BOSTON, June 13 /PRNewswire/ --

RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry, today announced the launch of a new online service, PPI Markets & Prices. The new service combines content from four of RISI's industry newsletters (Pulp & Paper Week, PPI This Week, PPI Asia News and PPI Latin America News) and its Price Services into one streamlined source of pulp and paper market prices and news.

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John Day, RISI's CEO, explained, "We developed PPI Markets & Prices in response to two important trends: The globalization of pulp and paper markets, and the increasingly short news cycles in media today. Rather than searching for information in various weekly printed newsletters, our subscribers can now access market prices and news within an easy-to-navigate web site."

The new service also provides an enhanced user experience. Subscriptions include access to daily breaking industry news as well as online tools that let users build customized price tables and compare prices in eight currencies.

PPI Markets & Prices is available in several different services that provide subscribers with coverage of just the region or grade they need: PPI Pulp & Paper Week (North America), PPI Europe (formerly PPI This Week), PPI Asia, PPI Latin America, PPI Fiber (covering pulp and recovered paper grades), PPI Packaging and PPI Graphic Papers. The PPI Global service, which includes content for all grades and regions, is also available.

More information about the new service is available at http://www.risiinfo.com/mps.

About RISI

RISI is the leading information provider for the global forest products industry. The company works with clients in the pulp and paper, wood products, timber, tissue, nonwovens, printing and publishing industries to help them make better decisions.

Headquartered in Boston (Bedford), Massachusetts, RISI operates offices in Brussels, Belgium; Atlanta, Georgia; San Francisco, California; Portland, Oregon; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Shanghai, China; Singapore; and Charlottesville, Virginia. More information can be found at http://www.risiinfo.com.

Contact: Nancy Costa, Marketing Director, Pulp & Paper +1-781-734-8953 ncosta@risiinfo.com

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

Nancy Costa, Marketing Director, Pulp & Paper, of RISI, +1-781-734-8953, ncosta@risiinfo.com. Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080521/NEW122LOGO, AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org, PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com