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OTC Markets Group Welcomes School Specialty to OTCQB
OTC Markets Group Welcomes School Specialty to OTCQB.
About this update from School Speciality Inc
[{"type":"text","content":"OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of Open, Transparent and Connected financial marketplaces, today announced that School Specialty, Inc. (OTCQB: SCOO) is verified for trading on OTCQB®, the venture marketplace for entrepreneurial and development stage companies, as of August 20, 2014. School Specialty is a leading distributor of supplies, furniture, technology products, supplemental learning products (“instructional solutions”) and curriculum solutions to the education marketplace. The company provides educators with its own innovative and proprietary products and services from basic school supplies to 21st century classroom designs to Science, Reading, Language and Math teaching materials, as well as planning and development tools. Through its nationwide distribution network, School Specialty provides its customers with access to a broad spectrum of other trusted, third-party brands across its business segments. This assortment strategy enables the company to offer customers a range of products at the state, district and school levels. Primarily serving the pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade (“preK-12”) market, the company has recently expanded its presence in non-traditional channels, such as e-commerce and retail. School Specialty offers its products through two operating groups: Distribution (formerly referred to as “Educational Resources”) and Curriculum (formerly referred to as“Accelerated Learning”). U.S. investors can find current financial disclosure and Real-Time Level 2 quotes for the company on www.otcmarkets.com. About OTC Markets Group Inc.OTC Markets Group Inc.(OTCQX: OTCM) operates Open, Transparent and Connected financial marketplaces for 10,000 U.S. and global securities. Through our OTC Link® ATS, we directly link a diverse network of broker-dealers that provide liquidity and execution services for a wide spectrum of securities. We organize these securities into marketplaces to better inform investors of opportunities and risks – OTCQX®, The Best Marketplace; OTCQB®, The Venture Marketplace; and OTC Pink®, The Open Marketplace. Our data-driven platform enables investors to easily trade through the broker of their choice at the best possible price and empowers a broad range of companies to improve the quality and availability o...