General Steel to Attend Merriman Curhan Ford Investor Summit 2009

BEIJING, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- General Steel Holdings, Inc. ("General Steel" or the "Company") (NYSE: GSI), one of China's leading non-state-owned producers of steel products and aggregators of domestic steel companies, today announced that members of its management team will participate in Merriman Curhan Ford's 6th Annual Investor Summit on November 10, 2009 in New York City.

    Details for the Company's presentation are as follows:

    Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
    Time: 12:30 p.m. - 12:55 p.m. (local time)
    Location: Sofitel New York

At the conference, members of General Steel's management team will also hold one-on-one meetings with investors to discuss the Company's third quarter of 2009 financial results and business strategy.

About General Steel Holdings, Inc.

General Steel Holdings, Inc., (NYSE: GSI), headquartered in Beijing, China, operates a diverse portfolio of Chinese steel companies. With 6.3 million metric tons of aggregate production capacity, its companies serve various industries and produce a variety of steel products including rebar, hot-rolled carbon and silicon sheet, high-speed wire and spiral-weld pipe. General Steel Holdings, Inc. has steel operations in Shaanxi and Guangdong provinces, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Tianjin municipality. For more information, please visit http://www.gshi-steel.com .

    For investor and media inquiries, please contact:

    In China:

     Jing Ou-Yang
     General Steel Holdings, Inc.
     Tel:   +86-10-5879-7346
     Email: jing.ouyang@gshi-steel.com

     Justin Knapp
     Ogilvy Financial, Beijing
     Tel:   +86-10-8520-6556
     Email: gsi@ogilvy.com

    In the United States:

     Jessica Barist Cohen
     Ogilvy Financial, New York
     Tel:   +1-646-460-9989
     Email: gsi@ogilvy.com

SOURCE General Steel Holdings, Inc.