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at 1:27 PM on Friday, March 26th, 2021
March 26, 2021 – TheNewswire – Vancouver, BC – Quizam Media Corporation (“the Company”) (CSE:QQ ) (CNSX:QQ.CN) ( OTC:QQQFF) is pleased to announce that it has received approval from OTC Markets Group Inc. (“OTCM”) for is shares to trade on the OTCQB exchange (“OTCQB”) beginning at market open on Monday, March 29th, 2021.
Based in New York, the OTC Markets Group, is an American financial market providing price and liquidity information for over 11,000 securities.
Companies listed on OTCQB must meet high financial standards, and are subject to stringent standards of corporate governance and compliance with securities laws.
Quizam’s listing on OTCQB provides investors the opportunity to benefit from streamlined market standards which enhance the availability of information to the general public, enabling greater transparency.
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at 10:20 AM on Friday, March 26th, 2021
*VICE TV Celebrities and over 10,000 Fans to Attend
*“We are actively in, on the ground, and arm in arm with our consumers, where they celebrate their passions, like drag racing, and idols, like Donkmaster and Country C. This is how they know we are the real deal,” said Shaun Serpa, Marketing Director for Lyfted Farms.
Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – March 26, 2021) – TransCanna Holdings Inc. (CSE: TCAN) (OTC PINK: TCNAF) (FSE: TH8) (“TransCanna” or the “Company”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Lyfted Farms, is thrilled to announce two much-anticipated new product launches this weekend in San Diego, California.
Lyfted Farms, renowned in the industry for its masterful cultivation techniques and unique and powerful strains of exotic cannabis flower, will tease two new very potent strains to 10,000 existing and potential consumers at the Barona Raceway near San Diego tomorrow, Saturday, March 27th.
VICE TV celebrities “Donkmaster” Sage Thomas and “Country C” will be championing and promoting the launch directly to the audience at the Raceway, and limited ‘first taste’ products will be available for sale on-site through a licensed delivery service.
The new THC-dominant strains, Carolina Cantaloupe, and Heads Up Pro-Tree, with 31% and 25% THC respectively, will rank among some of the most potent THC strains to come onto the market in 2021. The strains are proprietary to Lyfted Farms and have never before been sampled by consumers.
“This kind of direct-to-consumer loyalty and relationship-building is the central theme of our marketing and how we differentiate,” said Shaun Serpa, Marketing Director for Lyfted Farms. “We are actively in, on the ground, and arm in arm with our consumers, where they celebrate their passions, like drag racing, and idols, like Donkmaster and Country C. This is how they know we are the real deal.”
Donkmaster and Country C will personally be on-hand to meet and greet fans and further promote the new strains on Sunday March 28th at the COOKIES La Mesa retail store in San Diego.
COOKIES, with over 25 retail locations throughout the United States, is one of the most authentic and well-respected cannabis lifestyle brands in the country and is set to massively scale its retail footprint in 2021 and beyond.
Immediately following the exclusive launch events at Barona Raceway and COOKIES, full distribution of the new strains will roll out to additional select Lyfted Farms retail dispensaries.
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at 7:56 AM on Friday, March 26th, 2021
Engaged international investor relations specialists MZ Group (MZ) to lead a comprehensive strategic investor relations and financial communications program across all key markets.
MZ Group will work closely with Peak management to develop and implement a comprehensive capital markets strategy designed to increase the Company’s visibility throughout the investment community ahead of Peak’s anticipated listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market and thereafter.
Montreal, Quebec–(March 26, 2021) – Peak Fintech Group Inc. (CSE: PKK) (OTCQX: PKKFF) (“Peak” or the “Company”), an innovative Fintech service provider to the Chinese commercial lending sector, has engaged international investor relations specialists MZ Group (MZ) to lead a comprehensive strategic investor relations and financial communications program across all key markets.
MZ Group will work closely with Peak management to develop and implement a comprehensive capital markets strategy designed to increase the Company’s visibility throughout the investment community ahead of Peak’s anticipated listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market and thereafter. The campaign will highlight how Peak is leveraging the Cubeler Lending Hub platform in China to automate the commercial lending process as well as how Peak plans to deploy the Lending Hub ecosystem concept in North America by the end of 2021. Powered by an analytics and artificial intelligence platform, the Cubeler Lending Hub is a nation-wide ecosystem that brings together lenders, borrowers and other participants in the commercial lending space to conduct lending and credit transactions rapidly, efficiently and with the utmost transparency.
MZ has developed a distinguished reputation as a premier resource for institutional investors, brokers, analysts and private investors. Mark Schwalenberg, CFA, Director at MZ North America, will advise Peak in all facets of corporate and financial communications, including the coordination of roadshows and investment conferences across key cities, as well as building brand awareness with financial and social media outlets.
Ted Haberfield, Chairman & President of MZ Group North America, commented: “Peak’s innovative ecosystem provides access to all data on small businesses that would be required by any lender to qualify the business for credit, including from their accounting software and bank statements. Leveraging artificial intelligence to analyze lending criteria allows Peak to match small businesses with multiple lending institutions, and therefore, increase the likelihood of funding while also minimizing risk for lenders by providing pre-qualified leads. The Company has seen wide adoption of its platform in China, and we look forward to sharing Peak’s solid position and aggressive expansion plan with our wide network of institutional investors and family offices.”
“2021 is an important inflection point for Peak, as we focus on executing our development roadmap over the coming year and prepare for an eventual Nasdaq listing,” said Johnson Joseph, President and CEO of Peak Fintech Group. “We look forward to working with Mark and the entire team at MZ Group to communicate with and introduce the Company to a whole new audience who may not yet be familiar with Peak as we continue to build long-term value for our shareholders,” concluded Johnson.
The agreement is for a term of twelve (12) months with a review after six (6) months. As compensation for the services provided, MZ Group will receive a monthly fee of US$10,000 and options to purchase 110,000 common shares of Peak. The options will have an exercise price of $2.75 CAD and will expire five (5) years from the date of their issuance.
For more information on Peak, please visit the Company’s investor relations website at http://peakfintechgroup.com/investors/. To schedule a conference call with management, please email your request to [email protected] or call Mark Schwalenberg at 312-261-6430.
About MZ Group
MZ North America (www.mzgroup.us) is the US division of MZ Group, a global leader in investor relations and corporate communications. MZ North America was founded in 1996 and provides full scale Investor Relations to both private and public companies across all industries. Supported by our exclusive one‐stop‐shop approach, MZ works with top management to support the clients’ business strategy in six integrated product and service categories: 1) IR Consulting & Outreach – full service investor relations and roadshow services; 2) ESG iQ & Advisory – reporting technology platform and audit and reporting guidance; 3) SPAC Alpha IR+ & IPO Advisory – providing critical and timely guidance through business combinations and IPOs; 4) Financial & Social Media – lead generation and social media relations; 5) Market Intelligence – real time ownership monitoring; 6) Technology Solutions – webhosting, webcasting, conference calls, distribution services and board portals. MZ North America has a global footprint with offices located in New York, Chicago, San Diego, Aliso Viejo, Austin, Minneapolis, Taipei and São Paulo.
About Peak Fintech Group Inc.
Peak Fintech Group Inc. is the parent company of a group of innovative financial technology (Fintech) subsidiaries operating in China’s commercial lending industry. Peak’s subsidiaries use technology, analytics and artificial intelligence to create an ecosystem of lenders, borrowers and other participants in China’s commercial lending space where lending operations are conducted rapidly, safely, efficiently and with the utmost transparency. For more information: www.peakfintechgroup.com.
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at 2:55 PM on Thursday, March 25th, 2021
Digital assets stored on the blockchain can be endlessly copied, but legal and finite ownership of original digital artwork, music and more is becoming the domain of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), now enjoying their moment in the cyber-sun as the hot cryptocurrency investment du jour.
Enter ex-Beatle and iconoclast, the late John Lennon. What’s the connection? It’s famed rock music photographer and jewelry designer May Pang who, as the story goes, went from personal assistant to paramour of Lennon in 1973 during an 18-month breakup from his wife, Yoko Ono.
In the annals of rock star indulgence, it’s known as Lennon’s infamous “Lost Weekend” in Los Angeles (again, lasting nearly two years) during which punches flew, substances were abused, public scenes ensued in L.A. watering holes, and late songwriter Harry Nilsson (“Everybody’s Talkin’ at Me” and “Me and My Arrow”) reportedly saved Lennon from a bad psychological slide.
Pang chronicled the entire affair (no pun intended) with her camera, capturing deeply personal moments of what turned out to be some of Lennon’s last years on earth. The Beatles co-founder was murdered outside of his New York City apartment building in December 1980.
Speaking with PYMNTS, Pang and Ruth McCartney, stepsister to Beatles co-founder Sir Paul, spoke of their partnership bringing a slice of Lennon history back to life.
Together with global blockchain solutions firm Liquid Avatar Technologies, augmented reality (AR) platform ImagineAR, Oasis Digital Studios and McCartney Multimedia, the parties are “bringing [Pang’s] personal and exclusive collection of ‘John Lennon’s Lost Weekend’ photographs featuring her intimate 18 months with the rock ‘n’ roll icon to the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collector market through Oasis Digital Studios,” per a statement.
Along with the sound of tens of millions of Lennon fans fainting at the prospect of owning these original sounds and images is the scramble for digital wallets as bidding begins.
Pang Partners With Sir Paul McCartney’s Digital-Savvy Stepsister On NFT Line
Pang knew the late icon better than most, telling PYMNTS, “John Lennon loved the idea of instant. So now … you have your [digital] camera and you go, ‘I don’t like that photo, [delete it] put the next one in,’ — he would love that more than anything else.” She added, “That’s where my book [title comes from], ‘Instamatic Karma.’ [It’s] a play on his song title.”
Perhaps a ripping Beatles cover song — “Money (That’s What I Want)” — would be the more appropriate citation when speaking about NFTs. Trade in NFTs began heating up earlier this year as everyone from Lindsay Lohan to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was suddenly auctioning off their most famous digital assets, like Dorsey’s first-ever tweet.
For her part, McCartney and her Oasis Digital Studios are rocking her world-class Rolodex to bring digital ownership of even more amazing moments in pop culture to the crypto crowd.
“We’re not just taking photographs … and selling them as JPEGs,” McCartney said. “There is a whole multimedia component, in some cases augmented reality, in some cases cinematics. We’re turning these iconic photographs and paintings and pieces of pop culture … [into digital] audio and visual [NFTs].”
She added, “I think art is just following that natural progression of … drawings on cave walls to paintings in the Sistine Chapel, to something hanging on the wall in a collector’s place or the Louvre. We all live in our phones … so why wouldn’t we collect art digitally, especially if it’s protected in the blockchain?”
McCartney said she likes to call NFTs “non-forgeable tokens” to illustrate their unique digital attributes.
“I think it’s a lot more attractive because … how many great old masters have been counterfeited and ripped off? Well, with this medium, you can’t do it. So, it guarantees the owner exclusivity, and it guarantees the artist protection for their work.”
Among her next moves in the space will be foodie NFTs from the world’s top chefs, she said.
“Money Don’t Get Everything, It’s True…”
Pang said she views the new crypto craze through an artist’s lens, telling PYMNTS that after discussing NFTs with McCartney, she realized the creative opportunities afforded by the form.
Noting that with NFTs “I could take my photographs and put in events” and other multimedia elements, Pang compared the NFT phenomenon to The Beatles’ groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper’s album, still hailed as a technological breakthrough for the creation of art in the 1960s.
Harking back to her comment about Lennon’s love of all things instant, Pang said, “He would be deep in the thick of this, too,” meaning the creation of NFTs. For the man credited with the first (and only) political protest to take place in a hotel suite, Pang’s call seems on the money.
While “John Lennon’s Lost Weekend” NFT is a collection of images and more, when asked about favorite items in the collection, Pang’s tone lightened to a laugh as she recalled Lennon’s personal favorite image, now part of the NFT, of himself wearing an Aran sweater.
“That was one of his favorites,” Pang told PYMNTS, noting that Lennon said, “‘I like the way I look.’ He didn’t like a lot of photographs that were out there [of] him.”
Getting the vote for most dramatic NFT image in the collection: Lennon signing the papers legally dissolving The Beatles, consigning them off to the ages — and now, the blockchain.
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at 2:29 PM on Thursday, March 25th, 2021
*Strain-specific Live Resin product set for release under Color Cannabis adult-use brand *Available for purchase from Ontario Cannabis Store in May
TORONTO, March 25, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WeedMD Inc. (TSX-V:WMD) (OTCQX:WDDMF) (FSE:4WE) (“WeedMD” or the “Company”), a federally-licensed producer and distributor of medical-grade cannabis, is pleased to announce the debut of its strain-specific live resin product for release under its Color Cannabis adult-use brand, 510-thread vaporization carts. Products will be available for purchase from the Ontario Cannabis Store starting in May, 2021 with eventual expansion to additional provinces and retailers. The live resin line offered in Pedro’s Sweet Sativa cultivar is the first in a series of new extract products recently announced by the Company that will eventually expand to feature solventless hash and rosin concentrates.
WeedMD partnered with Ontario’s Peak Processing, a highly-skilled, third-party processer that specializes in developing hydrocarbon extract of freshly harvested and frozen cannabis biomass to produce live resin formulations. This process ensures the cannabinoid and terpene-rich trichomes are preserved at harvest to produce some of the purest, true-to-nature forms of concentrates from the Company’s award-winning genetics.
“With the launch of our live resin products, we’re excited to introduce consumers to another authentic offering featuring the unique cultivar that is Pedro’s Sweet Sativa,” said Joseph Mele, Senior Vice President, Commercial Sales and Marketing, WeedMD. “The goal with all Color Cannabis products is to expand consumers’ awareness – particularly for those seeking unique terpene profiles and new premium, high-value concentrates. Peak Processing has carefully extracted live resin from fresh-frozen Pedro’s Sweet Sativa, grown and processed alongside our skilled teams, and we’re looking forward to adding more cultivars to this innovative line-up.”
WeedMD is expected to release additional Cannabis 2.0 extract products including solventless hash and rosin concentrates throughout 2021, under its Color Cannabis and Saturday Cannabis adult-use brands. Product development for both solventless cannabis concentrates, including bubble hash and rosin extract products, is currently underway alongside WeedMD and its highly skilled third-party processors currently undergoing trialling processes.
The Company has further developed a unique, in-house sub-critical CO2 extract post-processing methodology, which preserves the flower’s terpene profile and results in a malleable, semi-solid high-potency cannabis extract product. Trials to confirm scalability and product integrity are also currently underway at the Company’s Aylmer, Ontario processing and extraction hub.
Extract products will be produced using WeedMD’s own biomass, grown on-site at the Company’s state-of-the-art greenhouse and outdoor field in Strathroy, Ontario.
Access WeedMD’s 2021 Shareholder Newsletter here. Information about upcoming corporate events can be found here.
