Zhongpin, Inc. (HOGS) Announces New Meat Processing Plant and Distribution Center in China
Zhongpin Inc., a leading meat and food processing company in China, today announced plans for a major new processing plant and distribution center to serve eastern China, including Shanghai and the Yangtze river delta area. The plant will be located in Jiangyan, north of Shanghai on the eastern coast of China, and will be operated through a new subsidiary company named Taizhou Zhongpin Food Co., Ltd., with an initial registered capital of $7.3 million. It will produce chilled and frozen pork and prepared pork products, and will significantly broaden Zhongpin’s cold-chain logistics business in Jiangsu province. Construction of the new…