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Sunday, July 17, 2005

Yi Wan Group, Inc. (YIWA)

This company (no website) says:
We were incorporated to explore the feasibility of acquiring interests in several businesses located in China in which our president, Mr. Cheng Wan Ming, had an ownership interest.
So the president owned a bunch of stuff and he created a company to buy it all. At what price? How do we know whether it was an arm's length quality transaction?
On January 1, 2000, we acquired controlling equity interests in three such China registered companies, which had ongoing business operations in the hotel, agriculture, and communications industries in China. Our agriculture subsidiary ceased operations in December 2001. In December 2002, we sold our agriculture subsidiary to a third party
Anyway, here are the hotels:
JIAOZUO YI WAN HOTEL CO., LTD. On January 1, 2000, we acquired a 90% controlling interest in Jiaozuo Yi Wan Hotel Co. Ltd., a Sino-Foreign Joint Venture company that was originally formed in China in 1996. The remaining 10% equity interest in our hotel subsidiary is owned by Shun'ao Industry and Commerce Company, a company registered in China. Our president has a 41.7% ownership interest in Shun'ao Industry and Commerce Company.

QINYANG YI WAN HOTEL CO., LTD. On March 20, 2001, we entered into a joint venture agreement with the Qinyang Hotel. This agreement provides for the establishment of a Joint Venture Limited Liability Company, the Qinyang Yi Wan Hotel Co., Ltd., which operates the Quinyang Yi Wan Hotel in Qing Yang City, Henan Province, China. The joint venture agreement provides that the joint venture will provide up-scale lodging, food and beverage, entertainment, and meeting and conference facility services. We entered into this joint venture agreement with Qinyang Hotel (OLD QINYANG), a third party to set up Qinyang Yi Wan Hotel Co., Ltd. According to the joint venture agreement, the registered capital of QINYANG is approximately $2,413,389 (RMB20,000,000). On June 3, 2002, the Jiaozuo Foreign Trade and Economy Cooperative Bureau issued a temporary license to Qinyang Yi Wan Hotel Co., Ltd. In 2003, the Jiaozuo Foreign Trade and Economy Cooperative Bureau conducted the audit and issued the official license.

SHUN DE YI WAN COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT PLANT CO. LTD. On January 1, 2000, we acquired 100% of the equity interest in Shun de Yi Wan Communication Equipment Plant Company, Ltd., which in 1993 was originally established as a foreign investment joint venture in China. Our telecommunications subsidiary manufactures exchange distribution frames equipment

YI WAN BEIJING HOTEL MANAGEMENT CO., LTD. In order to expand our restaurant and food services and still be in compliance with the regulations of the People's Republic of China ("PRC") with respect to restaurant services, in July 2004, we established Yi Wan Beijing Hotel Management Co. Ltd. ("Yi Wan Beijing"), a variable interest entity through two persons who are PRC citizens and who each legally owned 50% of Yi Wan Beijing ("Yi Wan Beijing Interest Holders") to operate our restaurant business. Pursuant to an Equity Trust Agreement, we transferred RMB$100,000 to the Yi Wan Beijing Interest Holders which was used to form and capitalize Yi Wan Beijing. The Equity Trust Agreement provides that the Trustees are to hold the equity interest in Yi Wan Beijing (the "Equity Interests") in trust for the benefit of Yi Wan Group, Inc. The Yi Wan Beijing Interest Holders have agreed to not sell, pledge, hypothecate, encumber or otherwise dispose of the Equity Interests. Any such transfer will result in a breach of the Equity Trust Agreement and the Yi Wan Beijing Interest Holders will be required to transfer the Equity Interest to the Company. Further the Yi Wan Beijing Interest Holders have agreed to promptly distribute any and all dividends, distributions or other payments received from Yi Wan Beijing with respect to the Equity Interest to the Company. Finally, the Yi Wan Beijing Interest Holders granted irrevocable proxies to two directors of the Company to exercise all voting rights such Yi Wan Beijing Interest Holders have with respect to their ownership interest in Yi Wan Beijing. The irrevocable proxies further provides that if such two directors cease to be an employee of the Company, the Yi Wan Beijing Interest Holders agree to immediately terminate the proxy and to grant a proxy to another person designated by the Company.
The details of the hotels is pretty extensive, including things like what beer they serve and where it comes from (YaSheng?). It looks like the telecom business is going down the toilet. They have a large amount of money loaned out to a related party.

Revenues since 2000 have been fairly constant, declining if anything. Earnings per share are all over map: 21 cents, 16 cents, 6 cents, 10 cents, 4 cents. The 4 cents last year was due to telecom and starting up a restaurant (YiWan Beijing restaurant business).

Needs more work.

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