COFCO

[China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import & Export Corporation]

Founded in Beijing in 1952, COFCO is now one of the largest import and export companies in China, and has specialized in importing and exporting cereals, oils and foodstuffs for the past five decades. By the end of 1999, its total volume of imports and exports reached USD 137.3 billion, which comprises approximately 4.49% of China's total trading volume during the same period. Of the total trading volume, exports comprise USD 73.8 billion, while imports account for USD 63.5 billion.

Since 1992, along with the development of the market economy in China, COFCO has undertaken major strategic adjustments aimed at turning itself into a more industrialized and globalized enterprise with diversified and large scale operations. All these efforts have helped speed up its transformation from a traditional trading company into a large diversified multinational conglomerate encompassing trade, manufacturing, finance, information services and research. Today, with its major business in grain and oils processing, COFCO has branched out into other related fields and has achieved success with a series of investments in grain and oils processing, planting and farming of agricultural and sideline products, liquor and beverages, industrial foods processing, packaging materials, warehousing and transportation, hotels, and real estate. COFCO has ranked amongst the Fortune 500 largest companies in the world for six consecutive years from 1995 to 2000.

In the latter half of 1998, after a long period of careful consideration, COFCO put forward a restructuring strategy aimed at an Initial Public Offering. This adds a competitive edge to COFCO as it adopts a global outlook in its resource allocation, management structure and operational mechanism. COFCO will be a key player in global economic cooperation and competition and achieve maximization of its investment returns.

DaChan Greatwall Group of Taiwan

DaChan Greatwall Group, founded in Taiwan in 1958, is the largest agribusiness and animal husbandry company in Taiwan, and is also one of the top two food processing companies in Taiwan and one of the top three meat production companies in mainland China. The Group has direct investments in mainland China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia, with over twenty operations in mainland China.

In mainland China, Taiwan and other Asian markets, DaChan Greatwall Group is one of the leaders in food service, flour milling, animal feed, meat production and edible oils. Its annual turnover for the year 2000 is expected to reach one billion US dollars. DaChan has a total of 15,000 employees.

In the twenty-first century, DaChan will continue to focus on agribusiness and food services in the Greater China region and strengthen its leadership position. It will also integrate its current resources and businesses with e-commerce solutions in order to prepare for the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Archer Daniels Midland

With nearly one hundred years of experience, Archer Daniels Midland [ADM] is the undisputed leader in the North American food and agribusiness market, and it has established extensive relationships with farm owners and food producers. ADM seeks to employ modern technologies and use its advantage in traditional business operations to take the leading position in new markets through its cooperation with FoodChina.com.
In addition to food processing, ADM's businesses also include oils processing, corn processing and bio-products. ADM has the capacity to provide food for one tenth of the population in China.

Rabobank International

Rabobank International of the Netherlands has grown from a group of agrarian cooperatives in the late nineteenth century. In 1972, Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Bank of Utrecht and Cooperatieve Centrale Boerenleenabank of Eindhoven merged and became Rabobank International.

Nowadays Rabobank International is one of the forty largest banks in the world with total assets of 480 billion Dutch guilder and has the largest market share in the Netherlands. With over 2,000 branches, Rabobank boasts the most extensive network in the country. Moreover, it is one of the few banks in the world that have received AAA ratings from the three most authoritative rating agencies in the world.

Rabobank focuses on banking and financial services for agribusiness and occupies a position of undisputed world leadership in virtually all food and agribusiness markets. Rabobank is dedicated to internet strategy research, and set up vTraction.com in New York in 1999, which includes several food and agribusiness e-commerce sites.

FoodChina.com will benefit from the expertise of Rabobank International in our commitment to provide member companies with superlative value and state-of-the-art products and services in the on-line food and agribusiness market.

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