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

CROCO WORLDWIDE SOURCING LTD are exhibiting:

http://www.toyassociation.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Registered_Retailers1

02.11.08 | New York City Readies for 35,000 Visitors Attending 105th American International Toy Fair


02.12.08 | U.S. Toy Industry Sales Generate $22 Billion in 2007

Toy Fair 2008 (USA) has now started,clip from last years event (click on tab 'Toy Fair 2008'):

http://www.toyassociation.org/AM/videos/newsmarket_player.html

The Skunk Fu DVD is now going to be released in June instead of mid-March which is a shame but not the end of the world-lol.GON as far as I'm aware have never set a date out in stone so maybe it's a change made by Warner,could be for many reasons.



Availability: This title will be released on June 23, 2008. Pre-order now! Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Skunk-Fu-Aidan-Harte/dp/B0012DNHTK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1203269034&sr=8-1

Galleon Holdings PLC
20 February 2008

20 February 2008

Galleon Holdings plc

Acquisition of Wireless Interactive Platform Service Provider in China



Galleon Holdings plc ('Galleon', the 'Group' or the 'Company'), the AIM-listed
intellectual property owner and developer in the entertainment sector, is
pleased to announce that it has acquired control of Changsha High and New
Technology Industrial Development Zone Yunbo Information Technology Co., Ltd
('Yunbo'), a Wireless Interactive Platform Service Provider in The People's
Republic of China ('China') for an initial consideration of USD3 million and a
deferred consideration as described below (the 'Acquisition').

The Acquisition is complementary to Galleon's strategy to become a leading
provider of multiplatform entertainment, based around interactive TV in China.
In October 2007 Galleon acquired Phoenix Investment Global ('Phoenix'), a
provider of interactive entertainment services to broadcasters in China. Yunbo
provides the mobile billing infrastructure for the product offering that Phoenix
delivers to its existing broadcast partners. The Acquisition will allow Phoenix
to retain the revenues derived from the collection of the SMS and mobile phone
revenues generated by Phoenix's existing activities.

Yunbo is expected to deliver a number of direct strategic benefits to the
Group's customers by offering a wider range of services and providing the Group
with cross-marketing opportunities and a broader client base.

Among Yunbo's customers are major domestic PRC companies such as China Tobacco
Hunan Industrial Corporation, Hunan Media Group, Shenzhen Wireless mobile
Science &Tech Ltd, and Da Guo Music Recording Studio. Yunbo derives its
revenues from transactions involving SMS, MMS, IVR, WAP, ring-tone &
ring-back-tone, and KJAVA games.

Established in 30th June 2000, Yunbo is one of the fastest growing Service
Providers in the wireless short-messaging service (SMS) and multimedia messaging
(MMS) market in China, and holds nationwide SMS billing codes for both China
Mobile and China Unicom. Its unaudited EBITDA for the 12 months to 31 December
2007 was RMB6.7 million (USD937, 000).



Commenting on the acquisition, Stephen Green, Chief Executive of Galleon, said:

'Yunbo is highly complementary to our strategy to provide cross platform media
entertainment which is focussed on emerging markets with large TV audiences and
high mobile phone penetration. The Acquisition will expand the Group's
entertainment services platform and is expected to enhance operational revenues,
allowing us to retain a higher proportion of the SMS and mobile phone revenues
from our existing activities.'



Terms of the acquisition

Galleon has acquired control of Yunbo through the acquisition of the entire
issued share capital of Lushy Assets Limited and Mengbo (Shanghai) Information
Technology Co. Ltd for initial consideration of USD3 million. The initial
consideration is to be satisfied by the payment of USD2.5 million in cash
immediately of which USD950k is for the Net Current Assets of the business, and
the issuance of 898,856 new ordinary shares in the Company (representing shares
to the value of USD500,000). A deferred payment of USD1 million in cash is
payable on the 31st May 2008 and is subject to any adjustments for the
recoverability of the receivables in Yunbo's management accounts or adjustments
to the Net Current Assets in the audited accounts at 31 December 2007.

A further performance related deferred consideration may be due based on Yunbo's
EBITDA during the 12 months to 31 December 2008. The amount of performance
related deferred consideration due will be a multiple of between 4 and 7 times
the EBITDA achieved by Yunbo during the period to December 2008 less USD3
million (being the Initial Consideration). The performance related deferred
consideration will be satisfied by the issue of new ordinary shares of 1p each
in Galleon to the vendors in September 2008 and March 2009. The total cash and
share consideration payable is capped at a maximum value of USD16 million.

Application has been made for the initial consideration shares to be admitted to
trading on AIM which is expected to occur on 25 February 2008.

Early March if not before will be where interest starts in GON and buying volume increases,imo.

And NO,I'm not saying buy just giving my opinion,I'm usually wrong anyway!-lol

A bit off topic but thought I'd post this so I can listen again,been a few years since i last heard them all,still cracks me up-lol

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/fun/2002/07/hold_your_plums/plums_index.shtml

China Mobile Phone Industry Report, 1H2007

SUMMARY
The global sale of mobile phone amounted to 515 million sets in the first half of 2007, of which 81million sets (taking 15.7%) were distributed in Mainland China.

In 1H2007, the sales volume in Chinese market reached 83 million sets including 75 million GSM handsets and 6.1 million CDMA handsets. Sales volume of unlicensed handset and smuggled handset stood approximately at 13 million sets. Producers like Gionee and Changhong carried the sales by TV. And Tianyu and ZTE handsets emerged rapidly. Moreover, the price of Lenovo handset dropped sharply, and mobile phone performance-to-price ratio of those manufacturers are not inferior to that of smuggled goods.

According to the data by the Ministry of Information Industry, handset shipment in Mainland China in 1H2007 arrived at 266.8 million sets, up by 33.4% year-on-year. And the revenue was RMB 161.08 billion, with a rise of 29.6% compared to the same period last year. Of all, CDMA handset got to 32.8 million sets; and GSM handset 234 million sets. Besides, 83 million sets were sold at home and 183.8 million were distributed abroad.


http://www.reportlinker.com/p064801/China-Mobile-Phone-Industry-Report-1H2007.html#summary

Galleon in new China foray

Companies: GON

20/02/2008

Entertainment group Galleon Holdings is paying up to 8 million for fast-growing specialist Chinese media concern Yunbo.

AIM-quoted Galleon is paying an initial 1.5 million cash to acquire Yunbo, a wireless short-messaging service (SMS) and multi-media messaging service provider, which holds nationwide SMS billing codes for major groups China Mobile and China Unicom and earned 470,000 last year. The British company, which lost 392,000 on 4.5 million turnover in the year to September, is to pay another 500,000 cash in May and a further sum in shares equivalent to between four and seven times Yunbos 2008 earnings above 1.5 million, up to a maximum shares and cash payment of 8 million.

Galleons chief executive Stephen Green explains the deal is aimed to spearhead the London-based companys drive into Chinas interactive mobile entertainment market. He says it flows directly from Octobers 1.5-to-2 million paper purchase of Hong Kong-based Phoenix Investment Global, which he calls the quasi gatekeeper to key Chinese media concerns such as Hunan ETV.

The Phoenix guys have been teeing this one up for us, says Green, who claims the projected multiple represents a significant discount to similar sector deals. He points out that mobile service providers in China hold on to clients payments for 90 days or more and charge 15 to 20 per cent of billings.

Yunbo is expanding into selling content, such as dating game shows, to mobile phone users and one of the two vendors of Yunbo, Lushy Assets Ltd, has a licence to operate in every Chinese province. Green says Phoenix also has a cash-generative and profitable deal with TV3, Malaysias largest TV station and is working on co-production deals elsewhere in the region.

Floated at a mere 1p in 2001, Galleons shares hit 34.75p last October and now trade at 28p, up 0.25p today, valuing the company at 28 million. If these Chinese deals live up to expectations, they could make further progress, stockmarket conditions permitting.

http://www.growthcompany.co.uk/news-and-comment/306671/galleon-in-new-china-foray.thtml

From the recent results and also relating to Phoeinx:


CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

Group Highlights

Group revenue up 240% to 4.5m

Positive EBITDA of 169,321

Galleon Entertainment contributes revenues in final quarter

Croco Worldwide Sourcing Limited's revenues up 258% on last year and already
has an order book of 4.75m for 2008

Acquisition of Phoenix Investment Global Limited provides pipeline to China
and Asia for Galleon Entertainment content


I am pleased to present Galleon's financial results for the year ended 30
September 2007. Our EBITDA for the year was 169,321 compared with a loss of
982,078 for year ended 30 September 2006 and we have seen a 240% increase in
turnover which grew to 4.5m compared with 1.3m for the previous year.

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/LSECWS/IFSPages/MarketNewsPopup.aspx?id=1695719&source=RNS



Along with last weeks acquisition which enables the development of Phoenix in all regions of China and to gain revenues directly from source.

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/LSECWS/IFSPages/MarketNewsPopup.aspx?id=1715681&source=RNS


Phoenix is still at the early stage I would have thought but I could be wrong (Ed-never!).The two deals already bagged by Phoenix ie Interactive TV agreements with TV3 and Metropolitan TV (and CH 9) will be revenue generating already,I would assume.

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/LSECWS/IFSPages/MarketNewsPopup.aspx?id=1623510&source=RNS

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/LSECWS/IFSPages/MarketNewsPopup.aspx?id=1686755&source=RNS

Skunk Fu:

Right,first of all Skunk Fu (SF) IS 'global' in the full meaning of the word!

GON own 15% of the animation series and do or did have the opportunity to increase this percentage.

GON own the global licensing and merchandising rights except for the German speaking countries due to Super RTL owning a larger equity stake in SF ie more than 15%.

GON will gain from DVD sales which will be released in the UK in June 2008

From the recent results:

"Having a toy company within Galleon also provides potential benefits for our children's brands like Skunk fu!.

In 2008 we have some opportunities to develop manufacture and supply a retail focused toy line for distribution in markets where the show is on air.
This ability to develop and manufacture toys ourselves means that we are able to get additional product that compliments that of our Licensees into market at the right time for the chosen brand."

What I believe the above statement is saying is that along with the other Toy manufacturers who will have to pay GON license fees for SF merchandise GON's own Croco will be adding to the toy production line to gain direct profits.


There could also be some interactive action from Phoenix regarding SF in China and SE Asia in the future,just guessing though.

The link below shows a rough time scale originally from October 2007:

http://www.worldscreen.com/propertycurrent.php?filename=skunfu100207.htm



The biggest challenge for licensing in 2008 is the lack of good quality childrens television content. Ultimately, the licensing industry is most akin to the fashion industry it requires innovation and freshness to drive the market. This is a perennial issue for the industry rather than something specific to 2008. The ability for independent production companies to deliver this freshness is being eroded currently due to poor advertising revenues negatively impacting broadcaster production budgets. Thankfully for Galleon, Skunk Fu is driving strong ratings in the UK and the US and demonstrates that a fresh concept can cut through to the consumer, which in turn is leading to strong licensing interest.
Len Dunne, MD, Galleon


http://www.licensing.biz/features/16/HOT-TOPIC-Industry-challenges-in-2008

From the Apollo's Pad website,I'm sure it will be both interesting and splendiferous!


"Twisted, freaky puppet comedy daily from 5 March!

The world's number one puppet-run nightclub is about to open its doors.

Catch the first 5 webisodes right here on 5 March.

Then see all-new, daily webisodes, featuring your soon-to-be favourite deviant puppets, bellbottoms and naughty little circus ponies."

The Apollo's Pad website has been updated and as promised ie before end of February.The three trailers made me laugh.....

http://www.apollospad.com/blog/list/:id.:format

Comedy Stage

So,Apollo's Pad (internet side) is soon to have full functionality ready to bring to MipTV in April 2008 to sell as a TV series.This is all on top off revenue already being brought in by Croco,Skunk Fu and Phoenix!

From January's Final results:



"The first Apollo's Pad content was launched online in October as per our
schedule in order to test the consumer reaction and beta test our portal,
apollospad.com. We placed 2 music videos through online video channels such as
YouTube and Yahoo that successfully drove consumer traffic to the website. In
February of 2008 apollospad.com will have full functionality and we will be
launching the comedy content into the online market. This will drive sales of a
branded collection of music videos either through our own portal apollospad.com
or through Sony BMG. Further to this we will see revenues from apollospad.com in
the form of advertising, sponsorship, downloads and subscriptions. We will use
this as a launch pad to sell an Apollo's Pad TV series at MipTV in April 2008."

banjomick
Hi mick the sp's held up from it's 35p high but now droping back a bit, time of the year me thinks.

Evening driver,
The major investors appear to be still on board and were happy to take part in last years 8 million placing at 29p.

I think the SP is just being nibbled down due to low volumes which is to be expected as there is lots of potential out there and on many fronts but actual revenue figures for Phoenix are still to be seen,early days but looking very good,imo.

Apollo's Pad was updated last week and has continued to be since,with major updates planned for this Wednesday.The website has a new lease of life now which I'm sure will be reflected in the SP in the run up to MipTV in April.imo dyor ect ect ect

http://www.apollospad.com/webisodes/29

http://www.apollospad.com/webisodes/30

http://www.apollospad.com/webisodes/31



WAR

When I heard we were gonna cover this, I was like, I ain't sure anyone can do better than the orginal. I mean, outsida Bootsy and Travolta, Edwin Starrs the dude.

But man, I shouldnt a doubted, Ice Flow came through and smacked it. That guy's so cool he makes the south pole look like a blazin' forest.

This tune's got more funk than a trunk fulla stack heel boots. Bumpin or what? Let me know what you think.



http://www.apollospad.com/jukebox/2

Ladies Night Live - Kool & the Gang

Sorry I'm in Disco fever mode-lol