As the chairman of Tasz, Inc., manufacturer of Neocork® products, it is my pleasure to working with a hard-working team of dedicated employees and distributors, all of whom are committed to our customers’ enjoyment of the best possible wine-drinking experience.

All of us at Tasz look forward to providing quality closures to the world's leading wineries. Tasz looks forward to enhancing the best-in-class technology that separates our products from many other wine closures available today.

These are challenging economic times, but I have no doubt that Neocork® products will flourish. In the first place, we will focus even more closely on our customers’ needs and desires. The wine consuming public and the superb wineries that we supply can look forward to both new products and refinements to our existing products that will enhance their enjoyment of the wine, and facilitate their business objectives, respectively.

We’ll accomplish our objectives by inculcating in all of our people and processes a renewed focus on quality. On a personal level, I will bring to the effort decades of experience as a leading developer and producer of state of the art materials, many of which find their way into the most sensitive applications, from medical devices to food grade products. It’s no exaggeration to say that my obsession with quality has helped to make the companies with which I have worked leaders and “go-to” solutions providers for some of the world’s most demanding clients.

My immediate focus will be to provide customers with a steady flow of quality product and unequaled customer support. Our longer term goals will be to ensure that Neocork®’s products, and hence our customers, enjoy the fruits of tireless research and development. Higher quality ingredients will mean higher quality products, which both consumers and our wine industry customers will enjoy and appreciate. The integration of our research and development and supply capabilities will ensure both higher quality and greater efficiency for all concerned.

Change isn’t always easy, but I am firmly convinced that our best days are ahead of us. I look forward to a process of continuous improvement and to increased customer satisfaction. We look forward to the future with optimism, excitement and a commitment to quality, second to none.

Thank you for the opportunity to share my thoughts with you.

Kind regards,

Chakra V. Gupta

Chairman, Tasz, Inc.