Canadian Trade Index 2008 Edition Is Released

May 12, 2008 Toronto, Ontario - Owen Media Partners (OMP), North America’s second largest Business to Business network announces the publication of the 2008 Canadian Trade Index (CTI).

The Canadian Trade Index has been Canada’s most trusted industrial buyer’s guide since 1900, and is used extensively throughout Canada and worldwide. Comes in an easy to read Print Edition and a comprehensive user friendly CD ROM, the 2008 CTI contains 30,000 of Canada’s most important manufacturers and suppliers and their products, and more than 70,000 unique contact names and their job titles/functions from these companies. This year more than 35% of the CTI records have a significant change and the updaters at Owen Media Partners capture these changes for customers’ use and benefit.

“We are pleased to inform all our users that the 2008 CTI is now available,” said Rob Dunford, Senior VP of Sales, “With our new release comes freshly updated company information from Canada’s manufacturing sector which will provide our users with the information and content they need to locate and connect with Canadian suppliers and customers”.

“The 2008 CTI is the only Canadian industrial buyer’s guide of its kind available in PRINT and CD ROM. It supplies businesses with the up-to-date company information required in today’s fast-paced business environment”, added Mr. Dunford.

The CTI is published annually by OMP under license from Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) (http://www.cme-mec.ca). The spokespeople for manufacturers and exporters, CME members represent 75% of Canada’s manufacturing output and 90% of exports.

About Owen Media Partners Inc.
Formed in 1995, Owen Media Partners Inc. is a leading North American information publisher for business and professional customers. OMP publishes through seven distinct product lines. It has offices serving markets in Canada, USA and Europe. Over the next twelve months, almost 100 million users in over 100 countries will use OMP products to help make better informed decisions in the areas of finance, purchasing, sales, marketing, research, safety, engineering and human resources.

For further information, please contact: Yannic Chen
Phone: 905-290-1818 Ext. 232
Email: ychen@owen-media.com