Dairy Farm, El Corte Ingles, Kingfisher and Metro Among Buyers to Attend
HONG KONG, March 30 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Agentrics, representing retailers with more than US$1 trillion in annual sales, will co-locate its first-ever 'Sourcing World: Asia 2007' customer conference with Global Sources' (Nasdaq: GSOL) China Sourcing Fairs in Hong Kong.
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Dairy Farm, El Corte Ingles, Kingfisher and Metro are among the buyers confirmed to attend the April 9-13 conference. The event will be co-located with the April 12-15 China Sourcing Fairs: Electronics & Components, Fashion Accessories and Underwear & Swimwear.
"Agentrics represents 17 of the world's top 30 retailers," said Global Sources' chairman, CEO and the event's keynote speaker, Merle A. Hinrichs. "Their selection of the China Sourcing Fairs to host this conference is expected to help bring even more of the world's biggest buyers face-to-face with our exhibitors. It's an excellent endorsement of the quality of our supplier community."
Agentrics' executive chairman, Christopher Sellers, said: "More and more of our customers are looking for ways to improve their Asian sourcing programs. Agentrics Sourcing World: Asia 2007 and the China Sourcing Fairs will give them the know-how they need to do that, plus provide a range of export-ready Asian suppliers from which to choose."
Global Sources is the exclusive Asian sourcing partner of Agentrics, an organization serving 250 customers including Carrefour, the second-largest retailer in the world; Sears, the third-largest general retailer in the US; and Metro, Germany's largest retailer.
Conference to Offer Best Practice Sessions, Meetings with China Sourcing Fair Exhibitors
Agentrics Sourcing World: Asia 2007 includes keynote presentations on sourcing from China and Asia, two days of best-practice sessions, up to three days at the China Sourcing Fairs, and factory tours in Shenzhen, China. Global Sources and Agentrics will also help attendees pre-arrange meetings with China Sourcing Fair exhibitors.
Agentrics Sourcing World: Asia 2007 is open to executives of any Agentrics customer company, and registration is free. Agentrics' member companies include: Aeon, Ahold USA, Alcampo, Auchan, Best Buy, Canadian Tire, Carrefour, Casino, Chedraui, Coles Myer, Coop Italia, Coop Switzerland, CVS/pharmacy, Dairy Farm, Dansk Supermarked Gruppen, Delhaize Group, Diageo, El Corte Ingles, Food Lion, GlaxoSmithKline, Izumiya, KarstadtQuelle, Kesa, Kesko Food, Kingfisher, Kroger, Lotte, Makro Asia, Makro S.A., Manor, Markant, Marks & Spencer, Metro Group, Migros, Modelo Continente Hipermercados, S.A., Panasonic, PPR, Publix, REWE Group, Royal Ahold, Safeway, Sainsbury's, SCA Hygiene Products, Sears Canada, Sears Holdings Corp., Shopko, Smart and Final, Tesco and Walgreen's.
More information about Agentrics Sourcing World: Asia 2007 is available at http://www.agentrics.com . Details and pre-registration for the China Sourcing Fairs are available at http://www.chinasourcingfairs.com .
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 provides sourcing information to volume buyers and integrated marketing services to suppliers. It helps a community of over 560,000 active buyers source more profitably from complex overseas supply markets. With the goal of providing the most effective ways possible to advertise, market and sell, Global Sources enables suppliers to sell to hard-to-reach buyers in 230 countries.
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, 11 monthly magazines, over 100 sourcing research reports and nine specialized trade shows which run 22 times a years across seven cities. Suppliers receive more than 10 million sales leads annually from buyers through Global Sources Online ( http://www.globalsources.com ) alone.
Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 36 years. In mainland China it has over 1,600 team members in 44 locations, and a community of over 1 million registered online users and magazine readers for Chinese-language media.
Global Sources Press Contact in Asia:
Camellia So
Tel: +852-2555-5021
Email: cso@globalsources.com
Global Sources Investor Contact in Asia:
Eddie Heng
Tel: +65-6547-2850
Email: eheng@globalsources.com
Global Sources Press Contact in U.S.:
James W.W. Strachan
Tel: +1-602-978-7504
Email: strachan@globalsources.com
Global Sources Investor Contact in U.S.:
Moriah Shilton & Cathy Mattison
Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, Inc.
Tel: +1-415-433-3777
Email: cmattison@lhai.com
