Wilhelmina International Inc (WHLM)

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Outstanding Shares: 129,440,752
Insider Ownership: 92,923,585
Public Float: 36,517,167


Esch, Dieter, through Lorex Investments, AG
30,882,553
Krassner, Brad, through Krassner Investments
30,464,515
Newcastle Partners LP, Mark Schwarz
31,526,517
(paid .247c to acquire Wilhelmina)

Director: Bohlk, Hans-Joachim
50,000
Director: Fromm, Derek J
Form 3 filed but no 3/A yet
Director: Stone, Evan D
Form 3 filed but no 3/A yet

Sean Patterson, CEO (no filings)
interview from 2006 http://models.com/oftheminute/?p=1031

Krassner formerly started MagicWorks, an entertainment company (David Copperfield, Penn&Teller), which IPO'd in 1996 then was bought by SFX Entertainment, which in turn was bought by Clear Channel Communications.
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/1996/11/11/story6.html
Brad Krassner is the vice-president and a member of the Board of Directors of USA Team Handball. Krassner, co-owner of Wilhelmina and proprietor of several media and entertainment-related businesses, first witnessed handball at the 2007 World Championships in Germany. He was hooked instantly and will help guide USA Team Handball’s long-term media and development strategies. Krassner lives in Park City, Utah.
http://www.usateamhandball.org/about/board/index.html?staff_id=6

Wilhelmina Models is a modeling agency founded in 1967 by the model Wilhelmina Cooper and her husband Bruce Cooper in Manhattan.[1]

In February 2009, the company was acquired by New Century Equity Holdings Corp., a publicly traded company. New Century subsequently changed its name to Wilhelmina International, Inc. and now trades under the ticker symbol WHLM.

Prior to the transaction, the agency was owned and run by Dieter Esch and Brad Krassner, who purchased 50% from Esch in 1999. The agency was sold in the 1990s to Dieter Esch, who made his daughter Natasha Esch president as a twenty-first birthday present. The Wilhelmina Guide to Modeling (ISBN 0-684-81491-9) was published in 1996 by Simon & Schuster, New York. Although authorship is attributed to Natasha Esch, actual writing credit is given to C.L. Walker, who was a Wilhelmina model at the time. At the time of its publication, the book caused something of a scandal in the industry because it revealed closely guarded secrets regarding the management of models and the realities of the business.

The Wilhelmina agency has offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, as well as Munich, called Wilhelmina-Nova Models.

In 2004, VA based Modelogic Agency entered a license agreement with Wilhelmina and became Modelogic Wilhelmina.[2] Within the same year, the agency formed a second division (Wilhelmina Image) as a scouting/development program.

In 2007, Wilhelmina came together with Charlotte, North Carolina-based agency, Evolution, founded by Scott Cooper, and Evolution became Wilhelmina-Evolution.

In 2008, Wilhelmina's president, Sean Patterson, was a judge on the TV Land reality show, She's Got the Look, where 20 women over 35 competed for a lucrative contract with Wilhelmina and a photospread in Self.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_Models