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DIIG is in the middle off a PUMP promotion. IT is very coordinated--an successful. But my experience is that you always take profits in these. Just make sure you have ALL of your investment out.
JMO
DLCR--nice
News was encouraging today. As OPTZ builds its agency business and they open more company-owned offices, OPTZ could really build up revenue and profitability quickly. But, as always, the proof is in the financial results
Optimized Transportation Management to Establish Freight Brokerage Operation
Management Adds First Company-Owned Office With Annual Revenues Projected at $4-4.5 Million in First Year
PITTSBURGH, PA--(Marketwire - 01/05/10) - Optimized Transportation Management, Inc. (OTC.BB:OPTZ), a supply chain logistics company, is establishing its first company-owned freight brokerage operation in Nashville, Tennessee. The addition of this company owned and operated office will allow OPTZ's brokerage division to generate higher margins than agent brokerage operations alone. Revenues for the Nashville office in the first year are anticipated to be $4 million to $4.5 Million with an estimated 12% net profit margin.
OPTZ's business plan is to build a full service supply chain logistics company by developing a management system for mid-sized manufacturers and distributors, thereby providing the necessary transportation services to complement the system and eventually meeting 100% of the customer's logistical needs.
Larry Berry, Chief Operating Officer of OPTZ, said, "The addition of our first 'Company' store to our freight brokerage operations will provide the company with new customers and will allow us to improve our overall profit margin as we continue to build our agency business. Due to the length and depth of experience of the management team that is joining the Company to operate this office, we are anticipating significant revenue and profit growth over the next few years. We feel this initiative is another step toward becoming a one-stop-shop for our customers."
To be included in OPTZ's e-mail database for corporate press releases and industry updates, please send an e-mail to info@otmionline.com
About Optimized Transportation Management, Inc.
Optimized Transportation Management, Inc. (OPTZ) is growing to become a full-service supply chain logistics company. The Company has begun implementing its plans for assisting great companies in discovering, managing and executing their most effective global supply chain strategies. OPTZ exists to add real and measurable value throughout the customers' fulfillment process -- with the accent on customers. OPTZ's management team, technology and value-added solutions allow organizations to have world-class visibility, information and controls without disrupting existing plans, processes, partnerships and information systems.
OPTZ's acquisition strategies focus clearly on their ability to provide end to end services for growing global opportunities. The company provides clients with global freight forwarding services, global document management, product staging, a powerful information technology that supports tight integration and total visibility among global factories, suppliers, and end-user customers sourcing product globally.
Additionally, the company focuses on managing warehouse operations in support of existing clients and potential new clients, supporting both domestic and global supply chain strategies. OPTZ operates each of the divisions independently, but sell and add real measurable value collectively. In addition, to the synergies, this approach ensures the quality of internal operations but the joint capabilities provides significant value to the company's clients.
OPTZ needs to show revenue increases--whether in new contracts, new agents etc. And I think that is coming.
hey, Cargo. BLVT is my pick.
They do business with the Department of Defense. They have a $43 Million contract with the US Army. And have bid on another $900 Million in Government bids. BLVT has 72 Million shares outstanding. But a low float of about 25 Million shares.
BLVT has turned around in the last few days of last year.
OPTZ is acting very well considering how far and fast it has come.
Good, SKIV.
You might want to look at UTRM for a Jan. pop. My Christmas present to you. LOL
Have a great Holiday.
SKIV--never thought you were ignorant.
Sorry for offending you
VION filed BK
News on another agent sign up to add to their network is expected. And the closing of their acquisition too.
Remember to sell those Penny Stock Chaser picks in a few days. They are trades
$6.7 Million in the first three quarters of 2009 already. Last year, OPTZ did $1.9 Million in the first three quarters. Not a bad rate of Revenue growth.
Judging by the recent press releases, OPTZ is gearing up for a pretty strong 2010. It looks like they could finish 2009 at more than $8 Million.
It has taken patience, but OPTZ finally is putting it together. Based on their run rates and growth potential, they could do $15 to $20 Million in revenue next year.
I got on my Blackberry an alert from Stock Target, lor. Nice day for everyone. I have updated the I-Box above for OPTZ. They had a pretty good Third Quarter too--with their profit margins going up--as did their revenue.
Something might be up beyond just these PR's. Looking for a good day tomorrow. Closing at HOD is very positive.
Optimized Transportation Management (OPTZ) to Add Brokerage Agent
Management Anticipates the Addition of Significant Agency Business
PITTSBURGH, PA--(Marketwire - 12/17/09) - Optimized Transportation Management, Inc. (OTCBB:OPTZ), a supply chain logistics company, has signed a sales agency agreement with CJ&R Transportation Services, LLC. The addition of CJ&R will add over $1 million in annual revenue and provide the Company freight from the southeast, increasing its geographical presence.
OPTZ's business plan is to build a full-service supply chain logistics company by developing a management system for midsized manufacturers and distributors, thereby providing the necessary transportation services to complement the system and eventually meeting 100% of the customers' logistical needs.
Larry Berry, Chief Operating Officer of OPTZ, said, "The addition of CJ&R is a significant step in the growth of our non-asset based business. We anticipate additional agent business to be added in the months going forward."
To be included in OPTZ's e-mail database for corporate press releases and industry updates, please send an e-mail to info@otmionline.com
About Optimized Transportation Management, Inc.
Optimized Transportation Management, Inc. is growing to become a full-service supply chain logistics company. The Company has begun implementing its plans for helping great companies discover, manage and execute their most effective global supply chain strategies. We exist to add real, measurable value throughout our customers' fulfillment process -- the accent is on customers. Our team, technology and value-added solutions allow organizations to have world-class visibility, information and controls without disrupting existing plans, processes, partnerships and information systems.
Our acquisition strategies focus clearly on our ability to provide end to end services for growing global opportunities. We will provide clients with global freight forwarding services, global document management, product staging, a powerful information technology that supports tight integration and total visibility among global factories, suppliers, and end-user customers sourcing product globally.
Additionally, we will focus on managing warehouse operations in support of existing clients and potential new clients, supporting both domestic and global supply chain strategies. We will operate each of our divisions independently, but sell and add real measurable value collectively. In addition, to the synergies, this approach ensures the quality of our internal operations but our joint capabilities provides significant value to our clients.
OPTZ Management Anticipates Substantial Revenue Growth
Optimized Transportation Management to Expand Operation
Management Anticipates Substantial Revenue Growth
Wednesday December 9, 2009, 8:30 am EST
PITTSBURGH, PA--(Marketwire - 12/09/09) - Optimized Transportation Management, Inc. (OTC.BB:OPTZ - News), a supply chain logistics company, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Light Express, Inc. The completion of this transaction will add a fleet to OPTZ's logistics and brokerage operation. OPTZ will be able to provide an asset-based service to its existing customers' operations. OPTZ will also be expanding its logistics business.
OPTZ's business plan is to build a full service supply chain logistics company by developing a management system for midsized manufacturers and distributors, thereby providing the necessary transportation services to complement the system and eventually meeting 100% of the customer's logistical needs.
Larry Berry, Chief Operating Officer of OPTZ, said, "The addition of Light Express equipment to our operation will allow us to expand and enhance our services to current customers and expand our customer base. When the transaction is completed we anticipate that the additional equipment will increase our gross revenues and profit margin."
To be included in OPTZ's e-mail database for corporate press releases and industry updates, please send an e-mail to info@otmionline.com
About Optimized Transportation Management, Inc.
Optimized Transportation Management, Inc. is growing to become a full-service supply chain logistics company. The Company has begun implementing its plans for helping great companies discover, manage and execute their most effective global supply chain strategies. We exist to add real, measurable value throughout our customers' fulfillment process -- the accent is on customers. Our team, technology and value-added solutions allow organizations to have world-class visibility, information and controls without disrupting existing plans, processes, partnerships and information systems.
Our acquisition strategies focus clearly on our ability to provide end-to-end services for growing global opportunities. We will provide clients with global freight-forwarding services, global document management, product staging, a powerful information technology that supports tight integration and total visibility among global factories, suppliers, and end-user customers sourcing product globally.
Additionally, we will be focusing on managing warehouse operations in support of existing clients and potential new clients, supporting both domestic and global supply chain strategies. We will operate each of our divisions independently, but sell and add real measurable value collectively. In addition to the synergies, this approach ensures the quality of our internal operations, but our joint capabilities provides significant value to our clients.
THIRD QUARTER REPORT for OPTZ
Revenue was $1,393,350 for the three months ended September 30, 2009, a decrease of 15% over revenue of $1,630,006 for the three months ended September 30, 2008. The decrease was due primarily to the elimination of an underperforming agent.
Cost of transportation decreased to $1,040,151 for the three months ended September 30, 2009 compared to $1,395,293 for the three months ended September 30, 2008 as a result of the reduction in revenues.
Net margins increased to 25% of revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2009 as compared to 14% of revenue for the three months ended September 30, 2008. The increase in net margins in the current quarter was due to the higher margin of freight sales which was a result of eliminating the underperforming agent.
The most significant cost in selling, general and administrative costs is agent commissions. Commission costs were $169,062 for the three months ended September 30, 2009, a decrease of $81,929 from the three months ended September 30, 2008.
Other selling, general and administrative costs net of agent commissions were $36,599 for the three months ended September 30, 2009. There was no depreciation and amortization costs.
Income from operations was $147,538 for the three months ended September 30, 2009 compared to $120,264 for the three months ended September 30, 2008.
OPTZ up 100%!!
EPG is one to watch, at least. Could bounce
When you have that high institutional ownership-- you run the risk when they leave, the stock tanks. ARNA will be under pressure for a few days, but it is on my list for a bounce play
Thanks for the chart, CLAY
I saw that too. Changed his name here.
I bet Tiger Woods would love if the reporter misspelled his name. LOL
The New York Times City Room
December 3, 2009, 7:30 am
Brush Your Teeth and Conserve Water
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
United Treatment Centers A New York company is offering a water-free toothbrush, which uses liquid toothpaste that comes in a cartridge.
It’s a daily ritual ingrained into Americans since childhood: brush your teeth twice a day (three times if you do the after-lunch thing). And for nearly all Americans it involves three things: a toothbrush, toothpaste and water.
But now a New York company says it can do away with the water, introducing a mechanized toothbrush that uses a liquid toothpaste (is it paste if it’s liquid?) that can be spit out called the Aquafree Toothbrush The company, United Treatment Centers, unveiled the product at a dental convention at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center this week and says it plans to give 100,000 of its toothbrushes to New York schoolchildren.
But why do away with the water?
Todd Spinelli, one of the inventors, said that the original motivation was both environmental and hygienic. He and his partner, Frank Ottaviani, became interested in the dental business when they built mobile dental clinics for underserved neighborhoods.
They were concerned about the gallons of water that was wasted whenever people left the faucet running while brushing their teeth. And Mr. S[inelli said he became sick once during a trip to Mexico because of the water he used to brush his teeth. “That prompted me to say, ‘Hey. is there a good way to do this?’” Access to clean water is a big concern in many developing nations, which makes dental care a vexing problem.
Mr. Spinelli said they discovered that Procter & Gamble had created a liquid toothpaste in the late 1930s that it never brought to market, in part because researchers could not figure out how to apply it to teeth.
Instead, companies decided to go with a paste, which could be applied with a brush, which became the modern toothpaste and toothbrush we know today. If you think liquid toothpaste is odd, during the 18th century, toothpaste was mostly toothpowder, dry cleansers that included ingredients like ground charcoal.
Inspired, the two created a liquid toothpaste, which is injected by the mechanized toothbrush. The toothpaste comes in a cartridge that is good for 30 uses and must be regularly replaced. (Hmm . . . the business model is sounding a bit like the one for razors and razor blades model).
Once they started marketing their product, they were surprised at interest from various groups: the military, cancer hospitals, amputees, arthritis sufferers. “We’ve had dialogue from heads of states, all the way down to privates in Afghanistan e-mailing us,” he said. “The experience has been kind of mind-blowing.”
Brushing teeth in places like Afghanistan and Iraq is relatively difficult for soldiers. Some of them, after discovering the company’s Web site, e-mailed Mr. Spinelli directly. “They carry bottles of water around to brush their teeth,” Mr. Spinelli said.
One appeal of the the liquid toothpaste is that it is good at treating dry mouth, that cottony feeling that comes from a lack of saliva. It is common to soldiers who are stressed on the battlefield and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
The military has actually played a critical role in the the history of clean American mouths. As odd it may be to think today when dental products often occupy an aisle in the drug store, brushing regularly was not a habit in the first part of the 20th century.
It changed after World War II, when returning soldiers brought the military discipline of brushing twice a day back home to the States.
Beacon Power Announces Proposed Public Offering Of Common Stock
Beacon Power Corporation (Nasdaq: BCON), a company that designs, develops and is commercializing advanced products and services to support more stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation, today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market, regulatory and other conditions, shares of its common stock and warrants in an underwritten public offering. The Company is seeking to raise approximately $15 million in the offering. The offering is expected to price before 9:30 am EST on Friday, December 4, 2009. Lazard Capital Markets LLC is acting as the sole book-running manager for the offering.
The securities described above are being offered by the Company pursuant to a shelf registration statement which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and became effective on September 15, 2009. A prospectus supplement describing the terms of this offering will be filed with the SEC and forms a part of the effective registration statement.
When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement, the final prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus relating to this offering can be obtained at the SEC’s website. Interested parties may also contact Lazard Capital Markets LLC in connection with this offering or to obtain a copy of any of the above mentioned prospectuses at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, 60th Floor, New York, NY 10020 or via telephone at (800) 542-0970.
This press release is not an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation, or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.
About Beacon Power
Beacon Power Corporation designs, develops and is commercializing advanced products and services to support stable, reliable and efficient electricity grid operation. Beacon’s Smart Energy Matrix, now in production, is a non-polluting, megawatt-scale, utility-grade, flywheel-based solution designed to provide less expensive, and more sustainable and effective, frequency regulation services to the nation’s power grid. The Company’s business strategy is both to supply frequency regulation services from its own plants, and to sell its systems directly to utilities or grid operators in some parts of North America and selected international markets. Beacon is a publicly traded company with its research, development and manufacturing facility in the U.S. For more information.
City kids to get handle on new 'waterless' toothbrushes - the Aquafree
By Katie Nelson
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, December 3rd 2009, 4:00 AM
Saving your teeth from sticky candy canes could be easier this year with a newfangled toothbrush that's ecofriendly to boot.
A new, waterless toothbrush is being rolled out by a Manhattan-based company during this week's annual Greater New York Dental Meeting and Convention at the Javits Center.
Each Aquafree brush has a fat handle holding a cartridge that contains a liquid toothpaste. Press a button, and the liquid squishes out through the bristles. As you brush, the dentifrice foams and turns into mouthwash.
The brush aims to help cut down on wastewater and make hygiene easier for the estimated 2 billion people on the planet without access to sanitary water.
Todd Spinelli, a vice president of United Treatment Centers, came up with the idea for the brush after a trip to Mexico was marred by contaminated water, he said.
The company will give away 100,000 Aquafree brushes to New York school kids over the next few months during a campaign about oral cleanliness.
The new brush is also available online and will start shipping in about two weeks for an introductory price of $9.77.
BCON is raising $15 Million in a Public Offering. Just got the e-mail.
Watch out.
ETRM in on my watch list. It is news-driven and gets attention quickly. Good for a trade, IMO.
More news coming out of DOLV next week. Hang on