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Andrea Hotter joins Metal Bulletin’s news team

Metal Bulletin Ltd., one of the world’s oldest and leading providers of commodity news and pricing information through its various products and websites, today announced the appointment of Andrea Hotter as Special Correspondent from September 2012. She will be based in our offices in New York.

Andrea has 16 years of experience covering the metal markets. She will be leaving her role as assistant managing editor, energy & commodities, for Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal, where she has worked since August 2005. During an earlier period, she was deputy editor of Metal Bulletin till August 1999, and subsequently worked for Bridge News, formerly Knight Ridder, before joining Mitsui Bussan Commodities as a broker.

“We are delighted to have Andrea on the team given she is one of the most experienced and accomplished journalists working within these markets,” said Managing Director, Raju Daswani.

In her capacity as Special Correspondent Andrea Hotter will continue to provide breaking news and views on the metal markets. She will also regularly interview leading industry executives, as well as writing analysis pieces and blogs, producing regular videos and playing a strong role in our development of social media.

She will report to Metal Bulletin’s editor Alex Harrison and American Metal Market’s editor-in-chief David Brooks. “Andrea has a high profile in the industry, and an extensive network of contacts. Subscribers to both Metal Bulletin and American Metal Market will relish the stories and content that she’s going to be providing,” Harrison said.

“I’m really looking forward to being part of Metal Bulletin and AMM’s exciting growth plans. It’s an exciting time for the commodities industry in general”, Hotter said.

About Metal Bulletin

Metal Bulletin is the established leader in metals and minerals reporting. It has been reporting on the metal markets since the first print issue of the magazine was published in May 1913. Metal Bulletin's breadth of product offerings extends from online news and prices services, magazines, newsletters and online real time services, to directories and databases, books, research reports, and consultancy and the staging of events around the globe in the form of conferences and exhibitions.

American Metal Market (AMM), founded in 1882, over its long history has established itself as the unrivalled leader in metals news and pricing in North America. AMM disseminates its information through a daily electronic newspaper, its website AMM.com and a monthly magazine. In all, more than 10,000 stories are published every year and more than 1,000 different prices are assessed regularly across a range of metals, grades and locations.

AMM is the sister publication to Metal Bulletin, both of which are part of Metal Bulletin Ltd. which is a wholly-owned subsidiary Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC.