BEIJING, July 25, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mount Knowledge Holdings, Inc. ("Mount Knowledge") (OTCBB:MKHD), a provider of business English and communication skills training, announced that The Language Key China Ltd., its indirect wholly owned subsidiary in China, recently entered into a training contract with Covance China to conduct training for Covance China's Beijing and Shanghai staff.
"It is an honor that Covance China has partnered with Language Key for its language training requirements in Mainland China," stated Dirk Haddow, CEO of Language Key Asia Ltd, Hong Kong. "This is an exciting opportunity for us to potentially offer a regional solution for Covance China. We look forward to building a long-term partnership with Covance China."
About Covance China
Covance China, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies, with annual revenues greater than $1.8 billion, employees in more than 60 countries, and more than 10,000 employees worldwide. Through it's nonclinical, clinical and commercialization services, Covance has helped pharmaceutical and biotech companies develop one-third of all prescription medicines in the market today.
About Mount Knowledge Holdings, Inc.
Mount Knowledge Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:MKHD) is an educational software development, sales and training company offering innovative and proprietary "real-time self learning" software products and teaching services for corporate and consumer markets worldwide. The company's technology is based on an interactive and visual learning system referred to as "Syntality(TM)" which is integrated into a core application known as the "Knowledge Generator(TM)." The Company is offering its products and services in China to students ranging from grade school to the university level, as well as members of the Chinese workforce seeking to increase their English fluency.
About Language Key Asia Ltd.
Established in 1994 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Language Key Asia Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mount Knowledge Asia Ltd., a Hong Kong regional holding company wholly owned by Mount Knowledge Holdings, Inc. Language Key Asia Ltd. is a leading provider of corporate training solutions in Asia through its operational subsidiaries consisting of Language Key Publishing Ltd. (Hong Kong) and Language Key Corporate Training Solutions Ltd. (Hong Kong), which owns and operates The Language Key Training Ltd. (Hong Kong) and The Language Key China Ltd. (China), (collectively, "Language Key"). Language Key provides various business communications skills courses, which are tailored to its clients' needs. Language Key currently employs approximately 52 full-time employees, as well as 38 part-time trainers in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou, China.
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