Global Sources - Alliances

We form powerful alliances to create more trade opportunities for our communities:

Agentrics

Global Sources serves as Agentrics unique alliance partner in Asia and provides direct access to all Agentrics members to expand their sourcing activities in the region. We bring an unparalleled opportunity both to our supplier community and to Agentrics members to meet in the Global Sources platform and carry out commerce activities.

Agentrics LLC, formerly the WWRE, is the trusted solution and service provider for the global retail industry. Its solutions help retailers, manufacturers, and their trading partners reduce costs and improve efficiency by streamlining and automating sourcing, product design, and supply chain processes. With a secure hosted solution, comprehensive customer support, and extensive retail experience, Agentrics manages and simplifies the implementation process – realizing the value of technology investments. Agentrics currently serves over 50 retailers and over 300 customers, including 17 of the world's top 25 global retailers.

For more information about Agentrics visit us at http://www.agentrics.com/.

BiMBA

Global Sources and Beijing University have formed a partnership to offer world-class export education courses to China's executives. The jointly developed program is designed to strengthen the competitiveness of China's exporters by teaching them how to attract and work with top buyers

Bureau Veritas

Global Sources has formed a partnership with Bureau Veritas (NYSE Euronext/Paris: BVI) to provide compliance services to Global Sources community members.

Bureau Veritas' Consumer Products Services Division (BVCPS), a division of Bureau Veritas, provides an array of concept-to-consumer quality assurance and compliance service. With over 30 years of experience in working closely with retailers, brands, vendors and manufacturers, BVCPS is known as one of the global leaders in providing quality assurance supply chain solutions. It ranks in the top global leadership position in the product segments of hardlines, softlines, and toys. Having established long-standing relationships with most global retailers and brands, BVCPS is committed to meeting the clients’ needs for quality, speed-to-market and brand protection through the supply chain in the industry.

For more information about Bureau Veritas, visit http://www.bureauveritas.com/ .

China Europe International Business School ( CEIBS )

Global Sources offers the Excellence in Export Marketing program in conjunction with CEIBS. This program is specially designed for China's senior export executives.


•	The only EQUIS-Accredited Business School in Mainland China
•	Rank number 1 MBA in Asia Pacific, 2005
•	Visit http://www.ceibs.edu/ for detailed information

Penton Media

eMedia Asia Ltd, a joint venture between Global Sources (NASDAQ-GS: GSOL) and CMP Media, has formed a strategic alliance with Penton Media, Inc. to launch Electronic Design-China. A simplified Chinese edition of Penton's leading electronics magazine, Electronic Design-China provides the latest technology and application methodologies to 40,000 design engineers and engineering managers in mainland China.

Shanghai International Merchandising Centre

Global Sources hosts its Private Sourcing Events at the Shanghai International Merchandising Centre's International Sourcing Conference. This provides a government platform for our supplier community to meet more leading buyers under one roof.


•	Professional platform established by Shanghai Municipal People's Government, with an aim to serve international sourcing
•	Annual International Sourcing Conference initiated by Shanghai Foreign Economic Relation & Trade Commission, exclusively held by Shanghai International Merchandising Centre, and supported by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China and Shanghai Municipal People's Government
•	Largest and most influencing international sourcing conference for buyers to set up booths to meet with suppliers
•	Visit http://www.sourcingcn.com/ for detailed information

Sinotrust

Sinotrust (www.sinotrust.cn) is a leading supplier of marketing solutions and credit solutions in China. It collects, analyzes and manages information about markets, consumers and businesses to provide marketing research, business information, consulting and database marketing services through integration of information, services and technology. Its products and services help buyers make better marketing and credit decisions and develop profitable customer relationships. Over 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies operating in China are using its products and services.

TechInsights

Global Sources has partnered with TechInsights (formerly CMP's Electronics Group), the premier business-to-business technology media company to form eMedia Asia Ltd.

eMedia Asia Ltd provides new technology content, media and e-commerce services to the 150,000-plus technology decision-makers that drive Asia's booming technology market. Through its business and technical events, publications and online products, eMedia Asia leads in providing Asia's electronics community with the business and technical information they need to remain competitive.




First Advantage
		First Advantage — Asia is the largest provider of pre-employment background screening services in the Asia region. Established as Quest Screening Services in Hong Kong in the year 2000, the company has grown rapidly and was acquired by First Advantage Corporation in April 2005. In 2008, it acquired Verify Limited, the second largest background screening firm in Asia. First Advantage Corporation (NASDAQ:FADV) is a leading provider of screening and risk mitigation solutions in the United States, ranking in the top three companies in nearly all of its business lines. They currently run comprehensive programs for over 700 companies in the region. Their clients include top investment banks, financial services organizations which include all major banks operating in the region, technology companies, software services companies, firms dealing in oil exploration and many from the manufacturing sector including some from the top five business conglomerates in India. First Advantage has offices in Australia, Canada, China (Beijing, Shanghai & Zhuhai), Hong Kong, India (Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi & Bengalooru), Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, UK and USA. In Asia Pacific region the staff strength totals 1,600. First Advantage offers products and services that mitigate risk by helping businesses, non-profit organizations, government agencies and consumers make more informed decisions. Headquartered in Poway, Calif., the company has more than 4,800 employees that support over 90,000 clients globally.