The Ethics Resource Center (ERC) to Ring the NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

ADVISORY, July 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

What:

The Ethics Resource Center (ERC) will visit the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square. "The National Business Ethics Survey® of Fortune 500® Employees: An Investigation into the State of Ethics at America's Most Powerful Companies," will be the latest in a series of NBES reports to be released at 2 pm on Tuesday, July 24th* at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York.

(To download the full 2011 NBES, go to http://ethics.org/nbes/.)

The National Business Ethics Survey® of Fortune 500® Employees is just one of several national studies of workplace ethics conducted by the Ethics Resource Center. For example, earlier this year ERC released results of a survey of the entire U.S. workforce in business.

To mark the release of its latest survey, ERC President Patricia J. Harned and ERC Chairman Michael G. Oxley will ring the Closing Bell.

Where:

NASDAQ MarketSite – 4 Times Square – 43rd & Broadway – Broadcast Studio

When:

Tuesday, July 24, 2012 – 3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET     

*Release of "The National Business Ethics Survey® of Fortune 500® Employees: An Investigation into the State of Ethics at America's Most Powerful Companies," – 2:00 p.m. ET

Contact:

Adam Benson

(571) 480-4419 / (202) 271-8587

adam@ethics.org

NASDAQ MarketSite:

Jen Knapp

(212) 401-8916

Jennifer.knapp@nasdaqomx.com

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Webcast:

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About Ethics Resource Center (ERC):

The Ethics Resource Center is devoted to independent research and the advancement of high ethical standards and practices in public and private institutions. Visit us at www.ethics.org.

The findings and conclusions of this report are those of the Ethics Resource Center alone and do not represent the views of the corporate sponsors of this research project.

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