Good morning to you all. Please find enclosed a summary of the great small-cap and micro-cap press releases we highlighted on our TV show this morning. It’s July 1st and we’ve found 3 great press release from both sides of the border to report on at the open. Another great day for the small-cap and micro-cap world.
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Intelligentias Secures a $24 Million Order With One of the World’s Largest Communications Service Providers
Intelligentias, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ITLI)
-announced the signing of a multi-year data retention software order with one of the world’s largest communications service providers. Performance of this order will result in $24 million in revenues for Intelligentias during the term of the project.
Intelligentias will provide data retention and security services for this communications service provider over the next few years. Further details of the order were not revealed at the request of the customer.
-“We are pleased to announce the signing of our largest order to date,” said Intelligentias Chief Executive Officer, Ian Rice. “Our products will provide our customer with the only solution on the market capable of handling their challenging environment.” While declining to name the customer, Mr. Rice continued, “Our customer is both one of the world’s largest communications service providers and a very large enterprise, requiring communications data retention solutions, enterprise compliance and security services.”
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Tootie Pie Company Annual Revenues Grow 132%
The Tootie Pie Company, Inc. (OTC BB:TOOT)
–a premium baker and seller of high-quality, handmade pies, announced today that revenues for the twelve months ended March 31, 2008 increased 132% to $1,420,495 as compared to $611,495 for the twelve months ended March 31, 2007.
-Gross margin after depreciation was 64% of net sales for the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2008 compared to 47% for the twelve-month period ended March 31, 2007, a 17 percentage point improvement. During the 2008 fiscal year, we also reported our first ever net profit of $171,474 for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2007
“Our margins continued to improve, as did our operating efficiencies. We also absorbed significant cash and non-cash expenses related to taking the Company public. When you consider that we achieved these many milestones in only our second full year of operations, I think it is quite extraordinary. Fiscal year 2009 is off to a great start and we expect to continue to achieve new milestones as we expand the ‘Tootie Pie’ brand into new markets throughout the United States,” said Don Merrill, Tootie Pie Company’s President & CEO
About Tootie Pie Company
Tootie Pie Company bakes and sells high-quality, handmade pies through three basic sales channels: retail, corporate and wholesale. The retail segment serves individual consumers through in-store sales, orders via telephone and internet on the Company’s website. The corporate segment serves businesses that purchase pies as a way to promote their company through client and employee appreciation programs. The wholesale segment is made up of regional and national broadline foodservice distributors who purchase pies and then resell them to their customers.
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Pure Biofuels Prepares to Launch Peru’s Largest Integrated Bulk Liquid Terminaling Operation
Pure Biofuels Corp. (OTCBB: PBOF)
-a Peruvian-based biodiesel company, today announced it has completed construction of an underwater pipe that will become part of Peru’s largest integrated terminaling operation.
-Besides the expected cost advantages for transporting and storing raw materials, as well as blending and exporting finished product from its own biodiesel facilities, the
Company will make its tank farm available to third parties on a per barrel or per ton per month basis, providing the opportunity for Pure Biofuels to diversify its revenue stream with a high margin revenue source.
-Pure Biofuels’ Chairman Chris Tewell commented, “Pure Biofuels now owns and will soon operate Peru’s largest integrated terminaling operation. Our tank farms greatly complement our primary production facility, which includes a biodiesel production plant and a blending facility. We plan to commence our terminaling operations in the third quarter in conjunction with the ramp up of our flagship Callao Port refinery, subject to pending test results of the facility.”
Pure Biofuels is committed to becoming a leader in Latin America’s rapidly emerging biofuels industry. Pure Biofuels’ flagship project, the Callao Port biodiesel refinery near Lima, Peru, is scheduled to complete construction in the second quarter of 2008 and to commence full production capabilities by the third quarter of 2008. The Company believes Peru’s economic growth and expansion, illustrated by recent exponential growth in foreign direct investment, and GDP growth over the last five years, adds to Peru’s promise as an attractive geography for alternative fuel production and development. In addition, rating agency DBRS in 2008 assigned investment-grade credit ratings to Peru’s long-term foreign and local currency debt.
Biodiesel is a clean and renewable energy source derived from vegetable oil that can be used in unmodified diesel engines. Biodiesel improves overall engine performance, is 100% compatible with existing diesel vehicles and infrastructure, and has proven reliable in over 50 million miles of road testing. Biodiesel significantly reduces harmful exhaust emissions, which contribute to global warming; is non-toxic at any level; and is the first and only fuel to have passed the Clean Air Act. The United Nations expects biofuels to account for a full 25% of world energy needs by 2025.
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