NEW YORK, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pink OTC Markets Inc. (Pink Sheets: PINK), the leading electronic inter-dealer quotation system, trading technology and financial information provider for Over-the-Counter (OTC) securities, today announced that The Stephan Co. (OTCQX: SPCO), an American manufacturer and distributor of hair care and beauty products, is now trading on OTCQX®. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090708/NY43125LOGO ) The Stephan Co. began trading today on the OTC market's highest tier, OTCQX U.S. Premier. Investors can find current financial disclosure and real-time Level 2 quotes for the company on http://www.otcqx.com/ and http://www.pinksheets.com/. "We are pleased to welcome The Stephan Company to OTCQX," said R. Cromwell Coulson, President and CEO of Pink OTC Markets. "The OTCQX marketplace is the premier tier of the U.S. Over-the-Counter (OTC) market, providing investors with an objective measure to distinguish the best OTC-traded companies." Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP (http://www.srff.com/) will serve as The Stephan Co.'s Designated Advisor for Disclosure ("DAD") on OTCQX, responsible for providing guidance on listing requirements. About The Stephan Co. (OTCQX: SPCO) The Stephan Co., founded in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1897 was heralded in the Congressional Record for uniqueness of marketing. The Company manufactures and distributes over 2000 hair care and beauty products throughout the United States. Some of its retail products include Quinsana Medicated Powder, Protein 29, Wildroot and Cashmere Bouquet. The Company also owns the Frances Denney brand as well as the Image and Sorbie professional hair care lines. Further, the Company is one of the country's largest barber and beauty supply and beauty school distributors. Spanning generations of customers, its products are widely recognized and have a loyal customer base. The Company is a leader in the African-American hair care business. The Stephan Co. continually develops new brands and seeks additional channels of distribution both domestically and internationally. For more about The Stephan Co., visit http://www.thestephanco.com/. About OTCQX The OTCQX marketplace is the premier tier of the U.S. Over-the-Counter market. Investor-focused companies use the quality controlled OTCQX listing platform to offer investors transparent trading, superior information, and easy access through their regulated U.S. broker-dealers. The innovative OTCQX platform offers companies and their shareholders a level of marketplace services formerly available only on a U.S. exchange. For more about OTCQX, visit http://www.otcqx.com/. About Pink OTC Markets Inc. Pink OTC Markets Inc. (Pink Sheets: PINK) is a financial information and technology services company that operates the leading electronic quotation and trading system in the Over-the-Counter, or OTC, securities market. The OTCQX and Pink Sheets® marketplaces that we operate constitute, by dollar volume, the third largest U.S. liquidity pool for trading public company shares, after The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. and The New York Stock Exchange. Our technology platform provides a comprehensive suite of information products and trading services for OTC market participants. Our products and services promote market transparency, improve price discovery, facilitate regulatory compliance, and increase the quality of issuer disclosure, to the benefit of all OTC market participants. To learn more about how Pink OTC Markets' products and services make the OTC marketplace more transparent, informed, and efficient, please visit our websites at http://www.pinkotc.com/, http://www.pinksheets.com/ and http://www.otcqx.com/ or contact us at . Pink OTC Markets is headquartered in New York City. Subscribe to the OTCQX RSS Feed http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090708/NY43125LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Pink OTC Markets CONTACT: Matthew Sheldon, CCG Investor Relations, +1-310-954-1346, Web Site: http://www.pinkotc.com/

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