Standard & Poor's Announces Changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Indices

    




 TORONTO, Nov. 24, 2011 /CNW/ - Standard & Poor's will make the following  changes in the S&P/TSX Venture Indices: 

 The Toronto Stock Exchange announced today in the Daily Bulletin that  the shares of Neptune Technologies & Bioresources Inc. (TSXVN:NTB) will  graduate to trade on TSX at the open of trading on Monday, November 28,  2011. The ticker symbol will remain "NTB" and the CUSIP number will  remain 64077P 10 8. The company will be removed from the S&P/TSX  Venture Composite Index after the close of trading on Friday, November  25, 2011. 

 Neptune Technologies & Bioresources Inc. is also a constituent of the  S&P/TSX Venture Select Index. The company will be removed from this  index effective after the close of Thursday, December 1, 2011, at which  time it will be listed on TSX. 

 Company additions to and deletions from an S&P equity index do not in  any way reflect an opinion on the investment merits of the company. 

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