LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- CCG Investor Relations, a leading investor relations and strategic communications firm, today announced that it has been awarded PR News' 2006 Platinum PR Award for the ongoing sell-side analyst relations outreach the Company has performed in close collaboration with its client Diodes Incorporated . The highly competitive award is bestowed annually to celebrate outstanding PR achievements and to put a spotlight on best practices in the PR industry.
Diodes Incorporated is a leading manufacturer and supplier of high quality discrete and analog semiconductors primarily to the communications, computing, industrial, consumer electronics and automotive markets. The Company retained CCG Investor Relations in May of 2000. Since the early stages of the collaboration, Diodes' has been one of the strongest performing stocks in the discrete semiconductor industry, has experienced significant improvements in liquidity and institutional ownership, and has gained seven new sell-side analysts covering the stock.
"We would like to congratulate Diodes Incorporated for this award, which reflects both the strong fundamentals of their investment story and a proactive and consistent policy of open communication with the investment community. This is a classic story of a company with great fundamentals and a compelling strategy that has come to be increasingly appreciated by investors," said Crocker Coulson, President of CCG Investor Relations.
"We are very pleased at this recognition of Diodes' efforts to communicate our strategy of profitable growth followed by execution of the strategy year in and year out. Our investor relations program is providing solid communication to the investment community. It is evident that our efforts to maintain regular and transparent communications with securities analysts has helped broaden institutional sponsorship and improve the liquidity for Diodes' shares," said Diodes' Chief Financial Officer, Carl Wertz.
About Diodes Incorporated
Diodes Incorporated is a leading manufacturer and supplier of high-quality discrete and analog semiconductor products primarily to the communications, computing, industrial, consumer electronics and automotive markets. The Company's corporate sales, marketing, engineering and logistics headquarters is located in Southern California, with two manufacturing facilities in Shanghai, China, a wafer fabrication plant in Kansas City, Missouri, engineering, sales, warehouse and logistics offices in Taipei, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and sales and support offices throughout the world. Diodes, Inc. recently acquired Anachip Corporation, a fabless analog IC company in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan.
Diodes, Inc.'s product focus is on subminiature surface-mount discrete devices, analog power management ICs and Hall-effect sensors all of which are widely used in end-user equipment such as TV/Satellite set top boxes, portable DVD players, datacom devices, ADSL modems, power supplies, medical devices, wireless notebooks, flat panel displays, digital cameras, mobile handsets, DC to DC conversion, Wireless 802.11 LAN access points, brushless DC motor fans, and automotive applications. For further information, visit the Company's website at http://www.diodes.com/.
About CCG Investor Relations
CCG is one of the nation's leading investor relations and strategic communications agencies. In business for over 25 years, the agency provides a complete range of investor communications and counseling services to over 40 clients on the New York, American and NASDAQ stock markets. CCG has been awarded a number of industry honors for its handling of complex investor relations and crisis communications matters. The agency's corporate headquarters is in Los Angeles with additional offices in New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, Newport Beach, California and Columbia, North Carolina. CCG is also the managing partner of an Asia-based joint venture, CCG Elite, with a staff of 16 professionals and 40 clients, providing Best Practice investor relations services to a growing number of Asian companies seeking to access the US capital markets. For further information, contact CCG directly, or visit the Company's Web site at http://www.ccgir.com/.
Contact:
Crocker Coulson, President
CCG Investor Relations
(310) 477-9800
