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

Afternoon driver,
Cheers for posting and very impressed that you managed to get the info before appearing on Hardman's own website.

banjomick
Your doing well on this one have a look at SER it could multi bag over the next few months you also need a Uranium stock VML is one of the better ones.

driver,
I have looked at SER before and will add VML to me watch list,cheers.

Ratings for Skunk Fu for the first airing in USA which I suppose you would expect to be good but still encouraging to see.

Final K6-11 Ratings for Saturday, September 22, 2007 Broadcast Networks only (Live + SD Data):

Source: Disney Research from Nielsen Media Research Data

CW (Kids' WB!) 1.1/5 Avg. (7a-12p)

Will & DeWitt 0.4/3; Magi Nation 0.5/3; Tom and Jerry Tales 1.2/5; Tom and Jerry Tales 1.7/6; Skunk Fu! 1.3/5; Shaggy Scooby-Doo Get A Clue 1.3/5; Eon Kid 1.1/5; Johnny Test 1.1/4; Legion of Super Heroes 1.3/6; The Batman 0.7/3

New song on Apollo's Pad 'Money'

http://www.apollospad.com/music/show/5

Posted on the 'dark side'

Cartoon Network Europe-deal

"The agreement follows previous carriage deals with European broadcasters the BBC, Super RTL, Canal J, France 5, RTBF, SVT, NRK, S4C, TG4 and RaiSat. According to Cake, the new deal brings Skunk Fu! to parts of Europe where it had not yet found a foothold."


http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=79&article=38692


"As the property continues to extend its reach around the world, Cake is hopeful for its chances of moving beyond the tube and becoming a major multi-platform property."

http://www.animationmagazine.net/article/7624

Just a quick note before me chores:

From the last announcement:

"Under the terms of the deal, Phoenix will receive a fee for the supply
of its multi-platform interactive system to TV3."

Compared with todays article:

"As the property continues to extend its reach around the world, Cake is hopeful for its chances of moving beyond the tube and becoming a major multi-platform property."

This would suggest GON and their 'interactive platform' may come into play here!


All looks splendiferous to me :-)

Also nicked from the 'Dark Side' and a very interesting read t'boot:

http://www.worldscreen.com/featurescurrent.php?filename=schedulers1007.htm

Final Results should be out mid/end of January 2008 so would expect volume to increase on that basis alone,unlike England's performance!

I'll put up a list of news flow that could quite possibly come our way over the next month or so,thank you for your patience.

1. Anouncements regarding Skunk Fu stated end of September 2007:

"MAJOR TOY LICENSEES: Discussions are under way with Toycos to develop a line based on the property. Boys like the martial-arts theme, which lends itself to action-figure play, while girls like the cute aesthetic, which lends itself to plush."

2. From Brands and still plenty of time for announcements to come re Skunk Fu:

"Warner Music has signed up home entertainment rights in key territories and a broad licensing campaign is being launched at Brand Licensing Show."


3. Ongoing announcements throughout this year and next:

Furthermore, by January 2008 we will be on air on key platforms in the U.S., U.K., Germany and France. This creates the ideal platform for bringing Skunk Fu! merchandise to market by autumn/winter 2008, once Skunk Fu! starts to be embedded in the general consciousness of all these markets."

4. Re Skunk Fu "Although we are in the fortunate position to have brought on board many key markets, we are going to MIPCOM to bring on board the last pieces of our puzzle. Concretely, Latin America and Spain will be special focus areas.

Spain is now covered by the Cartoon Network deal but Latin America still to come!

5. Apollo's Pad,the tv part of the 360' platform is due early 2008 so news expected anytime........................now!-lol

6. News regarding anything GON pertaining to the Far East/Asian Market.

7. Further updates regarding Sokator-442 which has the potential to be GON's BIG ONE!

8. Lots of other areas :-)

Get back to the first page-lol

Another surge upwards next week?

Must be due some news from GON soon!

Skunk Fu

"Produced by Irish animation house Cartoon Saloon with Telegael and Cake Entertainment, for Ireland's TG4 and Germany's Super RTL, will now air across all of Cartoon Network's EMEA channels including their channels in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa. It's a huge achievement as the animation will now air on every continent world wide."

"Edward Galton, Managing Director of Cake Distribution, Cake Entertainment's distribution arm, said the size of Skunk's territory now puts the property in a good position to break out of TV and move on to other platforms." and were not talking shoes..................sorry :-)

http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=68831

Morning all,
Although Super RTL (Germany) own the merchandising rights for Germany,news items relating to are all positives for the IP Skunk Fu and as GON own the merchandising/licensing rights for the rest of the world of interest too.

So,it looks like Super RTL are gearing up for Skunk Fu on the airing and merchandising front:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2esuperrtl%2dmerchandising%2ede%2f%3ftabid%3d93

Talk over on the 'Dark Side' relating to a possible visit (yesterday) from David Beckham to a TV show (Happy Camp) in China for Hunan TV and possible tie up with Sokator-442.
I'd rather wait for official news before getting too excited but this part:

" But "Camp" is a partner of a mobile phone company, which has signed a deal with Beckham." does tie up with recent acquisition with Phoenix,so there may be something in this story! Also from one of the articles below:

"ENGLISH soccer star David Beckham is expected to be in Beijing tomorrow for a television show, which will be broadcast in December, a Hunan Province media outlet reported yesterday."



Then again there is so much going on in China relating to all forms of media so think I'll wait for official news before getting the flags out. :-)
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EDIT-turns out Becks was for Motorola promotion
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http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200711/20071122/article_339040.htm

http://english.sina.com/life/1/2007/1123/133355.html


http://virtualreview.org/china/zoom/389860/beckham-appear-in-beijing-for-tv-show

Also nicked from the 'Dark Side' and worth a read:

"Indeed, Chinas media industry is bringing its viewers an increasing plethora of content genres ranging from animated specials to formats such as Hunan TVs Super Voice Girls, Chinas answer to Pop Idol. The show became one of the most-watched television events in the world, with about 400 million viewers tuning in to its final episode in the first season.

From a commercial standpoint, the Chinese media industry has recently witnessed superlative growth along with the rest of the economy to become the worlds fastest-growing media market. China now ranks as the worlds third-largest advertising market, and is expected to continue its double-digit growth in the coming years, becoming the worlds second-largest advertising market by 2010.

At the same time, much as in the rest of the world, an increasing range of content-consumption options outside the traditional broadcasting model is now available, including online video and user-generated content."

http://www.worldscreen.com/featurescurrent.php?filename=china1007.htm

Spending on digital platforms to touch $1.1 trillion by 2011

Indiantelevision.com Team

(24 November 2007 10:00 pm)

NEW DELHI: Global spending across various digital platforms is expected to touch $1.1 trillion by 2011, up from $690 million in 2006.

In 2006, the spending on digital platforms has contributed 48 per cent to the total entertainment and media spending including internet access spending.

Spending on these platforms have expanded by double-digit and high-single-digit rates during the five past years. The report also says that two additional years of double-digit growth are expected, with high-single-digit gains anticipated during 200911.

India is currently witnessing a trend of increased digital infrastructure penetration of broadband and mobile networks which now make it possible to broadcast, stream and download digitised content from diverse platforms to a variety of devices. The new technological environment is thus creating great opportunities for content providers in India to monetise their valuable content across various digital media and devices.

http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k7/nov/nov279.php

"Skunk Fu! Goes Global With Cartoon Network
22 Nov 2007

The animated comedy action series Skunk Fu!, is set to air on every continent world wide after begin licensed by Cake Distribution to the Cartoon Network Europe.

Funded by the IFB, produced by Irish animation house Cartoon Saloon with Telegael and Cake Entertainment - for Ireland's TG4 and Germany's Super RTL, the series will now air across all of Cartoon Network's EMEA channels including their channels in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa, meaning the popular series is now reaching a global audience."

"Edward Galton, MD of Cake Distribution, Cake Entertainment's distribution arm, said the size of Skunk's territory now puts the property in a good position to break out of TV and move on to other platforms."

http://www.iftn.ie/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4280847&tpl=archnews

It wants to breakout,I know it does! :-)

I haven't finished my 'family tree' type thing on GON,yet!

History of an IP and of a company is most important as it highlights past problems,reasons for delays along with positive changes in the companies life to name but a few-imo.

Sokator-442 (Name could change on launch)

Jan 2005-Acquisition of Green & Dunne Limited who brought with them TWO IPR where development had already started in Los Angeles.

"Stephen Green is an expert in both license acquisition and exploitation with an
excellent track record in the UK and internationally with global brands.At Chorion plc, as director of brand operations he was a senior member of the
management team and responsible for the commercial planning and exploitation of
all their brands.

He previously worked as licensing director for Hasbro Consumer Products for
five years, with strategic and commercial responsibility for acquiring
international licenses and exploitation of Hasbro brands. This involved working
with global brands in Pre-School, Boys, Girls and Family programming including
Bob the Builder, Star Wars, Monopoly, My Little Pony, Action Man and a number
of sports brands such as Manchester United and Formula 1."


"Len Dunne has expertise in product and brand development with 15 years
experience in marketing both in the UK and the USA.

At Chorion plc, as director of brand development he was also a senior member of
the management team with responsibility for strategy planning, research, new
acquisition identification and evaluation, and content development and funding.

He previously worked as director of marketing and global brands at
Entertainment Rights plc. Prior to that he spent six years at Hasbro where he
held several roles both in Europe and the USA including global director of
marketing - Boys Action. He had global responsibility for Transformers, Batman
toys and the US launch of Pokon toys.

Collectively Stephen and Len have direct experience of building successful
entertainment brands in key categories and channels globally. These include TV,
Theatrical Releases, Home Entertainment, Publishing, Multimedia, Toys, Games,
Live Events, Sponsorship, Partworks, Merchandising, Third Party Promotions,
Direct Marketing, On-Line and Retail."



April 2005-Relating to the announcement of a New Intelectual Property:

"The property, provisionally titled `Project Sport,' would consist initially of
52 half hour episodes incorporating animation and live action aimed at boys. It
is anticipated that the property, involving a global sports theme, will feature
internationally renowned soccer stars who have already indicated their desire
to be involved."

"The project is moving ahead with
such momentum that a concurrent UK & US launch is looking likely. In this event
the multiple revenue streams unlocked by this property would deliver six figure
revenues as early as 2006."
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Running a little bit late-lol.The reason I would suggest is the 360' approach arrived mid-way through the planned time scale.
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June 2005-"We have also put into development a new sports fantasy kids TV show, Goalactika-442. This project has had a positive response from key broadcasters in the UK, US and Japan and we are now finalising its development with a view to going into production by the end of the year."

There is too much to post regarding Sokator-442 along with the other IP's.A lot missing out in the middle ie fill the thread up! regarding Sokator-442 so will just post link from the last major article:

"Indiantelevision.com Team

(25 September 2007 3:26 pm)

MUMBAI: Galleon Entertainment, the UK-based intellectual property owner, developer and manager, is taking its all-new repositioned multiplatform animated comedy adventure series, Sokator-442 to Mipcom 2007.

The 26 x half hours animated soccer adventure series is available to international buyers at this year's market for online, mobile and TV broadcast deals, it was announced by Galleon Holdings plc CEO Stephen Green."

http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k7/sep/sep384.php

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Jan 2005-Acquisition of Green & Dunne Limited

July 2005-The arrival of David Wong

Skunk Fu is a prime example in 'New' GON having a nose for what will sell in the future and shows how the 'New Management' ie Green,Dunne and Wong started to take GON forward and in a new direction-imo.

October 2005-Gon acquired a 15% equity stake and the global merchandising rights (exc.Germany) in Skunk Fu.


Mar 2006-Driscoll has resigned. David Wong will replace Driscoll with immediate effect.


Galleon Holdings PLC
28 June 2006

'Skunk Fu!' is in full production with 52 episodes targeted for delivery to
air in 2007 on the BBC(UK), Super RTL(Germany), Canal J(France) and other
European territories. Advanced discussions are in place for other key
territories including the US and Australia.





The point being by looking back it is quite clear 2005 was a key year in GON's history and I'm not knocking JD as he had his day but times moved on very fast and a change was required!