NEWS RELEASE

December 2, 2008

Acorn International is pleased to announce that we have established a new partnership with a locally owned firm in Vietnam, based in Hanoi. Our in-country partner has a core group of 8 senior consultants with over 15 years of experience in the environmental management field.

Acorn International has established, maintains, and continually adds to a global network of high quality, in-country EHSS consulting organizations   Partnerships have been established or are in the process of being established in:

The Americas
Canada, USA, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brasil, Argentina, Chile, Panama, Guatemala*, El Salvador*

Africa
Egypt, Lybia, Algeria, Ghana, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, South Africa, Mozambique, Sao Tome Principe*, Madagascar*, Tunisia*, Tanzania*, Liberia

Middle East
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait*, United Arab Emirates*, Oman*, Bahrain

Asia/FSU
Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia*, Singapore, China, Australia, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Korea*, Thailand, Pakistan, Vietnam and Bangladesh*

Europe
UK, Norway*, Italy, Romania

* Countries identified with an asterisk are those in which Acorn is the process of establishing partnerships as of mid-2007.  We are interested in establishing partnerships with highly qualified organizations in new countries – please contact us if interested.

Acorn International, LLC is a professional consulting services company dedicated to delivering world-class, affordable EHSS assurance and straight-forward results for overseas development projects.  The company operates not through a traditional consulting services model but by providing structured tools and guidance to qualified host-country teams, maintaining a link with international clients and building capacity in the host-country team. Acorn delivers:

1.       Established teams of local country experts partnered with and directed by an expert in assuring world-class EHSS assessment and management performance standards are met

2.       Advice to international industry needing to build world-class EHSS programs

3.       Recruitment and oversight/management of partners and service providers (EHSS and other) overseas

Working with Acorn allows international industries to better manage the increasingly delicate balance between meeting corporate requirements for reliable, simplified service while satisfying host-country demands for maximum local content.