LED CHINA 2013 Commences Today with 14% Increase in Exhibition Space

-- The World's Largest Exhibition for the LED Industry Takes Place in Guangzhou, China

GUANGZHOU, China, March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LED CHINA 2013, organised by UBM Trust, opens from 1-4 March at the China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex Area B in Guangzhou, China.1,012 exhibitors from 10 countries, an increase of 12percent compared to last year, have taken up 80,000sqm of exhibition space, another growth of 14percent.

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LED CHINA 2013,the world's largest dedicated event to the entire LED industry supply chain and one of the selected fairs which won endorsement from the China Ministry of Commerce in 2012, is the one-stop platform to see finished LED products and components from LED lighting, displays, chips, packaging, materials, illuminates, manufacturing equipment, and testing instruments.

"China's growing domestic economy continues to create a healthy demand for LED products and services, and increasingly more sophisticated and high-quality ones," says David Tang, Managing Director of UBM Trust and founder of the event."At the same time, we have been seeing a trend of growing number of buyers from India, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, as well as from traditional export markets like USA and Europe."

LED CHINA is the most comprehensive platform to observe product trends, as well as new technologies and ideas from across the world and in particular Asia. The newest products and technologies of the industry will be showcased, including: Absen Optoelectronic's Die-casting Slim LED Display, especially designed for stage rental, with high quality ensured by CE and ETL certifications; Kinglight Optoelectronics' lighting source COB Round B series and MLCOB-T, with flexible design (dimension, power, voltage, current) tailored to different kinds of lamps to meet different driving modes; and many more innovative products can be found on site.

LED CHINA also provides an opportunity for visitors to gain invaluable insight into the LED industry worldwide, discover new perspectives, and get educated through a series of concurrent LED seminars and sessions including: Structure-free Installation Specially for Advertising, Real Estate and Integrator Customersdelivered by the leading exhibitor Absen Optoelectronic; Advanced LED and Solid-State Lighting Technologies - from Wafer Level Processes to System Applications delivered by HKUST LED-FPD Technology R&D Center in Foshan with famous professors from universities and LED technical experts; Latest Requirements of Testing and Certification for LED Lighting Products delivered by Mr. Dietmar Glaser, Head of LITE department of VDE Institute. More information regarding the seminars at LED CHINA 2013 can be found on the event's website.

One badge grants visitors access to both LED CHINA 2013 and SIGN CHINA 2013. Onsite registration for the fair is open from 09:30 to 16:30 on 1-3 March and from 09:30 to 13:00 on 4 March. For more information visit: www.LEDChina-gz.com.

 Note to Editors

About UBM Trust (www.ubmtrust.com)  

UBM Trust is a joint venture company of UBM Asia, which is owned by UBM plc listed on the London Stock Exchange. We have extensive experience in organising large-scale exhibitions covering different industries in China, as well as organising Chinese enterprises to participate in famous fairs abroad. Our flagship events serve the sign and LED industries. Among the definitive exhibitions of their kind in the world, these two events have become an important catalyst for the development and upgrading of China's sign and LED industries, offering a comprehensive one-stop trading platform for exhibitors and visitors.  We take pride in providing professional high-quality services to our customers.

About UBM Asia (www.ubmasia.com)  

Owned by UBM plc listed on the London Stock Exchange, UBM Asia is Asia's leading exhibition organiser and the biggest commercial organiser in China, India and Malaysia. Established its headquarters in Hong Kong and subsidiary companies across Asia and in the US, UBM Asia has a strong global presence in 25 major cities with 29 offices and over 1,200 staff.

With a track record spanning over 30 years, UBM Asia operates in 19 market sectors with 160 dynamic face-to-face exhibitions, 70 high-level professional conferences, 28 targeted trade publications, 18 round-the-clock vertical portals and virtual event services for over 1,000,000 quality exhibitors, visitors, conference delegates, advertisers and subscribers from all over the world. We provide a one-stop diversified global service for high-value business matching, quality market news and online trading networks.

UBM Asia has extensive office networks in China, Southeast Asia and India, three of the world's fastest growing B2B events markets. UBM China has 11 offices in the major cities in Mainland China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu and Shenzhen, where we organise more than 70 exhibitions and conferences. In ASEAN, UBM Asia operates from its offices in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines with over 50 events in this region. UBM India teams in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai and Hyderabad organise 20 exhibitions and 60 conferences every year across the country.

About UBM plc

UBM plc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams which serve commercial and professional communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.