader trading through our expanded investor relations program and better assist investment firms in making a market in Charys' stock."