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He's even dead & reincarnated as others now with same aggressive pitch!
LJ will be 100X's better known and received than Oxyclean's Billy Mays.
This is really not evn a comparable example. How many Awards for Ads has Mays got, I think ZERO & how many television show espiodes still running to this day starring Mays, I think ZERO, maybe not !
I know LJ has Award winning Super Bowl Ad a Grandmama & countless episodes of television cameos as "Grandmama still running on TV today"
Must Read for investors in HFBG/Grandmama!
You read this, you will understand how big OUR Branding is!
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There are many suitors & our Tea is one of kind Diamond in the rough with Branding pregant with HUGE potential for even another Super Bowl Iconic ad with Great Grandmama revealed to a whole new generation bringing old with new!
2 wks. ago! now over 1/2 1st Tea Delivered!
We have a 2nd run paid for as well as New Sweet Summer Peach!
Distribution growing weekly, we are not even in full stride yet, but soon we will be with ads, promos & much more!
Disclosure: WARNING; This does NOT MEAN YOU WILL BE MILLIONAIRES overnight BUYING 5-20K SHARES, Buying Pinksheets is risky and often takes months to launch any beverage Nationally. Investing to get rich overnight may cause you great expectations leading to chronic diarhea of the mouth full of complaints.
Were tightening up, not much selling at these levels and hopefully many real patient longs drove out most weak links and capitulated "the so called longs" & "so called believers" Just the relaxed with not a care in the world Holding patient with new investors added! Could not get any 0003 yesterday like many others but if we run from there my long GTC BUY strong at 0003 ready with others! New investors and more adding by real longs is what will move PPS & momentum buying UTs HARD will make us run breaking 0010 resistance!
Grandmama Super Bowl AD 7th, not overnight! Read the the great History of "Our new Branding "Grandmama" which is key to opening many doors with our 1 of a kind PURE Tea! This Branding is huge and if you are serious investor in HFBG THIS IS A MUST READ!
Converse and "Grandmama VII" Make Super Bowl Commercial Debut
NEW YORK, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The tornado whirls and churns, swirling Grandmama's shoe house around until it lands on a strange basketball court in an even stranger land. Grandmama opens her front door onto an army of munchkins shooting hoops. "Welcome to 3 Point Land!" the referee munchkin shouts at Grandmama, also known as Larry Johnson of the Charlotte Hornets.
And so begins the seventh Converse Grandmama television commercial which premiers on the January 30 Super Bowl. For the first time, Converse has purchased a 30-second spot on the widely-watched Super Bowl broadcast to launch its new top-of-the-line $110.00 Larry Johnson spring basketball shoe the BackJam(TM). The commercial will air during the third commercial break of the first quarter.
"We decided it was time for Converse and Grandmama to enter the Super Bowl advertising extravaganza with this extremely creative and entertaining commercial," said Converse Senior Vice President of Marketing Joanna Jacobson. "The spot was developed and shot before we made the decision to buy the 30-second slot on the Super Bowl. After seeing the finished commercial, the Super Bowl seemed like a natural place to launch Larry's revolutionary new BackJam shoe and Grandmama's latest adventure."
While "3 Point Land" is a variation on the theme of the famous "Wizard of Oz" movie, one of the main actors in the Converse commercial also appeared in the original movie with Judy Garland. Jerry Maren of Hollywood, Calif., now 72, is the referee munchkin who welcomes Grandmama to "3 Point Land," just as, at age 17, in the name of the Lollipop Guild, he welcomed Dorothy and Toto to Munchkinland.
While one 30-second commercial on the Super Bowl may seem insignificant to some, the purchase of a $900,000 spot on the most popular sports event on TV is a landmark accomplishment for Converse.
"Converse has performed exceedingly well over the past three years and has continued to gain market share, while several of our larger competitors have slipped significantly, having to reduce prices on their basketball products in order to remain competitive," said Converse President Gib Ford. "In 1993, Converse realized a 14 percent increase in sales versus 1992, our basketball business grew by 30 percent in a declining market, plus it was our third year of double digit growth in this category, currently resulting in a 10 percent basketball market share. According to the 1993 back-to-school Morgan Horan study, the Converse Run 'N Slam(TM) basketball shoe was the most successful product of the selling season, beating Nike and Reebok."
Ford also noted that the fashion segment of the Converse business, which includes the world-renowned Chuck Taylor(R) canvas All Star(R), continues to show such significant increases in sales that the company has had to open a second U.S. manufacturing facility in Mission, TX to supplement the over 10 million pairs a year produced at the Lumberton, N.C. plant.
"The global demand for the All Star was so great last year that we were unable to supply enough product," Ford continued. "For the third year in a row, we have manufactured over 10 million pairs annually, with some 50 percent of the All Star sneakers shipped overseas. The new Mission facility will enable us to better meet the worldwide demand for this popular fashion shoe which has sold over 530 million pairs since it was first made in 1917."
While the All Star, or Athleisure brand category, grew by almost 12 percent in 1993, the Converse Children's category, including both performance and canvas products, leaped ahead by a phenomenal 62 percent over 1992. "It's easy to see from the most recent sales increases why Converse made the decision to join the crowd on Super Bowl Sunday and launch its seventh in a series of highly successful 'Grandmama(TM)' commercials," Ford added.
ADVERTISING
According to Converse(R) Senior Vice President of Marketing Joanna Jacobson, the company's 1994 global advertising budget has reached nearly $40 million. "The production of '3 Point Land,' its appearance on the Super Bowl, combined with its subsequent three week flight on the FOX network, national MTV, BET, Nickelodeon and ESPN 2, plus in 25 spot markets, represents some 28 percent of our domestic basketball ad budget. The Super Bowl provides us with the perfect consumer audience for the launch of Larry 'Grandmama(TM)' Johnson's new BackJam(TM) shoe with REACT(R) Juice -- the flagship of our spring basketball shoe line -- and the debut of '3 Point Land.'"
"3 Point Land" has all of the fast-paced fantasy elements to keep one's imagination spinning. Once Grandmama discovers she's in "3 Point Land," she panics and declares "I'm a power player...I've got to get home to the low post!" A heavenly image of Larry Johnson appears in the clouds and tells her, "you'll need these," as the magical BackJam shoes from Converse spin toward Grandmama's feet in a bubble. Grandmama's feet, clad in her signature white lace trimmed socks, are zapped into the magical BackJam shoes from the rear, highlighting the alternative entry system of the shoes, as the adjustable ankle straps whip through the air and wrap around Grandmama's ankles. Feet suspended in the air, she gives three electrified heel clicks, complete with lightening flashes, and shoots up from the parquet of "3 Point Land" to return to the low post, as she wistfully says off camera, "There's no place like home."
I cannot stress enough how big this branding will be for us. It won ESPY Award, Countless Spinoff Grandmama's & Countless televised Sit-Com episodes & more still aired to this date starring our Majority Stockholder Larry Johnson as infamous alter retro ego "Grandmama", who will come back to TV as our Brand!
No there will not & product to more stores added weekly!
We have well over half 30K cases distributed now.
We also have funding without selling shares.
No Tea has our ingridients & Superbowl Branded ESPY Award winning Ad Branded name like "Grandmama". Not to mention STILL countless spinoffs of Grandmama characters, STILL RUNNING Televised Episodes starring LJ in Retro Alter Ego as "Grandama" & more!This branding is Huge and now ours! Grandmama IS coming back to a whole new generation and known to old!
What Teas can you flip to label and remember the list of ingridients counted on 1 hand? As compared to a long list of chemicals looking built by a scientist rather than Grandmama! We are in a new age of Whole Grain, Whole this, Whole that, etc. We are a simple down home pure good Tea set apart from others.
Going back, Snapple rose with Rush Limbaugh pumping it for months,
Arizona well you do the DD.....We are one of best pinksheets on borad and Pregnant with Horizon beyond most optomistic here!
Future Team locked in place, solid & long!
LJ, Restivo, Slappy Studios to name a few.
Alter ego "Grandmama is key to opening many doors with Superbowl ESPY Award winning Branding now ours!" Grandmama is coming back to whole new generation adding more recognition to old, Mark My Words!
I was not involved in the 0020-0035 hyped bubble for a reason, but here now for solid reason and will not lose!
How or where do you come up with "less than 15K cases distributed?"
Ads, NBA Promos, Bigger Distribution, Great Potential for Buyout, Stock Buyback & nuch more to name a few answers to your questions below. Its not rocket science & you listed most of this yourself, its simple! It is going to happen, just watch or buy cheap, hold long and be Golden with the rest of us. But do not join association of anxious Phone Brigade demanding answers from our team & 50 cent overnight Millionaires Club wanting it last month or year! Plenty of people here bought 0020-0035 hyped bubble on nothing STILL SORE but it is a new day, new team and WE GOT REAL SUBSTANCE MOVING PPS THIS TIME.
What new developments do you think will be the catalyst for breakout? What do you think will be the incentive for new investors to buy this up to the pennies? TV commercials? Stock buyback? Lowering the OS & AS? Potential buyout? Partnership deal with another famous beverage company? Or maybe huge contracts with Walmart, Costco & BJ's nationally? Or maybe even all of the above?
You see the potential for HFBG, but right now the market does not :(
Things will change for the better very quickly when excellent news comes
Today, Now Restivo, LJ & NEW Long Investors!
Tommorrow more! Oh and for the anxious tommorrow is a metaphor so do not count your overnight 5-10K posistion as a Million!
On the other hand tommorrows will reveal much much more as we are not stagnant but growing stronger everyday.
More than interesting, MONEY, will be Golden!
Were going many places!
Its just not going to be overnight and WE DO NOT NEED ANY MORE PHONE BRIGADES! Let HFBG team in place continue to deliver, be patient, its all going to happen & more in due time!
The Long, Strong & Patient will be greatly REWARDED!
Mark my Words
I agree but I would rather see it go it long hands than MMs & Flippers.
WRONG! Superbowl ESPY Award '93 to Grandmama!
Check the record below, YOU ARE DEAD WRONG!
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"Outstanding Performance by a Sports Personality in a Commercial
1993: Larry Johnson as Grandmama for Converse"
Not to mention countless spinoffs of Grandmama characters & following Television episodes Larry Johnson was cast & starred in as famous alter ego Grandmama! Our Grandmama!
This Branding is now ours and HUGE! This Branding IS & WILL CONTINUE toopen doors for us in future. You have no idea how BIG this Branding is and next years Super Bowl Grandmama could come back for our TEAS!
I know that another Super Bowl Ad is a long shot but you have no idea where we are going!
You've been saying that for for days but we keep closing strong at 0005 so I think were still building since last big selloff for another direction upward. If we go your direction Iam ready with long standing GTCs to add more Big Time!
Long standing GTC for .0003s ready as well! I would love to add 0003s to my 4-6s! Hell if they want to really push this around hard than Iam ready with 1-2s Big time! I think that is all wishful thinking cause nobody is getting any 0003s & if they even do it will probably be minimal amounts. That won;t average down my posistion much at all and think not yours either.
This year! You need a record of what we have already delivered since changes in team made this year. Next year will be Bigger, beyond that depends, who knows maybe a whole new Grandmama Superbowl commercial! We are just getting started everybody, those long & strong need to be patient because the rewards will be huge!
Grandmama is now our Branding, same Grandamama that started it all with one of Superbowl Ads ever, 2 ESPY Awards. That Branding is very valuable and key to opening many doors for us! I strongly disagree if you think that Branding is not ours now and we will do nore with it than you can imagine! As far as your overnight demands, forget about it, move on if you cannot hold long & be patient. This is one of best pinksheets on the board with huge potential way into pennies, MARK MY WORDS!
Branding is HUGE, ours won 2 ESPY Awards & was one one of Best Superbowl Ads ever! Grandmama is & will be opening many more doors for us. Were going to connect with younger and older generation thru our campaign with this great known retro alter ego "Grandmama" now her Teas & MORE!
Ditto, wise statement & mark his words.
Is he an insider,(could'nt help myself) LOL!
Long & Strong, not a care in the world, Were in great shape evrybody we should continue driveing out weak links, even the so called longs & end the week strong. We got great things on the horizon & were just getting started.
The day to day anxious advocating phone call brigades, etc need to lay off because it has really cost us in the past. To deny it is stupid, everybody here knows there are some 50 cent millionaires way more anxious than crack addicts.
We are in a one of best pinksheets with a longterm plan being carried out overtime not overnight.
Very WISE, Buy UT momentum coming also!
Maybe with optimism, buying & holding ALSO!
Maybe change can begin with you, encouraging with ideas, not regretting the past, we learned but MOVE FORWARD NOW!
No more gloom & suspicion, Optomistic & hopeful now, what do ya say?
Accumulate, Hold, Patience, Relax & REWARDS!
It's Morning again, today will be a great day!
Sometime getting over the past is absolute must for moving to better horizons. Hope today we can begin repair and move forward.
We should not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it, we learned, remember BUT MOVE FORWARD TO BETTER TODAY!
Thats right & for the record I not was not taking pictures there & did not even bring a camera of any kind!
I met with Councilman's representative there. I never stated anywhere, anytime meeting Councilman! I was there from 4-8pm and met all kinds of community leaders and posted all this last week!
It was a great event for HFBG and we have a lot of support in this community.
Its time to move on!
Yeah, a lot of expert 50 Cent millionaires expecting overnight 50 cent investments to make them millionaires. They expected Bottled product overnight, National Distribution the following week with National Ad Campaign and PPS To Da Moon in 2-3 months!
Solid support @ 5s, 4s are sell only. We need to continue accumulation of all these selling weak links. Soon we we will hold all long and strong! No rush, going to pennyland with one of best pinksheets around! Be patient long investors were going to be golden as HFBG continues business plan.
Do not be distracted by weak links, were solid at these levels and will be going up when weak links are gone, new retail blood comes aboard and we continue accumulation holding into pennies!
I never said I met with Concilman there. I also never said I was invited. I said that I know a lot of people in the community and watch my investemnts closely! This is not 1st HFBG even I have gone to either. I will continue to get very involved as much as possible. I will continue to accumulate as Iam very strong into the pennies! I have not flipped any of my shares fr any profit.
I will probably keep more selective & private about some of my DD in future due to these accusations.
Many are expecting far to much overnight! I will continue to be very patient for long haul holding and accumulating. I believe very realistic that we are going to be in the pennies.
I met with Councilmans representative sent to the conference as I already told you. You are blowing this way out of proportion. I met with all kinds of people and business leaders! I was there from 4pm until 8pm! I posted that it was a very positive event catered with Hot Food and Chilled HFBG Teas! What is your real motive in trying to potray this as fraud or something?
I know many people in the community of Los Angeles and Pacoima as well therefore was there independantly as a large investor.
I watch my investments closely and frankly try to hold management accountable but not become nuisance!
Some of the opposistion I have been receiving from posting lately, especially when I post information for everybody is out of line.
Your assertion that a assistant at Councilman's office answering phone could not articulate HFBG mtg in Pacoima 10/27/10 is cause for calling HFBG a fraud and warning share holders?
Councilman had a representative their on his behalf and I met him along with many other community and business leaders. I met with many supporting HFBG business in Pacoima's empowerment zone. I posted attending this meeting as a very positive development and you believe none of it. You are assume many things, for quite some time about HFBG negative.
Iam optomistic and admit that bias as well as my accumulation. If I believed what you and others warn me about I would sell HFBG. Unfortunately many do belive and are selling their posistions. Many believed Outstanding Shares were increased far beyond what were in last report & sold also. Now you again believe OS increases and warn investors yet none of you admit you were wrong about this last report. So whats different? OS increase will be minimal again in next report out soon. It has nothing to do with talking to Calvin except that he has PRd plans are to not increase AS, no reverse split, minimal OS only if required for normal business expansion. I do not belive that has changed like it did not before last report and high OS speculations were all wrong & even exceeded most optomistics speculations!
Some of you have even gone so far to accuse me of inside information used for insider trading which any official looking at my transaction record can quickly see that is completely without merit.
Simple fact is I have randomly accumulated HFBG and not flipped or sold nothing for profit. Iam accumulating long into pennies!
Share Structure fine, No RS, No AS increases!
Qtr Rpt out soon and will be just last one "Outstanding shares MUCH LESS than everbodys speculation".
Authorized Shares will not increase as announced mid year in PR. Outstanding Shares currently only 2.7B and will not increase as much as everybody speculates in this report again just like same were wrong before last report. Our transfer agent as a standard business practice does not release share structure info on any of his clients.
Upon increased revenue streams we may actually have a Share buyback!
Were in great shape, company growing daily & HFBG stock will soon breakout above 0010 resistance. We will be in multi pennies!
Maybe better out of sight, out of mind?
Small stealth presense suggest by many, maybe I would be much samller target?
You know who would like this.
Good to hear from all of you supporting my involvement & solid DD.
Thanks
I own a large amount of shares and furthermore anybody investing long I consider part of the "we that you question". I consider my investment and others on the same team and therefore refer to HFBG and all its long investors as WE. As a large investor it is normal to be more involved than a smaller investor or someone regularly flipping same stock only for their own selfish gain at investors expense.
Living in Los Angeles and having many connections in the community of San Fernando and Pacoima as well as LA, I was at press conference on my own local choice & will continue to be involved in my investments as an individual investor.
Would you or anybody else against me rather I be involved privately and keep my DD private?
Pacoima is filled with Industry and Business. The great Ritchie Valens was born in Pacoima, whole area is filled with many great hispanic old school type pillars of substance. It is not ruled by crime & violence although it has its share like anywhere. Their is a lot of pride in this hard working community and Iam very familiar with it allthough not hispanic I mix well with all cultures and Iam about inlclusion not exclusion.
See Post#84883 for details about press conference I attended from 4-8pm!
Press conference went very well. It was attended by a large cross section of Los Angeles City leaders, Community, Professional, Media & Business leaders. From the large community of San Fernando Valley which in itself is like a nation of 1.8 Million and part of Los Angeles populated by 10 Million! We are going to be built in Center where influence, products & marketing is spread to Nation and Worldwide! Being Entertaintment Capitol of the world we will also take advantage of many opportunities at product placement.
We are induced by City of Los Angeles to build there with grants
and Tax incentives. We will have job fairs hiring from community & of course provide great future tax revenues to the city in return.
I was there for the entire event starting at 4pm and leaving at 8pm! We provided catered hot foods & of course plenty chilled on Ice Sweet Grandmama's Teas & Desserts! Everybody loved our product and there were many who had exposure already and declared that it is really a big hit with many. The air & zeitgeist there was filled with altruism for all and felt very welcoming! I truly enjoyed it and more optomistic than ever about HFBG.
As an investor I met & spoke with many people of all cross sections aforementioned. We have a lot of support from the leadership in this community for developing a thriving business. It was very informative and we are all very optomistic. We will have a great future in City of Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley & Pacoima. The City of Pacoima where we will be built is very proud, mostly a blue collar hard working community with a great multi cultural history of success in business and City of Los Angeles. It is very central to largest Freeways in the state 5 to 118, 405 , 101, 210 & so on.
It will serve as a great hub for distribution throughout California and beyond.
Wrong, we lost a lot when people started advocating calls to distributer, you have no idea & the intimidation used in those phone calls! All because a bunch anxious & demanding PPS UT here just wanted answers NOW to where is Tea!
Now the government has agencies involved in handling this down to local people working hard for us, so do you want thise people intimidated with all the anxious intimidating and demanding here wanting answers NOW AGAIN!
The city councilmans office, liasons & people involved have a great relationship with us as professionals but the calls made to distributer were not and results were very bad for us! Are you sure you want a brigade of phone callers from this board getting answers NOW? Are you really sure about that argument with me?
Don't advocate calling brigade again, intimidating calls to our partners has already cost us a enough!
Comparative its small to whats coming!
Your right news is big but when you see whats behind it you have to consider it small. In fact if you can see forest through the trees we are in pennies!