Global Sources
Scheduled to Report Third Quarter 2007 Results
on November
15, 2007
NEW YORK,
October 25, 2007 Global Sources Ltd. (NASDAQ: GSOL) expects to release results
for the third quarter 2007 before the market opens on November 15, 2007.
Chairman and
CEO, Merle A. Hinrichs, is scheduled to conduct a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET on
November 15, 2007 (9:00 p.m. on November 15, 2007 in Hong Kong) to review these results in
more detail. Investors in the United States may participate in
the call by dialing (888) 212-8315, and international participants may dial (1-706)
643-0144. Investors in Hong Kong may call (852) 3011-4522. A live webcast of the conference call is scheduled to be available on
Global Sources' corporate site atwww.investor.globalsources.com.
For those who
cannot listen to the live broadcast, a webcast replay of the call is scheduled to be
available on the companys corporate site for at least 30 days.
A telephone replay of the call is also scheduled to be available through November 19,
2007. To listen to the telephone replay, dial (800) 642-1687, or
dial (1-706) 645-9291 outside the United States, and enter pass code 20130665#.
For those in the Hong Kong area, the replay dial-in number is (852) 3011-4541, and enter
pass code 20130665#.
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 635,000 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 over 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, 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 18 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 1,700 team members
in 44 locations, and a community of over 1 million registered online users and magazine
readers for Chinese-language media.
Safe Harbor
Statement
This news release contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27-A of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended and Section 21-E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The
companys actual results could differ materially from those set forth in the
forward-looking statements as a result of the risks associated with the companys
business, changes in general economic conditions, and changes in the assumptions used in
making such forward-looking statements.
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