Background and Format: ICIS News is a global news service for the chemical and oil industry. It brings breaking chemical news as it happens - including market moves, analysis, data and more. -Real-time news updated 24 hours a day from every key sector of the chemical industry -Complete market coverage including the US, Asia, Europe, Russia, China, India and Latin America -All plant and project news including the latest on capacity, outputs and shutdowns -Key facts on more than 50 commodity chemicals including properties, process technology, health and safety, market and price information, news summaries, and plant and project listings -The service can be customised to find business-critical information faster -A fast and accurate search engine gives access to more than 900,000 articles from the past 10 years ICIS is a global petrochemical market information provider, and has fast-growing energy and fertilizer divisions. Their aim is to give companies in global commodities markets a competitive advantage by delivering trusted pricing data, high-value news, analysis and independent consulting, enabling their customers to make better-informed trading and planning decisions. They have more than 30 years experience of providing pricing information, news, analysis and consultancy to . Audience and Readership: Serves all industry professionals that require global chemical intelligence: London, Houston,Singapore, New York, Washington, Shanghai, Moscow, Mumbai and Buenos Aires. Speicifically aimed at CEOs, directors, senior managers and high level executives. A detailed breakdown can be found here Deadline: Ongoing Frequency: Website Monthly Unique Users: This figure is not available from the publisher. Supplements and sections: Global commodity price reporting, 20 year historical data service, global coverage from their worldwide network, and access to industry contacts. Ad rates: Advertising contacts can be found here Other information: Please send Press Releases to: icisnews.europe@icis.com, icisnews.asia@icis.com, icisnews.americas@icis.com. The LinkedIn group can be viewed here Alerts: Gorkana Alert: Tuesday 22nd July 2008 There have been a number of promotions, changes and new starters at ICIS in Europe. Here is the contact information for ICIS Pricing and ICIS News in Europe. All email addresses are firstname.surname@icis.com and phone numbers are +44 (0)20 8652 XXXX Sarah Cottle, Managing Editor, Ext: 8012 Caroline Howard, Deputy Managing Editor, Ext: 3339 Graeme Paterson, News Editor, Ext: 3214 Hilde Ovrebekk, Deputy News Editor, Ext: 3099 Mark Watts, Reporter, Ext: 3229 Nigel Davis, Insight Editor, Ext: 3397 Giovanni Coiro, Senior Editor Manager, Ext: 3328 Shelley Kerr, Senior Editor Manager, Ext: 8388 Ed Cox, Senior Editor Manager, Ext: 3382 Nel Weddle, Senior Editor Manager, Ext: 3331 Mike Nash, Senior Editor Manager, Ext: 2266 Julia Meehan, Senior Editor, Ext: 3143 Tony Dillon, Senior Editor, Ext: 3341/3368 Linda Naylor, Senior Edit

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