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BMP Sunstone Completes Sunstone Acquisition.


Corporate Name Changes to "BMP (1) (BitMaP) Also known as a "bump" file, it is the native, bitmapped graphics format in Windows. A BMP can be saved in several color options: 1-, 4-, 8- and 24-bit color provide 2, 16, 256 and 16,000,000 colors respectively. BMP files use the .BMP or .  Sunstone sun·stone  
n.
See aventurine.

Noun 1. sunstone - a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals
aventurine
 Corporation"

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. -- BMP Sunstone Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
:BJGP BJGP British Journal of General Practice ) ("BMP Sunstone" or the "Company"), today announced it has completed its acquisition of Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov.  Fly International Health Care Limited, a Hong Kong corporation that holds a 100% equity interest in Sunstone Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., ("Sunstone") and changed its name from "Beijing Med-Pharm Corporation" to "BMP Sunstone Corporation."

David Gao, Chief Executive Officer of BMP Sunstone, stated "Today is a momentous day in our corporate history as we complete the purchase of the remaining 51 percent of Sunstone. Sunstone is a proven leader in selling and marketing OTC OTC

See: Over-the-counter.


OTC

See over-the-counter market (OTC).
 products, with sales to approximately 40 percent of all retail pharmacies in China. With today's announcement, we immediately expand our drug portfolio to include high profile, nationally recognized OTC brands including Hao hao  
n. pl. hao
See Table at currency.



[Vietnamese hào.]

Noun 1.
 Wawa ("Good Baby") for children's healthcare and Kang Fu Te ("Confort") for women's healthcare. Sunstone's therapeutic focus on pediatrics and women's health Women's Health Definition

Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues.
 is a perfect fit for our existing sales and marketing capabilities, and we look forward to leveraging the combined power of our existing prescription and hospital sales force with Sunstone's robust OTC and retail pharmacy sales force. Lastly, I'd like to personally welcome Mr. Han and Mr. Tong to our senior management team and Board of Directors. We believe their years of experience operating businesses in China, specifically in China's healthcare industry, are great assets for us."

Fred Powell, Chief Financial Officer of BMP Sunstone, stated, "With the acquisition of Sunstone and our formation of BMP Sunstone Corporation, we gain a profitable entity with revenue growth that we believe continues to outpace out·pace  
tr.v. out·paced, out·pac·ing, out·pac·es
To surpass or outdo (another), as in speed, growth, or performance.


outpace
Verb

[-pacing,
 the industry growth rate of 18 percent. Sunstone generated revenue of $29.5 million and operating income Operating Income

The profit realized from a business' own operations.

Notes:
This would not include income from things such as investments in other firms. Also referred to as operating profit or recurring profit.
 of $8.1 million in the first nine months of 2007, as well as $35.9 million in revenue and $9.9 million in operating income during the full year 2006. We look forward to building on this success in 2008 and beyond."

Additionally, management believes that the creation of BMP Sunstone provides a number of short-term and long-term opportunities for the Company and for shareholders, including:

* Financial performance: Sunstone is immediately accretive to BMP Sunstone's financial results. Pro forma As a matter of form or for the sake of form. Used to describe accounting, financial, and other statements or conclusions based upon assumed or anticipated facts.

The phrase pro forma
 financial results can be found in the Form 8-K Form 8-K

The form required by the SEC when a publicly held company incurs any event that might affect its financial situation or the share value of its stock.


Form 8-K

See 8-K.
 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2008.

* Enhanced product portfolio: BMP Sunstone's portfolio will now include Sunstone's OTC healthcare products, including high profile, nationally recognized OTC products under the Hao Wawa ("Good Baby") and Kang Fu Te ("Confort") brands.

* Expanded presence in retail pharmacies: Sunstone contributes a rapidly growing retail pharmacy sales and marketing presence, including the ability to sell and market to 50,000 retail pharmacies in China.

* Combined power of hospital and OTC sales forces: BMP Sunstone has over 1,100 sales people focusing on marketing prescription drugs in hospitals, as well as OTC products in retail and hospital pharmacies. In leveraging BMP Sunstone's presence in hospitals, BMP Sunstone has the near-term opportunity to increase Sunstone's sales in hospital pharmacies, which generated only three percent of Sunstone's revenue in prior periods.

* Enhanced value proposition: With combined capabilities in different geographic areas and customer segments, BMP Sunstone enhances its overall value proposition. Management believes this will facilitate the licensing of additional products from around the world, as global pharmaceutical companies try to enter the Chinese market.

Gao stated, in closing, "With the creation of BMP Sunstone, we are uniquely positioned as the only the one-stop-shop for market entry to China. We believe BMP Sunstone is a stronger, more robust service provider than either standalone entity, and this matters most as we work with global pharmaceutical companies to bring their products into China."

About BMP Sunstone Corporation

BMP Sunstone Corporation, through its subsidiaries, is a pharmaceutical marketing and distribution company that is building a proprietary portfolio of branded pharmaceutical and healthcare products in China and is pursuing partnerships with other companies seeking to enter the Chinese pharmaceutical market. It is the only U.S. public company to offer industry partners a comprehensive suite of market-entry services in China that includes pre-market entry analysis, clinical trial management, product registration, market research, as well as pharmaceutical marketing and distribution. The company provides distribution services for a wide range of products, including Western medicines, traditional Chinese medicines Traditional Chinese Medicine Definition

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an ancient and still very vital holistic system of health and healing, based on the notion of harmony and balance, and employing the ideas of moderation and prevention.
, bio-chemical medicines, medical applications, branded generic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter healthcare products, and home healthcare supplies and equipments. BMP Sunstone's proprietary portfolio, primarily focusing on women's health and pediatrics. The Company is headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania Plymouth Meeting is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,593 at the 2000 census. It is home to the Colonial School District as well as the Plymouth Meeting Mall. .

Safe Harbor Safe Harbor

1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated.

2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive.
 Statement

This news release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements that are other than statements of historical facts, including the synergies that can be achieved due to the acquisition, the actual growth of Sunstone's retail pharmacy sales and marketing presence, the possibility of increasing Sunstone's sales in hospitals, the ability of the Company to achieve increased product licensing as a result of the acquisition and the strength and robustness of the Company following the acquisition. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, the ability to integrate Sunstone into the Company's operations, the ability of management to leverage the combined capabilities of BMP Sunstone and other risks contained in reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All such forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, and whether made by or on behalf of the company, are expressly qualified by the cautionary statements and any other cautionary statements which may accompany the forward-looking statements. In addition, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
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