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Zhongpin Inc. to Host Investor Tour of Factories on May 30 and 31, 2011

2011-04-29 05:11 2073

CHANGGE and BEIJING, China, April 29, 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 it will host an investor tour of its factories on May 30 and 31, 2011.


On the afternoon of May 30 in Tianjin, tour participants will visit the Zhongpin's chilled and frozen pork production operations, the adjacent construction site for the second phase of the site development, which will be a plant producing prepared pork products, and nearby retail stores and supermarket counters where Zhongpin products are sold.

During May 31, the investor group will visit the company's home town of Changge in the Henan province and see chilled and frozen pork production, prepared pork production, pork oil production, the cold-chain logistics and transportation system, retail stores and supermarket counters, and receive summary briefings on government policies, food safety, and industry consolidation.

If you would like to attend all or part of this investor tour of plants, please contact Ms. Linda Bergkamp at Christensen investor relations in Scottsdale, Arizona at lbergkamp@christensenir.com or call 1.480.614.3004. You may also contact Mr. Sterling Song, Investor Relations Manager in Beijing China at ir@zhongpin.com or call +86 10 8286 1788, extension 101.

Zhongpin will provide all meals during the tour, and participants will be responsible for the cost of their hotel room on the evening of May 30. Zhongpin will pick up all participants at the airport and provide the motor coach transportation for the tour.

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 3,300 retail outlets. Zhongpin's export markets include the Europe, Hong Kong, and certain countries in Asia. For more information, please visit 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 forward-looking statements can be recognized by the use of words such as "anticipates," "estimates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "projects," "will," or words of similar meaning. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are based on a number of assumptions about the Zhongpin's operations, and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors beyond the Zhongpin's control.

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, the effects of weather on hog feed production, 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 at www.sec.gov or at www.zpfood.com.

You are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating Zhongpin's forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, and whether made by or on behalf of Zhongpin, and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on those forward-looking statements, which are expressly 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

 

 

Telephone +86 10 8286 1788 extension 101 in Beijing

 

 

ir@zhongpin.com

 

 

 

 

Mr. Warren (Feng) Wang (English and Chinese)

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

Telephone +86 10 8286 1788 extension 104 in Beijing

 

 

warren.wang@zhongpin.com

 

 

 

 

Christensen

 

 

 

 

Mr. Christian Arnell (English and Chinese)

 

 

Telephone +86 10 5826 4939 in Beijing

 

 

carnell@christensenir.com

 

 

 

 

Mr. Tom Myers (English)

 

 

Mobile +86 139 1141 3520 in Beijing

 

 

tmyers@christensenir.com

 

 

 

 

Ms. Kathy Li (English and Chinese)

 

 

Telephone +1 212 618 1978

 

 

kli@christensenir.com

 

 

 

Source: Zhongpin Inc.
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