Antelope Enterprise Announces Agreement to Divest of its Ceramic Tile Business
Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: AEHL) announced a strategic divestiture of its ceramic tile manufacturing business on December 30, 2022, allowing a full focus on its KylinCloud social ecommerce platform. The divestment, involving an $8.5 million promissory note from the buyer, follows challenges in the tile sector due to a slowdown in China's real estate market and COVID-19 impacts. CEO Will Zhang highlighted the strong growth potential in social ecommerce, positioning the company for future expansion in this sector.
- Divested a non-core ceramic tile business to focus on social ecommerce.
- Anticipates growth in the high-demand social ecommerce market in China.
- Ceramic tile business faced significant hurdles due to real estate market slowdown.
- COVID-19 impacts affected operational performance in the ceramic tile sector.
Company Transforming into a Pure Play in the Social Ecommerce Market in China
JINJIANG, China, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Antelope Enterprise Holdings Limited (NASDAQ Capital Market: AEHL) ("Antelope Enterprise" or the "Company"), which operates KylinCloud, a leading online social ecommerce and live broadcast streaming platform with 200,000+ anchors and influencers, and a legacy ceramic tile manufacturing business in China, today announced that on December 30, 2022, it entered into a share purchase agreement (the "Disposition SPA") to divest of its ceramic tile manufacturing business.
"We are pleased to enter into this agreement which will enable us to to focus all of our resources and energies on China's high growth social ecommerce sector," commented Antelope Enterprise CEO Weilai 'Will' Zhang. "The ceramic tile business has faced significant hurdles due to the significant slowdown of the real estate sector and the impacts of Covid-19 in China. Meanwhile, we have been experiencing strong growth momentum in KylinCloud, our social ecommerce business. Therefore, this divesture represents an important step for our strategic transformation to focus on developing the social ecommerce market, expanding our new ecommerce team and further strengthening our already dynamic corporate culture."
"Our KylinCloud subsidiary operates an SaaS+ systems platform that promotes and amplifies marketing sales for consumer brand companies by leveraging the platform's growing list of broadcasters and influencers. We believe that our core competencies and competitive advantage will enable us to capitalize upon the projected high growth of China's social ecommerce and live streaming sector for years to come," concluded CEO Will Zhang.
On December 30, 2022, the Company and New Stonehenge Limited (the "Buyer"), a British Virgin Islands exempt company which is not an affiliate of the Company or any of its directors or officers, entered into a Disposition SPA. Pursuant to the Disposition SPA, the Buyer agreed to purchase the Company's ceramic tile business, and in exchange the Buyer will issue a
The closing of the Disposition SPA is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain closing conditions including the receipt of a fariness opinion from an independent firm, approval of a majority of the Company's shareholders, and all consents required to be obtained from or made with any governmental authorities.
More complete information of the Disposition SPA is set forth in the Form 6-K and its exhibits filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 5, 2023.
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Certain of the statements made in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning and protections of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include statements with respect to our beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may be beyond our control, and which may cause the actual results, performance, capital, ownership or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, without limitation, the continued stable macroeconomic environment in the PRC, the PRC real estate, construction and technology sectors continuing to exhibit sound long-term fundamentals, our ability to bring additional ceramic tile production capacity online going forward as our business improves, our ceramic tile customers continuing to adjust to our product price increases, our ability to sustain our average selling price increases and to continue to build volume in the quarters ahead, and whether our enhanced marketing efforts will help to produce wider customer acceptance of the new price points; and our ability to continue to grow our business management, information system consulting, and online social commerce and live streaming business. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be forward-looking statements. You can identify these forward-looking statements through our use of words such as "may," "will," "anticipate," "assume," "should," "indicate," "would," "believe," "contemplate," "expect," "estimate," "continue," "plan," "point to," "project," "could," "intend," "target" and other similar words and expressions of the future.
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