INTELLIGENT INVESTING WITH BANJO,well sort of! (Ed-hmmmm-lol)

Galleon Holdings plc has three key divisions:Galleon Entertainment for entertainment type IP,Croco Worldwide for product IP,Phoenix for interactive TV services for broadcasters in China/South East Asia which includes Robot Information Technology (Lushy Assets ('Yunbo')) who are a wireless interactive platform service provider in China who will work alongside Phoenix to enable GON to hold on to a greater part of the generated revenue and so increase the profit margin......think that's the plan! :-)

This makes Galleon Holdings a 'One Stop Shop' to develop and complete new and existing IP's.

Financial PR Redleaf Communications


WEBSITES/LINKS


Galleon Holdings


The Galleon Group of Companies

Galleon Entertainment
Phoenix
Robot Information Technology
Croco Worldwide

Websites associated with GON

Dragonfruit Studios
Super Soccer Star-2nd Roll out-Malaysia
Fortune 5
Skunk Fu Website
Skunk Fu Merchandise-UK
Skunk Fu Merchandise-USA
Apollo's Pad>
The Hunt for Miss Apollo
Sokator442 Web Page
Mysti Web Page


Toy Shelf-website that appears to get updated regularly
Qube Media-Web Marketing/Production for Apollo's Pad
Lavish
Cake Entertainment
Cartoon Saloon & Their Skunk Fu Blog
FATKAT Animation Studios
Good Story Productions-The Series Producers for Apollo's Pad
Copernicus Studios Inc
The Internet Movie Data Base (Skunk Fu)


GON ANNOUNCEMENTS (updated-26/01/09)

CLICK HERE FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM 2006 TO LATEST PLUS OTHER BITS AND BOBS


Acquisition of Phoenix Investment Global Limited, Placing of Shares and Confirmation of Total Voting Rights-23/10/07
Galleon to buy China's Phoenix Investment for up to 5.5 mln stg UPDATE-23/10/07
Galleon Receives Supply Order for Latin America-25/10/07
TR-1 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES (Ashcourt) 31/10/07
TR-1 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES (Imagination Holdings Limited) 07/11/07
Interactive TV Agreement with TV3 - Malaysia's largest broadcaster 09/11/07
'Skunk fu!' - Global TV placement 12/12/07
TR-1 NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES (Cheyne) 13/12/07
Change of Adviser 17/12/07
Interactive TV Agreement with Metropolitan TV and CH 9 21/01/08
Results 30/01/08
Acquisition of Wireless Interactive Platform Service Provider in China 20/02/08
Galleon launches Soccer Show in China with Chelsea F.C. and Guangdong TV Sports channel 03/03/08
AGM Statement and Partnership with RDF Media 02/04/08
Galleon Holdings sees H1 revenues higher than previous full year 02/04/08
Skunk Fu! Breaks into US-27/05/08
Launch of Toyline in the US and Appointment of Licensing & Distribution Partners-09/06/08
Syndication of Super Soccer Star in Shanghai region-23/06/08
Interim results for the six months ended 31 March 2008-27/06/08
Agreement with Hunan Television in China-07/07/08
Roll-out of latest product IP-14/07/08
New Product Order-29/07/08
Agreement with MMTV in China-14/08/08
US distribution agreement for Skunk fu! toyline-19/08/08
Strategic US Partnership-17/09/08
Co-production agreement for Super Soccer Star in Malaysia & terms agreed for Super Soccer Star in Indonesia -29/09/08
Trading Update-07/10/08
First Earn-Out Payment - Yunbo 13/10/08
BAFTA Nomination & Appointment of Subsidiary Director-17/11/08
UK distribution agreement for Skunk fu! toyline-27/11/08
Yunbo launches Chinese lottery mobile application-10/12/08
Preliminary results for the year ended 30 September 2008 (Issued 19/01/09)
Acquires stake in US strategic partner-26/01/09

Latest News/Events

SUPER SOCCER STAR STARTS WEDNESDAY 7 JAN 2009.DON'T MISS IT!

CLIK HERE FOR SOME BACKGROUND INFO.ON Michael Koziol and Melissa Honabach (DRAGONFRUIT STUDIOS)

26th June 2008 Galleon – And Its 'Edgy' Strategy by Tom Bulford

Qube Media updated their website today with the following:

"Now the show has launched, Galleon's internal marketing team are now managing the campaign. We look forward to seeing where they take it in the future."

http://qubes.co.uk/case-studies/apollos_pad.php

Also interesting to note that yesterday the link to 'Robot Information Technology Co.' website was down in both the English and China versions.Today only the front page can be seen but only via the China link below:

http://www.weyee.com/


A few days ago (on Super Soccer Star) when you let your mouse pointer just rest over the Icon it came up with 'Yunbo' which would explain why this Icon is part of 'The Galleon Group of Companies' on the Phoenix website below:

Edit-just noticed it's actually still there in the address,doh!

http://www.footballshow.com.cn/fs/imag/yunbo.jpg

http://www.phoenixglobal.tv/home.htm


It's also worth noting that the news updates contained within the 'Robot Information Technology Co.' website stopped at 2005!

Therefore,it is logical that this website is in the middle of being updated!

(Ed-straight to the point as usual!)

Ahhhhhh,I should have guessed that 'The Sharpe Company' are at next weeks Licensing International Expo 2008 for Skunk Fu:

http://www.licensingexpo.com/licensingshow/v42/index.cvn?id=10437

Looks all a bit last minute,imo.

I think if you read the link below it would appear GON are just testing the water here and maybe seeing if the potential/interest is there from manufacturers who would pay GON a license fee for the manufacture of various goods eg duvet covers and the like using the Skunk Fu brand name.
Anyway,it should be a positive news week regarding Skunk Fu at this event.

http://www.toynewsmag.com/opinion/24/Galleon-Going-it-alone

Skunk Fu started it's run on French 'France 5' in January 2008 and still going strong by the look:

http://www.france5.fr/programmes/articles/famille-jeunesse/1392-skunk-fu.php

and translated for banja players:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2efrance5%2efr%2fprogrammes%2farticles%2ffamille%2djeunesse%2f1392%2dskunk%2dfu%2ephp

Hmmm,carrying on with the Skunk Fu theme it would appear that the DVD which is available from the 30th June,initially I thought just in the UK but it looks like it's Europe wide or part off anyway!

Amazon-France Available 7th July

Amazon-Germany Available 30th June


Going back to the original announcement dated 02 August 2007 this stated:

"Galleon Holdings plc is delighted to announce that it has licensed the UK DVD
rights of Skunk Fu! series one to Warner Music Group in return for a minimum
guarantee and further royalties linked to sales volume."

"Stephen Green CEO of Galleon commented, 'This is the first licensed deal
received for the UK and we are delighted to be working with a partner of this
calibre in a key category like DVD's."

Galleon Signs DVD Licensing Agreement for Skunk Fu!

Building up quite nicely:

Date: 9 June 2008

Galleon Holdings PLC

Launch of Toyline in the US
Appointment of Licensing & Distribution Partners

Galleon Holdings plc (AIM: GON), the AIM-listed intellectual property owner and developer in the entertainment sector, today announces the launch of Skunk Fu! as a merchandising brand in the US and Canada. Following the announcement on 27th May that the series will have a dual broadcast platform in the US airing on the CW on weekends and the Cartoon Network Television on weekdays, Galleon can also announce that the show has now also been sold to leading Kids TV channel YTV in Canada.

The brand will be launched at the New York Licensing Show, held June 10-12, the world's leading show in the entertainment brand and property marketplace with over 25,000 attendees. Galleon has appointed The Sharpe Group Inc ('Sharpe Group') as licensing agent for Skunk Fu!, in the North America. Sharpe Group is a boutique intellectual property agency, with an emphasis in marketing IP in North America. A Skunk Fu! toyline has been developed by Croco Worldwide, Galleon's toy division and this will be also previewed at the show by the Sharpe Group.

Further to this NCircle have secured as DVD distribution rights for Skunk fu! in the US. NCircle is an entertainment content distributor, specialising in children's programming. The company is a division of Alliance Entertainment Corporation (AEC) is the largest single source of home entertainment, with distribution channels with over 110,000 stores throughout North America.



http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200806090700072282W.html

From todays announcement:

"It has three main subsidiaries:

Galleon Entertainment: Owns, develops and manages entertainment based IP targeted at kids and teens.

Croco Worldwide: Designs innovative bespoke in-pack premiums for global Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies. It has the design, manufacturing and operational capabilities to take an idea from concept through to market.

Phoenix: Designs and sells interactive media platforms to broadcasters enabling them to offer interactive voting to viewers. Since its acquisition, Phoenix has been able to provide a provision of content and IP to television broadcasters, creating opportunities to co-produce shows."

Why then on the Phoenix website does it clearly show four and states:

'The Galleon Group of Companies'




Will have to look further into this as I assumed one was Yumbo......(Ed-It's ok,he always talks to himself)

Oooooo and a new webisode on Apollo's Pad.....splendiferous,well I laughed! :-)

Good to see GON's new Financial PR (Redleaf) keeping their website up to date with todays news.

Quite possible the Croco website will be updated this week with Skunk Fu merchandise to coincide with the start of Licensing International Expo.which kicks off tomorrow.....who knows?

Of interest:

Nielsen released a new study that charts television trends in the U.S. looking at population, advertising and viewing. Some information nuggets include:
U.S. homes now receive on average 118.6 total television channels and the average household watches 16 channels or 13% of the total average number received for at least 10 minutes per week.
Based on the total U.S. composite, African Americans watch more television overall, while Hispanics watch the least. Among all U.S. households, total TV viewing is at 31 hours and 55 minutes per week while African American households watch 45 hours and 22 minutes and Hispanic households watch 27 hours and 13 minutes.
The advertising commercial mainstay in primetime is the 30-second commercial resulting in 55% of all units across all networks. 15-second commercial units come next and account for 53% of all commercials on English-language networks in daytime.


and

Weekend Box Office Estimates: June 6-8, 2008

Kung Fu Panda (Paramount) $60.0 million opening weekend
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (Sony) $40.0 million opening weekend
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount) $22.8 million 3 wk total $253m
Sex and the City (New Line) $23.1 million 2 wk total $99.3m
The Strangers (Rogue Pictures) $9.3 million 2 wk total $37.6m
Iron Man (Paramount) $7.5 million 6 wk total $288.9m
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Buena Vista) $5.5 million 4 wk total $125.8m
What Happens in Vegas (Fox) $3.4 million 5 wk total $72.2m
Baby Mama (Universal) $779K 7 wk total $57.9m
Made of Honor (Sony) $775K 6 wk total $44.7m
Source: Box Office Mojo

http://www.cynopsis.com/content/view/3565

Also of interest:

Happy UK2 Customer - Apollos Pad

Hi all,

We love to hear from our happy customers, especially when UK2 products and services are really helping out.

Check out Apollos Pad which runs off a UK2 Dedicated Server. It as a web-based comedy show with new episodes every week day. Apollos Pad itself is a nightclub a failing nightclub run by the hapless 70s throwback Apollo and his son Ice Flow. Okay, theyre idiots, but theyre lovable idiots! (Please Note: this is an adult comedy website so there is some strong language).

Heres what their Online Marketing Manager Line Ho Young Kjaer had to say about UK2:

http://blog.uk2.net/tag/apollos-pad/

http://blog.uk2.net/general-stuff/by-nicola/happy-uk2-customer-apollos-pad/#more-329

banjomick
Hi, still on these then get some oil on the side SER is going north very soon.

Evening driver,
SER chart looks good after a quick gander but happy with what I have at present,having a rest and just sticking with me long termers for a few months before I add anything else for the long/short term.Good luck anyway.

DALLAS, June 9 /PRNewswire/

NCircle Named Exclusive North America Licensing Agent by Cake Distribution

"NCircle Entertainment today announced a five year North American home entertainment distribution deal with Cake Distribution, a distributor of international content for the children's, youth and family audiences, with a particular focus on animation. The agreement gives NCircle the DVD and digital rights to two animated television series: Skunk Fu!, currently airing on The CW4Kids (previously known as Kids' WB!) and Cartoon Network"

"As we build our brand globally, our strategy to team up with NCircle for their expertise at retail will provide a wonderful opportunity to build additional awareness of Skunk Fu! and Tiny Planets," said Ed Galton, Managing Director, Cake Distribution. "While the properties have built-in brand equity due to their broadcast presence, bringing our content to this market reflects our commitment to exploit multiple platforms."

Two DVD titles from Skunk Fu!, "The Art of Rivalry" and "The Art of Monkey Launching," and the Tiny Planet's "Bing Bong Bell" DVD are slated for release in December of 2008."

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080609/nym016.html?.v=101

Just to go back (ED-gaaawd,here we go) to last weeks post,which was by me strangely enough :-) from Cynopsis:

Galleon Holdings will launch the Skunk Fu! merchandising line next week at the 2008 Licensing Show in NYC. Galleon has appointed The Sharpe Company as licensing agent for property in North America. The Skunk Fu! toy line, developed in-house by Galleon's Croco Sourcing Worldwide, will debut in the US at this year's Licensing Show. Additionally, Galleon is currently in talks with a DVD distribution partner for the US. A Cartoon Saloon, Cake Entertainment and Telegael co-production for TG4 (Ireland) and Super RTL (Germany), The Skunk Fu! (52x13) is aimed at K6-12. Galleon handles the licensing and merchandising rights around the world (excluding Germany).

Took four days to announce the DVD deal,not bad going :-)


http://www.cynopsis.com/content/view/3556/53/

Think that can be classed as a quiet day and not complaining! :-)

Lots going on this month but it's news on the China/SEA front that will regain interest for the Galleon.The 8 million placing last October at 29p was mainly to fund the operations over in the Far East so positive news relating to this area is awaited.

Meanwhile,of interest:

Show Buzz: Licensing Show - Day 1
By Staff -- Playthings, 6/10/2008 6:00:00 AM

http://www.playthings.com/article/CA6568509.html?desc=topstory

2008-06-09

New Home-Video Deal for Skunk Fu!

LONDON, June 9: Cake Distribution has secured a host of home-video deals for Skunk Fu!, including a recent agreement that covers the U.S. and Canada.

NCircle Entertainment has set a home-video release for Skunk Fu! for December in the U.S. and Canada, which follows on Warner Musics upcoming releases in the U.K., France and Australia, and Super RTLs release in Germany.

http://www.worldscreen.com/newscurrent.php?filename=skunk060908.htm

Getting 'out-takes' from Apollo's Pad now!-lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRttH9AK-IE


Edit-Catherine's voice is a little deeper than on the completed intro.to the show
:-)

http://www.apollospad.com/webisodes/87

Hmmmmm,mm's dropping the SP on very small volumes! Can be seen as either a + or - sign for various reasons.
Phoned GON regarding an Interim result date,think it was Len who answered,Natasha probably on her lunch break,anyway nothing official date wise.

Edit-that was regarding Interim date and not a date with Natasha..........just to be clear. :-)

Under 90k of sells and a 9.5% drop in SP,you have to laugh with mm's taking full advantage in adjusting the SP against those 10k's being drip fed in.
Anyway,should be good watching the recovery......he says bravely! :-)