After almost a year of delay, China-based Sozo Global Ltd has finally secured investors to take up the placement of shares for its initial public offering (IPO).
Sozo, a manufacturer of frozen food products such as duck meat and seafood.
Sozo's IPO involves the issuance of 74.1 million shares (of which 55 million are new shares and the balance 19.1 million are an offer for sale of existing shares). A total 50 million of the 74.1 million shares are being placed out while the remainder 24.1 million will be offered to the public.
Sozo reported a net profit of 150 million yuan (RM70mil) for FY09. Its net profit for the first six months ended June 30 amounted to 93 million yuan (RM43.4mil).
In Sozo's case, some investors may take comfort in the fact that Khazanah Nasional Bhd was a pre-IPO investor. Khazanah, which bought convertible papers issued by Sozo, is said to have converted them into shares.
According to Sozo, Agro Treasures an outsourced fund initiated by Khazanah and managed by Vida Inc Sdn Bhd for investment in the agricultural and food sector will have about 10.4% in Sozo post the latter's listing, as a result of the conversion of its debt papers into Sozo shares.
Khazanah is not selling any Sozo shares in the IPO.
Sozo had plans to make Malaysia the location of Sozo's halal food processing facility to target the huge global halal food market.
Sozo was in a net cash position of 383 million yuan (RM180mil) as at June 30, 2010.
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