Monster Beverage Corp (MNST)

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Form S-8 filed

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the following Registration Statements on Form S-8, including all post-effective amendments thereto (each a “Registration Statement” and collectively, the “Registration Statements”) filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, by Monster Beverage Corporation (formerly Hansen Natural Corporation), a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”):

· Registration Statement No. 033-92526 pertaining to the registration of 1,600,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.005 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Registrant issuable under the Registrant’s Stock Option Plan for Outside Directors;

· Registration Statement No. 333-41333 pertaining to the registration of 500,000 shares of Common Stock of the Registrant issuable under the Hansen Natural Corporation Stock Option Plan;

· Registration Statement No. 333-89123 pertaining to the registration of 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock of the Registrant issuable under the Hansen Natural Corporation Stock Option Plan; and

· Registration Statement No. 333-131467 pertaining to the registration of 200,000 shares of Common Stock of the Registrant issuable under the 2005 Hansen Natural Corporation Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors.

Each of the plans covered by the aforementioned Registration Statements has now terminated. Accordingly, all of the Registrant’s Common Stock registered for sale under the Registration Statements that remains unsold is hereby deregistered pursuant to the Registrant’s undertakings in the Registration Statement identified above.