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Product Overview
Omni ParkPass, Inc., a publicly traded company, NASDAQ:(OMNP) designs develops and integrates business operating software systems for the entertainment and amusement park industries. The OPPI system controls, operates or interfaces with all key park systems such as park entry, point of sale, cash management, general ledger accounting, payroll, personnel, facilities maintenance, and more. The OPPI system is a multiple park operational management system allowing park management to provide better and safer park services at a lower cost per customer. OPPI provides the park with an integrated, multiple money source accounting system that permits a cashless environment and convenient Web ticket purchasing. Just as important are the park operational cost savings brought about by Human Resource de-skilling and lower overhead features built into all levels of the OPPI system design. The system allows for multiple parks to be combined and serviced from a central location. At the corporate level, individual parks or park group demographics, along with bottom line daily reports, are available with a click of a mouse or touch of a screen.
Initial Target Markets
U.S. Amusement Park Industry 1999 Estimated Attendance-309,000.000 Major League Sports - U.S. Major League Baseball (2,428 Games) (1999) 70,139,380 National Basketball Assn. (1,189 Games) (1998) 20,373,079 National Football League (240 Games) (1998) 16,187,758 National Hockey League (1,107 Games) (1999) 19,511,152 Estimated Attendance-126,211,369 Top Ten Concert Promoters - 1999 SFX 21,384,355 House of Blues Concerts 4,840,765 Metropolitan Entertainment 1,887,347 JAM Productions 2,371,943 Electric Factory Concerts 1,851,801 Belkin Productions 1,726,721 Beaver Productions 1,125,934 Nederlander Organization 771,285 Evening Star Productions 725,741 Jack Utsick Presents 375.146 Estimated Attendance-37,061,038 Top 10 U.S. Carnival Show Owners/Operators - 1999 Estimated Attendance-29,728,358 North American Fairs With Attendance of 1,000,000 or more - 1999 Estimated Attendance-22,514,094 Top 40 Entertainment Facilities - 1999 Facility Capacity Estimate Estimated Attendance-17,300.000 Racing Industry - 1999 NASCAR Events Estimated Attendance Winston Cup Series (33 events) 6,500,000 Busch Series (31 events) 2,500,000 Craftsman Truck Series (27 events) 1,000,000 Estimated Attendance-10,000,000
The U.S. Amusement Park Industry Year Attendance Revenue 1990 253 million $5.7 Billion 1991 260 million $6.1 Billion 1992 267 million $6.5 Billion 1993 275 million $6,8 Billion 1994 267 million $7.1 Billion 1995 280 million $7.4 Billion 1996 290 million $7.9 Billion 1997 300 million $8.4 Billion 1998 300 million $8.7 Billion 1999 309 million $9.1 Billion
Board of Directors
W. Cleveland Smith, Chairman and Director, has 30 years of global industry experience . Mr. Smith was on the team that originally started and developed the Six Flags theme parks and has consulted to major amusement park owners such as Anheiser Bush, Mattel, Sesame Street, Sea World and Wet'n Wild. Additionally, he provided services and management for expositions including the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair, Seattle World's Fairgrounds, Virginia State Fair and the State Fair of Texas. He conducted international negotiations and contract implementation services and franchise agreements to design, build and assist in the operation of major Wet'n Wild Water parks in Brazil and Mexico. Jon W. Eberle, PhD., serves on the company's Board of Directors and on the company's Board of Advisors. He is the Chief Financial Officer of Pierce Homes, Inc., a custom homebuilder in the Dallas area. He also serves as Chairman and Director of laser Data Images, a high technology company in the Dallas area. Dr. Eberle's career includes positions in the technology area including strategic product planning, product development, product marketing, software development, system integration and teaching at the University level in the fields of electrical and bio medical engineering. Raymond H. Adler, Vice President and Director is the former Chief Executive Officer for Adler Communications Group, a high technology public relations, marketing and advertising company with clients that include GTE, Amtech, Panasonic, West Group, Children's Medical Center and Intelli-Site, Inc. Before entering Public Relations, Mr. Adler was an Assistant Managing Editor with The Dallas Times Herald where his staff won Pulitzer Prizes in feature photography 1980 and 1983. Charles C. Freeny, Ph.D., President of Automated Business Companies advises the board on technology transfer between the many patents licensed to Omni ParkPass, Inc. Dr. Freeny is a noted inventor and developer of technology patents including the first chip in a card (smart card issued in 1974) and the "Point of Sale Information Manufacturing Machine," which was later known as the Freeny patent or Internet Patent. This famous patent covers many applications in which information (such as software programs, video, audio, text files or any combination thereof) is downloaded to a user's computer and then stored on a hard disk. In the last five years Dr. Freeny has submitted more than 500 inventions involving RF proximity systems and new programming methods which make controlling hundreds of applications from a single program very simple. A recently allowed patent is the Split PC covering Virtual PC's to eliminate hardware and software upgrades. Dana C. Verrill, serves on the company's Board of Advisors and is a business developer and private investor who has founded several technology companies. Mr. Verrill was the Chief Executive Officer for Spectrum Information Technologies, Inc. (Spectrum), a publicly traded high-tech wireless data communications company. Before Spectrum, he was the co-founder of SMC-Intech System Corporation, an exclusive distributor of Seiko Computers and other major brand hardware and software.
