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Phoenix Associates Provides Shareholders With an Update on Business Operations
COVINGTON, LA, Sep 26, 2005 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Phoenix Associates Land Syndicate (Phoenix) (OTC: PBLS), a holding company with assets in oil, sand & gravel, soil products, land development, trucking, contract hauling, swimming pool construction and construction related industries, released the following comments from Mr. Paul Alonzo, CEO and President: Due to recent requests from shareholders and interested investors, I have compiled a short list on Phoenix's current financial status and some of my expectations for the years 2005 and 2006. While we are working towards providing the public with audited financials, the numbers provided today are un-audited. Before I give out any numbers, I would like to say some things about some of our great managers:
Nobody believed it could be accomplished but under the direction of the Operations Manager, Adam Alonzo (Murphy Sand & Gravel), and with the assistance of Operations Manager, John Zornes (Bayou State Trucking), the Murphy Sand and Gravel Pit, located in Pearl River, Louisiana, reopened for business at 6 a.m., Monday, September 19, 2005, under generator power. By 12 noon, C.S.T., CLECO, the power company servicing Murphy, had the entire operation with electrical power. This incredible task was accomplished, after the Murphy operation was devastated during Hurricane Katrina, by Adam Alonzo, along with contractors, timber cutters, electricians truckers and the power company. Yes, he is my son.
1. Phoenix Division, Murphy Sand and Gravel, Manager Adam Alonzo: The gravel pit should generate in excess of $2,310,000.00 in revenues for the year 2005. With what will possibly be the largest construction boom in Louisiana and New Orleans history, the gravel pit revenues for 2006 are sure to increase.
2. Phoenix Division, Oil & Gas, Manager John Barksdale: The acquisition of Rome Oil and Mid-South Resources will add a minimum of $1,368,000.00 in revenues for Phoenix for calendar year 2005, with expectations the two oil companies will generate over $12,000,000.00 in revenue for the company in 2006. Phoenix is able to acquire these two oil and gas companies with stock and a small cash payment. After paying for the acquisition, Phoenix coffers are still healthy enough to finance and bring into production the next ten wells which our research indicates will be the most profitable.
It is my policy that Phoenix need not go into debt to develop these oil and gas properties. Our policy shall be to raise money for future drilling (if need be) on a non-recourse method without putting Phoenix into debt.
3. Mineral Assets: Our gravel pit has proven mineral reserves in the amount of $300,000,000.00 and the addition of Rome Oil and Mid-South Resources brings another $200,000,000.00 worth of mineral reserves to Phoenix's balance sheet. I anticipate Phoenix having over $1,000,000,000.00 worth of mineral reserves by the end of 2006.
4. Phoenix Division, Heaslip Construction - Manager, Mark Dishon: Gross revenues for our construction division could exceed $2,000,000.00 for calendar year 2005. Our research and experience shows the average repair/remodel cost for homes in our area of the country to be around $80,000.00 per house. Unfortunately, there are literally thousands of homes in need of repair due to the hurricanes. I expect record breaking years for Heaslip during what I know will be one of the largest re-building efforts ever taken in the history of our country. If we get just a small piece of the action, revenues for our construction division should really take off during 2006.
5. Phoenix Divisions, Ann Arbor Pools - Manager, Dennis Scherdt and Great Lakes Pool Plastering - Manager, Byron Ross: These two companies should bring in approximately $2,288,000.00 in revenues to Phoenix during the calendar year 2005. Both of these companies also stand to break all sorts of records during the soon to be construction boom of 2005 and 2006.
6. Phoenix Division, Bayou State Trucking - Manager, John Zornes: Our trucking division tries to avoid the costs and hassles of owning trucks and the maintenance and insurance issues that come with ownership. Bayou provided jobs for owner operators and leases equipment from time to time when necessary. Revenues to calendar year 2005 should be around $650,000.00. For all qualified drivers with proper credentials and proof of insurance, Bayou is paying $45 per hour for tandems, $55 per hour for tri-axles and $65 per hour for eighteen wheelers. Again, with the coming construction boom, I expect annual revenues for our trucking division to also increase during 2006.
7. Phoenix Division, Acquisitions and Business Development - Manager, Ron Blackburn, assisted by Patti Fischer and Roger Stone: We are in a constant search for profitable companies to acquire where the acquisition can be accomplished with little or no debt and in which the acquisition brings immediate revenue growth and assets to Phoenix. We are in negotiations at this time with several companies we will try to acquire.
During the year 2004 when Phoenix was a much smaller company than we are today, we grossed a little over $3,000,000.00. While the addition of the conservative estimated numbers I gave above add up to a little over $8,600,000.00 in revenue. I am sure with the rapid growth we are currently experiencing in the last part of 2005, that our gross revenues will wind up exceeding $10,000,000.00 for the year with profit exceeding what our gross revenues where in 2004.
For 2006, since we expect revenues from our oil and gas division to be much more that $12,000,000.00, and because we have other acquisitions in the works in the oil and gas division, and since it is reasonable to assume that all of our construction related divisions should profit greatly from the expected construction boom in 2006, it is reasonable to expect that Phoenix's 2006 revenues could be as much as four to five times greater than our 2005 revenues. I am also happy to report that management has been very successful in control of day to day costs of operations and avoiding unnecessary debt which means profit in 2006 should rise in proportion to revenues quite nicely.
As CEO of Phoenix and on behalf of all of our managers and employees I would like to say that our hearts and prayers are with all of the victims of these two terrible hurricanes that struck our shores and that we as a company are dedicated to doing our best in re-building this great part of our great country.
Forward-Looking Statements
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For More Information Contact:
Ron Blackburn
(985) 845-4627
Mike Mulshine
Osprey Partners
(732) 233-3853
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