As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1, 2013

 

  Registration No. 333-  171093

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO
FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

ZHONGPIN INC.

 (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   54-2100419

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

 

21 Changshe Road

Changge City, Henan Province

People’s Republic of China 461500

(011) 86 10-82861788

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

CT Corporation System

111 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY 10011-5213

(212) 894-8940

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service) 

  

 

 

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box.  ¨

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box.  x

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

 

If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. ¨

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ¨

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filed, an accelerated filed, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company.  See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.  (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer ¨   Accelerated filer x
Non-accelerated filer ¨ (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)   Smaller reporting company ¨

 

 
 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is an amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Reg. No. 333- 171093 ) (the “Registration Statement”) of Zhongpin Inc. (the “Company”). Effective as of June 27, 2013 (the “Effective Time”), pursuant to the Amended and Restated Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 8, 2103 by and among Golden Bridge Holdings Limited, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Parent”), Golden Bridge Merger Sub Limited, a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), the Company and Mr. Xianfu Zhu, the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (solely for the purpose of Section 6.15 therein), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company with the Company being the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the “Merger”) and each issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Company, other than certain excluded shares, was converted into the right to receive $13.50 per share in cash, without interest. As a result of the Merger, the offerings under the Registration Statement have been terminated. In accordance with the undertakings made by the Company to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statement which remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Company hereby removes from registration all securities registered under the Registration Statement which remained unsold as of the Effective Time.

 

 
 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Changge, China, on the 1 st day of July, 2013.

 

  ZHONGPIN INC.  
       
  By: /s/ Xianfu Zhu  
    Xianfu Zhu  
    Chief Executive Officer  

 

Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance on Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

 

 

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