ContiGroup Companies, Inc.

ContiGroup Companies (CGC) is a privately-held corporation with nearly 200 years of history. Headquartered in New York, ContiGroup Companies is comprised of many US and global agribusiness and investment companies.

As a recognized world leader in agribusiness, ContiGroup is now the largest cattle feeding company, the second largest integrated pork producer and the sixth largest integrated poultry producer in the US, and a major player in animal nutrition business and agricultural commerce and trade. ContiGroup has a total of 21,000 employees in its global agribusiness operations and affiliates.

CGC serves customers around the world through facilities and affiliates in thirteen countries. CGC set up its first joint venture in China in 1979, and it has become one of the largest animal husbandry and poultry companies in China. Now CGC has twenty-nine joint ventures in China.

China TUHSU
[China National Native Produce & Animal By-Products Import & Export Corporation]

China TUHSU is the second largest agribusiness import and export corporation in China. Founded in 1949, it is China's longest-established and largest enterprise engaged in trading native produce, animal by-products, teas and related processed goods.

As a leading importer and exporter of tea, timber, gum rosin, foodstuffs, wool, cocoa beans and a range of other products, China TUHSU has a significant role to play in both domestic and overseas markets. TUHSU has also played a key role in developing China's agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline production and fishery industries, as well as related industries and trade.

With headquarters in Beijing, TUHSU now has over 100 subsidiaries and separate businesses at home and abroad, either wholly-owned, in partnership or joint-venture formats. TUHSU has also horizontally diversified into ocean shipping, operating a fleet of ten merchant vessels, with total tonnage of 270,000 tons. This enables us to link directly with clients worldwide.

Overseas subsidiaries include Sunry [Holdings] Hong Kong Ltd., and other Sunry trading companies in the U.S.A, Canada, Poland, Germany, U.K., France, Japan, Australia, Senegal, Singapore and Russia.

Now a large conglomerate with a diversified business scope, TUHSU's operations are structured so as to keep native produce, animal by-products and teas as the principal product lines, but also allow trade to ally with manufacturing, farming and technology. The guiding strategy is that while the parent group seeks to become more diversified, the subsidiaries become more specialized, serialized and industrialized.

Raykay Inc.

Raykay Inc. is a subsidiary and investment arm of the Morita Corporation, who are in turn one of the major shareholders of Sony Corporation of Japan. With its financial background, Raykay also works as the holding company of Morita group, and has nearly 30 subsidiaries worldwide. Raykay Inc. was established in 1974, and has registered capital of 100 million Japanese Yen.

Morita Corporation, Raykay's parent company, is a traditional Japanese food and beverage manufacturer, including some of the highest-profile brand names for sake [Japanese rice wine], soy sauce, and Miso. Morita Corp. was established in 1665 as a sake brewing business by the Morita family. Mr. Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony Corporation, was the 15th head of the Morita family, and his son, Mr. Hideo Morita, current President of Morita Corp. and Raykay Inc., is the 16th head of the Morita family.

Raykay manufactures and sells “Nenohi” brand sake and “Morita” brand sauces and food additives. In addition, Raykay is engaged in a wide variety of businesses including manufacture, wholesale and retail and food service through its affiliate companies.

AsiaDemand

AsiaDemand, Inc. is a leading business solutions provider (BSP) offering a comprehensive suite of web-based trade services and tools that enable Chinese industrial companies to manage their procurement processes. These services provide the end-to-end infrastructure and functionality essential for the execution and management of all global transactions.

AsiaDemand's online systems enable the customer to seamlessly initiate, monitor and manage each step of the procurement and supply chain process. These online technologies include complete, integrated tools for exchange, auctions, e-logistics, trade, finance and risk management. Customers therefore enjoy a true single-platform solution through AsiaDemand that enables them to ensure smooth operation and focus on their core business.

AsiaDemand is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Its major shareholder is PeQuot Capital, one of the leading venture capitalists in the high-tech sector.

Lindeman

Lindeman is a private investment company headquartered in British Virgin Islands, founded by a Hong Kong lawyer, Dr. Primas Lai and other professional investors and foundations. Lindeman focuses on investments in Asian companies in the process of transformation and restructuring, and has accumulated rich experience in the Asian capital market.

EC-Soft, Inc.

EC-Soft, Inc. is a California incorporated global e-commerce software company, with an R&D team in Silicon Valley, and a fully- owned software factory in Beijing, China.

In mid-1997, Dr. Alex Kuo, one of the founders of EC-Soft, established Quality Software Industry Company (QSI) in Beijing, China with other founders. For the first two years, QSI was involved in telecom network management and enterprise network security software, and then gradually developed its niche in providing customized e-commerce software solutions. Afterwards, the founders of QSI decided to shift its business focus to e-commerce software development, and merged with EC-Soft in Silicon Valley in 2000.

EC-Soft intends to establish its subsidiaries in Taiwan, Hong Kong and India in the near future to meet the fast growing needs of its global customers.

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