Stevia
Corp. | STEV | Profile | Summary
Stevia
Corp. (STEV)
is a farm management company focused on Stevia agronomics from plant
breeding to good agricultural practices to development of stevia
derived products.
Stevia
Corp. invests
heavily in R&D and IP acquisition and manages its own
propagation, nursery, and plantations as well as provides services to
contract growers and other industry growers.
The
Company was founded to deliver top quality agribusiness solutions in
order to maximize the efficient mass production of stevia leaf and
stevia derived products. The Company is headquartered in the US with
farm operations/R&D in Vietnam, China, and Indonesia and planned
operations in the US.
INVESTMENT
HIGHLIGHTS
◊ Opportunity
to invest in an early development stage, vertically-integrated stevia
farm management company in an emerging, high growth market
◊ The
Company plans to be a “one stop shop” agribusiness solutions
provider offering the full spectrum of farm management services
o
Expects to achieve
positive EBITDA by the second quarter of 2013, growing to $3mm in
annualized EBITDA by the end of 2013
o
Positioned
to become a global leader in the stevia industry that maximizes the
efficient mass production of stevia leaf and stevia derived products
o
Fastest growing product in
the alternative sweetener market with 6,000
products across 35 countries
o
Expected
to eventually replace 20% of the sugar segment of global sweeteners
or a
$10 billion market opportunity
◊
Our valuation analysis
results in a
target price of $1.20 per share which
represents significant upside of over 4 times the current stock price
(see
Valuation)
◊
The
Company recently
secured $500,000 in
an equity private placement
and
has access
to $20 million
from
Southridge Partners.
◊
Global sweetener
market is a $60 billion dollar industry! See
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MANAGEMENT
TEAM
Strong
Global Executive Team with highly recognized leadership skills,
expertise and decades of experience in Three Continents, Four
vibrant economic regions of the world (The United States, Europe,
Latin America and Asia-Pacific).
George
S. Blankenbaker (President)
Mr.
Blankenbaker has been leading the development of high Reb-A Stevia
farming in Vietnam, where he imported the Morita variety to trial in
2008 and in 2009 signed a contract to supply stevia leaf to
PureCircle, the industry's leading refiner. Mr. Blankenbaker first
became involved in commercial agriculture in 2002 when he began
working with the Agri-Food Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) to
provide strategically important food supplies to Singapore. Prior to
that Mr. Blankenbaker co-wrote and co-presented a bid for the U.S.
Navy Subsistence Prime Vendor (SPV) Contract valued at USD $197
million covering three zones of Japan, Singapore, and Diego Garcia.
The contract was awarded in 2002 and the Singapore and Diego Garcia
portion is currently supported by the Rong-Yao group, a partner
company based in Singapore.
During
the 1990s Mr. Blankenbaker was the Managing Director of a foodservice
equipment company servicing South East Asia and was a partner of a
holding company that established the first broadline foodservice
distribution facility in Singapore which was also the first food
distribution facility in Singapore to achieve both ISO 9000 and HACCP
certification. Mr. Blankenbaker also traded commodities and was an
independent consultant and analyst for Standard Chartered Bank and
Reuters and was on the implementation team that established Globex in
Singapore linking the Singapore International Monetary Exchange with
the Chicago Board of Trade. Read
more...
Rodney
L. Cook (Director)
Dr.
Pablo Erat (Director)
Thomas
Ong (Director of Operations, Asia)
Dr.
Zhang Ji (Chief Technical Advisor)
Dr.
Nguyen Van Dan
(Technical
Advisor – Vietnam R&D and Propagation Center)
Vincent
Tan Meng Sheong (Director of Operations, China)
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