2007 was the first full calendar year of the cooperation between Wellhope De Heus.
2007 is a year that I will forget easily. 2007 was a difficult year because the problems with blue ear diseases in the pigs, bird flue in the poultry the big increase in prices of raw materials that put us under stress to get good results.
But in contrary to a lot of our competitors, Wellhope was able to survive this year. only survive: we were able to increase our sales volume with around 48.7%. Continuing like this means we are in 2015 the biggest feed producer in the world! Everybody will say that you can count like this. But 5 years ago they told the same Wellhope was able to keep their impressive growth over the last five years. So why for another 5 8 years! It’s a matter of time.
The first year was for me a year of getting acquainted with Wellhope. I visited almost all our production locations was impressed by the warm reception everywhere. I’m sorry that some of you I might have forgotten the name as I saw so many new faces got so many name cards. But if we meet for a second time I will remember.
Being in an office with a couple of persons that are responsible for the Wellhope company is an honour. I experience on first hand their worries, ideas plans which they discuss with me to keep this steady growth our company. I realized last year that they were a lot of time away home what makes it sometimes difficult to find them when there are urgent things to discuss. But it shows the commitment to Wellhope to reach their target growth as just mentioned above.
The personal highlight for this year were for me the seminars in which I gave a speech. The unbelievable big number of people the great interest in the topics showed to me that our technical staff, salesmen, dealers customers really want to learn to improve. Another highlight was the visit of the experts of the Heus. Loek de Lange the research department, Fred de Cocq, our pig farm management expert Jan Wijers our pig nutritionist. During these visits a wide variety of things were discussed implemented. One thing in particular I want to mention. With Fred de Cocq we visited our own Wellhope trial farm in Lingyuan. During the ten years that I worked in China I visited a lot of farms. But I have to give a big compliment to Wellhope as this is the best managed farm I have seen in China! All the workers were very interested dedicated very eager to improve!
The worst moment last year was during our visit to Netherland this summer, when Co de Heus give me a phone call telling that Liu Sheng had a fall with a bicycle broke his hip. I felt so sorry for him, staying in a hospital far away his family in a country you do speak the language do know anybody.
I’m here to answer your questions about pig, poultry cattle farming. I think it would surprise you when I could give an answer on everything. But I’m alone. The Heus can give an answer on every question in these fields as we have almost 100 years experience a lot of experts in very specific fields. I’m looking forward to see your questions.
At this moment I’m still responsible for export of De Heus products to other South East Asian countries like Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia Thailand. In 2008 some big very interesting Wellhope projects in poultry in pigs will starts which need a lot of time. So to do my job for Wellhope good I will reduce international travels to 1 2 countries thus creating more time for work in China, I will do all my best to start up these projects in a best possible way because a good start is half of the job!
Hope to see you again in the year of the Rat many years more to follow.
Jan Cortenbach
Chief Technical Officer
De Heus -Wellhope
[譯文] 2007年是禾豐集團與De Heus公司正式合作的第一年，也是令我難以忘卻的一年。這一年危機四伏，豬藍耳病，禽流感以及飼料原料價格大幅上漲這些問題為我們經營目標的實現設置了重重障礙。
但是，相比于其他競爭對手，禾豐不僅僅是從打擊和考驗中生存了下來，我們的銷量還取得了48.7%的增長。如果一直保持這種增長速度，那就意味著到2015年，我們會成為世界最 大的飼料生產商。我知道有人會說不能這樣來計算，5年前也有人這樣認為，但禾豐卻以連續五年的驚人增長速度打消了他們的懷疑，所以接下來的五年或者八年，禾豐仍然充滿希望，實現最終目標只是時間問題。
在這一年中，我對禾豐逐漸熟悉與了解，我參觀了幾乎所有的分公司，他們的盛情接待給我留下了非常深刻的印象。但是因為見到那么多新的面孔，收到那么多的名片，一時間有些人的名字我可能記不得了，對此我深表歉意。如果下次再見面，我一定會牢記。
與禾豐集團的幾位高層管理者一起辦公我深感榮幸。當他們同我討論集團發展大計的時候，我深深感受到他們對問題的擔心，層出不窮的計劃、想法和對事業的責任心。我知道去年他們大部分時間都在外奔波，不在家人身邊，甚至出現緊急事件的時候都很難同他們商量。這些恰恰體現了他們對禾豐的事業，對理想目標的追求。
過去一年中對我個人來說比較值得一提的是，我曾在一次研討會上做了演講。與會者人數多到令人難以置信，而且他們對研討課題所表現出的極大興趣，讓我明確感受到了我們的技術人員、銷售人員、經銷商和客戶對學習、進步和發展事業的渴望。另外一件重要的事情就是De Heus公司幾位專家的來訪，研發中心的Loek de Lange，豬場管理專家Fred de Cocq以及豬營養專家Jan Wijers。在他們來訪期間，我們就相關工作進行了廣泛討論，并一一付諸實行。在這里我最想說的一件事是我和Fred de Cocq參觀了我們禾豐位于凌源的試驗場。我在中國工作了近10年，參觀過非常多的豬場，禾豐的豬場是我在中國見過的管理非常好的豬場。每個工作人員都十分熱愛自己的工作，盡職盡責，每個人都非常渴望進步與改進。
去年最糟糕的一件事是在我們去荷蘭訪問的時候發生了一個意外。Co de Heus打電話告訴我，劉聲老師（禾豐集團養豬事業部技術服務經理）騎自行車時不小心摔傷了腿。我感到很是遺憾和抱歉，遠離家鄉，語言不通，一個人住在異國的醫院里忍受病痛的折磨。
我在這里等待著回答大家關于豬、家禽以及牛場方面的問題。我想你們可能為我可以回答每一方面的問題而感到驚訝。事實上我并不是孤軍奮戰，De Heus可以回答這些領域的任何問題，因為我們有近100年的行業經驗以及各個領域的專家。我非常期待看到你們的問題。
目前，我仍然在負責De Heus 公司向亞洲西南部國家和地區如越南、臺灣、印度尼西亞、菲律賓、馬來西亞和泰國的出口工作。2008年，禾豐集團關于家禽、種豬的一些需要耗費大量時間的大工程將會啟動，為了更好地開展這些工作，我會重新安排國際間的出差計劃，爭取更多的時間在中國工作，我會盡我最 大的努力選擇最合適的方式啟動這些項目，因為良好的開端是成功的一半。
希望在鼠年以及以后的每一年都可以見到大家！
