This event is brought to you as part of a joint venture between Global Sources and CMP Media LLC. Global Sources (NASDAQ: GSOL) creates and facilitates global trade between buyers and suppliers, by providing the right information, at the right time, in the right format. Its integrated sourcing and marketing solutions enable importers to buy, and exporters to sell, more effectively and profitably. CMP Media is a leading provider of high-tech news and information, and a unit of United News & Media plc (NASDAQ: UNEWY).

About Global Sources
Global Sources is a leading business-to-business (B2B) media company and a primary facilitator of two-way trade with Greater China. The core business is facilitating trade from Greater China to the world, using a wide range of English-language media. The other key business segment facilitates trade from the world to Greater China using Chinese-language media.

The company offers the most extensive range of media and export marketing services in the industries it serves. It delivers information on 1.8 million products and more than 150,000 suppliers annually through 13 online marketplaces, 12 monthly magazines, over 100 sourcing research reports and nine specialized trade shows which run 22 times a year across seven cities.

Suppliers receive more than 13 million sales leads annually from buyers through Global Sources Online (http://www.globalsources.com) alone.