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Leading Trade Conference for Subcontracting Products & Services

for All Virginia Industry Sectors

" TODAY, OCTOBER 2ND, IS A BIG DAY FOR VIRGINIA AS VIRGINIA ASIAN CHAMBER IF COMMERCE HELPS ASIAN AND OTHER SMALL BUSINESSES EXPAND IN TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES

AT PROCRECON ASIA 2008. " Tinh Phan, Chairman

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The 4th Annual Diversity Business &

Procurement Conference

Largest Asian business to business event in Virginia

Thursday October 2nd, 2008 From 10-4

At the Greater Richmond Convention Center

Richmond, Virginia

Energy That Moves Virginia:

ASIAN AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP:

GROWING @ THE SPEED OF THOUGHT

By exhibiting or attending at ProcureCon Asia, the leading trade conference for subcontracting services, materials, components, and systems for all industry sectors, you can lay the foundation for the business development and sourcing success of your organization. The conference is an excellent opportunity to present your products and services to a professional audience from all industry sectors and from buyers all over the Commonwealth.

ProcureCon Asia is dedicated to preparing Asian and other quality emerging suppliers and American buyers for a shared economic future, strengthening business relationships and deepening understanding among Virginia's Asian suppliers community and corporate and government buyers.

Founded in 2004 by Civil Rights Leader Tinh Phan and other Asian champions of multicultural businesses, the Virginia Asian Chamber of Commerce reaches audiences around the United States through its headquarters in Ashland and satellite offices in Fairfax County, Prince William County, Central Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia Beach, Roanoke, and Abingdon.

A nonprofit, nonpartisan business institution, we provide, among others, an annual forum for building awareness of the business capabilities of suppliers from thirty seven countries broadly defined as the Asia continent, the area from Japan to Iran and from Central Asia to the Pacific Islands.

ProcureCon Asia is organized by

Virginia Asian Chamber of Commerce.

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OUR EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND ALL U.S BUSINESSES OF ALL SIZES

ProcureCon Asia 2008

Where Quality Asian American and Other Qualified

Suppliers Meet Corporate and Government Buyers

Where US Corporations and Government Find Qualified

Asian American and Other Interested Small and Emerging Suppliers

Bringing Asian American suppliers and corporate and government purchasers in a setting that fosters Asian business development growth and multi-cultural interactions in domestic and global markets

Event Mission

Virginia Asian Chamber of Commerce hosts the 4th Annual Procurecon Asia Conference and Banquet to create economic opportunities for Asian American small businesses by linking Asian to non-Asian companies, and Asian American suppliers to buyers from the public and private sectors. Our event is open to all businesses.

Conference Theme

This year our conference theme is: Global Supplier Diversity: Passport to Innovation and Success". Mr. Greg Wilson, Director of Client Services' Stakeholders Relations, Altria Corporation, a diversified international company, will deliver his welcoming remarks at the opening session. Mr. Bruce V. Thomas, Vice President of Global Market Strategy and Emerging Markets of MeadWestvaco will be our 2008 Banquet Honorary Speaker. MeadWestvaco is a global company doing business in more than 120 countries with manufacturing facilities in China and Brazil among other major emerging global markets.

Why Procurement ASIA?

1. Attend our first banquet with awards given to corporations and government service providers supporting Asian American businesses
2. Matchmaking sessions with your selected buyers, Virginia’s strongest diversity buyers

3. Dedicated networking time with procurement organizations and technology associations
4. Your opportunity to update your knowledge of local, state, and federal procurement procedures and opportunities
5. Procurecon Asia 2008 is open to the public.

6. Representatives from purchasing departments come to Richmond to gather information and build networks with Asian American suppliers. Take this opportunity to identify news users for your creative ideas and solutions.

Top 4 Reasons why ProcureCon Asia Is So Important to Both Virginia's Buyers & Suppliers

1. Build New Personal Contacts and Networking: 44 federal, state and local government agencies, prime contractors, Fortune 500 firms, and other large businesses will be exhibiting and participate in our one on one matchmaking program to discuss their contracting and subcontracting requirements.

2. Market Your Products and Services: Small businesses sell directly to federal, state, and local government agencies and large prime contractors in one day with one sales call.

3. Market Your Brands and Capabilities: Large companies and prime contractors exhibit at the trade fair and market your company to government buyers, corporate buyers, and other local businesses.

4. Find New Resources in Hard Economic Times: Secure financing when lenders aren't lending: The number one barrier keeping them from meeting their financial goals in 2008 is lack of access to working capital. Come to fnd out alternative ways of obtaining needed funds for your business by visiting our financial services providers and other small business counselors.

ProcureCon ASIA 2008

Global Supplier Diversity: Passport to Innovation & Success