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I think you made a wise choice in picking ETIM.
Welcome aboard
Pete
ETIM
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In reply to: Superbee383 who wrote msg# 24350 Date:1/26/2007 3:14:26 PM
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Here is the link to the Detroit News article:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070103/BIZ/701030338/1001
Rest in peace with your brand
Company markets Major League Baseball and other brand names for caskets and urns.
Jennifer Youssef / The Detroit News
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Eternal Image Inc.
Products: Customized urns and caskets
Headquarters: Farmington Hills
President: Clint Mytych
Employees: 15
Annual revenues: Just started receiving deposits on orders in the fourth quarter of 2006 and hasn't released sales numbers to shareholders yet, but Chief Financial Officer Jim Parliament expects "brisk sales" in 2007.
For information: Or to get help locating a funeral services professional, go to www.eternalimage.net or call (248) 932-3333.
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FARMINGTON HILLS -- In life, people buy brand-name merchandise -- everything from cars to clothes to handbags -- to reflect their personalities.
In death, they can do the same, thanks to a Farmington Hills company that's capitalizing on a movement toward customized funerals, including caskets and urns that reflect the life of the deceased.
Be they human or dog.
Eternal Image Inc. says it offers the world's only logoed urns and caskets. The fledgling company has agreements with the Vatican Library, Major League Baseball and Precious Moments, a collectible figurine company, to put the organizations' names and emblems on its urns and caskets.
And just last month, Eternal Image reached an agreement with the American Kennel Club to use its name and logo on urns for dogs.
Founded last year, the publicly traded company now has agreements finalized or pending with 23 distributors nationwide, and wants to go global next year. It has just started receiving deposits on orders in the fourth quarter of 2006 and hasn't released sales numbers to shareholders yet, but Chief Financial Officer Jim Parliament said he expects "brisk sales" in 2007.
Timothy Moroch of Fishkill, N.Y., bought an AKC urn to store the remains of his beloved yellow Labrador retriever, 7-year-old Shelby, when she dies.
"They're very upscale," Moroch said of the AKC urns. "I think that's the way to go."
Some funeral professionals see the customized urns and caskets as a refreshing alternative to the traditional wood and metal memorial containers typically sold at funeral homes.
"There was a time in the last 30 years when we lost sight of the personal aspect of funerals," said Patrick Lynch, owner of Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors in Clawson. The Eternal Image urns and caskets are "a response to the need for more customized funerals," he said.
Vatican approval important
The concept was a hard sell at first. President and CEO Clint Mytych said he and the others involved in the startup of Eternal Images endured a lot of door slamming and condescending head patting when they initially pitched the idea of brand-name memorial containers.
The 25-year-old entrepreneur, who had no experience in the funeral industry, spent four years researching the viability of the company. Not having the first clue about funeral products was an asset, Mytych said.
"It allowed us to be more creative. There was no box we felt we had to stay in," he said.
Many companies, including the domestic automakers, rejected their sales pitch. But the Vatican's acceptance of idea helped lure Major League Baseball and the kennel club.
Executives said they are discerning when selecting which brands to accept; they don't want the company to be a passing fad or get a reputation for being tacky.
The company turned down an offer by a representative of the Three Stooges who approached Eternal Image about putting pictures of the comedy trio on the products, said Nick Popravsky, vice president of marketing. The company only wants to offer products that maintain the dignity and respectability of the deceased, he said.
"We're in it for the long haul. Although we appreciated the offer, that's not the direction we want to go."
With the exception of the AKC urns, the memorial containers won't be sold directly to the public. The company only works with funeral homes and distributors.
The Vatican urns will be the first memorial containers to hit the market in mid January, with the caskets following in April.
A percentage of the proceeds from sales of the Vatican-themed urns and caskets will be given to the Catholic Church's headquarters in Rome, Mytych said. Details on the financial arrangements with other entities were not available.
Costs range from $149 for the AKC urns to $1,199 for the gold-plated Vatican Library containers; most cost less than $600.
All the containers are designed by Erik Holmen, a graduate of Detroit's College for Creative Studies, and made in China of aluminum, wood veneer and metal plated.
The company already has sold hundreds of containers to distributors, who are now awaiting shipments, Mytych said. He wouldn't release the exact number of units sold.
Products for younger crowd
Massachusetts distributor Nick Pirro was so excited about Eternal Image's urns and caskets that he got the exclusive distribution rights for all of New England.
Pirro said he's noticed a big push toward themed funerals recently and he believes the Farmington Hills company's products will be a huge hit with the younger crowd.
"It won't be for everybody," said Pirro, of Quality Vault & Casket in Leominster, Mass. "People wouldn't buy one for their grandparents, but they would for the younger generation."
Karen Lazenby, manager of the Harry J. Will Funeral Home in Redford, likes the idea of having something other than wood or metal caskets and urns to offer families.
"We're definitely open to it," Lazenby said of Eternal Image products. "I think (the business) would take off if they keep the prices reasonable
That is not true. It all depends on the price of the PP's. If it starts at .0004 X 10 = .0040
Pete
ETIM NEWS
News!.....
Eternal Image Completes Tooling Process for Major League Baseball(TM) Licensed Funeral Urns
Friday , January 26, 2007 09:00ET
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Jan 26, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Eternal Image, Inc. (OTC:ETIM.PK), a public company engaged in the design, manufacturing and marketing of licensed brand image caskets and urns, today announced that it has completed the tooling process for manufacturing its coming line of Major League Baseball(TM) licensed urns.
"This has been and continues to be a very exciting time as we work toward the launch of a line of products that has created great anticipation in the marketplace," said Clint Mytych, president of Eternal Image (EI). "We have a waiting list of consumers who have called and emailed to make clear they want to purchase urns featuring specific teams, and our distributors are eagerly gearing up to sell the products."
EI will roll out the product line in three waves. The first group of urns will include the reigning World Series Champions, St. Louis Cardinals, as well as the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies. Twelve more teams will be added to the line in late 2007 with the balance of 10 teams added in 2008. The urns will have a suggested retail price of $699.
The company has been signing major distributors, recently announcing agreements covering territories that include Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, New England, New York/New Jersey and metro-Philadelphia (PA). Additional distribution agreements are expected shortly.
In addition, EI has begun the design phase for the corresponding line of Major League Baseball(TM) caskets, which it expects to complete by month's end.
About Eternal Image
Eternal Image, founded in 2002, is headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI. The company is the first and only manufacturer and marketer of licensed brand image funerary products. Currently, the company offers urns and caskets that feature licensed images from Major League Baseball(TM), Precious Moments(TM) and the Vatican Library Collection(TM), as well as pet urns featuring the American Kennel Club(TM). For more information about EI, visit www.EternalImage.net or call 1-888-6-CASKET.
Pete
This in interesting.
Company out of Macon Georgia sells College Caskets.
Taking School Spirit to the Grave
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
By Jodi Noffsinger
E-MAIL STORY RESPOND TO EDITOR PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
NEW YORK — If you thought school spirit meant just plastering your college bumper sticker on your car, think again.
These days, devoted alumni and fans of their college team can show their undying school spirit — in a college-themed casket.
"I don't think any of us can deny the experience education has played in our lives," said Scott Walston, president of Collegiate Memorials, which sells the caskets for 46 schools throughout the country. "When families choose the casket, they're setting the stage to conjure up memories to celebrate who the person was."
John Shannon, who sells University of Kentucky caskets at Shannon Funeral Service in Shelbyville, Ky., attributes their popularity to a recent movement to personalize people's final resting place.
"Sometimes caskets will also include the person's hobbies to show this is what Mom or Dad was about," he said, adding that personalization brings a unique response from mourners.
"People will walk into the funeral home and they'll chuckle," Shannon said of his experience with a Kentucky casket. "It's funny for people to see, but it makes sense because in one case, the family said the deceased had a whole room of the house dedicated to the University of Kentucky."
Macon, Ga.-based company sold about 250 of the spirited coffins last year, recognizes that college-themed caskets are unusual, but said he makes sure to "market the product in a tasteful way."
Collegiate Memorials doesn't sell directly to customers, but through local funeral homes in areas where there is a demand. Walston depends on funeral directors to promote the caskets because "they know the families and their communities best." The company also makes urns, registry books and monuments with schools' insignias.
The caskets, which cost from $3,250 to $4,900, are created in the school's colors with its insignia embroidered in the lining. (Regular caskets of similar styles cost from $300 to $400 less than collegiate caskets.) Colleges collect royalty fees of 8.5 percent to 10 percent per coffin in addition to annual licensing fees.
The University of Nebraska-themed casket was the top seller in 2001 with 50 sold, according to Walston. But, he added, "We have a lot of interest from other schools like Alabama, Kentucky, Auburn, Oklahoma, and the University of North Carolina."
Walston speculated that the Nebraska casket was a top seller because of increased media attention his company has had in the state. But Doug Allen, a funeral director at Fusselman Wimore Funeral Homes in southeast Nebraska, said the school's fans were finding their own ways to personalize their funerals even before Collegiate Memorials came along.
"We took the regular caskets down to the local auto body shop and had them painted victory red," he said, describing his version of the casket made for "Big N" devotees. "We'd also include a logo from the university inside the casket."
But these days, Allen orders the professional-looking coffins from Collegiate Memorials rather than resort to his homemade versions.
This year, Walston plans to increase the number of schools he represents to more than 200. While the caskets are popular in the South and Midwest, he hopes to expand to Ivy League schools in the Northeast.
"Basically we'll license to any school that has alumni interest in the caskets," he said.
Pat Walker, operations manager of Duke University Stores, said requests for caskets increased since Duke alumni heard about other North Carolina universities having them.
"It's definitely different than a T-shirt," she added.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,75528,00.html
Pete
Good morning,
Hopefully we'll maintain .0008 as the bottom.
I have high hopes for this stock.
Pete
Please PM me and let me know what he said, if you can't put it out to the rest.
Pete
I gonna flip, when it reaches .017
Pete
I got 6 mil yesterday.
WATCH ETIM
Great Products and a must to have.
Great contracts, such as MLB
Buyback promised
52 week low is .00075
Price now is .0009
High Vol. yesterday at 115,000,000
When this runs its going to the moon.
JMO
Pete
I hope the PP's don't go any lower. If they do I will be buying as much as I can get.
After doing some DD today, I realized that this company will take off and make a lot of people rich. And I'm going to be one of those people. The products are great and there is a huge market for them. I have had several dogs in my life and I wish I had some urns back then.
People treat their pets just like kids, they are part of the family.
I'm glad I'm now part of the family and look forward to better days ahead.
Pete
I bought a total of 6,240,000 shares all at .0008
I'm lucky today.
Pete
Thanks,
Just picked up another 1 million shares.
Pete
Thanks, Lets make some money.
Picked up 2,603,400 shares at .0008 this morning. Hope to pick up more.
Pete
I thought I could do it, but I can't,
Sorry,
Pete
Did you get my email address
OT:
I have had simular things like that happen. I had a guy come to my business and said that he broke down and needed $20.00 for a part for his truck. I gave him the $20.00 and then watched him go straight to the bar.
I had another man come to our house around 10:00 pm one night. He was dressed nice and was very nice guy, he said his wife was having a baby and he need gas money to get to the hospital. He was very excited and nervous. We gave him the money. A next day I told my neighbor about what happened. Two days later the same guy went to his house. We called the law and they knew about this guy. They found him and put him in jail. About three months later we got a check from the states attorneys office for $20.00. We didn't ever exspect to get our money back.
These people take avantage of people.
I could tell you about two other times, but it's getting late.
This is a shame.
Pete
You got it. Blue Island 2 weeks equals 2 to 6 months.
You go that right. They are full of it.
How many days is that?
You'll be luckly to get an update. Maybe never.
OT: Good for you.
OT:
I'm wearing shorts. I live in Florida
I saw that. I like that. Thanks for bring that to our attention Morgan.
Pete
cool
I got some at .0009. Hope to get more on Friday.
Pete
It it spelled without any.
DO NOT USE TWO IT.
ATWT
#14 Most active Stocks Today on Ihub
It is on InvestSourses web site.
We go from .0024 to .0020 on this PR.
And a lawyer had to sign off on THIS. Your kidding me.
Pete
Posted by: peterush
In reply to: None Date:1/17/2007 2:10:32 PM
Post #of 35810
Press Release Source: ATWEC Technologies, Inc
ATWEC Technologies Announces Installation of Kiddie Systems Products by the Richlonn's Automotive Care Group
Wednesday January 17, 2:02 pm ET
MEMPHIS, TN--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 17, 2007 -- ATWEC Technologies (Other OTC:ATWT.PK - News) announced today the successful completion of Kiddie Systems installation training for Richlonn's Tire & Service Centers.
ADVERTISEMENT
Richlonn's technicians in southeast Wisconsin installed Kiddie Systems products on the vehicles of West Bend Insurance customers, who are offered discounted policies for the installation. The Dec. 15, 2006 training session was a necessary prerequisite to the sale and installation of ATWEC products by Richlonn's franchises. Five Milwaukee franchise locations, owned by Dick & Brett Matschke, are the first to offer ATWEC's child-protective products.
West Bend customers throughout the seven Midwest states will be encouraged to have Kiddie Systems products installed at similar franchise locations by properly trained technicians. Customer traffic for additional car service needs is expected to increase as well. The ATWEC-West Bend partnership therefore provides an incentive to additional franchises to create an alliance with ATWEC.
About ATWEC Technologies:
ATWEC Technologies, Inc. designs safety products for the transportation industry with a focus on child protection. Its signature Kiddie Systems products prevent child back-over accidents and accidental child abandonment on school and daycare vehicles. Visit the company's Web site: www.atwec.com.
NOTE: Certain statements made in this press release are forward-looking statements within the scope of the Private Securities Act of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks. Uncertainties and other mitigating factors may influence desired outcomes. Such risks, uncertainties and/or other mitigating factors include but are not limited to new economic conditions, risks associated in product development, market acceptance of new products and continuing product demand, level of competition and other factors both known and unknown as described within this Company's reports and other filings with appropriate regulatory agencies.
Contact:
Contact:
Chris Hoffmann
InvestSource, Inc.
949 209-8697
http://www.investsourceinc.com
7451 Warner Ave. Suite E# 342
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
Email Contact
Pete
Where's the meat. I thought there was 1900 outlets
Press Release Source: ATWEC Technologies, Inc
ATWEC Technologies Announces Installation of Kiddie Systems Products by the Richlonn's Automotive Care Group
Wednesday January 17, 2:02 pm ET
MEMPHIS, TN--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 17, 2007 -- ATWEC Technologies (Other OTC:ATWT.PK - News) announced today the successful completion of Kiddie Systems installation training for Richlonn's Tire & Service Centers.
ADVERTISEMENT
Richlonn's technicians in southeast Wisconsin installed Kiddie Systems products on the vehicles of West Bend Insurance customers, who are offered discounted policies for the installation. The Dec. 15, 2006 training session was a necessary prerequisite to the sale and installation of ATWEC products by Richlonn's franchises. Five Milwaukee franchise locations, owned by Dick & Brett Matschke, are the first to offer ATWEC's child-protective products.
West Bend customers throughout the seven Midwest states will be encouraged to have Kiddie Systems products installed at similar franchise locations by properly trained technicians. Customer traffic for additional car service needs is expected to increase as well. The ATWEC-West Bend partnership therefore provides an incentive to additional franchises to create an alliance with ATWEC.
About ATWEC Technologies:
ATWEC Technologies, Inc. designs safety products for the transportation industry with a focus on child protection. Its signature Kiddie Systems products prevent child back-over accidents and accidental child abandonment on school and daycare vehicles. Visit the company's Web site: www.atwec.com.
NOTE: Certain statements made in this press release are forward-looking statements within the scope of the Private Securities Act of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks. Uncertainties and other mitigating factors may influence desired outcomes. Such risks, uncertainties and/or other mitigating factors include but are not limited to new economic conditions, risks associated in product development, market acceptance of new products and continuing product demand, level of competition and other factors both known and unknown as described within this Company's reports and other filings with appropriate regulatory agencies.
Contact:
Contact:
Chris Hoffmann
InvestSource, Inc.
949 209-8697
http://www.investsourceinc.com
7451 Warner Ave. Suite E# 342
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
Email Contact
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source: ATWEC Technologies, Inc
I always post emails that I get. If you don't, please do not tell us about getting one.
Pete
The web site. They usually have them on the site by 9:15 in the morning. They want the shareholders to know before the rest of the investor community.
Pete
NO,
I've been checking the web site for any updates all day long. Normally they update the web site with any additional Pr's in the morning around 9:15.
I hope the next one is good.
Pete
If the attorney was holding it up, it must be some big NEWS.
I hope so anyway.
Pete
Your right.
Pete