Expo Holdings Inc. (EXPH)

[Santa Barbara Broker]

"Yep, seems to be an awful shame to some that they keep getting contracts with Fortune 500/100 companies. I think this excerpt from a old post explains why they continually get these contracts. Retail investors can do the Clint Eastwood thingy and ask themselves if they feel lucky with EXPH being a Pink Sheet stock . Lowes , Stanley Tool , Home Depot , Newell-Rubbermaid , Bosch Tool , Kronotex U.S.A. , Black & Decker, Westinghouse , Wachovia / S.Community and Crestmark Banks .....DON'T BET ON BEING LUCKY .....they execute on being SMART and exhaustively diligent"

Well, IMHO, that's all a total crock of misleading dung. Now, whether the method used to create the misleading crock of dung was "SMART" or not may well be determined if the people that created it manage to stay out of jail if they are ever caught. But that's another story.

I've been working on a little theory that I believe has more than a 90% chance of being proven true. It started with one of the infamous "photos of nothing" from one of the Expo set-up tours. It was of a pallet of Lowes displays...specifically part of the Lowes order, which were designated for "Kronotex USA". Hmmmmm. One of the companies Expo claimed to have produced an "order" for that was never heard from again. But Kronotex WAS selling products at Lowes. Hmmmmm Hmmmmm. Suddenly it dawned on me. There were a LOT of blue chip names Expo Holdings had claimed to be "doing business with" that were never heard from much after the initial P&D type PR releases. Stanley Tool, Newell-Rubbermaid, Bosch Tool, the aforementioned Kronotex U.S.A., more recently Armstrong Flooring and Black & Decker to name a few. And what do you know? All these names were PR'd or mentioned at least during the Lowes display order initial rumors or after Expo had started production. And all of them sell products through Lowes...Hmmmm, Hmmmm, HMMMMM. Gee, I sez to myself, I wonder if a disengenuous outfit like Expo Holdings desperate to produce PRs on anything that can show a blue chip name next to theirs in such a misleading release might be using the Lowes order that might be designating certain types of displays built for certain vendors and then PRing that they are actually doing BUSINESS with that VENDOR? Instead of just building displays for Lowes per Lowes specifications to display that vendors goods in Lowes stores? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM??????

Knowing JD Brown the way we all do, picture this (no pun intended). You have learned that Lowes' displays have to built to Lowes specs to fit the floor plans in their stores regardless of who displays their products on those displays. BUT, that any vendor wanting shelf space in a Lowes literally has to pay for that display shelf as part of the deal...a display which D&D Displays then builds for Lowes. So JD Brown sez...HMMMMMM and starts the infamous Expo rationalization. IN essence, D&D Displays and Expo are being paid by those vendors. So technically, I can issue a PR saying we are producing a display order for them. HMMMMMMMM!!!!!

Yeah well, not too diligent or smart IMHO if it's true, but it certainly would explain why they "keep getting "contracts" with all these "Fortune 500/100" companies"....but continually LOSE hundreds of thousands of dollars year after year after year. Now wouldn't it...Hmmmmmmm???? All IMHO