Balchem Corporation Joins Russell 3000 Index

Balchem Corporation Joins Russell 3000 Index 


NEW HAMPTON, N.Y., July 5  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Balchem Corporation joined
the Russell 3000(R) Index, the small-cap Russell 2000(R) Index and the Russell
Microcap(TM) Index when Russell Investment Group reconstituted its family of
U.S. indexes on June 24. Russell recently posted a list of additions to its
indexes on http://www.russell.com/ .

Membership in the broad-market Russell 3000, which remains in place for one
year, means automatic inclusion in the small-cap Russell 2000, as well as the
appropriate growth and style of the Russell Microcap Index. Russell determines
membership for its equity indexes primarily by objective, market capitalization
rankings and style attributes.

Dino A. Rossi, President and CEO of Balchem Corporation, noted that "this is a
tremendous honor for Balchem and the shareholders of Balchem. Having Balchem
included in these indexes is a recognition of our strong financial performance
and will significantly increase investor awareness of the company."

Russell indexes are widely used by investment managers and institutional
investors for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active
investment strategies. More than $2.5 trillion in assets currently are
benchmarked to them. Investment managers who oversee these funds purchase
shares of member stocks according to that company's weighting in the particular
index.

Annual reconstitution of Russell indexes captures the 3,000 largest U.S. stocks
as of the end of May, ranking them by total market capitalization to create the
Russell 3000. The largest 1,000 companies in the ranking comprise the Russell
1000 while the remaining 2,000 companies become the widely used Russell 2000.
These investment tools originated from Russell's multi-manager investment
business in the early 1980s when the company saw the need for a more objective,
market-driven set of benchmarks in order to evaluate outside investment
managers.

About Balchem: Balchem Corporation consists primarily of three business
segments: ARC Specialty Products, Encapsulated/Nutritional Products and BCP
Ingredients. Through ARC Specialty Products, Balchem provides
specialty-packaged chemicals for use in health care and other industries. The
Encapsulated/Nutritional Products segment provides proprietary
microencapsulation solutions to an expanding variety of applications. BCP
Ingredients, our unencapsulated feed supplements segment, manufactures and
supplies choline chloride and derivatives used primarily in the poultry and
swine industries. 

DATASOURCE: Balchem Corporation



CONTACT:  Karin McCaffery, Investor Relations Coordinator of Balchem

Corporation, [phone]



Web site:  http://www.balchem.com/

http://www.russell.com/ 

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