CHANGGE and BEIJING, China, May 11 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Zhongpin Inc. ("Zhongpin", Nasdaq: HOGS), a leading meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China, today announced that it will hold its annual meeting of stockholders on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 in the Zhongpin Beijing Representative Office.
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Time: 10:00 a.m. local time Place: Zhongpin Beijing Representative Office Address: Room 605A, Tower A, Raycom Info Tech Park No. 2 Kexueyuan South Road, Haidian District Beijing, People's Republic of China, 100190 Proposals: (1) To elect five directors to the Board of Directors to serve until the 2011 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are elected and qualified. (2) To ratify the appointment of BDO China Li Xin Da Hua CPAs Co., Ltd., as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2010. (3) To consider and act upon such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
The record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the annual meeting is the close of business on April 20, 2010. The proxy statement on SEC Form DEF 14A and Zhongpin's 2009 annual report on SEC Form 10-K can be found on the SEC website through the following link: http://tinyurl.com/ZongpinSECForms
About Zhongpin
Zhongpin Inc. is a meat and food processing company that specializes in pork and pork products, vegetables, and fruits in China. Its distribution network in the China covers 20 provinces plus Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Chongqing and includes more than 3,000 retail outlets. Zhongpin's export markets include the European Union and Southeast Asia. For more information about Zhongpin, please visit Zhongpin's website at http://www.zpfood.com .
Safe harbor statement
Certain statements in this news release are forward-looking statements made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Zhongpin has based its forward-looking statements largely on its current expectations and projections about future events and trends that it believes may affect its business strategy, results of operations, financial condition, and financing needs. These projections involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, which may include but are not limited to such factors as downturns in the Chinese economy, unanticipated changes in product demand, any effect from the A(H1N1) virus on Zhongpin's market or sales, interruptions in the supply of live pigs and or raw pork, poor performance of the retail distribution network, delivery delays, freezer facility malfunctions, Zhongpin's ability to build and commence new production facilities according to intended timelines, the ability to prepare Zhongpin for growth, the ability to predict Zhongpin's future financial performance and financing ability, changes in regulations, and other information detailed in Zhongpin's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. You are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating Zhongpin's forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on those forward-looking statements, which are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. All information provided in this news release is as of the date of this release. Zhongpin does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
For more information, please contact: Zhongpin Inc. Mr. Sterling Song (English and Chinese) Investor Relations Manager Tel: +86-10-8286-1788 ext. 101 in Beijing Email: [email protected] Mr. Warren (Feng) Wang (English and Chinese) Chief Financial Officer Tel: +86-10-8286-1788 ext. 104 in Beijing Email: [email protected] Christensen Mr. Yuanyuan Chen (English and Chinese) Tel: +86-10-5971-2001 in Beijing Mobile: +86-139-2337-7882 in Beijing Email: [email protected] Mr. Tom Myers (English) Mobile: +86-139-1141-3520 in Beijing Email: [email protected] Ms. Kathy Li (English and Chinese) Tel: +1-212-618-1978 Email: [email protected]
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