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May 2013
With a rise in volume on Thursday, XRSC pushed through a
resistance point at $2.00 to close at $2.08, marking a new 52-week high.
Generally a thinly-traded stock, traders will be looking for volume to remain
up and for the stock price to continue to breakout to put some distance between
the pps and the old resistance/now new support.
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Chanticleer Holdings, a joint owner of privately held
Hooters of America (HOA) and an independent developer of international Hooters
restaurants, is the focus of a recent Wall Street Journal article by Georgia
Wells (http://dtg.fm/Fr8t) that covers the company’s move into Brazil.
Chanticleer has already opened Hooters restaurants in Hungary, South Africa,
and Australia, but sees Brazil as the single biggest opportunity for both
Hooters and Chanticleer. In the article, Chanticleer CEO, Michael Pruitt, is mentioned
as hoping to launch as many as 40 Hooters locations, making the country the
largest Hooters footprint outside the U.S.
Brazil holds special interest now, with the upcoming 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics, but, as the article points out, the opportunity goes beyond that, since there is a real need for middle-tier restaurants that is not being met. The article quotes Andres Calderon, VP of Research at Hansberger Global Investors, as emphasizing the opportunity for mid-priced U.S. restaurants between the lower-end street vendors or fast food chains and the more formal local restaurants: “. . . you really have a dearth of options in the middle.” He points to Outback Steakhouse, now with over 21 locations in Brazil, as an example of one of the few American restaurants to go after the Brazilian customers. “It’s been a wild success. Literally people will wait an hour in line to eat at Outback,” Mr. Calderon said.
Chanticleer hopes to be the next big success in Brazil, building on success it has had in South Africa, Australia, and Hungary. In addition, the company is also a part owner of Hooters of America (HOA), a privately held company that now controls over 430 Hooters restaurants around the world. Chanticleer President and CEO Michael Pruitt sits on the HOA Board of Directors.
For additional information on Chanticleer Holdings, visit www.ChanticleerHoldings.com
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On May 16, eFuture Information Technology announced that it would be providing SCA China Holding Co. with cloud services, in the form of its Data Link products. eFuture’s cloud services launched in May of 2012, and is available with no added hardware via a monthly subscription fee.
eFuture is focused on providing software and services to China’s retail and consumer goods industries, as well as providing software and services to manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, logistics companies, and retailers in China’s front-end supply chain market.
The company’s products include Salesforce Automation, a sales management application allowing manufacturers and their distributors to manage sales force efficiency. Data Link products, such as the products specified in the SCA agreement, are distributor relationship management applications that allow manufacturers and distributors to access supply chain data.
eFuture’s Data Link services will allow SCA to access real-time sales, inventory, and replenishment information directly from their distributors.
For more information, visit www.e-future.com.cn
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Liberator Medical Holdings reported its financial results for the second fiscal quarter and six months ended March 31, 2013, reflecting revenue and earnings growth for both periods.
Sales for second quarter of 2013 increased 14.1 percent to $16.7 million, as compared with sales of $14.6 million for the same three months of 2012. Sales for the six months ended March 31, 2013, increased by 16.4 percent to $34.2 million, as compared with sales of $29.4 million for the six months ended March 31, 2012.
Net income was $1.4 million, or $0.03 diluted earnings per share, compared with net income of $0.7 million, or $0.01 per share, for the second quarter last year. For the first six months of 2013, net income was $2.7 million, or $0.05 per share, compared to $1.1 million, or $0.02 per share, reported for the first six months of 2012.
Second-quarter income from operations increased 107.2 percent to $2.3 million, as compared to $1.1 million in the prior year period. For the first six months of 2013, income from operations increased to $4.6 million, as compared to $1.9 million in the first six months of 2012.
Net income for the second quarter of 2013 increased 112 percent to $1.4 million, as compared to $670,000 for the comparable three months of 2012. Net income for the six-month period increased 147 percent to $2.7 million, as compared to $1.1 million for the comparable six months ended March 31, 2012.
As of March 31, 2013, Liberty Medical had $7.0 million of cash and $4.3 million available from its credit line facility.
“We continue to manage the level of our direct response advertising spend to maximize profitability and cash flows for fiscal year 2013. During the first half of fiscal year 2013, we increased our sales by 16 percent, improved our operating margins to 13.4 percent of sales, and generated $4.1 million in operating cash flows for the first six months of fiscal year 2013 compared with the first six months of fiscal year 2012,” Mark Libratore, Liberator Medical’s president and CEO, stated in the press release. “We expect to continue to increase our operating margins and cash flows during the second half of fiscal year 2013 compared with fiscal year 2012.”
On April 3, 2013, the company’s board of directors approved a cash dividend of $0.02 per common share to its shareholders.
For more information, visit www.liberatormedical.com
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A global provider of advanced communications and mobile broadband services, iTalk has announced the appointment of Clive Raines as Director of Australasia and Europe Operations. With high voice quality and the lowest prices, iTalk Mobile is currently pushing the market for an industry alternative to traditional cellular coverage. Raines, whose resume includes extensive experience in better business practices in Australasia and Europe, will be welcomed to the team for his strong background in sales, marketing, strategic product development, and distribution.
David F. Levy, Chief Executive Officer of iTalk, commented, “The Australasia and Europe region is poised for the same explosive growth in new communication devices and services that iTalk is currently offering to the US marketplace.” Continuing on Levy stated, “Clive is an excellent addition to our growing team and his 25 years of international communications, product development and distribution experience in Australasia and European countries, will allow iTalk to utilize his unique skills and knowledge to expand our global footprint and make our products the most competitive in the region.”
With extensive international experience establishing and developing next generation telecom companies for IP based services, Raines brings a strong background of management. The man’s resume includes senior management roles, management consulting, marketing, international project management, technical project management, CRM, as well as business development.
Raines previously sat as President of International Operations for TheGlobe.com, a VoIP provider and currently one of the most successful dot-com IPOs in NASDAQ’s long history. With an impressive resume in telecommunications, Raines has received extensive technical management, certifications, and product training with numerous international technology and telecommunications companies.
A mobile communications company, iTalk uses innovative technologies to offer consumers a high quality cellular alternative while severely undercutting all major national carriers. Through iTalks’ extensive network, consumers will have access to offers that include nationwide voice and data coverage to about 280 million people in over 12,900 cities.
To learn more, visit www.italkmobility.com
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In 1999 Heath Clarke went online to make a specific purchase
from a manufacturer and was disappointed when he couldn’t find it. While his
shopping cart remained empty, the unsuccessful attempt did give him the idea to
launch a downloadable search software application for consumers such as himself
– this idea quickly evolved into national online media company Local
Corporation.
By 2004 the company completed its Initial Public Offering, and by 2007, operating through its own local search site, was granted U.S. patents related to local search technologies and processes. The same year, Borrell Associates ranked Local Corp. as the leader in online advertising revenue growth after the company achieved year-over-year sales growth of 138 percent.
Fast forward to-date, passing over many other significant company milestones in the years in between; as of 2013, more than 1 million consumers use Local Corp.’s online products and services, which include the flagship www.Local.com Web site as well as www.Spreebird.com and a network of more than 1,000 regional media sites.
Local Corp.’s proprietary ad distribution technologies also benefit merchants, enabling them to grow their online presence to reach target consumers and generate repeat business. Merchants utilize the company’s suite of innovative business solutions, including digital marketing products and tools such as local business and product search, mobile, SEO, Web hosting, social media and daily deals, to grow their business, revenue, and customer awareness and engagement.
Local Corp.’s trend of consistently hitting key milestones also spills over into its financial position. Local Corp. recently reported its Q1 2013 financial results, reflecting sequential sales growth. For full-year 2013, Local Corp. expects to continue with a pattern of sequential revenue growth, forecasting revenues between $93 million and $95 million.
“As previously announced, we achieved positive cash flow from operations a quarter ahead of schedule, due to solid gross margin expansion in the first quarter. We remain on track to grow our revenues sequentially while keeping operating expenses about flat, resulting in projected sequential adjusted EBITDA and EPS growth,” Heath Clarke, Local Corp. CEO stated in the company’s May 9, 2013, earnings release. “We completed a small financing in order to strengthen our cash position so that we can focus on specific growth opportunities within our Network business. Overall, we believe our combination of intellectual property, experience and know-how, leave us well-positioned to thrive in local search as well as capitalize on the rapidly emerging mobile local search ecosystem.”
For more information visit www.local.com
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Northwest Biotherapeutics is a biotechnology company focused on developing immunotherapy products for the American and European markets to treat cancers more effectively than current treatments, while costing less, and without the toxicities associated chemotherapies. It is currently working on the DCVax-L personalized immune therapies for solid tumor cancers.
The company announced today that its Phase III clinical trial with DCVax-L for brain cancer has begun at King’s College Hospital in the U.K., a major European center for neuro-oncology. Other sites across Europe, including three more in the U.K. and nearly 20 in Germany, are in varying stages of preparations for the trial.
This particular Phase III trial is for newly diagnosed Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). This is the most common and lethal form of brain cancer. The trial is well under in the United States with 46 active sites presently. Total enrollment in the U.S. and Europe is expected to reach 312 patients.
Under present treatment methods, brain cancer patients have tumors recur within 7 months and they typically live less than 15 months. Northwest Biotherapeutics’ DCVax-L mobilizes a patient’s entire immune system to attack the full set of biomarker targets on the tumor. In prior Phase I/II trials of DCVax-L, tumors did not recur for two years and patients lived for three years. Additionally, a number of patients lived longer, with two patients exceeding 10 years.
For additional information about Northwest Biotherapeutics, its DCVax-L drug, and the Phase III trial, please visit www.nwbio.com
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eMargin, a leader in OLED microdisplay technology, OLED microdisplay manufacturing know-how, and mobile display systems, announced yesterday that it has developed the world’s brightest family of super bright, energy efficient, and full color organic light emitting diode (OLED) microdisplays, called the Color OLED-XLS™.
At 1000 nits of luminance, the Color OLED-XLS™ blows away the industry standard for brightness four times over. This new display is fully compatible with eMargin’s entire VGA, SVGA, SXGA, and WUXGA, and only requires half of the power of the company’s current color displays at the same brightness. This breakthrough display technology enables a much broader range of optical solutions for augmented vision/reality products used in simulation and training devices, or any other head-mounted display application. Additionally, this technology is perfectly suited for medical, maintenance, and process-control “see-through” data glasses and safety goggles.
eMagin’s initial showcase of its breakthrough Color OLED-XLS will be at the Vancouver Convention Center next week for the Society for Information Display, booth #1029. Fully qualified production units are scheduled for release by the fourth quarter 2013, and engineering samples are available immediately.
“Our clients have been asking us to push the known limits in order to create more versatile color microdisplays that are both visible in bright environments and power efficient. We have met and surpassed both requirements with the development of the Color OLED-XLS,” said Andrew G. Sculley, president and CEO of eMagin Corporation. “This technology will enable indoor and outdoor augmented reality headsets for commercial, military and industrial use. We are well on the way to OLED microdisplays that can be even brighter for aircraft heads-up displays and consumer data glasses.”
For further information, please visit www.emagin.com
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PITOOEY!, a complete digital marketing agency with
proprietary technology, announced that the PITOOEY! Penguin has completed its
50th destination in 50 days! Originally launching March 25 in Washington, D.C.,
the PITOOEY! Penguin traveled across the United States to raise awareness of
PITOOEY!’s innovative, revolutionary app in 50 cities. Yesterday the Penguin
made a ceremonial return to the city of its creation, Phoenix.
David Sonkin, President of PITOOEY!, Inc., stated, “The business community and the consumers have responded to the Penguin in a very personal, interactive way. The PITOOEY! App going live in 50 cities, from Seattle to Boston, has been just the start in a new era in communication between consumers and the businesses they love.”
Each morning, a new launch city was announced through PITOOEY!’s Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram social media channels. The basic concept of the campaign, “#BuildYourList™,” provided an interactive Facebook timeline, along with daily digital postcards, thus creating a “buzz” about each city as the PITOOEY! Penguin launched.
After going live, the company focused heavy social media on that particular city for 24 hours, encouraging users to building their list in advance of the upcoming full launch. Once users logged-on to the PITOOEY! App, they were able to use the “search and subscribe system,” to build a customized list of their favorite businesses. This system allows users to receive deals and updates specifically from the businesses in their “List.”
“The expansion of PITOOEY! into these 50 markets establishes the personal connection between consumer-to-business in a unique, revolutionary way,” Jacob DiMartino, CEO of PITOOEY!, Inc., concluded. “It allows users to customize their lists with the businesses they want to hear from and provides merchants a cost-effective manner in which to market directly to their target consumers. This differs greatly from the current ‘daily deals’ service models, which targets its customers through the optimization of mobile and digital marketing.”
To download the PITOOEY! App, go to http://itun.es/us/ilLxJ.i
For further information, please visit www.PITOOEY.com
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Los Angeles based manufacturer American Apparel has
announced an exclusive partnership with Queensway based LAB CONCEPT, a
contemporary lifestyle retailer. The collaboration aims to successfully
introduce the brand to the Admiralty district in Hong Kong.
Katherine Johnson, American Apparel Regional Manager for Asia, stated, “We have worked very carefully to develop a strategy for Hong Kong, keeping in mind that it’s a major center for business, travel, and finance both in Asia and worldwide. That’s why we’re so excited to be working with LAB CONCEPT in Admiralty on this special project; this partnership allows us to offer high quality American-made product to the Hong Kong consumer.”
In 2012, American Apparel opened stores in Shanghai’s Joy City Mall and Beijing’s Parkview Green Mall. The LAB CONCEPT partnership signals additional signs of American Apparel’s plans for market expansion, specifically in China and Hong Kong. Last Year American Apparel held a pop-up space in LAB CONCEPT space.
Morgan Tan, Vice President of LAB CONCEPT commented, “We are excited to be partnering with American Apparel to bring this new and unique brand to LAB CONCEPT. With a deep understanding of our customers’ needs, we are able to position and offer new exclusive brands every season to tailor to their evolving taste.”
The 1,500 square foot space in LAB CONCEPT is expected to mesh well with urban American Apparel’s international store aesthetics. The store will hold all of the company’s signature basics, its California vintage products, as well as exclusive items designed specifically for its Asian market.
“We’re a brand that both locals and expatriates will recognize and relate to, which is rare for a fashion brand. As a city known for its free market capitalism, Hong Kong is a place we’ve been looking forward to operating in; in addition to this we’re constructing a branding and expansion strategy for Southeast Asia, which is both thrilling and humbling considering that many retailers manufacture their garments in this area of the world,” Johnson stated.
Tan followed commenting,”2013 will be an incredibly exciting year for LAB CONCEPT. With the revamp of the fashion space in spring, quickly followed by our second anniversary in September, we are aiming to bring in more unique offerings for fashion as well as cosmetics to our 64,000 square foot space, providing the contemporary lifestyle experiences to our growing customer base.”
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