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Amsterdam Commodities Annual General Meeting of Shareholders Rotterdam, 30 April 2014

Tea

Camellia sinensis is the species of plant whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce the popular beverage; tea. It is of the genus Camellia (Chinese: 茶花; pinyin: Cháhu, literally: “tea flower”), a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae

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Tradition

• 500 BC - the first known written reference to the tea plant, published by the Chinese

• 6th Century – Chinese drinking tea, both medicinally and as a pleasing drink

• 8th Century - China exports tea by camel to what is now Russia, along the legendary SILK ROUTE; a three year round trip

• 1610 - the DUTCH brought the first tea consignment to HOLLAND and the tea trade in Europe was born

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Movement

• In 1603 it took a vessel 26 weeks to sail from China to Europe

• In 1866 the voyage from China took 14 weeks by wind powered tea clippers

• In 1880 by steamer through the Suez canal, 6 weeks • TODAY 4 weeks with eco steaming

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Rapid advance

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Tea plucking

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How Tea is made

Manufacture

• Orthodox traditional black, curly leaf tea (China, Vietnam, Ceylon, partly in India)

• CTC the tea is cut rather than rolled which gives a smaller, more ball like leaf, faster infusing; ideal for tea bags (North India and all of Africa)

• Green Same basic process as orthodox

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Fast development

The period from 1950 saw the emergence of Africa as a key tea growing area and the development of tea growing industries in Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, Iran, Vietnam and so on Today • Tea is grown in about 37 different countries • Global tea production is 4.8 billion kilogrammes • Global consumption about 4.6 billion kilogrammes • Global tea export about 1.8 billion kilogrammes

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The big GAINS in recent decades

• Containerisation from the late 1970’s • Phenominal growth of the tea bag in the past 4 decades • Ease of communication • Exponential growth of production and consumption • End of the USSR and the opening of the Russian, Eastern

European and Central Asian Republics

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Who is Van Rees Group?

• Started by Jan van Rees in the Netherlands in 1819 • Today - foremost independent tea traders in the world

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Van Rees Offices

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High capacity mechanised blending plants in Sri Lanka and the Netherlands

What do we do?

• Buy and sell tea in bulk (originals and blends) • Customers in more than 60 countries • Our network; vast, intricate, complex. Our product is the same • Major global stockholder and position taker in a purely

physical trade

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Why Van Rees? World number 1 independent tea supplier of original teas and blends • Strong international network / presence • Excellent market and product knowledge • Provide “Total Service Concept” to our customers • High quality staff to delivery high quality service • High quality market analyses • Constant supply of tea through anticipative buying,

irrespective of climate, acts of god, political upheavel or shortage = reliability of contracts

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Tomorrow

• With Acomo behind us, their skills and finance underpinning us, we simply want to grow, organically and by acquisition

• Our highest growth and least risk will come from the big global tea packers

• Acquisition in the right sectors of tea • Manage market risk better than our competitors. • CSR is eminent. Our accredited tea business – Rainforest

Alliance, UTZ, ETP, Fairtrade will grow from 30% today to 50% within 2-3 years

• Continuity in our core tea skills will come from a well trained, skilled and dynamic group of young traders and managers

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Continuity

Change, change, change?

• Yes This company will change and adapt to grow in the future, we have just shown you how we intend to do that

• No We are acutely mindful of our unique history and the good practices this has brought; honesty, reliability, decency and fairness. That will NEVER change

And the symmetry?

VOC – BEI 1 - 0

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Amsterdam Commodities Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Rotterdam, 30 April 2014