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UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant
to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date
of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 29, 2009
DEER
CONSUMER PRODUCTS, INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Nevada
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333-140545
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20-5526104
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(State
or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS
Employer Identification No.)
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Area
2, 1/F, Building M-6,
Central
High-Tech Industrial Park, Nanshan,
Shenzhen,
China
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518057
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(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code: (86)
755-8602-8285
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This Form
8-K and other reports filed by Registrant from time to time with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (collectively the “Filings”) contain or may contain
forward looking statements and information that are based upon beliefs of, and
information currently available to, Registrant’s management as well as estimates
and assumptions made by Registrant’s management. When used in the filings the
words “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect”, “future”, “intend”, “plan”
or the negative of these terms and similar expressions as they relate to
Registrant or Registrant’s management identify forward looking statements. Such
statements reflect the current view of Registrant with respect to future events
and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors relating
to Registrant’s industry, Registrant’s operations and results of operations and
any businesses that may be acquired by Registrant. Should one or more of these
risks or uncertainties materialize, or should the underlying assumptions
prove incorrect, actual results may differ significantly from those anticipated,
believed, estimated, expected, intended or planned.
Although
Registrant believes that the expectations reflected in the forward looking
statements are reasonable, Registrant cannot guarantee future results, levels of
activity, performance or achievements. Except as required by applicable law,
including the securities laws of the United States, Registrant does not intend
to update any of the forward-looking statements to conform these statements to
actual results.
Item 1.01
Entry into a Material
Definitive Agreement.
On May 1,
2009, Deer Consumer Products, Inc. ("Deer" or the "Company") completed a closing
of a private placement offering of 520,000 Units at an offering price of
$1.84 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $956,800 to two non- U.S.
investors. Each Unit consisted of one share of Deer's common stock,
par value $.001 per share (the "Common Stock"), and a three year warrant to
purchase 15% of one share of Common Stock, or an aggregate of 78,000 shares of
Common Stock, at an exercise price of $3.45 per share. The investors
received registration rights. The forms of the warrants and Registration Rights
Agreement are attached as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2, respectively, to the Current
Report on Form 8-K filed by the Company on April 3, 2008.
The
Company issued the shares pursuant to an exemption from registration under
Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
The above
descriptions are not complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference
to the complete text of those documents, which are incorporated herein by
reference.
Deer
anticipates that the net proceeds of the Offering will be used for working
capital purposes.
Item
3.02 Un-Registered Sales of Equity
Securities
The
information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is
incorporated herein by reference into this Item 3.02.
Item
5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers;
Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory
Arrangements of Certain Officers.
(d) On
April 29, 2009, the Board of Directors voted to (i) increase the size of the
Board of Directors to 5 and (ii) appoint Mr. Edward Hua, Mr. Zongshu Nie, Mr.
Arnold Staloff and Mr. Walter Zhao as members of the Board of Directors
effective immediately. The biographies of Messers. Hua, Nie, Staloff and Zhao
are as follows:
Edward
Hua, 56. From 1994 to the present time, Mr. Hua held various
management positions at the Bank of China and is currently the General Manager
of the Treasury Department of the Boc Shenzhen Branch. Mr. Hua holds a Master’s
Degree in World Economics from Fudan University and a Senior Economist
Certificate from the Bank of China.
Zongshu
Nie, 32. From May 2008 to the present time, Mr. Nie has been the Financial
Controller of Deer Consumer Products, Inc. From 1998 to May 2008, Mr.
Nie was the Chief Financial Officer at Xian Tai Plastics Co., Ltd, a
manufacturer and exporter of plastics based materials. Mr. Nie received a
Bachelor’s degree in accounting from the ShaanXi College of Finance and
Economics in 1998.
Arnold
Staloff, 64. From December 2005 to May 2007, Mr. Staloff served as Chairman of
the Board of SFB Market Systems, Inc., a New Jersey-based company that provides
technology solutions for the management and generation of options series data.
From March 2003 to December 2005, Mr. Staloff was an independent consultant.
From June 1990 to March 2003, Mr. Staloff served as President and Chief
Executive Officer of Bloom Staloff Corporation, an equity and options
market-making firm and foreign currency options floor broker. Mr. Staloff served
as a director for Lehman Brothers Derivative Products Inc. from 1994 until
October 2008. Mr. Staloff currently serves on the boards of several
NASDAQ listed companies as the Chairman of Audit Committee for each company,
including, Shiner International, Inc., a packaging and anti-counterfeit plastic
film company, since 2007; AgFeed Industries, Inc., a feed and commercial hog
producer, since 2007 and SmartHeat Inc., a clean technology energy savings
equipment company, since 2008.
Walter
Zhao, 45. From December 1997 to the present time, Mr. Zhao has been the
President of Kaito Electronics, Inc., an electronics design and manufacturer.
From 1989 to 1997 Mr. Zhao was a Department Manager of CEIEC Shenzhen, an
education equipment and instrument company. Mr. Zhao received a Master’s degree
in electrical engineering from the University of Science and Technology in China
in 1989 and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Shandong
University in 1985.
The Board
has determined that each of Messers. Hua, Staloff and Zhao are independent
directors for purposes of the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. listed company standards
and the independence standards set forth in the Company’s Corporate Governance
Guidelines. The Board has appointed Messers. Hua, Staloff and Zhao to serve as
members of the following Committees:
Audit
Committee
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Nominating and Corporate Governance
Committee
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Compensation
Committee
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Arnold
Staloff, Chair
Edward
Hua
Walter
Zhao
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Edward
Hua, Chair
Arnold
Staloff
Walter
Zhao
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Walter
Zhao, Chair
Edward
Hua
Arnold
Staloff
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There are
no arrangements or understandings between the any of Messers. Hua,
Nie, Staloff or Zhao and any other persons pursuant to which such director was
selected as a director.
There are
no relationships or related transactions between Messers. Hua, Nie, Staloff or
Zhao and the Company that are required to be reported under Item 404(a) of
Regulation S-K.
The
Company and Mr. Staloff have agreed that he will be compensated $20,000 per
annum. Messers. Nie, Hua, Staloff and Zhao shall be eligible to receive grants
of options to purchase the Company’s Common Stock in such amounts, and on such
terms, as agreed to in the future.
Item
8.01 Other Events.
On May 4,
2009, Deer Consumer Products issued a press release announcing the Company’s
application for listing on the NASDAQ Stock Market and the appointment Mr.
Edward Hua, Mr. Zongshu Nie, Mr. Arnold Staloff and Mr. Walter Zhao as members
of its Board of Directors. A copy of the press release is attached as
Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K.
Item
9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
10.1
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Form
of Warrant (Incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the
Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 3,
2009).
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10.2
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Form
of Registration Rights Agreement (Incorporated herein by reference to
Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 3,
2009).
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99.1
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Press
Release, dated May 4, 2009, “Deer Consumer Products, Inc.Applies for
Listing on the NASDAQ Stock Market, Appoints Independent Board of
Directors.”
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Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
duly authorized.
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DEER
CONSUMER PRODUCTS, INC.
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By:
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/s/
Ying He
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Name:
Mr. Ying He
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Date:
May 4, 2009
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Title:
Chief Executive Officer
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