MONTERREY, Mexico - Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. ("FEMSA") (NYSE: FMX; BMV: FEMSAUBD) is pleased to invite you to participate in its Second Quarter 2009 Conference Call that will be held on:

CALGARY, Canada - Addax Petroleum Corporation ("Addax Petroleum" or the "Corporation") ( TSX: AXC and LSE: AXC), today announced that Mirror Lake Oil and Gas Company Limited ("Mirror Lake"), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation ("SIPC"), has today commenced its offer for Addax Petroleum (the "Offer") and mailed the Offer and take-over bid circular (the "Offer Documentation") as well as the Addax Petroleum directors' circular, containing the Addax Petroleum board's unanimous recommendation to accept the Offer, to Addax Petroleum shareholders. On June 24, 2009, SIPC and Addax Petroleum reached an agreement for Mirror Lake to make an offer to acquire all of Addax Petroleum's outstanding common shares for C$52.80 per common share in an all-cash transaction.

MCLEAN, Virginia - For the first time in its history, the French National Commission for Data Protection and the Liberties (CNIL) has granted approval to a private testing company -- the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) -- to collect biometric data as part of its efforts to ensure the highest level of security for the GMAT exam. No other private examination has obtained this permission.

LONDON - Planalytics, Inc. announced today that Cott Beverages Ltd. ("Cott UK") has subscribed to Planalytics' Consumer Insights(SM) Platform. Cott UK, a subsidiary of Cott Corporation, one of the world's largest non-alcoholic beverage companies, is using the service to analyze and plan for weather's impact on consumer demand for its products.

WARSAW, Poland - The current economic slowdown has affected many industry sectors but not all investments have been put on hold. EU compliance deadlines, growing energy consumption, an ageing infrastructure and EU funding are the major factors stimulating the Energy and Water and Wastewater sectors in Poland in the Central Eastern European (CEE) region.