Easton-Bell Sports to Present Sourcing Opportunities to China Sporting Goods Suppliers at Private Sourcing Events

Easton-Bell Sports to Present Sourcing Opportunities to China Sporting Goods Suppliers at Private Sourcing Events

November 27, 2007

Representing Top Brands Easton, Riddell, Bell, Giro and
Blackburn, Easton-Bell Plans to Source Sporting Goods and
Sports Equipment from Pre-screened Global Sources
Suppliers

    HONG KONG, Nov. 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Easton-Bell, representing five top international sporting
goods brands, is scheduled to meet Global Sources (Nasdaq:
GSOL) suppliers at a Private Sourcing Event (
http://www.privatesourcingevents.com ) in Shanghai on Dec.
3. 

    (Logo: http://www.xprn.com/xprn/sa/200708071747.jpg )

    Easton-Bell owns five leading sporting goods brands --
Easton, Ridell, Bell, Giro and Blackburn -- covering
baseball, football, cycling, hockey, snow sports products. 
Its sales in 2006 were US$600 million.
 
    Global Sources¡¦ Chairman and CEO, Merle A. Hinrichs,
said: "In October, we launched our Sports &
Leisure B2B website and hosted the Sports & Leisure
Pavilion at the China Sourcing Fairs in Hong Kong.  And,
this month, we published the inaugural issue of Sports
& Leisure sourcing magazine.

    "In combination with Private Sourcing Events like
this one, we offer an end-to-end platform for buyers and
suppliers to trade -- from initial contact and
communication to meeting and placing orders.  This
highlights our advantage over platforms which start and
finish with online lead generation."

    Vice president of Global Sourcing for Easton-Bell
Sports, David Ward, said: "We asked Global Sources to
mine their vast database to find a very particular group of
vendors in our biking and team sport product categories in a
specific region in China that we were not able to adequately
find through our own sourcing offices in Asia. 

    "In a matter of two weeks they were able to locate
over 40 qualified vendors and arrange private meetings for
us to meet with them.  I was extremely impressed with the
results."
    
    World¡¦s Top Buyers Scheduled to Attend Upcoming
Private Sourcing Events
 
    Some of the world¡¦s top buyers, including Lowe¡¦s,
Metro and Sears are scheduled to attend upcoming Private
Sourcing Events this month. The next three events are: 

    -- Home Video Systems & Accessories -- Dec. 4,
Shenzhen
    -- Promotional Gifts -- Dec. 6, Shenzhen
    -- Furniture -- Dec. 11, Shanghai

    Global Sources has scheduled more than 80 Private
Sourcing Events for 2008. A complete list of Private
Sourcing Events scheduled to be held next year is available
at http://www.privatesourcingevents.com . 

    Suppliers wishing to participate should contact
[e-mail] . Buyers may apply by contacting
[e-mail] . 
    
    Specialized Global Sources Websites, Trade Magazines
and Face-to-Face Events

    Private Sourcing Events are part of the company¡¦s
sourcing and product information services which include
Global Sources Online 
( http://www.globalsources.com ), Global Sources magazines,
Global Sources Direct ( http://www.globalsourcesdirect.com )
and China Sourcing Fairs 
( http://www.chinasourcingfair.com ). 

    For more information, visit
http://corporate.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 647,000 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 2 million products and more than
160,000 suppliers annually through 14 online marketplaces,
13 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 23 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 2,000 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:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

    Global Sources Investor Contact in Asia:
     Eddie Heng
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

    Global Sources Press Contact in U.S.:
     James W.W. Strachan 
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail] 

    Global Sources Investor Contact in U.S.:
     Moriah Shilton & Christiane Pelz
     Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, Inc.
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]