U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 4 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [ ] Check box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Zatpack Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) 2550 El Presidio Street -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) Long Beach California 90810 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Hauser, Inc. (HAUS.OB) ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary) ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Statement for Month/Year January/2002 ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year) ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer (Check all applicable) [ ] Director [X] 10% Owner [ ] Officer (give title below) [ ] Other (specify below) ________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line) [X] Form filed by one Reporting Person [ ] Form filed by more than one Reporting Person ================================================================================ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned ================================================================================ 6. 4. 5. Owner- Securities Acquired (A) or Amount of ship 3. Disposed of (D) Securities Form: 7. Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Direct Nature of 2. Code ------------------------------- Owned at End (D) or Indirect 1. Transaction (Instr. 8) (A) of Month Indirect Beneficial Title of Security Date ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership (Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 3,186,215(1)(2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==================================================================================================================================== Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over) * If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). SEC 1474 (3-99) FORM 4 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) ================================================================================ 10. 9. Owner- Number ship of Form 2. Deriv- of Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11. sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature or Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of Exer- 4. Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In- cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct Price Trans- action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene- 1. of action Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at End In- ficial Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner- Derivative ative (Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Month (I) ship Security Secur- Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. 3) ity Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock $.01 1/31/02 S D Immed. 12/7/09 Common 865,630 $779,067(1) D Warrant (right Stock, par to buy) value $.001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (2) ==================================================================================================================================== Explanation of Responses: (1) In December 2001, Hauser, Inc. (the "Company") amended and restated its credit agreement (the "Amended Credit Agreement") with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. ("Wells Fargo"). As a condition to the closing of the Amended Credit Agreement, Wells Fargo required the payment of a closing fee in the aggregate amount of $779,067 (the "Closing Fee"). Zatpack Inc. ("Zatpack") paid the Closing Fee in consideration of the issuance to Zatpack of an immediately exercisable warrant to purchase 865,630 shares of the Company's common stock for a purchase price of $.01 per share (the "Warrant"). On January 31, 2002, Zatpack sold the Warrant for $779,067. (2) Zuellig Group N.A., Inc. ("ZGNA"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Zatpack, directly owns 988,471 shares of common stock. Zuellig Botanicals, Inc. ("ZBI"), a wholly owned subsidiary of ZGNA directly owns 1,204,955 shares of common stock. By reason of the control that Zatpack exercises of ZGNA, it may be deemed under Rule 16a-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Act"), to beneficially own all of the shares owned by ZGNA and ZBI. Therefore, Zatpack may be deemed to beneficially own 3,186,215 shares of common stock, which includes the 992,789 shares obtainable by Zatpack upon exercise of certain warrants (excluding the Warrant). This filing shall not be deemed an admission by Zatpack that Zatpack is, for purposes of Section 16 or the Act, the beneficial owner of any equity securities covered by this filing. ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained /s/ Harvey L. Sperry February 5, 2002 in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently ------------------------ ----------------------- valid OMB number. **Signature of Reporting Date SEC 1474(3-99) Person Page 2