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

Worth a re-post,taken from the Phoenix website:

Our Advantage

The Phoenix Team brings the following strengths:

Strong market relationships

Our team comprises experienced professionals with a proven track record in television and New Media who have a deep understanding of the local market and have close relationships with local broadcasters.


Track record

As a pioneer in Interactive TV formats in Asia, we have a strong track record of success in creating and producing interactive formats in Asia.

End-to-end solutions

Our key strength lies in our ability to provide a complete end-to-end solution to broadcasters, ranging from formats to mobile connectivity and billing for SMS/MMS and IVR interactivity.

Strong network and presence in Asia

We have a strong network of relationships that extends throughout China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, providing a diversity of revenues as well as strong links with local and regional broadcasters.

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

Not sure how accurate this article is but:

China has 592 million Mobile Phone users

Ranking the highest in population levels, China also boasts to be on the top position in regards to Mobile Phone owners as well. Yes! Thats true that Chinas mobile phone ownership has crossed the 592 million mark.

As the landline phone requirement goes down, Mobile usage soars in the Chinese markets. The Mobile Phone accounts rose by 44.8 million through the end of May and in contrast fixed-line accounts fell by 6.5 million to 358 million. The highly populated country is known to possess latest and various varieties of phones.

It was also noted that most of mobile users carried multiple phones for personal and work. This piling of mobile phones in Chinese markets has benefited the popular mobile phone carrier, China Mobile which boasts about its huge customer base which is more than 400 million. There is saying that Everything in a particular limit is Good, hope China limits its mobile phone usage or the day would be very near, where we will have a mountain of mobile phones on our lawns.

http://www.techshout.com/general/2008/26/china-has-592-million-mobile-phone-users/

Don't take as fact as like above the figures appear to be from 'wikipedia':


Chinas Internet Population Reaches 221 Million, surpassing US

China is the populated country in the world. Now it also has the highest number of Internet users. According to reports more than 221 million people in China were accessing internet by the end of February 2008

By the end of 2007, 210 million internet users were located in China; while, 215 million of Americans were taking advantage of the internet service. However the situation changed in February 2008, when the number of Chinese internet users went up to 221 million.

Chinas progress here is significant. In the beginning of 2007, 137 million internet users were reported in China, which increased by more than 53 percent by the beginning of 2008.

Internet is also censored in China, where the government employs an elaborate system of filters and tens of thousands of human monitors to survey surfing habits, surgically clipping sensitive content.

http://www.techshout.com/internet/2008/25/chinas-internet-population-reaches-221-million-surpassing-us/

China mobile phone user base tops 574 million in March 2008

Press release, April 28; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES [Monday 28 April 2008]

There were 574.63 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of March 2008, growing by 1.66% on month and by 19.55% on year, according to statistics published by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) on April 25.

The number of subscribers at the end of March accounted for 41.6% of the country's population (user density).

Also at the end of March 2008 there were 361.06 million fixed telecommunication network subscribers in China, translating into a user density of 27.8%.

In March 2008, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 58.61 billion SMS text messages, averaging 3.32 messages per subscription a day.

http://www.digitimes.com/telecom/a20080428PR202.html

Hmmmm,there is a complete lack of interest in GON at the moment even with all the good news,profits and all! Anything sub 18p then I'll be topping up for the long term potential and reward that GON looks set to offer.I do get the feelling though that more announcements are on the way but just a guess on my part.

Happy to be aboard the Galleon.........................still! :-)

Not that bothered really but the only thing GON can do to stop this short term fall in the SP is to issue a trading statement otherwise I can see further falls!

The hunt for Miss Apollo

Wednesday, 23 July 2008

http://apollosp.blogspot.com/2008/07/some-of-girls-in-contest.html

oooooo,a little up-day.


Looks like Selina Enriquez handywork:




Oooopsed,a bit big!

ooooo,a little bit of blue here too,which is nice!

Turned out to be a pretty big rise!

I see my 400 MA line is coming into play :-)

Will do a bit of digging later on.......

GON in the land of massive figures and further to post 1212:

China Mobile Phone Subscribers Pass 600 Million Mark

Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service
Thu Jul 24, 1:00 AM ET


"The number of mobile phone subscribers in China reached 601 million at the end of June, according to government figures.

The nation added 8.63 million new users in June, for an official total of 53.5 million new subscribers so far this year, according to China's Ministry of Information Industry."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080724/tc_pcworld/148851

A little more info on what Mahesh Ramachandra was up to before joining GON as the Global Director/Entertainment:

http://www.cellcast.tv/html/news/archive/13-02-07.asp

From the Hunan TV deal announced earlier this month:

"Under the terms of the agreement, Galleon's Chinese operation, Phoenix, a provider of interactive entertainment services to broadcasters in China and South East Asia, will work with HNTV to develop interactive game play, functionality and content applications for seven shows to be broadcast on the Entertainment Channel over the coming year. Galleon will also be responsible for the billing and fulfilment of all mobile or telephone based interactive activity, which is enabled by its acquisition of Yunbo, a mobile service provider in China, in February 2008. Revenue will be earned on a profit share basis."

Would be splendiferous if one of the shows was:

Hunan TV to make Chinese version of Ugly Betty

http://shanghaiist.com/2008/03/13/hunan_tv_to_mak.php

http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/807030/Unilever-turns-Ugly-Betty-China-brand-vehicle/

Hunan TV is part of the HUNAN TV & BROADCAST INTERMEDIARY CO., LTD:

"HUNAN TV & BROADCAST INTERMEDIARY CO., LTD., the # 4 rated network in China, provides strong financial backing and offers unique partnership opportunities for the lucrative emerging Chinese market.

Over its 14-year history, HUNAN TV & BROADCAST INTERMEDIARY CO., LTD. has diversified into 20 different countries, with enterprises as diverse as Five-Star Resort Hotel & Casino Ownership, Restaurant Franchising, Theme Parks, Real Estate Development, Financial Investment, Publishing, Film & TV Production and Event Hosting in addition to its 7 broadcast channels.

HUNAN TV & BROADCAST INTERMEDIARY CO., LTD. is a Blue-Chip stock on the Chinese market, and has an estimated value of USD 700,000,000. "

http://www.magicplay-ent.com/profile.htm

Pretty big!!!!

Off to cut the grass

"Our second show, The Limit, is set to air later in the year on Hunan Satellite, a leading broadcaster with a reach of 400 million homes."

This article gives an insight into the political pressure being brought on to TV/Satellite programming within China.

Media business

Reality TV woes and the 2008 China Media Yearbook

Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, July 15, 2008 9:47 AM

http://www.danwei.org/media_business/reality_tv_woes_and_the_2008_c.php

This will obviously effect Phoenix/GON in some shape or form but as the clamp down by SARFT has been well publicised over the last two years or so,along with the recent deal with Hunan "to develop interactive game play,functionality and content applications for seven shows to be broadcast on the Entertainment Channel over the coming year.",then I can't see there being a major problem.

I think it's mainly the content and visual aspect that if it goes too far against Chinese values then a programme gets clamped on by SARFT.GON/Phoenix are involved with one of the big players in China ie Hunan and I'm sure this working relationship will offer GON/Phoenix valuable lessons for the future!

It's possible the partnership with RDF Media and "best of RDF creative content " was formed with the tightening up of programmes in China in mind:

"Partnership with RDF Media

Having validated the pipeline and demonstrated the flexibility of our business
model we have sought access to a library of entertainment content and production
expertise that we can exploit within China and SEA. To this end we are delighted
to announce that Galleon has entered into an agreement to work with RDF Media to
co-produce a select number of shows with leading broadcasters in China
leveraging the best of RDF creative content and Galleon's business model and
expertise in executing these shows in the territory."

Anyway,not as bad as portrayed in post 1224

Shanghai Television Fest to draw imports
By Alex S. Dai

June 5, 2008, 04:42 PM ET


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3i5f72d636331a44a77e55ee604ebb801f

oooooooo,this is good,from TimesOnline:

Irish skunk cartoon wows US



"Skunk Fu, the story of a foul-smelling mammal who uses his toxic aroma for defence and learns martial arts from a wise panda master, has been bought by Cartoon Network in the United States for a six-figure sum. It began airing last month and could run for up to three years."

"Skunk Fu was originally aired on TG4, RTL Germany and BBC. It has now been broadcast in over 110 countries, earning more than 6m. The Cartoon Network deal is the shows biggest coup. Its writers are planning a script for a spin-off movie and manufacturers are preparing a toy line for next spring."

"Cartoon Network is a really big deal. Skunk Fu is on practically every day. Its the station we always wanted to get it on, he said. Its really good for licensing and toys. Some producers practically give their things to Cartoon Network for free because it's worth so much in merchandising.

"Galleon Entertainment, a London-based merchandising group, has created action figures and inflatable punching bags with sounds and electronic features. It plans to launch the line next spring in Ireland, the UK, France, Germany, Belgium and the United States.

Several Irish voices were used in the programme. Paul McLoone, lead singer with the Undertones, donned an English accent for Baboon and actor and comedian Paul Tylack plays the panda."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article4407617.ece

Interesting morning by the look.

Just to emphasise why Super Soccer Star ticked all the right boxes regarding China's governing bodies,gets a bit lost in translation but you can get the gist:

Programme aims: elected soccer star, the courage to self-challenge!
Candidates are asked: if you love soccer, aged 13 to 16-year-old boy can be involved in the application.
Become a football star to have a good football skills, sportsmanship, leadership and personal charm,
In each episode of the soccer star program, players will receive various tests and to confront the face of the star judges. They have to understand, not just football skills honed, and the friendship between the players and the spirit of cooperation, Personal conduct of the training and the courage to challenge their attitude.

Should be getting some updates soon regarding:

"The early success of the show in Guangdong has also instigated discussions for further series of Super Soccer Star in China with satellite broadcasters as well as a new series from Galleon's Super Sports Star franchise, focusing on a new sport. Phoenix is also in discussions with potential partners in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, India and Middle East and is in final negotiations of a co-production agreement for Super Soccer Star in Malaysia with a leading terrestrial broadcaster.

Commenting on the syndication, CEO of Galleon Holdings, Stephen Green said:

'The popularity of the first series of Super Soccer Star has exceeded our expectations as well as those of our partners. The syndication of the show is a key part of our strategy and demonstrates the quality of the programming and the steady execution of our business model. We expect this to be the first of a number of agreements as we roll-out the Super Soccer Star format to major broadcasters across China and South East Asia. This is further evidence that Galleon is well placed to exploit the opportunity that exists in the rapidly developing broadcast markets in China and South East Asia.' "