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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

[X] ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended: December 31, 2014

[   ] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from _____________ to _____________

Commission File No. 000-52899

NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Nevada 80-0264950
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
organization)  

4/F Yushan Plaza
51 Yushan Road
Nangang District, Harbin, 150090
People’s Republic of China
(Address of principal executive offices)

(86) 451-82287746
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class Name of each exchange on which registered
None None

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act: Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
Yes [   ]      No [X]

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.
Yes [   ]      No [X]

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Website, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files)
Yes [X]      No [   ]

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. [X]

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

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Non-Accelerated Filer   [   ] (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) Smaller reporting company [X]

Indicate by check mark whether registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act)
Yes [   ]      No [X]

As of June 30, 2014 (the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter), the aggregate market value of the shares of the registrant’s common stock held by non-affiliates (based upon the closing price of such shares as reported on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board) was approximately $19.69 million. Shares of the registrant’s common stock held by each executive officer and director and by each person who owns 10% or more of the outstanding common stock have been excluded from the calculation in that such persons may be deemed to be affiliates of the registrant. This determination of affiliate status is not necessarily a conclusive determination for other purposes.


There were a total of 16,996,396 shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding as of March 24, 2015.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

None.


NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC.

Annual Report on FORM 10-K
For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2014

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 PART I   
     
Item 1. Business. 2
Item 1A. Risk Factors. 11
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments. 26
Item 2. Properties. 26
Item 3. Legal Proceedings. 27
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures. 27
     
 PART II   
     
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities 28
Item 6. Selected Financial Data 29
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. 29
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk. 38
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. 38
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure. 38
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures. 39
Item 9B. Other Information. 40
     
 PART III   
     
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance. 41
Item 11. Executive Compensation. 44
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters. 48
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence. 50
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services 52
     
 PART IV   
     
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules. 52


Special Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements

In addition to historical information, this report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. We use words such as “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “project,” “target,” “plan,” “optimistic,” “intend,” “aim” or similar expressions which are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements include, among others, those concerning market and industry segment growth and demand and acceptance of new and existing products; any projections of sales, earnings, revenue, margins or other financial items; any statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations; any statements regarding future economic conditions or performance; uncertainties related to conducting business in China, as well as all assumptions, expectations, predictions, intentions or beliefs about future events. You are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, including those identified in Item 1A, “Risk Factors” included herein, as well as assumptions, which, if they were to ever materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of the Company to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

Although we believe the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, level of activity, performance, or achievements. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any of these forward-looking statements. You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. We are under no duty to update any of these forward-looking statements after the date of this report to conform our prior statements to actual results or revised expectations.

Use of Terms

Except as otherwise indicated by the context, references in this report to:

  • “BVI” refers to the British Virgin Islands;
  • “China,” “Chinese” and “PRC,” refer to the People’s Republic of China;
  • “Exchange Act” refers to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
  • “Nutrastar,” “we,” “us,” “our company” and “our” refer to Nutrastar International Inc., a Nevada corporation, its subsidiaries, and, in the context of describing our operations and business, and consolidated financial information, include our VIE Entities;
  • “Renminbi” and “RMB” refer to the legal currency of China;
  • “SEC” refers to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission;
  • “Securities Act” refers to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;
  • “U.S. dollars,” “dollars” and “$” refer to the legal currency of the United States; and
  • “VIE Entities” means our consolidated variable interest entities, including Heilongjiang Shuaiyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries as depicted in our organizational chart on page 5 below.

Effective May 19, 2009, we implemented a 1-for-114.59 reverse stock split of issued and outstanding shares of our common stock. Except where specifically indicated, all common share information (including information related to warrants to purchase common stock) has been restated to reflect the 1-for-114.59 reverse split.

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PART I

ITEM 1.        BUSINESS.

Business Overview

We are a leading China based producer and supplier of premium branded Traditional Chinese Medicine consumer products including commercially cultivated Cordyceps Militaris, organic and specialty food products and functional health beverages.

Our primary product is Cordyceps Militaris related consumer products. Cordyceps Militaris is a species of parasitic fungus that is typically found in north-eastern China. It is a precious ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine and widely believed in China to offer high medical and health benefits by nourishing the yin, boosting the yang, and invigorating the meridians of the lungs and kidneys. According to Georges Halpern's Healing Mushrooms, certain research has shown that Cordyceps Militaris may boost the immune system, and can be used as a supplement for combating certain effects of fatigue and aging, the occurrences of certain tumors, and combating arteriosclerosis and certain gastrointestinal disorders, as well as reducing blood pressure. In addition, Cordyceps Militaris has significantly high economic values. According to Halpern, wild Cordyceps Militaris (a.k.a. Cordyceps Sinensis) can cost as much as $10,000 per kilogram. Due to the extremely sensitive growing conditions of Cordyceps Militaris, it is very difficult to grow the plant in a man-made environment. After several years of laboratory tests, we developed a technology to commercially grow and produce Cordyceps Militaris in 2006. We generated 85.5% and 77.7% of our revenues from Cordyceps Militaris for fiscal years 2014 and 2013, respectively. We believe that we own approximately 18% of the worldwide market share in the cultivated Cordyceps Militaris industry. We plan to continue to focus on Cordyceps Militaris based consumer products in the near future, which is our fastest growing product line with the greatest market demand and a significantly higher profit margin.

We also sell organic and specialty food products through our VIE Entity, Harbin Shuaiyi Green & Specialty Food Trading LLC, or Harbin Shuaiyi, which was formed in 2001. After years of development, we believe that we have become one of the largest wholesale distributors of organic and specialty food in Heilongjiang Province, China. We plan to increase our focus in our organic and specialty food products business, including efforts to become a producer and increase our distribution capabilities.

We introduced the Cordyceps based functional health beverages in the fourth quarter of 2010. The non-carbonized beverage products were developed internally and contain the Cordyceps Militaris as a key ingredient. The products are currently being marketed directly to consumers in select cities in Jiangsu and Anhui through various distribution channels.

Corporate History and Structure

General

We were originally incorporated in the State of Nevada on December 22, 2002. Following incorporation, we engaged in the business of developing software which allowed us to act as an application service provider acting as a conduit between retailers and financial institutions. Because this business was not successful, we were focused on the identification of suitable businesses with which to enter into a business opportunity or business combination until December 23, 2008, when we completed our reverse acquisition of New Zealand WAYNE’s New Resources Development Co., Ltd., or New Resources. As a result of our reverse acquisition of New Resources, we are no longer a shell company and active business operations were revived.

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On May 19, 2009, we filed amended and restated articles of incorporation with the Nevada Secretary of State to amend our articles of incorporation to, among other things, (1) change our name from “YzApp International Inc.” to “Shuaiyi International New Resources Development Inc.,” (2) increase the total number of shares of common stock that we have the authority to issue from 50,000,000 to 190,000,000 shares and (3) effect a 1-for-114.59 reverse split of our outstanding common stock.

On January 11, 2010, we changed our name to Nutrastar International Inc. to more accurately reflect our marketing and branding strategy. Our common stock has been quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board under the new symbol NUIN since January 20, 2010.

Background and History of New Resources and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi

New Resources is a holding company, which was incorporated in the BVI under the BVI Business Company Act on March 13, 2008. New Resources was wholly-owned by New Zealand WAYNE's Investment Holdings Co., Ltd., or Investment Holdings, a BVI company, before we acquired New Resources on December 23, 2008.

Heilongjiang Shuaiyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd., or Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, was established on July 11, 2006 under the laws of the PRC. Heilongjiang Shuaiyi has two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Daqing Shuaiyi Biotech Co., Ltd., or Daqing Shuaiyi, and Harbin Shuaiyi. On July 28, 2008, pursuant to a restructuring plan intended to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements of the PRC, the nine original shareholders of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, or the Founders, including our chairperson and chief executive officer, Lianyun Han, entered into an equity transfer agreement, or the Equity Transfer Agreement, with New Resources, pursuant to which the Founders transferred all of their equity interests in Heilongjiang Shuaiyi to New Resources for a purchase price of RMB 60 million (approximately $8.8 million). As a result, New Resources became the 100% owner of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi and, indirectly, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi.

On December 8, 2008, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi entered into a separate loan agreement and promissory notes, or the Notes, with each of the Founders, pursuant to which Heilongjiang Shuaiyi borrowed an aggregate of RMB 60 million (approximately $8.8 million) from the Founders, which amount is exactly equal to the proceeds that they were entitled to receive for the transfer of their ownership of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi under the Equity Transfer Agreement. The Notes bear no interest and are payable in successive equal yearly payments beginning on the tenth anniversary of the Notes, December 8, 2018, and within the first month of each year thereafter. The final payment is due on January 1, 2028. On February 12, 2009, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi and the Founders amended the Notes, pursuant to which the Founders subordinated any right to receive any payment with respect to this loan to the payment or provision for payment in full of all claims of all present and future creditors of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi.

On December 23, 2008, pursuant to a share exchange agreement, we completed a reverse acquisition transaction of New Resources whereby we issued to Investment Holdings 689,390 shares of our series A preferred stock, constituting approximately 94% of our issued and outstanding capital stock on a fully-diluted basis, in exchange for all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of New Resources. New Resources thereby became our wholly owned subsidiary and Investment Holdings became our controlling stockholder.

VIE Restructuring

According to relevant Chinese laws, the equity interest transfer price should be paid by New Resources to the Founders in full within a certain period of time after Heilongjiang Shuaiyi obtained the new business license. Because New Resources would not be able to pay off the equity interest transfer price within such required time period, New Resources and the Founders decided to transfer all of the equity interests in Heilongjiang Shuaiyi owned by New Resources back to the Founders. On October 22, 2010, New Resources entered into an equity transfer agreement with the Founders, pursuant to which New Resources transferred all of its equity interests in Heilongjiang Shuaiyi back to the Founders. As a result, the equity transfer agreement between New Resources and the Founders, dated July 28, 2008, was terminated and New Resources’ obligations to pay off the transfer price for the equity interest in Heilongjiang Shuaiyi to the Founders were discharged.

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In connection with the equity transfer, the Founders, our indirectly wholly-owned Chinese subsidiary, Harbin Baixin Biotech Development Co., Ltd., or Harbin Baixin, and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi entered into the following commercial arrangements, or collectively, VIE Agreements, pursuant to which we have contractual rights to control and operate the businesses of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi and Heilongjiang's two Chinese subsidiaries, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi:

  • Pursuant to a technical service agreement, or the Service Agreement, entered into by and between Harbin Baixin and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Harbin Baixin will provide certain exclusive technical services to Heilongjiang Shuaiyi in exchange for the payment by Heilongjiang Shuaiyi of a service fee that is calculated based on the market price in light of the particulars of the service and the time of such service provided by Harbin Baixin;

  • Pursuant to an exclusive purchase option agreement, or the Option Agreement, entered into by and among Harbin Baixin, the Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, the Founders granted to Harbin Baixin an option to purchase at any time during the term of this agreement, all or part of the equity interests in Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, or the Equity Interests, at the exercise price equal to the lowest possible price permitted by Chinese laws;

  • Pursuant to a voting rights proxy agreement, or the Voting Rights Agreement, entered into by and among Harbin Baixin, the Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, each of the Founders irrevocably entrusted Harbin Baixin and any entities or individuals designated by Harbin Baixin to, among others, exercise its voting rights and other rights as a shareholder of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi; and

  • Pursuant to an equity pledge agreement, the Pledge Agreement, entered into by and among Harbin Baixin, the Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, the Founders pledged all of the Equity Interests to Harbin Baixin to secure the full and complete performance of the obligations and liabilities on the part of the Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi under this and the above contractual arrangements

As a result of the above contractual arrangements, or the Contractual Arrangements, we transferred all of our indirect equity interests in Heilongjiang Shuaiyi back to the Founders, among whom, Ms. Lianyun Han became a majority shareholder of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi. At the same time, we maintain substantial control over the VIE Entities’ daily operations and financial affairs, election of their senior executives and all matters requiring shareholder approval. Furthermore, as the primary beneficiary of the VIE Entities, we are entitled to consolidate the financial results of the VIE Entities in our own consolidated financial statements under Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) Topic 810 and related subtopics related to the consolidation of variable interest entities, or ASC Topic 810.

On October 22, 2010, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi also entered into a termination agreement with each of the Founders, pursuant to which, the Notes were terminated and none of the parties will have any further obligations and rights thereunder.

Private Placement Transactions

On December 17, 2009, we completed a private placement transaction and sold 1,000,000 shares of our common stock to certain accredited investors at $2.50 per share for a total of $2.5 million pursuant to a securities purchase agreement. In addition, we issued to each of the investors two warrants to purchase in aggregate 500,000 shares of our common stock, including a Series A warrant having a term of three years with an exercise price of $3.25 per share and a Series B warrant having a term of three years with an exercise price of $4.00 per share, both of which are subject to the usual adjustments for certain corporate events.

In addition, pursuant to the securities purchase agreement, the Shareholder agreed to place a total of 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock held by it into escrow to secure the make good obligations described below on behalf of the investors. Under the securities purchase agreement, the Shareholder agreed that: (i) in the event that our consolidated financial statements reflect less than $9,000,000 of after-tax income for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2010, it will transfer to the investors, on a pro rata basis, for no additional consideration, 500,000 shares of our common stock owned by it; and (ii) in the event that our consolidated financial statements reflect less than $11,000,000 of after-tax net income for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011, it will transfer to the investors, on a pro rata basis, for no additional consideration, 500,000 shares of common stock owned by it. We achieved the 2011 and 2010 performance threshold and no escrow shares have been transferred to the investors.

On May 27, 2010, we entered into a securities purchase agreement, or the 2010 Securities Purchase Agreement, with certain investors, pursuant to which, we agreed to issue and sell up to an aggregate of 250,000 Units at a purchase price of $28.56 per Unit, for an aggregate purchase price of up to $7,140,000, or the Aggregate Purchase Price. Each Unit consists of (i) one share of a newly designated series A preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share, or the Series A Preferred Stock, with an initial one-to-ten conversion ratio into shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, and (ii) warrants to purchase five shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.40 per share, or the Series C Warrants. In addition, Gilford Securities Incorporated, as the placement agent of this transaction, received from the investors a fee equal to 2% of the Aggregate Purchase Price and Series C Warrants to purchase 2% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock that shares of Series A Preferred Stock to be issued under the 2010 Securities Purchase Agreement are convertible into.

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In connection with the 2010 Securities Purchase Agreement, we filed a Certificate of Designation of Series A Preferred Stock with the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada, or the 2010 Certificate, on May 27, 2010, which became effective upon filing. Pursuant to the 2010 Certificate, there are 300,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock authorized.

On June 7, 2010 and June 28, 2010, we consummated the first and the second closing of the private placement transaction contemplated by the 2010 Securities Purchase Agreement, respectively, in which we issued in aggregate 197,706 Units to certain investors at a purchase price of $28.56 per unit for gross proceeds of approximately $5.65 million.

The following chart reflects our organizational structure as of the date of this report:

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Business Segment Information

Our business operations can be categorized into three segments based on the type of products we manufacture and sell, specifically (i) Cordyceps Militaris, (ii) organic and specialty food products and (iii) functional health beverage.

We grow and sell our Cordyceps Militaris as well as manufacture and distribute our functional health beverages through Daqing Shuaiyi. Harbin Shuaiyi is mainly engaged in the business of selling our organic and specialty food products.

For financial information relating to our business segments, see Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and Note 18 to our consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this annual report.

Our Industry

Widespread economic development in China has not only increased the disposable income of Chinese consumers, it has also lead to an increase in consumer awareness of the risks of dietary imbalances, environment issues and the importance of maintaining appropriate levels of vitamins and minerals in the human body. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s urban population was approximately 690 million at the end of year 2012 with more than 300 million considered to be in the middle class. The study by the Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences anticipates that China’s urban population will rise to 976 million by 2030. Along with a growing middle class, all of these facts have rapidly increased Chinese consumers’ demand for nutraceutical products. In the 2012 Blue paper on the dietary supplement industry published by the China Health Care Association, which is the prominent government-appointed association to oversee the industry and is an association affiliated with China's Ministry of Health, it is estimated that the Chinese dietary supplements industry, representing products that were officially registered with China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) or commonly referred to in as a “blue hat” is worth approximately $15.8 billion. We believe that the next era of nutrition will focus on naturally occurring properties provided from plants, fruits, and vegetables, which support good health.

Because of the rarity and high prices of the wild collected variety, attempts have long been made to cultivate Cordyceps Militaris. By the mid-1980s, the majority of Cordyceps Militaris available in the worldwide marketplace were cultivated. Because of the development of modern biotechnology-based cultivation methods, the availability of this previously rare health supplement has greatly increased in the last 20 years. The demand for Cordyceps Militaris has also compounded exponentially, in this same time frame, partly because of the opening of China to trade with the West in the 1970s, exposing many more people around the world to the concepts and practices of traditional Chinese medicine. As Cordyceps Militaris has always been highly revered in traditional Chinese medicine, we believe that with increased exposure to traditional Chinese medicine, the demand for this plant has also increased. Such an increase has led to overharvesting of the wild stocks and a subsequent shortage of wild collected varieties of Cordyceps Militaris.

International markets for Cordyceps Militaris are mainly in the Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and North America. The European and Australian markets are also emerging. According to Market Survey of Cordyceps Militaris 2014, published by Qianinfo Consulting in 2014, the estimated market demand for Cordyceps Militaris will reach over 1,556 tons a year by year 2016 with current Cordyceps Militaris manufacturers in China having an aggregate production capacity of only 550 tons a year, there is a big gap between supply and demand and therefore a great potential for our Cordyceps Militaris market.

Our Competitive Strengths

We believe that our success to date and potential for future growth can be attributed to a combination of our strengths, including the following:

  • High-end niche products. We sell organic and specialty food products, functional health beverages and Cordyceps Militaris products that the followers of traditional Chinese medicine believe have high nutrient concentration, potential health benefits and high value. Our products are positioned in the high-end market as premium healthy food and are distinguished from the common nutraceutical products in the market.

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  • Leading market position and significantly high margin. We believe we have established ourselves as a dominant player in China’s Cordyceps Militaris industry. Based on the Market Survey of Cordyceps Militaris 2014, published by Qianinfo Consulting, we believe that we currently own approximately 18% of the production in the world market of Cordyceps Militaris. By successfully commercializing our Cordyceps Militaris planting technology, we believe that we have achieved economies of scale and accordingly significantly high margin that no other material competitor can match in the near future.

  • Leading-edge R&D team. Our research and development team has a strong and extensive technology background and has been an early participant in the Cordyceps Militaris market. Currently we have 21 technicians in our R&D department. The head of our research and development team, Mr. Lichen Wang, is a lead expert in the field of edible fungus in China. Mr. Wang graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in edible fungus and has served as the deputy director of several research institutes of edible fungus in Northeast China.

  • Experienced management team with a strong track record. Our management team has extensive operating experience and industry knowledge. Ms. Lianyun Han, our founder and chief executive officer, has more than 10 years of experience in operational management and business development. We believe that our management team’s experience and capabilities have contributed greatly to our significant growth in the past three years.

Our Growth Strategy

As a leading Cordyceps Militaris consumer products producer in China, we believe we are well positioned to capitalize on future industry growth in China. We are dedicated to providing healthy and nutritional products to our consumers. We will implement the following strategic plans to take advantage of industry opportunities and our competitive strengths:

  • Focus on brand development. With intense price competition among many similar or identical products in the industry, we believe that building brand awareness is the primary means to generate and sustain profitable growth in the future. We believe that developing close cooperative relationships with research centers of well-known universities in China and globally is key to building brand equity. We also market our products through an integrated marketing program that includes advertising in relevant media outlets, attending trade shows and offering seminars and lectures to local communities regarding the products and their health benefits.

  • Introducing new products. We constantly evaluate our products and seek to adapt to changing market conditions by updating our products to reflect new trends in consumer preferences. We endeavor to expand our market presence by introducing additional competitive nutraceutical products to our product offerings. Our new products being introduce to the market include Cordyceps Militaris based alcoholic products and instant soluble powder oral liquids.

  • Increase production capacity. Our existing production lines of Cordyceps Militaris have been running at close to full capacity while the market demand for our existing products continues to increase. In order to meet the raw material needs of our products and expand sales of small packages and beverages of our Cordyceps Militaris products, we added 10 plants to our production line, which have been substantially completed as of December 2013 and operations commenced in 2013. Annual production capacity of Cordyceps Militaris was increased to approximately 100 tons in 2013, up from 87 tons in 2012. We may convert more buildings into biotechnologically controlled cultivation plants to grow and process Cordyceps Militaris in the future.

  • Further expand our distribution network to increase the prevalence of our products nationwide. Our current sales depend heavily on the sales of our large-pack products to pharmaceutical companies. To support our rapid growth in sales, we plan to further expand our distribution network by selling our small-pack products through direct sales channel, specialty stores and franchise stores. We have one-year contracts with our major distributors which normally extend for one more year by the end of the contracts. We maintain constant communications with these distributors to keep us informed regarding consumer preferences and market trends in order to develop new products. We also organize monthly product promotion meetings with the distributors to increase the sales of small package products. We are at the initial rollout phase of our functional health beverage through distribution channels in Jiangsu Province and Anhui Province. We have contracts with local distributors which we expect to be renewed upon expiration. We plan to further expand our distribution networks by selling the functional health beverage through additional distribution channels, specialty stores, supermarkets and franchise stores.

  • International Expansion. Currently all of our sales are domiciled in China and we have created economies of scale by investing and building capacity in recent years. Our next strategy within our initiative is to expand growth through exploring opportunities beyond our current domestic market by targeting expansion into new international markets. We believe there are various opportunities in North America, where there is large demand for nutraceutical products, and in other Asia countries where there is increasing demand for such products. We’re currently in the process of prototyping new formats that may expand Nutrastar’s reach into these select international markets. Our target plan of an international expansion strategy evaluation will include selection of primary focus markets, determination of target customer and channel strategy, resource allocation, product offerings, brand positioning, and creation of an operating model. We believe a thorough and successful market penetration strategy ensures the most suitable and efficient use of our corporate resources and helps us to increase our success.

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  • Technology innovation. We believe that the development of new technology is critical to our success. We will continuously improve the quality of our existing and future products through new technologies. We expect to maintain our long-term partnership with Chinese universities and research institutes in order to develop new technologies.

Our Products and Production Process

Cordyceps Militaris

Our primary product is Cordyceps Militaris. Cordyceps Militaris is a species of parasitic fungus that is typically found in the north-eastern mountainous regions of China. As a precious ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine, Cordyceps Militaris is widely believed in China to offer high medical and health benefits by nourishing the yin, boosting the yang, and invigorating the meridians of the lungs and kidneys. Due to the extremely sensitive growing conditions of Cordyceps Militaris, it is very difficult to grow the plants in man-made environments. Through several years laboratory tests, we developed the technology to commercially grow and produce Cordyceps Militaris in 2006. Our production process primarily includes planting, purifying and packaging.

Our present production capacity of Cordyceps Militaris is approximately 100 tons annually. We generated 85.5% and 77.7% of our revenues from Cordyceps Militaris for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. We believe that we own approximately 18% of the worldwide market share in the entire cultivated Cordyceps Militaris industry. We plan to continue to focus on Cordyceps Militaris, which is our fastest growing product with the greatest market demand and a significantly higher profit margin. To achieve this end, we completed the additional production facilities to produce Cordyceps Militaris in 2013 and may expand our production capacity to meet increase demand in the future.

Organic and Specialty Food

Growth in domestic demand for organic products has been driven by rising incomes in China. Through Harbin Shuaiyi, we act as either a sales agent or a distributor to market and sell organic and specialty food products supplied by third-party producers. These products mainly include Northeast Peculiar Rice. Northeast Peculiar Rice is grown in accordance with organic product standards established by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture. To qualify as “organic,” food must be produced in an environment which relies upon natural resources, without the use of conventional pesticides or artificial fertilizers, in an appropriate ecological environment, and must undergo a series of scientific and technological quality control processes. Our Northeast Peculiar Rice is rich in protein, fiber fats, amino acids and calcium, iron, zinc, selenium and other elements and vitamins. After years of development, we believe we have become the largest wholesale distributor of organic and specialty food in Heilongjiang Province, China. We plan to increase our focus in our organic and specialty food products business, including efforts to become a producer and increasing our distribution capabilities in the future.

Functional Health Beverages

Through development by our Research and Development team, we introduced the functional beverages featuring the Cordyceps Militaris as a core ingredient in 2010. The beverage products were developed with the health benefits of enhancing immunity, reducing fatigue, enhancing circulations, among other benefits derived from our Cordyceps Militaris. These products became available in select areas in Jiangsu and Anhui Province and Harbin City in 2013. We generated 9.2% and 17.2% of our revenues from our functional health beverages for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. We plan to continue our marketing efforts to target mass consumer markets by increasing our distribution channels in the future.

New products under development

We plan to further diversify our Cordyceps Militaris based product mix to cater to different customer tastes and preferences. Currently, we have the following product under development.

  • Cordyceps based tablets and capsules. As an extension of our different Cordyceps based products, we endeavor to expand our market presence by developing additional competitive nutraceutical products to our product offerings. Our new products under development include Cordyceps Militaris based tablets and capsules.

Marketing and Sales

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Currently, we have 149 experienced sales and marketing personnel who are responsible for direct sales activities, market research, promotion and advertisement. We strengthen our market presence by employing various types of marketing strategies. We participate in trade shows and offer seminars and lectures to local communities regarding the health benefits of our products. These activities help promote our reputation and name recognition in the industry.

Our sales depend heavily on the sales of our large-pack products to pharmaceutical companies. To support our rapid growth in sales, we plan to further expand our distribution network by selling our small-pack products through direct sales channels, specialty stores and franchise stores.

Raw Materials and Suppliers

Our raw materials primarily consist of carbamide, wheat, glucose, citric acid, bitter salt, peptone, and pupa powder. The price for such material fluctuates depending upon market conditions. However, since we have long-term suppliers and clients, the influence of any short-term price fluctuations is not currently expected to have a material effect on the Company.

We have established long-term relationships with our key suppliers. However, we do not have long term supply contracts and we do not exclusively rely on our key suppliers. We have adopted a dual supplier system for raw materials. Therefore, if our primary suppliers cannot supply us with our raw material for any reason, we are able to acquire raw material from another supplier. All of our suppliers must meet our quality standards and delivery requirements consistently in order to remain on our approved supplier list. If deliveries are delayed repeatedly, we terminate the partnership with such supplier.

The flexible sourcing arrangements are designed to ensure the stable supply of raw materials and promote healthy competition among our suppliers. We believe our supplier arrangements encourage our suppliers to provide high quality raw materials timely and efficiently.

The following table lists major suppliers accounted for 10% or more of our raw materials in 2014:

(All amounts in thousands of US dollars):

   
Purchasing Value
 
Rank Company Name
in 2014
Location
1 Harbin Zijiang Packing Co. Ltd. $2,466 Harbin
2 Zhangjiagang Nong Nong Drinking and Food Co. Ltd. $2,104 Zhangjiagang
3 Harbin Reservation During The Oil Co. Ltd. $1,852 Harbin

Our Major Customers

The following table provides information on our major client accounted for 10% or more of our revenue in fiscal year 2014:

(All amounts in thousands of US dollars):

        Percentage
        of
Rank Name Description of Client Sales Total Sales
1 Lai En Century Co. Ltd. Trading Company in China $11,089 26%

Our Competition

Most of our competitors for sales of Cordyceps Militaris products are small-sized local producers and generally have a much lower production capacity. Compared to these competitors, we believe we have a much higher production capacity and more advanced growing and production technology. Our major competitors in China include Liaoning Limin Cordyceps Co. Ltd., Hebei Cangzhou Cordyceps Co. Ltd., Henan Huazhong Biotech Co. Ltd., Anshan Huayu Biotech Co. Ltd., Dalian Lanshi Cordyceps Biotech Co. Ltd., Beijing Jingdu Cordyceps Biotech Co. Ltd., Ningqiang Likangfuxi Biotech Co. Ltd., Shenyang Juxin Cordyceps Co. Ltd. and Shangdong Rui Zhi Biotech Co., Ltd.

Research and Development

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Our research and development activities focus on developing new products and new technologies. We currently have 21 employees dedicated to research and development. Since 2003, we have also maintained a close cooperation relationship with China Institute of Science, one of the most prestigious academic institutions of scientific and technological research in China, to improve commercially grown Cordyceps Militaris.

As described below, on April 10, 2006, we spent RMB 30 million (approximately $4.4 million) in acquiring the technologies of Cordyceps Militaris cultivation from Mr. Runjiao Wang. In 2014 and 2013, our research and development expenses were $159,229 and $173,881, respectively.

Intellectual Property

We currently have applied for the following patents. We have been notified that additional information is needed in order to determine its eligibility and are subject to further review procedures. The Company intend to provide such additional information requested in year 2015:

    Patent No. / Expiration  
Patent Name Patent type Application No. Date Status
Technology of Using Plastic Ware to Cultivate Cordyceps Militaris Invention 200810064305.3 N/A Pending
Formulation of Cordyceps Militaris and Green Bean Paste Beverage Invention 200810064387.1 N/A Pending
Formulation of Cordyceps Militaris and Corn Beverage Invention 200810064389.0 N/A Pending
Formulation of Cordyceps Militaris and Millet Beverage Invention 200810064390.3 N/A Pending
Formulation of Cordyceps Militaris and Red Bean Paste Beverage Invention 200810064388.6 N/A Pending
Formulation of Golden Grass wine Invention 201010228010.2 N/A Pending
Formulation of Golden Grass oral liquids Invention 201010228002.8 N/A Pending

On April 10, 2006, Daqing Shuaiyi entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Mr. Runjiao Wang, pursuant to which Mr. Wang agreed to grant Daqing Shuaiyi an exclusive right to use the cultivation technology of Cordyceps Militaries that Mr. Wang developed. According to this licensing agreement, Daqing Shuaiyi is allowed to use this technology exclusively in China for ten years beginning on April 10, 2006. In consideration of the rights granted to Daqing Shuaiyi under this licensing agreement, Daqing Shuaiyi agreed to pay Mr. Wang a licensing fee in an amount of RMB 30 million (approximately $4.4 million). In addition, Daqing Shuaiyi has the right of first refusal with respect to the cultivation technology when the licensing agreement expires and thus may be continually renewed thereafter. We currently intend to negotiate with Mr. Wang to renew the licensing agreement when it expires in April 2016.

We have applied for the trademark of “帅亿东方神” with the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of China. Under Chinese laws, we are allowed to use “帅亿东方神” for the sales and marketing of our products even if our trademark application is still pending. Once our application is approved, the trademark will have a term of ten years and may be continually renewed thereafter.

We rely on trade secret protection and confidentiality agreements to protect our proprietary information and knowhow. Our management and each of our research and development personnel have entered into a standard confidentiality agreement, which includes a clause acknowledging that all inventions, designs, trade secrets, works of authorship, developments and other processes generated by them on our behalf are our property, and assigning to us any ownership rights that they may claim in those works. Despite our precautions, it may be possible for third parties to obtain and use, without our consent, intellectual property that we own or are licensed to use. Unauthorized use of our intellectual property by third parties, and the expenses incurred in protecting our intellectual property rights, may adversely affect our business. See Item 1A, “Risk factors—Risks Related to Our Business—Failure to adequately protect our intellectual property rights may undermine our competitive position, and litigation to protect our intellectual property rights may be costly.”

Regulation

Because our operating entities are located in the PRC, we are regulated by the national and local laws of the PRC. Currently only the general rules of commerce in China are applicable to us.

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We are also subject to the PRC’s foreign currency regulations. The PRC government has controlled RMB reserves primarily through direct regulation of the conversion of RMB into other foreign currencies. Although foreign currencies, which are required for “current account” transactions, can be bought freely at authorized PRC banks, the proper procedural and approval requirements prescribed by PRC law must be met. At the same time, PRC companies are also required to sell their foreign exchange earnings to authorized PRC banks and the purchase of foreign currencies for capital account transactions still requires prior approval of the PRC government.

Our Employees

As of December 31, 2014, we employed a total of 336 full-time employees. The following table sets forth the number of our employees by function.

Function   Number of Employees
Capital Department   5
Sales Department   149
Production Department   123
R&D Department   21
Finance Department   13
Administrative Office   25
TOTAL   336

Our employees are not represented by a labor organization or covered by a collective bargaining agreement. We have not experienced any work stoppages. We believe we maintain good relations with our employees.

Seasonality

The production and sale of our primary product, Cordyceps Militaris, historically have not been subject to seasonal variations. However since a majority of our sales are in China, the timing of the various Chinese holidays such as Lunar Chinese New Year, May and October holidays may have some impact to our revenue cycle.

Insurance

We do not have any business liability, interruption or litigation insurance coverage for our operations in China. Insurance companies in China offer limited business insurance products. While business interruption insurance is available to a limited extent in China, we have determined that the risks of interruption, cost of such insurance and the difficulties associated with acquiring such insurance on commercially reasonable terms make it impractical for us to have such insurance. Therefore, we are subject to business and product liability exposure. See Item 1A, “Risk Factors – We do not carry any business interruption insurance, third-party liability insurance for our production facilities or insurance that covers the risk of loss of our products in shipment.”

ITEM 1A.      RISK FACTORS.

The shares of our common stock are highly speculative in nature, involve a high degree of risk and should be purchased only by persons who can afford to lose the entire amount invested in the common stock. Before purchasing any of the shares of common stock, you should carefully consider the following factors relating to our business and prospects. You should pay particular attention to the fact that we conduct all of our operations in China and are governed by a legal and regulatory environment that in some respects differs significantly from the environment that may prevail in the U.S. and other countries. If any of the following risks actually occurs, our business, financial condition or operating results will suffer, the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.

RISKS RELATED TO OUR BUSINESS

Our current business is significantly based on a single product, Cordyceps Militaris, which currently accounts for approximately 86 percent of our revenues, and we may not be able to generate significant revenue if this product fails.

Approximately 86% of our sales for the year ended December 31, 2014 come from a single product, Cordyceps Militaris, and our business may suffer a material adverse impact if this product fails. If we experience difficulties or obstacles in the manufacture and sale of Cordyceps Militaris, we may not be able to generate significant revenues, our business may fail and you would lose all or part of your investment in our company.

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We may not be able to grow and harvest sufficient Cordyceps Militaris to satisfy our production requirements and any decline in the amount or quality of Cordyceps Militaris could reduce our sales and negatively affect our results of operations, financial condition and business prospects.

Our Cordyceps Militaris related business and financial results significantly depend on maintaining a consistent and cost-effective supply of wild strains of Cordyceps Militaris. The availability, size and quality of Cordyceps Militaris for the production of our products are subject to risks inherent to growing, such as size, quality, and yield fluctuation caused by technical problems of growing, pest and disease problems, and other factors beyond our control. Because all Cordyceps Militaris used to produce our Cordyceps products are grown by us, we may not be able to locate in a timely manner any third party suppliers who could provide us with sufficient materials to meet our production needs when our self-supply faces significant fluctuations in the availability of Cordyceps Militaris. Therefore, any interruptions to or decline in the amount or quality of our Cordyceps Militaris supply could materially disrupt our production and adversely affect our business and financial condition and financial prospects.

A change in our product mix may cause our results of operations to differ substantially from the anticipated results in any particular period.

Our overall profitability may not meet expectations if our products, customers or geographic mix are substantially different than anticipated. Our profit margins vary among products, customers and geographic markets. Consequently, if our mix of any of these is substantially different from what is anticipated in any particular period, our profitability could be lower than anticipated.

Our revenue is generated from a limited number of clients, and the loss of one or more significant clients could adversely affect our revenue.

Our client base is highly concentrated. For the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, our five largest clients by revenue represented approximately 47.0% and 44.4%, respectively, of our total revenue, with one client, Lai En Century Co. Ltd., representing approximately 26% and 24%, respectively, of our total revenue in year 2014 and 2013. We expect that a relatively small number of clients will continue to account for a significant portion of our revenue for the foreseeable future. The loss of one or more of our clients, including the loss of any of our larger clients, whether through acquisitions, consolidations, bankruptcies or otherwise, or the failure to retain a significant amount of business from our clients, could harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We may not be able to manage our expansion of operations effectively.

We are in the process of expanding our business in order to meet the increasing demand for our products, as well as capture new market opportunities. As we continue to grow, we must continue to improve our operational and financial systems, procedures and controls, increase manufacturing capacity and output, and expand, train and manage our growing employee base. In order to fund our on-going operations and our future growth, we need to have sufficient internal sources of liquidity or access to additional financing from external sources. Furthermore, our management will be required to maintain and strengthen our relationships with our customers, suppliers and other third parties. As a result, our continued expansion has placed, and will continue to place, significant strains on our management personnel, systems and resources. We also will need to further strengthen our internal control and compliance functions to ensure that we will be able to comply with our legal and contractual obligations and minimize our operational and compliance risks. Our current and planned operations, personnel, systems, internal procedures and controls may not be adequate to support our future growth. If we are unable to manage our growth effectively, we may not be able to take advantage of market opportunities, execute our business strategies or respond to competitive pressures.

We rely on contractual arrangements with our VIE Entities for our operations, which may not be as effective in providing control over these entities as direct ownership.

Our operations are dependent on our VIE Entities in which we have no equity ownership interest and must rely on the Contractual Arrangements to control and operate the businesses of the VIE Entities. The Contractual Arrangements may not be as effective in providing control over these entities as direct ownership. For example, if the VIE Entities are unwilling or unable to perform their obligations under the VIE Agreements, including payment of service fees under the Service Agreement as they become due, we will not be able to conduct our operations in the manner currently planned. In addition, the VIE Entities may seek to renew their agreements on terms that are disadvantageous to us. Although we have entered into the VIE Agreements that provide us with substantial ability to control the VIE Entities, we may not succeed in enforcing our rights under them by relying on legal remedies under Chinese law, which may not be adequate. In addition, if we are unable to renew these agreements on favorable terms when these agreements expire, or to enter into similar agreements with other parties, our business may not be able to operate or expand, and our operating expenses may significantly increase.

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The principal shareholder of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi has potential conflicts of interest with us, which may adversely affect our business.

Ms. Lianyun Han, our chairman and chief executive officer, is also the principal shareholder of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi. Conflicts of interests between her duties to our company and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi may arise. As Ms. Han is a director and executive officer of our company, she has a duty of loyalty and care to us when there are any potential conflicts of interests between our company and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi. Additionally, Ms. Han has entered into the Voting Rights Agreement with us and executed an irrevocable power of attorney to appoint the person designated by us to be her attorney-in-fact to vote on her behalf on all Heilongjiang Shuaiyi matters requiring shareholder approval. We cannot assure, however, that when conflicts of interest arise, Ms. Han will act completely in our interests or that conflicts of interests will be resolved in our favor. In addition, Ms. Han could violate her employment agreement with us or her legal duties by diverting business opportunities from us to others. In addition, Ms. Han may be able to cause the VIE Agreements to be performed, amended or terminated in a manner adverse to us by, among other things, failing to remit payments to us on a timely basis or operating Heilongjiang Shuaiyi so as to cause harm to our business. If we cannot resolve any conflicts of interest between us and Ms. Han, we would have to rely on legal proceedings, which could result in the disruption of our business.

Our arrangements with the VIE Entities and its shareholders may be subject to a transfer pricing adjustment by the PRC tax authorities which could have an adverse effect on our income and expenses.

We could face material and adverse tax consequences if the PRC tax authorities determine that our agreements with the VIE Entities and its shareholders were not entered into based on arm’s length negotiations. As a result, they may adjust our income and expenses for PRC tax purposes in the form of a transfer pricing adjustment. Such an adjustment may require that we pay additional PRC taxes plus applicable penalties and interest, if any.

The exercise of our option to purchase part or all of the equity interests in the VIE Entities under the Option Agreement might be subject to approval by the PRC government and foreign ownership restrictions on the VIE Entities’ current businesses under PRC laws. Our failure to purchase the equity of the VIE Entities may impair our ability to substantially control the VIE Entities and could result in actions by VIE Entities that conflict with our interests.

Our Option Agreement with the VIE Entities gives our Chinese subsidiary, Harbin Baixin, the option to purchase all or part of the equity interests in the VIE Entities. However, the option may not be exercised by Harbin Baixin if the exercise would violate any applicable laws and regulations in China or cause any license or permit held by, and necessary for the operation of the VIE Entities, to be cancelled or invalidated. Under the laws of China, if a foreign entity, through a foreign investment company that it invests in, acquires a domestic related company, China’s regulations regarding mergers and acquisitions would technically apply to the transaction. Application of these regulations requires an examination and approval of the transaction by China’s Ministry of Commerce, or MOFCOM, or its local counterparts. Also, an appraisal of the equity or assets to be acquired is mandatory. However, our local PRC counsel has advised us that local counterparts of MOFCOM hold the view that such a transaction would not require their approval.

Therefore, we do not believe at this time that an approval and an appraisal are required for Harbin Baixin to exercise its option to acquire the VIE Entities. In light of the different views on this issue, however, it is possible that the central MOFCOM office in Beijing will issue a standardized opinion imposing the approval and appraisal requirement. If we are not able to purchase the equity of the VIE Entities, then we will lose a substantial portion of our ability to control the VIE Entities and our ability to ensure that the VIE Entities will act in our interests.

PRC laws and regulations governing our businesses and the validity of certain of our Contractual Arrangements are uncertain. If we are found to be in violation of such PRC laws and regulations, our business may be negatively affected.

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There are substantial uncertainties regarding the interpretation and application of PRC laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the laws and regulations governing our business, or the enforcement and performance of the Contractual Arrangements with the VIE Entities.

Nutrastar, New Resources, Oriental Global Holdings Limited and Harbin Baixin are considered foreign investors or foreign invested enterprises under PRC law. As a result, Nutrastar, New Resources, Oriental Global Holdings Limited and Harbin Baixin are subject to limitations under PRC law on foreign ownership of Chinese companies. These laws and regulations are relatively new and may be subject to change, and their official interpretation and enforcement may involve substantial uncertainty. The effectiveness of newly enacted laws, regulations or amendments may be delayed, resulting in detrimental reliance by foreign investors. New laws and regulations that affect existing and proposed future businesses may also be applied retroactively.

The PRC government has broad discretion in dealing with violations of laws and regulations, including levying fines, revoking business and other licenses and requiring actions necessary for compliance. In particular, licenses and permits issued or granted to us by relevant governmental bodies may be revoked at a later time by higher regulatory bodies. We cannot predict the effect of the interpretation of existing or new PRC laws or regulations on our businesses. We cannot assure you that our current ownership and operating structure would not be found in violation of any current or future PRC laws or regulations. As a result, we may be subject to sanctions, including fines, and could be required to restructure our operations or cease to provide certain services. In addition, any litigation in China may be protracted and result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and management attention. Any of these or similar actions could significantly disrupt our business operations or restrict us from conducting a substantial portion of our business operations, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our sales and reputation may be affected by product liability claims, litigation, product recalls, or adverse publicity in relation to our products.

The sale of products for human consumption involves an inherent risk of injury to consumers. We face risks associated with product liability claims, litigation, or product recalls, if our products cause injury, or become adulterated or misbranded. Our products are subject to product tampering, and to contamination risks, such as mold, bacteria, insects, and other pests, and off-flavor contamination during the various stages of the procurement, production, transportation and storage processes. If any of our products were to be tampered with, or become tainted in any of these respects and we were unable to detect this, our products could be subject to product liability claims or product recalls. We cannot predict what impact such product liability claims or resulting negative publicity would have on our business or on our brand image. The successful assertion of product liability claims against us could result in potentially significant monetary damages, diversion of management resources and require us to make significant payments and incur substantial legal expenses. We do not have product liability insurance and have not made provisions for potential product liability claims. Therefore, we may not have adequate resources to satisfy a judgment if a successful claim is brought against us. Even if a product liability claim is not successfully pursued to judgment by a claimant, we may still incur substantial legal expenses defending against such a claim. Finally, serious product quality concerns could result in governmental action against us, which, among other things, could result in the suspension of production or distribution of our products, loss of certain licenses, or other governmental penalties. A widespread product recall could result in significant loss due to the cost of conducting a product recall including destruction of inventory and the loss of sales resulting from the unavailability of the product for a period of time. In addition product liability claims and product recalls could have a material adverse effect on the demand for our products and on our business goodwill and reputation. Adverse publicity could result in a loss of consumer confidence in our products.

We compete in an industry that is brand-conscious, and unless we are able to establish and maintain brand name recognition our sales may be negatively impacted.

Our business is substantially dependent upon awareness and market acceptance of our products and brand by our targeted consumers. In addition, our business depends on acceptance by our suppliers and consumers of our brand. Although we believe that we have made progress towards establishing market recognition for our brand “帅亿东方神” in the Cordycpes Militaris products industry, it is too early in the product life cycle of the brand to determine whether our products and brand will achieve and maintain satisfactory levels of acceptance by our customers.

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We compete in an industry characterized by rapid changes in consumer preferences, so our inability to continue developing new products to satisfy our consumers' changing preferences would have a material adverse effect on our sales volumes.

Our success depends on our ability to anticipate, gauge and react in a timely and effective manner to changes in consumer spending patterns and product preferences. We must continually work to develop, produce and market new products, maintain and enhance the recognition of our brands, achieve a favorable mix of products, and refine our approach as to how and where we market and sell our products. Through development by our Research and Development team, we introduced the functional beverages featuring the Cordyceps Militaris as a core ingredient in 2010. The beverage products were available in select areas in Jiangsu Providence and Anhui Province and Harbin City in 2013. We generated 9.2% of our revenues from our functional health beverages in 2014. Starting from 2012 till now, we have been targeting mass consumer markets by introducing additional varieties of specialty beverage products with the health benefits of enhancing immunity, reducing fatigue, enhancing circulation, among other benefits derived from our Cordyceps Militaris. While we have devoted and will continue to devote considerable effort and resources to shape, analyze and respond to consumer preferences by developing new products, consumer spending patterns and preferences cannot be predicted with certainty and can change rapidly. Our failure to adapt our product offering to respond to such changes may result in reduced demand and lower prices for our products, resulting in a material adverse effect on our sales volumes, sales and profits.

Our current market distribution and penetration is limited as compared with the potential market and so our initial views as to customer acceptance of a particular product can be erroneous, and there can be no assurance that true market acceptance will ultimately be achieved. In addition, customer preferences are also affected by factors other than taste. If we do not adjust to and respond to these and other changes in customer preferences, our sales may be adversely affected.

Expansion of our business may put added pressure on our management and operational infrastructure impeding our ability to meet any potential increased demand for the products that we sell and possibly hurting our future operating results.

Our business plan is to significantly grow our operations to meet anticipated growth in demand for the products that we sell, and by the introduction of new product offerings. Growth in our business may place a significant strain on our personnel, management, financial systems and other resources. The evolution of our business also presents numerous risks and challenges, including:

  • our ability to successfully and rapidly expand sales to potential new distributors in response to potentially increasing demand;
  • the costs associated with such growth, which are difficult to quantify, but could be significant; and
  • rapid technological change.

To accommodate any such growth and compete effectively, we may need to obtain additional funding to improve information systems, procedures and controls and expand, train, motivate and manage our employees, and such funding may not be available in sufficient quantities, if at all. If we are not able to manage these activities and implement these strategies successfully to expand to meet any increased demand, our operating results could suffer.

Due to our continuous growth in recent years, our past results may not be indicative of our future performance and evaluating our business and prospects may be difficult.

Our business has grown and evolved rapidly in recent years as demonstrated by our growth in net income for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 to $22.7 million, from $3.7 million for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008. We may not be able to achieve similar growth in future periods, and our historical operating results may not provide a meaningful basis for evaluating our business, financial performance and prospects. Moreover, our ability to achieve satisfactory production results at higher volumes is unproven. Therefore, you should not rely on our past results or our historical rate of growth as an indication of our future performance.

We depend heavily on key personnel, and turnover of key employees and senior management could harm our business.

Our future business and results of operations depend in significant part upon the continued contributions of our key technical and senior management personnel, including Lianyun Han, our chief executive officer and chairperson, and Robert Tick, our chief financial officer. The expertise of management and technical innovation of the Company give it a strong competitive advantage. We do not maintain key person insurance on these individuals. The loss of any of these key employees’ services or any of our other management poses a risk to our business. We may not be able to attract or retain qualified management on acceptable terms in the future due to the intense competition for qualified personnel in our industry and as a result, our business could be adversely affected.

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Our inability to protect our trademarks, patent and trade secrets may prevent us from successfully marketing our products and competing effectively.

Failure to protect our intellectual property could harm our brands and our reputation, and adversely affect our ability to compete effectively. Further, enforcing or defending our intellectual property rights, including our trademarks, patents, copyrights, knowhow and trade secrets, could result in the expenditure of significant financial and managerial resources. We produce, market and sell our products using the brand “帅亿东方神”. We regard our intellectual property, particularly our trademark, knowhow and trade secrets to be of considerable value and importance to our business and our success. We rely on a combination of patent, trademark, trade secrecy laws, and contractual provisions to protect our intellectual property rights. There can be no assurance that the steps taken by us to protect these proprietary rights will be adequate or that third parties will not infringe or misappropriate our patent, trademark, trade secrets or similar proprietary rights. In addition, there can be no assurance that other parties will not assert infringement claims against us, and we may have to pursue litigation against other parties to assert our rights. Any such claim or litigation could be costly and we may lack the resources required to defend against such claims. In addition, any event that would jeopardize our proprietary rights or any claims of infringement by third parties could have a material adverse affect on our ability to market or sell our brands, and profitably exploit our products.

We may be exposed to potential risks relating to our internal controls over financial reporting.

As directed by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the SEC adopted rules requiring public companies to include a report of management on the company’s internal controls over financial reporting in their annual reports, including Form 10-K. Under current law, we are subject to this requirement beginning with our annual report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. A report of our management is included under Item 9A of this report, in which our management concluded that our internal controls over our financial reporting were effective for the year ended December 31, 2014. However, in the future, our management may conclude that our internal controls over our financial reporting are not effective due to the identification of one or more material weaknesses. In the event we identify significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in our internal controls that we cannot remediate in a timely manner, investors and others may lose confidence in the reliability of our financial statements.

We do not carry any business interruption insurance, third-party liability insurance for our production facilities or insurance that covers the risk of loss of our products in shipment.

Operation of our facilities involves many risks, including equipment failures, natural disasters, industrial accidents, power outages, labor disturbances and other business interruptions. Furthermore, if any of our products are faulty, then we may become subject to product liability claims or we may have to engage in a product recall. We do not carry any business interruption insurance, product recall or third-party liability insurance for our production facilities or with respect to our products to cover claims pertaining to personal injury or property or environmental damage arising from defects in our products, product recalls, accidents on our property or damage relating to our operations. As a result, we may be required to pay for financial and other losses, damages and liabilities, including those caused by natural disasters and other events beyond our control, out of our own funds, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

General economic conditions, including a prolonged weakness in the economy, may affect consumer discretionary spending, which could adversely affect our business and financial performance.

Our business and financial performance are dependent on a number of factors impacting consumer discretionary spending, including general economic and business conditions; consumer confidence; wages and employment levels; the housing market; consumer debt levels; availability of consumer credit; credit and interest rates; fuel and energy costs; energy shortages; taxes; general political conditions, both domestic and abroad. Consumer product purchases, including purchases of our products, may decline during recessionary periods. A prolonged economic recovery or an uncertain outlook in the economy could result in additional declines in consumer discretionary spending, which could materially affect our financial performance.

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We may be exposed to liabilities under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and any determination that we violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act could have a material adverse effect on our business.

We are subject to the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, or the FCPA, and other laws that prohibit improper payments or offers of payments to foreign governments and their officials and political parties by U.S. persons and issuers as defined by the statute for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. We have operations, agreements with third parties and make sales in China, which may experience corruption. Our activities in China create the risk of unauthorized payments or offers of payments by one of the employees, consultants, sales agents or distributors of our company, because these parties are not always subject to our control. It is our policy to implement safeguards to discourage these practices by our employees. However, our existing safeguards and any future improvements may prove to be less than effective, and the employees, consultants, sales agents or distributors of our Company may engage in conduct for which we might be held responsible. Violations of the FCPA may result in severe criminal or civil sanctions, and we may be subject to other liabilities, which could negatively affect our business, operating results and financial condition. In addition, the government may seek to hold our Company liable for successor liability FCPA violations committed by companies in which we invest or that we acquire.

If we become directly subject to the recent scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity involving U.S.-listed Chinese companies, we may have to expend significant resources to investigate and resolve the matter which could harm our business operations, stock price and reputation and could result in a loss of your investment in our stock, especially if such matter cannot be addressed and resolved favorably.

Recently, U.S. public companies that have substantially all of their operations in China, particularly companies like us which have completed so-called reverse merger transactions, have been the subject of intense scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity by investors, financial commentators and regulatory agencies, such as the SEC. Much of the scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity has centered around financial and accounting irregularities and mistakes, a lack of effective internal controls over financial accounting, inadequate corporate governance policies or a lack of adherence thereto and, in many cases, allegations of fraud. As a result of the scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity, the publicly traded stock of many U.S. listed Chinese companies has sharply decreased in value and, in some cases, has become virtually worthless. Many of these companies are now subject to shareholder lawsuits and SEC enforcement actions, and are conducting internal and external investigations into the allegations. It is not clear what effect this sector-wide scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity will have on our Company, our business and our stock price. If we become the subject of any unfavorable allegations, whether such allegations are proven to be true or untrue, we will have to expend significant resources to investigate such allegations and/or defend our company. This situation will be costly and time consuming and distract our management from growing our company. If such allegations are not proven to be groundless, our company and business operations will be severely and adversely affected and your investment in our stock could be rendered worthless.

The disclosures in our reports and other filings with the SEC and our other public pronouncements are not subject to the scrutiny of any regulatory bodies in the PRC. Accordingly, our public disclosure should be reviewed in light of the fact that no governmental agency that is located in China where substantially all of our operations and business are located have conducted any due diligence on our operations or reviewed or cleared any of our disclosures.

We are regulated by the SEC and our reports and other filings with the SEC are subject to SEC review in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. Unlike public reporting companies whose operations are located primarily in the United States, however, substantially all of our operations are located in China. Since substantially all of our operations and business take place in China, it may be more difficult for the Staff of the SEC to overcome the geographic and cultural obstacles that are present when reviewing our disclosures. These same obstacles are not present for similar companies whose operations or business take place entirely or primarily in the United States. Furthermore, our SEC reports and other disclosures and public pronouncements are not subject to the review or scrutiny of any PRC regulatory authority. For example, the disclosures in our SEC reports and other filings are not subject to the review of China Securities Regulatory Commission, a PRC regulator that is tasked with oversight of the capital markets in China. Accordingly, you should review our SEC reports, filings and our other public pronouncements with the understanding that no local regulator has done any due diligence on our company and with the understanding that none of our SEC reports, other filings or any of our other public pronouncements has been reviewed or otherwise been scrutinized by any local regulator.

Our auditor, based in Hong Kong, China, like other independent registered public accounting firms operating in China and to the extent their audit clients have operations in China, is not permitted to be subject to full inspection by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and, as such, you may be deprived of the benefits of such inspection.

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Our independent registered public accounting firm that issues the audit reports included in our annual reports filed with the SEC, as auditors of companies that are traded publicly in the United States and a firm registered with the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), or PCAOB, is required by the laws of the United States to undergo regular inspections by the PCAOB to assess its compliance with the laws of the United States and professional standards.

Our operations are solely located in the Peoples’ Republic of China, a jurisdiction where the PCAOB is currently unable to conduct inspections without the approval of the PRC authorities. Our auditors are located in Hong Kong, a special administrator region of China, a jurisdiction where the PCAOB is currently unable to conduct full inspections without the approval of the Chinese authorities. In May 2013, the PCAOB announced that it had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding on Enforcement Cooperation with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (”CSRC”) and the PRC Ministry of Finance, which establishes a cooperative framework between the parties for the production and exchange of audit documents relevant to investigations undertaken by the PCAOB, the CSRC or the PRC Ministry of Finance in the United States and the PRC, respectively. The PCAOB continues to be in discussions with the CSRC and the PRC Ministry of Finance to permit joint inspections in the PRC of audit firms that are registered with the PCAOB and audit Chinese companies that trade on U.S. exchanges.

Inspections of other firms that the PCAOB has conducted outside China have identified deficiencies in those firms’ audit procedures and quality control procedures, which may be addressed as part of the inspection process to improve future audit quality. The inability of the PCAOB to conduct full inspections of auditors operating in China makes it more difficult to evaluate our auditor’s audit procedures or quality control procedures. As a result, investors may be deprived of the benefits of PCAOB inspections.

Administrative proceedings instituted by the SEC against five PRC-based accounting firms could result in adverse impact on our business and price of our stock.

In late 2012, the SEC commenced administrative proceedings under Rule 102(e) of its Rules of Practice and also under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 against five PRC-based accounting firms. The Rule 102(e) proceedings initiated by the SEC relate to these firms’ failure to produce documents, including audit work papers, in response to the request of the SEC pursuant to Section 106 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as the auditors located in the PRC are not in a position to lawfully produce documents directly to the SEC because of restrictions under PRC law and specific directives issued by the China Securities Regulatory Commission. The issues raised by the proceedings are not specific to our auditors or to us, but affect equally all audit firms based in China and all China-based businesses with securities listed in the United States.

In January 2014, the administrative judge reached an Initial Decision that the "big four " accounting firms should be barred from practicing before the SEC for six months. However, it is currently impossible to determine the ultimate outcome of this matter as the accounting firms have indicated their intention to file a petition for review of the Initial Decision and pending that review the effect of the Initial Decision is suspended. It will, therefore, be for the SEC to make a legally binding order specifying the sanctions if any to be placed on these audit firms. Once such an order was made, the accounting firms would have a further right to appeal to the US federal courts, and the effect of the order might be further suspended pending the outcome of that appeal.

In February 2015, four China-based accounting firms “big four” each agreed to censure and to pay a fine to the SEC to settle the dispute and avoid suspension of their ability to practice before the SEC and audit U.S. listed companies. The settlement required the firms to follow detailed procedures and to seek to provide the SEC with access to Chinese firm’s audit documents via the CSRC. If future document productions fail to meet specified criteria, the SEC retains authority to impose a variety of additional remedial measures, e.g. imposing penalties such as suspensions, restarting the administrative proceedings etc., on the firms depending on the nature of the failure.

Depending upon the final outcome, public companies in the United States with major PRC operations may find it difficult or impossible to retain auditors in respect of their operations in the PRC, which may result in SEC’s revocation of the registration of their shares under the Exchange Act,. Moreover, although our independent registered public accounting firm was not named as a defendant in the above SEC administrative proceedings, any negative news about the proceedings against these audit firms may erode investor confidence in China-based, US public companies, including us, and the market price of our shares may be adversely affected.

There are limitations on the liability of our directors, and we may have to indemnify our officers and directors in certain instances.

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Our bylaws provide that we will indemnify our officers and directors and may indemnify our employees and other agents. We may also have contractual indemnification obligations under our agreements with our executive officers and directors. The foregoing indemnification obligations could result in us incurring substantial expenditures to cover the cost of settlement or damage awards against directors and officers, which we may be unable to recoup. These provisions and resultant costs may also discourage us from bringing a lawsuit against directors and officers for breaches of their fiduciary duties and may similarly discourage the filing of derivative litigation by our stockholders against our directors and officers even though such actions, if successful, might otherwise benefit us and our stockholders.

RISKS RELATED TO DOING BUSINESS IN CHINA

Changes in the economic and political policies of the PRC government could have a material and adverse effect on our business and operations.

We conduct substantially all our business operations in China. Accordingly, our results of operations, financial condition and prospects are significantly dependent on economic and political developments in China. China’s economy differs from the economies of developed countries in many aspects, including the level of development, growth rate and degree of government control over foreign exchange and allocation of resources. While China’s economy has experienced significant growth in the past 30 years, the growth has been uneven across different regions and periods and among various economic sectors in China. We cannot assure you that China’s economy will continue to grow, or that if there is growth, such growth will be steady and uniform, or that if there is a slowdown, such slowdown will not have a negative effect on its business and results of operations.

The PRC government exercises significant control over China’s economic growth through the allocation of resources, control over payment of foreign currency-denominated obligations, implementation of monetary policy, and preferential treatment of particular industries or companies. Certain measures adopted by the PRC government may restrict loans to certain industries, such as changes in the statutory deposit reserve ratio and lending guidelines for commercial banks by the People’s Bank of China, or PBOC. These current and future government actions could materially affect our liquidity, access to capital, and ability to operate our business.

The global financial markets experienced significant disruptions in 2008 and the United States, Europe and other economies went into recession. Since 2012, growth of the Chinese economy has slowed down. The PRC government has implemented various measures to encourage economic growth and guide the allocation of resources. Some of these measures may benefit the overall PRC economy but may also have a negative effect on us. Our financial condition and results of operation could be materially and adversely affected by government control over capital investments or changes in tax regulations that are applicable to us. In addition, any stimulus measures designed to boost the Chinese economy, may contribute to higher inflation, which could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.

Uncertainties with respect to the PRC legal system could limit the legal protections available to you and us.

We conduct substantially all of our business through our subsidiaries and VIE Entities in the PRC, which are generally subject to laws and regulations applicable to foreign investments in China and, in particular, laws applicable to foreign-invested enterprises. The PRC legal system is based on written statutes, and prior court decisions may be cited for reference but have limited precedential value. Since 1979, a series of new PRC laws and regulations have significantly enhanced the protections afforded to various forms of foreign investments in China. However, since the PRC legal system continues to rapidly evolve, the interpretations of many laws, regulations and rules are not always uniform and enforcement of these laws, regulations and rules involve uncertainties, which may limit legal protections available to you and us. In addition, any litigation in China may be protracted and result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and management attention. In addition, most of our executive officers and directors are residents of China and not of the United States, and most of the assets of these persons are located outside the United States. As a result, it could be difficult for investors to affect service of process in the United States or to enforce a judgment obtained in the United States against our Chinese operations and PRC entities.

If we are found to have failed to comply with applicable laws, we may incur additional expenditures or be subject to significant fines and penalties.

Our operations are subject to PRC laws and regulations applicable to us. However, many PRC laws and regulations are uncertain in their scope, and the implementation of such laws and regulations in different localities could have significant differences. In certain instances, local implementation rules and/or the actual implementation are not necessarily consistent with the regulations at the national level. Although we strive to comply with all the applicable PRC laws and regulations, we cannot assure you that the relevant PRC government authorities will not later determine that we have not been in compliance with certain laws or regulations. Our failure to comply with applicable PRC laws and regulations could subject us to administrative penalties and injunctive relief, as well as civil remedies, including fines, injunctions and recalls of our products. It is possible that changes to such laws or more rigorous enforcement of such laws or with respect to our current or past practices could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

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The PRC government exerts substantial influence over the manner in which we must conduct our business activities.

The PRC government has exercised and continues to exercise substantial control over virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through regulation and state ownership. Our ability to operate in China may be harmed by changes in its laws and regulations, including those relating to taxation, import and export tariffs, environmental regulations, land use rights, property and other matters. We believe that our operations in China are in material compliance with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements. However, the central or local governments of the jurisdictions in which we operate may impose new, stricter regulations or interpretations of existing regulations that would require additional expenditures and efforts on our part to ensure our compliance with such regulations or interpretations.

Accordingly, government actions in the future, including any decision not to continue to support recent economic reforms and to return to a more centrally planned economy or regional or local variations in the implementation of economic policies, could have a significant effect on economic conditions in China or particular regions thereof and could require us to divest ourselves of any interest we then hold in Chinese properties or joint ventures.

Restrictions on currency exchange may limit our ability to receive and use our sales revenue effectively.

All our sales revenue and expenses are denominated in RMB. Under PRC law, the RMB is currently convertible under the “current account,” which may include dividends and trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions, but not under the “capital account,” which includes foreign direct investment and loans. Currently, our PRC subsidiaries and VIE Entities may purchase foreign currencies for settlement of current account transactions, including payments of dividends to us, without the approval of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or SAFE, by complying with certain procedural requirements. However, the relevant PRC government authorities may limit or eliminate our ability to purchase foreign currencies in the future. Since a significant amount of our future revenue will be denominated in RMB, any existing and future restrictions on currency exchange may limit our ability to utilize revenue generated in RMB to fund our business activities outside China that are denominated in foreign currencies.

Foreign exchange transactions by our PRC subsidiaries and VIE Entities under the capital account continue to be subject to significant foreign exchange controls and require the approval of or need to register with PRC government authorities, including SAFE. In particular, if our PRC entities borrow foreign currency through loans from us or other foreign lenders, these loans must be registered with SAFE, and if we finance our PRC entities by means of additional capital contributions, these capital contributions must be approved by certain government authorities, including the MOFCOM, or their respective local counterparts. These limitations could affect their ability to obtain foreign exchange through debt or equity financing.

Fluctuations in exchange rates could adversely affect our business and the value of our securities.

The value of our common stock will be indirectly affected by the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollars and RMB and between those currencies and other currencies in which our sales may be denominated. Appreciation or depreciation in the value of the RMB relative to the U.S. dollar would affect our financial results reported in U.S. dollar terms without giving effect to any underlying change in our business or results of operations. Fluctuations in the exchange rate will also affect the relative value of any dividend we issue in the future as well as earnings from, and the value of, any U.S. dollar-denominated investments we make in the future.

Since July 2005, the RMB has no longer been pegged to the U.S. dollar. Although the People's Bank of China regularly intervenes in the foreign exchange market to prevent significant short-term fluctuations in the exchange rate, the RMB may appreciate or depreciate significantly in value against the U.S. dollar in the medium to long term. Moreover, it is possible that in the future PRC authorities may lift restrictions on fluctuations in the RMB exchange rate and lessen intervention in the foreign exchange market.

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Very limited hedging transactions are available in China to reduce our exposure to exchange rate fluctuations. To date, we have not entered into any hedging transactions. While we may enter into hedging transactions in the future, the availability and effectiveness of these transactions may be limited, and we may not be able to successfully hedge our exposure at all. In addition, our foreign currency exchange losses may be magnified by PRC exchange control regulations that restrict our ability to convert RMB into foreign currencies.

We rely principally on dividends paid by our operating subsidiary to fund cash and financing requirements, and limitations on the ability of our operating subsidiary to make payments to us could have a material adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business and fund our operations.

We are a holding company and conduct substantially all of our business through our operating subsidiary and affiliated VIE Entities, which are limited liability companies established in China. We rely principally on dividends paid by our subsidiary for our cash needs, including the funds necessary to pay dividends and other cash distributions to our shareholders, to service any debt we may incur and to pay our operating expenses. The payment of dividends by entities organized in China is subject to limitations. In particular, regulations in China currently permit payment of dividends only out of accumulated profits as determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. Our PRC subsidiary, Harbin Baixin, is also required to set aside at least 10% of its after-tax profit based on PRC accounting standards each year to its general reserves until the accumulative amount of such reserves reaches 50% of its registered capital. These reserves are not distributable as cash dividends. In addition, it is required to allocate a portion of its after-tax profit to its staff welfare and bonus fund at the discretion of its board of directors. Moreover, if Harbin Baixin incurs debt on its own behalf in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict its ability to pay dividends or make other distributions to us. Any limitation on the ability of Harbin Baixin to distribute dividends and other distributions to us could materially and adversely limit our ability to make investments or acquisitions that could be beneficial to our businesses, pay dividends or otherwise fund and conduct our business.

PRC regulations relating to the establishment of offshore special purpose companies by PRC residents may subject our PRC resident beneficial owners or our company to liabilities or penalties, limit our ability to contribute capital to our PRC entities, limit the ability of our PRC entities to increase their registered capital or distribute profits to us, or otherwise materially and adversely affect us.

On July 14, 2014, the SAFE issued the Circular Relating to Foreign Exchange Administration of Offshore Investment, Financing and Roundtrip Investment by Domestic Residents Through Special Purpose Vehicles, or Circular 37. Circular 37 repeals and replaces the Notice Concerning Foreign Exchange Controls on Domestic Residents’ Financing and Roundtrip Investment Through Offshore Special Purpose Vehicles, or Circular 75. Under Circular 37, PRC residents are required to register with the SAFE or its local branches prior to establishing, or acquiring control of, an offshore company for the purpose of investment or financing that offshore company with equity interests in, or assets of, a PRC enterprise or with offshore equity interest or assets legally held by such PRC resident. In addition, PRC residents are required to amend their registrations with the SAFE and its local branches to reflect any material changes with respect to such PRC resident’s investment in such offshore company, including changes to basic information of such PRC resident, increase or decrease in capital, share transfer or share swap, merger or division. In the event that a PRC shareholder fails to make the required registration or update the previously filed registration, the PRC subsidiaries of that offshore special purpose vehicle may be prohibited from distributing their profits and the proceeds from any reduction in capital, share transfer or liquidation to their offshore parent company, and the offshore parent company may also be prohibited from contributing additional capital into its PRC subsidiaries. Furthermore, failure to comply with the various foreign exchange registration requirements described above could result in liability under the PRC laws for evasion of applicable foreign exchange restrictions.

We have requested our relevant shareholders who are subject to the SAFE regulations to make the necessary registrations under the SAFE regulations. However, we may not be fully informed of the identities of the beneficial owners of our company. We do not have control over our beneficial owners and cannot assure you that all of our PRC resident beneficial owners will comply with SAFE regulations. The failure of our beneficial owners who are PRC residents to comply with these SAFE registrations may subject such beneficial owners or our PRC entities to fines and legal sanctions. Furthermore, since Circular 37 was recently promulgated and it is unclear how this regulation, and any future regulation concerning offshore or cross-border transactions, will be interpreted, amended and implemented by the relevant PRC government authorities, we cannot predict how these regulations will affect our business operations or future strategy. Failure to register or comply with relevant requirements may also limit our ability to contribute additional capital to our PRC entities and limit our PRC entities’ ability to distribute dividends to our company. These risks may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

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Under the New EIT Law, we may be classified as a “resident enterprise” of China. Such classification will likely result in unfavorable tax consequences to us and our non-PRC stockholders.

China passed a new Enterprise Income Tax Law, or the New EIT Law, and its implementation regulations, both of which became effective on January 1, 2008. Under the New EIT Law, an enterprise established outside the PRC with “de facto management bodies” within the PRC should be considered a PRC “resident enterprise” and is generally subject to a uniform 25% enterprise income tax rate on its worldwide income. Under the implementing rules to the New EIT Law, a “de facto management body” is defined as a body that has material and overall management and control over the manufacturing and business operations, personnel and human resources, finances and properties of an enterprise. In addition, a circular issued by the SAT on April 22, 2009, or Circular 82 sets out the standards and procedures for recognizing the location of the “de facto management bodies” of an enterprise registered outside of the PRC and controlled by any PRC enterprise or enterprise group. Circular 82 specifies that certain PRC-controlled offshore enterprises will be classified as PRC resident enterprises if the following are located or resident in the PRC: senior management personnel and departments that are responsible for daily production, operation and management; financial and personnel decision making bodies; key properties, accounting books, the company seal, and minutes of board meetings and shareholders’ meetings; and half or more of the senior management or directors having voting rights. On July 27, 2011, the SAT issued Administrative Measures of Enterprise Income Tax of Chinese-controlled Offshore Incorporated Resident Enterprises (Trial), or Bulletin 45, which became effective on September 1, 2011, to provide further guidance on the implementation of Circular 82. Bulletin 45 clarifies certain issues related to determining PRC resident enterprise status of PRC controlled enterprises, post-determination administration and which competent tax authorities are responsible for determining offshore incorporated PRC resident enterprise status. Bulletin 45 specifies that when provided with a copy of a Chinese tax resident determination certificate issued by the competent tax authorities from an offshore incorporated PRC resident enterprise, the payer should not withhold 10% income tax when paying Chinese-sourced dividends, interest and royalties to the offshore incorporated PRC resident enterprise.

Currently, a substantial majority of the members of our management team are located in China. However, Circular 82 applies only to offshore enterprises controlled by PRC enterprises or PRC corporate groups, not those controlled by PRC or foreign individuals or foreign enterprises like us. In the absence of detailed implementing regulations or other guidance determining that offshore companies controlled by PRC or foreign individuals or foreign enterprises like us are PRC resident enterprises, we do not currently consider our company or any of our overseas subsidiaries to be a PRC resident enterprise.

However, the SAT may take the view that the determining criteria set forth in Circular 82 reflects a general position on how the “de facto management body” test should be applied in determining the tax resident status of all offshore enterprises. Additional implementing regulations or guidance may also be issued determining that our Nevada holding company or other non-PRC entity is a “resident enterprise” for PRC enterprise income tax purposes. If the PRC tax authorities determine that our company or any of our non-PRC subsidiaries is a PRC resident enterprise for PRC enterprise income tax purposes, a number of unfavorable PRC tax consequences could follow. First, our company or our subsidiaries outside of China will be subject to the uniform enterprise income tax rate of 25% as to our global income as well as tax reporting obligations. Second, although dividends paid by one PRC tax resident to another PRC tax resident should qualify as “tax-exempt income” under the New EIT Law, there is no assurance that we would enjoy such tax exempt treatment on dividends paid to us from our VIEs. As a result, such dividend may continue to be subject to a 10% withholding tax. Finally, a 10% withholding tax will be imposed on dividends we pay to our non-PRC enterprise shareholders and gains derived by our non-PRC shareholders from transferring our shares. In addition to the uncertainty in how the new “resident enterprise” classification could apply, it is also possible that the rules may change in the future, possibly with retroactive effect.

Heightened scrutiny of acquisition transactions by PRC tax authorities may have a negative impact on Chinese company’s business operations and its acquisition strategy.

Pursuant to the Notice on Strengthening Administration of Enterprise Income Tax for Share Transfers by Non-PRC Resident Enterprises, or SAT Circular 698, effective on January 1, 2008, and the Announcement on Several Issues Related to Enterprise Income Tax for Indirect Asset Transfer by Non-PRC Resident Enterprises , or SAT Announcement 7, effective on February 3, 2015, issued by the SAT, if a non-resident enterprise transfers the equity interests of or similar rights or interests in overseas companies which directly or indirectly own PRC taxable assets through an arrangement without a reasonable commercial purpose, but rather to avoid PRC corporate income tax, the transaction will be re-characterized and treated as a direct transfer of PRC taxable assets subject to PRC corporate income tax. SAT Announcement 7 specifies certain factors that should be considered in determining whether an indirect transfer has a reasonable commercial purpose. However, as SAT Announcement 7 is newly issued, there is uncertainty as to the application of SAT Announcement 7 and the interpretation of the term “reasonable commercial purpose.”

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Under SAT Announcement 7, the entity which has the obligation to pay the consideration for the transfer to the transferring shareholders has the obligation to withhold any PRC corporate income tax that is due. If the transferring shareholders do not pay corporate income tax that is due for a transfer and the entity which has the obligation to pay the consideration does not withhold the tax due, the PRC tax authorities may impose a penalty on the entity that so fails to withhold, which may be relieved or exempted from the withholding obligation and any resulting penalty under certain circumstances if it reports such transfer to the PRC tax authorities.

Although SAT Announcement 7 is generally effective as of February 3, 2015, it also applies to cases where the PRC tax treatment of a transaction that took place prior to its effectiveness has not yet been finally settled. As a result, SAT Announcement 7 could be determined by PRC tax authorities to be applicable to the historical reorganization, and it is possible that these transactions could be determined by PRC tax authorities to lack a reasonable commercial purpose. As a result, the transfer of shares by certain shareholders to other parties could be subject to corporate income tax of up to 10% on capital gains generated from such transfers, and PRC tax authorities could impose tax obligations on the transferring shareholders. If the transferring shareholders do not pay such obligations, PRC tax authorities could also impose penalty to the entity that fails to withhold such tax.

SAT Announcement 7 and its interpretation by relevant PRC authorities clarify that an exemption provided by SAT Circular 698 for transfers of shares in a publicly-traded entity that is listed overseas is available if the purchase of the shares and the sale of the shares both take place in open-market transactions. However, if a shareholder of an entity that is listed overseas purchases shares in the open market and sells them in a private transaction, or vice-versa, PRC tax authorities might deem such a transfer to be subject to SAT Circular 698 and SAT Announcement 7, which could subject such shareholder to additional reporting obligations or tax burdens. Accordingly, if a holder of company’s common stock purchases such common stock in the open market and sells them in a private transaction, or vice-versa, and fails to comply with SAT Circular 698 or SAT Announcement 7, the PRC tax authorities may take actions, including requesting to provide assistance for their investigation or impose a penalty on it, which could have a negative impact on the company’s business operations.

If the China Securities Regulatory Commission, or CSRC, or another PRC regulatory agency determines that CSRC approval is required in connection with the reverse acquisition of New Resources, the reverse acquisition may be unwound, or we may become subject to penalties.

On August 8, 2006, six PRC regulatory agencies, including the CSRC, promulgated the Provisions Regarding Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors, or the M&A Rule, which became effective on September 8, 2006. The M&A Rule, among other things, requires that an offshore company controlled by PRC companies or individuals that have acquired a PRC domestic company for the purpose of listing the PRC domestic company's equity interest on an overseas stock exchange must obtain the approval of the CSRC prior to the listing and trading of such offshore company's securities on an overseas stock exchange. On September 21, 2006, the CSRC, pursuant to the M&A Rule, published on its official web site procedures specifying documents and materials required to be submitted to it by offshore companies seeking CSRC approval of their overseas listings.

We do not believe that the M&A Rule concerning the CSRC approval for acquisition of a PRC domestic company by an offshore company controlled by PRC companies or individuals applies to our reverse acquisition of New Resources because neither Nutrastar International Inc. nor New Resources was a “Special Purpose Vehicle” or an “offshore company controlled by PRC companies or individuals” as defined in the M&A Rule. If the CSRC or another PRC governmental agency subsequently determines that we must obtain CSRC approval prior to the completion of the reverse acquisition, the reverse acquisition may be unwound and we may face regulatory actions or other sanctions from the CSRC or other PRC regulatory agencies. These regulatory agencies may impose fines and penalties on our operations in China and limit our operating privileges in China, or take other actions that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, reputation and prospects, as well as the trading price of our shares.

The M&A Rule establishes more complex procedures for some acquisitions of Chinese companies by foreign investors, which could make it more difficult for us to pursue growth through acquisitions in China.

The M&A Rule establishes additional procedures and requirements that could make some acquisitions of Chinese companies by foreign investors more time-consuming and complex, including requirements in some instances that the PRC Ministry of Commerce be notified in advance of any change-of-control transaction and in some situations, require approval of the PRC Ministry of Commerce when a foreign investor takes control of a Chinese domestic enterprise. In the future, we may grow our business in part by acquiring complementary businesses, although we do not have any plans to do so at this time. The M&A Rule also requires PRC Ministry of Commerce anti-trust review of any change-of-control transactions involving certain types of foreign acquirers. Complying with the requirements of the M&A Rule to complete such transactions could be time-consuming, and any required approval processes, including obtaining approval from the PRC Ministry of Commerce, may delay or inhibit our ability to complete such transactions, which could affect our ability to expand our business or maintain our market share.

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Failure to comply with PRC regulations in respect of the registration of our PRC citizen employees’ shares or share options may subject such employees or us to fines and legal or administrative sanctions.

Pursuant to the Implementation Rules of the Administration Measure for Individual Foreign Exchange issued by SAFE on January 5, 2007 and Operation Rules on the Foreign Exchange Administration of the Participation of Domestic Individuals in Overseas Listed Companies’ Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Share Option Schemes issued by SAFE on March 28, 2007, PRC citizens who are granted shares or share options by an overseas listed company under its employee share option or share incentive plan are required, through the PRC subsidiary of such overseas listed company or other qualified PRC agents, to register with SAFE and complete certain other procedures related to the share option or other share incentive plan. Foreign exchange income from the sale of shares or dividends distributed by the overseas listed company may be remitted into a foreign currency account of such PRC citizen or be exchanged into RMB. In addition, the overseas listed company or its PRC subsidiary or other qualified PRC agent is required to appoint an asset manager or administrator, appoint a custodian bank and open dedicated foreign currency accounts to handle transactions relating to the share option scheme or other share incentive plan. We and our PRC employees who have been granted stock options are subject to this rule. We cannot assure you that we and our PRC optionees will complete such registration procedures in a timely manner, or at all. If we or our PRC optionees fail to comply with these regulations, we or our PRC optionees may be subject to fines and legal sanctions, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and results.

The implementation of the new PRC employment contract law and increases in the labor costs in China may hurt our business and profitability.

A new employment contract law became effective on January 1, 2008 in China. It imposes more stringent requirements on employers in relation to entry into fixed-term employment contracts, recruitment of temporary employees and dismissal of employees. In addition, under the newly promulgated Regulations on Paid Annual Leave for Employees, which also became effective on January 1, 2008, employees who have worked continuously for more than one year are entitled to paid vacation ranging from 5 to 15 days, depending on the length of the employee’s service. Employees who waive such vacation entitlements at the request of the employer will be compensated for three times their normal daily salaries for each vacation day so waived. As a result of the new law and regulations, our labor costs may increase. There is no assurance that disputes, work stoppages or strikes will not arise in the future. Increases in the labor costs or future disputes with our employees could damage our business, financial condition or operating results.

Our past failure to fully comply with PRC laws relating to social insurance and housing accumulation fund may expose us to potential administrative penalties.

The PRC laws and regulations require all employers in China to fully contribute their own portion to the social insurance and housing accumulation funds for their employees within a certain period of time. Failure to do so may expose the employers to make rectification for the unpaid contributions by the relevant labor authority. We are currently making contributions to the social insurance and housing accumulation funds for all of our currently eligible employees. However, in the past we did not provide for contributions for our temporary employees. If the PRC regulatory authorities take the view that we were required to make contributions to the social insurance and housing accumulation funds for our temporary employees, our failure to make previous payments may be in violation of applicable PRC labor laws and we cannot assure you that PRC governmental authorities will not impose penalties on us for failure to comply. In addition, in the event that any current or former employee files a complaint with the PRC government, we may be subject to making up the contributions to the social insurance and housing accumulation funds as well as paying administrative fines. The total cost of these contributions and any related fines or penalties could be very significant and could have a material adverse effect on our working capital.

You may have difficulty enforcing judgments against us.

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We are a Nevada holding company and most of our assets are located outside of the United States. Most of our current operations are conducted in the PRC. In addition, most of our directors and officers are nationals and residents of countries other than the United States. A substantial portion of the assets of these persons is located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for you to effect service of process within the United States upon these persons. It may also be difficult for you to enforce in U.S. courts judgments on the civil liability provisions of the U.S. federal securities laws against us and our officers and directors, most of whom are not residents in the United States and the substantial majority of whose assets are located outside of the United States. In addition, there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of the PRC would recognize or enforce judgments of U.S. courts. Courts in China may recognize and enforce foreign judgments in accordance with the requirements of the PRC Civil Procedures Law based on treaties between China and the country where the judgment is made or on reciprocity between jurisdictions. China does not have any treaties or other arrangements that provide for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments within the United States. In addition, according to the PRC Civil Procedures Law, courts in the PRC will not enforce a foreign judgment against us or our directors and officers if they decide that the judgment violates basic principles of PRC law or national sovereignty, security or the public interest. So it is uncertain whether a PRC court would enforce a judgment rendered by a court in the United States.

RISKS RELATED TO THE MARKET FOR OUR STOCK GENERALLY

Our common stock is quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board which may have an unfavorable impact on our stock price and liquidity.

Our common stock is quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board. The OTC Bulletin Board is a significantly more limited market than the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq system. The quotation of our shares on the OTC Bulletin Board may result in a less liquid market available for existing and potential stockholders to trade shares of our common stock, could depress the trading price of our common stock and could have a long-term adverse impact on our ability to raise capital in the future.

The market price of our common stock is volatile, leading to the possibility of its value being depressed at a time when you may want to sell your holdings.

The market price of our common stock is volatile, and this volatility may continue. Numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, may cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate significantly. In addition to market and industry factors, the price and trading volume for our common stock may be highly volatile for specific business reasons. Factors such as variations in our revenues, earnings and cash flow, announcements of new investments, cooperation arrangements or acquisitions, and fluctuations in market prices for our products could cause the market price for our shares to change substantially.

Securities class action litigation is often instituted against companies following periods of volatility in their stock price. This type of litigation could result in substantial costs to us and divert our management’s attention and resources.

Moreover, the trading market for our common stock will be influenced by research or reports that industry or securities analysts publish about us or our business. If one or more analysts who cover us downgrade our common stock, the market price for our common stock would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which, in turn, could cause the market price for our common stock or trading volume to decline.

Furthermore, securities markets may from time to time experience significant price and volume fluctuations for reasons unrelated to operating performance of particular companies. These market fluctuations may adversely affect the price of our common stock and other interests in our company at a time when you want to sell your interest in us.

We are subject to penny stock regulations and restrictions and you may have difficulty selling shares of our common stock.

The SEC has adopted regulations which generally define so-called “penny stocks” to be an equity security that has a market price less than $5.00 per share or an exercise price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exemptions. Our common stock is considered as a “penny stock” and we are subject to Rule 15g-9 under the Exchange Act, or the Penny Stock Rule. This rule imposes additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers that sell such securities to persons other than established customers and “accredited investors” (generally, individuals with a net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or annual incomes exceeding $200,000, or $300,000 together with their spouses). For transactions covered by Rule 15g-9, a broker-dealer must make a special suitability determination for the purchaser and have received the purchaser's written consent to the transaction prior to sale. As a result, this rule may affect the ability of broker-dealers to sell our securities and may affect the ability of purchasers to sell any of our securities in the secondary market.

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For any transaction involving a penny stock, unless exempt, the rules require delivery, prior to any transaction in penny stock, of a disclosure schedule prepared by the SEC relating to the penny stock market. Disclosure is also required to be made about sales commissions payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered representative and current quotations for the securities. Finally, monthly statements are required to be sent disclosing recent price information for the penny stock held in the account and information on the limited market in penny stock.

There can be no assurance that our common stock will qualify for exemption from the Penny Stock Rule. In any event, even if our common stock were exempt from the Penny Stock Rule, we would remain subject to Section 15(b)(6) of the Exchange Act, which gives the SEC the authority to restrict any person from participating in a distribution of penny stock, if the SEC finds that such a restriction would be in the public interest.

Certain provisions of our Articles of Incorporation may make it more difficult for a third party to effect a change-of-control.

Our Articles of Incorporation authorizes our board of directors to issue up to 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock. The preferred stock may be issued in one or more series, the terms of which may be determined at the time of issuance by the board of directors without further action by the stockholders. These terms may include preferences as to dividends and liquidation, conversion rights, redemption rights and sinking fund provisions. The issuance of any preferred stock could diminish the rights of holders of our common stock, and therefore could reduce the value of such common stock. In addition, specific rights granted to future holders of preferred stock could be used to restrict our ability to merge with, or sell assets to, a third party. The ability of our board of directors to issue preferred stock could make it more difficult, delay, discourage, prevent or make it more costly to acquire or effect a change-in-control, which in turn could prevent our stockholders from recognizing a gain in the event that a favorable offer is extended and could materially and negatively affect the market price of our common stock. In connection with our private placement transaction in June 2010, we filed the 2010 Certificate with the State of Nevada, pursuant to which we authorized 300,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock and issued 197,706 shares of Series A Preferred Stock to the investors.

The conversion of preferred stock we issued in our previous private placements may result in dilution to the holders of our common stock and cause the price of our common stock to decline.

Dilution of the per share value of our common stock could result from the conversion of our outstanding Series A Preferred Stock issued to the investors in our previous private placement transactions. As of March 24, 2015, there were 74,276 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock outstanding, which may be converted into our common stock at the option of the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock in whole or in part at any time at an initial conversion ratio of 1-for-10. When the conversion price of the Series A Preferred Stock is less than the trading price of our common stock, the conversion of Series A Preferred Stock would have a dilutive effect on our shareholders. The possibility of the issuance of shares of our common stock upon the conversion of Series A Preferred Stock could cause the trading price of our common stock to decline as well.

ITEM 1B.      UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS.

Not Applicable.

ITEM 2.        PROPERTIES.

All land in China is owned by the State or collectives. Individuals and companies are permitted to acquire land use rights for general or specific purposes. In the case when land is used for industrial purposes, the land use rights are granted for a period of 50 years. The rights may be renewed at the expiration of the initial and any subsequent terms according to the relevant Chinese laws. Granted land use rights are transferable and may be used as security for borrowings and other obligations.

Our primary production and operational facilities are located in Zhaoyuan County, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, which started production in 2006. The facility consists of nine factory buildings and is located on a 410,000 square meter tract where we have leased the land use rights for twenty years from Heilongjiang Shuaiyi Technology Development Co., Ltd or Shuaiyi Technology. Shuaiyi Technology and our company are under common control and management.

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We currently have one main operating production line and twenty supplemental production lines of Cordyceps Militaris with an aggregate processing capacity of approximately 100 tons annually.

Harbin Shuaiyi entered into a premise lease agreement with a PRC individual, Liye Qian, on December 28, 2005, pursuant to which Harbin Shuaiyi leased the premise located at 2nd Floor, 2nd Building, No. 41 Xiangdian Street, Xiangfang District, Harbin with an area of 2,400 square meters. The lease term is from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2010. Harbin Shuaiyi used the facility as an exhibit center for our more than 800 green foods. We paid a monthly rent of RMB 13,000 approximately $1,625) for using this facility. On October 1, 2010, as Harbin Shuaiyi’s legal representative, Xinjun Li entered into a lease agreement with Qingling Zhang, pursuant to which, Harbin Shuaiyi leased the premise located at No. 8, F Suite, Yueshan International Building, Harbin Development Zone with an area of 262.11 square meters. The lease term was from October 1, 2010 to October 1, 2013. We use the facility as an exhibit center for our organic and specialty food products. We paid an annual rent of RMB 240,000 (approximately $38,100) for the first year and such rent increases by 10% annually thereafter. As a result of this new lease agreement, we terminated our lease agreement with Liye Qian. On December 3, 2013, Harbin Shuaiyi entered into a lease agreement with a PRC individual, Shen Xiao Hui, pursuant to which Harbin Shuaiyi leased the premise located at 2-4 Wen Hua Street, Nangang District, Harbin, with an area of 89 square meters. The lease term is from January 1 to December 31, 2014. Total rent for the lease is RMB 50,000. Harbin Shuaiyi had paid the full amount of the rent in advance in accordance with terms of the lease agreement. On August 8, 2014, Harbin Shuaiyi entered into a lease agreement with a PRC individual, Shenjie Wang, pursuant to which Harbin Shuaiyi leased the premise located at No. 272, Hongqi Street, Nangang District, Harbin, with an area of 140 square meters. The lease term is from August 10, 2014 to August 10, 2015. Total rent for the lease is RMB 100,000. Harbin Shuaiyi had paid the full amount of the rent in advance in accordance with terms of the lease agreement.

On April 15, 2011, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi entered into an asset transfer agreement or the Transfer Agreement with Ms. Han. Pursuant to the Transfer Agreement, Heilongjiang Shuiayi acquired an office building located at 54-1 Ganshui Road, Xiangfang District, Harbin, with a construction area of 1,854.1 square meters, from Ms. Han at a cash consideration of RMB 12.75 million (approximately $1.95 million including other incidental costs), which was fully paid in April 2011. The purchase price was determined based on a real property valuation report issued by an independent appraisal firm, Harbin Guoxin Real Estate Appraisal and Consulting Co., Limited on November 11, 2010 and reflected approximately equal valuation which Ms. Han originally paid when she acquired such property for the Company. Management believes the terms of the purchase transaction and the consideration that the Company paid in connection with this transaction were comparable to the terms available and the amounts that would be paid in an arm’s-length transaction. The Company intended to move the corporate headquarters in China to this new office building in 2012, however, due to changes in market conditions, this plan has been delayed. As a result, the Company decided to rent out 2 floors of the currently unoccupied building to an unrelated tenant at an annual rent of RMB 200,000 (approximately $32,700). The tenant is responsible for all the leasehold improvements. It is the intent of the Company to move the corporate headquarters in China to this new office building when the market condition allows in the future.

We believe that all our properties have been adequately maintained, are generally in good condition, and are suitable and adequate for our business.

ITEM 3.        LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

From time to time, we may become involved in various lawsuits and legal proceedings which arise in the ordinary course of business. However, litigation is subject to inherent uncertainties, and an adverse result in these or other matters may arise from time to time that may harm our business. We are currently not aware of any such legal proceedings or claims that we believe will have a material adverse affect on our business, financial condition or operating results.

ITEM 4.        MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES.

Not applicable.

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PART II

ITEM 5.

MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES.

Market Information

Our common stock is quoted under the symbol “NUIN.OB” on the OTC Bulletin Board but has not been traded on the OTC Bulletin Board except on a limited and sporadic basis. The CUSIP number is 67060M 107.

The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the high and low closing prices of our common stock. These prices reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail mark-up, mark-down or commission, and may not represent actual transactions.

    Closing Bid Prices(1)  
    High     Low  
Year Ended December 31, 2014            
1st Quarter $  3.45   $  1.85  
2nd Quarter   2.51     1.85  
3rd Quarter   2.28     1.92  
4th Quarter   1.95     1.50  
             
Year Ended December 31, 2013            
1st Quarter $  1.50   $  0.72  
2nd Quarter   1.05     0.85  
3rd Quarter   1.20     0.81  
4th Quarter   2.25     1.00  

(1) The above table sets forth the range of high and low closing bid prices per share of our common stock as reported by www.quotemedia.com for the periods indicated.

Approximate Number of Holders of Our Common Stock

As of March 24, 2015, there were approximately 270 holders of record of our common stock. This number excludes the shares of our common stock owned by stockholders holding stock under nominee security position listings.

Dividends

We have never declared or paid a cash dividend. Any future decisions regarding dividends will be made by our board of directors. We currently intend to retain and use any future earnings for the development and expansion of our business and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Our board of directors has complete discretion on whether to pay dividends, subject to the approval of our stockholders. Even if our board of directors decides to pay dividends, the form, frequency and amount will depend upon our future operations and earnings, capital requirements and surplus, general financial condition, contractual restrictions and other factors that the board of directors may deem relevant.

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

See Item 12, “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters — Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans.”

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

We have not sold any equity securities during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 that were not previously disclosed in a quarterly report on Form 10-Q or a current report on Form 8-K that was filed during the 2014 fiscal year.

Purchases of Equity Securities

The Company did not repurchase any equity securities during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014.

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ITEM 6.        SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA.

Not Applicable.

ITEM 7.        MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.

The following management’s discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and the notes thereto and the other financial information appearing elsewhere in this report. In addition to historical information, the following discussion contains certain forward-looking information. See “Special Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements” above for certain information concerning those forward looking statements.

Overview

We are a leading China based producer and supplier of premium branded Traditional Chinese Medicine consumer products including commercially cultivated Cordyceps Militaris, organic and specialty food products and functional health beverages. Through our VIE Entities, we specialize in developing, processing, marketing and distributing a variety of our agricultural and nutraceutical products.

Our primary product is commercially cultivated Cordyceps Militaris, which is developed from wild strains of Cordyceps Militaris. We sell our products through an extensive nationwide sales and distribution network covering ten provinces and ten cities in China. Our Cordyceps Militaris products are grown and processed by Daqing Shuiayi, and are mainly sold to pharmaceutical companies which are further processed into drugs and nutraceutical products or sold directly to consumers in the form of raw material or incorporated into our beverage products. We generated 85.5% and 77.7% of our revenues from Cordyceps Militaris for fiscal years 2014 and 2013, respectively. We believe that we own approximately 18% of the market share in the entire cultivated Cordyceps Militaris industry in China.

We also sell organic and specialty food products through our VIE Entity, Harbin Shuaiyi, which was formed in 2001. After years of development, we believe that we have become the largest wholesale distributor of organic and specialty food in Heilongjiang Province, China.

We introduced the Cordyceps functional health beverages in the fourth quarter of 2010. The non-carbonized beverage products were developed internally and contain the Cordyceps Militaris as a key ingredient. The products are currently being marketed directly to consumers in select cities in Jiangsu and Anhui Province through various distribution channels. We generated 9.2% and 17.2% of our revenues from Cordyceps functional health beverages for fiscal years 2014 and 2013, respectively. The functional health beverages are in the initial commercialization cycle in the Chinese consumer market.

Our sales revenue was approximately $43.33 million in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 compared to approximately $43.35 million in year 2013. Our gross margin for 2014 was 78.5%, as compared to 77.8% for 2013.

Industry Wide Factors that are Relevant to Our Business

We expect several key demographic, healthcare, and lifestyle trends to drive the growth of our business in the coming future:

  • Increased Focus on Healthy Living: Our management believes that as China becomes more affluent, its citizens are becoming more health conscious. They are leading more active lifestyles and becoming increasingly focused on healthy living, nutrition, and supplementation. According to the Nutrition Business Journal, a higher percentage of today’s global population is involved to some degree in health and wellness than a few years ago. We believe that growth in the health supplements industry will continue to be driven by consumers who increasingly embrace health and wellness as a critical part of their lifestyles.

  • Aging Population: The average age of the Chinese population is increasing. According to United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Population Prospects: 2012 Revision, (published in June 2013), China’s population is projected to increase from approximately 1.360 billion in 2010 to 1.385 billion in 2050, of which the percentage of elderly persons (those 65 years or older) in China is projected to increase from approximately 8.3% in year 2010 to approximately 23.9% in year 2050, a total of 331 million people. We believe that these consumers are significantly more likely to use health supplements than younger persons and have higher levels of disposable income to pursue healthy lifestyles.

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  • Rising Healthcare Costs and Use of Preventive Measures: Out of pocket healthcare related costs have increased substantially in China. According to the data from the 2011 report by the China National Health Development Research Center, spending on out-of-pocket health expenditures as a share of total health spending in China increased to 35.5% in 2010. To reduce medical costs and avoid the complexities of dealing with the healthcare system, and given increasing incidence of medical problems and concern over the use and effects of prescription drugs, many consumers take preventive measures, including alternative medicines and nutritional supplements.

Taxation

United States

Nutrastar International Inc. is subject to United States tax at a tax rate of 34%. No provision for income taxes in the United States has been made as Nutrastar International Inc. had no income taxable in the United States.

British Virgin Islands

New Resources was incorporated in the BVI. Under the current law of the BVI, New Resources is not subject to income or capital gains tax. In addition, dividend payments are not subject to withholding tax in the BVI.

PRC

In 2007, the PRC government promulgated the New EIT Law, and the relevant implementation rules, which became effective on January 1, 2008. Under the New EIT Law and its implementation rules, all domestic and foreign investment companies will be subject to a uniform enterprise income tax at the rate of 25%. As a result, our PRC subsidiaries and VIE Entities are subject to enterprise income tax at the rates of 25% in 2014 and 2013.

Under the New EIT Law, dividends from PRC subsidiaries to their non-PRC shareholders will be subject to a withholding tax at a rate of 20%, which is further reduced to 10% by the implementation rules, if the non-PRC shareholder is considered to be a non-PRC tax resident enterprise without any establishment or place within China or if the dividends payable have no connection with the non-PRC shareholder’s establishment or place within China, unless any such non-PRC shareholder’s jurisdiction of incorporation has a tax treaty with China that provides for a different withholding arrangement.

In addition, pursuant to the New EIT Law, enterprises established under the laws of non-PRC jurisdictions, but whose “de facto management body” is located in the PRC, should be treated as resident enterprises for PRC tax purposes. However, it is currently uncertain whether we may be deemed a resident enterprise, or how to interpret whether any income or gain is derived from sources within China. See Item 1A, “Risk Factors - Under the New EIT Law, we may be classified as a ‘resident enterprise’ of China. Such classification will likely result in unfavorable tax consequences to us and our non-PRC stockholders.” If we, as a Nevada company with substantially all of our management located in China, were treated as a resident enterprise for PRC tax purposes, we will be subject to PRC tax on our worldwide income at the 25% uniform tax rate, which would have an impact on our effective tax rate.

Business Segment Information

Our business operations can be categorized into three segments based on the type of products we manufacture and sell, specifically (i) Cordyceps Militaris, (ii) organic and specialty food products and (iii) functional health beverages.

We grow and sell our Cordyceps products as well as manufacture and distribute our functional health beverages through Daqing Shuaiyi. Harbin Shuaiyi is mainly engaged in the business of selling our organic and specialty food products.

In 2014, our sales revenue from our Cordyceps Militaris was approximately $37.05 million, sales revenue from our organic and specialty food products was approximately $2.27 million and sales revenue from our functional health beverages was $4.00 million.

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We expect that majority of our revenue for 2015 will still come from our Cordyceps Militaris products, with an increase in the percentage of revenue coming from the functional health beverages as we expand our distribution channels. We also expect that sales and marketing related costs associated with branding and advertising of the functional health beverages may increase as a percentage of revenue.

Additional information regarding our products can be found at Note 18 in our audited consolidated financial statements contained elsewhere in this annual report.

Results of Operations

Year Ended December 31, 2014 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2013

The following table sets forth key components of our results of operations for the periods indicated, in dollars and as a percentage of revenue.

(All amounts, other than percentage, in thousands of US dollars)

    Year Ended December 31, 2014     Year Ended December 31, 2013  
          As a           As a  
    In     Percentage of     In     Percentage  
    Thousands     Revenue     Thousands     of Revenue  
Net revenue $  43,328     100%   $  43,349     100%  
Cost of goods sold   (9,316 )   (21.5% )   (9,633 )   (22.2% )
Gross profit   34,012     78.5%     33,716     77.8%  
Selling expenses   (1,467 )   (3.4% )   (1,848 )   (4.3% )
General and administrative expenses   (2,377 )   (5.5% )   (3,216 )   (7.4% )
Gain on re-measurement of accrued staff fringe and social benefits   -     -%     934     2.1%  
Income from operations   30,168     69.6%     29,586     68.2%  
Other income                        
         Interest income   400     0.9%     324     0.8%  
         Foreign exchange differences   (11 )   - %     64     0.1%  
         Other income   33     0.1%     8     0.1%  
Income before income taxes   30,590     70.6%     29,982     69.1%  
Provision for income taxes   (7,870 )   (18.2% )   (7,812 )   (18.0% )
Net income $  22,720     52.4%   $  22,170      51.1%  

Net Revenue. Our revenues are generated from the sale of our Cordyceps Militaris products, functional health beverages and organic and specialty food products. Revenues decreased by $0.02 million, or 0.05%, to $43.33 million in 2014, from $43.35 million in 2013. Due to our current fully utilized production capacity and to meet the changes in market demand, we realigned the beverage product lines by suspending the 160ml beverage product since January 2014, increasing production and quantity sold of the 210ml and 310ml beverage products and introduced the powder solution product, which is a concentrated instant soluble powder version of the Cordyceps Militaris. As a result, the total quantity sold of our beverages products decreased while the total quantity sold of our Cordyceps Militaris products increased in year 2014 as compared to 2013 since net revenue from the powder solution product is classified into the Cordyceps Militaris business segment category. Revenue from sale of the Cordyceps Militaris business segment increased by $3.36 million, offset by $3.47 million decline in beverage products, resulting in slight decrease in net revenue for the year 2014 compared with 2013.

Our business operations can be categorized into three segments based on the type of products we manufacture and sell, specifically (i) Cordyceps Militaris, (ii) organic and specialty food products and (iii) functional health beverages. The following table shows the different segments comprising our total sales revenue for the Cordyceps Militaris, beverages and other agricultural products:

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Sales Revenue by Product Segments
(all amounts, other than percentages, in thousands of U.S. dollars)

    Year Ended December 31,     Percent  
    2014     2013     Change  
                   
Components of Sales Revenue                  
Cordyceps Militaris $  37,050   $  33,686     10.0%  
Functional Health Beverages   4,004     7,474     (46.4)%  
Organic and Specialty Food Products   2,274     2,189     3.9%  
Total revenues $  43,328   $  43,349     (0.05)%

Cost of Goods Sold. Our cost of goods sold is primarily comprised of the costs of our raw materials, labor and overhead. Our cost of goods sold decreased by $0.32 million, or 3.3%, to approximately $9.32 million in 2014 from $9.63 million in 2013. As a percentage of revenues, the cost of goods sold decreased to 21.5% for the year ended December 31, 2014 from 22.2% for the year 2013. This decrease in the amount of cost of goods sold and as a percentage of revenue was mainly attributable to the economies of scale due to our full capacity utilization.

Gross Profit. Our gross profit increased approximately $0.30 million, or 0.9%, to approximately $34.01 million in 2014 from $33.72 million in 2014. Gross profit as a percentage of revenues was 78.5% in 2014, an increase of 0.7% from 77.8% in 2013. Such percentage increase was mainly due to the economies of scale as a result of the full utilization of capacity.

Selling Expenses. Our selling expenses include sales commissions, cost of advertising and promotional materials, salaries and fringe and social benefits of sales personnel, and other sales related costs. Selling expenses decreased $0.38 million or 20.6% to $1.47 million in 2014 from $1.85 million in 2013. As a percentage of revenues, selling expenses decreased to 3.4% for 2014 from 4.3% for 2013. The decrease in selling expenses in dollar terms and as a percentage of revenue was mainly attributable to the decrease in selling and marketing expenses incurred relating to: i) advertising and entertainment expenses for our beverages products due to the realignment of our product offerings, ii) sales personnel’s fringe expenses and their business travelling expenses as we have already established and maintained a good business relationship with our major customers, and iii) a reduction of our sales’ office expenses like sales office rental expenses and daily utility costs as a result of our better cost control management strategy executed in current year.

General and Administrative Expenses. General and administrative expenses include the personnel costs associated with staff and support personnel who manage our business activities, depreciation of fixed assets, and professional fees paid to third parties. General and administrative expenses decreased $0.84 million or 26.1% to $2.38 million in 2014 from $3.22 million in 2013. As a percentage of revenues, general and administrative expenses decreased to 5.5% in 2014 from 7.4% in 2013. The decrease in general and administrative expenses in dollar terms and as a percentage of revenue was mainly due to $0.59 million decrease in stock based compensation expenses and decrease in professional fees in 2014.

Gain on re-measurement of accrued staff fringe and social benefits. For the past periods, we followed the prevailing laws and regulations of the PRC, to accrue the social benefits to our staff, but we did not make contributions to social benefits plans for the amounts accrued since the plans had not been formally established. Since December 2013, we began to contribute to the plans for all currently eligible employees after they are established. As a result, we re-measured our liabilities in accordance to the relevant regulations of the PRC and recorded $0.93 million gain on re-measurement of accrued staff fringe and social benefits in our income statement for the year 2013.

Income Before Income Taxes. Income before income taxes increased approximately $0.61 million, or 2.0%, to approximately $30.59 million in 2014 from $29.98 million in 2013. As a percentage of revenues, income before income taxes increased by 1.5% to 70.6% in 2014 from 69.1% in 2013. The increase in income before income taxes in dollar terms and as a percentage of revenue is mainly attributable to the slight increase in the amount of our gross profit, combined with slight decrease in operating expenses resulting in an increase in income from operations of $0.58 million.

Income Taxes. Nutrastar International Inc. is subject to United States federal income tax at a tax rate of 34%. No provision for income taxes in the United States has been made as Nutrastar International Inc. had no U.S. source income taxable in the United States for the year ended December 31, 2014 or 2013. New Resources was incorporated in the BVI and under the current laws of the BVI, is not subject to income taxes. Oriental Global was formed in Hong Kong and under the current laws of Hong Kong, is not subject to income taxes. Our PRC subsidiary and the VIEs are subject to national and local income taxes within China at the applicable tax rate on the taxable income as reported in their PRC statutory financial statements in accordance with relevant income tax laws. China passed a new Enterprise Income Tax Law, or the New EIT Law, and its implementing regulations, both of which became effective on January 1, 2008.

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The New EIT Law provides for a grandfathering on tax holidays which were granted under the then effective tax laws and regulations. Therefore, Daqing Shuaiyi had continued to be entitled to a three-year 50% income tax reduction until December 31, 2010. Both entities were subject to an income tax rate of 25% in 2014 and 2013.

Income taxes increased by approximately $0.06 million to $7.87 million in 2014 from $7.81 million in 2013. We paid more taxes in 2014 because of the increase in taxable income described above.

Net Income. Net income increased approximately $0.55 million, or 2.5%, to $22.72 million in 2014 from $22.17 million in 2013, as a result of the factors described above.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

As of December 31, 2014, we had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $126.54 million. The following table provides detailed information about our net cash flow for all financial statement periods presented in this report.

Cash Flow
(All amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars)

    Year Ended December 31,  
    2014     2013  
Net cash provided by operating activities $  24,203   $  24,307  
Net cash provided by investing activities   -     -  
Net cash provided by financing activities   16     46  
Foreign currency translation adjustment   (276 )   2,720  
Net cash flow $  23,943   $  27,073  

Operating Activities

Net cash provided by operating activities was $24.20 million in year ended December 31, 2014, a decrease of $0.11 million from $24.31 million in year ended December 31, 2013. The decrease in the cash provided by operating activities was mainly attributable to the $0.55 million increase in net income generated in 2014 compared to 2013, offset by an increase in $0.49 cash settlement to supplier and an increase of $0.56 million in prepayment and other operating activities contributions.

Investing Activities

Our primary uses of cash for investing activities are payments for the acquisition of property, plant and equipment.

For the year ended December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, there was no net cash provided by or used for investing activities.

Financing Activities

Net cash provided by financing activities decreased approximately $0.03 million for year ended December 31, 2014 from the year 2013. The decrease in the net cash provided by financing activities was mainly attributable to the decrease of $0.03 million in advance from a related party for general corporate purpose in 2014.

We believe that our cash on hand and cash flow from operations will meet our expected capital expenditure and working capital requirements for the next 12 months. However, we may in the future require additional cash resources due to changed business conditions, implementation of our strategy to expand our production capacity or other investments or acquisitions we may decide to pursue. If our own financial resources are insufficient to satisfy our capital requirements, we may seek to sell additional equity or debt securities or obtain additional credit facilities. The sale of additional equity securities could result in dilution to our stockholders. The incurrence of indebtedness would result in increased debt service obligations and could require us to agree to operating and financial covenants that would restrict our operations. Financing may not be available in amounts or on terms acceptable to us, if at all. Any failure by us to raise additional funds on terms favorable to us, or at all, could limit our ability to expand our business operations and could harm our overall business prospects.

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Effects of Inflation

Inflation and changing prices have not had a material effect on our business and we do not expect that inflation or changing prices will materially affect our business in the foreseeable future. However, our management will closely monitor the price change and continually maintain effective cost control in operations.

Off Balance Sheet Arrangements

We do not have any off balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity or capital expenditures or capital resources that is material to an investor in our securities.

Seasonality

Our operating results and operating cash flows historically have not been subject to seasonal variations. However, extended holidays in China such as the Lunar Chinese New Year, May and October holidays will impact the Company’s operations due to holiday shut downs. This pattern may change, however, as a result of new market opportunities or new product introductions.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires our management to make assumptions, estimates and judgments that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements, including the notes thereto, and related disclosures of commitments and contingencies, if any. We consider our critical accounting policies to be those that require the more significant judgments and estimates in the preparation of financial statements, including the following:

Basis of preparation
These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Principle of consolidation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of Nutrastar and its wholly owned subsidiaries, New Resources, Oriental Global and Harbin Baixin, and its VIEs Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi. All significant inter-company balances or transactions have been eliminated on consolidation.

The Company has evaluated the relationship with Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi and based on the result of the evaluation, believes that these entities are variable interest entities and that it is the primary beneficiary of these entities. Consequently, the Company has included the results of operations of these variable interest entities in the consolidated financial statements. The Company’s relationships with Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi are governed by a series of contractual arrangements. Under PRC laws, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi are independent legal persons and none of them is exposed to liabilities incurred by the other parties.

The accounts of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi are consolidated in the accompanying financial statements pursuant to the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) Topic 810 and related subtopics related to the consolidation of variable interest entities. The Company does not have any non-controlling interests in net income and accordingly, did not subtract any net income in calculating the net income attributable to the Company. Because of the contractual arrangements, the Company had a pecuniary interest in the VIEs that require consolidation of the Company’s and the VIEs’ financial statements.

Use of estimates

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The preparation of these consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires the Company to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of these consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Accordingly, actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. Significant estimates for the year ended December 31, 2014 and 2013 include the useful lives of property and equipment and intangible assets, assumptions used in assessing impairment for long-term assets and the fair values of share-based payments.

Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents consist of all cash balances and highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less. Because of the short maturity of these investments, the carrying amounts approximate their fair value.

Accounts receivable
Accounts receivable is stated at cost, net of an allowance for doubtful accounts. The Company maintains allowances for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the failure of customers to make required payments. The Company reviews the accounts receivable on a periodic basis and provides allowances where there is doubt as to the collectability of individual balances. In evaluating the collectability of individual receivable balances, the Company considers many factors, including the age of the balance, the customer’s payment history, its current credit-worthiness and current economic trends.

Inventories
Inventories are stated at the lower of cost, determined on a weighted average basis, or market. Costs of inventories include purchase and related costs incurred in bringing the products to their present location and condition. Market value is determined by reference to selling prices after the balance sheet date or to management’s estimates based on prevailing market conditions. Management will write down the inventories to market value if it is below cost. Management also regularly evaluates the composition of its inventories to identify slow-moving and obsolete inventories to determine if a valuation allowance is required.

Derivative financial instruments
The Company evaluates all its financial instruments to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives. For derivative instruments that are accounted for as liabilities, the derivative instrument is initially recorded at its fair value and is then revalued at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported in the consolidated statements of income. For stock-based derivative financial instruments, the Company uses Monte-Carlo simulation methods to value the derivative instruments at inception and on subsequent valuation dates.

Property, plant and equipment
Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses, if any. Gains or losses on disposals are reflected as gain or loss in the year of disposal. The cost of improvements that extend the life of property, plant and equipment are capitalized. These capitalized costs may include structural improvements, equipment and fixtures. All ordinary repair and maintenance costs are expensed as incurred.

Depreciation for financial reporting purposes is provided using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets as follows:

  Useful Life
  (In years)
Buildings 20-40
Machinery and motor vehicles 5-10
Office equipment 5

Intangible assets
The Company’s intangible assets include a ten-year exclusive right to use a proprietary process and computer software. The Company’s amortization policy on intangible assets is as follows:

  Useful Life
  (In years)
Exclusive right 10
Computer software 4

The Company accounts for its intangible assets pursuant to FASB ASC Subtopic 350-30, “General Intangibles Other Than Goodwill”. Under ASC 350-30-35, intangibles with definite lives continue to be amortized on a straight-line basis over the lesser of their estimated useful lives or contractual terms. Under FASB ASU No.2012-02 Intangible-Goodwill and Other (Topic 350), the Company assesses qualitative factors to determine whether it is necessary to perform a quantitative impairment test. The Company would not be required to calculate the fair value of an indefinite-lived intangible asset unless the Company determines, based on a qualitative assessment, that it is not more likely than not, the indefinite-lived intangible asset is impaired. If the qualitative assessment fails, intangibles with indefinite lives are further evaluated quantitatively for impairment by comparing the asset’s estimated fair value with its carrying value, based on cash flow methodology.

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Impairment of long-lived assets
The Company reviews and evaluates its long-lived assets for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the related carrying amounts may not be recoverable. An impairment is considered to exist if the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis are less than the carrying amount of the assets, including goodwill, if any. An impairment loss is measured and recorded based on discounted estimated future cash flows. In estimating future cash flows, assets are grouped at the lowest level for which there is identifiable cash flows that are largely independent of future cash flows from other asset groups.

Revenue recognition
Revenue is recognized when the following four revenue criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the selling price is fixed or determinable, and collectability is reasonably assured.

Sales revenue is recognized net of value added and sales related taxes, sales discounts and returns at the time when the merchandise is delivered to the customer. Based on historical experience, management estimates that sales returns are immaterial and has not recorded an allowance for estimated sales returns.

Share-based payments
The Company accounts for share-based compensation awards to employees in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, “Compensation – Stock Compensation”, which requires that share-based payment transactions with employees be measured based on the grant-date fair value of the equity instrument issued and recognized as compensation expense over the requisite service period.

The Company accounts for share-based compensation awards to non-employees in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718 and FASB ASC Subtopic 505-50, “Equity-Based Payments to Non-employees”. Under FASB ASC Topic 718 and FASB ASC Subtopic 505-50, stock compensation granted to non-employees has been determined as the fair value of the consideration received or the fair value of equity instrument issued, whichever is more reliably measured and is recognized as expenses as the goods or services are received.

Income taxes
The Company is subject to income taxes in the United States and other foreign jurisdictions where it operates. The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 740, “Income Taxes”. FASB ASC Topic 740 requires an asset and liability approach for financial accounting and reporting for income taxes and allows recognition and measurement of deferred tax assets based upon the likelihood of realization of tax benefits in future years. Under the asset and liability approach, deferred taxes are provided for the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. A valuation allowance is provided for deferred tax assets if it is more likely than not these items will either expire before the Company is able to realize their benefits, or that future deductibility is uncertain.

The Company’s income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and other tax authorities in the locations where it operates. The Company assesses potentially unfavorable outcomes of such examinations based on the criteria of FASB ASC 740-10-25-5 through 740-10-25-7 and 740-10-25-13 (formerly FASB Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”) “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes”). The interpretation prescribes a more-likely-than-not threshold for financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken (or expected to be taken) in a tax return. This Interpretation also provides guidance on derecognition of income tax assets and liabilities, classification of current and deferred income tax assets and liabilities, accounting for interest and penalties associated with tax positions, accounting for income taxes in interim periods and income tax disclosures.

Research and development costs
Research and development costs are expensed as incurred, and are charged to general and administrative expenses. Research and development costs were $159,229 and $173,881 for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

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Advertising costs
The Company expenses all advertising costs as incurred. Advertising costs charged to selling expenses were nil and $10,437 for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

Shipping and handling costs
Substantially all costs of shipping and handling of products to customers are included in selling expense. Shipping and handling costs for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013 were insignificant.

Comprehensive income
FASB ASC Topic 220, “Comprehensive Income”, establishes standards for reporting and displaying comprehensive income and its components in the consolidated financial statements. Accumulated other comprehensive income includes foreign currency translation adjustments.

Foreign currency
The Company uses the United States dollar (“US Dollar” or “US$” or “$”) for financial reporting purposes. The PRC subsidiaries and VIEs within the Company maintain their books and records in their functional currency, Chinese Renminbi (“RMB”), being the lawful currency in the PRC. Assets and liabilities of the PRC subsidiaries and VIEs are translated from RMB into US Dollars using the applicable exchange rates prevailing at the balance sheet date. Items on the statements of income and cash flows are translated at average exchange rates during the reporting period. Equity accounts are translated at historical rates. Adjustments resulting from the translation of the Company’s financial statements are recorded as accumulated other comprehensive income.

The exchange rates used to translate amounts in RMB into US Dollars for the purposes of preparing the consolidated financial statements are based on the rates as published on the website of People’s Bank of China and are as follows:

    December 31, 2014     December 31, 2013  
Balance sheet items, except for equity accounts   US$1=RMB6.1190     US$1=RMB6.0969  
Items in the statements of income and cash flows   US$1=RMB6.1428     US$1=RMB6.1932  

No representation is made that the RMB amounts could have been, or could be, converted into US Dollars at the above rates. The value of RMB against US dollars and other currencies may fluctuate and is affected by, among other things, changes in China’s political and economic conditions. Any significant revaluation of RMB may materially affect the Company’s financial condition in terms of US Dollar reporting.

Segment reporting
The Company follows FASB ASC Topic 280, “Segment Reporting”, which requires that companies disclose segment data based on how management makes decisions about allocating resources to segments and evaluating their performance.

The Company believes that during the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, it operated in three business segments – growing and sales of Cordyceps Militaris, which is widely used for Chinese medicine, manufacturing and sale of functional health beverages featuring the Cordyceps Militaris as a core ingredient, and sales of organic and specialty products. The manufacturing and sale of Cordyceps Militaris functional health beverages was launched in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Throughout the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, all of the Company’s operations were carried out in one geographical segment - China.

Earnings per share
The Company reports earnings per share in accordance with the provisions of FASB ASC Topic 260, "Earnings per Share". FASB ASC Topic 260 requires presentation of basic and diluted earnings per share in conjunction with the disclosure of the methodology used in computing such earnings per share. Basic earnings per share excludes dilution and is computed by dividing income available to common stockholders by the weighted average common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share takes into account the potential dilution (using the treasury stock method) that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised and converted into common stock.

Commitments and contingencies
The Company follows FASB ASC Subtopic 450-20, “Loss Contingencies” in determining its accruals and disclosures with respect to loss contingencies. Accordingly, estimated losses from loss contingencies are accrued by a charge to income when information available prior to issuance of the financial statements indicates that it is probable that a liability could be incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. Legal expenses associated with the contingency are expensed as incurred. If a loss contingency is not probable or reasonably estimable, disclosure of the loss contingency is made in the financial statements when it is at least reasonably possible that a material loss could be incurred.

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Recent accounting pronouncements
In April 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-08 “Presentation of Financial Statements (Topic 205) and Property, Plant, and Equipment (Topic 360) - Reporting Discontinued Operations and Disclosures of Disposals of Components of an Entity”, which changes the threshold for reporting discontinued operations and adds new disclosures. The new guidance defines a discontinued operation as a disposal that “represents a strategic shift that has (or will have) a major effect on an entity’s operations and financial results.” The standard is required to be adopted by public business entities in annual periods beginning on or after December 15, 2014, and interim periods within those annual periods. Entities may “early adopt” the guidance for new disposals. The Company is currently evaluating the impact on its consolidated financial statements of adopting this guidance.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)" which clarifies and improves the principles for recognizing revenue and develops a common revenue standard for United States generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) that among other things, improves comparability of revenue recognition practices and provides more useful information to users of financial statements through improved disclosure requirements. The amendments in ASU 2014-09 are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within that reporting period. Early application is not permitted. The Company is currently reviewing the effect of ASU 2014-09 on its revenue recognition.

In June 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-12, "Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718)" which provides explicit guidance on the treatment of awards with performance targets that could be achieved after the requisite service period. The amendments in ASU 2014-12 are effective for annual periods and interim periods within those annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015. The Company does not expect that the adoption will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

In August 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements – Going Concern. This standard requires management to evaluate for each annual and interim reporting period whether it is probable that the reporting entity will not be able to meet its obligations as they become due within one year after the date that the financial statements are issued. If the entity is in such a position, the standard provides for certain disclosures depending on whether or not the entity will be able to successfully mitigate its going concern status. This guideline is effective for annual periods ending after December 15, 2016 and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016. Early application is permitted. The Company does not expect that the adoption will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

Other accounting standards that have been issued or proposed by the FASB or other standards-setting bodies that do not require adoption until a future date are not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements upon adoption.

ITEM 7A.      QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.

Not Applicable.

ITEM 8.        FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.

The full text of our audited consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2014 and 2013 begins on page F-1 of this annual report.

ITEM 9.        CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.

None.

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ITEM 9A.      CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that are designed to ensure that information that would be required to be disclosed in Exchange Act reports is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time period specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including to our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

As required by Rule 13a-15 under the Exchange Act, our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2014. Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that as of December 31, 2014, and as of the date that the evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures was completed, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to satisfy the objectives for which they are intended.

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act. The Exchange Act defines internal control over financial reporting as a process designed by, or under the supervision of, our principal executive and principal financial officers and effected by our board of directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and includes those policies and procedures that:

  • Pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company;

  • Provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and directors; and

  • Provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.

All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2014. In making this assessment, management used the framework set forth in the report entitled Internal Control - Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, or COSO. The COSO framework summarizes each of the components of a company’s internal control system, including (i) the control environment, (ii) risk assessment, (iii) control activities, (iv) information and communication, and (v) monitoring. Based on our assessment we determined that, as of December 31, 2014, our internal control over financial reporting is effective based on those criteria.

This annual report does not include an attestation report of our registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the fourth quarter of 2014 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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ITEM 9B.      OTHER INFORMATION.

We have no information to disclose that was required to be disclosed in a report on Form 8-K during the fourth quarter of 2014, but was not reported.

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PART III

ITEM 10.      DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.

Directors and Executive Officers

The following sets forth information about our directors and executive officers as of the date of this report:

NAME   AGE   POSITION
Lianyun Han   56   Chairperson, Chief Executive Officer and President
Robert Tick   46   Director, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Hongbing Hua   46   Chief Marketing Officer
Richard E. Fearon, Jr.   48   Director
Henry Ngan   41   Director
Virginia P’an   69   Director
Chunming Zhang   43   Director
Jianbing Zhong   29   Director

Lianyun Han. Ms. Han has extensive experience in operational management and business development. Ms. Han is the founder of our company and has been our Chief Executive Officer, President and the chairperson of our board of directors since the completion of the reverse acquisition of New Resources on December 23, 2008. Ms. Han has been the chairman and chief executive officer of our subsidiary Heilongjiang Shuaiyi since its formation in 2006. From 1998 to 2006, Ms. Han was the president of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi Technology Development Co., Ltd., a company that is engaged in the business of developing, manufacturing, marketing and selling high-tech agricultural products. Ms. Han holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Harbin Normal University.

Robert Tick. Mr. Tick has extensive experience in accounting and finance. Mr. Tick was the Chief Financial Officer of ANDA Networks, Inc., a telecom equipment provider, from July 2007 to August 2010, Vice President of Finance from October 2005 to July 2007 and Corporate Controller from April 2003 to November 2004. From November 2004 to October 2005, Mr. Tick served as the Controller for T-RAM Semiconductors Inc., a fabless semiconductor company. Mr. Tick is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from San Francisco State University and an MBA from Washington State University.

Hongbing Hua. Mr. Hua has over 18 years experience in sales and marketing management. Prior to joining the Company, from 2003 to 2004, Mr. Hua was the Project General Planning Principle of Wanglaoji Herbal Tea, JDB Group, one of the largest herbal tea manufacturers in China. From 1998 to 2001, he was the VP Sales & Marketing of Beijing Huiyuan Beverage and Food Group Co., Ltd., a leading company engaged in the manufacture and sales of juice and other beverage products in China. Mr. Hua holds a Bachelor’s degree in international finance from Tianjin University.

Richard E. Fearon, Jr. Mr. Fearon founded Accretive Capital Partners in 2000, a 15-year-old private investment fund targeting undervalued small and micro-cap stocks of fundamentally strong public companies which represent attractive take-private candidates. The fund is long-only and employs the tools of private equity investing to its public market portfolio. Accretive Capital Partners has been nationally ranked by Morningstar, Barron’s, Bloomberg, Lipper, and Barclay Managed Funds, received HFM Week Magazine’s 2011 Best Single Manager Long-Term Performance award among all U.S. hedge funds under $250 million and Acquisition International‘s 2015 Hedge Fund Performance Award for Best for Long-Term Performance as an active value fund, and has been selected as finalist for PAM Magazine's 2015 Best Private Wealth Manager Performance award among all U.S. hedge funds under $5 billion.

Prior to founding Accretive Capital Partners, Mr. Fearon founded and managed the Chicago office of Allied Capital Corporation, a $3 billion private equity investment fund and the largest and oldest publicly-traded small business investment company in the United States, until acquired by Ares Capital Corporation. He was Managing Partner of Allied Capital Midwest and a Principal of Allied Capital Corporation from 1993-2000. Prior to Allied Capital, Mr. Fearon was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley & Co. and PaineWebber Incorporated. Mr. Fearon earned an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business, where he also attended the Stockholm School of Economics, and graduated with a BA in Chemistry and Anthropology from Williams College. He was a graduate of the Hopkins School, where he was a 1984 Connecticut State and All-New England Wrestling Champion and a National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete. Mr. Fearon is a member of the Board of Directors of Nutrastar International Inc. (OTCQB: NUIN) and has served on the Board of 15 private companies, including as Chairman of Magna Card, Inc., where he was awarded United States Patent 7225568. He currently serves on the Hopkins School Alumni/ae Association Board of Directors and, since 2011, has served as an Advisory Board Member to the Catalyst Network Foundation, a non-profit organization offering career development and networking tools to under-served and high-potential inner-city youths and veterans.

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Henry Ngan. Mr. Ngan has been the Founder and Managing Partner of HHN Capital LLC since April 2013. Mr. Ngan served as the Chief Financial Officer of ZST Digital Networks, Inc. (OTC: ZSTN) from March 2011 to March 2013, a company that is a developer, manufacturer and supplier of digital and optical network equipment to cable system operators and provider of GPS tracking devices and support services for transport-related enterprises in China. From February 2009 to January 2011, Mr. Ngan has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Highpower International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HPJ), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) and lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and related products. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Ngan had served as Vice President and Senior Equity Analyst at Brean Murray, Carret & Co., a full service investment bank, in New York City from July 2008, an Equity Research Analyst at Buckingham Research Group in New York, an equity research firm, from June 2004 to January 2008 and at Robotti & Company, a diversified financial services boutique, from October 2002 until June 2004. During his tenure, Mr. Ngan accumulated a significant amount of experience in accounting, auditing, consulting and valuation analysis. Mr. Ngan received a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University at Albany, State University of New York, and an MBA in finance, and information and communication systems from Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University. Mr. Ngan is also a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of New York.

Virginia P’an. Ms. P’an is currently the CEO of the TransCapital Group LLC, a business consulting service provider, and Yumi EcoSolutions, Inc., an importer and distributor of eco-friendly materials. She is a seasoned global executive, successful entrepreneur and financier and a recognized international business expert. As an innovator and authority on China and the Pacific Rim, Ms. P’an advises senior executives and board of directors on strategic investments, business strategy, operations and funding. Prior to founding the current companies, and their predecessor companies, she was the first female Vice President at American Express Bank from 1978 to 1984 and was the architect of the national debit card banking system for Taiwan from 1980 to 1982. Before her current positions, Ms. P’an also served as Managing Partner for KCSA Worldwide and Managing Director of Adam Friedman Associates from 1994 to 2006, two prominent financial communications and investor relations firms based in New York City. She is currently an active member of the Board of AIESEC US, a non-profit organization promoting cultural understanding and international co-operation and the Advisory Board of the Babson Graduate School of Business which is internationally ranked #1 for entrepreneurship. Ms. P’an is the recipient of the prestigious "Leading Women Entrepreneur of the World", "Business Innovator" and "International Women of Influence" Awards and is fluent in Mandarin and other Chinese dialects.

Chunming Zhang. Mr. Zhang has decades of working experience in production management. Mr. Zhang became our director on January 12, 2009. Mr. Zhang joined Heilongjiang Shuaiyi in 2006 as the production manager. From 1998 to 2006, Mr. Zhang was the vice president of Heilongjiang Shuangyasha Boiler Factory. Mr. Zhang holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Northeast Agricultural University.

Jianbing Zhong. Mr. Zhong has been with Leichi Investment Limited Company, or Leichi, a financial consulting company, since July 2007 and is principally responsible for managing the company’s legal affairs including the performance of business due diligence and market research, joint project arrangement, private equity financing, corporate strategy planning and business consulting. Over the years, he has participated in many joint projects covering various industries from environmental protection, new materials, new energy and modern agriculture provided to consumer and wholesales franchises. Prior to working with Leichi, Mr. Zhong was at the Fujian Yinsen Group, a company engaged in the business of collection, treatment, disposal and recycling of industrial wastes, from 2005 to 2007 and was responsible for undertaking the company's legal affairs. Mr. Zhong graduated from The South-Central University for Nationalities with a bachelor's degree in law.

Directors are elected until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

Family Relationships

There is no family relationship among any of our officers or directors.

Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings

To the best of our knowledge, none of our directors or executive officers has, during the past ten years:

  • been convicted in a criminal proceeding or been subject to a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offences);
  • had any bankruptcy petition filed by or against the business or property of the person, or of any partnership, corporation or business association of which he was a general partner or executive officer, either at the time of the bankruptcy filing or within two years prior to that time;
  • been subject to any order, judgment, or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction or federal or state authority, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting, his involvement in any type of business, securities, futures, commodities, investment, banking, savings and loan, or insurance activities, or to be associated with persons engaged in any such activity;
  • been found by a court of competent jurisdiction in a civil action or by the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended, or vacated;
  • been the subject of, or a party to, any federal or state judicial or administrative order, judgment, decree, or finding, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated (not including any settlement of a civil proceeding among private litigants), relating to an alleged violation of any federal or state securities or commodities law or regulation, any law or regulation respecting financial institutions or insurance companies including, but not limited to, a temporary or permanent injunction, order of disgorgement or restitution, civil money penalty or temporary or permanent cease-and-desist order, or removal or prohibition order, or any law or regulation prohibiting mail or wire fraud or fraud in connection with any business entity; or
  • been the subject of, or a party to, any sanction or order, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any self-regulatory organization (as defined in Section 3(a)(26) of the Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. 78c(a)(26))), any registered entity (as defined in Section 1(a)(29) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1(a)(29))), or any equivalent exchange, association, entity or organization that has disciplinary authority over its members or persons associated with a member.

Except as set forth in our discussion below in Item 13, “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence – Transactions with Related Persons,” none of our directors, director nominees or executive officers has been involved in any transactions with us or any of our directors, executive officers, affiliates or associates which are required to be disclosed pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC.

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Board Composition and Committees

Our Board of Directors is currently composed of seven members, Ms. Lianyun Han, Mr. Richard E. Fearon Jr., Mr. Henry Ngan, Ms. Virginia P’an, Mr. Robert Tick, Mr. Chunming Zhang, and Mr. Jianbing Zhong. Since October 2010, the Board of Directors has established three Committees: the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee, and the Governance and Nominating Committee. Each of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Governance and Nominating Committee are comprised entirely of our independent directors. From time to time, the Board of Directors may establish other committees. The Board of Directors has adopted a written charter for each of the committees which is available on the Company’s website http://www.nutrastarintl.com. Printed copies of each of our committee charters may be obtained, without charge, by contacting the Corporate Secretary, Nutrastar International Inc., 4/F Yushan Plaza, 51 Yushan Road, Nangang District, Harbin, China 150090.

Audit Committee

Our Audit Committee consists of three members: Henry Ngan, Virginia P’an and Jianbing Zhong. Each member of the Audit Committee meets the independence criteria prescribed by applicable regulation and the rules of the SEC for audit committee membership and is an ‘‘independent director’’ within the meaning of applicable NASDAQ listing standards. Each Audit Committee member meets NASDAQ’s financial literacy requirements, and the Board of Directors has further determined that Mr. Henry Ngan (i) is ‘‘audit committee financial expert’’ as such term is defined in Item 407(d) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC, and (ii) also meet NASDAQ’s financial sophistication requirements.

The Audit Committee oversees our accounting and financial reporting processes and the audits of the financial statements of our Company. The Audit Committee is responsible for, among other things:

  • selecting our independent auditors and pre-approving all auditing and non-auditing services permitted to be performed by our independent auditors;
  • reviewing with our independent auditors any audit problems or difficulties and management’s response;
  • reviewing and approving all proposed related-party transactions, as defined in Item 404 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;
  • discussing the annual audited financial statements with management and our independent auditors;
  • reviewing major issues as to the adequacy of our internal controls and any special audit steps adopted in light of significant internal control deficiencies;
  • annually reviewing and reassessing the adequacy of our Audit Committee charter;
  • meeting separately and periodically with management and our internal and independent auditors;
  • reporting regularly to the full Board; and
  • such other matters that are specifically delegated to our Audit Committee by our Board from time to time.

Compensation Committee

Our Compensation Committee consists of three directors, Virginia P’an, Henry Ngan, and Jianbing Zhong. The members of the Compensation Committee are all independent directors within the meaning of applicable NASDAQ listing standards.

Our Compensation Committee assists the Board of Directors in reviewing and approving the compensation structure of our executive officers, including all forms of compensation to be provided to our executive officers. Our chief executive officer may not be present at any Compensation Committee meeting during which his compensation is deliberated. The Compensation Committee is permitted to delegate its authority in accordance with Nevada law unless prohibited by the Company’s by-laws or the Compensation Committee charter. The Compensation Committee is responsible for, among other things:

  • approving and overseeing the compensation package for our executive officers;
  • reviewing and approving corporate goals and objectives relevant to the compensation of our chief executive officer, evaluating the performance of our chief executive officer in light of those goals and objectives, and setting the compensation level of our chief executive officer based on this evaluation; and

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  • reviewing periodically and making recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding any long-term incentive compensation or equity plans, programs or similar arrangements, annual bonuses, employee pension and welfare benefit plans; and reviewing and making recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding succession plans for the chief executive officer and other senior officers.

Governance and Nominating Committee

Our Governance and Nominating Committee consists of three directors: Jianbing Zhong, Virginia P’an, and Henry Ngan. The members of our Governance and Nominating Committee are all independent directors within the meaning of applicable NASDAQ listing standards.

The Governance and Nominating Committee assists the Board of Directors in identifying individuals qualified to become our directors and in determining the composition of the Board of Directors and its committees. The Governance and Nominating Committee is responsible for, among other things:

  • identifying and recommending to the Board of Directors nominees for election or re-election to the Board of Directors, or for appointment to fill any vacancy;
  • reviewing annually with the Board of Directors the current composition of the Board of Directors in light of the characteristics of independence, age, skills, experience and availability of service to us;
  • reviewing periodically the compensation paid to non-employee directors for annual retainers and meeting fees, if any, and making recommendations to the Board of Directors for any adjustments;
  • identifying and recommending to the Board of Directors the directors to serve as members of the Board’s committees; and
  • monitoring compliance with our Corporate Governance Guidelines.

Section 16(A) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

Under U.S. securities laws, directors, certain executive officers and persons holding more than 10% of our common stock must report their initial ownership of the common stock, and any changes in that ownership, to the SEC. The SEC has designated specific due dates for these reports. Based solely on our review of copies of such reports filed with the SEC by and written representations of our directors and executive offers, we believe that our directors and executive offers filed the required reports on time in fiscal year 2014.

Code of Ethics

Our board of directors has adopted a code of ethics that applies to our Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Principal Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Controller and persons performing similar functions. The code of ethics addresses, among other things, ethical conduct, conflicts of interest, compliance with laws, regulations and policies, including disclosure requirements under the federal securities laws, confidentiality, trading on inside information, and reporting of violations of the code. A copy of the code of ethics has been filed as Exhibit 14.1 to our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010 and is also available on our website, http://www.nutrastarintl.com. Any amendments or waivers to the code of ethics will be posted on our website within four business days of such amendment or waiver.

ITEM 11.      EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.

Summary Compensation Table – 2014 and 2013

The following table sets forth information concerning all cash and non-cash compensation awarded to, earned by or paid to the named persons for services rendered in all capacities during the noted periods.

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Name and Principal
Position
 

Year
 
Salary
($)
 
Bonus
($)
  Stock
Awards (1)
($)
  Option
Awards (2)
($)
 
Total
($)
Lianyun Han,
CEO and President
  2014
2013
  24,093
23,897
  -
-
  -
-
  -
-
  24,093
23,897
Robert Tick,
Chief Financial Officer and
Director (1)
  2014
2013
  198,000
192,000
  -
-
  25,896
111,771
  7,371
10,179
  231,267
313,950

(1)

The amounts in the Stock Awards column reflect the aggregate grant date fair values of Restricted Stock, calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. These are not amounts paid to or realized by Mr. Tick.

(2)

The amounts in the Option Awards column represent the grant date fair value of stock option awards granted to Mr. Tick, calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. These are not amounts paid to or realized by Mr. Tick.

Employment Agreements

Heilongjiang Shuaiyi entered into an employment agreement with our CEO and President, Ms. Lianyun Han. Ms. Han’s employment agreement has a five-year term beginning on December 7, 2008 and ended on December 7, 2013, which was renewed for an addition five-year term ending on December 7, 2018. Ms. Han’s employment agreement provides for a monthly salary of approximately $1,000 and an annual bonus of approximately $3,000. Ms. Han is subject to customary non-competition and confidentiality covenants under the agreement. The employment agreement does not entitle Ms. Han to severance payments or payments following a change in control.

On July 16, 2010, we and Mr. Robert Tick entered into an employment agreement. The term of the employment agreement is for three years commencing on July 16, 2010. The employment agreement provides, among other things, that Mr. Tick’s monthly base salary will be $12,650. During the term of the employment agreement, if either party terminates the employment for any reason, a minimum of sixty (60) days notice must be given in writing to the other party. The employment agreement also contains covenants prohibiting Mr. Tick from competing with us during his employment with us or disclosing any confidential information of us both during his employment and after the termination of employment. On January 24, 2010, we and Mr. Tick entered into an amendment No. 1 to the employment agreement, pursuant to which, effective January 1, 2011, Mr. Tick’s monthly base salary is increased from $12,650 to $16,000. On August 8, 2013, we and Mr. Tick entered into an amendment No. 2 to the employment agreement, pursuant to which the expiration date of the agreement was extended to June 30, 2014. On August 8, 2014, we and Mr. Tick entered into amendment No. 3 to the employment agreement, pursuant to which, effective July 1, 2014, Mr. Tick’s monthly base salary is increased from $16,000 to $17,000 and the term of Mr. Tick’s employment with the Company was changed to on an “at will basis”, unless otherwise earlier terminated in writing by both parties.

On July 16, 2010, we and Mr. Tick also entered into a stock option agreement under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan. Pursuant to the terms of the stock option agreement, Mr. Tick was granted options to purchase an aggregate 150,000 shares of common stock of the Company, among which, an option to purchase 75,000 shares will be vested on December 31, 2011 with an exercise price of $5.00 per share, an option to purchase 75,000 shares will be vested on December 31, 2012 with an exercise price of $7.00 per share. Each of the options expires three years after its respective vesting date and in no event will the options be exercised later than December 31, 2015. On January 24, 2011, our Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors approved the repricing of the options that we granted to Mr. Tick on July 16, 2010. As a result, each such option outstanding has an exercise price of $3.50 per share which is higher than the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the OTC Bulletin Board on that date (the “Repricing”). In addition, the vesting schedules of the outstanding options granted to Mr. Tick were changed from vesting on an annual basis to vesting on a semi-annual basis.

On August 8, 2013, we and Mr. Tick also entered into a stock option agreement under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan. Pursuant to the terms of the stock option agreement, Mr. Tick was granted options to purchase an aggregate 75,000 shares of common stock of the Company, among which, an option to purchase 37,500 shares will be vested on November 15, 2013 with an exercise price of $0.83 per share, an option to purchase 37,500 shares will be vested on April 15, 2014 with an exercise price of $0.83 per share. Each of the options expires three years after its respective vesting date and in no event will the options be exercised later than April 15, 2017.

According to the stock option agreement, in the event Mr. Tick’s employment with us is terminated for any reason except for death or disability, he may exercise the options only to the extent that the options would have been exercisable on the termination date and no later than three months after the termination date. If Mr. Tick’s employment is terminated because of his death or disability, the options may be exercised only to the extent that such options would have been exercisable by Mr. Tick on the termination date and must be exercised by Mr. Tick no later than twelve months after the termination date. If the employment is terminated for Cause as defined in the stock option agreement, the options will terminate immediately. In no event will the options be exercised later than December 31, 2015.

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On July 16, 2010, November 26, 2012 and August 8, 2013, we also entered into restricted shares grant agreements under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan with Mr. Tick. Pursuant to the terms of the restricted shares grant agreements, we granted to Mr. Tick 150,000 restricted shares of our common stock on July 16, 2010; 20,000 restricted shares of our common stock on November 26, 2012 and 75,000 restricted shares of our common stock on August 8, 2013, subject to the vesting schedule therein. If Mr. Tick’s service with us ceases for any reason other than Mr. Tick’s (a) death, (b) disability, (c) retirement, or (d) termination by us without cause, any nonvested restricted shares will be automatically forfeited to us.

Both the options and the restricted shares granted to Mr. Tick are also subject to certain acceleration provisions provided in the stock option agreement and the restricted shares grant agreement, respectively.

We have not provided retirement benefits (other than a state pension scheme in which all of our employees in China participate) or severance or change of control benefits to our named executive officer.

Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End

The following table sets forth information concerning the fiscal 2014 year-end value of unvested options and restricted shares for Mr. Robert Tick. No other executive officers received unexercised options or stock that has not vested or equity incentive plan awards that remained outstanding as of the end of the fiscal year 2014.

  OUTSTANDING EQUITY AWARDS AT FISCAL YEAR-END  
      Option Awards       Stock Awards    
Name Number of securities underlying unexercised options (#) exercisable Number of securities underlying unexercised options (#) unexercisable Equity incentive plan awards: Number of securities underlying unexercised unearned options (#) Option exercise price ($) Option expiration date Number of shares or units of stock that have not vested (#) Market value of shares or units of stock that have not vested (#) Equity incentive plan awards: Number of unearned shares, units or other rights that have not vested (#) Equity incentive plan awards: Market or payout value of unearned shares, units or other rights that have not vested ($)
Robert
Tick

       37,500     $3.50 6/30/2015 0 0 0 0
       37,500     $3.50 12/31/2015
       37,500     $0.83 11/15/2016
       37,500     $0.83 4/15/2017

On January 24, 2011, the Compensation Committee approved the repricing of the options that we granted to Mr. Tick on July 16, 2010. In addition, the vesting schedules of the outstanding options were changed from vesting on an annual basis to vesting on a semi-annual basis.

The terms of the options currently held by Mr. Tick are as follows:

Number of Options
Original Vesting
Schedule
Modified Vesting
Schedule
Original Exercise
Price per Share
Modified Exercise
Price per Share
37,500 December 31, 2012 June 30, 2012 $7.00 $3.50
37,500 December 31, 2012 December 31, 2012 $7.00 $3.50
37,500 November 15, 2013 - $0.83 -
37,500 April 15, 2014 - $0.83 -

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Compensation of Directors

The table below sets forth the compensation of our directors for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014:

    Fees           Non-Equity        
    Earned or   Stock   Option   Incentive Plan   All Other    
    Paid in   Awards   Awards   Compensation   Compensation   Total
Name   Cash ($)   ($)(4)   ($)(5)   ($)   ($)   ($)
Lianyun Han(1)   -   -   -   -   24,093   24,093
Richard E. Fearon Jr.(2)   -   23,882   -   -   -   23,882
Henry Ngan   -   28,027   -   -   -   28,027
Virginia P’an   -   28,027   -   -   -   28,027
Robert Tick(3)   -   25,896   7,371   -   198,000   231,267
Chunming Zhang   -   -   -   -   12,747   12,747
Jianbing Zhong   -   23,882   -   -   -   23,882

(1)

Ms. Han does not receive additional compensation for her service as our director. The compensation disclosed herein is her compensation for serving as our CEO and President as disclosed in the Summary Compensation Table above.

(2)

Became our director on November 26, 2012.

(3)

Became our director on January 24, 2011. The compensation disclosed herein reflects the compensation Mr. Tick received as the Chief Financial Officer of our company.

(4)

The amounts in the Stock Awards column reflect the aggregate grant date fair values of Restricted Stock, calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. These are not amounts paid to or realized by the respective directors.

(5)

The amount reported in the “Option Awards” column reflects the aggregate grant date fair value computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. These are not amounts paid to or realized by each of the relevant directors.

On October 5, 2010, we entered into separate independent director contracts with each of Mr. Henry Ngan, Ms. Virginia P’an and Mr. Jianbing Zhong. Pursuant to the director contracts, we granted, under our 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, to Mr. Ngan 40,000 restricted shares of our common stock, Ms. P’an 30,000 restricted shares and Mr. Zhong 20,000 restricted shares, as compensation for the services to be provided by them as independent directors. On the same date, we also entered into separate restricted shares grant agreements with each of the above directors to evidence the grant of these restricted shares. The restricted shares will vest in equal installments on a semi-annual basis over a two-year period.

On January 24, 2011, we entered into an independent director contract with Mr. Kurtzig. Under the terms of the independent director contract, we agreed to grant, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, to Mr. Kurtzig 20,000 restricted shares of our common stock as compensation for the services to be provided by him as a director of the Company. On the same date, we also entered into a restricted shares grant agreement with Mr. Kurtzig to evidence the grant of the restricted shares. The restricted shares will vest in equal installments on a semi-annual basis over a two-year period.

On August 11, 2011, the Company entered into a restricted shares grant agreement with Mr. Kurtzig, whereby the Company agreed to grant, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, to Mr. Kurtzig 10,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock as compensation for the services to be provided by him.

On November 26, 2012, the Company entered into separate restricted shares grant agreements with Mr. Henry Ngan, Ms. Virginia P’an, Mr. Jianbing Zhong, and Mr. Richard E. Fearon, Jr., whereby the Company agreed to grant, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, to Mr. Ngan 30,000 restricted shares of our common stock, Ms. P’an 30,000 restricted shares, Mr. Zhong 20,000 restricted shares and Mr. Fearon 20,000 restricted shares, as compensation for the services to be provided by them as independent directors. On the same date, we also entered into separate restricted shares grant agreements with each of the above directors to evidence the grant of these restricted shares. The restricted shares will vest in equal installments on a semi-annual basis over a two-year period.

On August 15, 2014, the Company entered into separate restricted shares grant agreements with Mr. Henry Ngan, Ms. Virginia P’an, Mr. Jianbing Zhong, and Mr. Richard E. Fearon, Jr., whereby the Company agreed to grant, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, 40,000 restricted shares to each person, as compensation for the services to be provided by them as independent directors. On the same date, we also entered into separate restricted shares grant agreements with each of the above directors to evidence the grant of these restricted shares. The restricted shares will vest in equal installments on a semi-annual basis over a two-year period.

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ITEM 12.

SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS.

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

The following table sets forth information regarding beneficial ownership of our common stock as of March 14, 2015 (i) by each person who is known by us to beneficially own more than 5% of our voting securities; (ii) by each of our officers and directors; and (iii) by all of our officers and directors as a group. Unless otherwise specified, the address of each of the persons set forth below is in care of Nutrastar International Inc., 4/F Yushan Plaza, 51 Yushan Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, People’s Republic of China.

Name and Address of Beneficial Owner Office, If Any Shares Beneficially Owned(1)  
Common Stock(2)   Series A Preferred Stock(3) % Total
Voting
Power (4)
Shares % of Class Shares % of Class
  Directors and Officers   
Lianyun Han Chairperson, President and CEO 6,349,424(5) 37.03% - * 35.79%
Robert Tick Director, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer 271,900 1.59% - * 1.52%
Hongbin Hua Chief Marketing Officer - * - * *
Richard E. Fearon, Jr. Director 1,680,056(6) 9.80% 47,750(6) 64.29% 12.35%
Henry Ngan Director 80,000 * - * *
Virginia P’an Director 70,000 * - * *
Chunming Zhang Director - * - * *
Jianbing Zhong Director 50,000 * - * *
All officers and directors as a group
(7 persons named above)

8,501,380
49.58%
47,750
64.29%
50.19%
  5% Security Holders   
New Zealand WAYNE’s Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. 4/F, Yushan Plaza No.51 Yushan Road Harbin, China 150090 (5)    6,349,424(5) 37.03% - * 35.79%
Gal Shmuel Dymant Suite 1806, Building A Oriental Media Centre 4 Guanghua Road Chaoyang District, Beijing 100026 People's Republic of China    - * 13,306 17.91% *

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Accretive Capital Partners, LLC(6)
16 Wall Street, 2nd Floor
Madison, CT 06443
   1,600,856 9.42% 47,750 64.29% 11.89%(6)
Lianyun Han Chairperson, President and CEO 6,349,424(5) 37.03% - * 35.79%

* Less than 1%

(1)

Beneficial Ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. For each beneficial owner above, any options exercisable within 60 days have been included in the denominator.

   
(2)

Based on 16,996,396 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of March 24, 2015.

   
(3)

Based on 74,276 shares of Series A Preferred Stock issued and outstanding as of March 24, 2015. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible initially into ten (10) shares of common stock (subject to customary adjustments for stock splits, combinations, or equity dividends on common stock). Holders of Series A Preferred Stock vote with the holders of common stock on all matters on an “as converted” basis.

   
(4)

Percentage of Total Capital Stock represents total ownership with respect to all shares of our common stock and Series A Preferred Stock, as a single class and on an “as-converted” to common stock basis.

   
(5)

Includes 6,349,424 shares of common stock owned by New Zealand WAYNE’s Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. Pursuant to the Earn-In Agreement, dated September 12, 2008, as amended, the Founders, including Ms. Han, have the options to acquire a majority interest in New Zealand WAYNE’s Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. upon the satisfaction of certain conditions set forth in the Earn-In Agreement. Upon the passage of six months after the date of Share Exchange Agreement, which was entered into among the Company, New Resources, along with the subsidiaries of New Resources, including Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi, and New Zealand WAYNE’s Investment Holdings Co., Ltd., dated December 23, 2008, Ms. Han will own at least a majority ownership of Investment Holdings if she exercises her option pursuant to the Earn-In Agreement. Ms. Han may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of the shares held by Investment Holdings.

   
(6)

Includes 1,600,856 shares of common stock and 47,750 shares of Series A Preferred Stock owned by Accretive Capital Partners, LLC. Richard E. Fearon, Jr. is the managing partner of Accretive Capital Management, LLC, which is the manager of Accretive Capital Partners, LLC, and he has sole voting and investment power over the securities held by Accretive Capital Partners, LLC. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible at a conversion ratio of one-to-ten into shares of the Company’s common stock.

Changes in Control

There are no arrangements known to us, including any pledge by any person of our securities, the operation of which may at a subsequent date result in a change in control of the Company.

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

The following table includes the information as of the end of fiscal year 2014 for each category of our equity compensation plan:

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Plan category

Number of securities to
be issued upon exercise
of outstanding options,
warrants and rights
(a)

Weighted-average
exercise price of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights
(b)
Number of securities remaining
available for future issuance
under equity compensation
plans (excluding securities
reflected in column (a))
(c)
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders(1) 150,000(2) $2.17 470,000
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders - - -
Total 150,000(2) $2.17 470,000

(1)

On June 3, 2009, our Board of Directors authorized the establishment of the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, whereby we are authorized to issue shares of our common stock to certain employees, consultants and directors. The maximum aggregate number of shares of our common stock that may be issued under the 2009 Equity Incentive Plan is 1,000,000 shares. The Plan was approved by our shareholders on June 3, 2009. On July 23, 2012, our Board of Directors authorized, and on July 25, 2012, the majority of the security holders approved the amendment to the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, under which the maximum aggregate number of shares of our common stock that may be issued has been increased to 2,500,000 shares.

   
(2)

On July 16, 2010, we granted Mr. Robert Tick options to purchase an aggregate 150,000 shares of common stock under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan. On January 24, 2011, the Compensation Committee of the Board approved the repricing of the options. As a result, each such option outstanding has an exercise price of $3.50 per share which is higher than the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the OTC Bulletin Board on that date. On August 8, 2013, we granted Mr. Robert Tick options to purchase an aggregate 75,000 shares of common stock under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan. Each such option outstanding has an exercise price of $0.83 per share which is higher than the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the OTC Bulletin Board on that date. Each of these options expires three years after their respective vesting dates. As of December 31, 2014, an aggregate of 75,000 shares options expired.

ITEM 13.      CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE.

Transactions with Related Persons

The following includes a summary of transactions since the beginning of the 2014 fiscal year, or any currently proposed transaction, in which we were or are to be a participant and the amount involved exceeded or exceeds the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of our total assets at year-end for the last two completed fiscal years, and in which any related person had or will have a direct or indirect material interest (other than compensation described under Item 11, “Executive Compensation”). We believe the terms obtained or consideration that we paid or received, as applicable, in connection with the transactions described below were comparable to terms available or the amounts that would be paid or received, as applicable, in arm’s-length transactions.

  • On January 10, 2008, Daqing Shuaiyi entered into a land lease agreement with Heilongjiang Shuaiyi Technology Development Co., Ltd, a company controlled by the management, pursuant to which Daqing Shuaiyi leased a land use right for 20 years over a 410,000 square meter tract on which it has nine factory buildings to grow and cultivate Cordyceps Militaris.

  • On October 15, 2007, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi entered into a loan agreement with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Daqing Shuaiyi, pursuant to which Heilongjiang Shuaiyi agreed to loan RMB 35 million (approximately $5.1 million) to Daqing Shuiayi. The loan is non-interest bearing and unsecured. Daqing Shuaiyi is obligated under the loan agreement to pay off RMB 7 million (approximately $1 million) by October 30 each year starting from 2008. The loan agreement was modified in May 2011 to extend the maturity date of the loan until October 15, 2018.

  • On September 12, 2008, the Shareholder entered into separate Earn-In Agreements with the Founders of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, including our chairperson and chief executive officer, Lianyun Han. Pursuant to the Earn-In Agreements, each Founder has an option to purchase shares of the Shareholder’s ordinary shares at a purchase price of $0.01 per share (the par value of the Shareholder’s ordinary shares), provided that the aggregate price with respect to the shares eligible to be purchased relating to the satisfaction of condition (4) below is the sum of $0.01 per share, multiplied the number of such shares, plus $1,000, upon the satisfaction of each of the following conditions: (1) six months have expired since the date of the Share Exchange Agreement, provided that on or before that date, the Founder and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi have entered into a binding employment agreement and the Founder is employed by Heilongjiang Shuaiyi pursuant to that agreement on such date; (2) the SEC has declared a registration statement filed by the Company under the Securities Act effective, or investors who purchased common stock from the Company pursuant to a securities purchase agreement being able to sell their common stock under Rule 144; (3) Heilongjiang Shuaiyi and its subsidiaries have achieved not less than $1,560,000 in after-tax net income, as determined under US GAAP for the six months ended June 2009; and (4) Heilongjiang Shuaiyi has achieved not less than $3,900,000 in pre-tax profits, as determined under US GAAP for the fiscal year ending 2009. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining whether or not the financial thresholds described above have been achieved, the purchase of the shares by the Founder or any other person designated by the Founder shall not be deemed to be an expense, charge, or other deduction from revenues of the Company even though GAAP may require contrary treatment. Each Founder may purchase 25% of the total number of shares that he or she is eligible to purchase under his or her Earn-In Agreement upon the satisfaction of each condition described above and the aggregate number of shares eligible for purchase by all of the Founders under the Earn-In Agreements is 100,000. On February 12, 2009, each Founder and the Shareholder entered into the First Amendment to amend the definition of the first condition. As a result, pursuant to the First Amendment, in order to satisfy the first condition for each Founder, only Ms. Lianyun Han needs to enter into a binding employment agreement with Heilongjiang Shuaiyi within six months after the date of the Share Exchange Agreement.

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  • On April 15, 2011, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi entered into an asset transfer agreement, or the Transfer Agreement, with Ms. Han. Pursuant to the Transfer Agreement, Heilongjiang Shuiayi acquired an office building located at 54-1 Ganshui Road, Xiangfang District, Harbin, with a construction area of 1854.1 square meters, from Ms. Han at a cash consideration of RMB 12.75 million (approximately $1.95 million including other incidental costs), which was fully paid in April 2011. The purchase price was determined based on a real property valuation report issued by an independent appraisal firm, Harbin Guoxin Real Estate Appraisal and Consulting Co., Limited on November 11, 2010 and reflected approximately equal valuation which Ms. Han originally paid when she acquired such property for the Company. Management believes the terms of the purchase transaction and the consideration that the Company paid in connection with this transaction were comparable to the terms available and the amounts that would be paid in an arm’s-length transaction.

  • On May 31, 2011, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi entered into a loan agreement with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Daqing Shuaiyi, pursuant to which Heilongjiang Shuaiyi agreed to loan RMB 9.5 million (approximately $1.5 million) to Daqing Shuiayi. The loan is non-interest bearing and unsecured. Daqing Shuaiyi is obligated under the loan agreement to pay off RMB 1.9 million (approximately $0.3 million) by May 31 each year starting from 2012. The loan matures on May 31, 2016.

Except as set forth in our discussion above, none of our directors, director nominees or executive officers has been involved in any transactions with us or any of our directors, executive officers, affiliates or associates which are required to be disclosed pursuant to the rules and regulations of the SEC.

Promoters and Certain Control Persons

We did not have any promoters at any time during the past five fiscal years.

Parents of the Company

New Zealand WAYNE’s Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. currently owns 35.79% of Nutrastar International Inc.

Director Independence

Richard E. Fearon, Jr., Henry Ngan, Virginia P’an and Jianbing Zhong, each serves on our Board of Directors as an “independent director” as defined by Rule 5605(a)(2) of Listing Rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (the “Nasdaq Listing Rules”). Our Board of Directors currently has three standing committees which perform various duties on behalf of and report to the board of directors: (i) audit committee, (ii) compensation committee and (iii) governance and nominating committee. Each of the three standing committees is comprised entirely of Henry Ngan, Virginia P’an and Jianbing Zhong.

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ITEM 14.      PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES.

Independent Auditors’ Fees

The following table represents fees billed and to be billed to the Company for professional audit services rendered by the Company’s independent public accountants, Crowe Horwath (HK) CPA Limited.

    2014     2013  
             
Audit fees (1) $  185,000   $  175,000  
Audit-related fees (2)   -     -  
Tax fees   -     -  
All other fees   -     -  
Total $  185,000   $  175,000  
_____________________
(1)

“Audit Fees” consisted of the aggregate fees billed or accrued for professional services rendered for the audit of our annual financial statements and the reviews of the financial statements included in our Forms 10-Q and for any other services that were normally provided in connection with our statutory and regulatory filings or engagements.

   
(2)

“Audit Related Fees” consisted of the aggregate fees billed for professional services rendered for assurance and related services that were reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and were not otherwise included in Audit Fees.

Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures

Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, all audit and non-audit services performed by our auditors must be approved in advance by our Board of Directors or the Audit Committee to assure that such services do not impair the auditors’ independence from us. In accordance with its policies and procedures, our Board of Directors pre-approved the audit services performed by our independent public accountants for our consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2014. Our Board of Directors delegated its pre-approval authority regarding the non-audited services to its Chair. The Chair of our Board of Directors pre-approved the non-audit services performed by our independent public accountants for our consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2014.

PART IV

ITEM 15.      EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.

Financial Statements and Schedules

The financial statements are set forth under Item 8 of this annual report on Form 10-K. Financial statement schedules have been omitted since they are either not required, not applicable, or the information is otherwise included.

Exhibit List

The following exhibits are filed as part of this report or incorporated by reference:

Exhibit No.   Description
     
3.1

Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation filed with the Nevada Secretary of State on May 19, 2009 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 26, 2009].

     
3.2

Certificate of Amendment filed with the Nevada Secretary of State on January 11, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 14, 2010].

     
3.3

Certificate of Designation of Series A Preferred Stock, as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada, May 27, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 3, 2010].

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Exhibit No.   Description
 
3.4

Amended and Restated Bylaws, adopted October 5, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.1

Exclusive Licensing Agreement, dated April 10, 2006, between Runjiao Wang and Daqing Shuaiyi Biotech Co., Ltd. (English Translation) [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 31, 2008].

     
10.2

Form of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd. Employment Agreement. (English Translation) [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 31, 2008].

     
10.3

English Translation of Employment Agreement, dated August 18, 2009, between Heilongjiang Shuaiyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and Hongbing Hua [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 21, 2009].

     
10.4

2009 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended on July 23, 2012) [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 27, 2012].

     
10.5

Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated May 27, 2010, by and among the Company and the investors named therein [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 3, 2010].

     
10.6

Employment Agreement, by and between the Company and Robert Tick, dated July 16, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 20, 2010].

     
10.7

Stock Option Agreement, by and between the Company and Robert Tick, dated July 16, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 20, 2010].

     
10.8

Restricted Shares Grant Agreement, by and between the Company and Robert Tick, dated July 16, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 20, 2010].

     
10.9

Independent Director Contract, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Henry Ngan [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.10

Independent Director Contract, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Virginia P’an [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.11

Independent Director Contract, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Jianbing Zhong [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.12

Indemnification Agreement, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Henry Ngan [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.13

Indemnification Agreement, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Virginia P’an [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.14

Indemnification Agreement, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Jianbing Zhong [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.15

Restricted Shares Grant Agreements, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Henry Ngan [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.16

Restricted Shares Grant Agreements, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Virginia P’an [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

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Exhibit No.   Description
     

10.17

Restricted Shares Grant Agreements, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Jianbing Zhong [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     

10.18

Indemnification Agreement, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Robert Tick [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     

10.19

English Translation of Equity Transfer Agreement, by and between New Resources and the Founders, dated October 22, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 28, 2010].

     

10.20

English Translation of Technical Service Agreement, by and between Harbin Baixin and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, dated October 22, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 28, 2010].

     

10.21

English Translation of Exclusive Purchase Option Agreement, by and among Harbin Baixin, the Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, dated October 22, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 28, 2010].

     

10.22

English Translation of Voting Rights Proxy Agreement, by and among Harbin Baixin, the Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, dated October 22, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 28, 2010].

     

10.23

English Translation of Equity Pledge Agreement, by and among Harbin Baixin, the Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, dated October 22, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 28, 2010].

     

10.24

Amendment No. 1 to the Employment Agreement, dated January 24, 2011, by and between the Company and Robert Tick [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 28, 2011].

     

10.25

Lease Agreement, dated May 1, 2010, between Qingling Zhang and Xinjun Li (English Translation) [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.47 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 29, 2011].

     

10.26

Asset Transfer Agreement, by and between Heilongjiang Shuaiyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and Lianyun Han, dated April 15, 2011 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 12, 2011].

     

10.27

Amendment No. 1 to the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated August 24, 2011, by and between the Company and ARC China Investment Funds [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 25, 2011].

     

10.28

Lock-up Agreement, dated August 24, 2011, by and between the Company and ARC China Investment Funds [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 25, 2011].

     

10.29

Independent Director Contract, dated November 26, 2012, by and between the Company and Mr. Fearon. [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2012].

     

10.30

Indemnification Agreement, dated November 26, 2012, by and between the Company and Mr. Fearon. [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2012].

     

10.31

Restricted Shares Grant Agreement, dated November 26, 2012, by and between the Company and Mr. Fearon. [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2012].

     
10.32  
Amendment No. 2 to the Employee Labor Agreement, dated August 8, 2013 , by and between the Company and Robert Tick [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 12, 2013]
     
10.33  
Amendment No. 3 to the Employee Labor Agreement, dated August 12, 2014 , by and between the Company and Robert Tick [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 13, 2014]
     

14.1

Amended and Restated Code of Ethics, adopted October 5, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 14.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     

21

 

Subsidiaries of the Company [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 29, 2011]

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Exhibit No.   Description
   
23.1   Consent of Crowe Horwath (HK) CPA Limited, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.*
     
31.1   Certifications of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. *
     
31.2   Certifications of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. *
     
32.1   Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. *
     
32.2   Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. *
     
 101.INS   XBRL Instance Document
 101.SCH   Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
 101.CAL   Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
 101.DEF   Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
 101.LAB   Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
 101.PRE   Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

* Filed herewith

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized .

Date: March 30, 2015

NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC.

  By: /s/ Lianyun Han
    Lianyun Han
    Chief Executive Officer
     
  By: /s/ Robert Tick
    Robert Tick
    Chief Financial Officer

In accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature   Title Date
       
/s/ Lianyun Han   Chairperson, Chief Executive Officer and President March 30, 2015
Lianyun Han   (Principal Executive Officer)  
       
/s/ Robert Tick   Director, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer March 30, 2015
Robert Tick   (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)  
       
/s/ Hongbin Hua   Chief Marketing Officer March 30, 2015
Hongbin Hua      
       
/s/ Richard E. Fearon, Jr.   Director March 30, 2015
Richard E. Fearon, Jr.      
       
/s/ Henry Ngan   Director March 30, 2015
Henry Ngan      
       
/s/ Virginia P’an   Director March 30, 2015
Virginia P’an      
       
/s/ Chunming Zhang   Director March 30, 2015
Chunming Zhang      
       
/s/ Jianbing Zhong   Director March 30, 2015
Jianbing Zhong      

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

  Page(s)
   
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm F-2
   
Consolidated Balance Sheets F-3
   
Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income F-4
   
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity F-5
   
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows F-6
   
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements F-7 – F-37

F-1


REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
Nutrastar International Inc.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Nutrastar International Inc. (“Company”) and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2014 and 2013 and the related consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2014. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform an audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2014 and 2013, and the consolidated results of their operations and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2014, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

As discussed in Note 2, the consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) Topic 810 and related subtopics related to the consolidation of variable interest entities.

/s/ Crowe Horwath (HK) CPA Limited
Hong Kong, China
March 30, 2015

F-2


NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(AMOUNTS EXPRESSED IN US DOLLARS)

 

  December 31,  

 

  2014     2013  

 

           

 

           

ASSETS  

 

CURRENT ASSETS

           

 Cash and cash equivalents

$  126,542,564   $  102,599,186  

 Accounts receivable

  93,066     56,922  

 Inventories

  635,409     691,847  

 Prepayments and other receivables

  1,489,800     1,300,012  

   Total current assets

  128,760,839     104,647,967  

OTHER ASSETS

           

 Intangible assets, net

  613,315     1,107,737  

 Property, plant and equipment, net

  14,424,942     15,481,249  

 

           

   Total assets

$  143,799,096   $  121,236,953  

 

           

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY 

 

CURRENT LIABILITIES

           

 Other payables and accruals

$  990,290   $  1,167,957  

 Taxes payable

  2,748,583     2,879,172  

 Due to a related party

  511,054     265,223  

 Preferred stock dividend payable

  690,662     738,903  

   Total current liabilities

  4,940,589     5,051,255  

   Total liabilities

  4,940,589     5,051,255  

COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

           

STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

           

Preferred Stock, $0.001 par value, 1,000,000 shares authorized, 77,776 shares and 110,066 shares issued and outstanding, respectively; aggregate liquidation preference amount: $2,177,728 and $3,081,848, plus accrued but unpaid dividend of $690,662 and $738,903, at December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively

  1,773,772     2,510,183  

 

           

Common stock, $0.001 par value, 190,000,000 shares authorized, 16,953,541 shares issued and 16,909,986 shares outstanding at December 31, 2014; 16,421,161 shares issued and 16,377,606 shares outstanding at December 31, 2013

  16,954     16,422  

Additional paid-in capital

  21,122,372     19,934,551  

Statutory reserves

  4,989,033     4,983,935  

Treasury stock, at cost, 43,555 shares as of December 31, 2014 and 2013

  (78,767 )   (78,767 )

Retained earnings

  102,783,308     80,242,877  

Accumulated other comprehensive income

  8,251,835     8,576,497  

   Total stockholders' equity

  138,858,507     116,185,698  

 

           

   Total liabilities and stockholders' equity

$  143,799,096   $  121,236,953  

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

F-3


NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(AMOUNTS EXPRESSED IN US DOLLARS)

    Year Ended December 31,  
    2014     2013  
             
REVENUE $  43,328,218   $  43,348,989  
             
Cost of goods sold   (9,315,526 )   (9,633,349 )
             
GROSS PROFIT   34,012,692     33,715,640  
             
Selling expenses   (1,467,320 )   (1,848,488 )
General and administrative expenses            
    (2,376,873 )   (3,216,459 )
Gain on re-measurement of accrued staff fringe and social benefits   -     934,855  
             
Income from operations   30,168,499     29,585,548  
             
Other income (expenses):            
   Interest income   399,696     324,145  
   Foreign exchange differences   (10,765 )   64,653  
   Change in fair value of warrants   -     173  
   Other income   32,558     8,073  
   Total other income (expenses)   421,489     397,044  
             
Income before income taxes   30,589,988     29,982,592  
             
Provision for income taxes   (7,870,214 )   (7,812,222 )
             
NET INCOME   22,719,774     22,170,370  
             
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME:            
Foreign currency translation adjustments   (324,662 )   3,109,485  
             
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME $  22,395,112   $  25,279,855  
             
Earnings per share            
   Basic $  1.34   $  1.38  
   Diluted $  1.28   $  1.30  
             
Weighted average number of shares outstanding            
   Basic   16,827,010     15,949,537  
   Diluted   17,699,589     17,089,460  

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

F-4


NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(AMOUNTS EXPRESSED IN US DOLLARS)

    Preferred Stock     Common Stock                                      
                                                    Accumulated        
                            Additional                       Other        
    Number           Number of           Paid-In     Treasury     Statutory     Retained     Comprehensive        
    of Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Capital     Stock     Reserves     Earnings     Income     Total  
                                                             
Balance at January 1, 2013   113,010   $  2,577,324     15,863,826   $  15,908   $  19,029,586   $  (78,767 ) $ 4,960,023   $  58,325,932   $ 5,467,012   $ 90,297,018  
Net income   -     -     -     -     -     -     -     22,170,370     -     22,170,370  
Foreign currency translation adjustment   -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     3,109,485     3,109,485  
Preferred stock converted into common stock   (2,944 )   (67,141 )   29,440     29     67,112     -     -     -     -     -  
Issuance of common stock for Preferred stock dividend   -     -     6,840     7     19,131     -     -     -     -     19,138  
Preferred stock dividend   -     -     -     -     -     -     -     (229,513 )   -     (229,513 )
Appropriation of statutory reserves   -     -     -     -     -     -     23,912     (23,912 )   -     -  
Share-based payments to non- employee (IR)   -     -     -     -     17,804     -     -     -     -     17,804  
Share-based payments to employees   -     -     -     -     801,396     -     -     -     -     801,396  
Issuance of restricted stock to non- employee (IR)   -     -     15,000     15     (15 )   -     -     -     -     -  
Issuance of restricted stock to employees   -     -     462,500     463     (463 )   -     -     -     -     -  
                                                             
Balance at December 31, 2013   110,066   $  2,510,183     16,377,606   $  16,422   $  19,934,551   $  (78,767 ) $ 4,983,935   $  80,242,877   $ 8,576,497   $ 116,185,698  
Net income   -     -     -     -     -     -     -     22,719,774     -     22,719,774  
Foreign currency translation adjustment   -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     (324,662 )   (324,662 )
Preferred stock converted into common stock   (32,290 )   (736,411 )   322,900     323     736,088     -     -     -     -     -  
Issuance of common stock for Preferred stock dividend   -     -     79,480     79     222,407     -     -     -     -     222,486  
Preferred stock dividend   -     -     -     -     -     -     -     (174,245 )   -     (174,245 )
Appropriation of statutory reserves   -     -     -     -     -     -     5,098     (5,098 )   -     -  
Share-based payments to non- employee (IR)   -     -     -     -     92,371     -     -     -     -     92,371  
Share-based payments to employees   -     -     -     -     137,085     -     -     -     -     137,085  
Issuance of unregistered common stock to non-employee (IR)   -     -     42,500     43     (43 )   -     -     -     -     -  
Issuance of restricted stock to employees   -     -     87,500     87     (87 )   -     -     -     -     -  
                                                             
Balance at December 31, 2014   77,776   $  1,773,772     16,909,986   $  16,954   $  21,122,372   $  (78,767 ) $ 4,989,033   $  102,783,308   $ 8,251,835   $ 138,858,507  

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(AMOUNTS EXPRESSED IN US DOLLARS)

    Year Ended December 31,  
    2014     2013  
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:            
Net income $  22,719,774   $  22,170,370  
Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash provided by operating activities:            
   Change in fair value of warrants   -     (173 )
   Depreciation and amortization   1,485,039     1,473,496  
   Share-based compensation expense   137,085     801,396  
   IR unregistered stock compensation expense   92,371     17,804  
(Increase) decrease in assets:            
             Accounts receivable   (36,209 )   26,676  
             Inventories   53,730     298,548  
             Prepayments and other receivables   (193,731 )   61,626  
Increase (decrease) in liabilities:            
             Other payables and accruals   (173,184 )   -  
             Advance from related party   237,956     (351,591 )
             Taxes payable   (119,724 )   (191,162 )
         Net cash provided by operating activities   24,203,107     24,306,990  
             
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:            
   Advance from related party   16,637     46,173  
         Net cash provided by financing activities   16,637     46,173  
             
Foreign currency translation adjustment   (276,366 )   2,719,490  
             
INCREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS   23,943,378     27,072,653  
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, at the beginning of the period   102,599,186     75,526,533  
             
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, at the end of the period $  126,542,564   $  102,599,186  
             
NON-CASH TRANSACTIONS            
Preferred stock and dividend converted into common stock $  958,897   $  86,279  
Preferred stock dividend payable   174,245     229,513  
Share-based payment to officers and directors under equity incentive plan   137,085     801,396  
Share-based payment – IR unregistered stock compensation expense   92,371     17,804  
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE INFORMATION            
Income taxes paid $  7,970,444   $  7,683,689  

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 1             DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION

Nutrastar International Inc. (“Nutrastar” or the “Company”) was incorporated in the State of Nevada on December 22, 2002. On December 23, 2008, the Company completed a reverse acquisition with New Zealand WAYNE’S New Resources Development Co., Ltd. (“New Resources”). As a result of the reverse acquisition with New Resources, the Company is no longer a shell company and active business operations have been revived. Nutrastar together with its subsidiaries and affiliates as described below are referred to as the “Company”.

On May 19, 2009, the Company filed Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation with the State of Nevada to amend the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to, among other things, (1) change the name of the Company from “YzApp International Inc.” to “Shuaiyi International New Resources Development Inc.,” (2) increase the total number of shares of common stock that the Company has the authority to issue from 50,000,000 to 190,000,000 shares and (3) effect a one for 114.59 reverse split of the Company’s outstanding common stock.

On January 11, 2010, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Articles of Incorporation with the State of Nevada, pursuant to which the Company further changed its name from "Shuaiyi International New Resources Development Inc." to "Nutrastar International Inc."

On October 22, 2010, New Resources, a wholly-owned British Virgin Islands subsidiary of the Company, entered into an equity transfer agreement with the original founders of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi (the “Shuaiyi Founders”), pursuant to which New Resources transferred all of its equity interests in Heilongjiang Shuaiyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd. (“Heilongjiang Shuaiyi”), a then wholly-owned Chinese subsidiary of New Resources, to the Shuaiyi Founders (the “Equity Transfer”).

In connection with the Equity Transfer, the Shuaiyi Founders, the Company’s indirectly wholly-owned Chinese subsidiary incorporated on July 13, 2010, Harbin Baixin Biotech Development Co., Ltd. (“Harbin Baixin”) and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi entered into the following commercial arrangements (the “Contractual Arrangement” and together with the Equity Transfer, the “Restructuring”), pursuant to which the Company has contractual rights to control and operate the businesses of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi's two wholly-owned Chinese subsidiaries, Daqing Shuaiyi Biotech Co., Ltd. (“Daqing Shuaiyi”) and Harbin Shuaiyi Green & Specialty Food Trading LLC (“Harbin Shuaiyi” and together with Heilongjiang Shuaiyi and Daqing Shuaiyi, the “VIEs”):

Service Agreement
Pursuant to a technical service agreement, entered into by and between Harbin Baixin and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Harbin Baixin will provide certain exclusive technical services to Heilongjiang Shuaiyi in exchange for the payment by Heilongjiang Shuaiyi of a service fee that is calculated based on the market price in light of the particulars of the service and the time of such service provided by Harbin Baixin (the “Service Agreement”);

Option Agreement
Pursuant to an exclusive purchase option agreement, entered into by and among Harbin Baixin, the Shuaiyi Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, the Shuaiyi Founders granted to Harbin Baixin an option to purchase at any time during the term of this agreement, all or part of the equity interests in Heilongjiang Shuaiyi (the “Equity Interests”), at the exercise price equal to the lowest possible price permitted by Chinese laws (the “Option Agreement”);

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 1             DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION (CONTINUED)

Voting Rights Agreement
Pursuant to a voting rights proxy agreement, entered into by and among Harbin Baixin, the Shuaiyi Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, each of the Shuaiyi Founders irrevocably entrusted Harbin Baixin and any entities or individuals designated by Harbin Baixin to, among others, exercise its voting rights and other rights as a shareholder of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi (the “Voting Rights Agreement”); and

Pledge agreement
Pursuant to an equity pledge agreement, entered into by and among Harbin Baixin, the Shuaiyi Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, the Founders pledged all of the Equity Interests to Harbin Baixin to secure the full and complete performance of the obligations and liabilities on the part of the Shuaiyi Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi under this and above contractual arrangements (the “Pledge Agreement” and together with the Service Agreement, the Option Agreement, the Voting Rights Agreement and the Equity Transfer Agreement, the “Restructuring Documents”).

As a result of the Restructuring, the Company transferred all of its indirect equity interests in Heilongjiang Shuaiyi back to the Shuaiyi Founders, among whom, Ms. Lianyun Han became a majority shareholder of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi by owning a 68.3% equity interest in Heilongjiang Shuaiyi. At the same time, through the above contractual agreement, the Company maintains substantial control over the VIEs’ daily operations and financial affairs, election of their senior executives and all matters requiring shareholder approval. As the primary beneficiary of the VIEs, the Company is entitled to consolidate the financial results of the VIEs in its own consolidated financial statements under Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) Topic 810 and related subtopics related to the consolidation of variable interest entities (collectively, “ASC Topic 810”).

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 1             DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION (CONTINUED)

As of December 31, 2014, details of the subsidiaries and affiliates of the Company are as follows:

            Percentage    
    Domicile and date       of effective    
Names   of incorporation   Paid-up capital   ownership   Principal activities
                 
Subsidiaries                
                 
New Zealand WAYNE’S New Resources Development Co., Ltd
(“New Resources”)

British Virgin Islands,
March 13, 2008

$50,000

100%

Holding company of the other subsidiaries
                 
Oriental Global Holdings Limited
(“Oriental Global”)

Hong Kong,
May 28, 2010

HK$1

100%

Holding company of Harbin Baixin
                 
Harbin Baixin Biotech Development Co., Ltd (“Harbin Baixin”) People’s Republic of China (“PRC”),
July 13, 2010
$3,000,000 100% Cordyceps Militaris (aka Chinese Golden Grass) cultivation technology research and development, services and Cordyceps Militaris products wholesale
                 
VIEs                
                 
Heilongjiang Shuaiyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd (“Heilongjiang Shuaiyi”) PRC,
July 11, 2006
RMB60,000,000 100% Principally engaged in investment and property holding
                 
Daqing Shuaiyi Biotech Co. Ltd.
(“Daqing Shuaiyi”)
PRC,
August 8, 2005
RMB50,000,000 100% Growing and sales of Cordyceps Militaris, which is widely used for Chinese medicine, and functional health beverages
                 
Harbin Shuaiyi Green and Specialty Food Trading LLC.
(“Harbin Shuaiyi”)
PRC,
May 18, 2001
RMB1,500,000 100% Sales of organic and specialty food products

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 2             SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICES

Basis of preparation
These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Principle of consolidation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of Nutrastar and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, New Resources, Oriental Global and Harbin Baixin, and its VIEs Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi. All significant inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated on consolidation.

The Company has evaluated the relationship with Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi and based on the result of the evaluation, believes that these entities are variable interest entities and that it is the primary beneficiary of these entities. Consequently, the Company has included the results of operations of these variable interest entities in the consolidated financial statements. The Company’s relationships with Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi are governed by a series of contractual arrangements. Under PRC laws, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi are independent legal persons and none of them is exposed to liabilities incurred by the other parties.

The accounts of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi are consolidated in the accompanying financial statements pursuant to the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) Topic 810 and related subtopics related to the consolidation of variable interest entities. The Company does not have any non-controlling interests in net income and accordingly, did not subtract any net income in calculating the net income attributable to the Company. Because of the contractual arrangements, the Company had a pecuniary interest in the VIEs that require consolidation of the Company’s and the VIEs’ financial statements.

Use of estimates
The preparation of these consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires the Company to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of these consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The Company bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Accordingly, actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. Significant estimates for the year ended December 31, 2014 and 2013 include the useful lives of property and equipment and intangible assets, assumptions used in assessing impairment for long-term assets and the fair values of share-based payments.

Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents consist of all cash balances and highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less. Because of the short maturity of these investments, the carrying amounts approximate their fair value.

Accounts receivable
Accounts receivable is stated at cost, net of an allowance for doubtful accounts. The Company maintains allowances for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the failure of customers to make required payments. The Company reviews the accounts receivable on a periodic basis and provides allowances where there is doubt as to the collectability of individual balances. In evaluating the collectability of individual receivable balances, the Company considers many factors, including the age of the balance, the customer’s payment history, its current credit-worthiness and current economic trends.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 2             SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICES (CONTINUED)

Inventories
Inventories are stated at the lower of cost, determined on a weighted average basis, or market. Costs of inventories include purchase and related costs incurred in bringing the products to their present location and condition. Market value is determined by reference to selling prices after the balance sheet date or to management’s estimates based on prevailing market conditions. Management will write down the inventories to market value if it is below cost. Management also regularly evaluates the composition of its inventories to identify slow-moving and obsolete inventories to determine if a valuation allowance is required.

Derivative financial instruments
The Company evaluates all its financial instruments to determine if such instruments are derivatives or contain features that qualify as embedded derivatives. For derivative instruments that are accounted for as liabilities, the derivative instrument is initially recorded at its fair value and is then revalued at each reporting date, with changes in the fair value reported in the consolidated statements of income. For stock-based derivative financial instruments, the Company uses Monte-Carlo simulation methods to value the derivative instruments at inception and on subsequent valuation dates.

Property, plant and equipment
Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses, if any. Gains or losses on disposals are reflected as gain or loss in the year of disposal. The cost of improvements that extend the life of property, plant and equipment are capitalized. These capitalized costs may include structural improvements, equipment and fixtures. All ordinary repair and maintenance costs are expensed as incurred.

Depreciation for financial reporting purposes is provided using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets as follows:

  Useful Life
  (In years)
Buildings 20-40
Machinery and motor vehicles 5-10
Office equipment 5

Intangible assets
The Company’s intangible assets include a ten-year exclusive right to use a proprietary process and computer software. The Company’s amortization policy on intangible assets is as follows:

  Useful Life
  (In years)
Exclusive right 10
Computer software 4

The Company accounts for its intangible assets pursuant to FASB ASC Subtopic 350-30, “General Intangibles Other Than Goodwill”. Under ASC 350-30-35, intangibles with definite lives continue to be amortized on a straight-line basis over the lesser of their estimated useful lives or contractual terms. Under FASB ASU No.2012-02 Intangible-Goodwill and Other (Topic 350), the Company assesses qualitative factors to determine whether it is necessary to perform a quantitative impairment test. The Company would not be required to calculate the fair value of an indefinite-lived intangible asset unless the Company determines, based on a qualitative assessment, that it is not more likely than not that the indefinite-lived intangible asset is impaired. If the qualitative assessment fails, intangibles with indefinite lives are further evaluated quantitatively for impairment by comparing the asset’s estimated fair value with its carrying value, based on cash flow valuation methodology.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 2             SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICES (CONTINUED)

Impairment of long-lived assets
The Company reviews and evaluates its long-lived assets for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the related carrying amounts may not be recoverable. An impairment is considered to exist if the total estimated future cash flows on an undiscounted basis are less than the carrying amount of the assets, including goodwill, if any. An impairment loss is measured and recorded based on discounted estimated future cash flows. In estimating future cash flows, assets are grouped at the lowest level for which there is identifiable cash flows that are largely independent of future cash flows from other asset groups.

Revenue recognition
Revenue is recognized when the following four revenue criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the selling price is fixed or determinable, and collectability is reasonably assured.

Sales revenue is recognized net of value added and sales related taxes, sales discounts and returns at the time when the merchandise is delivered to the customer. Based on historical experience, management estimates that sales returns are immaterial and has not recorded an allowance for estimated sales returns.

Share-based payments
The Company accounts for share-based compensation awards to employees in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, “Compensation – Stock Compensation”, which requires that share-based payment transactions with employees be measured based on the grant-date fair value of the equity instrument issued and recognized as compensation expense over the requisite service period.

The Company accounts for share-based compensation awards to non-employees in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718 and FASB ASC Subtopic 505-50, “Equity-Based Payments to Non-employees”. Under FASB ASC Topic 718 and FASB ASC Subtopic 505-50, stock compensation granted to non-employees has been determined as the fair value of the consideration received or the fair value of equity instrument issued, whichever is more reliably measured and is recognized as expenses as the goods or services are received.

Income taxes
The Company is subject to income taxes in the United States and other foreign jurisdictions where it operates. The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 740, “Income Taxes”. FASB ASC Topic 740 requires an asset and liability approach for financial accounting and reporting for income taxes and allows recognition and measurement of deferred tax assets based upon the likelihood of realization of tax benefits in future years. Under the asset and liability approach, deferred taxes are provided for the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. A valuation allowance is provided for deferred tax assets if it is more likely than not these items will either expire before the Company is able to realize their benefits, or that future deductibility is uncertain.

The Company’s income tax returns are subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and other tax authorities in the locations where it operates. The Company assesses potentially unfavorable outcomes of such examinations based on the criteria of FASB ASC 740-10-25-5 through 740-10-25-7 and 740-10-25-13 (formerly FASB Interpretation No. 48 (“FIN 48”) “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes”). The interpretation prescribes a more-likely-than-not threshold for financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken (or expected to be taken) in a tax return. This Interpretation also provides guidance on derecognition of income tax assets and liabilities, classification of current and deferred income tax assets and liabilities, accounting for interest and penalties associated with tax positions, accounting for income taxes in interim periods and income tax disclosures.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 2             SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICES (CONTINUED)

Research and development costs
Research and development costs are expensed as incurred, and are charged to general and administrative expenses. Research and development costs were $159,229 and $173,881 for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

Advertising costs
The Company expenses all advertising costs as incurred. Advertising costs charged to selling expenses were nil and $10,437 for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

Shipping and handling costs
Substantially all costs of shipping and handling of products to customers are included in selling expense. Shipping and handling costs for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013 were insignificant.

Comprehensive income
FASB ASC Topic 220, “Comprehensive Income”, establishes standards for reporting and displaying comprehensive income and its components in the consolidated financial statements. Accumulated other comprehensive income includes foreign currency translation adjustments.

Foreign currency
The Company uses the United States dollar (“US Dollar” or “US$” or “$”) for financial reporting purposes. The PRC subsidiaries and VIEs within the Company maintain their books and records in their functional currency, Chinese Renminbi (“RMB”), being the lawful currency in the PRC. Assets and liabilities of the PRC subsidiaries and VIEs are translated from RMB into US Dollars using the applicable exchange rates prevailing at the balance sheet date. Items on the statements of income and cash flows are translated at average exchange rates during the reporting period. Equity accounts are translated at historical rates. Adjustments resulting from the translation of the Company’s financial statements are recorded as accumulated other comprehensive income.

The exchange rates used to translate amounts in RMB into US Dollars for the purposes of preparing the consolidated financial statements are based on the rates as published on the website of People’s Bank of China and are as follows:

    December 31, 2014     December 31, 2013  
Balance sheet items, except for equity accounts   US$1=RMB6.1190     US$1=RMB6.0969  
Items in the statements of income and cash flows   US$1=RMB6.1428     US$1=RMB6.1932  

No representation is made that the RMB amounts could have been, or could be, converted into US Dollars at the above rates. The value of RMB against US dollars and other currencies may fluctuate and is affected by, among other things, changes in China’s political and economic conditions. Any significant revaluation of RMB may materially affect the Company’s financial condition in terms of US Dollar reporting.

Segment reporting
The Company follows FASB ASC Topic 280, “Segment Reporting”, which requires that companies disclose segment data based on how management makes decisions about allocating resources to segments and evaluating their performance.

The Company believes that during the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, it operated in three business segments – growing and sales of Cordyceps Militaris, which is widely used for Chinese medicine; manufacturing and sale of functional health beverages featuring the Cordyceps Militaris as a core ingredient; and sales of organic and specialty products. The manufacturing and sale of Cordyceps Militaris functional health beverages was launched in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Throughout the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, all of the Company’s operations were carried out in one geographical segment - China.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 2             SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICES (CONTINUED)

Earnings per share
The Company reports earnings per share in accordance with the provisions of FASB ASC Topic 260, "Earnings per Share". FASB ASC Topic 260 requires presentation of basic and diluted earnings per share in conjunction with the disclosure of the methodology used in computing such earnings per share. Basic earnings per share excludes dilution and is computed by dividing income available to common stockholders by the weighted average common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share takes into account the potential dilution (using the treasury stock method) that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised and converted into common stock.

Commitments and contingencies
The Company follows FASB ASC Subtopic 450-20, “Loss Contingencies” in determining its accruals and disclosures with respect to loss contingencies. Accordingly, estimated losses from loss contingencies are accrued by a charge to income when information available prior to issuance of the financial statements indicates that it is probable that a liability could be incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. Legal expenses associated with the contingency are expensed as incurred. If a loss contingency is not probable or reasonably estimable, disclosure of the loss contingency is made in the financial statements when it is at least reasonably possible that a material loss could be incurred.

Recent accounting pronouncements
In April 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-08 “Presentation of Financial Statements (Topic 205) and Property, Plant, and Equipment (Topic 360) - Reporting Discontinued Operations and Disclosures of Disposals of Components of an Entity”, which changes the threshold for reporting discontinued operations and adds new disclosures. The new guidance defines a discontinued operation as a disposal that “represents a strategic shift that has (or will have) a major effect on an entity’s operations and financial results.” The standard is required to be adopted by public business entities in annual periods beginning on or after December 15, 2014, and interim periods within those annual periods. Entities may “early adopt” the guidance for new disposals. The Company is currently evaluating the impact on its consolidated financial statements of adopting this guidance.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)" which clarifies and improves the principles for recognizing revenue and develops a common revenue standard for United States generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) that among other things, improves comparability of revenue recognition practices and provides more useful information to users of financial statements through improved disclosure requirements. The amendments in ASU 2014-09 are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within that reporting period. Early application is not permitted. The Company is currently reviewing the impact on its consolidated financial statements of adopting this guidance.

In June 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-12, "Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718)" which provides explicit guidance on the treatment of awards with performance targets that could be achieved after the requisite service period. The amendments in ASU 2014-12 are effective for annual periods and interim periods within those annual periods beginning after December 15, 2015. The Company does not expect that the adoption will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

In August 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements – Going Concern. This standard requires management to evaluate for each annual and interim reporting period whether it is probable that the reporting entity will not be able to meet its obligations as they become due within one year after the date that the financial statements are issued. If the entity is in such a position, the standard provides for certain disclosures depending on whether or not the entity will be able to successfully mitigate its going concern status. This guideline is effective for annual periods ending after December 15, 2016 and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016. Early application is permitted. The Company does not expect that the adoption will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 2             SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICES (CONTINUED)

Recent accounting pronouncements (continued)
Other accounting standards that have been issued or proposed by the FASB or other standards-setting bodies that do not require adoption until a future date are not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements upon adoption.

NOTE 3             FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS AND FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

The Company values its financial instruments as required by FASB ASC 320-12-65 (formerly SFAS No. 107, “Disclosures about Fair Value of Financial Instruments”). The estimated fair value amounts have been determined by the Company, using available market information or other appropriate valuation methodologies. However, considerable judgment is required in interpreting market data to develop estimates of fair value. Consequently, the estimates are not necessarily indicative of the amounts that could be realized or would be paid in a current market exchange.

ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurement and Disclosures, defines fair value as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. This topic also establishes a fair value hierarchy which requires classification based on observable and unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. The fair value hierarchy distinguishes between assumptions based on market data (observable inputs) and an entity’s own assumptions (unobservable inputs). The hierarchy consists of three levels:

  Level one —

Quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;

  Level two —

Inputs other than level one inputs that are either directly or indirectly observable; and

  Level three —

Unobservable inputs developed using estimates and assumptions, which are developed by the reporting entity and reflect those assumptions that a market participant would use.

Determining which category an asset or liability falls within the hierarchy requires significant judgment. The Company evaluates its hierarchy disclosures each quarter. The carrying values of cash and cash equivalents, trade and other receivables and payables approximate their fair values due to the short maturities of these instruments.

For stock-based derivative financial instruments, the Company uses Monte-Carlo simulation methods to value the derivative instruments at inception and on subsequent valuation dates.

There was no asset or liability measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis as of December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013.

NOTE 4             ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, NET

Accounts receivable consisted of the following:

    December 31,  
    2014     2013  
             
Accounts receivable $  93,066   $  56,922  
Less: Allowance for doubtful debts   -     -  
             
Accounts receivable, net $  93,066   $  56,922  

No allowance was deemed necessary as of December 31, 2014 and 2013.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 5             INVENTORIES

Inventories by major categories are summarized as follows:

    December 31,  
    2014     2013  
             
Raw materials $  169,025   $  240,498  
Work in progress   432,322     404,190  
Finished goods   34,062     47,159  
             
Total $  635,409   $  691,847  

NOTE 6             PREPAYMENTS AND OTHER RECEIVABLES

Prepayments and other receivables consisted of the following:

    December 31,  
    2014     2013  
             
Prepayments for raw material purchasing $  1,470,434   $  1,271,672  
Other receivables, net of $nil allowance   19,366     28,340  
             
  $  1,489,800   $  1,300,012  

NOTE 7             INTANGIBLE ASSETS, NET

Intangible assets, net consisted of the following:

    December 31,  
    2014     2013  
             
Computer software, cost $  1,623   $  1,629  
Exclusive right to use a secret process, at cost   4,904,731     4,922,509  
Less: Accumulated amortization   (4,293,039 )   (3,816,401 )
             
  $  613,315   $  1,107,737  

In April 2006, the Company purchased from a third party a ten-year exclusive right to use a secret process and method in the cultivation and growing of Cordyceps Militaris, which is widely used for traditional Chinese medicine, for a cash consideration of RMB30,000,000, payable over five years. The exclusive right is amortized over its term of ten years using the straight-line method.

Amortization expense was $488,521 and $484,640 for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively. The estimated expense of the intangible assets over each of the next two years will be:

Fiscal 2015 $  490,421  
Fiscal 2016   122,894  
       
  $  613,315  

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 8             PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, NET

Property, plant and equipment, net consisted of the following:

    December 31,  
    2014     2013  
Cost:            
 Buildings $  19,712,166   $  19,783,618  
 Office equipment   29,108     29,213  
 Machinery   137,317     137,815  
 Motor vehicles   118,815     119,246  
Total cost   19,997,406     20,069,892  
Less: Accumulated depreciation   (5,572,464 )   (4,588,643 )
Net book value $  14,424,942   $  15,481,249  

Depreciation expense was $996,518 and $988,856 for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013 respectively.

NOTE 9             OTHER PAYABLES, ACCRUALS AND TAXES PAYABLE

Other payables and accruals consisted of the following:

    December 31,  
    2014     2013  
             
Accrued staff costs $  943,700   $  1,086,644  
Other payables   46,590     81,313  
  $  990,290   $  1,167,957  

Accrued staff costs mainly represent salary payables, fringe and social benefit accruals. According to the prevailing laws and regulations of the PRC, all eligible employees of the Company’s subsidiaries and VIEs are entitled to staff welfare benefits including medical care, welfare subsidies, unemployment insurance and pension benefits through a PRC government-mandated multi-employer defined contribution plan (“social insurance”). The Company’s subsidiaries and VIEs are required to: i) accrue the social insurance based on certain percentages of the qualified employees’ salaries; and ii) make contributions to the plans for the amounts accrued. For the past periods, the Company’s subsidiaries and VIEs recorded the accrual amount but the actual social insurance plan was not established to receive the contribution. The recorded accruals for the social insurance reflected an estimate of the probable liability incurred based on the information available at the date of each financial statement.

Upon establishment of the plans in December 2013, the Company’s subsidiaries and VIEs began to contribute to the plans for all currently eligible employees. Based on the number of the eligible employees’ salaries and the prevailing laws and regulations of PRC at that time, the Company’s subsidiaries and VIEs re-measured the liabilities incurred to be $1,042,880. As a result, the Company derecognized $934,855 of previously accrued staff costs, resulting in a gain on re-measurement of accrued staff fringe and social benefits and recorded that amount in the income statement in the year 2013. No re-measurement made for the year 2014.

Taxes payable consisted of the following:

    December 31,  
    2014     2013  
             
Value added tax $  423,818   $  451,340  
Income tax   2,207,274     2,316,261  
Others   117,491     111,571  
  $  2,748,583   $  2,879,172  

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 10           STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Private Placement in 2010

On December 17, 2009, the Company completed a private placement transaction and sold 1,000,000 shares of common stock to certain accredited investors at $2.50 per share for a total of $2.5 million pursuant to a securities purchase agreement. In addition, the Company issued to each of the investors two warrants to purchase in aggregate 500,000 shares of common stock, including a Series A warrant having a term of three years with an exercise price of $3.25 per share and a Series B warrant having a term of three years with an exercise price of $4.00 per share, both of which are subject to the usual adjustments for certain corporate events.

In addition, pursuant to the securities purchase agreement, the Shareholder agreed to place a total of 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock held by it into escrow to secure the make good obligations described below on behalf of the investors. Under the securities purchase agreement, the Shareholder agreed that: (i) in the event that the Company’s consolidated financial statements reflect less than $9,000,000 of after-tax income for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, it would transfer to the investors, on a pro rata basis, for no additional consideration, 500,000 shares of common stock owned by it; and (ii) in the event that the Company’s consolidated financial statements reflect less than $11,000,000 of after-tax net income for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011, it would transfer to the investors, on a pro rata basis, for no additional consideration, 500,000 shares of common stock owned by it. The Company achieved the 2011 and 2010 performance threshold and no escrow shares had been transferred to the investors.

On May 27, 2010, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the "Securities Purchase Agreement") with certain investors, pursuant to which, the Company agreed to issue and sell up to an aggregate of 250,000 units at a purchase price of $28.56 per unit, for an aggregate purchase price of up to $7,140,000 (the "Aggregate Purchase Price"). Each unit consists of (i) one share of a newly designated series A preferred stock, ("Series A Preferred Stock"), with an initial one-to-ten conversion ratio convertible into shares of the Company’s common stock, ("Common Stock"), and (ii) warrants to purchase five shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $3.40 per share ("Warrants", together with the shares of Series A Preferred Stock, the "Securities"). In addition, the Company and the investors agreed, that the placement agent of this transaction, will receive from the investors a fee equal to 2% of the Aggregate Purchase Price and Warrants to purchase 2% of the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that shares of Series A Preferred Stock to be issued under the Securities Purchase Agreement are convertible into.

Pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Company also granted registration rights to holders of registrable securities, which include shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon conversion of shares of the Series A Preferred Stock and shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants (the "Registrable Securities"). Holders holding a majority of the Securities then outstanding may request the Company to file a registration statement to register the Registrable Securities within a pre-defined period (the "Registration Statement"). The Company may be subject to liquidated damages in the amounts prescribed by the Securities Purchase Agreement if it is unable to file the Registration Statement timely or maintain its effectiveness as required by the Securities Purchase Agreement.

On June 7, 2010, the Company effected the first closing of a private placement transaction and issued approximately 123,403 units at a purchase price of $28.56 per unit for gross proceeds of $3,524,342.

On June 28, 2010, the Company effected the second closing of a private placement transaction and issued approximately 74,303 units at a purchase price of $28.56 per unit for gross proceeds of $2,121,938.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 10           STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (CONTINUED)

Allocation of Proceeds in the Private Placement

The guidance provided in ASC 470-20-30-5 has been applied to the amount allocated to the convertible Series A Preferred Stock, and the effective conversion price has been used, to measure the intrinsic value, if any, of the embedded conversion option. The fair value of the embedded conversion features of the Series A Preferred Stock of $1,143,198 and $644,532 were calculated using the intrinsic value model in accordance with the guidance provided in ASC Topic 470-20-30-6 (formerly EITF 00-27, “Application of Issue No. 98-5 to Certain Convertible Instruments”) and limited to the amount of the proceeds allocated to the convertible instrument on June 7, 2010 and June 28, 2010, respectively. The intrinsic value of the beneficial conversion feature was calculated by comparing the effective conversion price, which was determined based on the proceeds from the private placement allocated to the convertible Series A Preferred Stock, and the market price of the Company’s common stock of $3.20 and $3.16 on June 7, 2010 and June 28, 2010, respectively. The fair value of $1,143,198 and $644,532 of the beneficial conversion feature has been recognized as a reduction to the carrying amount of the convertible Series A Preferred Stock and an addition to paid-in capital.

The following table sets out the allocation of the proceeds from the Private Placement:

Proceeds of the private placement on June 7, 2010 $  3,524,342  
       
Allocation of proceeds to Series C Warrants to investors   (718,698 )
       
Allocation of proceeds to beneficial conversion feature   (1,143,198 )
       
Amortization of discount resulting from the accounting for a beneficial conversion feature   1,143,198  
       
Convertible Series A Preferred Stock (net of fees and expenses) at December 31, 2010   2,805,644  
       
Preferred stock converted into common stock   (85,546 )
       
Convertible Series A Preferred Stock at December 31, 2011   2,720,098  
       
Preferred stock converted into common stock   (689,392 )
       
Convertible Series A Preferred Stock at December 31, 2012 and 2013 $  2,030,706  
       
Preferred stock converted into common stock   (509,535 )
       
Convertible Series A Preferred Stock at December 31, 2014 $  1,521,171  

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 10           STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (CONTINUED)

Allocation of Proceeds in the Private Placement (continued)      
       
Proceeds of the private placement on June 28, 2010 $  2,121,938  
       
Allocation of proceeds to Series C Warrants to investors   (418,668 )
       
Allocation of proceeds to beneficial conversion feature   (644,532 )
       
Amortization of discount resulting from the accounting for a beneficial conversion feature   644,532  
       
Convertible Series A Preferred Stock (net of fees and expenses) at December 31, 2010   1,703,270  
       
Preferred stock converted into common stock   (1,052,162 )
       
Convertible Series A Preferred Stock at December 31, 2011   651,108  
       
Preferred stock converted into common stock   (104,490 )
       
Convertible Series A Preferred Stock at December 31, 2012   546,618  
       
Preferred stock converted into common stock   (67,141 )
       
Convertible Series A Preferred Stock at December 31, 2013 $  479,477  
       
Preferred stock converted into common stock   (226,876 )
       
Convertible Series A Preferred Stock at December 31, 2014 $  252,601  

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 10           STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (CONTINUED)

Allocation of Proceeds in the Private Placement (continued)

In accordance with ASC Topic 470-20-30-6, the discount on the Series A Preferred Stock resulting from the accounting for a beneficial conversion feature was amortized and charged to retained earnings, because the Series A Preferred Stock is immediately convertible upon issuance and has no stated redemption date. Amortization of the discount resulting from the accounting for a beneficial conversion feature is considered analogous to a return to holders of perpetual preferred stock and has been accounted for as a reduction to net income available to common stockholders for the purpose of calculation of earnings per share.

Preferred Stock

The Board of the Company is authorized, without further action by the shareholders, to issue, from time to time, up to 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more classes or series. Similarly, the Board is authorized to fix or alter the designations, powers, preferences and the number of shares which constitute each such class or series of preferred stock. Such designations, powers or preferences may include, without limitation, dividend rights (and whether dividends are cumulative), conversion rights, if any, voting rights (including the number of votes, if any, per share), redemption rights (including sinking fund provisions, if any), and liquidation preferences of any unissued shares or wholly unissued series of preferred stock.

On May 27, 2010, the Company created, from the authorized but unissued shares of its preferred stock, a series of preferred stock consisting of 300,000 shares and has designated this series of preferred stock as the Series A Preferred Stock of which the Company issued 197,706 shares upon the closings of the private placement in 2010.

The following are the principal terms of the Series A Preferred Stock:

Rank: The Series A Preferred Stock ranks senior to the Company’s common stock, but junior to all indebtedness of the Company.

Dividend: Holders of the Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to a cumulative dividend at an annual rate of 6% of the Series A Preferred Stock, payable in additional shares of Series A Preferred Stock, compounded quarterly, and payable upon the occurrence of a Liquidation Event, Conversion, Mandatory Conversion or from time-to-time at the discretion of the Board. When dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock are paid, each such additional share of Series A Preferred Stock shall be valued at the Original Series A Purchase Price, which may be adjusted from time to time pursuant to a split, subdivision, combination or other similar events.

Optional Conversion: Shares of the Series A Preferred Stock are optionally convertible into fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock at a conversion rate calculated by dividing (i) $28.00 per share plus any declared, accrued but unpaid dividends by (ii) the conversion price (the “Conversion Price”), which is initially $2.80 per share, subject to adjustment as provided in the Certificate. Initially, each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible into 10 shares of Common Stock.

Mandatory Conversion: All outstanding shares of the Series A Preferred Stock will automatically convert to shares of Common Stock, subject to the conversion restrictions set forth in the Certificate of Designation (the "Mandatory Conversion"), at the earlier to occur of (i) the Company’s shares of Common Stock are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE Amex, the NASDAQ Global Market, the NASDAQ Global Select Market or the NASDAQ Capital Market (each, a "National Stock Exchange") and the registration statement on Form S-1 or such other appropriate form promulgated by the SEC registering the Common Stock underlying the Securities pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement is declared effective by the Commission, and (ii) 12 months from the date that the Company's shares of Common Stock are first listed on a National Stock Exchange.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 10           STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (CONTINUED)

Preferred Stock (continued)

Adjustment to Conversion Price: If the Company shall issue any additional stock without consideration or for consideration per share less than the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the issuance of such additional stock, then such Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to such issuance shall be adjusted to a price determined by multiplying such Conversion Price by a fraction:

Sum of (x) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the issuance of such additional stock plus (y) the number of shares of Common Stock that the aggregate consideration received by the Company for the total number of such additional stock so issued would purchase at Conversion Price (divided by) (x) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the issuance of such additional stock plus (y) the number of shares of such additional stock so issued.

Voting: The holders of the Series A Preferred Stock will vote on an "as converted" basis, together with the Common Stock, as a single class, in connection with any proposal submitted to the Company’s stockholders, except as required by Nevada law.

Liquidation Preference: The Series A Preferred Stock has a preference over the Company’s common stock on the Company’s liquidation, dissolution or winding up equal to $28 per share of the Series A Preferred Stock plus any accrued but unpaid dividends thereon, as of the date of liquidation.

Registration Rights: The holders of Series A Preferred Stock have the right to request the Company to file a Registration Statement to register “Registrable Securities” (which include the common stock into which the Series A Preferred Stock and Warrants are convertible). Upon such request, no later than 30 days upon receipt of such request (the “Required Filing Date”) the Company should use its commercially reasonable efforts to register the Common Stock underlying the Registrable Securities and have the Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC which is not later than the earlier of (x) 150 calendar days after the Required Filing Date, or (y) if the Registration Statement is not reviewed by the SEC, 5 business days after oral or written notice to the Company or its counsel from the SEC that there will not be a review.

Effect of failure to file and obtain and maintain effectiveness of Registration Statement – the Company shall pay to each holder of Registrable Securities an amount in cash equal to 1% of the aggregate purchase price of the Securities owned by such holder as liquidated damages, but in no event shall liquidated damages exceed 8% of the Purchase Price.

Accounting for Series A Preferred Stock

The Company has evaluated the terms of the Series A Preferred Stock and determined that the Series A Preferred Stock, without embodying an obligation for the Company to repurchase or to settle by transferring assets, is not a liability in accordance with the guidance provided in ASC Topic 480, Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity.

Also, the Series A Preferred Stock has no redemption clause at all, it is not a mezzanine equity (out of permanent equity) in accordance with the requirement of ASC 480-10-S99.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 10           STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (CONTINUED)

Accounting for Series A Preferred Stock (continued)

The Series A Preferred Stock is not subject to redemption (except on liquidation) and the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to vote together with common stock holders on an as-converted basis. The Series A Preferred Stock, excluding the embedded conversion option, are considered to be an equity instrument and accordingly, the embedded conversion option has not been separated and accounted for as a derivative instrument liability.

During the year ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, 32,290 shares and 2,944 shares of Series A Preferred Stock were converted into 322,900 shares and 29,440 shares of common stock, at a 1 for 10 ratio. In addition, during the year ended December 31, 2014, 79,480 shares and 6,840 shares of common stock were issued to the investors as settlement of stock dividends of $222,486 and $19,138, respectively.

Common Stock Purchase Warrants

Series C Warrants

In connection with the issuance of the Series A Preferred Stock, the Company issued Series C Warrants to the investors and the placement agent to purchase up to 592,327 and 24,681 shares, respectively, of common stock on June 7, 2010 and 356,634 and 14,859 shares, respectively, on June 28, 2010, respectively, all at an exercise price of $3.40 per share issued and outstanding. The Series C Warrants have a term of exercise expiring 3 years from the issuance date. The Series C Warrants at the option of the holder, may be exercised by cash payment of the exercise price or, the holder may acquire the underlying shares of common stock through a "cashless exercise."

The Company will not receive any additional proceeds to the extent that the Series C Warrants are exercised by cashless exercise.

The exercise price and number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series C Warrants may be adjusted for: 1) upon issuance of additional stock lower than the exercise price, 2) upon subdivision or combination of common stocks; or 3) upon distribution of assets and other dilutive events.

Accounting for Series A, Series B and Series C Warrants

Series A and Series B Warrants issued to certain investors on December 17, 2009 to purchase 500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock had a term of three years and exercise prices of $3.25 and $4.00 per share, respectively. These warrants contain standard anti-dilution provisions for stock dividends, stock splits, stock combination, recapitalization and a change of control transaction. Because these warrants do not contain any contingent exercise provisions and their settlement amount will equal the difference between the fair value of a fixed number of the Company’s equity shares and a fixed strike price, these warrants, which are freestanding instruments, qualify for the scope exception under the guidance provided in ASC 815-40-15-5 through 815-40-15-8, and are considered indexed to the Company’s own stock. Accordingly, Series A and Series B Warrants have been classified as equity. Series A and Series B Warrants expired on December 16, 2012.

Since the Series C Warrants issued to the investors and the placement agent in June 2010 contain reset exercise price provisions, the Company had determined to classify these warrants as derivative liabilities. The reset exercise provisions of the warrants issued to the investors and the placement agent in June 2010 were recorded at their relative fair values at issuance of $1,182,860 and will continue to be recorded at fair value at each subsequent balance sheet date. Any change in value between reporting periods will be recorded as other income (expense). These warrants will continue to be reported as a liability until such time when they are exercised or expire. The fair value of these warrants is estimated using Monte-Carlo simulation methods. Since all Series C Warrants expired on June 28, 2013, the Company recorded nil and $173 in other income related to the change in the fair value of the Series C Warrants for the year ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 11           STATUTORY RESERVES

In accordance with the PRC Companies Law, the Company’s PRC subsidiaries and VIEs are required to transfer 10% of their profits after tax, as determined in accordance with accounting standards and regulations of the PRC, to the statutory surplus reserve. However, the Company’s PRC subsidiaries and VIEs are not required to transfer any profit after tax to the statutory surplus reserve after the accumulated statutory surplus reserves reaches 50% of registered capital of the Company’s PRC subsidiaries and VIEs. The statutory surplus reserve is non-distributable.

NOTE 12           SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION

The Company was authorized to issue an aggregate of 2,500,000 shares of its common stock under the 2009 Equity Incentive Plan (“Plan”) as equity awards of incentive stock options, non-statutory stock options, restricted stock, and other equity incentives to employees, officers, directors and consultants. The Plan expires in 2019 and as of December 31, 2014, there were 470,000 shares of common stock available for grant pursuant to the Plan.

Stock options granted to Management

On July 16, 2010, the Company entered into a stock option agreement with Mr. Robert Tick (“Mr. Tick”), the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan. Pursuant to the terms of the stock option agreement, Mr. Tick was granted options to purchase an aggregate of 150,000 shares of common stock of the Company, consisting of, an option to purchase 75,000 shares that vested in 2011 with an exercise price of $5.00 per share, and an option to purchase 75,000 shares that vested in 2012 with an exercise price of $7.00 per share. Each of these options expires three years after their respective vesting dates.

According to the stock option agreement, in the event Mr. Tick’s employment with the Company is terminated for any reason except for death or disability, he may exercise these options only to the extent that these options would have been exercisable on the termination date and no later than three months after the termination date. If Mr. Tick’s employment is terminated because of his death or disability, these options may be exercised only to the extent that these options would have been exercisable by Mr. Tick on the termination date and must be exercised by Mr. Tick no later than twelve months after the termination date. If the employment is terminated for cause as defined in the stock option agreement, these options will terminate immediately. In no event will these options be exercised later than December 31, 2015. As of December 31, 2014, a total of 75,000 options granted on July 16, 2010, which vested on or before December 31, 2011, had expired.

On January 24, 2011, the Compensation Committee of the Board approved the repricing of the options that the Company granted to Mr. Tick on July 16, 2010. As a result, each such option outstanding had an exercise price of $3.50 per share which was higher than the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the OTC Bulletin Board on the date of repricing. In addition, the vesting schedules of the outstanding options granted to Mr. Tick were changed from vesting on an annual basis to vesting on a semi-annual basis.

On August 8, 2013, the Company entered into a stock option agreement with Mr. Tick, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan. Pursuant to the terms of the stock option agreement, Mr. Tick was granted options to purchase an aggregate of 75,000 shares of common stock of the Company, consisting of, an option to purchase 37,500 shares that vested in November 15, 2013 with an exercise price of $0.83 per share, and an option to purchase 37,500 shares that vested in April 15, 2014 with an exercise price of $0.83 per share. Each of these options expires three years after their respective vesting dates.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 12           SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (CONTINUED)

Stock options granted to Management (continued)

In accordance with the guidance provided in ASC Topic 718, Stock Compensation, the compensation costs associated with these options are recognized, based on the grant-date fair values of these options, over the requisite service period, or vesting period. Also in accordance with ASC Topic 718, incremental compensation cost is measured as the excess, if any, of the fair value of the modified award over the fair value of the original award immediately before its terms are modified. The fair value of the option award was estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model. The valuation was based on the assumptions noted in the following table.

Expected volatility 73%
Expected dividend 0%
Expected terms (in year) 1
Risk-free rate 0.12%

A summary of options issued and outstanding at December 31, 2014 and the movements during the two years then ended are as follows:

          Weighted-              
    Number of     Average     Aggregate     Weighted- Average  
    Underlying     Exercise Price     Intrinsic     Contractual Life  
    Shares     Per Share     Value (1)   Remaining in Years  
                         
Outstanding at January 1, 2013   150,000   $  3.50     -     2.25  
   Granted   75,000   $  0.83   $  96,750     3.08  
   Exercised   -     -     -     -  
   Expired   -     -     -     -  
   Forfeited               -        
Outstanding at December 31, 2013   225,000   $  2.61   $  96,750     1.86  
   Granted   -     -     -     -  
   Exercised   -     -     -     -  
   Expired   (75,000 ) $  3.50     -     -  
   Forfeited   -     -     -     -  
Outstanding at December 31, 2014   150,000   $  2.17   $  57,000     1.41  
Exercisable at December 31, 2014   150,000   $  2.17   $  57,000     1.41  

(1)

The aggregate intrinsic value in the table above represents the total pre-tax intrinsic value that would have been realized by the option holders had all option holders exercised their options on December 31, 2014. The intrinsic value of a stock option is the excess of the Company’s closing stock price on December 31, 2014 of $1.59 per share over the exercise price $0.83 per share, multiplied by the number of shares subject to the option.

The Company recognized compensation expense of $7,371 and $ 10,179 in relation to the options granted to Mr. Tick for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 12           SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (CONTINUED)

Restricted shares granted to Management

On July 16, 2010, the Company also entered into a restricted shares grant agreement (the "Restricted Shares Grant Agreement") under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan with Mr. Tick. Pursuant to the terms of the Restricted Shares Grant Agreement, the Company granted to Mr. Tick 150,000 restricted shares (the “Restricted Shares”) of the Company’s common stock subject to the vesting schedule therein. If Mr. Tick’s service with the Company ceases for any reason other than Mr. Tick’s (a) death, (b) disability, (c) retirement, or (d) termination by the Company without cause, any unvested restricted shares will be automatically forfeited to the Company.

On November 26, 2012, the Company also entered into a restricted shares grant agreement (the "Second Restricted Shares Grant Agreement") under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan with Mr. Tick. Pursuant to the terms of the Second Restricted Shares Grant Agreement, the Company granted to Mr. Tick 20,000 restricted shares (the “Restricted Shares”) of the Company’s common stock subject to the vesting schedule therein. If Mr. Tick’s service with the Company ceases for any reason other than Mr. Tick’s (a) death, (b) disability, (c) retirement, or (d) termination by the Company without cause, any unvested restricted shares will be automatically forfeited to the Company. The Second Restricted Shares vested immediately upon grant, on November 26, 2012.

On August 8, 2013, the Company entered into a restricted shares grant agreement (the "Third Restricted Shares Grant Agreement") under the Company’s Plan with Mr. Tick. Pursuant to the terms of the Third Restricted Shares Grant Agreement, the Company granted to Mr. Tick 75,000 restricted shares (the “Restricted Shares”) of the Company’s common stock subject to the vesting schedule therein. If Mr. Tick’s service with the Company ceases for any reason other than Mr. Tick’s (a) death, (b) disability, (c) retirement, or (d) termination by the Company without cause, any unvested restricted shares will be automatically forfeited to the Company. The Third Restricted Shares vested under the following schedule: 37,500 shares vested on November 15, 2013 and 37,500 shares vested on April 15, 2014.

The Restricted Shares vest under the following schedule:

Number of Shares Vesting Date
25,000 December 31, 2010
25,000 June 30, 2011
25,000 December 31, 2011
25,000 June 30, 2012
20,000 November 26, 2012
25,000 December 31, 2012
25,000 June 30, 2013
37,500 November 15, 2013
37,500 April 15, 2014

The Company recognizes compensation cost for an award with only service conditions that has a graded vesting schedule on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award, provided that the compensation cost recognized at any date must at least equal the portion of the grant-date value of the award that is vested at that date. No compensation cost is recognized for instruments that are forfeited by the Company because a service condition or a performance condition is not satisfied.

Accordingly, the Company recognized compensation expense of $25,896 and $111,771, related to the restricted shares granted to Mr. Tick for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, based on the estimated grant-date fair value of the Company’s common stock of $0.83 on August 8, 2013, $1.15 on November 26, 2012 and $3.00 on July 16, 2010.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 12           SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (CONTINUED)

Restricted shares granted to Employees

On November 15, 2013, the Company entered into a restricted shares grant agreement (the “Restricted Shares Grant Agreement”) under the Company’s Plans with eight employees. Pursuant to the terms of the Restricted Shares Grant Agreement, the Company granted to these employees a total of 350,000 restricted shares to the Company’s common stock subject to the vesting schedule therein. If these employees’ service with the Company ceases for any reason other than these employees’ (a) death, (b) disability, (c) retirement, or (d) termination by the Company without cause, any unvested restricted shares will be automatically forfeited to the Company. The Restricted Shares vested immediately upon grant, on November 15, 2013. The Company did not grant any restricted shares to employees in 2014.

The Company recognizes compensation cost for an award with only service conditions that has a graded vesting schedule on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award, provided that the compensation cost recognized at any date must at least equal the portion of the grant-date value of the award that is vested at that date. No compensation cost is recognized for instruments that are forfeited by the Company because a service condition or a performance condition is not satisfied.

Accordingly, the Company recognized compensation expense of $612,500 related to the restricted shares granted to these employees for the year ended December 31, 2013, based on the estimated grant-date fair value of the Company’s common stock of $1.75 on November 15, 2013.

Restricted shares granted to independent directors

On October 5, 2010, the Company entered into separate restricted shares grant agreements with the Company’s newly elected independent directors Mr. Henry Ngan, Ms. Virginia P’an and Mr. Jianbing Zhong. Pursuant the agreements, the Company granted, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, to Mr. Ngan 40,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock, Ms. P’an 30,000 restricted shares and Mr. Zhong 20,000 restricted shares, as compensation for the services to be provided by them as independent directors.

On January 24, 2011, the Company entered into an independent director contract and an indemnification agreement with Mr. Kurtzig, whereby the Company agreed to grant, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, to Mr. Kurtzig 20,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock as compensation for the services to be provided by him and indemnify Mr. Kurtzig against expenses, judgments, fines, penalties or other amounts actually and reasonably incurred by Mr. Kurtzig in connection with any proceeding if Mr. Kurtzig acted in good faith and in the best interests of the Company.

On August 11, 2011, the Company entered into a restricted shares grant agreement with Mr. Kurtzig, whereby the Company agreed to grant, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, to Mr. Kurtzig 10,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock as compensation for the services to be provided by him.

On November 26, 2012, the Company entered into separate restricted shares grant agreements with the Company’s independent directors Mr. Henry Ngan, Ms. Virginia P’an, Mr. Jianbing Zhong and Mr. Richard E. Fearon, Jr. Pursuant the agreements, the Company granted, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, to Mr. Ngan 30,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock, Ms. P’an 30,000 restricted shares, Mr. Zhong 20,000 restricted shares and to Mr. Fearon, Jr. 20,000 restricted shares, as compensation for the services to be provided by them as independent directors.

On August 15, 2014, the Company entered into separate restricted shares grant agreements with the Company’s independent directors Mr. Henry Ngan, Ms. Virginia P’an, Mr. Jianbing Zhong and Mr. Richard E. Fearon, Jr. Pursuant to the agreements, the Company granted, under the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive Plan, 40,000 restricted shares to each person, as compensation for the services to be provided by them as independent directors.

The restricted shares granted to independent directors will vest in equal installments on a semi-annual basis over a two-year period. If the independent director’s service with the Company ceases for any reason other than the independent director’s (a) death, (b) disability, (c) retirement, or (d) termination by the Company without cause, any unvested restricted shares will be

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automatically forfeited to the Company. On November 26, 2012, Mr. Kurtzig resigned as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company. As a result, the 5,000 unvested restricted shares have been automatically forfeited to the Company.

Accordingly, the Company recognized a total compensation expense of $103,818 and $66,946 related to the restricted shares granted to the directors for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, based on the estimated grant-date fair values of the Company’s common stock of $1.15 on November 26, 2012 and $2.05 on August 15, 2014.

Unregistered shares granted to consultant

On August 3, 2013, the Company entered into an investor relations agreement (the “Agreement”) under the Company’s Plans with a consultant. Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, the Company granted a total of 25,000 unregistered shares to the Company’s investor relations consultant for consulting services provided by the consultant during the period August 2013 to June 2014. The Company issued 15,000 shares on September 16, 2013 (vesting date) and issued another 10,000 unregistered shares on Jan 1, 2014. The Company recognized total compensation expense of $23,746 and $17,804 for the year ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, based on the fair values of the Company’s common stock of US$1.05 on September 16, 2013 for the 15,000 shares issued and the fair value of the Company’s common stock of $2.58 on January 1, 2014 for the 10,000 shares issued. Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, if during any three-month period, the Average Closing Price is $2.00 per share or greater, the Company shall issue 12,500 (twelve thousand five hundred) Incentive Shares to the consultant. During the first three-month period of 2014, the Average Closing Price is $2.84 per share. The Company then issued 12,500 shares to the consultant on April 2, 2014. The Company recognized total compensation expense of $29,625 and nil for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, based on the fair values of the Company’s common stock of US$2.37 on April 2, 2014 for the 12,500 shares issued.

On August 15, 2014, the Company and American Capital Ventures (the “Consultant”) entered into an Investor Relations Agreement (the “2014 Agreement”). The Company retained the Consulting Services provided by the Consultant from August 15, 2014 to June 30, 2015. Pursuant to the terms of the 2014 Agreement, the Company has agreed to issue up to 60,000 shares of unregistered common stock to the consultant and its designee, among which 20,000 shares were earned and vested as of August 18, 2014. During the service period, the consultant is entitled to receive additional 15,000 unregistered shares of common stock if the average closing price of the common stock as reported on the Over-the Counter Bulletin Board or any other market on which the common stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question (the “Average Closing Price”) is at or above $3.00 but lower than $4.00. The consultant is entitled to receive further 25,000 unregistered shares of common stock if the Average Closing Price is $4.00 per share or greater and the company qualifies, files and is approved for a NASDAQ uplisting. The Company recognized total compensation expense of $39,000 and $nil for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, based on the fair values of the Company’s common stock of US$1.95 on September 22, 2014 for the 20,000 shares issued.

NOTE 13           INCOME TAXES

The Company’s VIEs and subsidiaries incorporated in the PRC are subject to PRC enterprise income tax (“EIT”). Before January 1, 2008, the PRC EIT rate was generally 33%. In March 2007, the PRC government enacted a new PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, or the New EIT Law, and promulgated related regulations, Implementation Regulations for the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law. The New EIT Law and Implementation Regulations became effective on January 1, 2008. The New EIT Law, among other things, imposes a unified income tax rate of 25% for both domestic and foreign invested enterprises registered in the PRC.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 13           INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED)

The New EIT Law provides a grandfathering on tax holidays which were granted under the then effective tax laws and regulations. Therefore, one of the Company's VIEs, Daqing Shuaiyi, being engaged in growing and sales of organic and specialty food products, continued to be entitled to a preferential tax treatment: an EIT holiday for the two years ended December 31, 2006 and 2007 and a 50% reduction on the EIT rate for the three years ended December 31, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Daqing Shuaiyi, Harbin Shuayi and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi are subject to an EIT rate of 25% for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013. No provision for PRC taxes was made for Heilongjiang Shuaiyi which had no taxable income in the PRC.

Harbin Baixin has been subject to an EIT rate of 25% since its incorporation. No provision for PRC taxes was made as Harbin Baixin had no taxable income in the PRC.

No provision for other overseas taxes is made as none of Nutrastar, New Resources and Oriental Global has any taxable income in the U.S., British Virgin Islands or Hong Kong, respectively.

The Company’s income tax expense consisted of:

    Year ended December 31,      
    2014     2013  
Current income tax – PRC $  7,870,214   $  7,812,222  
Deferred   -     -  
  $  7,870,214   $  7,812,222  

A reconciliation of the provision for income taxes determined at the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate to the Company’s effective income tax rate is as follows:

    Year ended December 31,  
    2014     2013  
             
Pre-tax income $  30,589,988     29,982,592  
             
U.S. federal corporate income tax rate   34%     34%  
Income tax computed at U.S. federal corporate income tax rate $ 10,400,596   $ 10,194,081  
Reconciling items:            
   Change in valuation allowance   323,009     542,884  
   Change in fair value of warrants   -     (59 )
   Rate differential for PRC earnings   (2,823,227 )   (2,830,539 )
   Non-deductible expenses and non-reportable income   (30,164 )   (94,145 )
Effective tax expense $  7,870,214   $ 7,812,222  

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 13           INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED)

The Company had deferred tax assets as follows:

    December 31, 2014     December 31, 2013  
             
Net operating losses carried forward $  2,122,634   $  1,799,625  
Less: Valuation allowance   (2,122,634 )   (1,799,625 )
Net deferred tax assets $  -   $  -  

As of December 31, 2014 and 2013, Nutrastar had $6,072,219 and $5,293,016, respectively, of net operating loss carry forwards available to reduce future taxable income which will expire in various years through 2030. The Company's VIE entity, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, had $232,320 net operating loss carry forwards as of December 31, 2014 available to offset future taxable income which will expire in various years through 2019.  Management believes it is more-likely-than-not that the Company will not realize these potential tax benefits as the Company’s U.S. operations will not generate any operating profits in the foreseeable future. Therefore, the Company recorded a full valuation allowance on its deferred tax assets.

As of December 31, 2014 and 2013, the Company has no material unrecognized tax benefits which would favorably affect the effective income tax rate in future periods and does not believe that there will be any significant increases or decreases of unrecognized tax benefits within the next twelve months. No interest or penalties relating to income tax matters have been imposed on the Company during the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, and no provision for interest and penalties is deemed necessary as of December 31, 2014 and 2013.

According to the PRC Tax Administration and Collection Law, the statute of limitations is three years if the underpayment of taxes is due to computational errors made by the taxpayer or its withholding agent. The statute of limitations extends to five years under special circumstances, which are not clearly defined. In the case of a related party transaction, the statute of limitation is ten years. There is no statute of limitation in the case of tax evasion.

NOTE 14           EARNINGS PER SHARE

The following table is a reconciliation of the net income and the weighted average shares used in the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share for the two years presented:

    Years ended December 31,  
    2014     2013  
Income available to common stockholders:            
- Net income $  22,719,774   $  22,170,370  
Less: Preferred stock dividend   (174,245 )   (229,513 )
Income available to common stockholders (Basic) $  22,545,529   $  21,940,857  
Add: Preferred stock dividend   174,245     229,513  
Income available to common shareholders (Diluted)   22,719,774     22,170,370  
Weighted average number of shares:            
- Basic   16,827,010     15,949,537  
- Effect of dilutive preferred stock   806,287     1,128,406  
- Effect of dilutive restricted stock units   3,971     3,878  
- Effect of dilutive options   62,321     7,639  
- Diluted   17,699,589     17,089,460  
Net income per share            
- Basic $  1.34   $  1.38  
- Diluted $  1.28   $  1.30  

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 14           EARNINGS PER SHARE (CONTINUED)

Diluted earnings per share is calculated by adjusting the weighted average number of common shares outstanding to assume the issuance of all dilutive potential common shares upon conversion.

The diluted earnings per share calculation for the year ended December 31, 2014 did not include management options and contingent unregistered shares to purchase up to 75,000 shares and 40,000 shares of common stock, respectively, because their effect was anti-dilutive.

The diluted earnings per share calculation for the year ended December 31, 2013 did not include warrants, management options and restricted shares to purchase up to 1,088,501 shares, 150,000 shares and 50,000 shares of common stock, respectively, because their effect was anti-dilutive.

NOTE 15           RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Other than disclosed elsewhere in these financial statements, the Company also had the following related party balances and transactions:-

(a)

Due to related parties


      December 31, 2014     December 31, 2013  
               
  Due to Ms. Lianyun Han, Chairperson, CEO and President of the Company $  511,054   $  265,223  

 

The amount due to Ms. Han was non-interest bearing, unsecured and without a fixed repayment date. The balance was mainly for the payment of US$ denominated expenses.

     
  (b)

Lease of land

     
 

For the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, the Company paid rental expense of $59,078 and $58,370, respectively, for the land leased from Heilongjiang Shuaiyi Technology Development Co., Ltd. (“Shuaiyi Technology”). Shuaiyi Technology and the Company are under common control and management.

     
  (c)

Acquisition of corporate headquarter premise

     
 

On April 15, 2011, Heilongjiang Shuaiyi entered into an asset transfer agreement (the “Transfer Agreement”) with Ms. Han. Pursuant to the Transfer Agreement, Heilongjiang Shuiayi acquired an office building located at 54-1 Ganshui Road, Xiangfang District, Harbin, with a construction area of 1854.1 square meters, from Ms. Han at a cash consideration of RMB12.75 million (approximately $1.95 million including other incidental costs),which was fully paid in April 2011. The purchase price was determined based on a real property valuation report issued by an independent appraisal firm, Harbin Guoxin Real Estate Appraisal and Consulting Co., Limited on November 11, 2010 and reflected approximately equal valuation which Ms. Han originally paid when she acquired such property for the Company. Management believes that based on the property valuation report issued by the independent appraisal firm, the terms of the purchase transaction and the consideration that the Company paid in connection with this transaction were comparable to the terms available and the amounts that would be paid in an arm’s-length transaction.

     
 

It is the current intention of the Company to move the Company headquarters to this office building in the foreseeable future.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 16           CONCENTRATION RISK

a          Concentration of credit risk

As of December 31, 2014 and 2013, approximately 99.9% and 99.8%, respectively of the Company’s cash including cash on hand and deposits in accounts are maintained with one financial institution within the PRC where there is currently no rule or regulation in place for obligatory insurance to cover such bank deposits in the event of bank failure. However, the Company has not experienced any losses in this financial institution and monitors the soundness and the credit ratings of this financial institution on a periodic basis, thus believes it is currently not exposed to any material risks on its bank deposits in bank accounts with this financial institution.

For the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, all of the Company’s sales arose in the PRC. In addition, all accounts receivable as of December 31, 2014 and 2013 also arose in the PRC.

The following individual customer accounted for 10% or more of the Group’s revenues for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013:

    2014     2013  
Lai En Century Co. Ltd   26%     24%  

Individual customer accounts receivable that represented 10% or more of total accounts receivable as of December 31, 2014 and 2013 were as follows:

    Percentage of accounts receivable as of  
    December 31, 2014     December 31, 2013  
Great Northern Wilderness Grain and Oil Warehouse Market   55.4%     30.0%  
Shandong Province, Linyi City Hong Yun Commodity   17.3%     27.5%  
Dalian Exalts Trade Co., Ltd   15.5%     -  
Shenyang Wellhope Group   11.8%     -  

For the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, all of the Company’s purchases arose in the PRC. In addition, all accounts payable as of December 31,2014 and 2013 also arose in the PRC.

The following suppliers accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s procurement for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013:

   
2014
   
2013
 
Harbin Zijiang Packing Co., Ltd   27.3%     -  
Zhangjiagang Nong Nong Drinking and Food Co. Ltd   23.3%     20.9%  
Harbin Reservation During The Oil Co. Ltd.   20.5%     23.1%  

No individual supplier accounted for 10% or more of total accounts payable as of December 31, 2014 and 2013.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 16           CONCENTRATION RISK (CONTINUED)

(b)           Concentration of operating risk

Substantially all of the Company’s operations and assets are conducted in and located inside China. The Company’s operations and assets are subject to various political, economic, and other risks and uncertainties inherent in China. Among other risks, the Company’s operations and assets are subject to the risks of restrictions on transfer of funds; export duties, quotas, and embargoes; domestic and international customs and tariffs; changing taxation policies; foreign exchange restrictions; and political conditions and governmental regulations.

NOTE 17           COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

(a)           Operating leases

The Company has entered into tenancy agreements for the leases of an exhibition hall and land with a third party and a related company, Shuaiyi Technology (see 15(b)), respectively, for the purposes of the operation of its VIEs. The Company’s commitments for minimum lease payments under these operating leases for the next five years and thereafter as of December 31, 2014 are as follows:

Year ending December 31,   Related Parties     Non-related     Total  
          Parties        
2015 $ 59,078   $ 14,300   $ 73,378  
2016   59,078     -     59,078  
2017   59,078     -     59,078  
2018   59,078     -     59,078  
2019   59,078           59,078  
Thereafter   668,737     -     668,737  
                   
Total $  964,127   $  14,300   $  978,427  

During the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, rental expenses under operating leases amounted to $100,602 and $117,664, respectively.

(b)           PRC employee costs

According to the prevailing laws and regulations of the PRC, the Company’s subsidiaries and VIEs in the PRC are required to contribute to medical, retirement and unemployment insurance programs for its employees. We have recorded accruals for the probable estimated liability for approximately the past two years. However, in the past we did not provide for contributions for our temporary employees. If the PRC regulatory authorities take the view that we were required to make contributions to the social insurance and housing accumulation funds for our temporary employees, our failure to make previous payments may be in violation of applicable PRC labor laws and PRC governmental authorities may impose penalties on us for failure to comply. In addition, in the event that any current or former employee files a complaint with the PRC government, we may be subject to making up the contributions to the social insurance and housing accumulation funds as well as paying administrative fines. As the Company does not currently believe that it is probable that these additional contributions and fines would be material and, furthermore, cannot be reasonably estimated, no additional provision has been made in this regard.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 17           COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (CONTINUED)

(c)           Indemnification agreement

On October 5, 2010, the Company entered into an indemnification agreement with each of its newly elected independent directors, Mr. Henry Ngan, Ms. Virginia P’an and Mr. Jianbing Zhong, pursuant to which the Company agreed to indemnify the independent directors against expenses, judgments, fines, penalties or other amounts actually and reasonably incurred by the Independent directors in connection with any proceeding if the independent directors acted in good faith and in the best interests of the Company.

Also on October 5, 2010, the Company entered into an indemnification agreement with Mr. Tick pursuant to which the Company agreed to indemnify Mr. Tick against expenses, judgments, fines, penalties or other amounts actually and reasonably incurred by Mr. Tick in connection with any proceeding if Mr. Tick acted in good faith and in the best interests of the Company.

On January 24, 2011, the Company entered into an indemnification agreement with Mr. Joshua Kurtzig, its newly elected independent director, pursuant to which the Company agreed to indemnify Mr. Kurtzig against expenses, judgments, fines, penalties or other amounts actually and reasonably incurred by the independent director in connection with any proceeding if the independent director acted in good faith and in the best interests of the Company. Mr. Kurtzig resigned from the Company’s Board effective November 26, 2012.

On November 26, 2012, the Company entered into an indemnification agreement with Mr. Richard E. Fearon, Jr., its newly elected independent director, pursuant to which the Company agreed to indemnify Mr. Fearon, Jr. against expenses, judgments, fines, penalties or other amounts actually and reasonably incurred by the independent director in connection with any proceeding if the independent director acted in good faith and in the best interests of the Company.

NOTE 18           SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company operates in three business segments identified by product, “Cordyceps Militaris”, “beverages” and “organic and specialty food products”. The Cordyceps Militaris segment consists of the growing and sales of Cordyceps Militaris, which business is conducted through Daqing Shuaiyi. The beverages segment consists of the manufacturing of functional health beverages featuring the Cordyceps Militaris as a core ingredient, which business is also conducted through Daqing Shuaiyi and was launched in the fourth quarter of 2010. The organic and specialty food products segment consists of the sales of rice, flour, silage corn and other agricultural products which business is mainly conducted through Harbin Shuaiyi.

During the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, all of the Company’s operations were carried out in one geographical segment - China.

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 18           SEGMENT INFORMATION (CONTINUED)

The Company’s segment revenue and results for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013 are as follows:

    Year Ended December 31, 2014  
                Organic and              
    Cordyceps           Specialty Food     Corporate        
    Militaris     Beverages     Products     Unallocated     Consolidated  
                               
Segment revenue from external customers $  37,050,283   $  4,004,030   $ 2,273,905   $  -   $  43,328,218  
                               
Segment income before income taxes $  29,631,402   $  1,754,050   $ 222,893   $  (1,018,357 ) $  30,589,988  
Income before income taxes                         $  30,589,988  
                               
Segment assets $  140,444,763   $  62,276   $ 1,538,150   $  1,753,907   $  143,799,096  
Total assets                         $ 143,799,096  
                               
Other segment information:                              
   Depreciation and amortization $  1,373,914   $  5,562     1,391   $  104,172   $  1,485,039  
   Expenditure for segment assets $  -   $  -   $ -   $  -   $  -  

    Year Ended December 31, 2013  
                Organic and              
    Cordyceps           Specialty Food     Corporate        
    Militaris     Beverages     Products     Unallocated     Consolidated  
                               
Segment revenue from external customers $  33,685,828    $ 7,474,342    $ 2,188,819   $  -   $  43,348,989  
                               
Segment income before income taxes $  26,860,209    $ 4,495,175    $ 276,024   $  (1,648,816 )   29,982,592  
Income before income taxes                           29,982,592  
                               
Segment assets $  117,852,173    $ 62,501    $ 1,313,194   $  2,009,085   $  121,236,953  
Total assets                         $  121,236,953  
                               
Other segment information:                              
   Depreciation and amortization $  1,362,832    $ 5,517    $ 1,379   $  103,768   $  1,473,496  
   Expenditure for segment assets $      $    $ -   $  -   $  -  

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 19           RESTRICTED NET ASSETS

The Company’s operations are primarily conducted through its VIEs, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi. Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi may only pay dividends out of its retained earnings determined in accordance with the accounting standards and regulations in the PRC and after it has met the PRC requirements for appropriation to statutory reserves (see Note 11).

In addition, Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi’s businesses and assets are primarily denominated in RMB, which is not freely convertible into foreign currencies. All foreign exchange transactions take place either through the People’s Bank of China or other banks authorized to buy and sell foreign currencies at the exchange rates quoted by the People’s Bank of China. Approval of foreign currency payments by the People’s Bank of China or other regulatory institutions requires; submitting a payment application form together with suppliers’ invoices, shipping documents and signed contracts. These currency exchange control procedures imposed by the PRC government authorities may restrict the ability of Daqing Shuaiyi and Harbin Shuaiyi to transfer their net assets to the Company through loans, advances or cash dividends, which consisted of paid-up capital, retained earnings and statutory reserves and which aggregate amount of approximately RMB830 million (or $136 million) exceeded 25% of the Company’s consolidated net assets. Accordingly, condensed parent company financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Rule 5-04 and Rule 12-04 of SEC Regulation S-X.

These supplemental condensed parent company financial statements should be read in conjunction with the notes to the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP have been condensed or omitted.

As of December 31, 2014 and 2013, there were no material contingencies, significant provisions for long-term obligations, or guarantees of the Company, except as separately disclosed in the Consolidated Financial Statements, if any.

Condensed Balance Sheets

    As of December 31,  
    2014     2013  
ASSETS            
Other receivables $  -   $  -  
Restricted cash   -     -  
Interests in subsidiaries   139,668,663     117,078,904  
Total assets $  139,668,663   $  117,078,904  
LIABILITIES            
Current liabilities:            
Warrant liabilities $     $    
Preferred stock dividend payable   690,662     738,903  
Other payables and accruals   119,494     154,303  
                       Total liabilities   810,156     893,206  
Stockholders’ equity            
Preferred Stock, $0.001 par value, 1,000,000 shares authorized, 77,776 shares and 110,066 shares issued and outstanding, respectively; aggregate liquidation preference amount:$2,177,728 and $3,081,848, plus accrued but unpaid dividend of $690,662 and $738,903, at December 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively   1,773,772     2,510,183  
Common stock, $0.001 par value, 190,000,000 shares authorized, 16,953,541 shares issued and 16,909,986 shares outstanding at December 31, 2014; 16,421,161 shares issued and 16,377,606 shares outstanding at December 31, 2013   16,954     16,422  
Additional paid-in capital   21,122,372     19,934,551  
Treasury stock, at cost, 43,555 shares as of December 31, 2014 and 2013   (78,767 )   (78,767 )
Retained earnings   107,772,341     85,226,812  
Accumulated other comprehensive income   8,251,835     8,576,497  
Total stockholders’ equity   138,858,507     116,185,698  
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $  139,668,663   $ 117,078,904  

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NUTRASTAR INTERNATIONAL INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2013

NOTE 19           RESTRICTED NET ASSETS (CONTINUED)

Condensed Statement of Income and Comprehensive Income

    Year ended December 31,  
    2014     2013  
             
NET REVENUE $  −   $  −  
Administrative expenses   (779,203 )   (1,468,040 )
Changes in value of warrants       173  
Income tax        
Equity income of subsidiaries   23,498,977     23,638,237  
Net income $  22,719,774   $  22,170,370  

Condensed Statement of Cash Flows

    Year ended December 31,  
    2014     2013  
             
Net cash used in operating activities $  (584,556 ) $ (621,107 )
Net cash provided by investing activities   584,556     621,107  
Net cash provided by financing activities        
Cash, beginning of year        
Cash, end of year $     $  

NOTE 20           SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

In accordance with authoritative guidance, we have evaluated any events or transactions occurring after December 31, 2014, the consolidated balance sheet date, through the date of filing of this report and note that there have been no such events or transactions that would require recognition or disclosure in the consolidated financial statements as of and for year ended December 31, 2014, except as disclosed below:

  (i)

On February 6, 2015, a holder of the Company Series A Convertible Preferred Stock converted $98,000 Stated Value of such Preferred Stock and $31,935 Preferred Stock dividends, at a conversion price of $28 per share and 1 for 10 conversion ratio, into a total of 46,410 shares of the Company’s common stock.

  (ii)

On March 3, 2015, we issued 40,000 shares of the Company’s common stock for the vested restricted stocks to our Board members.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.   Description
     
3.1 Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation filed with the Nevada Secretary of State on May 19, 2009 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 26, 2009].
     
3.2

Certificate of Amendment filed with the Nevada Secretary of State on January 11, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 14, 2010].

     
3.3

Certificate of Designation of Series A Preferred Stock, as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada, May 27, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 3, 2010].

     
3.4

Amended and Restated Bylaws, adopted October 5, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.1

Exclusive Licensing Agreement, dated April 10, 2006, between Runjiao Wang and Daqing Shuaiyi Biotech Co., Ltd. (English Translation) [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 31, 2008].

     
10.2

Form of Heilongjiang Shuaiyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd. Employment Agreement. (English Translation) [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.14 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 31, 2008].

     
10.3

English Translation of Employment Agreement, dated August 18, 2009, between Heilongjiang Shuaiyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and Hongbing Hua [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 21, 2009].

     
10.4

2009 Equity Incentive Plan (as amended on July 23, 2012) [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 27, 2012].

     
10.5

Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated May 27, 2010, by and among the Company and the investors named therein [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 3, 2010].

     
10.6

Employment Agreement, by and between the Company and Robert Tick, dated July 16, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 20, 2010].

     
10.7

Stock Option Agreement, by and between the Company and Robert Tick, dated July 16, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 20, 2010].

     
10.8

Restricted Shares Grant Agreement, by and between the Company and Robert Tick, dated July 16, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 20, 2010].

     
10.9

Independent Director Contract, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Henry Ngan [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.10

Independent Director Contract, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Virginia P’an [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.11

Independent Director Contract, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Jianbing Zhong [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.12

Indemnification Agreement, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Henry Ngan [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.13

Indemnification Agreement, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Virginia P’an [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].




Exhibit No.  

Description

   

 

10.14

Indemnification Agreement, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Jianbing Zhong [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.15

Restricted Shares Grant Agreements, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Henry Ngan [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.16

Restricted Shares Grant Agreements, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Virginia P’an [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.17

Restricted Shares Grant Agreements, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Jianbing Zhong [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.18

Indemnification Agreement, dated October 5, 2010, by and between the Company and Robert Tick [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
10.19

English Translation of Equity Transfer Agreement, by and between New Resources and the Founders, dated October 22, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 28, 2010].

     
10.20

English Translation of Technical Service Agreement, by and between Harbin Baixin and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, dated October 22, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 28, 2010].

     
10.21

English Translation of Exclusive Purchase Option Agreement, by and among Harbin Baixin, the Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, dated October 22, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 28, 2010].

     
10.22

English Translation of Voting Rights Proxy Agreement, by and among Harbin Baixin, the Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, dated October 22, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 28, 2010].

     
10.23

English Translation of Equity Pledge Agreement, by and among Harbin Baixin, the Founders and Heilongjiang Shuaiyi, dated October 22, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 28, 2010].

     
10.24

Amendment No. 1 to the Employment Agreement, dated January 24, 2011, by and between the Company and Robert Tick [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 28, 2011].

     
10.25

Lease Agreement, dated May 1, 2010, between Qingling Zhang and Xinjun Li (English Translation) [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.47 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 29, 2011].

     
10.26

Asset Transfer Agreement, by and between Heilongjiang Shuaiyi New Energy Development Co., Ltd. and Lianyun Han, dated April 15, 2011 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 12, 2011].

     
10.27

Amendment No. 1 to the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated August 24, 2011, by and between the Company and ARC China Investment Funds [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 25, 2011].

     
10.28

Lock-up Agreement, dated August 24, 2011, by and between the Company and ARC China Investment Funds [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 25, 2011].

     
10.29

Independent Director Contract, dated November 26, 2012, by and between the Company and Mr. Fearon. [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2012].

     
10.30  

Indemnification Agreement, dated November 26, 2012, by and between the Company and Mr. Fearon. [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2012].




Exhibit No.   Description
     
10.31

Restricted Shares Grant Agreement, dated November 26, 2012, by and between the Company and Mr. Fearon. [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2012].

     
10.32  
Amendment No. 2 to the Employee Labor Agreement, dated August 8, 2013 , by and between the Company and Robert Tick [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 12, 2013]
     
10.33  
Amendment No. 3 to the Employee Labor Agreement, dated August 12, 2014 , by and between the Company and Robert Tick [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 13, 2014]
     
14.1

Amended and Restated Code of Ethics, adopted October 5, 2010 [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 14.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 8, 2010].

     
21

Subsidiaries of the Company [Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 29, 2011]

     
23.1  

Consent of Crowe Horwath (HK) CPA Limited, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.*

     
31.1  

Certifications of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. *

     
31.2  

Certifications of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. *

     
32.1  

Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. *

     
32.2  

Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. *

     
101.INS  

XBRL Instance Document

101.SCH  

Taxonomy Extension Schema Document

101.CAL  

Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document

101.DEF  

Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document

101.LAB  

Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document

101.PRE  

Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

* Filed herewith