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Welcome to 2012 - Important Notes & Highlights of 2011 & the big picture of 2012
(TSX-V: MPE)Last Close: January 9, 2012 - $0.04
Shares Issued: 80,682,875
To all our shareholders, those watching the markets, and investors, we wish a blessed New Year and a 2012 full of happiness, profitability, and success! We also wish to extend our gratitude and thank you for your support, trust, and commitment to Maple Leaf in assisting us in making this world a better place, by incorporating green technology and products.
The milestones achieved in 2011 have positioned MPE for a future Raymond Lai has been diligently working to create, since being assigned President and CEO of Maple Leaf Reforestation. Such accomplishments & progress, the company has not seen since inception & is anticipating even more of the bright side for 2012. With everything said and done, our executive & management teams in Canada, China, & Mongolia are hard at work in productively guiding the company towards achieving its goals for the extensive plan of action Maple Leaf has set for the year of the dragon.
Notable Highlights of 2011:
- Maple Leaf welcomes two new members to the MPE family. Mr. Fu Jiang Qian, as Vice-President of China Operations and Jeff Kong as the new CFO. Please refer to complete bios at: www.mlreforestation.com
- On November.21st.2011 Maple Leaf has secured a purchase order with Inner Mongolia Ordos City Zhungeer Chak Island Co.,Ltd. ("Zhungeer") worth 3,000,000 Rmb (approximately $500,000 Cdn). Zhungeer was to pay a non-refundable deposit of 100,000 Rmb (approximately $16,500 Cdn) on December 1st, 2011, which has been successfully processed as per the agreement with the first batch of seedlings scheduled for delivery on March 1st, 2012.
- Maple Leaf has secured a $5 million equity funding instrument from Centurion Private Equity, LLC, an institutional investor managed by Roswell Capital Partners, LLC, of Atlanta, Georgia. Please refer to www.mlreforestation.com for complete details.
Meetings have taken place with a number of parties specifically regarding seedling sale orders for Maple Leaf's Greenhouse in Inner Mongolia which have successfully been secured and are now under negotiations. Further, Maple Leaf is working towards finalizing strategic relationships for Yellowhorn seeds and seedlings and securing off-take purchase agreements of Yellowhorn products which are the exclusive product of MPE.
Also, MPE has taken a major initiative towards providing an enhanced user friendly experience to all our online browsers. Please stay tuned as we will be incorporating the changes throughout the year such as interactive content, site search function, revised access to content, allowing you to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and much, much, more!
Please stay tuned, as next week we will be publishing a comprehensive news release discussing the details of the how we will be achieving the new milestones set for 2012!
Thank You & Respectfully,
Maple Leaf Reforestation Inc.
Raymond Lai, Chairman, President & CEO
Tel: +1 (403) 668-7560
Fax: +1 (403) 250-2534
E-mail: rlai@mlreforestation.com
About Maple Leaf Reforestation Inc.
Maple Leaf is a Canadian company that focuses in the environmental industry with 2 main operating arms:
- Eco-Agriculture - it operates a large-scale nursery business in Inner Mongolia, China that is focused on growing value-added tree seedlings and nursery products that assist with anti-desertification.
- Renewable Energy - it is undertaking to commence a Yellowhorn seedling and tree operation which would provide valuable Yellowhorn seeds and ultimately oil from such seeds for the manufacture of bio-diesel fuel and premium healthy cooking oil.
For further information regarding Maple Leaf Reforestation Inc., visit www.mlreforestation.com.
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