Sibling Group Holdings, Inc. (SIBE)

ACQUISITION OPPORTUNITIES

The education industry is highly fractured, both in the technology area, and in the education management arena. There are many providers, each generally focused on a small part of the need, few with comprehensive solutions.

Further, there is an absence of financial resources for many, and no obvious exit strategy for most. Couple this with a growing market, and we believe the area is ripe for a growth strategy based on acquisitions, not just domestically, but world wide.

Within our technology and services operations we seek to promote both conventional and digital learning tools, in support of the blended learning enviornment. Within our education management organization (EMO) we seek to acquire existing school management operations, both domestically, and internationally.

We believe there are strong synergies to be achieved when technology is combined with education management, and then increased in scale across private, public, charter and other teaching environments.

Charter Schoolsin America

The movement toward imprved education creates an opportunity for both consolidation and growth within the charter school area. It is a highly fractured area, and may be ripe for consolidation amoung the smaller players, allowing for larger leaders to emerge.

Learn more about why we are keen on charter schools by reading these reports:

This report, published in February 2012 details the broad range of charter school available, and why, in many cases, they are a solution for today's youth:

Hopes, Fears, & Reality
A BALANCED LOOK AT AMERICAN CHARTER SCHOOLS IN 2011
Robin J. Lake and Betheny Gross, Editors
Center on Reinventing Public Education
University of Washington Bothell
January 2012

and for a comphrehensive look at the education management organizations, with a business oriented perspective, including profiles comparing both for-profit, and not-for-profit, thake a look at this January 2012 report:

PROFILES OF FOR-PROFIT AND NONPROFIT
EDUCATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT - 2010-2011
Gary Miron, Jessica L. Urschel,
Mayra A. Yat Aguilar, and Breanna Dailey
Western Michigan University
January 2012
National Education Policy Center
School of Education, University of Colorado Boulder

Our technology efforts are directed through a wholly owned subisidiary, Education Innovation, Inc., based in Atlanta, Georgia, with an application support group in Phoenix, Arizona.

Education Innovation, Inc. has two primary technology based offerings.

The first is a "Learning Exchange" application called The Schoolhouse Warehouse ("The Warehouse"), a cloudbased application which creates a low cost solution for the rapid, low cost, global distribution of high quality, fully mobile, online educational content.

The Education Innovation approach stands independent, providing courses, curricula, and learning materials to students in any learning environment from home schooling to private, or public schools. Further it can be incorporated for use with a Learning Management System (LMS).

Acquisition Strategy

ACQUISITION OPPORTUNITIES
 

The industry is highly fractured, with very few large operators. Further, there is an absence of financial management, and professional business management, in general. Lastly, these operations are largely cash flow based, and without a significant balance sheet that would allow for growth and financing of facilities. All of these factors lead to the expectation that there will be significant numbers of opportunities for acquisition of existing operations for PUBCO. We have a number of acquisition targets who is are commercial 'for-profit' EMO's and are already operating from 2 to 17 schools. We will integrate the current management, implement new systems and procedures over time, and seek to standardize curriculum, testing and assessment across all schools.Where applicable we will seek relationships with the NFP's that hold the charters, or involve our partner, The Foundation for Innovation in Education, Inc., who holds a significant position in the stock of our Company.


 

CURRENT STATUS
In December 2010, NEWCO was acquired by Sibling Group Holdings, Inc. ("the Company", symbol SIBE on the OTC-QB) in an asset  acquisition transaction, and is now the primary operating subsidiary of the Company. It is a fully reporting company and its common stock is traded on the OTC-QB under symbol SIBE.

In completing the acquisition of NEWCO, the Company has issued a new form of common stock to the prior members of NEWCO which is convertible at the option of the holders, in aggregate, into a number of shares equal to 85% of the shares outstanding.

Holders of debentures from the Company whose value was in excess of $3.7 million, have converted their debts into the same form of common stock, with their holdings convertible, in aggregate, into a number of shares representing 10% of the outstanding stock.

The transaction was completed with the consent of the debenture holders, as well as the consent voting shareholders whose interest in the outstanding stock of the Company immediately before the transaction was in excess of 55%.

The number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant's classes of common stock as of December 21, 2011 was 71,593,931 shares of Common stock and 9,879,854 shares of series common stock.

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