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Sunday, 01/06/2008 12:34:48 AM

Sunday, January 06, 2008 12:34:48 AM

Here's some dd for any observers/sideliners:

Canadian Foreign Affairs bio of Iroquois...

http://www.dfait.gc.ca/aboriginalplanet/business/buiroquois-en.asp

Iroquois profile from the Canadian Govt:

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/app/ccc/search/navigate.do?language=eng&portal=1&estblmntNo=234567058777&profile=completeProfile

Here's Aquagold on the same Canadian Govt. site:

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/sc_mrksv/corpdir/dataOnline/corpns_re?company_select=6588271

Iroquois Water grants from the Canadian Small Business Funding Center...

Manufacturing
Professional, Scientific and Technical Services

For marketing water bottle Iroquois Water Ltd.
Cornwall, ON $65,814.00

http://www.grants-loans.org/reports.php?WhereInd=Manuf&extra_title=Manufacturing

Bottled Water Clients of Hidell-Eyster International:

Iroquois Water Company

http://www.hidelleyster.com/clients.htm

HENRY R. HIDELL, III
Principal & President,
Hidell-Eyster Technical Services, Inc.

For thirty-eight years, Mr. Hidell has managed an international consulting firm with a global reputation in the beverage and bottled water industries. During this period he has overseen long range business development strategies and finance and administration of the firm. He has been instrumental in the development of the company's joint venture relationships and the execution of business opportunities.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA), he sits on the IBWA , Supplier Committee and Education Committee, and is Chairman of the IBWA Convention Committee. He is the U.S. Supplier Representative to the International Council of Bottled Water Associations and Chairman of that organizationâ€™s Supplier Committee and Convention Committee. He was granted the highest honor in the bottled water industry being inducted into the Beverage World Magazine Bottled Water Hall of Fame in 2001. He is also a member of the International Society of Beverage Technologists. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Neverfail Spring Water Co., Inc. in Sydney, Australia. Neverfail is a publicly held firm with a capitalized value exceeding $300 million. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Iroquois Water, Ltd. a First Nations Corporation located in Cornwall, Ont., Canada. Mr. Hidell is an internationally recognized expert in the bottled water industry with particular experience in bottled water plant design, management operations and international economic market research and development. He is a member of the Council of Experts of the Association International de la Distribution des Produits Alimentaires et des Products de Grande Consommation (AIDA), Bruxells, Belgium, an international organization servicing the logistics and distribution industry.

In addition to bottled water and beverages, Mr. Hidell is a recognized expert in the point of use industry. Here he specializes in the application of advanced water treatment and waste water treatment technologies.

Mr. Hidell has been responsible for the development of several hundred water sources for use in the beverage industry including hydrogeological investigation, extraction systems and distribution systems. He has developed sophisticated water treatment and mineralization systems for use in bottled water production in Argentina, Mexico, the United States, the Philippines, Europe, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand and Russia. He is also a technical expert in water resource management and business development and technology transfer for the United States Department of State, U.S. Information Service, specializing in Russia.

He has completed market studies and feasibility studies in the United States, Africa, Central Europe, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, South America and the Middle East. He is a recognized expert in the area of product development, strategic market development and distribution logistics.

Mr. Hidell drafted the mineralized water regulations for MERCOSUR, the Latin American Trade Organization of the Southern Cone. He developed and taught the International Bottled Water Associationâ€™s Seminar on Quality Control and quality assurance systems for beverage plants. He was one of the founders of QUASI, a third party standards organization specializing in bottled water production. He has published numerous articles on the beverage and bottled water business and is an invited key note speaker on those subjects to various organization meetings. He is a member of the Canadian Bottled Water Association and is the Resident Expert for the Asian Bottled Water Association based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Mr. Hidell was a Principal in Stagecoach Associates, Inc., a property management and property rehabilitation firm, owner of the historic Stetson Shoe factory building in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Property management included hands on experience with all physical plant systems (heating boilers, wet sprinkler system, elevators, etc.), as well as designing the renovation of the building and all physical plant systems. He also represented the John B. Stetson Company in their renovation of approximately 2 million square feet of existing factory structures in Philadelphia and New York.

Mr. Hidell is an expert witness in land, resource and business valuation: Worcester County Superior Court, Barnstable County Superior Court, Plymouth County Superior Court, Norfolk County Superior Court, and Nantucket Superior Court, Massachusetts, as well as other jurisdictions in the United States.

http://www.bottledwaterweb.com/bwwteam.jsp

digging through Cott's old filings to find out what happened to Iroquois relationship with them & found this blurb from page 21 of their 10-Q for 9/27/03...

RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES -- Risks and uncertainties include national brand
pricing strategies, commitment of major customers to retailer brand programs,
stability of procurement costs for items such as sweetener, packaging materials
and other ingredients, the successful integration of new acquisitions,
seasonality of sales, the ability to protect intellectual property and
fluctuations in interest rates and foreign currencies versus the U.S. dollar.
Recently, Cott lost some spring water business in the U.S. The spring water was
being copacked for Cott by Iroquois Water Ltd. ("Iroquois Water"), a Canadian
company in which Cott has invested $5.1 million including equity and cash
advances. The business was lost principally due to the rise in value of the
Canadian dollar, which made it non-competitive. While this lost business has had
a significant adverse impact on Iroquois Water, management believes that the
efforts of both Iroquois and Cott to find new customers to replace it will be
successful.

http://www.secinfo.com/dRX7g.216k.htm

Iroquois Water Ltd. The largest fully automated water bottling facility on native land in the world, the company constructed a 75,000 square foot addition bringing the total plant size to 148,000, and was the recipient in the 'Partnership' category (Cott Beverages Canada) for the 2002 Ontario Global Traders Award, and ranked 20th in PROFIT Magazine's list of Hot 50 in Canada's Emerging Growth Companies.

http://www.cornwall.ca/main.cfm?pagename=2003%20Year%20in%20Review&Parent=Business

Some due dilly on Paul A. Taillefer who is founding president of Avitec International & Trillium Water S.A & did the Aquagold interview with Steve Weiss at EDS. Paul A. Taillefer, as Co-Founder & Director of Aquagold Int'l must believe there is a strong possibility of profit in shipping to China! It's a wild assumption at this early stage of my due but maybe the bottling/water facilities of each plant(whether Iroquois or Trillium) can only export limited quantities re government regulations so Paul feels both companies can succeed or maybe just maybe...due to the China connections Aquagold has already made we have found another acquisition target besides Iroquois to add to the Aquagold Mix(due to the sheer size of the current & pending Aquagold Chinese contracts)!

Here's a quick blurb from Trillium's site & their link below along with a link to Paul's photo at the Global Capital Resources Group LLC. More later on this morning...best to all...

TRILLIUM has acquired marketing rights to some of the finest premium spring water in several countries that are known for the purity of their drinking water. The bottling process is performed in ``state of the art``fully automated processing plants, thus preserving the integrity and quality of the finish product. Our plants are operated under the highest industry standards. Our bottlers are recognized in Canada by the (CBWA) Canadian Bottled Water Association and the National Sanitation Foundation as a superior quality producer. Internationally we are recognized by the (IBWA) International Bottled Water Association.

http://www.trillium-water.com/english/
http://www.globalcrg.net/partnerfirrms.html
http://www.avitec.aero/pn/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=9

From the Globalcrg link above:

Global Capital Resources Group, LLC is a U.S based registered private
finance and investment banking services group, which provides services
in the following areas to its clientele: International Finance, Investment
Banking Services, World Trade/Import/Export Finance, Business
Management Consultancy Services, and Charter Cargo/Flight Services.

World Trade Import/Export Services

GCRG is involved in international trade in the areas of
import/export finance of commodities on behalf of its global
clientele by having Letters of Credit or documentary letters
of credit issued to the client's exporters, provided the client
can meet the requirements of our funding partners and pay
the minimum required banking charges

All our world trade is conducted within the confines of all
applicable laws and regulations of both the importing and
exporting nations. We do not engage in arms trade
finance or anything which leads to destruction of life on
earth.

GCRG is also engaged in finding markets for client's
exportable items on a commission basis. We also arrange
trade missions for our registered clientele to meet their
counterparts in other parts of the globe to facilitate
legitimate business arrangements.

We welcome those clients seeking assistance in the
importation/exportation of the commodities as listed below,
whether you are seeking to buy or seeking a market for
your products:

Crude Oils

Agricultural products

Consumer Goods

Scrap Metals

Diamonds (both Rough & Polished)

Gold and Precious Metals

Global Capital Resources, Avitec, Trillium, Iroquois all add up to Aquagold gaining their foothold into China at a time when the Chinese Govt. is looking to deal with a dependable bottled water supplier especially with the Olympics on the horizon!

In regards to my due on York Tang's address here in Toronto. I was able to confirm that the building listed as his address is called The Liberties & it is a high-end building, Chinese in decor close to College Park.

I had a friend drop by the lobby & they spoke to the Securities rep & asked for York Y. Tang, unit 407. The security guard told my contact to hold on/wait but Mr. Tang was not in so they left. However, this at least confirms that Mr. Tang's listed address does check out so yet another dot connected.

As with any business venture it takes time to really become a dominate force in any given market. That being said business in China is all about forging relationships & Aquagold has been working diligently with the right players for a long time establishing their foothold.

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