Released on = October 19, 2006, 7:04 pm

Press Release Author = Global Sources

Industry =

Press Release Summary = Machinery manufacturers and suppliers from mainland China,
Taiwan and Hong Kong are now part of a recently launched site devoted to quality
machinery suppliers.

Press Release Body = On October 9, 2006, online media company Global Sources
launched a website devoted exclusively to quality suppliers of machinery products.

For companies that import machinery from Greater China, this is a landmark
development. Volume buyers no longer have to perform extensive searches to find
qualified machinery suppliers.

Buyers are now able to access a single site to find reliable information on
qualified suppliers of electronic production machinery, vending machines, industrial
machinery, packaging machinery and equipment, metalworking machinery, material
equipment handling and systems, construction machinery, power transmitting
machinery, textile machinery, farm equipment, plastic machinery and many other
products.

Thousands of new machinery and machinery-related products are now readily available
at this "Online Machinery Manufacturers Directory" provided by Global Sources.

Buyers interested in reviewing the complete list of quality products offered by
mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan machinery manufacturers should visit the new
export site at http://www.machinery.globalsources.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 530,000 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 130,000 suppliers annually through 11 online marketplaces, 10 monthly
magazines, over 140 sourcing research reports and 14 trade shows, including six
China Sourcing Fairs. Suppliers receive more than 7 million sales leads annually
from buyers through Global Sources Online (http://www.globalsources.com) alone.

Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 35 years. In mainland China it
has over 1,400 team members in 44 locations, and a community of over 1 million
registered online users and magazine readers for Chinese-language media.




Web Site = http://www.globalsources.com

Contact Details = Company: Global Sources Ltd.
Phone: (852) 2555-5023
Fax: (852) 2518-8764
Website: http://www.globalsources.com/
Email: press_corp@globalsources.com
Address:
22/F. Vita Tower, Aberdeen
Hong Kong