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Baywood International, Inc.: New Leaf Enters Wisconsin Market Through Distribution Agreement With Water Concepts

^{Published on 2009-09-03 05:13:42 - Market Wire}
 

SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwire - September 3, 2009) - New Leaf Brands, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Baywood International, Inc. (OTCBB: [ BAYW ]) ("Company"), today announced they have signed a new distribution agreement to enter the state of Wisconsin with Water Concepts. Through this agreement, New Leaf Tea will add three more distributors including Kay Distributing Company in Green Bay, General Beer Distributors Co. in Milwaukee and Four Seasons Beer Distributors in Aurora. New Leaf can now be purchased in six chain stores including Piggly Wiggly, Festival Foods, Woodman's Food Market, Sentry Foods, Sendik's Food Market and Shopko.

"We are very pleased with our working relationship with Water Concepts and particularly Denny Bloechl. Denny has been instrumental in obtaining numerous chain authorizations through third party outlets," stated Tim Brown, Vice-President of Midwest Sales for New Leaf. "It is very exciting to enter the new market of Wisconsin and have one strategic partner that is capable of helping us build distribution statewide by the end of this calendar year."

Denny Bloechl, Regional Manager at Water Concepts stated, "What impressed me the most about New Leaf was the immediate acceptance of the buyers once they sample the products. The first thing that grabs them is the beautiful packaging, followed by the unique flavors sweetened with organic cane sugar coupled with lower calories and the efficient 12-pack presentation. Our customers are convinced that the product will exceed the consumers' expectations and sell itself."

About Water Concepts:

Water Concepts, Inc., located in East Dundee, IL, is the marketing and distribution division for the single serve product group of Nicolet Forest Bottling Company in Mountain, WI. The mission at Water Concepts is to "Put Ideas into Water." Aside from their popular Nicolet Water, pure bottled water using only pristine water from the artesian wells, some of these ideas have resulted in successful new products like Water Joe, the world's first caffeine enhanced bottled water.

About New Leaf:

Founded by Eric Skae in 2004 in Orangeburg, New York, New Leaf Brands was created with the vision of providing healthy beverages for consumers that are great-tasting and made only with high quality ingredients. New Leaf Tea was the company's first product that was born out of that vision and now is available to consumers in 14 unique flavors and in over 8,000 outlets including restaurants, delis, pizzerias and other retail establishments. For more information, please visit [ www.newleafbrands.com ].

About Baywood:

Baywood International, Inc. (OTCBB: [ BAYW ]) ("Baywood") develops, markets and sells nutraceutical and nutritionally enhanced products and new age beverages under its own brands. Baywood merges its expertise in nutritional formulation with its leverage in sales and distribution to deliver the most effective and progressive products to market. Currently, Baywood's products are sold under the LifeTime® nutraceutical brand and the New Leaf® Tea brand.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, made in reliance upon Section 21D of the Exchange Act of 1934, which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties or other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results, performance, or expectations implied by these forward-looking statements. The Company's expectations, among other things, are dependent upon general economic conditions, continued demand for its products, the availability of raw materials, retention of its key management and operating personnel, its ability to operate its subsidiary companies effectively, need for and availability of additional capital as well as other uncontrollable or unknown factors which are more fully disclosed in the Company's Form 10-KSBs and 10-QSBs on file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.