Swets and Wisers form a winning partnership

PRESS RELEASE

Singapore

13 October 2011

Swets and Wisers form a winning partnership

Swets, the world’s leading information services company for academic, corporate government & medical institutions, and Wisers, the leading Greater China news information provider, announced today that they have signed an agreement that will see Swets acts as sales and marketing representative for Wisers in Asia Pacific (excluding Greater China).

Swets will represent Wisers in marketing and sales to increase the reach of their various solutions including WiseSearch, WiseNews@Academic, and WiseDigest to Japan, Korea, Singapore, and South Asia regions.

• WiseSearch– offers the world's largest Chinese and English language database of published information from Greater China. Fortune 500 companies and local Chinese enterprises, communications and PR agencies, media companies and academic institutions all rely on WiseSearch for information, answers and knowledge.
• WiseNews@Academic– includes WiseNews@University Library and WiseNews@School that is a customized platform for academia. It provides a streamlined one-stop access to the most comprehensive Greater China news and information for research and study.
• WiseDigest – provides the most updated financial & business news on the key issues focused on Greater China market (articles are translated from leading Chinese titles to English language). A Daily News Brief will be highlighting the relevant media news monitored for your corporation, competitors, market and industry trends. Value-added one-stop management solution can be tailored for specific client needs.

Wisers is the leading news aggregator and technology enabler that provides time sensitive and market relevant information from Greater China. Their comprehensive database is authorized by top-tier leading content sources. Wisers offers a suite of quality services and comprehensive solutions for different industries, and delivers the latest news information from over 2,500 content sources every day. Headquartered in Hong Kong, and with offices in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Macao and Taiwan, Wisers has about 700 professional staff serving clients across the region.

“This is an exciting opportunity for both Wisers and Swets,” said Gary Lee, Sales Manager, Overseas Markets, Wisers. “We believe that this partnership with Swets will be extremely beneficial for both to develop and strengthen our position in territories that have previously been outside our well established market place.”

Elsie Ng, Commercial Director Asia Pacific at Swets, said, “I am extremely pleased to be working with Wisers. Their comprehensive and extensive content coverage of Greater China, combined with the local knowledge and market expertise of our Swets team will certainly make a winning partnership. The content will keep industry professionals abreast of the latest news and issues relating to the most vibrant economy in the world, Greater China, in a much easier and faster way.”

About Swets

Swets is the world's leading information services company. We build on 110 years of experience to maximize the return on investments in time and money for clients and publishers in today's complex information marketplace. With clients in over 160 countries and more than twenty offices around the world, Swets is a true "long tail" powerhouse that provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated e-commerce platform currently available in its field.

Swets is regularly included in E-Content Magazine's annual "100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry", and is consistently featured in the top 25% of FEM Business' "Top 500 Companies in The Netherlands". We are the only subscription services company that is ISO 9001:2008 certified on a global basis - a testament to our stringent operation and client service procedures.

About Wisers

Founded in 1998, with the support of the Chinese University in Hong Kong and Innovation and Technology Fund of the Government of Hong Kong SAR, Wisers Information Ltd (“Wisers”) has grown up to be the world’s largest Chinese news database.

Combining the technical foundation from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wisers’ proprietary technologies and over 10 years of rich experience, Wisers has become the leading information and news service provider in the Greater China region. Wisers has over 2,500 key content sources, including newspapers, magazines, broadcasts, websites, social media, as well as other information such as advertisements, cartoons and even litigation records. Today, Wisers’ database has archived over 230 million items since 1979, and is growing by more than 280,000 new items per day.

Wisers’ extensive client base includes Fortune 500 companies, local blue chips, international banks and financial institutions, the governments of the Peoples Republic of China and the Hong Kong SAR and all the universities in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The company’s innovative technologies and solutions has received various  industry recognitions such as “Capital CEO Supreme Service Award” (2008), “China Computer Federation Innovation Award” (2006), “Asia Best Practice, e-Business category, World Summit Award (WSA)” (2003), and "Hong Kong Awards for Industry - Certificate of Merit in Consumer Product Design" (1998), etc.

Media Contact
Sheila Seow
Marketing Manager
Swets
371 Beach Road
#05-07 KeyPoint
Singapore 199597
Tel : +65 6296 9373 Ext 164
Fax : +65 6296 3114
Email: sseow@sg.swets.com
www.swets.com

Wisers Contact

Gary Lee

Sales Manager, Overseas Markets
25/F., Tung Wai Commercial Building,
109-111 Gloucester Road,
Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2948 3622
Fax: +852 2948 3801
Email: garylee@wisers.com
www.wisers.com