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Agnese and Timothy Wingert, dean and professor at the A third Chinese businessman, Steve Wang, signed a
Rosenberg School of Optometry, will visit Aier Eye Group in memorandum Friday with Boerne-based Texas Star Nut & Food
October. The Chinese eye care hospital group will pay a reciprocal Co. Inc., which does business under the name of Nature’s Eats.
visit to San Antonio in December to finalize investment plans, Wang wants to import the wide variety of packaged products
Agnese said. from Texas Star Nut & Food Co. Inc. for online sales in China.
Wang already imports 21,000 containers of foreign products a
“It’s a huge step for U.S. and Chinese (eye care) cooperation,” Li month, but none from the United States yet.
said through an interpreter.
“He can buy up to $50 million to $100 million a month from the
Wingert said the Chinese investment will be the first foreign United States,” Seyedin said.
investment in the 6-year-old UIW optometry school. The planned
Rio Grande Valley clinic will be multidisciplinary, combining Matt Mohr, a Texas Star Nut & Food advisory board member,
optometry with nursing, physical therapy, pharmaceuticals and said the pending China sale will be the first international deal
osteopathic medicine, he said. for the company.
Li this week also retained a Washington law firm with a Houston “We thought we’d start with a small country like China,” Mohr
office, McGuireWoods LLP, to find supplies of oil and liquified joked. “The Chinese are huge consumers of nuts and our types
natural gas for his energy company to buy. of products.”
UIW also is in talks with Suen Chihang, president of Guangdong The size and terms of the deal has not been determined yet. “But
Hangji Metal Product Industries Co. Ltd. it has huge potential,” said Robert Henarie, sales vice president
at Texas Star Nut & Food.
Suen is an executive and philanthropist who wants to build a
nursing school and retirement resort in China. He would like for “I’m very confident with the company,” Wang said of Texas
UIW to provide the management and technology for the school
and resort, said Harley Seyedin, president of the American Star Nut & Food through an interpreter.
Chamber of Commerce in South China. UIW already operates a
satellite campus in Guangdong. “I will be very happy to promote the
company in the Products from S.A.
China market.”
AmCham delegation meet with Judge Nelson Wolff, head of Bexar County (Left 2)
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Agnese and Timothy Wingert, dean and professor at the A third Chinese businessman, Steve Wang, signed a
Rosenberg School of Optometry, will visit Aier Eye Group in memorandum Friday with Boerne-based Texas Star Nut & Food
October. The Chinese eye care hospital group will pay a reciprocal Co. Inc., which does business under the name of Nature’s Eats.
visit to San Antonio in December to finalize investment plans, Wang wants to import the wide variety of packaged products
Agnese said. from Texas Star Nut & Food Co. Inc. for online sales in China.
Wang already imports 21,000 containers of foreign products a
“It’s a huge step for U.S. and Chinese (eye care) cooperation,” Li month, but none from the United States yet.
said through an interpreter.
“He can buy up to $50 million to $100 million a month from the
Wingert said the Chinese investment will be the first foreign United States,” Seyedin said.
investment in the 6-year-old UIW optometry school. The planned
Rio Grande Valley clinic will be multidisciplinary, combining Matt Mohr, a Texas Star Nut & Food advisory board member,
optometry with nursing, physical therapy, pharmaceuticals and said the pending China sale will be the first international deal
osteopathic medicine, he said. for the company.
Li this week also retained a Washington law firm with a Houston “We thought we’d start with a small country like China,” Mohr
office, McGuireWoods LLP, to find supplies of oil and liquified joked. “The Chinese are huge consumers of nuts and our types
natural gas for his energy company to buy. of products.”
UIW also is in talks with Suen Chihang, president of Guangdong The size and terms of the deal has not been determined yet. “But
Hangji Metal Product Industries Co. Ltd. it has huge potential,” said Robert Henarie, sales vice president
at Texas Star Nut & Food.
Suen is an executive and philanthropist who wants to build a
nursing school and retirement resort in China. He would like for “I’m very confident with the company,” Wang said of Texas
UIW to provide the management and technology for the school
and resort, said Harley Seyedin, president of the American Star Nut & Food through an interpreter.
Chamber of Commerce in South China. UIW already operates a
satellite campus in Guangdong. “I will be very happy to promote the
company in the Products from S.A.
China market.”
AmCham delegation meet with Judge Nelson Wolff, head of Bexar County (Left 2)
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