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This one IMO is a strong buy now, could have quite a good Q1 2009 in price movement terms, upwards that is.

Hang Seng listing (making it dual listed) will be a key driver.

RCG listed as an awardee of Caring Company Logo 2008/09
16 Dec 2008

RCG Holdings Limited (AIM:RCG), an international provider of biometric and RFID products and solution services with a primary focus in the Asia Pacific markets, is pleased to announce that it was listed as an awardee of the Caring Company Logo 2008/09 by The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS).

RCG received the award after being nominated by two charities, Sheng Kung Hui St. Christophers Home and Medecins Sans Frontieres. RCG was highly commended for its dedication to social responsibility, specifically its continued donations to non-profit charity organisations as well as providing an employee-friendly working environment.

To be eligible to receive the Caring Company Logo, a company must demonstrate good corporate citizenship, and qualify for two out of the six specified criteria listed on the Caring Company website. The award presentation is scheduled for 10 February 2009, and the Caring Company Logo will appear on Groups collaterals as recognition to RCGs contribution to social services. Award-winning companies in the same category in the past year include multi-national corporations and large enterprises based in Hong Kong such as Sony, IBM, Cathay Pacific and Deutsche Bank.

Commenting on the award, Mr Raymond Chu, CEO and Chairman of RCG Holdings Limited said: It is our honour to receive the Caring Company Logo recognising our efforts in corporate social responsibility projects. It is RCGs belief that apart from continuing our business growth, we have a responsibly to invest in socially responsible projects. I would like to express my gratitude to the charity organisations that nominated RCG, as we look forward to continuing more corporate social responsibility projects.




For further information:

RCG Holdings Limited
Anita Chau, Deputy Chairman & COO
Sri Hartati Kurniawan, Chief Technology Officer
Tel: 852 3669 6999
email: srihartati@rcg.tv

A new (and long) article from RCG headed:

"RCG providing Integrated Medical solutions for Healthcare Industry
16 Dec 2008

(some extracts)

In recent years, hospitals in Southeast Asia have been suffering from the increasing number of security incidents. There are cases of doctors giving out the wrong diagnosis due to patient mix-up; faulty prescriptions; switched babies, and many more. These problems indicated that the medical industry is now facing far greater challenges in the new era. Hospitals in the region are calling for a revamp to their systems to minimize human errors, to manage an enormous amount of data and to enhance the accuracy of information."

"Integrated Medical Solutions

RCG continuously develops innovative biometric technology and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to provide integrated security solutions that can be well adapted to the current medical system. Medical errors in recent years have demonstrated that the medical industry is in need of new technologies and management platforms to solve the technical loopholes in different sectors.

Nowadays patients do not have privacy assurance and any information on a recording medium that can be retrieved easily by anybody. More problems arise when the record cards are misplaced or lost. An integrated solution strategy should be designed to cover all hospital departments in order to establish a comprehensive security mechanism: starting from the moment of registration in the hospital, patients are tracked using integrated technology.

Integrated Medical Solutions In-patient capability

The In-patient section includes the adoption of WLAN, biometrics and RFID technologies. Traditionally barcodes were used for registering patients, which was time-consuming and only limited information could be stored on each barcode. RFID is capable of massive storage of approximately 30,000 records. Through UHF passive RFID tags embedded on cards or wristbands, information including patients information, drug prescriptions, medical orders, patient history, reports and other medical administrative items can be easily stored on a single chip permanently."

"Medical Industry Ahead

The medical network in Southeast Asia involves many aspects such as patients, doctors, healthcare workers, equipment usage and management, etc. The business opportunities within the medical sector by combining biometric and wireless technologies, namely RFID and WLAN, are enormous. RCG believe that the systems major functions, namely data accuracy, human errors elimination and streamlined workflow, are exactly what the medical organizations nowadays need.

RCG is now focussing its efforts in establishing a standard data system for the healthcare industry, which aims to share patients medical history and information among different medical institutions. Building on an integrated system utilizing UHF RFID, biometrics and WLAN technologies, patients carrying an RFID card with their medical treatment history and other details stored will receive attentive and caring services in any medical institutions."

Don't forget to get your entries in on the PPP 2009 competition at TMF

http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=11368116

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RCG is my "2nd stock" with AST as the main one, split 50/50 long on both.

http://www.rcg.tv/html/eng/about/newsroom/industry_news/rfid_news/2008_details_107.jsp

A trend for hospitals deploying RFID

19 Dec 2008

Reported by the Wall Street Journal, an article mentioned the growth of RFID in hospitals, mainly for use with traditional automatic-tracking software programs, while some systems began the tracking of employees for better management of understaffed areas. According to a non-profit consulting group, ECRI Institute, about 10% of the hospitals in the United States have adopted RFID tags for tracking within the hospital areas.

According to a research report by IDTechEx, the market size for RFID systems and solutions deployed in the healthcare industry is expected to increase from USD120 million currently, to USD2 billion within 10 years. A recent report has criticized the use of RFID for tracking medical equipments, which causes potential threat to patients. It has been said that the research was done with bias and careful considerations must be made when understanding that the benefits outweighs the threat by a significant portion. A number of hospitals also deployed RFID for prevention of baby-kidnapping and specimen tracking, which also received favourable results after the trial.

http://www.rcg.tv/html/eng/about/newsroom/industry_news/rfid_news/2008_details_106.jsp

RFID spending increases in healthcare industry, said Kalorama

19 Dec 2008

According to a New-York based market research firm, Kalorama Information, the spending on RFID systems in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries will increase dramatically in the next five years. The spending in the healthcare industry is expected to increase to USD3.1 billion in 2012 from USD474 million in 2008. The money spent in the pharmaceutical industry will increase from USD70 million to USD600 million in 2013.

One of the areas in healthcare, patient charge capture, was pinpointed by the report for its high potential and the lack of attention from the industry. The pharmaceutical industry is also said to possess strong potential of adopting RFID, including improvement of inventory management and supply chain management. The need for adopting RFID in pharmaceutical industry was recognized by the US Food and Drug Administration and also the government, which is one of the strongest reasons for the growth in the industry.

December 08 Newsletter.

Some good contracts news in there.


http://www.rcg.tv/html/eng/about/newsletter/2008dec.jsp


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Interims 15th Jan, bought this morning 30k @ 32.5p bit annoyed does not show on my system, been in a few times before and they have clicked up prior to results.
Probably due to scarce news flow thoughout the year,

The main thing for RCG is the Hong Kong listing.

This will bring a whole new drive in terms of buying power, and it is not controlled therefore by AIM demand, but by Hang Seng demand.

This is a well known brand in HK, and a well known company, and currently trades at a MASSIVE discount to similar companies on the Hang Seng.

Potential therefore to rise very high if the Honkies start buying RCG when it joins the Hang Seng.

I have a decent holding at average circa 32p. What happens next is anyones guess but a few Honkie friends say this one might go through the crazy IPO price rises of previous stocks on the Hang Seng.

Given the Hong Kong connections in management, this could be a serial multi bagger once the Hang Seng listing is live.

Well, I would imagine they are going to be affected by the global slow down, no getting away from it, but its just too oversold now IMO.

They have cash, and this stock on the Hang Seng would be trading so much higher, perhaps 6 times higher than the AIM price.

Therefore, all you can do for now is happily tuck them away and wait for the Hang Send listing to be the catalyst for a retaing IMO.

A large sell occured on the 31st, seemed to be a final "dump" - perhaps it was the last of the sellers holdings ?

Certainly more lively today, up nearly 10% and looking, so far, fairly strong for the new year.

Perhaps it was part of Madam Wang's (deceased) large shareholding? Is that the reason for the IPO?

Nina Wangs holding is locked away and not able to be traded. The IPO is because AIM is not a market that is valuing RCG fairly, and lots of Chinese/Hong Kong investors are unwilling to buy this share as its on AIM in the UK.

Once it is on Hang Seng as well, in Hong Kong, trading in an easy to access and watch place, it will bring a masses more investors, and lead to a more "reasonable" valuation.......which may be multiples of the present price. It not an IPO, its purely an introduction, but means it will be then dual listed, Hang Seng and AIM.

I put a comment on this thread over at TMF, you will see it as you move down through the replies.

http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=11380292&sort=whole


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Write up of RCG over on TMF :

http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=11382830


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