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This would be my list of questions. Of course, I fully expect some type of news to our advantage this week in advance of that CC so our questions about the past will seem moot.
1. You have indicated in the past that there would be a need to raise the OS from 100 mil to 200 mil. However, the recent filing indicates the shareholders should approve a raise from 100 mil to 500 mil OS. This is indicative of a company that is planning a major expansion, or at the least any number of major acquisitions. Are you at liberty to discuss anything that prompted such a dramatic change of course at this time?
2. Have you in fact begun shipping Israel on Dec 1 as forecasted? Can you say the exact amount of that order for this current quarter and the sales numbers/shipments currently being readied to ship again?
3. With the wealth of trademarks and advance orders you have spoken to before now, can you give us some detail on where Q3 stands at this moment and how much ahead of this quarter being discussed today, and the year ago quarter, do you expect to report on for the next CC?
4. We have had to endure one delay after the other on the introduction of Dre's cognac and sparkling vodkas. If you'll recall, you said in August 60 days. Can you say today with confidence when those products will be on the shelf?
5. Can you tell us where we stand on securing a brewery for Kid Rock's beer and do you have more insight as to an exact introduction date?
6. Is the Olifant deal closed and when can we expect to know that the distribution and accretive earnings are currently working for us?
7. You filed a recent trademark in Purple Label. Can you elaborate on which artist that is going to have a product of that name with and what type of beverage?
8. You indicated on the last call we had a Scotch coming with Classic Golf Partners. Can you tell us where that deal presently stands?
9. You indicated further expansion in Russia, as well as global subsidiary expansion in China and India. Can you tell us where those exact expansion plans sit at this moment?
10. On the last call, you indicated we have a presence in Dubai, and particularly Duty Free there. One of your shareholders was recently there and scoured the entire countryside looking for Drinks products and found nothing anywhere. Can you tell us how that can be?
11. In the past two months you have announced $120 mil in distribution deals just from two distributors in Israel and Germany. As CEO and the largest shareholder of Drinks stock, can you comment how the largest growth phase in company history is resulting in the stock sittng on all time lows?
That's enough for now. I will be adding to the list as the week goes along. I still maintain though that answering these questions outside of the CC spoils the really good answers for all those new listeners tuning in come Friday.
Listen up. 50 Cent is a done deal. This is not my plea for a compelling argument. This is factual information that only by virtue of this forum allows you to know about something of intense magnitude BEFORE the rest of the world. So, rather than spend all weekend putting together questions of why our CEO hasn't done this or that, let's rather applaud him and spend our time educating the masses to take advantage of this opportunity BEFORE the rest of the world figures it out, the stock gaps on the news, and you and everyone you know is chasing shares at much higher prices.
It is so obvious it is beyond glaring. Kenny files trademarks for Violator and the French version, Violateur, on the same day. Then Kenny announces the perpetual license to all US Distribution and furher distribution in Europe of the FRENCH Leyrat Cognac. Kenny then files Leyrat as a trademark meaning they now own the name. More huge intellectual property. I have shown you the label from a Leyrat Cognac bottle being shown to distributors for advance ordering bearing the names of Drinks Americas Nasdaq: DKAM, and Violator Imports, LLC. The V, and the symbol used on that label are IDENTICAL to that filed and owned by Violator Management as trademarked in their business and is also pictured on this board up above in the iBox. Violator Management has formed a liquor import entity for an equity partnership, just as Dre formed Aftermath Beverage Company for the purposes of distributing his cognac and sparkling vodkas.
Chris Lighty, owner and CEO of Violator Management is perhaps the most Gung Ho of the Top 40 Entrepeneurs Under 40 in the country. His own subsidiary Brand Asset Group owned no trademarks in Glaceau Waters. Yet, he signed 50 Cent to the equity sharing deal with Glaceau, and within months was solely responsible for setting up and negotiating the buyout with Coke.
Lighty and 50 know the value of this being a public deal where Glaceau was private. Lighty will get Drinks in front of Goldman and the other big houses and get this story told quickly. They won't be in this for the back end payments. They want those warrants to cash and cash large for yet another enormous payoff. 50 will do his part with Drinks on his own TV show, movies, and appearances. His cognac will blow the others away. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Glory will be his own special blend to pick up that $199-$299 price tag on the shelf for the discerning upscale cognac connoisseur. But at this point, let's be content with Leyrat being his, and Lighty on the trail making it somebody else's for at least a billion or more.
As to when the news hits? Does it matter? The more time that goes by, the more time everyone else has to take advantage of a sure thing before the big boys start loading up.
It has everything to do with Drinks. In fact, the sheer nature that it is an OTC drew far too many people to this stock that have a horrible OTC investment record. Therefore, you start from "all OTC's are scams" and fight every day to find a reason to believe otherwise. Case in point is this wild jibberish about "he promised he would not dilute and issue more shares." Or, "all I see is one delay after another with nothing of substance coming from the company." I could go on and on.
Plain fact is everyone takes this mindset and is content with trashing a 30 year beverage veteran and a B of D that can run circles around any OTC out there. When folks finally realize this is the best ensemble of people making it work in one of the toughest "good ole boy" sectors where the conglomerates squash the little guy at every turn, you will come to realize quickly that this team of professionals has done the unthinkable..."pushed the rock uphill for 4 years only to now see it roll down the other side with critical mass."
Thanks for understanding the true measure of that process comes in the form of 16 cents.
Just brilliant.
Put together all your questions as far out as they may be. I will be happy to submit them or even Rilo. We both have a rapport with just about anyone in Wilton. I will say that undoubtedly the answers will come from what is in the public domain. Just perhaps though given correspondences in the past, the answers will be given in such a way as to shed light to the overall plan rather than drawing reference to singular, or even "a list" of, things many feel are in complete deference to what many were led to believe.
I truly believe after you have all your answers, you will have a whole new respect for what Mr. Kenny is pulling off in one of the most trying economic times of our lifetime.
Then it seems to me we are all missing the biggest part of DD then. We need to find out on L3 who continues to sell with all this great news out there. Who is it that is preventing this wealth of information and news and deals and trademarks from reaching the investing public? Is the world that stupid that it doesn't recognize opportunity where opportunity exists? I mean, in every case in history where a meteoric rise in stock price existed, there was somebody, or a group that found the opportunity and took advantage of it. No one else out there did anything at all except belly ache about no movement beffore hand ORRRRRR they did what the whole world did. They jumped on the moving train and while they were riding, they did their homework and learned all about why it was they bought in the first place. Such a ridiculous prospect to say the least. All this great news and all this jammed into a 12-24 month period that is upon us right this second as we speak and it is all totally ignored because the price of the stock isn't moving.
Beat it into everyone's head to buy low and sell high. Yet no one buys at all time lows. Do you realize this is the ONLY stock out of 11000 sitting on its all time lows despite the huge bounce in this market? Do you realize this is the only stock of 11000 out there that is sitting on more than a 300%+ growth rate going forward ONLY to the current quarter and the next yet throughout the entire year as well? Do you realize this stock has gone lower on 52 of 59 POSITIVE PRs in the past 28 months? That is akin to flipping a quarter and having it land on its edge straight up 4 times in a row. In other words, the odds of it happening naturally as it has is astronomical and cannot happen in nature or in the market without help.
Find out who it is that is selling and ask them why. Be resourceful. You can do it. And when someone says yet again they do not want to buy at all time lows but that they would rather wait until it is at least 150% higher then ask them this. If they are THAT convinced they will buy more when it is 150% higher then where is the conviction that their buying can take it 150% higher beforehand? In other words, they won't buy until it is 150% higher because they are so convinced it is going so much higher when it does get there.
I see. THAT, they can sink their teeth into because they are convinced then it is going so much higher. Even though they and just a little work with others would make that first 150% move a reality. 150% from there? That is six times the current price. My point? No one loads up now at the lows to enjoy a 150% move higher. No, of course not. They load up THEN for much higher levels and they could have enjoyed 525% on their money instead of 150% only.
It is an absolute travesty that stock price is the ultimate indicator of a company's success. And even more of a travesty that the exact measure of that success comes solely on who jumps first to move the stock price and then alerts the world NOW it is OK to jump on board because the train is moving without them.
Laughable at best. A company's success rests solely on where the company IS going, NOT on where it has been. Once the stock price reacts the same way, then everyone will have no choice but to keep paying 150% higher over and over again. And those here now will be tacking more zeros onto their thousands of percent gains.
Guys, perhaps my most important post to date. You can stare at the price all you want and it will send whatever emotions through your mind because that is human nature. Somebody wants all of us out of this stock so they can run it to untold levels. That is how it always works.
But always try to remain true to what has always worked. Do you know what works?
1. A solid and exponentially growing business model and business plan
2. A management base that is buying stock and never selling
3. Global expansion
4. New trademarks and new products
Whine and fuss all you want about when and who and what for products and icons.
But let me tell you this much. This company has filed 14 new trademarks in the past 14 weeks, and it is the ONLY beverage company anywhere on the planet that has done so.
It is all about forest through the trees and it doesn't get any clearer than that.
Westminster NY getting all the big blocks.
Translation??
50 Cent is buying
New trademark Glory just filed.
Looks like Dre and 50 will each have their own cognac.
Looks like even more reason to sell I would suspect since everyone will be anticipating another $4 bil buyout with 50 Cent on to his newest venture.
I'm gonna guess we'll see some news that a CC is coming on earnings, and then just maybe some whopper news before then that will consume that entire CC.
But keep on selling because as I've said before, we could get bought out for $30, and the stock will go to a nickel.
Right?
LMAO! If I did, then I wouldn't have to spend one second here. I would have bought millions of shares, I would already be convinced that the stock is going to $30 because I would know the business plan inside out, I would have already toured 50's house in CT, would have already been to Dre's pad two weeks ago, spent the weekend with Kid kicin back, would have had a martini with Melania, already had women kissing my toes in Dubai, already spent two days at the Playboy mansion, and would buy up all I could and never sell a share until they are pryed from me in the buyout process.
But alas, here we are.
Well, you've said it right there. What if the company they are in the process of buying is Heaven Hill Distilleries? The nation's largest private distiller? What if they were buying that brewery Anheuser Busch and InBev are shutting down and giving away for nothing? First way, DKAM takes on $600 mil a year in sales. Second way, they have Kid's Brewery and instantly begin brewing Rheingold again as "The Official Beer of..., and Kid's Beer for immediate distribution. Plus, two other heavy selling brands that are for sale at less than one times sales?
Then certainly we have just a little more than you were told and certainly a just reason for issuing a few warrants and shares that can be bought back in less than 18 months so the shareholders get max dollars for their buyout premium.
PKG? If you were given specific information then you are in possession of material non public information. I go spend hundreds, if not thousands, of hours doing DD and talking on the phone to people who can give answers who have no stated position in the stock. They could tell me next week the company was being bought out, or because of them, the company is sitting on a half billion of sales and not a thing anybody can do about it. Since it's a small company in a very close knit sector, it's amazing how much those around the company know exactly what is going on. Crescendo isn't going to do more than DME did. In fact, this time around, I will educate Crescendo since they are going to tell people the same thing the PR's and old news on a website are going to tell people. At the same time, there are "things" out there that are verfiable with a phone call. And if Crescendo wants to remain our IR firm, they will actually talk positively about the company and make assessments on the information out there. Yes, they are licensed and yes, they can encourage people to take positions based on the information they have at their disposal. We will just educate them on ALL the information at their disposal rather than what is old news from one or two sources, and even moreso from people that call who give them a rough time.
That you got me on. Always remember that this stock is famous for hiding the top inside bid and ask. While it may appear that 100K just went off on the bid, it is just the opposite. Somebody showed up with 100K non displayed between the .15 to .17 as the ask at .16. Westminster, who has been lying in wait saw its first chance at a position of size and scooped them quickly by jumping over. That tells me our hugeness of news is close...very close.
100K buy and Westminster is stepping up now. Me thinks it is Lighty or "the boyz" acting on 50 news emminent. They were there BEFORE the germany was announced.
DKAM: 100K buy from Westminster. They are in NY acting for Lighty and 50 Cent I do believe.
DKAM: Best opportunity out there if you read:
Please take two seconds to read this. The furthest thing from a pump you will ever read. All fact.
The news of the past two months indicates from conference call to reality that global expansion is reaching critical mass. Sales already tracking above guidance from $4.5 mil to well over $20 mil. The stock has yet to have any response given more than a 300% growth rate called for and being reported as guided. In addition, todays news brings another $40+ million in sales over the next 15 years, or close to $3 mil a year sales that was never discussed or guided for. So, based on this alone, it says the company is growing well beyond its own growth expectations. In other words, 300% called for growth is CONSERVATIVE expectation.
In addition, the company is acquiring brands that will have iconic tags. There is enough evidence in the public domain to suggest 100% that the company is about to announce its most major deal to date. An agreement with Violator Management who's #1 draw for Brand Asset recognition is the artist 50 Cent.
Those of you who do not know how huge this is will need to realize right now the immense opportunity that is before us. Violator Mgmt, and particularly Chris Lighty's Brand Asset Group WAS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for signing 50 Cent to Glaceau waters as their spokesman. Within several months, it led to one of the biggest buyouts in beverage history of Glaceau by Coke for $4 billion.
That was a private deal that no one could take advantage of. 50 Cent is moving on and everything he touches turns to gold. Over the top album sales, a hit TV reality show, movies, EA sports games, and now his own line of signature beverages with DKAM.
When the beverage community catches wind that 50 Cent is on to his next venture with DKAM for yet more beverages, and being alcoholic beverages, every beverage analyst out there will be clammering for shares. Why? Because they know the eventual outcome will be a multi billion dollar buyout of this company DKAM. It will happen. Sit and wallow in all the P&D's and paper pushing scams of the OTC of the past all you want. This is the real deal. It will happen. It ISSSSSSSS CKXE and FRPT all over again.
Why buy at 5 or 10 times the price when it finally gets moving? Why not enjoy being the one that perpetrates the move? Why not enjoy the maximum profit you ever could imaginable by buying a stock at the bottom? Especially one ONLY YOU are privileged to know about because somebody else did hundreds of hours of DD. Everyone else will react after the fact as the hedges and instys make this a $5.00 stock and it quickly moves to Nasdaq. It is coming AND IT WILL HAPPEN.
You can stare at price all you want and stare at charts all you want. But the plain fact remains this is the purest opportunity you will find because not only has the market ignored the pure growth opportunity that HAS BEEN right there of 300%+, but it is also ignoring the fact that all this overwhelming evidence that 50 Cent is on board before the news is even released.
It is time. It is about to happen because of the sales indicators for release of products the company has put out.
You owe it to yourself to take a position of size. Take control of your own investments and CREATE the move of all moves. Be in before it happens. A position of size is AT LEAST 100000 shares. When you get them, do not let go. Because when these big boys want in, they will pay what it takes because they have to. And you can smile watching them pay up immeasurably to get them. Why? Because the float will be all gone and nobody is letting go until 50 Cent causes the enormous buyout on the back end.
And if I'm right, which I fully believe I am, it will come north of $25-$30 a share within 12-24 months.
DKAM: No free shares and certainly don't need anybody "to deem" it is a buy, especially here. I'm using 25 years of experience and knowing what Judy Hong at Goldman is looking for to call it a buy, especially since Drinks has been parked in her office of late telling them what I'm telling you.
Why is this important? Because the same guys who brought HANS to Goldman at 35 cents before it went to $400 are the same guys who set up this meeting.
DKAM: Please take two seconds to read this. The furthest thing from a pump you will ever read. All fact.
The news of the past two months indicates from conference call to reality that global expansion is reaching critical mass. Sales already tracking above guidance from $4.5 mil to well over $20 mil. The stock has yet to have any response given more than a 300% growth rate called for and being reported as guided. In addition, todays news brings another $40+ million in sales over the next 15 years, or close to $3 mil a year sales that was never discussed or guided for. So, based on this alone, it says the company is growing well beyond its own growth expectations. In other words, 300% called for growth is CONSERVATIVE expectation.
In addition, the company is acquiring brands that will have iconic tags. There is enough evidence in the public domain to suggest 100% that the company is about to announce its most major deal to date. An agreement with Violator Management who's #1 draw for Brand Asset recognition is the artist 50 Cent.
Those of you who do not know how huge this is will need to realize right now the immense opportunity that is before us. Violator Mgmt, and particularly Chris Lighty's Brand Asset Group WAS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for signing 50 Cent to Glaceau waters as their spokesman. Within several months, it led to one of the biggest buyouts in beverage history of Glaceau by Coke for $4 billion.
That was a private deal that no one could take advantage of. 50 Cent is moving on and everything he touches turns to gold. Over the top album sales, a hit TV reality show, movies, EA sports games, and now his own line of signature beverages with DKAM.
When the beverage community catches wind that 50 Cent is on to his next venture with DKAM for yet more beverages, and being alcoholic beverages, every beverage analyst out there will be clammering for shares. Why? Because they know the eventual outcome will be a multi billion dollar buyout of this company DKAM. It will happen. Sit and wallow in all the P&D's and paper pushing scams of the OTC of the past all you want. This is the real deal. It will happen. It ISSSSSSSS CKXE and FRPT all over again.
Why buy at 5 or 10 times the price when it finally gets moving? Why not enjoy being the one that perpetrates the move? Why not enjoy the maximum profit you ever could imaginable by buying a stock at the bottom? Especially one ONLY YOU are privileged to know about because somebody else did hundreds of hours of DD. Everyone else will react after the fact as the hedges and instys make this a $5.00 stock and it quickly moves to Nasdaq. It is coming AND IT WILL HAPPEN.
You can stare at price all you want and stare at charts all you want. But the plain fact remains this is the purest opportunity you will find because not only has the market ignored the pure growth opportunity that HAS BEEN right there of 300%+, but it is also ignoring the fact that all this overwhelming evidence that 50 Cent is on board before the news is even released.
It is time. It is about to happen because of the sales indicators for release of products the company has put out.
You owe it to yourself to take a position of size. Take control of your own investments and CREATE the move of all moves. Be in before it happens. A position of size is AT LEAST 100000 shares. When you get them, do not let go. Because when these big boys want in, they will pay what it takes because they have to. And you can smile watching them pay up immeasurably to get them. Why? Because the float will be all gone and nobody is letting go until 50 Cent causes the enormous buyout on the back end.
And if I'm right, which I fully believe I am, it will come north of $25-$30 a share within 12-24 months.
DKAM: Two huge news pieces today.
The 15 year deal in Germany THAT WAS NOT OUTLINED on the October 8 CC. This is new and unaccounted for growth.
By my tally, that is $120+ mil in the last two dist deals. And that is without putting a new product on the shelf.
Also, their new IR Firm www.crecendo-ir.com
Of course, I still maintain the big one is emminent with 50 Cent to repeat what he did with Glaceau's buyout for $4 billion.
DRINKS AMERICAS ENTERS INTO 15 YEAR SALES AND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH DISTRIBUTOR IN GERMANY;
INITIAL SALE OF 1,200 CASES EXPECTED TO GENERATE
A MINIMUM OF $2.5 MILLION IN 2009
WILTON, CT -- (Market Wire) December 11, 2008 -- Drinks Americas Holdings, Ltd. (OTC BB: DKAM) (“Drinks Americas” or the “Company”) announced today that it has entered into a fifteen (15) year Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Zwilichiovskij Import-Export for the sale and distribution of the Company’s products in Germany. Zwilichiovskij is an import company specializing in marketing vodka and premium spirits brands that will focus on selling Drinks Americas’ brands in high-end bars, hotels, clubs and upscale retail accounts in Germany.
Zwilichiovskij will initially sell Drinks Americas’ Trump Vodka and Old Whiskey River Bourbon. Upon launch of the new products, Zwilichiovskij will also distribute Drinks Americas’ Leyrat Cognac and Topless Sparkling Vodka. In addition Zwilichiovskij plans to distribute Olifant Vodka on behalf of Drinks Americas upon the close of the pending acquisition.
Zwilichiovskij has placed its first order under the Agreement, which calls for a total of 10 containers, consisting of 1200 cases each to be shipped in 2009. The initial order is expected to generate a minimum of $2.5 million in 2009 with subsequent orders to follow. Drinks Americas plans to begin shipments to Zwilichiovskij during the first quarter of 2009.
J. Patrick Kenny, the Company’s CEO, said, “Expansion into Germany with Trump Vodka and our other Drinks Americas products is another important milestone in expanding our international distribution and further illustrates both the success and market potential of our iconic trademarks internationally.”
About Drinks Americas
Drinks Americas was founded in 2004 by J. Patrick Kenny, a leading expert in beverage sales and marketing. Drinks Americas develops, owns, markets, and nationally distributes alcoholic and non-alcoholic premium beverages associated with renowned icon celebrities. Drinks Americas' portfolio of premium alcoholic beverages includes Donald Trump's award winning Trump Super Premium Vodka and Willie Nelson's Old Whiskey River Bourbon. The Company’s non-alcoholic brands include the distribution of Paul Newman's Own Lightly Sparkling Fruit Juice Drinks and Flavored Waters. Drinks Americas recently formed a joint venture with Universal Music’s Interscope, Geffen, and A&M Records to develop and market beverage products.
For further information concerning Drinks Americas and the products that they represent, please visit their website at www.drinksamericas.com.
Safe Harbor
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including the description of the company and its product offerings, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including the historical volatility and low trading volume of our stock, the risk and uncertainties inherent in the early stages of growth companies, the company's need to raise substantial additional capital to proceed with its business, risks associated with competitors, and other risks detailed from time to time in the company's most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. The company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Contact:
Charles Davidson
Drinks Americas, Inc.
203-762-7000
cdavidson@drinksamericas.com
Fred Schulman
East Coast Ventures
212-686-1515
fsmkg@aol.com
Investor Relations
David Waldman
Crescendo Investor Relations
(212) 671-1020
dwaldman@crescendo-ir.com
In the past two months from CC to Israel to Germany to Leyrat, this company has made the statements and is telling the story to substantiate the claims that sales are moving from under $5 million to over $20 million as Kenny claimed.
I suggest we spend less time on the boards with whatever is it is that draws some into the abyss and get out there and tell the story before somebody else does.
Oh wait, somebody else is.
So, two new huge news pieces today.
The 15 year deal in Germany THAT WAS NOT OUTLINED on the October 8 CC.
By my tally, that is $120+ mil in the last two dist deals. And that is without putting a new product on the shelf.
Also, our new IR Firm www.crecendo-ir.com
DRINKS AMERICAS ENTERS INTO 15 YEAR SALES AND DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH DISTRIBUTOR IN GERMANY;
INITIAL SALE OF 1,200 CASES EXPECTED TO GENERATE
A MINIMUM OF $2.5 MILLION IN 2009
WILTON, CT -- (Market Wire) December 11, 2008 -- Drinks Americas Holdings, Ltd. (OTC BB: DKAM) (“Drinks Americas” or the “Company”) announced today that it has entered into a fifteen (15) year Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Zwilichiovskij Import-Export for the sale and distribution of the Company’s products in Germany. Zwilichiovskij is an import company specializing in marketing vodka and premium spirits brands that will focus on selling Drinks Americas’ brands in high-end bars, hotels, clubs and upscale retail accounts in Germany.
Zwilichiovskij will initially sell Drinks Americas’ Trump Vodka and Old Whiskey River Bourbon. Upon launch of the new products, Zwilichiovskij will also distribute Drinks Americas’ Leyrat Cognac and Topless Sparkling Vodka. In addition Zwilichiovskij plans to distribute Olifant Vodka on behalf of Drinks Americas upon the close of the pending acquisition.
Zwilichiovskij has placed its first order under the Agreement, which calls for a total of 10 containers, consisting of 1200 cases each to be shipped in 2009. The initial order is expected to generate a minimum of $2.5 million in 2009 with subsequent orders to follow. Drinks Americas plans to begin shipments to Zwilichiovskij during the first quarter of 2009.
J. Patrick Kenny, the Company’s CEO, said, “Expansion into Germany with Trump Vodka and our other Drinks Americas products is another important milestone in expanding our international distribution and further illustrates both the success and market potential of our iconic trademarks internationally.”
About Drinks Americas
Drinks Americas was founded in 2004 by J. Patrick Kenny, a leading expert in beverage sales and marketing. Drinks Americas develops, owns, markets, and nationally distributes alcoholic and non-alcoholic premium beverages associated with renowned icon celebrities. Drinks Americas' portfolio of premium alcoholic beverages includes Donald Trump's award winning Trump Super Premium Vodka and Willie Nelson's Old Whiskey River Bourbon. The Company’s non-alcoholic brands include the distribution of Paul Newman's Own Lightly Sparkling Fruit Juice Drinks and Flavored Waters. Drinks Americas recently formed a joint venture with Universal Music’s Interscope, Geffen, and A&M Records to develop and market beverage products.
For further information concerning Drinks Americas and the products that they represent, please visit their website at www.drinksamericas.com.
Safe Harbor
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including the description of the company and its product offerings, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including the historical volatility and low trading volume of our stock, the risk and uncertainties inherent in the early stages of growth companies, the company's need to raise substantial additional capital to proceed with its business, risks associated with competitors, and other risks detailed from time to time in the company's most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. The company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
Contact:
Charles Davidson
Drinks Americas, Inc.
203-762-7000
cdavidson@drinksamericas.com
Fred Schulman
East Coast Ventures
212-686-1515
fsmkg@aol.com
Investor Relations
David Waldman
Crescendo Investor Relations
(212) 671-1020
dwaldman@crescendo-ir.com
Yes, Client #9 is our trademark. But would you buy anything Elliot Spitzer puts in a bottle??
LMAO!!!
Caution, let me say this to you. If you want to join me at the January 15 shareholder's meeting, I would love for you to. I think calling Kenny a liar to his face would be such an event you'd want a witness to.
In return, I invite you to attend the next shareholder's meeting on January 15 2010. At that point, Kenny could easily have booked $250 mil in sales when on October 8 he promised, or guided, for an additional $15 million in incremental sales.
I think you owe it to him to attend and call him a liar then also.
After all, isn't that what credibility is all about?
Unfortunately, you can call Kenny a liar if you wish. That is your right. But your post alone to even the average novice indicates something amazing and beyond comprehension is on the horizon. Huh, makes me think about that Coke in Coke thing. Anyways, something dramatic has changed to so dramatically fly in the face of what he said. Think about it. A 30 year beverage veteran doesn't go out and say things like $10 mil is fine and we don't need money if at the time it were not true. If he wants to make $250 mil in capital available, he must want to do so FOR OUR BENEFIT rather than our detriment.
I mean really, really, really think about it.
Because Caution, the cash flow for the company doing such a deal would allow them to introduce the other 22 products in the pipeline that all totalled would be more than a billion. Plus, the resulting profit would make a stock buyback inevitable thus increasing the current earnings per share. But hey, we're all concerned about $6 or $10 or $15 or $20.
What happened to 2 cents and dilution?
Yeah, I thought so.
Unfortunately, by factors of this economy at present, license deals are just that, you pay upfront for the right to do something. Just like getting a license to drive. You don't go do just that and then when you're 80, go pay the state for 64 years of being on the road. God help us if it were true!
In this case, and whether it's true or not does not matter. The point is you pro actively account for an action first by filing trademarks and authorizing shares. Then should you have an opportunity that is so outside the scope of your current business, you can react accordingly and correctly in the interest of the shareholder.
Failure to see the forest through the trees is what separates...well...those who run multi billion dollar beverage companies and those who wished they owned more shares in them or look for reasons to sell daily.
Let's try a "for instance."
Say you go out and get in bed with the guys at Bacardi to attach 50 Cent to an iconic tag on Grey Goose. The deal is a joint venture and results in a 5 year license to market GG as a 50 Cent product. You know, like Tiger did with G2.
And it results in Drinks having to pay $200 mil up front and takes over the distribution, cash flow, employees, the whole schmear.
They have to get that money from somewhere through venture capital and the brand alone sustains itself. Both Bacardi and Drinks fully believe it can take the current sales from $57 mil to over $100 mil per year. Both companies also believe that at any time after the first year, when the sales increases are proven, they can sell it on 50's name to the highest bidder for $4 billion just like they did Glaceau.
So, they split $4 billion and Bacardi comes out slick on their initial $2.2 billion investment and Drinks gets $2 billion of which they pay 50 Cent $200 million.
Meanwhile, they had to issue 200 million shares at $1.00 a piece that because of the sales and the surge in profits are now worth $15 a share.
I invite you to find the dilution, or for that fact, argue that the company didn't buy back those shares, and more when the final buyout was consummated.
Like I said originally, a cost of doing business. Where else does $200 mil turn into $2 billion other than Warren or Bill's account. Not here for sure. Right?
I agree Gink. You cannot tell me that ih ads know all the inner workings of this company and every bit of business they are working on going forward.
I suggest they stay to the business of personal attacks and let us do what we do best and that is educate and post substantial and meaningful information for everyone to investigate further on.
New trademark Leyrat which of course correlates to the purchase agreement of the US distribution rights of Leyrat Cognac by Drinks Global LLC, a subsidiary of Drinks Americas Inc..
I'd put up the product label as it is being shipped to the distributors but then you'd want to know what the actual bottle looks like and you could clearly see that it belongs to Dre or 50 Cent or Eminem or some mega sports team. Then everyone would be all about how 50 Cent found another company to take to $4 billion and the stock would go nuts from analysts buying it up for their clients.
But I'm sorry to say, it would all be off topic so we'd just be wasting our time right?
Off Topic: New trademark Leyrat which of course correlates to the purchase agreement of the US distribution rights of Leyrat Cognac by Drinks Global LLC, a subsidiary of Drinks Americas Inc..
I'd put up the product label as it is being shipped to the distributors but then you'd want to know what the actual bottle looks like and you could clearly see that it belongs to Dre or 50 Cent or Eminem or some mega sports team. Then everyone would be all about how 50 Cent found another company to take to $4 billion and the stock would go nuts from analysts buying it up for their clients.
But I'm sorry to say, it would all be off topic so we'd just be wasting our time.
Now that's funny. I was wondering why everyone had been so quiet for so long about how it is this stock gets from 15 cents to $30. I went back through the posts and saw why. It was deleted as Off Topic by the ihadmins. Nothing else left to do here. If we can't talk about what it is that is coming, then we really have nothing to talk about. Oh wait, how about the definition of news and what days of the week DKAM mgmt are actually in the office and how many times the phone rings before somebody answers. Now this is what defines a company!
Actually, ihadmin did us all a favor. Because if you knew exactly how it would all come down, then sure enough, you would tell all your friends and friends of friends. They would buy up all the stock they could and make a fortune without doing one single thing to earn it or learn a thing about the company. No reason for that to happen ever.
Now that tune got me counting snowflakes on iHub. Just too much to do before Christmas!
I'm going to have to call Louis Pasteur, or maybe Cedars Sinai or maybe even Elvis.
They say no two snowflakes in the world are exactly alike.
We have achieved the impossible right here. We'll be famous!
Without going into a lot of in depth DD because it doesn't matter, I am going to make an assumption. Those are shares granted to PK on an annual basis as part of his compensation without being options, that reflect the average trading price for the past 52 weeks.
Ummmm excuse me. A company does what they say they are going to do and this board demands a press release that they are doing business as their business plan dictates and within the guidelines of their forward guidance and conference call.
Wow we really need to get those yearly check ups done.
Oh by the way. $1.3 mil in product shipped last week to Israel bought and paid for. But you guys already knew that. Just reminding you. The next $1 mil+ to go out in a three or four weeks.
Nice try. That was a scam pure and simple. Ya know, it's funny. I popped in their room one night as they all were clinging to some Grand Wizard idiot that was going to come grace them with some magical news. I tried instantly to scream it was a scam and to run for their lives. Instant boot.
This however is simple. I love how only a couple really went and dug. Right through to China! Others claim they know all because they made a phone call or two. They know absolutely nothing.
Not gonna say how it will happen but it is so very close. Ya see, if I tell you then somebody will start analyzing and tearing it all apart before it even happens. Like everything else. No, actually exactly like a fly. Be given a gourmet dinner but have to throw up on it first in order to digest it.
My biggest concern though is that it is so huge, somebody will actually stop trading or holding all that other crap they have that has lost 80% or more and has no prayer of ever coming back. They will actually buy all of this one under $2 they can get their hands on. They will then tell all their friends and friends of friends. And all these people who do not deserve one freakin penny of profit from this stock will make a fortune. Of course, there are those that I fully expect will buy the gap at $1.50 and sell it at $2 and be gone. Those are the shares that will get bought and sold at $30. We can't let those people know anything other than....
"Yep, gonna go up someday. Sell now please before it does!"
OMG! It is gonna be CKXE all over again!
There is a force in the universe.
Patrick Kenny
Good Evening Lab Rats. You rang? Absolutely no reason to be here. It's like having a nuclear bomb and watching all the ants down below scurrying around with road rage in 5 oclock traffic.
I told you a year ago this was a $30 stock. I told you a month ago there was one trademark that was $30 all by itself. I can't believe no one else saw it.
But no matter. When it unfolds we'll be watching all the retail players scurrying around to give their shares to the monster players for 1/100 of the eventual price.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 24, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Liquor Group Wholesale (OTCBB:LIQR) advises that period over period product sales are up across all 31 U.S. states where it wholesales alcohol beverages; however Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wyoming sales are up substantially, all with triple digits increases over the same period last year. Increases exclude back orders from various suppliers scheduled to hit shelves late November, which will drive up sales further. Many brands report having trouble meeting demand that Liquor Group's sales force has generated for their products. Since no bank facilities are used by Liquor Group, it continues to grow in this credit starved environment. "This dramatic sales increase is attributed in part to the expansion of our portfolio as well as to additional brand recognition that many unique Liquor Group products have earned, coupled with the reputation for hard work and dedication to sell-through our Liquor Group sales representatives have in the market . . . " says C. J. Eiras, CEO of Liquor Group Wholesale: ". . . there's no 'Bailout' needed here, we can thank our loyal customers for that!" About Liquor Group Wholesale Liquor Group Wholesale is an emerging liquor and wine distribution company representing more than 1700 spirits and wine products with operations in 31 U.S. States. Our company is focused on providing a distribution channel for Mid-Market, Nationally recognized alcohol beverage products.
One of the beautiful things about having a management team that is open to talking to shareholders is that they listen to suggestions. It doesn't mean they will do anything about it! But apparently the suggestions of putting product out in the marketplace without notifying shareholders that stare at ticks all day about it and want to talk the company into the ground carried some weight. Also the suggestion of putting the stock symbol on every product going out the door carried some weight. And most of all, buying brands to put iconic tags on that you can sell to the highest bidder for 10-20 times the price carried some weight. I guess V doesn't stand for Visionary anymore.