Global Sources scheduled to report fourth quarter and year-end 2010 results on March 17, 2011

NEW YORK, March. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ --Global Sources Ltd. (Nasdaq: GSOL) expects to release results for the fourth quarter and year-end 2010 before the market opens on March 17, 2011.

Chairman and CEO Merle A. Hinrichs and CFO Connie Lai are scheduled to conduct a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET on March 17, 2011 (8:00 p.m. on March 17, 2011 in Hong Kong) to review these results in more detail.  Investors in the United States may participate in the call by dialing (877) 941-2069, and non-Hong Kong international participants may dial (1-480) 629-9713. Investors in Hong Kong are required to provide the conference ID 4401807; are encouraged to dial into the call 10 minutes prior to the call to prevent delay in joining; and may participate by dialing (852) 3009-5027.  A live webcast of the conference call is scheduled to be available on Global Sources' corporate site at http://www.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 company's corporate site for 30 days. A telephone replay of the call is also scheduled to be available through March 24, 2011. To listen to the telephone replay dial (800) 406-7325 or dial (1-303) 590-3030 outside the United States, and enter pass code 4401807. For those in the Hong Kong area, the replay dial-in number is (852) 3056-2777, and the pass code is 4401807.

About Global Sources

Global Sources is a leading business-to-business media company and a primary facilitator of trade with Greater China. The core business uses English-language media to facilitate trade from Greater China to the world. The other business segment utilizes Chinese-language media to enable companies to sell to, and within Greater China.

The company provides sourcing information to volume buyers and integrated marketing services to suppliers. It helps a community of over 967,000 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 240 countries.

The company offers the most extensive range of media and export marketing services in the industries it serves. It delivers information on over 4.7 million products and more than 262,000 suppliers annually through 14 online marketplaces, 13 monthly print and 18 digital magazines, over 80 sourcing research reports and 20 specialized trade shows which run 57 times a year across nine cities. Suppliers receive more than 192 million sales leads annually from buyers through Global Sources Online (http://www.globalsources.com) alone.

Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 40 years. Global Sources' network covers more than 60 cities worldwide. In mainland China, Global Sources has about 2,700 team members in more than 40 locations, and a community of over 2 million registered online users and magazine readers for its Chinese-language media.