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The Service

ZÖAGN as a project development company, either develops it’s own initiatives or, offers new companies or companies with new initiatives the vehicle to have projects delivered. Most projects can be broken into two areas; the “hard side” and the “soft side”.

The hard side is the engineering side of a project which encompasses the actual design, construction and commissioning of a plant while the soft side of the project involves building the company itself, including the systems, staffing and operational aspects and perhaps even includes project funding, supply of raw materials and client product take orders, marketing and branding.

For existing companies the soft side of a project is normally looked after by the incumbent management team with new managers being brought in for project specific work. For a new company or a new development, ZÖAGN will supply the operational management of the project initially. Then ZOAGN will manage the important “transition phase” through the development of all the required systems, processes and people to ultimately creating a fully operational company that ZOAGN then steps away from, at the completion of ZOAGN’s project management contract.

The services supplied to any one project are dependant on the skill set already involved, the type of project, the industry and specifically what expertise is required. A range of services offered is listed below although this list is not exhaustive and ZOAGN does regularly contract out areas of projects where they do not have the skill sets or expertise in house.

Services List: Management Functions Board Level; Initial CEO role; Board Creation; Vision, Mission, Values; Project Advisory to Board; Financial Modeling; Business Plan; Executive Summary; Branding; Marketing Plan; Company Structure; Company Shareholders Agreements; Equity Sourcing; Funding for Project/Operation; Public relations; RMA Consultation; Management Operations; Initial Operations Management

Supplier Sourcing

Raw Material Sourcing

Market Sourcing

Product Take Contracts

Staff and Management Structures

Channels to Market

Logistics

Packaging

Maintenance Contracts

Staff Solutions

Staff Selection and Recruitment

Training and Development

Information Systems

Full systems analysis and selection

Full systems Integration

IT Design

IT Maintenance

Any one company or project will require some or all of these services at some stage during a project. ZÖAGN will manage the delivery of these skills to the client with the end view of ensuring the project is delivered successfully.

ZÖAGN usually has its major payments based on the operational performance of a plant or company after the first year of operation. This means that ZOAGN’s end result is achieved once all components have been brought together and the company is performing and meeting pre-determined KPI’s (key performance indicators).

This project management/development model keeps the focus of ZOAGN firmly on the “end game” and away from the short term focus of a “project”. It also ensures the all important “transition phase”, from a project to a fully operational company/business, is successfully completed.

ZÖAGN Investments Remuneration

During the project in the pre-construction phase where ZÖAGN is setting up the company and often hosting the company in its offices ZÖAGN will charge a management fee to cover costs and recover expenses.

Once the project has moved through to the construction phase the ZOAGN fees will increase as the workload increases. ZÖAGN will provide budgets for all activities and fees and this will be agreed within the project management contract. However, for the most part ZOAGN charges project management fees based on a model of “cost recovery plus a small margin”.

The main source of ZOAGN’s revenue is settled at the end of each project from either progress payments and final delivery fees or shares in the project company.

In projects where ZÖAGN has bought investment to the shareholding group, ZÖAGN will take a share in the company at the start. In other circumstances ZOAGN will negotiate progress payments and or final delivery fees.

In the case of shares, typically shareholding is passed over to ZOAGN upfront however, to hold this shareholding ZÖAGN must achieve its pre-determined “end game” KPI’s. Should some or all of the KPI’s not be met then the share allocation for that specific KPI(s) is taken back by the company at a nominal price and ZOAGN effectively looses some of its shareholding. Alternatively, when the project has been completed and all KPI’s achieved ZÖAGN then has full access to it’s shareholding as per the contract.

In the case of a straight fees based project, typically the progress payments and final delivery fees are linked to project KPI’s and detailed within the project management contract.

Current Projects

SWPF Ltd (Arapuni Milk)

ZÖAGN currently holds a management contract with SWPF Ltd to manage the development of a high specification milk powder processing facility that will market itself and its products under the brand name of Arapuni Milk.

At the time of going public with the Arapuni Milk project in October 2009 ZOAGN is well advanced in many areas of the project management including key early stage areas such as RMA submission preparation, business planning, product take contract negotiations, company structure, systems and processes design and the securing of investment and operational capital.

The Arapuni Milk project is a full turn key project initiated by ZOAGN and some private investors. The model for the Arapuni Milk project is based on the cost plus fee base and a shareholding based on the achievement by ZOAGN of specific end game KPI’s.

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