05 October 2009
Rabat - Morocco's leading phone and internet company, Maroc Telecom, said it has been awarded the best Performing Ai40 Company by the 2009 Africa Investor Index Series awards, which was held at the New York Stock Exchange.

Maroc Telecom is one of three awarded businesses this year, the company said in a statement.

The Africa investor Index Series Awards are the only international, pan-African awards that recognize and reward Africa's institutional investors, stock exchanges, best performing listed companies, stockbrokers and capital market regulators. The awards assess performance between April 2008 and April 2009.

The awards ceremony took place at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and was attended by over 200 senior executives from across Africa and the rest of the world as well as dignitaries from the economic and political world.

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