Subject: Fw: Summary of Meeting with Mr. Zong Qinghou, Chairman/CEO Wahaha Group 12/18/2010
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To: "Thorne, William" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Samuel Natapoff" <[email-masked]>, "Stein, Jenny" <[email-masked]>, "Biden, Hunter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:12:05 +0000

Will, please see below and enter the following into the fund-raising log. Thanks. Devon
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From: Sam Natapoff <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:51:55 
To: Devon Archer<[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Subject: Summary of Meeting with Mr. Zong Qinghou, Chairman/CEO Wahaha Group 12/18/2010

Devon,

This is my suggested entry for the Excel spreadsheet to keep track of our 
process/progress.

Please let me know if I've left out any data fields that you're already 
tracking.

This was a good start, I think.  Let's run this guy to ground.

Best,

Sam

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Subject: Mr. Zong Qinghou -- Chairman/CEO, Wahaha Group.

Meeting: Met on December 18, 2010 at 1pm at Shun Lee Palace restaurant 155 E55th 
Street in NYC.

Present at meeting from Investor: Mr. Zong Qinghou (Zong is his surname, does 
not speak English), Ms. Huang Minzhen (Huang is her surname -- she is his 
assistant, she speaks English). 

Present from RR: Devon Archer, Sam Natapoff

Investor Contact info: Ms. Huang Minzhen, Hangzhou Wahaha Group, No.160 Qingtai 
Street, Hangzhou, China 310009
Tel:86 571 87880590 AND 86 13605705882 (mobile), Fax:86 571 87880599.
Email: [email-masked]

Company details:(http://en.wahaha.com.cn/index.shtml)
Established in 1987, Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co., Ltd has developed into China’s 
largest and most profitable beverage company. Wahaha established 150 
subsidiaries in 29 provinces，totally 58 production bases, with the total assets 
of 30 billion yuan, and 30000 employees. For the 23 years, there are more than 
360 world-top-class automatic production lines worth more than 10 billion RMB, 
imported from the U.S.A, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and so on. The main 
production areas would include the milk drinks, drinking water, CSD, juice 
drinks, tea drinks, health-care food, canned food, leisure snaps, totally 8 
categories and more than 100 species. 

In 2009, Wahaha’s operation revenue reached 43.2 billion RMB (increased 31.6% on 
the yearly basis), the tax and profit reached 12.57 billion RMB (increased 
82.6%), and the payable tax reach 3.8 billion RMB. Wahaha’s 23-years’ persistent 
endeavors make itself listed No.1 in China’s beverage industry for 12 
consecutive years in terms of the total output, sales revenue, profit before 
tax, profit and so on . In 2009, Wahaha listed No. 185 in China’s Top 500 
enterprises, listed No. 93 in China’s Top 500 manufacturers, listed No. 44 in 
China’s Top 200 profit-making companies, and listed No. 1 in the beverage 
manufacturing industry. In China’s Top 100 private enterprises, Wahaha listed 
No.10 in terms of operation revenue, listed No.2 in total profit, and listed No. 
5 in taxations. 

Discussion at meeting: Zong interested in tech transfer, renewable energy, life 
sciences. Specific business interests are powdered milk, corn syrup, 
WorldWaterSolar units, nanotechnology. Discussed RR.  Kelly Zong (Mr. Zong's 
daughter) is apparently the best contact at the company to discuss RR with.  
Zong expressed concern that he receive PRC government permission to invest in 
hard assets outside China (key issue to resolve for RR generally -- DA should 
raise with Gao Zhiqing of CIC on his trip in mid January).

Action items:  

NYS contact for milk powder -- Natapoff
Contact for corn syrup through Heinz -- Archer
Contact with Kelly Zong (daughter of Mr. Zong) -- Natapoff and Archer.

Follow up: 

Mr. Zong agreed to possible meeting for Archer (possibly Natapoff as well) with 
Mr. Zong in China 2nd week of January on Archer trip to CIC. 

Must have milk and corn syrup contacts for meeting. Archer to present contacts 
IN PERSON at meeting.  Since SN  paid for lunch, Mr. Zong will host in China. 
Must be prepared for that  meeting.

Archer and Natapoff must make contact with Kelly Zong immediately.  Natapoff 
will email Ms. Huang for Kelly Zong's email address.