CMP Asia, the leading trade fair organiser in the region, is awarded a "Caring Company" by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. It is the only exhibition organiser that has been given this recognition.

The award was received by Michael Duck, Senior Vice President of CMP Asia yesterday (5 December 2002) at the Caring Company Award Presentation Ceremony officiated by The Honourable Donald Tsang, Acting Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

CMP Asia has been working closely with the Association for Engineering and Medical Volunteer Services in providing training and work opportunities, such as data entry for the Association's service users, including ex-mentally ill and physically handicapped persons.

Michael Duck said: "We are of course very honoured to have fulfilled the requirements of being a Caring Company. Everyone in the society should be treated equal and offered the same opportunity. Working with the Association for Engineering and Medical Volunteer Services, we are pleased to learn from the association that the confidence and self-esteem of their service users have been increased. We hope that companies will take a more active role in the community."

This is the very first time that the Council organised the Caring Company Scheme. The mission of the scheme is to build a caring community spirit through cultivating corporate citizenship and strategic partnership between the business and social service sectors. Caring companies should demonstrate good corporate citizenship in at least any two of the following six areas:

1. Volunteering:

Encourage and support employee volunteering

2. Family Friendly:

Provide family friendly environment for employees and being gender sensitive

3. Employing Vulnerable:

Willing to employ vulnerable groups

4. Partnering:

Develop partnership projects with the social service sector

5. Mentoring:

Share business expertise with the social service organisations

6. Giving:

Donate or in kind giving to the community.

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Owned by United Business Media plc, CMP Asia is the largest independent trade fair organizer in the region and a provider of business-to-business information, through its publications and websites. CMP Asia operates through its headquarters in Hong Kong with over 400 staff in 11 major cities in Asia and the USA. It has over 80 media products comprising 70 trades shows held in eight countries/regions and 13 publications with associated B2B websites.

The industries that CMP Asia serves include jewellery and gift, leather and fashion, information technology, industrial technology, cruise and maritime, furniture, beauty, natural health, paper and packaging, ingredients and the building trade. Every year 15,000 exhibitors and over 670,000 visitors come to CMP Asia's trade fairs. CMP Asia presents the largest events of their kind in the region to its customers, including:

- Hong Kong Jewellery & Watch Fair, Asia's largest jewellery fair and one of the top three events of its kind in the world,

- Asia Pacific Leather Fair, the world's largest international trade fair for the leather industry, held in Hong Kong twice a year,

- Sea trade Cruise Shipping Convention, the world's largest event for the cruise shipping industry, held in Miami every year,

- Furniture China, the largest furniture exhibition in China.

- Cosmotron Asia, the largest international beauty event in the Asia-Pacific region,

- Intermesh, the biggest and oldest industrial trade fair in Thailand,

- Asian Paper, Asia's biggest show and conference for the pulp, paper and board business, held in Singapore

- Tokyo International Health Industry Show, Japan's leading show for the health industry

United Business Media plc (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/) is a leading provider of business-to-business media solutions. Its products and services help companies around the world to meet their market information needs. UBM's businesses include NOP World, the ninth largest market research group globally; PR Newswire, the world's leading corporate news distribution service and CMP, the B2B media and exhibition group operating in focused markets sectors such as hi-tech, healthcare, property, entertainment, jewellery and fashion in the US, UK, Asia and Europe.

Downloadable format of the press release is available at CMP Asia's website at http://www.cmpasia.com/

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Jennifer Law
Regional Corporate Communications Manager
CMP Asia Ltd
Tel: +852 2516-1691 Fax: +852 2511-0615
Email: jenniferlaw@cmpasia.com