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Friday, July 25, 2014

Banjo & Matilda, Inc. (BANJ) Australian Beach Lifestyle Brand of Knits Poised to Score Big Wins in North American Markets

Banjo & Matilda has won over a fast-growing following of consumers who are attracted to the carefree luxury beach lifestyle that is embodied in the company’s brand of premium quality knitwear and finer multi-ply cashmere basics. Emblematic of the company’s profile are facts like the material for their cashmere being ethically sourced from the incredibly soft undercoat of tiny Mongolian goats that only produce on average as little as 150 grams of this superb material each year. This level of concern for the sourcing and quality of the product resonates profoundly with the intended audience and has set up the brand to perform nicely as they roll out into more and more retail locations globally.

The company’s unique and attractive brand of knitwear cut its teeth and grew out of the popular Bondi Beach/Bondi Bay scene in Sydney, NSW, Australia. The name of the town and its surrounding suburb is practically synonymous with a trendy, up-scale (yet relaxed) beach lifestyle and Bondi Beach is widely known amongst Aussies from being featured in TV and film, as well as being home to a number of noteworthy celebrities and personalities. Australia’s top international short film festival, Flickerfest (think Cannes on the beach), even takes place at Bondi every year and the locale has become known as a kind of Mecca for surfers, exuding an almost Zen-like aura.

Banjo & Matilda’s focus on articles of clothing spun from the very best natural silks and organic cotton, which not only encapsulate the laid back Bondi Beach lifestyle as a brand, but also represent a conscious consumer choice that runs counter to the planned obsolescent world of fast fashion, is a particularly good niche marketing decision. The consumer in the primary target markets wants a lovable piece that can endure the passage of time with grace and which also represents a sustainable approach to textile manufacturing.

Banjo & Matilda has grown quickly from their origins in Australia, but they still maintain their design studios in Sydney, from which the company churns out a stunning array of new collections every season, lovingly designed to capture the imagination of shoppers. Today, BANJ’s selection of tops (cardigans, crew/vee necks, hoodies, turtleneck and statement sweaters), bottoms (pants and jumpsuits) and accessories (scarves, sleepwear and travel wear), are available all around the world from New York and Germany, to New Delhi and the Middle East, prominently featured at leading retailers such as Neiman Marcus, Harvey Nichols, Intermix, and David Jones.

The decidedly uncomplicated, yet opulent hand-crafted lifestyle brand clothing from BANJ really managed to make some killer waves during their latest Fall/Winter season, with record sales of $897k (reported July 8) and a 63% jump from the prior year’s Fall/Winter season. Thanks in large part to a successful retail distribution expansion from just 18 stores during the same period in the preceding year, to 129 stores as of late June, these latest sales figures are a glowing hallmark of where the brand is headed.

Powerful organic demand for the company’s “luxe casual” lifestyle brand offerings has really accelerated retailer traction for BANJ and the company also tapped top U.S. fashion agency, HATCH, to help increase throughput across North American markets even more. Already influential to sale and distribution growth, this move by HATCH and BANJ should lead to even greater brand presence in North America during the remaining 11 months of the campaign and particular emphasis will be paid to optimizing penetration into the Canadian retail space, seen by the duo as a real growth area. HATCH is known for working with some of the hottest, most unique designers in contemporary fashion today and the marriage to BANJ on this campaign feels as natural as the company’s clothing.

The Banjo & Matilda label’s exposure is set to grow by leaps and bounds in the U.S. over the next year or so and investors will want to keep an eye on the company for further indications of their distribution footprint’s expansion, as well as expressions of their ability to successfully connect with and win over a well-defined demographic, represented by continued sales growth.

Learn more about Banjo & Matilda at www.banjoandmatilda.com

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Ecrypt Technologies, Inc. (ECRY) Stands to Benefit from Hyperactive Investments in Cybersecurity

Recent security breaches at eBay and Target highlighted if not added value to the cybersecurity space; and venture capital firms have taken notice of budding opportunities in the wake. As investigations of these and other breaches took place, proactive cybersecurity companies sprang into action, creating awareness of their capabilities and expertise. Venture capitalists took notice and are expected to pump an estimated $788 million into early-stage cybersecurity startups this year.

The forecast comes from financial data provider PrivCo, who estimates that the funding will be spread among about 40 cybersecurity startups currently in their early stages of funding. If PrivCo has it correctly pegged, that’s an increase of 74% compared to investments of $452 million in the same space last year. What’s even more impressive is that venture capital firms pumped just $160 million in cybersecurity startups in 2011.

Why the focus on start-ups? Innovation.

Small companies have a knack for identifying gaps in cyberdefense and are more flexible in their ability to develop innovation and create tools to fill those gaps. Furthermore, the smaller, high-potential startups are able to quickly roll with new trends and needs such as security for mobile and cloud applications.

Take for example Ecrypt Technologies, an emerging provider of military-strength data security solutions for enterprise, government, and military. The company’s flagship Ecrypt solution is an integrated email and encryption server that can be quickly deployed to strengthen the security of corporate communication, including attachments and mobile devices, against data breaches while eliminating phishing threats, malware infections, and spam.

Ecrypt’s paradigm-shifting technology eliminates the need for separate encryption servers hitched to bloated administration and various points of weakness. On tap with the above-mentioned security breaches, Ecrypt is also leveraging its security consulting services to help companies of any size or scale reinvent their information systems to better safeguard against the substantial losses associated with security breaches and compromised data.

In the last two months, Ecrypt has demonstrated some serious synergy, flexing its muscles in announcing a host of new partnerships and marketing agreements that add value and strength to the company’s position in the cybersecurity space. Keep flexing, Ecrypt – the venture capitalists are on the prowl.

For more information, visit www.EcryptInc.com

Pan Global Corp. (PGLO) Pursues Opening in Geothermal Energy Industry

Pan Global Corp., a renewable energy technology and sustainable infrastructure company based in the Carson City, Nevada, is set on breaking new ground. The company wants to build an all-encompassing green economy around the world. To advance this mission, Pan Global is involved in developing, building, owning, operating, supporting and investing in projects and technologies for environmentally-sustainable markets and sectors including:

• Alternative energy (e.g. solar, hydro, wind and geothermal)

• Energy efficiency

• Water remediation and management

• Sustainable agriculture and buildings

Pan Global’s managers are especially focused on India. They see the promise in the country’s green energy market and are intent on discovering and pursuing opportunities that will allow the company to enter this market. Pan Global’s managers have been considering opportunities to develop electric power generation projects from alternative energy sources (solar, mini-hydro, geothermal and wind) and have steadily gained confidence in their plans because of a rising perception that India’s new government is highly supportive of ramping up the country’s renewable growth plans.

Lately, Pan Global has been in discussions with a key developer of geothermal power plants about a partnership and investment in India. The company recently provided an update on its plans for entering the geothermal energy production industry and confirmed that the talks are progressing positively and that both parties expect to yield a framework for joining forces on a project soon.

Geothermal energy is one of Pan Global’s focus areas within the renewable energy sector and management is encouraged that its plans surrounding geothermal are moving forward. While the company has yet to enter into a binding agreement at this point, it will continue to evaluate the opportunity, conduct customary due diligence, and progress with negotiations.

For more information, visit www.panglobalcorp.com

Zenosense, Inc. (ZENO) Aims to Ward Off MRSA Infection with Economical Early Detection Device

Zenosense, and co-developer partner, Sgenia Group, Madrid, are engaged in the design and creation of a cost-effective methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) detector system vital to battling what has been called a multi-billion problem. The Sgenia Group has established Zenon Biosystem, a dedicated subsidiary contracted to develop the MRSA device for Zenosense. The product is expected to appeal to distributor channels and end users due to increasing demand for an economical detection solution.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is caused by a strain of staph bacteria that has become resistant to the antibiotics used to treat ordinary staph infections. Most MRSA infections occur in people who have been in hospitals or other health care environments, such as nursing homes and dialysis centers. When it occurs in these settings, it is known as health care-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA). HA-MRSA infections typically are associated with invasive procedures or devices, such as surgeries, intravenous tubing or artificial joints.

Another type of MRSA infection has occurred in the wider community of healthy people. This form, referred to as community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA), often surfaces as a skin boil. It’s spread by skin-to-skin contact. At-risk populations are groups such as high school wrestlers, child care workers and people who live in crowded conditions.

MRSA can be treated or avoided altogether, but the key is timely identification. Known as a superbug, the infection brings with it a substantial financial price tag for private and public health care systems across the country and elsewhere however early detection is necessary for protective measures to be put into place.

An “electronic nose” device currently exists to detect bacteria from cultures. However, these devices are physically bulky and cost prohibitive to install on larger scales. There is no cost-effective system available for detecting MRSA infection early in the patient or in environments where it is known to be contracted. ZENO’s plan is to situate a detector on a special sensor that Sgenia has already developed. Once installed, it can detect the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) signature emitted by MRSA. The MRSA VOC signature is only emitted when the bacteria has infected and expressed itself as a disease in the patient, and can be detected prior to the patient developing symptoms, which would aid in earlier intervention.

For more information, visit www.zenosense.net

WordLogic Corp. (WLGC) Buoyed by Experienced Leadership Team

With over ten years of advanced R&D, WordLogic has emerged as a global leader in predictive text input technology. Based out of Vancouver, the company holds multiple patents that turn ordinary touch screens into boundless opportunities and possibilities for users, advertisers, companies, and non-profit organizations in the fields of mobile communications and information delivery.

By allowing users to quickly type out phrases and sentences with timely text prediction and rapidly retrieve contextual data from multiple source-points at once, WordLogic’s innovation adds value in multiple facets. It increases user convenience in personal communications and mobile device use; enables more rapid data entry and accelerated workplace communications, among other applications, in business settings; and gives advertisers and marketers access to ultra-customized advertising opportunities on a mobile platform. Already advertising networks such as Yellow Pages and Groupon Partner Network are “integrated” with WordLogic’s contextual data search platform, Reach™.

Aside from its core WordLogic Predictive Engine and related products such as WordLogic Reach™ and WordLogic iKnowU®, for which WordLogic received critical acclaim from Frost & Sullivan and at the CTIA Las Vegas 2013, WordLogic is buoyed by the expertise of a veteran leadership team. Company President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board Frank Evanshen draws upon 25 years of experience in venture capital and merchant banking. Mr. Evanshen has an extensive background in raising capital for private and public ventures.

The other members of WordLogic’s leadership team leverage decades of experience in multiple areas. These areas of professional expertise include: software engineering, c-level management, mobile technology, machine learning technology, AI technology, 3D/gesturing technology, applied predictive technology innovation, digital communications technologies, accounting, fraud management, corporate finances, and more. With the mobile device market exploding on an international scale, in which International Data Corporation reports over one billion units in just smartphones alone were shipped in 2013, WordLogic may be well-positioned to capitalize on the projected market growth.

For more information, visit www.wordlogic.com

Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (OTHM) to Present Additional Company Update on July 31, Due to Promising New Business Possibilities

Today before the opening bell, Oriens Travel & Hotel Management announced it will be making an unscheduled update on top of the six scheduled corporate updates it has been giving per year. The company reports recent events are promising and may create some exciting opportunities for Oriens. Oriens anticipates this update, which will be presented by company President Ken Chua, being on Thursday, July 31, 2014.

The upcoming presentation will complement Oriens’ quarterly and year-end disclosures. Oriens will also be holding an investor conference call within this year and plans to hold a company shareholder event that will further strengthen company-shareholder ties.

“Our regularly scheduled update will continue as usual,” stated Ken Chua, President of Oriens. “However, as the team and I are presently in Costa Rica, new developments may have created a number of exciting opportunities which could possibly warrant a more detailed conversation with the markets. We are certainly making significant strides in our business plan and want to share it with both current and future stakeholders.”

Mr. Chua concluded, “The purpose of our intended visit to Costa Rica has morphed considerably, giving cause for excitement. Should all resolve as presumed, we believe our enthusiasm will be shared and should reflect long-term.”

For more information, visit: www.orienscorp.com

NutraNomics, Inc. (NNRX) Winning Over Growing Consumer Base with Highly Effective Vitamins and Supplements, Increased Product Exposure

NutraNomics, developers of a broad-spectrum array of gluten-free, non-GMO, high bioavailability food and plant based vitamins and supplements (as well as the Healthy Solution lifestyle regimens to help educate consumers, so they can derive the maximum effect from these extremely powerful products), made several key moves last month in June, eventuating in a reported cumulative jump of 27% in wholesale and retail sales for the first three quarters.

Not only is the company’s continually growing portfolio of whole food-based vitamins and supplements now starting to become available on juggernaut e-commerce platform, Amazon.com (Amazon Prime ready), NNRX tapped full-service investment banking gurus and small-cap specialists, Stonegate, to help cement their market presence further. The increasingly popular NutraNomics brand, which does not source from the same handful of Chinese companies that most manufacturers do, also got its products on RevNutrition.com, one of the most widely trafficked portals today specifically dedicated to wellness products and which has a huge user base.

Unlike 95% of multi-vitamins on stores shelves today and the overwhelming majority of products from the major supplement/vitamin manufacturers, NNRX does not make their products out of isolated and/or synthetic chemicals from Chinese suppliers with poor quality control. The body does not recognize and cannot absorb or make use of isolated/synthetic nutrients properly, so most consumers are literally urinating money away as the product simply passes right through their system.

By stark contrast, NutraNomics products are natural food and plant based concentrations of high quality source materials, providing essential antioxidants and enzymes, as well as key fatty acids, phytonutrients (compounds which only occur naturally in plants) and proteins. Moreover, the high bioavailability of these ingredients, which the body can easily recognize and make use of, is enhanced by NNRX’s patented AES® (Assimilation Enhancing System), which uses a blend of mineral cofactors and plant-based enzymes to achieve optimum assimilation characteristics. AES hydrolyzes carbs, fats and proteins, breaking them down into their constituent elements, rendering them easily recognized and assimilated by the body. Absorption metrics are also maxed out in these exceptional products thanks to NNRX’s Glyco-Protein Matrix, which uses brewer’s yeast to pre-process whole foods and minerals into an easily digestible/absorbable form.

This is a superb value proposition for consumers and NutraNomics has been winning people over gradually, but with increasing rapidity and in a very organic fashion, as those who try the products eagerly come back for more. This growing reputation for product quality is reinforced broadly by their outreach efforts to educate customers in using the NNRX product lineup to create healthy lifestyle solutions and ameliorate a wide variety of debilitating conditions naturally. Everything from ADD/ADHD and diabetes, to fibromyalgia, heart disease, high blood pressure, lupus, multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis/rheumatoid arthritis, and more.

Learn more about NutraNomics at www.nutranomics.com