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

Just lobbing this here for future ref.


Web 2.0 Summit


and

http://www.web2expo.com/

The way I read into the PepsiCo third-quarter 2008 Results is that it looks good for future Croco orders to increase their brand awareness and sales:


PepsiCo Reports Third-Quarter 2008 Results

Oct. 14

PepsiCo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Indra Nooyi, said, "In the third quarter, our worldwide snacks and international beverage businesses performed well once again. We had solid top- and bottom-line results in the face of a challenging macro environment and the most difficult quarterly comparisons on commodity cost inputs. We were adversely impacted by continued weakness in the U.S. liquid refreshment beverage category, which resulted in disappointing performance in our domestic beverage business. We are taking important steps to revitalize our beverage portfolio."


On its quarterly earnings call today, the company will discuss its Productivity for Growth initiative. Nooyi said, "While we can't control the macro economic situation, we can enhance PepsiCo's operating agility to respond to the changing environment. To do so, we are implementing a broad-based productivity program, which we expect will produce $1.2 billion in pre-tax savings over three years. The majority of the savings will be invested in our businesses. A primary focus will be restoring growth to our North American beverage business. At the same time, we will increase our investment in developing markets, make selective investments to continue growing our global snacks business and accelerate our global R&D initiatives to help secure our future innovation pipeline. We firmly believe that now is the time to invest in our future growth."

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=78265&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1209173&highlight=

Pepsico Website

along with:

Croco Worldwide wins 2.35m deal with PepsiCo

Published date: 30 July 2008

Croco Worldwide, part of the UK-based entertainment media company Galleon Holdings Plc, has received an order valued 2.35 million from PepsiCo. Galleon said the first commission covers the materials and associated manufacturing costs.

The global consumables manufacturer intends to drive promotions on a worldwide basis. The product, which cannot be named for competitive reasons, has already been tested successfully in several markets.

"Adding a third product IP to 'Blasterz' and 'Roks' will help us as we expand our distribution by territory and channel," said Galleon CEO Stephen Green.




PepsiCo has worked with Croco Worldwide in the past on other on-pack promotions


http://beverage.foodbev.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?contentId=1296

This makes for interesting reading:

2007 Provincial Satellite TV Channel Coverage Statistics
Beifang Chuanmei, 10/09/08

http://www.marbridgeconsulting.com/marbridgedaily/2008-10-10/article/20217/2007_provincial_satellite_tv_channel_coverage_statistics

Banj

jl was asking if you fancied popping back in at Gon adv?

I know that we are missing your input.

Afternoon cc,
No but cheers for asking.

I'd rather just concentrate on the long term view and hopefully build up a picture of the company and sector as a whole and not get involved with the short term traders view with the postings that inevitably follow for a quick gain!

Hope that makes sense and enjoy the rest of the weekend.

China: Mobile phone user base tops 616 million in August 2008

by Dusan on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 12:58 pm

"as of the end of August this year there were 616.02 million subscribers of mobile communication services in the worlds fastest growing economy. The number represents 45.6% of the countrys population, leaving tons of place for further growth."

"In terms of SMS traffic, mobile phone subscribers in China sent 57.31 billion text messages in August 2008. To put it in other words, thats 3.02 messages per subscription a day."

http://www.intomobile.com/2008/10/01/china-mobile-phone-user-base-tops-616-million-in-august-2008.html

banj

thanks for the reply

sss.com.my

looks like it's having a bit of trouble.

no new registered players for 2days.

I maybe wrong but I have a feeling it's due to the demand.

alexa ratings are climbing for the site.

cc,
wow,what an interesting site that 'alexa' is,I never thought of looking at actual site hits so cheers for posting.I'm hooked now! :-)

Edit-Worth reading the statement below but the site is still of interest:

Some Important Disclaimers

The traffic data are based on the set of toolbars that use Alexa data, which may not be a representative sample of the global Internet population. To the extent that our sample of users differs from the set of all Internet users, our traffic estimates may over- or under-estimate the actual traffic to any particular site.

In some cases traffic data may also be adversely affected by our "site" definitions. With tens of millions of hosts on the Internet, our automated procedures for determining which hosts are serving the "same" content may be incorrect and/or out-of-date. Similarly, the determinations of domains and home pages may not always be accurate.

Sites with relatively low traffic will not be accurately ranked by Alexa. Alexa's data comes from a large sample of several million Alexa Toolbar users and other traffic data sources; however, the size of the Web and concentration of users on the most popular sites make it difficult to accurately determine the ranking of sites with fewer than 1,000 monthly visitors. Generally, traffic rankings of 100,000 and above should be regarded as not reliable. Conversely, the closer a site gets to #1, the more reliable its traffic ranking becomes.

hmmm,I make that 1360 already signed up for the Malaysia Super Soccer Star show,which is nice! :-)

Mick

If you D/L TVUPlayer you will be able to watch the Chinese channels and even see
SSS etc

Cheers PW,
Have looked at these sites before but from past experiance they are all peer to peer and had loads of problems in past as you are basically opening your computer up for attack.

Or is this different,interested to know?

On Youtube now,which is nice! :-)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g9syRiDOEFk

and there are now 1746 entries compared to 1360 yesterday,how good is that!

and obviously SSS has it's own Youtube Channel :-)

http://uk.youtube.com/user/SuperSoccerStarShow

and there are now 1908 entries compared to 1746 two hours ago! Lolloping lolz

Here is the website for Radio Television Malaysia the TV station broadcasting SSS (auto scrolls in big window near base of page)

http://www.rtm.gov.my/v2/eng/

I note with interest that there is a 'Roadshow' event being held on the 25th October 2008 for 'On Ground Recruitment'.

http://supersoccerstar.com.my/roadshow.php

As I have said a number of times the SSS ethos is spot on for this part of the world or any part of the globe come to that but more especially in this region as in it ticks all the right boxes.

2008-10-22 17:28:07

CHELSEA FC WANTS YOU!

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 - Just 10 days since registration for Super Soccer Star opened, and over 1,800 hopefuls have already signed up and are presently garnering votes to become the next Super Soccer Star! The response is overwhelming, and if you havent already signed up, you can do so before November 9, 2008.

These hopefuls have signed up for a chance to join some of the worlds best young football talent at the Chelsea Youth Academy in London.

Super Soccer Star is a reality TV programme that is making EPL dreams come true and is an opportunity that should not be missed for all young Malaysian footballers between 13 and 16 years of age.

Apart from online registration, the Super Soccer Star crew will be making visits to several locations within the Klang Valley to allow for on-ground registration. Check out more information here .

300 registered users with the highest number of votes will be selected for an actual try-out on 16 November 2008, out of which, only 20 of the best will stand a chance to continue on this reality TV programme that will air for 13 episodes, beginning 18 December 2008.

Stay tuned for more weekly updates on www.supersoccerstar.com.my!

http://supersoccerstar.com.my/news.php?id=10

I missed this from earlier in month:

Galleon claims good progress

Companies: GON
07/10/2008

Entertainment media group Galleon Holdings says it anticipates annual profits at least in line with market expectations.

London-based Galleon, which chalked up a maiden first-half pre-tax profit of 355,000 in the six months to March, is upbeat about the full year to September. In a confident trading statement, the AIM-quoted company, which focuses on entertainment for China and various emerging markets, says one of its recent acquisitions, Yunbo, has become the tenth largest mobile service provider in the Peoples Republic.

Galleon, which has agreed a strategic partnership with Dragonfruit Studios of Atlanta, is faring well with products, notably Chinese interactive TV talent show Super Soccer Stars and Apollos Pad, an online animated sitcom aimed at a young male audience. At 15.75p, the shares have worse than halved in a year and should achieve a re-rating if more normal stock market conditions return and its projects continue to bear fruit.

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http://www.growthcompany.co.uk/news-and-comment/649881/galleon-claims-good-progress.thtml

Of interest:

OMG IS FUELLED BY DESIRE (Not that OMG-lol)

Tell us what you hope to see soon in the industry

I think as custodians of our own future, our own industry, we really need to be more careful with what we are doing. I dont have the best advice for anybody per se, but Im adamant about this. We have to concentrate on making our people better and not let them just leave, for one thing. I want to see people who think laterally, who are explorers.

I am proud of being part of the OMG connection, and am grateful to our team at OMG (Malaysia) for the accomplishments gained. Im also fired up about OMGs involvement with a new show called Front Page, slated to be one of the highest rated shows on Ntv7 in the fall. Its a brainchild of The Star, enabled by Media Prima, and produced by Juita Videna guaranteed success! OMG has taken a leading role in securing the sponsors for this show, and thats just the beginning!

We will be fully committed to identifying and supporting on behalf of our clients the shows and productions that elevate our brands to a true level of engagement with the target audience. Activation of brands happens in such ways, and these productions we select can be a catalyst for successful brand building.

Our very next project will be the making of a reality-TV show called Super Soccer Star (SSS), which will be rolled out in the Asia Pacific region from 2009 and beyond. The show, which surrounds the quest to discover which talented Malaysian teenager will make the best Super Soccer Star, is fully supported by the Chelsea FC. Watch out for more details and announcements to come soon!

http://www.adoimagazine.com/newhome/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3201&catid=22&Itemid=11


and the OMG websites:

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