Company Profile

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Company Profile
Your project development partner, delivering
value through a multi-skilled team
October 2006
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CONTENTS

• MARKET OPPORTUNITY
• ABOUT US
• CRESCO SERVICES
• CREDENTIALS
• CONTACT US

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MARKET OPPORTUNITYCRESCO bridges the gap between
a concept and reality to achieve a viable
sustainable project
CRESCO has a multi-skilled team to assist
investors in securing and developing high quality
businesses and projects
Concept
Viable

• Promoters do not have time and/or necessary
  skills to develop their projects
• Often project risks have not been adequately
  addressed
• Promoters have unrealistic expectations of
  investor requirements

• A well structured and bankable project
• Efficient project implementation
• Skilled operational and financial management of
  project

Helping you bridge the gap
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CONTENTS

• MARKET OPPORTUNITY
• ABOUT US
• CRESCO SERVICES
• CREDENTIALS
• CONTACT US

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ABOUT USTo find and exploit opportunities to
optimise wealth creation resulting from the
structuring and arranging of projects and
businesses

• CRESCOs PURPOSE
• To provide a multi-skilled team, leveraging off
  core individuals strengths who can
• Develop bankable projects for project promoters
  to ensure successful capital raising, closure and
  execution of a project
• Provide financial, drawdown and completion
  support and ongoing administration to support the
  project during the funding phase
• Provide support and obtain value creation in
  private equity opportunities
• WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU AS AN INVESTOR
• Improved pipeline of high quality well structured
  projects
• Additional confidence in outputs of project used
  as basis for funding
• Standardisation of project deliverables in line
  with investor requirements
• Additional experienced resource to assist in
  project issues and resolving key risks

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ABOUT USCRESCOs directors offer extensive
experience in and around project finance and
project support
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ABOUT USCRESCO provides a team with specialist
skills across the disciplines required to drive
successful financing and completion of the project
CRESCO RESOURCE
PROJECT INPUTS
CRESCO SKILLS
Multi Skilled Financiers
Core Credentials
Project Finance Advisory
Technical Feasibility
Network Specialists
Engineers/Geologists
Financial Modeling
Business Modeller
C.A. Other financial
LLB Masters degree
Legal Review Drafting
Project Finance legal
Markets Economic review
Marketing Feasibility
Development Economist
Spec. Admin Treasury
Post-Financial Closure
Back Office functions
CRESCO has an extensive network of specialists
that are available on a per project basis
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CONTENTS

• MARKET OPPORTUNITY
• ABOUT US
• CRESCO SERVICES
• CREDENTIALS
• CONTACT US

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CRESCO SERVICESCRESCOs core service is the
development of bankable projects for project
promoters and the marketing of these projects to
investors

• The deal process and key milestones

POST FUNDING
PRE FUNDING
Operations
Commission
Implementation / construction
Pre- Feasibility
Fund raising
Bankable Feasibility
Concept
Diagnosis
Financial Completion
Technical Completion
Strategy structuring
Financial Close
Marketing to investors
Due diligence
Negotiation
Post-closing support
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CRESCO SERVICESCRESCO also provides value adding
services ranging from export credit scheme
support / training to project reviews and
turnaround

• Export scheme training and support
• CRESCO has provided both corporates and
  development institutions with export scheme
  training and support.
• On the job involvement in project administration
  and drawdown procedures
• Specialized insurance brokerage
• Advise clients on the most appropriate insurance
  instruments available in the market to mitigate
  insurable project risks.
• Broker specialized insurance products in the
  local and international insurance markets
• Trade facilitation services
• CRESCO is able to provide trade facilitation
  support to its clients by structuring off-take
  agreements on their projects.
• Project Turnaround
• Provide hands on turnaround resource to assist
  in underperforming projects or ventures.
• Range from assistance with achieving milestones
  to restructuring the financing funding package
  and/or realignment of business plans.

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CONTENTS

• MARKET OPPORTUNITY
• ABOUT US
• CRESCO SERVICES
• CREDENTIALS
• CONTACT US

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CRESCO CREDENTIALSExperience of a number of
projects across diverse industries and countries
Set out below are detail of recent project
finance transactions by CRESCO
Suriname Prawn Project
Container Scanner project
SA Pulp Mill project
Financial advisory and modelling support to
proposed 200,000 ton p.a. pulp mill
Assistance to achieve financial close Ongoing
financial advisory services to project promoters
Project finance advisor on the Container Scanner
public private partnership project
Project Size R2 billion
Project Size USD16 million
Project Size R1.5 million
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CRESCO CREDENTIALSProjects range from fund
raising to post closure support
Set out below are detail of recent project
support transactions by CRESCO
Moma Mineral Sands Project
Kazakstan Gold Project
Suriname Prawn Project
Negotiation and implementation of SAECA
structures
Negotiation and implementation of SAECA
structures
Post financial close support services
Post financial close support services
Post financial close support services
Project Size USD400 million
Project Size USD150 million
Project Size USD16 million
South African Export Credit Agency (ECIC)
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CRESCO CREDENTIALSOur clients appreciate the
full range of skills that CRESCO can provide and
our aim to provide objective independent advice

• What our clients say

Executive Director Project Management
company continue a strong relationship with you
in the next phase of our project to execute the
construction and operations
Group CFO International Engineering
Company What was received Management Consulting
with sleeves rolled up.Broke the issues down
and gave clarity on what was needed

Deputy Chairman International Aquaculture
project CRESCO demonstrated to be a very high
quality firm that took a project, which was a
total mess and made financial close a success
Head of International Finance department of a
Development Finance Institution We were happy
with their services in terms of quick response to
our needs and efficiency 
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TEAM CREDENTIALSExperience of a number of
projects across diverse industries and countries,
ranging from fund raising to post closure support

• General projects
• Inga Hydro Power Rehabilitation (US 100 million)
  
• Precision Stainless Steel (US 35 million)
• MTN Nigeria Mobile Network (US 15 million)
• Marromeu Sugar Rehabilitation (US 15 million)
• Mining minerals projects
• MOZAL I II, Mozambique Aluminum Smelter (US
  345 250 million)
• Kolwezi Tailings project (US 100 million)
• Chambishi, Zambia Copper Smelter (US 20 million)
• Kenmare Moma, Mozambique Mineral Sands (US 30
  million)

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CONTENTS

• MARKET OPPORTUNITY
• ABOUT US
• CREDENTIALS
• CRESCO SERVICES
• CONTACT US

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CONTACT USCRESCO offers both services per
deliverables, usually on a time materials
basis, to arranging mandates on a fixed fee basis
Office details ?? Manhattan office Park 16 Pieter
Street Unit 6 South Ground floor Centurion Johanne
sburg South Africa 186 ?? 27 (0) 12 665 2612 ?
27 (0) 12 665 3837
Directors contacts Focus area Conrad Hefer,
Managing Director ? conrad_at_crescopf.co.za Pro
jects ? 27 (0) 82 888 3836 Johan Greyling,
Director Projects ? johan_at_crescopf.co.za ? 27
(0) 82 322 9179