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Reporter Wei
The water source problem of Master Kong (hereinafter referred to as "Master Kong") has always been the focus of external attention. Since Master Kong fell into the "water source gate" storm in 2008, questions about Master Kong's water source have frequently appeared in newspapers. Therefore, Master Kong began to pay attention to water sources and bought factories in many places. However, a series of water access storms have also begun. The reporter from Huashang Daily learned that Master Kong's previous plans to acquire Leshan and Taishan factories failed. At the same time, Master Kong also made one enterprise after another "desperate" because of breach of contract.
After Meiling Yunwushan Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Meiling Company") sued Master Kong for breach of promise, another food company also claimed that Master Kong had unilaterally breached the contract. According to Chen Yulong, chairman of Qinhuangdao Port Longxin Food Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Hong Kong Longxin"), the negotiation between the company and Master Kong 1 1 year was fruitless. Since 1 1, some people inside Master Kong have blocked normal negotiations under various excuses, resulting in a total loss of 45.44 million yuan.
1 1 year negotiation failed.
Things can be traced back to 2005, when Chen Yulong invested 30 million yuan to set up Qinhuangdao Port Longxin Food Co., Ltd. to develop natural mineral water-Hongshan Bird's Nest Spring. Three years later, at the beginning of 2008, Ganglongxin's factory in Shuiyuan was established, and it obtained the People's Republic of China (PRC) Mineral Products Registration Certificate and the People's Republic of China (PRC) Mining License.
At the beginning of 2009, Chen Yulong wanted to sell his assets due to physical reasons, and negotiated with Master Kong to jointly develop or transfer the mineral water plant. Since then, Dragonair has been entangled with Master Kong for 1 1 year.
At first, the negotiation between the two parties resulted in an agreement with a reserve price of 45 million yuan, and it was not until 2004 that 2065438+ 1 1 was signed. However, after internal adjustment, Master Kong stopped signing for unknown reasons. According to the reporter of Chen Yu Longxianghua Business Daily, "We gave Master Kong a 3% commission according to the hidden rules, but the other party wanted more than that. They want to resell the water source of Hongshan bird's nest spring. "
Another participant who has to be mentioned is Liu Koubao, a Zhejiang water merchant. According to reports, during the period from 20 13 to 20 16 and 10, Liu Koubao and Zhang Peng, the head of internal water resources acquisition of Master Kong, visited Hongshan Bird's Nest Spring several times. Liu Koubao tried to buy Hongshan Bird's Nest Spring for 32 million yuan, but there was no actual action.
"Later, I learned that the real purpose of Master Kong's internal Liu Koubao and Zhang Peng is to resell Hongshan Bird's Nest Spring. Liu Koubao first bought Hongshan Bird's Nest Spring at a low price of 32 million yuan, and then expanded its total assets by about 70 million yuan, adding 300,000 mu of industrial land, renting Master Kong equipment for OEM production, packaging one year later, and reselling it to Master Kong or other mineral water companies at a price of more than 700 million yuan. As a matter of fact, the relevant staff of lulong county Municipal Government once revealed that Liu Koubao secretly gave the relevant person in charge of Master Kong a 3 million yuan benefit fee, but the whole incident was terminated because it was discovered by the senior management of Master Kong, "Chen Yulong told the Huashang Daily reporter frankly.
From the telephone recordings of Chen Yulong and Liu Koubao and the telephone recordings of Chen Yulong and Zhang Peng, the reporter of Huashang Daily learned that Liu Koubao signed an agreement with Master Kong before signing the acquisition agreement with Hong Kong Longxin, and said that he would sign an agreement with Hong Kong Longxin as soon as possible. However, Master Kong's internal affairs are very complicated, and there are too many unsuccessful agreements, whether signed or not.
Zhang Peng just kept saying that he would urge Liu Koubao to sign a contract with Dragonair as soon as possible, but there was no action. In addition, regarding the issue of 3 million yuan of benefits, Zhang Peng only said that he did not participate, but did not deny the matter itself.
What is puzzling is why Master Kong didn't buy Hongshan Bird's Nest Spring directly, but branded Master Kong after Liu Koubao bought it. In this regard, Zhang Peng explained in the recording that Master Kong's internal technology, R&D and other departments just had no confidence in the water in Hongshan Bird's Nest Spring, and could not verify what went wrong. Zhang Peng didn't answer why Hongshan Bird's Nest bought Liukoubao in the spring, so he could do OEM work for Master Kong. He just said that after the acquisition, Liu Koubao could do OEM work for Master Kong.
At that time, whether the transaction ended was discovered by the senior management of Master Kong, and the reporter could not verify it. However, on 20 18, Master Kong renegotiated with Dragonair and finally signed an asset transfer agreement.
I thought there were many good things to do. However, a letter from Master Kong completely terminated this arduous acquisition. The reporter learned that Master Kong had asked Hong Longxin to change the production capacity of Hongshan bird's nest spring from 30,000 tons per year to 220,000 tons per year, and Hong Longxin did so. However, Master Kong took this opportunity to terminate the negotiations again. In Master Kong's reply to the Qinhuangdao project, Master Kong stated that the asset transfer agreement would not take effect because the expansion of the mining license could not reach the allowable mining capacity of 200,000 tons/year or Ganglongxin failed to complete the expansion of the mining license within five months from the effective date of this agreement.
However, this is not the case. According to item (5) of Article 15 of the Measures for the Administration of Mining Registration of Mineral Resources (the State Council Order No.241), if the transfer of mining rights is approved according to law, the miner shall apply to the registration authority for change of registration within the validity period of the mining license.
However, the certificate of Hebei Provincial Department of Natural Resources on the Verification Report of Drinking Natural Mineral Water Reserves of Hongshan Yanwoquan of Qinhuangdao Port Longxin Food Co., Ltd. shows that the evaluation procedures and submission materials of mineral resources reserves evaluation meet the filing requirements and agree to file.
In other words, the preface of the new mining license increment of Dragonair has been completed, but the old license was abolished and replaced with a new license with an annual mining capacity of 220,000 tons. However, it was terminated because Master Kong did not transfer the mining license to its registered branch in lulong county. At this point, the acquisition of the two companies for many years ended.
Master Kong's breach of contract brought great losses to Ganglongxin. It is understood that Hong Kong Longxin, which was just established, negotiated with Master Kong and has stopped production. Chen Yulong said that the new losses caused by Master Kong to Dragonair included personal loans, book debts, 1 1 year mining price, project investment and annual management fees totaling 45.44 million yuan. At present, Hong Kong Longxin has filed a lawsuit, and the trial is expected to begin on July 1 day.
Master Kong's water purchase storm continues.
It is not an isolated case that Master Kong unilaterally breached the contract with Dragonair. Not long ago, Meiling Company sued Master Kong for violating his promise and unilaterally breaching the contract, which made the operation of Meiling Company unsustainable, but the two cases were strikingly similar.
According to the agreement between Meiling Company and Master Kong, Meiling Company shall transfer, change and rename the intangible assets license to the new company within 120 working days after receiving the down payment from Master Kong. After the transfer and renaming procedures are completed, and Master Kong Beverage has obtained all the changed licenses and related materials, Master Kong Beverage needs to pay 43 million yuan to Meiling Company within ten working days. However, Master Kong "repented" on the pretext that the local government had made major changes to the land used for the project and the surrounding planning, which seemed to be similar to the reason that Master Kong gave to Hong Kong Longxin.
At the same time, a series of factories actually acquired by Master Kong were not successful. Chen Yulong told the China Business Daily that the factories in Taishan, Leshan and Foshan that Master Kong had acquired before were unsuccessful. Master Kong had planned to buy these factories to produce mineral water, but because the water quality was not up to standard, he could only produce pure water.
"In fact, in line with the attitude of being responsible for the cooperation transferee and the transferee's representative, I intended to write a letter to the top management of Master Kong to inform the top management of Master Kong that there was a problem with the water quality of Taishan Factory. In addition, Tianjin Geological Survey and Research Institute has made an investigation in Taishan Plant, and Zakat Exploration and Design Institute, which cooperates with Master Kong, has also made an investigation in Taishan Plant, and the results are all unqualified. Zhang Peng knows all this information, but Master Kong still bought Taishan Factory, "Chen Yulong told Huashang Daily reporter frankly.
In addition, Chen Yulong said: "When I wrote to the senior management of Master Kong, I asked Zhang Peng's opinion, and he also suggested that I delete all the unqualified information about Taishan and Leshan factories. As the director of Master Kong's water source project, all documents need to be conveyed by Zhang Peng. Zhang Peng would rather lose the purchase price of hundreds of millions of yuan than reflect the truth to the top. " .
Indeed, through the telephone recordings of Chen Yulong and Zhang Peng, the reporter learned that Chen Yulong repeatedly mentioned that the Taishan and Leshan projects were not up to standard. Zhang Peng also admitted that Master Kong had acquired the Taishan and Leshan factories, and said that the Taishan project had not been negotiated, but he still suggested that Chen Yulong should not reflect the truth to the top management of Master Kong. The reason turned out to be that these are all secrets, and Master Kong's senior management will think that Master Kong's internal confidentiality work is not in place.
Chen Yulong was filled with indignation. Zhang Peng and a group of people completely obstructed and sabotaged the normal progress of the project for their own interests, accepted bribes privately, and even lost hundreds of millions of dollars of the company's funds.
It is impossible to confirm whether Zhang Peng and other insiders of Master Kong really took bribes. However, Master Kong has repeatedly broken the contract, making it difficult for one enterprise after another to continue, and at the same time spending huge sums of money to acquire failed projects, which is really questionable.
In addition, the reporter learned that Chen Yulong had reported the details and evidence of Master Kong's internal personnel reselling assets and private transactions to the top management of Master Kong, but no one accepted it. Chen Yulong also contacted the third party of Taiwan Affairs Office to urge Master Kong, but there was no news.
In fact, Master Kong's water source storm has always existed. As early as 2008, an article entitled "Master Kong: Where is your high-quality water source? The post "Exploring the Secret of Master Kong Waterworks" caused an uproar. The post said that Master Kong's so-called high-quality water source is either processed with tap water or from the polluted Qiantang River.
In 2008, the National Business Daily published the article "The source of Master Kong mineral water is tap water". In this regard, the relevant person in charge of Master Kong said that the mineral water produced by Master Kong's Hangzhou production base was indeed filtered by urban tap water through the filtration system.
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