HQ Sustainable

Jeffrey Goldberger / Yemi Rose

                                                                                    212-896-1249 / 212-896-1233

 

 

SEATTLE, WA--(MARKET WIRE)--Sep 22, 2008 -- HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc. ("HQS" or the "Company"), a leader in toxin-free integrated aquaculture and aquatic product processing including fish byproduct personal healthcare products with operations in Hainan, PRC, announced today that it has selected KCSA Strategic Communications, a leading New York-based communications firm, as its investor relations agency. Working in tandem, KCSA and HQS will implement a comprehensive investor relations campaign designed to build greater investor awareness of the Company's aquatic products production, processing, marketing and sales. Jeffrey Goldberger, Managing Partner at KCSA, will lead the investor relations effort for HQ Sustainable Industries.

 

 

Jeffrey Goldberger, Managing Partner of KCSA Strategic Communications, commented, "HQS is an exciting company, in an equally exciting and rapidly growing industry. The Company is actively meeting an increasing market need for aquatic products, while working to increase capacity and expand margins. We strongly believe that they represent a tremendous value proposition for the institutional investment community and look forward to helping them increase investor awareness in their investment proposition."

HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc. is an integrated aquaculture and aquatic product processing company, with operations based in the environmentally pristine island province of Hainan, in the South China Sea. HQS practices co-operative sustainable aquaculture, using nutraceutically enriched feeds and conducting fish processing and sales. The company is dedicated to sustainable toxin-free methods giving its customers the purest products possible. The Company holds HACCP certification from the U.S. FDA and the EU Code assignment of quality, permitting its products to be sold in these international markets. The Aquaculture Certification Council, Inc. (ACC) certified that tilapia processing standards met Best Aquaculture Practices, and the Chinese government gave organic certification to the Company's tilapia production, processing, labeling, marketing and management system. The Company owns a nutraceuticals and health products company, which is HACCP and GMP certified, and produces and sells products subject to stringent laboratory tests certified by the China Ministry of Health. This GMP certified plant produces nutraceuticals, which enrich feed used by HQS' cooperative aquaculture operations. In addition to headquarters in Seattle, HQ has operational offices in Wenchang, Hainan. The Company's website is: http://www.hqfish.com.

 

Certain statements in this press release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "expect," "future," "may," "will," "would," "should," "plan," "projected," "intend," and similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc. (the Company) to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company's future operating results are dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to the Company's ability to: (i) obtain sufficient capital or a strategic business arrangement to fund its expansion plans; (ii) build the management and human resources and infrastructure necessary to support the growth of its business; (iii) competitive factors and developments beyond the Company's control; and (iv) other risk factors discussed in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov under "Search for Company Filings."

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