Hong Kong and Taiwan Conference & Awards 2009 - Sponsors

The Bank of New York Mellon acts as depositary for more than 1,300 American and global depositary receipt programs (a 64% market share), representing companies from 64 countries.

China Resources Enterprise, Limited, a listed company in Hong Kong, focuses on the consumer businesses in both the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong, with core activities being retail, beverage as well as food processing and distribution. Our mission is to become the largest consumer company in China.

Hill & Knowlton is the leading international communications consultancy with an extensive network covering 43 countries. With our deep understanding of the investment community, we have built a successful financial/IR practice covering a full range of services for IPOs, listed companies and financial institutions. Visit us at www.hillandknowlton.com.

HKIRA is a professional association in Hong Kong comprising investor relations officers and corporate officers responsible for communication between corporate management and the investment community. The primary objective of HKIRA is to promote excellence in investor relations.

Ipreo is a leading provider of high-quality data, intelligence and productivity solutions to investment banking and corporate clients around the world. We offer critical insights and flexible solutions to help our clients run better investor relations programs. Ipreo’s corporate services include: global market intelligence, shareholder and bondholder ID, investor targeting, perception studies, proxy solicitation, and the industry’s premier database of buy-side contacts & investor profiles.

irasia.com, established in 1996, is the world’s leading online specialist in Investor Relations information for the Asia-Pacific region. Rated by TIME and Forbes magazines as one of the best websites for investment research. Client companies featured on irasia.com enjoy unparalleled global exposure to, and building their brand recognition amongst the target audience of shareholders and potential investors.

We are one of the leading companies that specialize in providing online financial and listed company data and information in China. We offer subscription-based services based on a single information platform that integrates data and information from multiple sources with features and functions such as data and information search, retrieval, delivery, storage and analysis.

Nomura is a leading financial services group and the preeminent Asia-based investment bank with worldwide reach. It provides a broad range of innovative solutions tailored to the specific requirements of individual, institutional, corporate and government clients through an international network in more than 30 countries. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London and New York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. For further information, please visit www.nomura.com.

Orient Capital enables listed entities to market their equity capital by providing the intelligence to understand their institutional shareholders and the tools to manage their market communications. Over 400 clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region rely on us for accurate and timely share ownership data and in-depth, global institutional market intelligence.

Standard Chartered’s Wholesale Banking business operates in 70 countries with capabilities spanning across all equity products- cash equities, corporate access, convertible bonds, equity derivatives, capital markets and advisory services.

The Wall Street Journal Asia, established in 1976, has been voted the most "important business reading" among international daily newspapers in Asia in every ABRS/BE:ASIA study since the survey's inception in 1985. The Journal's China staff won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for coverage of the consequences of the nation's rapid growth. Edited and published in Hong Kong, The Wall Street Journal Asia is distributed throughout the Asia Pacific region. More than 75% of its subscribers are Asian. The Journal’s web site for Asia is at asia.WSJ.com, the homepage for India is at india.WSJ.com and is published online in Chinese at cn.WSJ.com.