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.

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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

And on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Yp8nDET4c&eurl=http://www.pokemony.com/

That's very strange or there's a problem with L2.............GON's broker and I think 2 others have vanished from the screen,hmmmmmm.Will pop back at luncheon time methinks.

At least good old GON are sailing in a sea of blue today.

The first contests is underway,it's all good fun this researching is! :-)

Miss September2008

Every month a girl wins a place in the final (and other fantastic prices) The 1st month is easy peasy lemon squeaze, cuz if youve created a profile and uploaded your snaps and video, you could be the first winner and on your way to the final.


VS

It's the interactive platform and social networking concept that is important here and not necessarily the content......although Apollo's Pad is most watchable in my opinion.

I believe the basic interactive structure of Apollo's Pad which includes 'The Hunt for Miss Apollo 2009' which can be accessed via the Internet and mobile phone along with continuing the theme via satellite sites like Facebook and Youtube are the key parts here.This structure can be used to promote a TV series or gameshow where revenue can be obtained via text voting and advertising space.

Here is the Youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/user/apollospad

Going back to posts from 2nd September 2008 and potential viewing figures,I do love these big numbers GON are involved in:

SSS-potential viewing figures (Obv.just potential) for the first SSS were 13 x 50M=650 million

Shanghai SSS-potential viewing figures for the for say 13 episodes is 13 x 11M=143 million

HNTV (seven shows)-potential viewing figures for say 13 episodes is 13 x 67=871 million for one show which equates to 6,097 million

MMTV and 'PAGS' (at least three shows) currently reaches an audience of approximately 75 million, which is expected to grow to 130 million by the end of 2008.I'll use the 130 million as it's bigger :-) So,potential viewing figures for say 13 episodes is 13 x130=1690 million per show and 5070 million in total!


Therefore the total is............................ 11,960 million potential viewers,I think!



I am well aware that these are just potential viewing figures but it's worth highlighting to give a very rough picture of the market GON/Phoenix are involved in,just my opinion though.


Edit-Woooops,forgot the Interactive TV Agreements.................. brb (Ed-No rush as there's only you reading this)

09 November 2007

"deal with TV3, the largest TV station in Malaysia, with 21 million
viewers. Under the terms of the deal, Phoenix will receive a fee for the supply
of its multi-platform interactive system to TV3. It will also receive ongoing
management fees and a revenue share on related activities, as a part of a
multi-year service agreement to provide sms gateway, interactive advertising
and sms campaign management."

21 January 2008

The Malaysian TV stations Metropolitan TV Sdn Bhd and CH-9
Media Sdn Bhd deal:

"It will also receive ongoing management fees and a revenue share on
related activities, as a part of a multi-year service agreement to provide SMS
gateway, interactive advertising and SMS campaign management. Metropolitan TV
is Malaysia's third-largest TV channel, targeting the urban and ethnic Chinese
audience. Ch9 now ranks second in viewership ratings, and is focused on
delivering programming for the mass and ethnic Malay market."

I knew something clicked from all me ramblings on the 2nd September 2008 :-)

From 2 April 2008 and the AGM:

"We are delighted to inform the market that the positive trends outlined in our
annual report have continued into the current year resulting in an encouraging
half year for the Company. Revenues for the half year 2007/2008 will exceed that
of the previous full year.

Following the acquisition of the wireless service provider Yunbo, in China,
Galleon has established its position as a specialist in creating, distributing
and monetising cross platform interactive entertainment content throughout South
East Asia and China. Part of our strategy is to grow our pipeline into the
region through the interactive services that we provide to the broadcasters.
Currently we provide interactive services to 5 broadcasters and we aim for this
to be at least 10 broadcasters by the end of the year.
Strategically we will leverage this network and business model by co-producing
with South East Asian and Chinese broadcasters on mass market interactive
entertainment brands."

http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200804020701343711R.html

Then we get:

14 August 2008

"Galleon is now working with four television stations in China on the development and production of interactive content and formats. The Company expects to sign further agreements with Chinese television stations during 2008."

http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200808140700052936B.html


GON announcements are always straight to the point giving key information so the above says to me that they have 5 broadcasters within the China/SEA area as of 2 April 2008 followed up by a total of four in China as of 14 August 2008,Hunan crop up a lot and are classed as one.

Therefore there are 5 more deals to be announced before 2008 ends if GON want to reach their target of 10 within the China/SEA market.

My opinion is that the target figure of 10 is already in the bag especially when you look at the targets Phoenix had to and did achieve as part of the initial deal!

Very exciting stuff as far as I'm concerned but please do your own research as this is the AIM and anything can happen!

GON's broker raised the bid this morning so a little bit of blue,which is nice! :-)

Just a reminder who MMTV are:

"Shanghai Oriental Pearl Mobile Television Co., Ltd., (MMTV) is the China first and world second new concept media to launch outdoor digital mobile television program. Integrating the advantages of abundant capital, best programs and advanced transmission, MMTV is jointly established by Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group, Shanghai Oriental Pearl (Group) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Media Group, Astraea Pty Ltd, Shanghai Oriental Transmission Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Broadcasting Laboratory."


Xinmin network" more than 90% of the public hope that the Metro TV news broadcast 2008-8-20

Recently, from "The Box" platform online survey of nearly 10,000 people on a sample survey showed that 97.3 percent of the public buildings in the hope that the television and mass transit to watch TV in real-time news and information. In a business premises in the work of the Miss Lau admitted that their daily working hours, such as dining at the lift, the current LCD screen kept playing all types of advertising, "the bus of the Oriental Pearl Mobile TV, I can see many Convenient information and the latest news, why this form can not be spread to buildings? "

http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.opg.cn/opgm/news_view.php%3Fid%3D109&usg=ALkJrhivkJIUHlvBY9z9et-gvSi3hGxD1A

Hmmmm,KAUP have raised the bid again and another hmmmmmm for good measure!

Off to B&Q,will have an hour in front of screen on my return......

Hi banj

it's john from the other bb.

nice to see that you are keeping up the good work over here.

I was expecting sss malaysia and the show "the limit" to have been rns'd
at the begining of Sept[do'nt know why not].
jl and yaki recon saving all for big push next week but i,m not so sure.

I have created a thread over on the other channel if ever you feel like posting.
First sign of dr post rubbish and he's history.

Afternoon John (I've been busy plumbing in a shower today,oh what fun!),

From the Interims (27 June 2008):

"We are also in final negotiations for a series in Malaysia and there are discussions underway in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. 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. Our network and operational expertise has allowed us to develop relationships with other media companies looking to gain traction in China. During this period we agreed a deal with RDF Media to co-produce a select number of their properties and represent its shows in the region."

So,reading that you could say September for those announcements but that would be just guessing on my part,others may have better information than me of course,happy to wait and see.

"big push next week" will be relating to the Yunbo share issue.........

Good luck with your new thread but I'm quite content here in the shadows without interruption from short term traders and the 'fun and games' that go along with it.
I'll probably pop over for info.that I may have missed though.

It's worth a re-posting of part of the Interims as it highlights this part of the business in a nutshell,type thing:

Entertainment

Our first multiplatform entertainment property Super Soccer Star, an interactive family orientated football talent show, was launched in April with co-producers Guangdong Sports Channel and Chelsea Football Club. The show has been a huge success and is one of the broadcaster's top 5 rated shows. This has led to the show being syndicated by the Shanghai Sports Channel, which will take it to another 11 million viewers. We are in discussions with other national satellite broadcasters for a second series in China. We are also in final negotiations for a series in Malaysia and there are discussions underway in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. 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. Our network and operational expertise has allowed us to develop relationships with other media companies looking to gain traction in China. During this period we agreed a deal with RDF Media to co-produce a select number of their properties and represent its shows in the region.

In addition to entertainment content deals Phoenix continues to provide interactive TV services for broadcasters in China and South East Asia. Recently it signed agreements with Malaysian TV stations, Metropolitan TV Sdn Bhd and CH-9 Media Sdn Bhd, to supply its multiplatform interactive system as part of a multi-year service agreement to provide SMS gateway, interactive advertising and SMS campaign management. Metropolitan TV is Malaysia's third-largest TV channel, targeting the urban and ethnic Chinese audience. CH-9 now ranks second in viewership ratings, and is focused on delivering programming for the mass and ethnic Malay market.

Our general entertainment portfolio is also developing. As a result of its great ratings in the UK on the BBC, and on The CW in the US at weekends, Skunk Fu!, an award-winning children's animated action/comedy TV series aimed at children aged 6-11 years old, has now been placed on Cartoon Network, a major US kids network. This dual platform in the US has allowed us to launch our merchandising programme globally, using the critical mass that this territory gives us in core categories such as toys. In addition to English speaking territories the show is on air in France and about to go on air on leading platforms in Germany and more than 100 other markets.

On 9 June, we announced the launch of Skunk Fu! as a merchandising brand in the US and Canada. The brand was launched at the New York Licensing Show by The Sharpe Group Inc., which has been appointed as licensing agent for Skunk Fu! in 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 was also previewed at the show.

In addition, NCircle has secured the 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), the largest single source of home entertainment, with distribution channels in over 110,000 stores throughout North America.

Apollo's Pad, an interactive online animated sitcom, was launched in October 2007, targeting 16-24 year olds. We have developed strong relationships with the music majors which have widened to include EMI publishing as well as Sony BMG.

We have also signed a development deal for another popular show, Mysti, with Planet Nemo, a leading French production company in the kids sector. We hope this will enable us to develop a more multi-territory treatment of the next TV series. Sokator-442, a comedy action fantasy targeted to children aged 6-11 years old, continues to attract strong interest in Europe. We have pre-sale offers in Germany, Australia and Scandinavia and are focusing on bringing in one more key territory to give the property the critical mass that it needs.

http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200806270700116741X.html

And bringing us right back to where I started from post 1270 which was meant to be a brief reminder to myself after our holiday,also from the last Interims and Croco/Asia:


Croco Worldwide

Croco Worldwide is our global toy division, focusing on designing and manufacturing innovative bespoke in-pack premiums for the global FMCG companies. The division continues to grow in terms of volume, value and also geographical reach. Our relationship with Pepsico is expanding well beyond Europe and our presence in Latin America has been bolstered by the successful test of our product IP Blasterz in a promotion in Mexico.

Our focus for the remaining months will be to secure regular business from this region and to expand our sales and distribution into Asia. Greater visibility of business and stronger relationships allows us to be more strategic about our investment in product IP and also manufacturing technology, all of which provide significant barriers to entry for any competitors.

NPD Group reveals continued growth in toy business among majority of markets around the world
NPD Group
September 2008

Report from The NPD Group that provides detailed insight and forecast on global toy business reveals continued growth among majority of markets around the world.

Global toy sales reached $71.96 Billion in 2007
Expected to top 86.3 Billion in 2010
Despite a slowdown in U.S. sales and rising competition from vertical segments such as video games, worldwide toy market sales topped $71.96 billion dollars in 2007, a 5 percent increase over the $68.5 billion generated in 2006, according to Global Toy Trends and Forecasts, the most recent report from leading market research company, The NPD Group. At the current pace, NPD expects worldwide toy sales to top $86.3 billion in 2010.

Global Toy Trends and Forecasts provides a detailed and granular look at the composition of the global toy market since 2004, including a country by country analysis by age and gender, as well as the opportunities that exist for the toy industry in other parts of the world and a trend forecast of what The NPD Group expects the industry to experience within the next few years.

According to the report, North America represents 33 percent of worldwide sales, followed by Europe at 30 percent and Asia at 24 percent. However, according to NPD prediction models, Asia is expected to mirror European sales with both representing 27 percent of worldwide sales by the end of 2008, and grow by 18 percent by 2010.

Sales in Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) are outpacing total market sales, and are becoming increasingly important to the overall growth of the global toy market. In 2004, BRIC countries made up only 8.8 percent of world toy market sales, increasing to 11.2 percent in 2007.

The only country to show negative dollar sales growth in 2007 was the U.S., with all other major countries showing positive dollar sales gains. However, NPD estimates the U.S. market will return to growth, and should deliver an increase by 8.8 percent by 2010 of the average spending on toys for kids. Next to the United States, Japan and United Kingdom produced the most revenue in 2007, generating $5.95 billion and $4.38 billion, respectively.

We are excited to be able to leverage NPDs knowledge and expertise within the toy industry to provide an estimate of the global toy market, said Jane Zimmy, President of Global Development, Toys, The NPD Group.

The NPD Group, which already operates in and provides market research on the toy industry in more than 12 countries, has developed a market estimate statistical model based on this information. It's a logical place to start, said Zimmy, as The NPD Groups Toy service has been tracking the industry for 30 years.

Growth in markets outside of the U.S. provides toy manufacturers with alternative opportunities for business expansion, said Anita Frazier, industry analyst, The NPD Group. Understanding this potential in greater depth will be key to capitalizing on those opportunities.

http://www.brand-licensing.com//DocPage.aspx?IzmLang=9&DID=7346&DIA=7346&QSI=1&OPS=0&LUR=http%3a%2f%2fwww.brand-licensing.com%2f%2fNewsPage.aspx%3fIzmLang%3d9%26QSI%3d1%26LPS%3d0%26&

I can feel an indepth look/recap into Sokator-442 on the horizon as I still think this is going to be one of many trump cards that GON have still to play!

Edit-Will do later this week....

Asia's broadband subscribers to hit 170M
July 9, 2008 | Provided by ZDNet Asia
By Eileen Yu, ZDNet Asia

By the end of 2008, the Asia-Pacific region will be home to 171 million broadband subscribers, an increase of 31.5 percent over last year's 129.7 million, according to a new report released Wednesday.

Conducted by research house Frost & Sullivan, the study reported that this growth is driven by increasing popularity of video-on-demand and video sharing, multi-player online games and social networking services such as Facebook and YouTube. Demand is also boosted by operators' aggressive push to deliver multi-play broadband packages, bundled with voice, data, video and wireless services, according to the report, which covers 13 economies in the region including Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.

http://www.chinatechnews.com/2008/07/09/6995-asias-broadband-subscribers-to-hit-170m/

China's Internet Offers A Plethora Of Marketing Opportunities
September 1, 2008
By Yann Lombard-Platet

For those of us daily embroiled in the Chinese Internet's changing landscape, it's easy to take for granted the five most important reasons why using different channels on China's Internet can realize great return on investment.

5. TRUST through Internet Word of Mouth (WOM)
All marketers try to establish trust in their brands. Behind trust is the first purchase. Behind trust is the repeat purchase, the loyalty, the ambassadorship level. The origin of trust offline is a lot about being present, having seductive images and pushing the brand everywhere. Now it is all changing. Internet Word of Mouth is becoming critical in the way brands can build trust. Building trust now takes new tools, new strategies, new tactics and new thinking.

A 30-second television commercial can only give 30 seconds worth of content, focusing on opening your mind to dreams, creativity, and inspiration. A magazine advertisement can only give a page of details, usually covered more by visuals than text. The Internet has clearly brought a new channel to the audience to receive much more information. Over one third of Internet users in China go on BBS, blogs and social networking sites. The Internet delivers a lot of information and is not expensive. For bloggers to write a lot of words, show a lot of pictures, even a good or bad video about a product, cost nothing. On the Internet, there is so much information that can seriously influence the way somebody trusts a brand. In China, expressing oneself through user generated content is growing at a phenomenal rate.

Today, over 90% of the Chinese Internet audience, age between 25-40 years old, considers the Internet their main information channel. This is incredible. This is above newspapers 75% or TV 67%, magazines and books are not even reaching 25%. When it comes to authenticity, about 46% of the users consider the content on the Internet as authentic, much more than any other channel.

Don't believe that WOM or blogs are just gossip. Sometimes they are but most audience considers this channel as the most trustworthy before they make any purchase decisions. In a TNS Survey 60% of the audience also say that recommendations from friends and family were the most trustworthy. This is much bigger than independent reviews or publications. WOM, be it online or off line is by far the most trustworthy source of information and WOM is exploding online!

http://www.chinatechnews.com/2008/09/01/7426-chinas-internet-offers-a-plethora-of-marketing-opportunities/

MIIT: Revenue Of Mobile Phone Rises While Fixed-line Declined In H1 2008

September 3, 2008

According to statistics released by the Monitoring and Coordination Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, from January to July 2008, the revenue of China's mobile communications industry and data communications industry increased by 16.2% and 40.4%, respectively, over last year while the fixed-line business decreased by 6.8%.

By number of users, by the end of July 2008, China's mobile phone users reached over 600 million, of which 61.07 million were new users who increased over the first seven months of 2008. The average monthly increase of 8.7 million in mobile phone users was the highest in China's mobile phone development history.

In contrast, the number of fixed-line users continued to decline in the first seven months of 2008. By the end of July, there were 355 million fixed-line users in China. The fixed-line industry of China lost 10.581 million customers from January to July 2008, an average monthly decrease of 1.35 million.

A representative from the Monitoring and Coordination Bureau says that mobile phone business has obvious advantages. On one hand, mobile phones have natural advantages such as convenience and efficiency. On the other hand, favorable charging policies like one-way charges bring greater competitive strength to mobile phones. In addition, the commercial trial of 3G mobile phones and the launch of new services, including mobile phone newspapers and mobile phone TVs, have attracted more people to use mobile phones in China.

http://www.chinatechnews.com/2008/09/03/7444-miit-revenue-of-mobile-phone-rises-while-fixed-line-declined-in-h1-2008/

Croco going from strength to strength this year by the look! Going back to post 1272:

"They have updated their website with Boinx and Roks and both to do with 'Pokon'- "I choose you Pikachu!""

Croco are now involved with Shrek-3 promotions via 'Boinx':

http://www.lays.lv/shrek3/

http://www.lays.lv/shrek3/boinxes_lati.html