EUROPAGES is a leading business-to-business search engine in Europe featuring 1.5 million companies worldwide. It has developed a network of representatives in Asia, illustrating its will to help Korean and Chinese companies to take advantage of the tremendous potential of the European Market.
Paolo Giuri, CEO of EUROPAGES, said: "The partnership is great news for companies that want to promote themselves in Europe and worldwide. EC21's strong position on the B2B market and its knowledge of SMEs in Asia will give further exposure to Europages. Over the past few years, traffic from Asian countries has doubled."
"With this agreement, we now have the means to significantly increase our clients' visibility on the world market. We are pleased to work together with EUROPAGES, and strongly believe that this cooperation will further pave the way in delivering best business opportunities to our members", said Mr. Taesung Kim, Vice President of EC21.
Together EUROPAGES and EC21 give advertisers numerous opportunities to generate leads for their business and reach an audience of qualified buyers.
About EC21:
EC21 is one of the world's leading B2B e-commerce company, connecting millions of buyers and suppliers worldwide through 3 major e-marketplaces: Global B2B marketplace (www.ec21.com) for worldwide exporters and importers, a Chinese-version marketplace (cn.ec21.com) for companies in China, and a Korean version marketplace (kr.ec21.com) for domestic traders in Korea. EC21 is headquartered in Seoul, Korea and has 8 regional sales offices throughout Mainland China along with sales offices in Taiwan, Turkey, India, Italy, Pakistan and Vietnam.
EC21 provides free and premium membership services using which suppliers can easily create their own homepage to showcase products online, locate and contact global buyers, reply to buying leads and post trade offers to sell. Buyers can use the site for free and can easily search for new products, locate and contact new suppliers, and post buying leads. With the trust and support of millions of buyers and sellers worldwide, EC21 has today become one of the world's largest and most popular B2B network with over 3 million Product listings and buying/selling leads and over 600,000 inquiries are exchanged every month.
For more information about EC21, please visit www.ec21.com
About EUROPAGES:
Europages, the international B2B search engine, brings together 1,5 million companies, from all industry sectors and across 35 countries, which have been selected for their dynamism in imports and exports.
www.europages.com is accessible in 26 languages: French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovenian, Turkish, Greek, Russian, Norwegian, Romanian, Estonian, Czech, Lithuanian, Latvian, Bulgarian, traditional and simplified Chinese and Arabic.
Among Europages' shareholders are three of the main European Yellow Pages publishers: SEAT Pagine Gialle (Turin, Italy), Yell Publicidad (Madrid, Spain) and DeTeMedien (Deutsche Telekom - Frankfurt, Germany).
For more information about EUROPAGES, please visit www.europages.com
Press contact:
EC21 Inc, Korea
Risa Kim
Phone: 82-2-6000-6621
Email: pr@ec21.com
Communication Director
Claudine Leprince
+33 (0)1 41 16 49 00
+33 (0)1 41 16 49 50
press@europages.com
www.europages.com
