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Our Portfolio
Our investment portfolio comprises a range of businesses including:
- Sancus Eco-Cars Holdings Limited whose subsidiaries include Sancus
SPV, Sancus Automobile, Sancus Power and Sancus Autoparts which are engaged
in the manufacturing of rechargeable lithium ion batteries, environmentally
friendly compressors and car air-conditioning systems, golf cars and
electric task-oriented vehicles, and special purpose vehicles such as
airport services vehicles, road sweepers and highway maintenance vehicles.
The mission of the group is to be the leading manufacturer of clean cars in
China. Our partner in this project is Dr. Simon Ho, Chairman of Watfield
Group and former President of the Hong Kong Association for the Promotion of
Science Technology, who was before he established the Watfield Group in the
late 1980s the head of Gilman Engineering over seeing, inter alia, its car
division.
- Sancus Investment Limited, whose subsidiary Shanxi Haihua Bio-Energy
Development Limited is undertaking a provincial pilot co-generation facility
project using animal waste, straws and an organic fertiliser plant, and is
applying for carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism ("CDM")
under the Kyoto Protocol. The company intends to undertake multiple similar
projects after the pilot plant is up-and-running and the CDM carbon credit
application approved. Our partners in this project are Yu Jianmeng, former
Communist Youth League and New China News Agency official, John Kao,
Chairman of Worldvest Holdings Limited, and Charles Chan, Managing Director
of CCIF CPA Limited.
- Sancus New Energy Limited, which is involved in the development of
environmental business in China, including CDM and water
treatment projects. Our partners in this business include Yu Jianmeng,
Charles Chan, John Kao, Monita Mo, Managing Partner of Ascend Capital
Partners, and Richard Au-Yeung, Chairman of eNew Carbon, a carbon credits
trader.
- Sancus Link Limited whose main service is to provide European
companies in the mobile technology and web-based information technology
business access to the market in China and other Asian countries. This
service is particularly valuable to SMEs who do not have the resources and
reach to expand into the substantial and lucrative market for telephony and
digital products in Asia. Sancus Link is currently rolling out the TagText
service in China. Our advisor is London-based Barbara
Meynert, ex-investment banker, regulator and senior business executive who
is Advisor to the Li & Fung Group and also the editor of How to Live to be
100 Actively Healthly and Vigorously. She is also on the boards of a number
of non-profit organisations, including the Asia Center at Harvard
University, the International Chamber of Commence in Paris, the Fondazione
Camerata Asolo in Italy and Victor and William Fung Foundation in Hong
Kong.
- Sancus Environmental Investment Ltd ("SEI"), a subsidiary principally focused on green energy production by sourcing technologies such as gasification and anaerobic digestion. Together with its associates (jointly referred to as the "SEI Group"), SEI has strong relationships with renewable energy technology suppliers, but is not dependent on any one supplier. The SEI Group is currently engaged in opportunities within Europe and China with Projects ranging in power generation from 1 megawatt (MW) to 16MW. Our partner in this subsidiary is Mr. Berry Kwock, an international business lawyer and certified public accountant who has held senior management positions including Partner at Touche Ross (now Deloitte and Touche) Hong Kong; Managing Director of the Trust Group and Group Director of Equitor Group Institutional Services at Standard Chartered Bank; and Director and Group Chief Financial Officer of several multinational companies in Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Indonesia, hired for his skills in law, accounting, corporate finance, business development, and project management.
- TagText Limited, a London-based mobile social networking platform
service company which provide users with avatars that carry their text
messages (www.tagtext.com
). Aside from being an
angel investor, the Sancus Group also holds the exclusive distributorship of
the TagText service for Asia. Please see www.tagtextavatars.com
for some of the avatars that will be
available for the China service which will be rolled out in Q4 2008. The
co-founders of the company are Nick Hancock and Ben Scott-Robinson. UK
venture capital firm NorthStar Investment is also an investor in the
company, which was awarded the Judges' Choice at the Under the Radar event
in 2007 held at the Microsoft campus at Mountain View, California.
- CKRTV Limited, a London-based aggregator of content, including those
for nine channels for distribution by HK-listed, Beijing-based new media
operator VODone (www.Vodone.com) in China. The
co-founders of CKRTV including concert pianist Clive Britton are advertising
and media veterans Nigel Kent and Tony McCarthy.
- Sancus Resources Limited which is involved in the development of two
gold and silver-lead-zinc mines in Guangxi Province, China is in preparation
for a stock exchange listing in Canada. Our partner in this company is Wu
Huijun, President of Beijing Jiayue Xinda Investment Consultants Limited who
was formerly Director of Investment Banking at state-owned China Great Wall
Asset Management Company.
- United Treasure Group Limited, which is involved in the development and management of cemeteries and funeral services facilities in China. It is in partnership with a Singapore listed cemeteries company, targeting users in land-scarce Hong Kong as well as the local population. The Group is also working on the development of a new cemetery in Hong Kong. Our partners in this business are George Ching and Ina Stumpf, Managing Director and Executive Director respectively of Kowloon Funeral Parlour, as well as Yu Jianmeng and Charles Chan.
- Shanghai YKY Business Consultants Limited, a consultancy practice based in Shanghai which provides advice to foreign companies doing business in China as specialist consultancy on CDM. Our partners in this company are Yu Jianmeng, Charles Chan and John Kao.
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