NEWS AGENCY

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TREND Company includes the following agencies

Trend News specializes in domestic and foreign political situation in Azerbaijan, a course of settlement of Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, cultural news, news of religion, education, environment and health. The events in the South Caucasus, Central Asia, Turkey and the Middle East are fully highlighted. The agency has many correspondents abroad

Trend Capital specializes in detailed descriptions of Azerbaijani oil companies and other Caspian countries, South Caucasus and Central Asia, the banking activity in these regions, macroeconomic trends, news of transport, development of IT Sector in Azerbaijan, markets, insurance and real estate. The agency has a large information database

Trend Life is an online entertainment resource. Trend Life is a popular source of entertainment news recognized and respected in the world of Azerbaijani show business. Resource publishes more than 100 articles daily

Trend Multimedia places photographs, reflecting the latest news of politics, economy, sports and culture in the Caspian region

TREND gives flexible access to its production

Online access to all TREND NA news When you subscribe to this service, the sales department will provide you with a login and a password, which will give you around the clock direct access to all news published by TREND NA .

Daily Bulletin of socio-political newsLanguage: Azeri, Russian, English, Persian, ArabicAmount: up to 100 messages per daySchedule for sending messages: daily at 03:00 p.m., 06:30 p.m. and 09:00 p.m. (Baku time)

Daily economic news bulletin Language: Azeri, Russian, English, Persian, ArabicAmount: up to 100 messages per daySchedule for sending messages: daily at 03:00 p.m., 06:30 p.m. and 09:00 p.m. (Baku time)

Subscription for TREND news is PAID You can apply to the sales department concerning subscription

for agency's news and placing advertisement

YOU CAN READ IN EACH PUBLICATION:

Key events in the oil and gas sectors Figures for oil production and export, production and sale of oil products, extraction and transportation of gas, the consumption of lubricants on the domestic market, data on port shipments, transport statistics Drilling conducted on onshore and offshore deposits by state and foreign oil companies: current data and plans Pipeline transport: draft “South Corridor”, including Nabucco, comments and views of the world's leading analysts SOCAR news, comments and statements by senior representatives of the company

Trend Oil & GasInformation overview on the oil and gas markets in Azerbaijan

and other Caspian Sea countries, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Language: Russian, English Size: 80-100 articles in number

The number of pages: 50-60 Issue Schedule: Twice a month

YOU CAN READ IN EACH PUBLICATION:

All the news of construction and transport spheres of region, including international tenders, announcement of construction work in the spheres of energy, transport and IT spheres, news of companies

Official statistics of agencies specialized in the construction sector and real estate market, data on the search for partners for the construction of facilities in the field of tourism, urban development, industrial purposes  Statistics on cargo transportation by railway and road, shipping from ports and via other modes of transport, joint projects with international financial institutions to develop transport infrastructure in the region

Trend Transport & BuildingInformational overview of the transport and construction sectors

of the Caspian region and Central Asia

Language: Russian, English Size: 30-40 articles in numberThe number of pages: 20-25

Issue Schedule: Twice a month

YOU CAN READ IN EACH PUBLICATION:  Overview of Azerbaijani macroeconomics Equity market development Banking sector news Taxes The insurance market In some sections of the edition you will find information on markets of Georgia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan

Trend Finances Informative overview of the financial sector

Language: Russian, English Size: 35-45 articles in numberThe number of pages: 40-60

Issue Schedule: Twice a month

YOU CAN READ IN EACH PUBLICATION:  General economic situation in Azerbaijan Price and state of the consumer market Oil and gas market Investments Transport, telecommunications Agriculture Money-and-credit sector Foreign trade State budget Construction sector Social sector Enclosure with Azerbaijan’s foreign trade data

Trend Monthly Review Specialized monthly review of major events in the economy of Azerbaijan

Language: Russian, English Size: 13 chapters and a political digest per week

The number of pages: 50-60 Issue Schedule: Monthly

YOU CAN READ IN EACH PUBLICATION:

Time history of economy segments (oil market and money-market)

economic viewpoint of the week

Political digest of the week

Analytical articles

Trend Weekly Review Specialized weekly review of major economic and political events in Azerbaijan

Language: Russian, English Size: 5-6 chapters and a political digest per week

The number of pages: 20-30 Issue Schedule: every Tuesday

 YOU CAN READ IN EACH PUBLICATION:  Major developments in Iran's oil and gas sector, including data on production of oil products, construction of new refineries, investment in the gas fields’ development Macroeconomic indicators, including GDP and inflation in Iran, short term forecasts Iran’s foreign economic activity, local entrepreneurship Information on transport of goods, development of transport infrastructure Situation in Iran’s banking sector

Iran Economy Review Information review of Iran’s macroeconomics

(the issue is prepared jointly with the Iranian news agency MEHR)

Language: English Size: 55-65 articles in numberThe number of pages: 25-35

Issue Schedule: Twice a month

News sale via mobile phone

TREND has introduced a system for selling products via a mobile phone for the convenience of its users who need urgent access to the agency’s news.

If you are not subscribed to TREND and want to read the enclosed information on www.trend.az , you could click on an article to choose your mobile operator's country from the list and send a PAID SMS to the specified number.  Shortly after, you will receive a SMS with a password to access your news. The password will be activated within several minutes. Enter the password in the appropriate field and click "Continue" to receive access to clicked article. The password will allow access only to the selected article and is not valid for other closed articles. It should be noted that the service will allow clients to read the closed articles in nearly 60 countries worldwide.

The e-sale of news

In 2010 TREND News Agency announced the introduction of electronic payment for its services to facilitate and greatly simplify user access to the agency's paid-for materials. If you do not subscribe to TREND, then you can pay for access to the information you need using your credit card - Visa and Master Card can be used to make a purchase via the Internet from any country in the world.  The e-sale of news, introduced with the processing center AzeriCard and certified by the international payment systems MasterCard, Visa and American Express, is designed to accelerate access to information from anywhere in the world and reduce the time taken to deliver news.

Trend Photo is a convenient platform to purchase photos

The TREND Multimedia Agency publishes and sells photos. Trend Multimedia has years of experience working with leading world media The themes of Trend Multimedia stories include political events, public and political figures, economy, culture, show business, education and architecture.

Trend Multimedia offers high quality photos and can provide the materials in any format: via an e-mail, on CD / DVD, or hard copy

www.Trend.Az web-portal is an effective advertising area with the banners in the following formats

Send us your banner per E-Mail, tell us on which page you'd like it to appear, and your ad can be online within two working days!

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Date

April’09 90,181

May’09 86,389

June’09 65,819

July’09 67,749

August’09 188,393

Sept’09 515,313

October’09 611,008

November’09 621,006

December’09 740,436

January’10 642,585

February’10 771,172

March’10 886,878

April’10 911,560

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Visitors (thousands)

The number of visitors to www.Trend.Az web site is increasing continuously

More than 5.3 million visitors visited, with an average monthly audience of 440,000

Dynamics of www.trend.az web site visits for April 2009 – April 2010 period (Source: Google Analytics)

Moody's International has certified TREND's news and photo production and dissemination

The company recognized the Trend management system as meeting

ISO 9001-2008 standards - an internationally recognized certificate from Moody's International.

The certificate clearly shows the high-level quality system at TREND in its commercial activity

ISO 9001-2008

1995 - 2011

TREND was also awarded the Progress award in 2009, which was established by the Russian Embassy in Azerbaijan, the Russian Trade Mission in Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijan-Russia Chamber of Business Cooperation, for its "Significant Contribution to Forming a Common Information Space in the Eurasian Region and Developing Azerbaijani-Russian Relations”

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin awarded TREND a certificate from his government for its significant contribution to preserving the Russian language and culture, to developing a single Russian-speaking space, and maintaining and strengthening humanitarian ties in 2009

TREND was named the "Best Company in Media" in Azerbaijan in 2006-2007

The Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio recognized TREND as the most "Dynamically Developing Resource in Eurasia" in 2008

Today TREND is an

authoritative news provider

in the Caspian region, the

Caucasus and Central Asia  

TREND has become a full member of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) in 2010

Trend Information Partners:

Access to TREND materials is provided through large UK, U.S, French and Russian information databases

CONTACTSTel: (994 12) 497 31 72; 510 81 03Fax: (994 12) 497 30 89

E-mail: agency@trend.az

TREND NEWSE-mail: news@trend.az

TREND CAPITAL E-mail: capital@trend.az

TREND LIFEE-mail: life@trend.az

Marketing Department:E-mail: marketing@trend.az

TREND NEWS AGENCY14 F.Aghayev str., Baku, Azerbaijan, AZ 1141

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Elena Merkulova – International Sales and Marketing ManagerТел: (99412) 497 31 72 (ext.164) ; (99455) 665 45 66; E-mail: sales@trend.az

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