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Mines and Money Hong Kong to Welcome Record Number of Attendees in 2010

Announcement posted by ACN Newswire 09 Mar 2010

Hong Kong, Mar 9, 2010 - (ACN Newswire)-The 3rd Annual Mines and Money Hong Kong, brought to you by the Mining Journal and Beacon Events will be the largest edition yet with a record number of delegates already confirmed. Taking place from the 29-31 March at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong delegate numbers have exceeded 500 with just under a month still to go to the event.

This is already a sixty per cent increase on delegate numbers in 2009 and in previous years a large number of the attendees booked on in the last three weeks. Currently over forty per cent of the audience are from the finance community and there is senior representation from a number of regional sovereign wealth funds. They will be joined by delegates from nearly all the major resource funds in Asia and Australia.

Over 250 companies are so far confirmed to attend this event from over 20 countries ensuring that Mines and Money Hong Kong is the mining investment event to be at in March.

Aspermont UK managing director, David Nizol stated, "We are extremely pleased with the response that Mines and Money Hong Kong is receiving. When we launched our event into the region three years ago we knew the market was there and it was just waiting for an event to service its needs." He continued, "We're very pleased that Mines and Money Hong Kong is that event and we look forward to welcoming all the exhibitors and delegates to Hong Kong later in the month and having a very successful conference and exhibition."

For more information on Mines and Money Hong Kong please visit the event website at www.minesandmoney.com/hongkong.

AboutAspermont

Aspermont Limited is an Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed media company (code: ASP) operating in Australia and overseas.

Aspermont's primary business is the production of Business to Business (B2B) information services, across the resource and construction sectors, delivered through print, conferencing and online media channels. Aspermont has recently also ventured into the consumer market with Business to Consumer (B2C) publications. These are also complimented with a suite of additional service offerings, including industry specific search engines, archives and directories, tailored editorial facilities and graphic design capability.

Aspermont offers its readers independent and newsworthy insight into carefully selected target markets, whilst offering its advertising partner's end-to-end targeted advertising solutions through its print, online, conferencing and complementary service channels.

Aspermont is Australia's largest resource industry media group with a significant Global presence, directly employing circa 150 people across offices in Australia, UK and America. For more information, please visit www.aspermont.com.

AboutBeacon Events

Spun off from the Institute for International Research's (IIR) Asia team, Beacon has an expanding portfolio of large-scale annual events and a management team combining more than 50 years of experience. We provide up-to-date knowledge and skills to business professionals across a wide variety of job functions and industry sectors by aligning ourselves closely with each market we serve. Our conferences are designed to facilitate knowledge transfer and deliver measurable performance improvement.

Our commitment to quality and excellence has ensured that we produce premium business events and consistently exceed industry expectations. Beacon organises specialised conferences and seminars in a range of industry areas including transport and infrastructure, energy, buildings and facilities management, legal, gaming, retail and telecommunications. Formerly as IIR, and now as Beacon, a great deal of our efforts is focused on the China market where we introduced the first international business conference in 1994. For more information, please visit www.beaconevents.com.

Contact:
Charlie Hastings Marketing Director,  Mines and Money Hong Kong Tel: +442081330133 Email: chastings@beaconevents.com