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DEED OF NON-COMPETITION

NonCompetition Agreement

DEED OF NON-COMPETITION | Document Parties: Beijing Huiyuan Beverage & Food Group Limited | CHINA HUIYUAN JUICE GROUP LIMITED | Coca-Cola Company You are currently viewing:
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Title: DEED OF NON-COMPETITION
Date: 9/5/2008
Industry: Beverages (Non-Alcoholic)     Sector: Consumer/Non-Cyclical

DEED OF NON-COMPETITION, Parties: beijing huiyuan beverage & food group limited , china huiyuan juice group limited , coca-cola company
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Exhibit 10.4

 

DEED OF NON-COMPETITION

 

THIS DEED is made on 31 August 2008

 

BY

 

(1)                                  MR. ZHU XINLI of c/o Beijing Huiyuan Beverage & Food Group Limited, Beixiaoying Town, Shunyi District, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (the “ Covenantor ”).

 

IN FAVOUR OF

 

(2)                                  ATLANTIC INDUSTRIES , a company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands whose registered office is at PO Box 309GT, Ugland House, South Church Street, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies (the “ Offeror ”); and

 

(3)                                  CHINA HUIYUAN JUICE GROUP LIMITED , a company incorporated in the laws of the Cayman Islands, whose registered office is at Scotia Centre, 4 th Floor, P.O. Box 2804, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (the “ Company ”), for itself and for the benefit of each Group Company.

 

WHEREAS:

 

(A)                              The Company is principally engaged in the business of producing and selling ready-to-drink beverages including fruit juices, vegetable juices, mixed fruits and vegetable juices, ready-to-drink tea and bottled water.

 

(B)                                The Offeror proposes to make a cash offer to acquire all the issued ordinary shares of the Company, to acquire all the outstanding convertible bonds of the Company and to cancel all the outstanding share options of the Company (collectively, the “ Offers ”).

 

(C)                                The Covenantor is an indirect substantial shareholder of the Company and the Chairman of the board of directors of the Company at the date of this Deed.

 

(D)                               The Covenantor has undertaken to the Offeror and the Company (for itself and for the benefit of each Group Company) not to engage in any competing interest according to the terms and conditions of this Deed.

 

THIS DEED WITNESSES as follows:

 

1.                                       INTERPRETATION

 

1.1                                 In this Deed:

 

ABN AMRO

 

means ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Hong Kong Branch, a licensed corporation under the SFO and the financial adviser to the Offeror in connection with the Offers;

 

 

 

Affiliate

 

means, with respect to any Person, any other Person Controlling, Controlled by or under common Control with such Person, and with respect to an individual Person, means that individual’s relative, that is any spouse and any child (including adopted child and step-child), as well as any entity which is Controlled by any of the foregoing acting singly or

 

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together as well as such entity’s Affiliates;

 

 

 

Arbitration Board

 

has the meaning given to it under clause 8;

 

 

 

Arbitration Rules

 

has the meaning given to it under clause 8;

 

 

 

Business

 

means the business of producing, distributing, selling and marketing ready-to-drink beverages, including fruit juices, vegetable juices, mixed fruits and vegetable juices, ready-to-drink tea and bottled water operated by the Group, other than the business of producing milk;

 

 

 

Business Day

 

means a day on which banks are open for the transaction of normal banking business in Hong Kong and in the PRC (excluding Saturday and Sunday);

 

 

 

Completion

 

means the date on which the Share Offer becomes or is declared unconditional in all respects;

 

 

 

Composite Document

 

means the composite offer and response document to be issued by or on behalf of the Offeror and the Company in accordance with the Takeovers Code containing, among other things, details of the Offers, the terms and conditions of the Offers and the acceptance and transfer forms in respect of the Offers;

 

 

 

Control

 

of a Person means: (i) with respect to a corporate Person, direct or indirect ownership of more than thirty percent of the outstanding voting securities of such corporate Person or the ability to appoint more than one-third of the directors of the board or equivalent governing body of such Person or the ability to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person; (ii) with respect to a non-corporate Person, the comparable voting interest (as set forth in (i) above) for such non-corporate Person; (iii) the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person; or (iv) the operational or practical control of a Person; and the terms “ Controls ”, “ Controlling ” and “ Controlled ” shall have corresponding meanings;

 

 

 

Dispute

 

has the meaning given to it under clause 8;

 

 

 

Executive

 

means the Executive Director of the Corporate Finance Division of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission or any delegate of the Executive Director;

 

 

 

Governmental Entity

 

means any competent government or governing body of any international or supranational organisation, nation, state, province, city, municipality, town or locality or any political or administrative subdivision thereof; any department, agency, commission, ministry, secretariat, court or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or

 

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administrative functions of or pertaining to government, and the governing body of any securities exchange;

 

 

 

Group

 

means the Company and its Subsidiaries;

 

 

 

Group Company

 

means the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company;

 

 

 

HKIAC

 

has the meaning given to it under clause 8;

 

 

 

Hong Kong

 

means the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the PRC;

 

 

 

Person

 

means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organisation, Governmental Entity or any other entity;

 

 

 

PRC

 

means the People’s Republic of China;

 

 

 

Restricted Period

 

means each of the following periods:

(a)  from Completion until one year after Completion; and

(b)  one year beginning on the first anniversary of Completion;

 

 

 

Second Long Stop Date

 

means the latest date on which the Offeror can declare the Share Offer unconditional as to acceptances, which is the 60th day after the date of posting of the Composite Document (or such later date to which the Executive may consent);

 

 

 

SFO

 

means the Securities and Futures Ordinance, Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong;

 

 

 

Share Offer

 

means the possible voluntary conditional cash offer by ABN AMRO on behalf of the Offeror for all the issued Shares as part of the Offers;

 

 

 

Shares

 

means the ordinary shares of US$0.00001 each in the share capital of the Company;

 

 

 

Stock Exchange

 

means The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited;

 

 

 

Subsidiary

 

means a company over which the Company has Control;

 

 

 

Takeover Code

 

means the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers; and

 

 

 

Upstream Business”

 

means the business carried on as at the date of this Deed by certain Affiliates of the Covenantor (but not any Group Companies) relating to the production, supply and distribution of recyclable containers, external packaging and raw materials for juice production.

 

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1.2                                 In this Deed, unless the context requires otherwise:

 

(a)                                   the clause headings are inserted for convenience only and do not affect its interpretation;

 

(b)                                  a reference to this Deed or another instrument includes any variation or replacement of either of them;

 

(c)                                   words in the singular include the plural and vice versa; and

 

(d)                                  use of any gender includes the other genders.

 

2.                                       CONDITIONS

 

2.1                                 Except for this clause 2 (Conditions), clauses 6 (General), 7 (Notices) and 8 (Governing Law and Arbitration), this Deed is conditional upon the Share Offer becoming or being declared unconditional in all respects.

 

2.2                                  If the condition set out in clause 2.1 is not fulfilled or waived by the Offeror by the Second Long Stop Date,


 
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