Nascent Announces Completion of Letter of Intent to Sell Palermo Italian Foods to Investor Group
June 10 2008 - 9:33AM
Business Wire
Nascent Wine Company, Inc. (OTCBB: NCTW), dba Nascent Foodservice,
Inc., the only nationwide distributor of imported products in
Mexico, announced today that it has signed a letter of intent to
sell Palermo Italian Foods, LLC (�Palermo Foods�) to a group of
investors led by Palermo�s current President, Victor Petrone, who
is also President and a director of Nascent Foodservice. Palermo
Foods, which was acquired by Nascent Foodservice in November of
2006, is an Italian food importer and distributor based in Miami,
Florida, primarily serving the southern Florida markets. Palermo
Foods operates out of a 33,000 square foot warehouse located in
Miami, Florida and utilizes a fleet of approximately 8 trucks.
Nascent Foodservice previously announced on June 2, 2008 that it
was evaluating strategic options for its Palermo Italian Foods
business. Sandro Piancone, CEO of Nascent, stated, �The sale of the
Palermo Italian Foods improves the Company�s financial position and
enables us to focus and streamline the organization on our higher
margin businesses. While we continue to believe that the value of
the Palermo Foods business is significant, we believe it is in the
best interest of our stakeholders to focus the organization on
opportunities within our core competency of food distribution in
Mexico. We are pleased to have found a buyer in Victor Petrone, who
having served as President of Palermo Italian Foods over the past 2
years, brings significant experience and understanding of the
business and is uniquely qualified to lead the business going
forward.� Victor Petrone, President of Palermo Italian Foods,
stated, �Palermo Italian Foods is an excellent brand, widely
recognized for its high quality Italian foods products and
well-positioned within the Italian Foods marketplace. I look
forward to leveraging my experience as President of Palermo Foods
to continue to build the business and position Palermo Foods for
future growth.� About Nascent Foodservice, Inc. Nascent Wine
Company Inc. dba Nascent Foodservice is the only nationwide
distributor of imported products in Mexico, marketing and
distributing over 2,000 national and proprietary brand food and
non-food products. Nascent Foodservice also has the exclusive right
to distribute Miller Beer in Baja California, Mexico. In addition,
Nascent sells select products from Nestle, Ferrarelle Water, Cora
Italian Food Products, Avasoft Ice Cream, Mitsuki Asian products,
Bonet European products, ROCKSTAR and Fusion Energy drinks, and
Jolly Rancher Soda, Nery�s cheese products, among others. Nascent
is focused on acquiring the most profitable and well positioned
distributors in Mexico with the best food and beverage portfolios
in the country. Nascent is currently servicing over 240,000 sales
points including supermarkets, convenience stores and foodservice
accounts like Wal-Mart, Costco, Soriana, Comercial Mexicana, AM/PM,
7-ELEVEN, OXXO and many more. Nascent Foodservice trades on the OTC
Bulletin Board as Nascent Wine Company, Inc., ticker symbol
NCTW.OB. For more information about Nascent Foodservice, go to
www.nascentfoodservice.com. Forward-Looking Statements Statements
made in this press release that express the Company's or
management's intentions, plans, beliefs, expectations or
predictions of future events, are forward-looking statements. Those
statements are based on many assumptions and are subject to many
known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could
cause the Company's actual activities, results or performance to
differ materially from those anticipated or projected in such
forward-looking statements. In light of significant risks and
uncertainties inherent in forward-looking statements included
herein, the inclusion of such statements should not be regarded as
a representation by the Company that it will achieve such
forward-looking statements. For further details and a discussion of
these and other risks and uncertainties, please see our most recent
reports on Form 10-KSB and Form 10-QSB, as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, as they may be amended from
time to time. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly
update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new
information, future events, or otherwise.
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