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SAGE Partners with EMpact to Provide Electronic Products to
Asia-Pacific, Australian, New Zealand and Latin American Libraries
Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, and Singapore (December 12, 2006) - SAGE
Publications and EMpact Sales(tm) (EMpact), the publisher representation
group within the EBSCO Information Services division, are pleased to
announce a new sales partnership. Under the agreement, EMpact will
represent SAGE electronic products to libraries in Latin America, the
Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
EMpact will work with libraries in these countries to promote SAGE
online product offerings, including SAGE Premier; SAGE Scientific,
Technical, and Medical Packages; the award-winning SAGE Full-Text
Collections; and the new SAGE Deep Backfile Package.
The sales partnership with EMpact will support the activities of SAGE's
recently created Asia-Pacific office based in Singapore. Representatives
from SAGE Asia-Pacific will be working directly with libraries in China,
Japan, and south-east Asia, and collaborating with EMpact in the other
countries listed above.
"Ensuring our customers in Asian, Australian, New Zealand and Latin
American territories have representatives readily available in their
regions to discuss their online product needs from SAGE is important to
us," said Stephen Barr, Managing Director of SAGE's London office.
"EMpact's global reach utilizing EBSCO's regional office network will
provide close customer contact with responsiveness and knowledge of
SAGE's online product offerings."
"EMpact is pleased to represent SAGE's quality online content in these
regions," said Sid McNeal Jr., Vice President and General Manager,
EMpact. "We are looking forward to the success we will generate for SAGE
in these areas using the numerous creative resources of our EMpact
group."
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About SAGE
SAGE Publications is a leading international publisher of journals,
books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional
markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global
community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning
a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social
sciences, and science, technology and medicine. A privately owned
corporation, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New
Delhi, and Singapore. www.sagepublications.com
About EMpact
EMpact Sales(tm) (EMpact) is part of the EBSCO group. EMpact's strong
global presence, through its affiliation with EBSCO Information
Services, makes it the ideal partner to expand your sales efforts and
promote your products worldwide. The EMpact team can develop an
exclusive and strategic plan for you to dramatically broaden exposure
for your electronic products and content. As part of the EBSCO group,
EMpact brings to your sales process an expanded team of newly
established EMpact sales and marketing personnel working beside
experienced EBSCO sales representatives who have been working with
publishers and libraries for many years. With the support of fully
staffed offices in 21 countries worldwide, EMpact's global reach makes
it possible for content providers to take advantage of opportunities
they might otherwise miss. Our representatives have produced successful
sales results for publishers in Korea, Spain, Brazil, China, Germany,
Mexico, Taiwan, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Portugal,
South Africa, the United States, Canada and other areas of Eastern
Europe, Asia and Latin America. www.empactsales.com
<http://www.empactsales.com/>
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