HKW, the 103 year old private equity firm, is proud to announce the opening of its new Representative Office in Shanghai, China. Ting Zheng, HKW's new Asia Director, is supervising and directing all activities of the new Shanghai office. The principal activity will be to assist HKW's portfolio companies source product from China and to sell product into China.

"We are excited to be one of the few private equity firms focusing on the small middle market to have an office in China. This will definitely help us create value at our portfolio companies and we promoted Ting to Asia Director and relocated her from Indianapolis to Shanghai because she is the perfect person to execute this strategy for HKW," stated Glenn Scolnik, Partner & CEO of HKW.

HKW is a 103 year old private equity firm focusing on the small end of the middle market. HKW maintains offices in New York, Chicago, Indianapolis and Shanghai. For more information on HKW, see www.hkwinc.com.

HKW SHANGHAI OFFICE
Suite #1807 An Tai Building
107 Zunyi Road, Shanghai
P. R. China 200051
Phone: 86-21-62375801
Fax: 86-21-62375836

Contact: Ting Zheng, Asia Director, Ph: 86-21-62375801x101, tz@hkwinc.com
or Lei (Kathy) Jiang, Assistant, Shanghai Rep, Ph: 86-21-62375801 x 100, kjiang@hkwinc.com