CHANGGE and BEIJING, China,
Jan. 4, 2011
/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 the Company's Chairman and other representatives
will celebrate Zhongpin's third year on the NASDAQ Global Select
Market by presiding over the opening bell ceremony on Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at the NASDAQ
MarketSite located in New York's
Time Square.
Zhongpin's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr.
Xianfu Zhu, will be joined by
members of the management team that will include Mr. Baoke Ben,
Vice President and Board Director, Mr. Warren Wang, Chief Financial Officer, Mr.
Sterling Song, Investor Relations
Manager, and Ms. Vivien Sun,
Assistant to the Board of Directors.
The opening bell ceremony will be broadcast on national business
television at 9:30 a.m. EST and will
be webcast live on NASDAQ's website and shown on the NASDAQ
MarketSite Tower on Broadway at W. 43rd Street in Times Square. The
live webcast will be available at
http://www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx .
Mr. Xianfu Zhu said, "We believe
our strategy, business model and aggressive capital investments to
support our market and operating expansions continue to be
effective in creating long-term value for our shareholders. We
remain dedicated to doing everything possible -- using the world's
most advanced technologies and processes -- to deliver new product
innovations that will be desired by China's citizens, to deliver food at the
highest standards of product quality and safety to every customer,
and to deliver strong long-term returns to our shareholders.
"Our listing on NASDAQ has played an important role in financing
our growth and success. We are very grateful for the good and
continuing relationships we have with our investors."
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
China covers 20 provinces plus
Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Chongqing and includes more than 3,285 retail
outlets. Zhongpin's export markets include the European Union,
Russia, Hong Kong, South
Africa, 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 may include
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, 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. These filings are available from
www.sec.gov or from Zhongpin's website at www.zpfood.com.
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:
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Zhongpin Inc.
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Mr. Sterling Song (English and
Chinese)
Investor Relations
Manager
Telephone +86 10 8286 1788
extension 101 in Beijing
ir@zhongpin.com
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Mr. Warren (Feng) Wang (English
and Chinese)
Chief Financial
Officer
Telephone +86 10 8286 1788
extension 104 in Beijing
warren.wang@zhongpin.com
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www.zpfood.com
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Christensen
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Mr. Han Fang (English and
Chinese)
Telephone +86 10 5971 2001 in
Beijing
fhan@christensenir.com
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Mr. Tom Myers
(English)
Mobile +86 139 1141 3520 in
Beijing
tmyers@christensenir.com
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Ms. Kathy Li (English and
Chinese)
Telephone +1 212 618
1978
kli@christensenir.com
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SOURCE Zhongpin Inc.