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BLOK Technologies, Inc. (BLPFF)

Awesome Penny Stocks, BlockchainStocks, Cantech Letter, The Hot Penny Stocks, Growstox, TeleTrader, Stockwatch, Investing News, Wallet Investor, Stockhouse, GlobeNewswire, and Blockchain Relations reported previously on BLOK Technologies, Inc. (BLPFF), and we highlight the Company as well, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

BLOK Technologies, Inc. invests in and develops emerging companies in the blockchain technology sector. It provides capital, technology, and management services to produce blockchain-enabled business applications. BLOK’s present portfolio includes Greenstream and VR Eyes Technology Corp. The Company formerly went by the name Aida Minerals Corp. It changed its name to BLOK Technologies, Inc. in January of 2018. BLOK Technologies is headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Company provides reliable and established opportunities for investors desiring to invest in blockchain technologies without the volatility. The Company enables investors to capitalize on opportunities in this developing sector without the exposure and risk of unproven investment approaches such as ICO’s (Initial Coin Offerings).

BLOK Technologies’ method is to identify early-stage technologies with the potential to disrupt and innovate within their chosen industry. BLOK defines their opportunity, assesses their requirements, and provides them with the required financing and expertise to ensure the success of their projects.

The Company’s initial acquisition is Greenstream. Greenstream is the only consortium blockchain network for all companies, consumers, and government agencies in the Canadian Cannabis ecosystem to communicate and transfer assets and value. This is while complying with jurisdictional regulations. Fundamentally, Greenstream is a technology platform designed to effectively manage value transfer, supply chain integrity and identity verification in complex and highly regulated industries.

VR Eyes Technology Corp. is a new company that is researching and developing technology for eye care. VR Eyes Technology is focused on products that make detecting eye functions more convenient for the day to day user.

At the end of October, BLOK Technologies announced the appointment of Mr. Wilson Su to the Board of Directors and as Interim Chief Financial Officer of BLOK Tech, which was effective immediately. Mr. Su has more than a decade of investing experience, ranging from public markets to private real estate transactions. He concentrates on commercial real estate, with a specialty in land assembly on behalf of large development companies in the lower mainland of British Columbia.

BLOK Technologies, Inc. (BLPFF), closed Friday's trading session at $0.00565, even for the day, on 100 volume. The average volume for the last 3 months is 25,875 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.0015/$0.026799999.

Bowlin Travel Centers, Inc. (BWTL)

InvestorPoint, OTC Markets, TipRanks, Proactive Investors, Capital Cube, Infront Analytics, and Market Screener reported beforehand on Bowlin Travel Centers, Inc. (BWTL), and today we are highlighting the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Bowlin Travel Centers, Inc. operates travel centers and restaurants situated along interstate highways in New Mexico and Arizona. The Company has been serving the traveling public in the Southwestern United States since the year that New Mexico became a State in 1912. Established in 1912, Bowlin Travel Centers is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Company’s shares trade on the OTC Markets.

Bowlin’s Travel Centers offer fuel; and convenience store food, including chips, nuts, cookies, and prepackaged sandwiches; various bottled and canned drinks, and also merchandise to the traveling public in the Southwestern United States, chiefly New Mexico. The Company also sells Native American artifacts and jewelry, Southwest souvenirs and fireworks.

Bowlin Travel Centers operates 10 full-service travel centers. The Company also 6 full-service restaurants under the Dairy Queen/Brazier, Dairy Queen, or Subway trade names. Travel Centers are the original trading posts. They have been updated through the years, and Bowlin Travel Centers still sells similar merchandise.

The Bowlin family’s business venture began in 1912 when Mr. Claude M. Bowlin started trading with the Native Americans of New Mexico, learning their languages and customs. After World War I, from 1919 to 1935, Mr. and Mrs. Bowlin bought and sold a number of trading posts in the Gallup and Farmington areas of New Mexico. In 1935 they built the Old Crater Trading Post at Bluewater, New Mexico. By 1953, Claude and Willa Bowlin's business had grown to the point that it was advisable to incorporate under New Mexico laws.

Since 1953, more stores have been added on the interstate system. Full service facilities, wide-ranging selections of gifts, souvenirs, and premier Indian Handmade Jewelry are offered year round at the Company’s stores. Bowlin’s outlets include Akela Flats, Bluewater Outpost, Butterfield Station, Continental Divide, Flying C Ranch, Old West Trading Post, Picacho Peak, Picacho Plaza, Running Indian, and the Thing?.

Bowlin Travel Centers, Inc. (BWTL), closed Friday's trading session at $3.00, even for the day, on 1,993 volume. The average volume for the last 3 months is 458 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $2.04999995/$4.00.

Minera Alamos, Inc. (MAIFF)

Gold Stock Data, Geology for Investors, GuruFocus, 4-Traders, StreetWise Reports, Proven and Probable, InvestorX, Proactive Investors, Wallet Investor, Stockwatch, Stockhouse, PR Newswire, and Mexico Mining Center reported previously on Minera Alamos, Inc. (MAIFF), and today we highlight the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Minera Alamos, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Mexico. The Company has an increasing portfolio of high-quality Mexican assets, including the La Fortuna open pit gold project in Durango and the Santana open pit heap-leach development project in Sonora. An advanced-stage exploration and development company, Minera Alamos is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

The Company’s strategy is to develop low capex (capital expenditure), high margin assets with expansion opportunities. This is while continuing to pursue complementary strategic acquisitions. The La Fortuna open pit gold project in Durango has a positive PEA completed (permits granted).

The Santana open pit heap-leach development project in Sonora has test mining and processing completed (permits pending). Minera Alamos anticipates making a construction decision at Santana this year and advancing Santana and Fortuna into production in 2019-2020.

The La Fortuna project is 6,200 ha. Minera Alamos acquired 100 percent of the 4 mining concessions that comprise the La Fortuna project in May of 2016 from Argonaut Gold, Inc. The concessions are subject to a 2.5 percent NSR (Net Smelter Return) on production to a maximum of US$4.5M payable to Argonaut Gold.

The Santana project is 8,500 ha. It is strategically located in a rich mining district. This district features operational mines from some of the world’s leading names in precious metals mining (Goldcorp, Agnico Eagle, Alamos Gold).

Earlier this month, Minera Alamos announced that it agreed to a C$14 million combined equity and royalty financing package with Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd. This package will provide financing to advance the Company's plans to start construction of its planned Santana gold mine in Sonora, Mexico.

Osisko will purchase 30,000,000 common shares of Minera Alamos on a non-brokered private placement basis at a price of C$0.20 per Common Share for aggregate proceeds of C$6 million. Osisko will acquire a perpetual 3 percent NSR on the Santana property for a cash payment of C$5 million. Minera Alamos will be granted the right to draw down up to an additional C$3 million in financing from Osisko to provide additional funding flexibility, if necessary, during construction and start-up of the proposed Santana gold mine.

Minera Alamos, Inc. (MAIFF), closed Friday's trading session at $0.238175, off by 4.1549%, on 498,129 volume with 118 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 199,036 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.0634/$0.266999989.

Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc. (PXFG)

Zacks, Stock Twits, OTC Markets, MacroTrends, and Proactive Investors reported previously on Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc. (PXFG), and we highlight the Company as well, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and sells women's footwear mainly in the United States. It offers its products under the Trotters and SoftWalk brand names. The Company also has its Bueno and Sava brands. In essence, Phoenix Footwear specializes in quality comfort women’s footwear with a design focus on fitting features. Established in 1882, Phoenix Footwear Group has its corporate headquarters in Carlsbad, California. The Company’s shares trade on the OTC Markets Group’s OTCQB.

Phoenix Footwear Group distributes its products by way of department stores, leading specialty and independent retail stores, and mail order catalogues. The Company also distributes its products through Internet retailers, as well as directly to consumers through the SoftWalkshoes.com and trotters.com websites.

The SoftWalk brand features lightweight engineering, superior flexibility, as well as great comfort. The Trotters brand of shoes shoes are handcrafted using the finest leathers from around the world. Special detail is given to quality and softness. The Trotters brand began in 1935. Its first shoes were moccasins made by Native American craftspeople in Old Town, Maine, where Phoenix Footwear still maintains a distribution center.

The Bueno footwear brand combines attractive colors with a fine balance of style and comfort. This balance is realized with hand-worked buttery leathers, soft supple linings, as well as artistic silhouettes. The Bueno brand is handmade in Turkey. Moreover, Bueno is sold in more than 30 countries. This includes Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, and Australia.

The Sava footwear brand was created to revamp the comfort shoe space with easy style infused with innovation. Sava was created for the contemporary woman with easy-to-wear silhouettes, mixed with first-rate materials and eye-catching colors.

Since 1882, Phoenix Footwear Group has been engaged in the manufacture or importation and sale of quality footwear. The Company’s brands are carried by about 650 customers in more than 900 retail locations across the United States.

Phoenix Footwear Group, Inc. (PXFG), closed Friday's trading session at $0.133, even for the day, on 250 volume with 1 trade. The average volume for the last 3 months is 1,255 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.101999998/$0.428900003.

PolyNovo Limited (CALZF)

OTC Markets, All Stocks Today, AAStocks, TipRanks, Trade Ideas, Dividend.com, Market Screener, InvestingOnline, Wallet Investor, TradingView, Seeking Alpha, 4-Traders, MarketWatch, InvestorsHub, Nasdaq, Wallmine, Simply Wall St, Morningstar, GuruFocus, and Dividend Investor reported previously on PolyNovo Limited (CALZF), and we report on the Company as well, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

PolyNovo Limited is the developer of innovative patented, biodegradable polymers for use in medical devices. The Company’s vision is to provide unique and inventive regenerative products for burns, surgical wounds, hernia repair, trauma, orthopaedics and reconstructive surgery. The Company formerly went by the name Calzada Limited. It changed its corporate name to PolyNovo Limited in November of 2014. PolyNovo has its head office in Port Melbourne, Australia. The Company lists on the OTC Markets.

PolyNovo designs, develops, and manufactures dermal regeneration solutions in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and globally. The Company centers on the development and commercialization of medical devices utilizing its NovoSorb technology in the treatment of burns, surgical wounds, and negative pressure wound therapy.

PolyNovo offers BTM (Biodegradable Temporising Matrix). This is a wound dressing intended for the treatment of full-thickness wounds and burns. In addition, the Company licensed its NovoSorb to Smith & Nephew for orthopaedic applications. PolyNovo has gained approval to sell NovoSorb BTM to the US Department of Defence and Veteran Affairs. NovoSorb BTM is registered for use in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, India, Israel and Saudi Arabia.

NovoSorb is a novel range of bio-resorbable polymers. These can be produced in manifold formats including, film, fibre, foam, and coatings. NovoSorb’s innovative properties provide first-rate biocompatibility, control over physical properties, as well as programmable bio-resorption profile.

This month, PolyNovo announced that NovoSorb BTM has been granted a certificate of conformance (CE Mark) approval for sale throughout the UK/Ireland and the European Union. NovoSorb BTM has been approved for use in all full dermal loss procedures. This includes full thickness burns, trauma, reconstructive/wide excision surgery, revision of scar, and venous leg ulcers. This also includes diabetic foot ulcers, pressure injuries, as well as any loss of dermis needing repairs. PolyNovo will now need to file documents with each European market.

PolyNovo Limited (CALZF), closed Friday's trading session at $1.45, even for the day, on 1,020 volume. The average volume for the last 3 months is 5,438 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.38499999/$2.15000009.

U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. (PRTS)

Zacks, Stock Twits, Nasdaq, MacroTrends, Annual Reports, Market Screener, and PR Newswire reported earlier on U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. (PRTS), and today we are highlighting the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. is one of the largest online providers of aftermarket automotive parts and accessories. Via its network of websites, the Company provides consumers with a wide selection of competitively priced products, all mapped by a proprietary database with applications based on vehicle makes, models and years. U.S. Auto Parts Network lists on the NasadqGS. Established in 1995, the Company is based in Carson, California.

U.S. Auto Parts has become a top online provider of automotive aftermarket parts, including collision, engine and performance parts and accessories. Its flagship websites include www.autopartswarehouse.com, www.carparts.com, and www.jcwhitney.com, as well as the Company's corporate website at www.usautoparts.net.

U.S. Auto Parts offers greater than 1 million high-quality private label and branded aftermarket products. Approximately 10 million online customers are reached each month. The Company had Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Revenues of greater than $289M. Its FY 2018 Adjusted EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) was $10.4M.

Recently, U.S. Auto Parts Network announced the opening of a 125,000 square foot Las Vegas, Nevada distribution center. The facility will deliver new parts to customers across the western U.S., servicing all of the brands the Company has to offer. This includes CarParts.com, JC Whitney and Auto Parts Warehouse. The warehouse will use state-of-the-art equipment to handle more than 2,000 packages a day. The distribution center will employ roughly 100 people in an array of positions.

For Q3 2019, U.S. Auto Parts Network’s Gross Profit rose 15 percent to $21.1 million versus $18.4 million. As a percentage of Net Sales, Gross Profit increased 400 basis points to 30.5 percent versus 26.5 percent.

Net Sales were $69.3 million versus $69.5 million. Online Sales increased 2 percent; offline Sales declined 17 percent. Net Loss was $1.4 million or $(0.04) per share, versus a Net Loss of $0.2 million or $(0.01) per share.

U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc. (PRTS), closed Friday's trading session at $2.12, up 3.4146%, on 72,911 volume with 325 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 127,225 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.910000026/$2.5999999.

WeedMD, Inc. (WDDMF)

Daily Marijuana Observer, OTC Markets, CannabisMarketCap, New Cannabis Ventures, Pot Stock News, Micro Small Cap, Stock Day Media, Financial Insiders, Marijuana Stock Review, Profit Confidential, The Cannabis Investor, Investor Ideas, Financial Buzz, Micro Small Cap, Midas Letter, Morningstar, and Stockwatch reported beforehand on WeedMD, Inc. (WDDMF), and today we report on the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

WeedMD, Inc. is a federally-licensed producer and distributor of medical-grade cannabis. It is the publicly-traded parent company of WeedMD Rx, Inc., which is a federally-licensed producer and distributor of cannabis products for the medical and adult-use markets. WeedMD has a multi-channeled distribution strategy. This includes selling directly to medical patients, strategic relationships across the seniors’ market, and supply agreements with Shoppers Drug Mart and also six provincial distribution agencies. OTCQX-listed, WeedMD is based in Aylmer, Ontario.

The Company owns and operates two facilities. One is a 26,000 sq. ft. facility in Aylmer, Ontario. The other is a 158-acre state-of-the-art greenhouse and outdoor facility in Strathroy, Ontario. Currently, WeedMD has 136,000 square feet of licensed indoor and greenhouse production space across its facilities. The expectation is that it will have a total footprint of greater than 550,000 square feet of indoor and greenhouse production space online this year. In addition, 27 acres of outdoor cultivation has now been approved for cultivation. The Aylmer facility currently produces premium indoor flower.

WeedMD has its Color™ Cannabis product. Color Cannabis was developed specifically for a varied adult-use market that reflects the range in tastes and preferences of modern cannabis consumers. Color Cannabis products include a variety of strains, in many formats, developed with first-rate quality cannabis. Color Cannabis is a premium brand exclusively available to distributors and select retailers across Canada.

This week, WeedMD announced the closing of the earlier announced acquisition of Starseed Holdings by WeedMD.

Mr. Keith Merker, Chief Executive Officer of WeedMD, said, “We officially welcome the Starseed team to the WeedMD family which together will kick-off 2020 as a very compelling, vertically-integrated cannabis company that will execute across the entire value chain. Starseed’s unique medical distribution platform complements WeedMD’s high-quality cultivation and processing platform. This partnership, along with the $25 million strategic equity investment by LPF, positions WeedMD and its shareholders with a fortified balance sheet and one of the most captive medical cannabis businesses in the country as we enter the new year.”

WeedMD, Inc. (WDDMF), closed Friday's trading session at $0.63, off by 7.7599%, on 109,327 volume with 99 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 77,797 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.589399993/$1.67499995.

Tremor International Ltd. (TTTPF)

Stock Market Watch, Nasdaq, Morningstar, GuruFocus, Market Screener, Stockhouse, and Seeking Alpha reported earlier on Tremor International Ltd. (TTTPF), and we also highlight the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Tremor International Ltd. is a global leader in advertising technologies. The Company has operations in over 60 countries. It works with greater than 450 advertisers and more than 50,000 supply and publishing partners around the world. Tremor International lists on the OTC Markets. Established in 2007, the Company has its corporate headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The Company previously went by the name Taptica International Ltd. It changed its name to Tremor International Ltd. in June of this year.

Tremor International mainly serves companies and brands in Israel, the U.S., China, Germany, Korea, Japan, India, the United Kingdom (UK), and internationally. Together with its subsidiaries, the Company provides performance-based mobile marketing and brand advertising services.

Tremor International’s business divisions are Tremor Video, RhythmOne, and Taptica. Tremor Video is one of the largest video advertising companies. It has market-leading Connected TV and second-screen device solutions. Tremor Video helps advertisers deliver the most engaging brand stories in a complex video landscape.

Tremor International’s RhythmOne division is a market leader in multiscreen digital advertising solutions. RhythmOne is led by advanced TV and powered by one of the most efficient and effective programmatic platforms. It provides unique solutions for brands to connect with consumers.

Tremor International sees value in U.S.-based internet TV provider YuMe, owned by RhythmOne, working alongside the Company’s Tremor Video, a platform that matches advertisers with their desired audiences. Tremor International bought Tremor Video's Demand-Side Platform to push into the United States and Japan-based Adinnovation.

Taptica is an end-to-end mobile advertising platform. Taptica helps the world’s foremost brands reach their most valuable users with the broadest range of traffic sources available. Taptica’s proprietary technology takes advantage of big data to enable quality media targeting at scale.

Fundamentally, Tremor International offers digital advertising solutions leveraging the latest video, native, and display technology to reach the most valuable users for every application (app), service, and brand. The advertisers that the Company works with includes Amazon, Disney, Twitter, OpenTable, Expedia, and Zynga.

Tremor International Ltd. (TTTPF), closed Friday's trading session at $2.00, up 181718.19%, on 750 volume with 4 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 4,024 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.000199999/$2.50.

The Movie Studio, Inc. (MVES)

Emerging Growth, Morningstar, Global Banking and Finance, 4-Traders, Simply Wall St, Market Screener, Wallet Investor, Investing.com, InvestorsHub, Stockhouse, Infront Analytics, TradingView, Barchart, MarketWatch, and GlobeNewswire reported on The Movie Studio, Inc. (MVES), and today we are highlighting the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

The Movie Studio, Inc. is a vertically integrated motion picture production and distribution Company with its corporate office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It has completed motion picture and production assets. The Company previously went by the name Destination Television, Inc. It changed its name to The Movie Studio, Inc. in November of 2012. The Movie Studio lists on the OTC Markets.

Since 1996, Mr. Gordon Scott Venters has been the President & Chief Executive Officer of The Movie Studio. Mr. Venters is experienced as an Executive Producer, Producer, Writer, and Director. He has produced many full-length feature films.

The Movie Studio acquires, develops, produces, and distributes independent motion picture content for international use in theatrical, video on demand (VOD), foreign sales, and on different media devices. The Company has its digital business model of motion picture distribution. It intends direct server access of its content with Geo Fractured territories for global distribution.

The Movie Studio uses an array of high definition cameras. This includes the usage of the “Red” camera used in filming contents in the blockbuster “Jurassic World” among other Hollywood Blockbuster movies. The Company has legacy distribution agreements with major studios. These include MGM, Lionsgate, New Line. It has entered new distribution agreements and recent releases on Showtime, Comcast, and Amazon Prime reaching more than 100 million.

This past June, The Movie Studio announced the Geo Fracturing of four motion picture titles for release on TUBI TV, www.tubitv.com, for distribution for the territory of Australia. The Company released the motion pictures; BACK IN THE DAY, BOO, NINE MILES DOWN, SHOOTING GALLERY to TUBI TV for distribution on its Advertising Video on Demand (AVOD) transactional platform.

TUBI TV is a free streaming service. It provides greater than 8,500 titles. This includes movies and TV shows from studios such as Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Lionsgate. TUBI's proprietary Content Personalization Engine launched in 2018. It helps make content selection and discovery easier for viewers.

In addition, in June, The Movie Studio announced a common stock buyback also known as a share repurchase agreement. The Company had roughly 37,300,298 shares of common stock outstanding as of June 1, 2019. It does not expect to incur debt to fund the share repurchase program.

The Movie Studio, Inc. (MVES), closed Friday's trading session at $0.020488, up 67.9344%, on 1,000 volume with 1 trade. The average volume for the last 3 months is 14,470 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.009999999/$0.144999995.

Petrogress, Inc. (PGAS)

NetworkNewsWire, Marketbeat, Last10k, MarketWatch, Whale Wisdom, OilandGas360, Trading View, Investors Hangout, Stockhouse, Stockwatch, StockInvest, Barchart, 4-Traders, YCharts, Wallet Investor, Simply Wall St, GuruFocus, Stockopedia, and Dividend Investor reported earlier on Petrogress, Inc. (PGAS), and today we report on the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Petrogress, Inc., by way of its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated merchant of petroleum products. The Company is an independent Oil energy and Shipping company. It specializes in oil exploration, production, trade and sea transportation with global operations throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The Company owns and operates a fleet of tankers from its base in the historic Port of Piraeus through a series of Marshall Islands subsidiaries. Petrogress is based in Delaware and New York and lists on the OTC Markets.

The Company operates mainly as a holding company for its wholly-owned subsidiaries. Petrogress concentrates on the supply and trade of light petroleum fuel oil, refined oil products and other petrochemical products to local refineries in West Africa and Mediterranean countries.

In addition, Petrogress operates service and shipping facilities at the Port of Limassol in Cyprus and the Port of Tema, Greater Accra, in Ghana. The Company is actively looking for expansion opportunities. This includes in operating and developing natural gas production and transmission facilities along with LNG processing in the United States, refinery operations in north and West Africa, and the transport and sales of LNG in Europe.

For Upstream - oil resources and exploration, Petrogress has its Petrogres Oil & Gas Energy, Inc. subsidiary. For Midstream - product fleet carriers, the Company has its Petronav Carries, LLC subsidiary. Regarding Downstream – processing and refining, it has its J/V PGO & PGL – Ghana subsidiary. Furthermore, regarding Marketing – purchases and sales, Petrogress has its Petrogres Co. Limited subsidiary.

In December of 2018, Petrogress announced that its Petrogress Int’l, LLC (PIL) subsidiary entered into a Partnership Agreement with Deliman Oil Company Limited, a Ghanaian corporation. This Agreement is to jointly create and co-operate a Ghanaian corporation to be called PG&D Fueling. PG&D will operate and manage gas/refueling stations in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Niger and associated storage and distribution operations.

The expectation is that PG&D will initially operate and manage 65 gas stations now owned by Deliman in Ghana and Burkina Faso. The petrochemical products to be distributed via PG&D managed gas stations will be supplied by PIL affiliate company Petrogres Co. Limited, via its partnership with Platon Oil Refinery in Ghana.

Recently, Petrogress announced that its PIL subsidiary entered into an Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Dana Lubricants Factory LLC (Dana Lubes), a United Arab Emirates (UAE) based lubricant oil manufacturer. This agreement designates PIL as the exclusive agent for distribution of products manufactured and branded by Dana Lubes throughout western Africa.

Petrogress, Inc. (PGAS), closed Friday's trading session at $0.655, up 104.6875%, on 5,522 volume with 7 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 9,394 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.319999992/$2.79999995.

Black Cactus Global, Inc. (BLGI)

StreetInsider, Insider Financial, The Street, 4-Traders, Morningstar, Stockopedia, Dividend Investor, PennyStockHub, Stockhouse, Simply Wall St, MarketNewsUpdates, Tip Ranks, Stockwolf, Barchart, InvestingNewsAlerts, Stock Press Daily, InvestorsHub, OTC Markets, and InvestorsHangout reported previously on Black Cactus Global, Inc. (BLGI), and today we are highlighting the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Black Cactus Global, Inc. is a technology development business focusing on Blockchain, machine learning, cryptocurrency, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Its corporate mission is to pioneer the application of Blockchain and overlapping technologies to protect IP (Intellectual Property) and the security of data and financial transactions. The Company is developing Blockchain applications for FinTech, Healthcare, Media and Supply Chain employing smart contracts and machine learning. Black Cactus Global is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Company’s strategic plan is to become the first totally integrated digital financial institution with Blockchain technology as its operating foundation. Black Cactus Global’s services include Blockchain Applications, Trading Exchange, KYC/AML Biometrics, Music Exchange, and Card Programs and Payment Systems.

In addition, its services include Crypto Currencies, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Contracts, as well as FinTech & MedTech. Black Cactus Global specializes in worldwide development and consulting projects in its key development areas of FinTech, digital media, financial services, KYC, AML, cyber security, and healthcare.

Black Cactus Global announced in January of this year that it entered into an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the majority shareholders in an Indian Technology firm to establish a subsidiary of the Company. With the MOU, Black Cactus Global will become the largest stakeholder of a global Technology company with offices in the ‘FinTech Valley’ Vizag Software Technology Park in Visakhapatnam, India, through which it will center on and advance the use of its innovative Blockchain based IP.

In May 2018, Black Cactus Global announced that it completed a share exchange agreement with the Blockchain development subsidiary, Black Cactus Global Technologies Pvt. Limited (BCG-TPL). The agreement calls for Black Cactus Global to own an initial 29 percent interest in BCG-TPL, which has already attained major milestones that will enable Black Cactus to scale-up development activities.

Regarding Healthcare, Black Cactus Global concentrates on creating opportunities for digital health economies via Blockchain with AI, IoT, and Machine Learning. Pertaining to Energy, the Company offers privatized network grid provision to isolate green energy from traditional energy sources and a chain code logic to manage energy distribution and estimation.

Black Cactus Global, Inc. (BLGI), closed Friday's trading session at $0.0073, up 55.3191%, on 57,036 volume with 15 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 226,552 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.004/$0.026499999.

Miramont Resources Corp. (MRRMF)

Stockhouse, Stockwatch, Wallet Investor, InvestorX, Global Mining Review, Junior Mining Network, MarketWatch, Dividend Investor, Canadian Mining Report, OTC Markets, Pinnacle Digest, Wallmine and 4-Traders reported on Miramont Resources Corp. (MRRMF), and today we are highlighting the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Miramont Resources Corp. engages in the exploration and development of its Peruvian projects. Its emphasis is on acquiring and developing mineral prospects within world-class belts of South America. The Company was previously known as Miramont Capital Corp. It changed its name to Miramont Resources Corp. in November of 2016. Miramont Resources has its corporate office in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Company entered into a share exchange agreement in June of 2017 to acquire 100 percent of Puno Gold Corp., a privately held Ontario corporation, and Minera Puno Gold SAC, a Peruvian subsidiary of Puno Gold. Minera Puno engages in mineral exploration and development in Peru. It holds options to acquire 100 percent interest in the 988.69-hectare Cerro Hermoso project and the 4,400-hectare Lukkacha project (both in southern Peru).

Cerro Hermoso is in the Puno region, 60 kilometers west of the city of Juliaca, and 5kms west of the supply town of Santa Lucia. Cerro Hermoso is a breccia-pipe prospect targeting Au, Ag, Cu, Zn and Pb mineralization.

Lukkacha is in the Tacna region. It is 55 kilometers east-southeast of the operating Toquepala mine of Southern Peru Copper. The project (a porphyry copper prospect) is 60 kilometers north of the city of Tacna and 8 kilometers from the supply town of Tarata.

In July, Miramont Resources announced that it entered into an option agreement to acquire the rights to the Milenos 32 concession contiguous to its Cerro Hermoso project. The concession gives the Company complete control of the Pocomoro zone. This is where highly anomalous copper and silver has been identified in surface rock samples. The combined area of the project is currently 1318 hectares. It includes the whole diatreme system, which controls mineralization in the district.

Also in July, Miramont Resources announced that the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) determined that Miramont is not eligible for an automatic approval of its drilling permit as it is possible that exploration drilling may affect indigenous communities. The Company stated that it appreciates more review to ensure that any potentially affected communities are identified and fully consulted. As Miramont Resources’ Environmental Impact Statement has already been approved, this is the final level of review required before issuance of drilling permits.

Miramont Resources Corp. (MRRMF), closed Friday's trading session at $0.084, up 52.7273%, on 95,150 volume with 31 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 23,708 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.046/$0.483999997.

Applied Minerals, Inc. (AMNL)

Wall Street Resources and Real Pennies reported on Applied Minerals, Inc. (AMNL), and  we also highlight the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter. 

Applied Minerals, Inc., through  its ownership of the historic Dragon Mine deposit, is the foremost international producer  of Dragonite™ halloysite clay and Amiron™ advanced natural iron oxides. The Company’s products address the global need for high performance, eco-friendly solutions for an array of industrial applications. Listed on the OTCQB,  Applied Minerals  is based in New York, New York.

The Company’s Dragonite™ is a versatile Halloysite product grade. It has a broad assortment of applications. It is an advanced reinforcing filler.

Applied Minerals’ Dragonite-XR™ product grade provides innovative advantages versus other reinforcing fillers,  including  glass fiber, mica, wollastonite or talc. The Company’s  Dragonite-HP™ is a  high-performance additive for engineering thermoplastics used at loadings of only 1-3 percent. It provides first-rate mechanical performance and cycle time reduction.

Furthermore, its Dragonite-PureWhite™ is the highest purity Dragonite™ product. It meets the strict specifications of the cosmetic industry. 

Applied Minerals launched its AMIRON line of advanced natural iron oxide pigments to the construction, wood coatings, paints, industrial coatings, plastics and rubber markets in 2014. Halloysite is an aluminosilicate clay. It exhibits a rare, naturally occurring hollow tubular structure.

The Company serves the traditional halloysite markets for use in technical ceramics and catalytic applications.  Applied Minerals is the leading producer of Halloysite clay and advanced,  ultra-pure  natural iron oxide solutions –consisting of  hematite and goethite - from  its wholly-owned Dragon Mine property in the State of Utah.  

The Company  has also developed niche applications that benefit from the tubular morphology of its halloysite. These applications include carriers of active ingredients in paints, coatings and building materials, environmental remediation, agricultural applications, and high-performance additives & fillers for plastic composites.

Recently,  Applied Minerals announced it entered into an Exploration Agreement with Option to Purchase with Continental Mineral Claims (CMC) for metallic minerals believed to be at depths considerably below its present and future halloysite and iron oxide operations at the Dragon Mine.

With this Agreement, CMC was granted an exclusive, 10-year license by Applied Minerals to conduct exploration activities for metallic minerals at Applied Minerals' Dragon Mine property in the Tintic District of Utah. The Agreement contains protections in favor of Applied Minerals against unreasonable interference of its present and future halloysite and iron oxide mining operations.

CMC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a private, globally recognized minerals exploration and mining company.

Applied Minerals also recently updated shareholders and the marketplace on halloysite-based lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology. The Company has moved closer to commercialization of its Dragonite® Halloysite Clay for use in Lithium-Ion Battery Technologies.

Its main goal has been to combine its breadth of knowledge of halloysite with publicly available applied research to pursue the commercialization of Dragonite halloysite clay within select applications, which offer attractive economic opportunities. To capitalize on research that demonstrates the value of halloysite for use in Li-ion battery technologies, Applied Minerals is pursuing the commercialization of Dragonite as a value-added material to this market.

Mr. Andre Zeitoun, President and Chief Executive Officer of Applied Minerals, said, "We believe our DRAGONITE halloysite clay products, over the near-term, will provide performance enhancing solutions for existing Li-ion battery technologies and, over the longer term, will contribute to the commercialization of emerging battery technologies. The interest in DRAGONITE for use in Li-ion batteries is particularly strong among companies based in China, where the great majority of battery manufacturers reside and where the government is providing significant funding support for the majority of the battery research being utilized today."

Applied Minerals, Inc. (AMNL), closed Friday's trading session at $0.0087, up 51.9651%, on 563,800 volume with 25 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 143,198 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.005299999/$0.059999998.

Broadway Gold Mining Ltd. (BDWYF)

Streetwise Reports, Stockhouse, Barchart, and InvestorsHub reported on Broadway Gold Mining Ltd. (BDWYF), and today we are reporting on the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

A resource company, Broadway Gold Mining Ltd. centers on development-stage projects with advanced exploration potential. The Company owns a 100 percent interest in the Madison copper-gold project in the Butte-Anaconda mining region of Montana. Broadway Gold Mining’s shares trade on the OTC Markets Group’s OTCQB. The Company has its corporate office in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Madison copper-gold project is permitted for exploration. It contains a past-producing underground mine that Broadway Gold Mining has refurbished. The Company is expanding known copper and gold zones, which remain open for development in the mine's perimeter.

Broadway’s exploration program has identified new anomalies across its wide-ranging land package. These provide drill targets believed to be associated with large-scale porphyry mineralization.

The Company identified copper-gold porphyry targets at Madison in 2017, supported by a newly assembled geological model. Phase I and II drilling this year returned high-grade gold and copper intersections from shallower skarn zones. Many high-priority targets, including porphyry, will be the emphasis of Phase III drilling.

In October, Broadway Gold Mining announced the discovery of a new latite porphyry zone of mineralization at its Madison project in the legendary Butte-Anaconda mining region of Montana.

Mr. Duane Parnham, Broadway Gold Mining’s President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "Broadway's technical team has successfully delivered on a fourth major milestone worthy of additional testing by discovering a porphyry system underlying the shallower skarn zones, which were mined in the past and expanded in our recent drilling. Although indications suggest a typical copper porphyry alteration system is present, this new mineralization discovered at Madison exhibits similar characteristics to the latite porphyry hosted at Barrick's Golden Sunlight Mine (GSM) located 36 kilometers away in Whitehall, Montana."

Recently, Broadway Gold Mining announced that, as a result of its recent porphyry discovery, it has staked additional ground to cover favorable geological and geophysical targets in the area of its 100 percent-owned Madison copper-gold project.

The new claims are contiguous to the south of the Company’s active exploration area. The new claims extend the current Madison property footprint to 2,514 acres.

Broadway’s Phase III drilling program continues. The Company is fully funded for completion of the program. Deeper geophysical targets from the 2017 survey appear to trend through the original property boundary onto the newly acquired claims.

Broadway Gold Mining Ltd.  (BDWYF), closed Friday's trading session at $0.048, up 47,900.00%, on 500 volume with 1 trade. The stock's 52-week low/high is $0.000099999/$0.129999995.

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Jerrick Media Holdings, Inc. (OTC: JMDA)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Jerrick Media Holdings, Inc. (OTC: JMDA).

Jerrick Media Holdings, Inc. (OTC: JMDA) develops technology-based solutions to solve digital problems. Through the combination of design, thought and data analysis, the company builds products that influence a worldwide audience.

Jerrick’s flagship product is Vocal, a proprietary long-form digital publishing platform that provides storytelling tools and engaged communities for creators to get discovered and fund their creativity.

Vocal

Designed to develop and cost-effectively engage content creators, the Vocal platform enables its over 500,000 registered content creators to reach an engaged audience and monetize their content. In addition to providing relevant content, Vocal’s technology is centered on efficiency and scalability through its niche digital communities, as well as output through its data-driven distribution strategy.

Vocal partners with content creators and brands that recognize difficulties inherent in the digital advertising space and that can benefit from branded content marketing opportunities available on publishing platforms like Vocal.

All content available on Vocal is created within the platform’s custom editor and published on one of Vocal’s embedded genre-specific communities, spanning topics that range from food to wellness, beauty, technology and more.

In May 2019, Jerrick launched Vocal+, its premium subscription membership program. Vocal+ members pay a membership fee for premium value-added features, including receiving increased earnings for their content, reduced platform processing fees for tips received, a Vocal+ badge on their creator page, access to new features on the Vocal Platform, and other rewards. Creators can sign up for free or upgrade to Vocal+, available for purchase on either an annual or monthly subscription basis.

 

Vocal for Brands

Vocal for Brands is an in-house creative studio that generates actionable data from bespoke native advertising campaigns. Vocal for Brands partners with direct-to-consumer (DTC) to create beautiful, campaign-optimized stories on Vocal that build brand affinity, trust and drive results.

Additionally, Jerrick provides a Managed Services offering to business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) product and service brands which encompasses a full range of digital marketing and e-commerce solutions. Managed Services includes the setup and ongoing maintenance of clients’ websites, Amazon and Shopify storefronts and listings, social media pages, search engine marketing, and other various tools and sales channels utilized by e-commerce sellers for sales and growth optimization. In addition to partnering with Managed Services clients, the company offers a range of la carte services.

Growth Strategy

Upon the consummation of its anticipated listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, Jerrick intends to change its official company name to “Creatd, Inc.,” subject to stockholder approval.

This rebranding will initiate Jerrick’s go-forward growth strategy and its plans to expand its offerings and provide technology products and resources for creators to help transform their ideas into reality. The strategic plan is designed to greatly increase Jerrick’s potential market value via a plethora of new revenue streams.

Creatd will focus on a community of creators that number more than 2.5 billion users, for which it will offer democratized, transparent platforms for distribution, sentiment, resources and monetization. The company’s agile development process will rely on a combination of bleeding-edge technology that eliminates barriers and creates efficiencies. Superior design thinking and data analysis will allow Creatd to expand its digital footprint to a global community.

Creatd will partner with a community of technology collaborators and sophisticated investors who collaborate to provide technology solutions for creators, brands and their respective audiences. The company’s solutions, business processes, technology platforms and design theories will lend themselves to application opportunities on a global scale.

History & Management

Jerrick was founded in 2012. Initially a private media company providing online content through a portfolio of brands, Jerrick’s needs quickly outpaced its initial technology and product offering. In 2015, Jerrick partnered with Thinkmill, a premiere, Australia-based product design and development group to create a content management system (CMS) for its brands; that system evolved into the company’s flagship product, Vocal.

Today, Jerrick’s management team is an impressive group of abstract thinkers united by their passion to solve problems. Leading the team are founder and CEO Jeremy Frommer, and Justin Maury, Jerrick’s president and head of product.

Frommer’s career includes two decades in the financial technology industry, working as a hedge fund and portfolio manager, as well as on the sell-side of the financial industry. Frommer started NextGen Trading, a software development company building proprietary equity trading platforms. NextGen was acquired by Carlin Financial Group of which Frommer became CEO. RBC Capital Markets Corporation eventually bought Carlin. At RBC, Frommer was managing director, head of the Global Prime Services group and a member of the RBC Global Equities Operating Committee.

Maury joined Jerrick in 2013, bringing with him 10 years of experience in the creative industry. Since partnering with Frommer to establish Jerrick, Maury led the company’s product development for more than four years. His passion for the creative arts and technology ultimately yielded the vision for Vocal. During the Jerrick’s early formative years, Maury was a driving force in creating the vision, design and architecture for the Vocal platform and managing the oversight of technology development.

Jerrick Media Holdings, Inc. (JMDA), closed Friday's trading session at $4.00, up 5.2632%, on 150 volume with 1 trade. The average volume for the last 3 months is 1,300 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $1.63999998/$5.00.

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SRAX Inc. (NASDAQ: SRAX)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight SRAX Inc. (NASDAQ: SRAX).

SRAX (NASDAQ: SRAX), a digital marketing and consumer data management technology company, today announced that it has extended the expiration time for its special dividend right from December 31, 2019 to on or before 5:00 PM ET on December 31, 2020. To view the full press release, visit http://nnw.fm/L9XcM.

SRAX Inc.'s (NASDAQ: SRAX) is a digital marketing and consumer data management technology company. SRAX’s technology unlocks data to reveal brands’ core consumers and their characteristics across marketing channels.

Through its BIGtoken platform, SRAX has developed a consumer-managed data marketplace where people can own and earn from their data, thereby providing everyone in the internet ecosystem choice, transparency and compensation.

SRAX’s tools deliver a digital competitive advantage for brands in the CPG, automotive, investor relations, luxury and lifestyle verticals by integrating all aspects of the advertising experience, including verified consumer participation, into one platform.

SRAX Verticals

  • SRAX Core: SRAX Core is a custom digital media management platform that enables brands and agencies to surpass the challenges of omnichannel marketing campaigns. It offers one comprehensive dashboard to manage digital media campaigns, inventory and reporting.
  • SRAX Social: SRAX Social is a free social media management tool that makes it easy for brands, agencies and individuals to grow their digital presence. It offers free and unlimited users, Facebook auto boosting, and a custom analytics dashboard. Its managed services team can also build and execute marketing plans for your unique specific needs.
  • SRAX IR: SRAX IR unlocks stock buyers’ behaviors and trends for issuers of publicly traded companies. The platform provides insights on shareholders and market makers, investor relations management, shareholder outreach tools and data-driven marketing.
  • SRAX Auto: SRAX Auto unlocks auto intenders’ data to create measurable connected experiences on the road to purchase. It offers proprietary auto intender profiles, multi touchpoint communication and custom location-based ads.
  • SRAX Shopper: SRAX Shopper delivers a cross channel, premium digital experience at scale to high value shopper audiences. It offers proprietary shopper profiles, cost per click pricing, and custom text and add to cart ad units.
  • SRAX Lux: Launched in June 2019, the SRAX Lux platform targets and reaches luxury consumers at luxury retail stores, high-end art, music, film, fashion and sports events, across all consumer devices.

BIGtoken

BIGtoken, available for download on the App Store and Google Play, revolutionizes data collection. BIGtoken is a platform that creates a secure and transparent environment for consumers to own and earn from their data. To date, there are 15.9 million BIGtoken registered users worldwide.

The optimization and monetization of data is a multibillion-dollar business. Worldwide spending on big data and business analytics solutions reached $166 billion in 2018 and is projected to surge to $260 billion by 2022. BIGtoken’s consumer vision is committed to delivering choice, transparency and compensation to the individual.

Through BIGtoken, consumers earn rewards when they opt into sharing their data and when that data is purchased. Consumers decide what data is shared, who can buy it and how it’s used, and advertisers reach real, responsive audiences. The benefit of this is two-fold: consumers know how their data is used and advertisers gain verified consumer data for targeting.

Users of the BIGtoken app can officially be paid in cash or gift cards in exchange for giving brands access to their anonymized data, answering questions, checking into locations, recruiting new members, and more. Users can deposit their earnings directly into PayPal accounts or be paid through gift cards from favorite retailers such as Walmart.

SRAX has also partnered with several high-profile, nonprofit associations to provide BIGtoken users the ability to donate their earnings. Partnerships include the American Heart Association, dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke; HealthCorps, which helps high school students make better choices about health and physical fitness; and the ALS Association, which recently launched its Challenge Me campaign.

International Expansion

BIGtoken is formally launching into several international markets and partnering to foster local support. SRAX recently signed a joint venture with the Yash Birla Group to launch BIGtoken in India. Based in Mumbai, the Yash Birla Group, one of India’s largest conglomerates, has diversified interests in consumer and industrial products.

The partnership will bring BIGtoken’s platform to India, which has a digital population of 627 million. The India digital advertising market is $3.6 billion and is set to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 32%, making it one of the largest growing digital ad markets in the world.

SRAX Mexico is led by Moe Avitia, who has more than 18 years of experience in business development and building high-tech teams. SRAX Mexico includes a team of 90 employees, including 70 engineers.

BIGtoken Europe is currently evaluating data centers in individual countries for privacy laws.

Leadership

Christopher Miglino is CEO and founder of SRAX. He has spent the past 20 years working in the digital advertising space and has successfully launched and sold two internet companies. Both of these companies were sold to publicly traded companies on the NASDAQ. He has a detailed understanding of how technology interacts with brands.

Kristoffer Nelson is COO of SRAX and a founding member of BIGtoken. With over 15 years of technology and creative business experience, Nelson has been a guest speaker for Loyola Marymount University among other academic institutions, the National Association of Broadcasters, the IAB and numerous other professional and media organizations.

SRAX Inc. (NASDAQ: SRAX), closed Friday's trading session at $1.69, up 15.7534%, on 198,865 volume with 632 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 116,038 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $1.04999995/$5.8499999.

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Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (CSE: LXX) (OTC: LXRP)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (LXRP).

Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (CSE: LXX) (OTCQX: LXRP)was featured today in a publication from HempWireNews, examining how players in the hemp sector could finally heave a sigh of relief after the U.S. Department of Agriculture released the much-awaited interim final rule on hemp this October. Published in the Federal Register on October 31, the rule established a domestic hemp production program authorized by the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the Farm Bill.

Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (CSE: LXX) (OTC: LXRP) has developed and out-licenses its proprietary DehydraTECH™ technology for improved taste, rapidity and delivery of bioactive compounds, including nicotine and cannabinoids. To achieve higher absorption rates and fast onset, consumers traditionally defaulted to smoking. Lexaria provides a superior administration method by delivering these substances through a patented process within edible food products, thus eliminating all the harmful health consequences of smoking.

Lexaria’s technology is unique in that it takes advantage of GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) food ingredients processed with its patented DehydraTECH technology to improve taste, remove odor and decrease the time to onset of bitter-tasting drugs. Lexaria is primarily a B2B enterprise and has existing cannabinoid licensing agreements with companies in Canada and the United States. Lexaria has also developed its own hemp-oil brands partly for demonstration purposes, utilizing its patented technology to infuse hemp oil ingredients within popular foods such as coffee, tea and supplements. These brands include ViPova™, TurboCBD™ and ChargD+™.

Virtually unique across both the hemp and the cannabis industries, Lexaria has successfully entered into a R&D and product development partnership with one of the largest cigarette companies in the world for oral forms of nicotine delivery. Only a small handful of hemp or cannabis-related companies have achieved formal relationships with Fortune 500 industry leaders, demonstrating the wide applicability of Lexaria’s technology.

In June 2019, building on its original 2015 independent, third-party laboratory in vitro lab experiments, which confirmed the absorption levels of cannabidiol (“CBD”) into human intestinal cells rose by 499% through the utilization of the DehydraTECH technology, Lexaria completed a series of animal studies using an enhanced formulation of its DehydraTECH technology. The results of the animal studies using the enhanced DehydraTECH formulation showed an increase of CBD delivery into the blood when compared to generic industry MCT coconut-oil formulations by 811%. In addition, the animal studies also showed delivery of 1,937% more CBD into animal brain tissue after 8 hours using the enhanced DehydraTECH technology when compared to generic industry MCT coconut-oil formulations.

Lexaria also has completed the first phases of its collaborative research program with the Canadian government’s National Research Council (the “NRC”) under which several studies were designed to optimize Lexaria’s DehydraTECH technology, enabling delivery of API’s within foods, beverages, capsules and other ingestible formats. These studies investigated the lipophilic active agent classes including cannabinoids, vitamins, NSAIDs and nicotine using advanced analytical techniques, including mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance testing, with the results of the studies confirming that Lexaria’s DehydraTECH technology did not create any covalent-bonded new molecular entity (“NME”). Whenever an NME is created, regulatory bodies such as FDA and Health Canada routinely require extensive health, safety and efficacy studies prior to that product’s release into the marketplace. That the NRC program failed to find evidence of an NME suggests products utilizing the DehydraTECH technology may require a less burdensome regulatory pathway.

Results from this R&D have helped support B2B relationships with Fortune 500 companies. Lexaria has four distinct subsidiaries that focus on different market sectors: hemp/CBD; pharmaceutical; cannabis; and nicotine. In August 2019, Lexaria was issued its cannabis research and development licence from Health Canada which will allow Lexaria to continue its further investigations in-house of its DehydraTECH technology in connection with cannabinoids, along with ongoing work with vitamins, NSAIDs, PDE5-inhibitors, nicotine and other molecules.

Aside from testing, a critical component of Lexaria Bioscience’s business model is a strong and growing intellectual property portfolio. As of the August 2019, the company’s patent portfolio includes ~60 patent applications filed and pending in more than 40 countries around the world; and 16 patents granted to date. Lexaria is expecting additional new patent awards both in the U.S. and internationally by the end of 2019 and beyond. Some of its more recent areas of investigation have included human hormones and erectile dysfunction substances, among others. Lexaria’s granted patent portfolio related to cannabinoid delivery is one of the largest in the world.

Royalties play a vital role in Lexaria’s revenue-generating business model. The company out-licenses its technology to third-partners and has signed licensing agreements with start-up companies as well as with a Fortune 100 industry leader. The company’s growth initiatives are guided by a management team headed by CEO Chris Bunka, a serial entrepreneur who has contributed to several multi-hundred million-dollar valuations over the course of his career. He is supported by a growing team of professionals with extensive experience in pharmaceutical and bioscience sectors, invention, toxicology, consumer goods and other relevant skillsets.

Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (LXRP), closed Friday's trading session at $0.415, up 9.2105%, on 81,909 volume with 52 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 99,753 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.354999989/$1.6875.

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MCTC Holdings Inc. (OTC: MCTC)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight MCTC Holdings Inc. (MCTC).

MCTC Holdings (OTC: MCTC), doing business as Cannabis Global Inc., is a company devoted to research and development of innovative infusion technologies in the rapidly expanding sector of cannabinoids sciences. To view the full article, visit http://cnw.fm/u459K.

MCTC Holdings Inc. (OTC: MCTC) is an innovator in the field of cannabinoid nanoparticles and infusion technologies with several important cannabinoid patents filed and an active research and development program underway. The company was reorganized during June of 2019 and announced its intent to enter the cannabis sector and change its corporate identity to Cannabis Global Inc. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

With the hemp and cannabis industries rapidly expanding in terms of market size, acceptance and number of market participants, MCTC plans to concentrate its efforts on the middle portions of the hemp and cannabis value chain. The company is actively pursuing R&D programs and productization of advanced cannabinoid delivery systems, based on solid polymeric nanoparticles and fibers. These technologies hold the promise to revolutionize the science of cannabinoid bio-enhancement for use in foods, beverages, consumer products and in transdermal applications. Because of nanoparticles’ ability to be quickly absorbed into the bloodstream, nanotechnology has been utilized in the food and drug industry for some time and has the potential for tremendous growth in the cannabis industry (http://nnw.fm/v6RQ6).

Cutting-Edge Technology

MCTC is at the cutting-edge of the cannabis industry’s trends with its emphasis on polymeric nanotechnology. This is not to be confused with the more basic oil-in-water nano-emulsions currently marketed to the food and beverage industry. The company’s polymer-based particles offer significant loading of active ingredients and unmatched flexibility and customization, allowing for myriad combinations of cannabinoids with unique performance characteristics. MCTC believes polymeric nanotechnology particles will be a critical technology area for the cannabinoid formulation marketplace.

The company continues to build its R&D program, specifically researching the development of improving methods to make cannabinoids available to living systems. Instrumental in the research program is the development of novel polymeric nanoparticles and nanofibers. These have the potential to elevate the potential of cannabinoid products in the following ways (http://nnw.fm/cK3Bl):

  • Significantly improving bioavailability
  • Allowing for ultra-high loading rates
  • Enhancing customization of cannabinoid combinations
  • Improved dosing precision
  • Providing more control in release parameters

MCTC leadership understands the importance of developing intellectual property (IP) in the ever-evolving cannabis industry. A recent Forbes article described IP as “critical for creating true differentiation between companies and their product and service offerings” (http://nnw.fm/57Fjh). Recognizing the importance of IP, MCTC has been consistent in its application for patents to protect its innovative nanotechnology applications.

Patents

MCTC has now filed four patents on its cannabinoid delivery technology systems:

  • The company first collaborated with Cannabis Nanosciences Inc. on technologies. This became the basis for its first patent filing on an innovative edible dissolvable film for cannabinoid ingestion.
  • Its second patent filing for cannabinoid nanoparticles combined TPGS, a water-soluble form of vitamin E.
  • Its third patent filing involved a unique 4th dimension, 3D printed cannabinoid delivery system for beverages.
  • Its fourth patent, considered its most significant, broadly covers many aspects of nanoparticles and nano fibers comprising one or more cannabinoids disposed at least partially within a water-soluble medium.

Collaborations

MCTC collaborated with Marijuana Company Inc. (OTCQB: MCOA) subsidiary hempSmart Inc., under a hemp extract and CBD product supply agreement wherein hempSmart will utilize its extensive network of marketing partners to market MCTC’s powered drink mixes and other CBD edibles online. These products are designed for the dry beverage and edibles sector and will be supplied by MCTC. They incorporate the company’s patent-pending cannabinoid infusion technologies and will be trademarked as Hemp You Can Feel (TM) and Gummies You Can Feel (TM).

Leadership

MCTC CEO and chairman Arman Tabatabaei boasts 15 years of management and operations experience and is considered an expert at data collection and analysis relative to resource management, risk forecasting, and profit and loss management. He has acted as a consultant with Cannabis Strategic Ventures (OTCQB: NUGS) and played an instrumental role in improving operations at Sugarmade Inc. (OTCQB: SGMD) relative to the company’s hydroponic growth supplies initiatives.

MCTC founder and director Robert Hymers also brings a seasoned perspective, having had significant experiences in the cannabis industry and as a financial executive and consultant. He is the managing partner of Pinnacle Tax Services in Los Angeles and was previously CFO and director of Marijuana Company of America Inc. (OTC: MCOA). He is currently a member of the Strategic Advisory Board at Massroots Inc. and acts as a consultant to both Cannabis Strategic Ventures Inc. and Sugarmade Inc. Hymers’ background in tax accounting, auditing, SEC reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance has immense value in his current position at MCTC Holdings.

MCTC Holdings Inc. (MCTC), closed Friday's trading session at $0.28, even for the day, on 354 volume with 3 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 10,031 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.075000002/$3.00.

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HTC Extraction Systems (TSX.V: HTC) (OTCQB: HTPRF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight HTC Extraction Systems (TSX.V: HTC) (OTCQB: HTPRF).

HTC Extraction Systems (TSX.V: HTC) (OTCQB: HTPRF), a hemp-biomass processing entity, is positioned to profit following major investments and acquisitions in the quickly expanding cannabidiol (“CBD”) and cannabinoid market. To view the full article, visit http://cnw.fm/67EPg. Also today, the company was featured in the 420 with CNW by CannabisNewsWire. Marijuana edibles give the consumers a good buzz minus the risks associated with smoking or vaping the products, regardless of whether you bought them at a dispensary or made them in your kitchen.

HTC Extraction Systems (TSX.V: HTC) (OTCQB: HTPRF) has developed and optimized proprietary technologies designed for biomass extraction, distillation and purification of ethanol and ethanol-based solvents used for the hemp biomass and cannabidiol (“CBD”) industry, as well as gas and liquid extraction. HTC’s extraction & purification systems are engineered to large-scale to reduce capital and operating costs while delivering superior performance measured by reduced energy usage, lowered emissions and improved quality of the product produced.

Advanced Extraction Technologies

For more than 14 years, HTC has developed and optimized proprietary technology and purification systems used for biomass, gas and liquid extraction. These technologies include:

  • LCDesign® – Low-cost design for modular gas, liquid and biomass extraction systems optimizes plant design, thus reducing capital and operating costs.
  • PDOEngine™ – Software-based design algorithms accurately model and simulate gas, liquid and biomass extraction processing.
  • Delta Solvents™ – Custom-designed, ethanol-based solvent mixtures and additives that optimize production and reduce costs. Technology development is being conducted at HTC’s sponsored research facilities at the University of Calgary.

Delta Purification® Technology

HTC’s patented Delta Purification® technology will purify, recycle and reuse the extraction ethanol used in the CBD extraction process while managing and reducing any CBD waste losses through the re-extraction of all wastes collected from the purified ethanol. Current and new technologies include:

  • Delta CBD Reclaiming System: Reclaiming and purifying ethanol for use in CBD extraction from biomass. Reduces required heat to prevent damage of the chemical attributes of the CBD molecule, allowing extracted CBD to meet food-grade targets for human consumption.
  • Delta Solvent Reclaiming System: Reclaiming and purifying ethanol-based solvents, such as single, mixed and formulated amines, for use in natural gas processing and post-combustion CO2 capturing processes.
  • Delta Glycol Reclaiming System: Reclaiming and purifying glycols, such as mono-ethylene glycol and tri-ethylene glycol for use in natural gas dehydration processes.

Hemp Biomass and Tolling Contracts

HTC has entered into a hemp biomass tolling agreement for the 2019 crop year involving a supply of hemp biomass from a hemp grower in Saskatchewan, Canada. The hemp grower utilizes five varieties of Health Canada-approved cultivars as the genetic foundation. HTC will process and extract CBD FSO distillate from the hemp biomass. As a tolling fee payment, HTC will receive a percentage of the extracted CBD FSO distillate for its processing, extraction, purification and distillation services.

Additional hemp biomass tolling contracts with producers and hemp biomass providers are being negotiated in the U.S. for the 2020 hemp crop growing year. HTC will provide “local-to-grower” drying-to-biomass storage capability and transportation of dried biomass to an HTC, location to be determined, future US based, extraction facility. HTC is also in negotiation with a 60,000-acre, recognized Canadian farm leader, who is a significant hemp biomass producer, for a similar hemp biomass tolling contract.

re3™ Technology

Large users of ethanol and solvents for plant oil extraction demand reduced capital and operating costs. HTC’s re3™ (reclaim, recycle, reuse) technology can save up to 30% of the required fluid costs. The increasing cost of new extraction ethanol, combined with the cost of used ethanol disposal, creates a unique opportunity whereby the re3™ technology will create cost savings, while meeting environmental responsibilities.

The growth of ethanol and CO2 used in CBD production has created a new demand for reliable commercial scale ethanol reclaimer systems. The Delta Purification® ethanol system meets this new demand.

Sales and Offtake Agreements

HTC intends to leverage its relationship with its related entity, Purely Canada Foods™, to provide sales and distribution for its Ingredient CBD market under the brand of Purely Canada Hemp™, Purely Canada CBD™, Purely Canada Cannabinoids™. Purely Canada Hemp™ will develop risk managed multi-year ingredient supply contracts with its existing and new Global Food, Beverage and Animal Food Industry Customers.

Project Construction

HTC has focused the Canadian implementation of its BOOM (build, own, operate and maintain) extraction tolling strategy on a location near Regina, Saskatchewan. HTC is currently constructing a 19,000-square-foot GMP Euro compliant extraction tolling facility on six acres of land that will include biomass processing, extraction, implementation of DeltaSolv™ technologies and Delta Purification® systems, distillate and refining equipment, laboratory quality control and testing operations, and on-site office and admin facilities.

Leadership

Chairman, CEO and Director Lionel Kambeitz is a recognized professional in business development and international business relations. He has played a founding role in many other Canadian and U.S.-based companies. Kambeitz has executive experience in a variety of industries including energy, agriculture, food production engineering, and manufacturing.

Jeff Allison, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director, has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance and business development. Prior to joining HTC in 2005, Allison as Vice President assisted with the founding and setup of CUCORP Financial Services in Saskatchewan.

HTC Extraction Systems (OTCQB: HTPRF), closed Friday's trading session at $0.158, even for the day, on 2,000 volume. The average volume for the last 3 months is 3,255 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.07/$0.920000016.

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Sigma Labs Inc. (NASDAQ: SGLB)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Sigma Labs Inc. (SGLB).

Developer of quality-assurance software for the commercial 3D-printing industry Sigma Labs Inc. (NASDAQ: SGLB) recently demonstrated the latest version of its proprietary technology PrintRite3D(R) in collaboration with Materialise NV at the Formnext 2019 conference held in Frankfurt, Germany. To view the full article, visit http://nnw.fm/wM325.

Software companies can prove to be exceptionally lucrative and rewarding when they provide critical solutions to complex problems. Sigma Labs Inc. (NASDAQ: SGLB) is in just such an enviable position. The company is the recognized pioneer in the development and commercialization of real-time, computer-aided inspection solutions for the 3D metal printing industry.

Sigma Labs Inc. (SGLB) is the only provider of in-process quality-assurance software to the commercial 3D printing metal industry that enables operators of machines making 3D metal parts to offset emerging quality problems, sustain part quality, and avoid rejects. Sigma’s software is the singular solution that enables both real-time, in-process detection of quality control manufacturing irregularities for critical metal parts and then provides the operator the actionable information needed to adjust and mitigate the developing anomaly. Sigma Labs’ software represents a paradigm shift in the quality control process for the manufacture of 3D printed metal components. The nascent 3D metal printing industry is on the verge of radically altering the speed and technical complexity of manufactured parts. Further, it makes possible just-in-time availability of critical components – all at reduced cost, time, waste and weight. 3D printing, heralded as the fourth industrial revolution in manufacturing, will only truly surpass traditional techniques when the additive manufacturing industry moves from “post process” quality control to “in process” quality assurance.

For the industry to move from prototype manufacturing of critical components to economically viable commercial production, the 3D metal printing industry must find ways to dramatically increase production speed and quality yields, and to dramatically decrease the excessive cost of quality control. To achieve these prerequisites and move 3D metal printing into the mainstream, parts must be inspected and certified during the manufacturing process rather than after. Parts in the production process that are developing signs of quality control problems must be identified in real-time and alerts must be issued. The problem, along with the solution, must then be communicated to the machine operator to implement repairs.

Revolutionizing Additive Manufacturing

Sigma Labs, with its PrintRite3D® brand, has established a new benchmark in the development and commercialization of real-time computer aided inspection (“CAI”) solutions. Sigma Labs resolves the major roadblocks and costly quality control challenges that impede the 3D manufacture of precision metal parts. The company’s breakthrough computer-aided software product revolutionizes commercial additive manufacturing, enabling non-destructive quality assurance during production, uniquely allowing errors to be corrected in real-time.

Sigma Labs was founded in 2010 by a team of Los Alamos National Labs scientists and engineers to develop and commercially license advanced metallurgical products for the military ordinance, dental implants, and then for additive manufacturing (3D printing). After assessing 3D metal printing technology and the costly, inconsistent quality control issues, Sigma Labs concluded that the enormous potential of 3D metal printing could only scale up if in-process quality-assurance tools were developed to observe, manage and control the manufacturing complexities in such a manner that reliability and repeatability of very high precision quality metal parts could be achieved in the process. Sigma Labs’ patented and third-party validated software has achieved these objectives and now delivers the critical elements needed to unleash the promise of 3D metal printing.

Sigma Labs’ products and services are engineered, manufactured and qualified for use in the highly demanding and hyper precise production environments of the aerospace, defense, transportation, oil and gas, biomedical and other precision-dependent industries.

The Challenge

Additive metal manufacturing combines multiple processes and parts into one single 3D printed part. Due to variances in the additive manufacturing process, parts of consistent quality currently can’t be reliably produced in either large or small quantities without substantial postproduction inspection and rejection costs. Parts are inspected after production using CT scans and other means, so the manufacturer doesn’t know until the very end which of the finished parts meet design specifications. This means lost time, lost profits and inability to economically scale up production.

Innovative Approach

Sigma Labs solves this problem with its patented, in-process quality control technology that informs operators and engineers how to improve both the manufacturing process and quality by capturing meaningful data about inconsistencies in real-time. Sigma Labs is also partnering with OEMs, working toward the visionary introduction of revolutionary closed-loop control that will bypass the machine operator and automatically make in process corrections by reducing machine variations.

Sigma Labs’ next generation technology gives manufacturers the ability to make fast, virtual real-time adjustments so that each finished part is uniform and within critical specifications, thereby improving production quality, decreasing end-users’ risks and waste, and increasing profits and speed to market. Sigma Labs’ PrintRite3D® IPQA Software monitors and assesses the quality of each production part in the 3D additive manufacturing process – layer by layer, and in real-time. This has never been available until now.

Sigma Labs maintains a strong intellectual property portfolio consisting of trade secrets, process know-how and 34 patents either granted, pending or awaiting pre-publication around the globe. These patents encompass the fundamental technologies underlying Sigma Labs’ melt pool process control, data analytics, anomaly detection, signature identification, and future “closed-loop control” of 3D metal printing.

Market Opportunity

Providing advanced quality assurance software to the commercial 3D printing industry is currently a $1.4 billion addressable market expected to grow to $3.9 billion by 2023. Integrating Sigma Labs’ groundbreaking software helps arm the industry with a necessary catalyst to help enable and optimize the fourth industrial revolution in manufacturing.

Sigma Labs’ global client base includes 23 installations across 19 different users. Tier-1 OEM enterprises and end-users such as Siemens, Honeywell, Pratt & Whitney and others are currently evaluating PrintRite3D® for production lines.

Management Team

John Rice, CEO and chairman of the board of directors, has extensive experience as a CEO, lead negotiator, turnaround expert, business financier and crisis management executive/consultant. Prior to becoming chair and CEO of Sigma Labs, he was the CEO of a successful turn-around of a Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Rice has led a variety of companies in diverse business sectors and worked on a host of products and technologies including design and manufacture of high-end jet engine test equipment for the U.S. Airforce, chaff dispensers for F16s, software for modeling naval exercises, software for controlling warehouse distribution systems, medical radioisotopes, cancer detection, and cybersecurity. He is an honor’s graduate of Harvard College.

Darren Beckett, CTO, has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including Intel Corporation, where he held various technical and managerial positions. His expertise in process engineering for advanced manufacturing technology includes statistical process control for fabrication of semiconductor devices.

CFO Frank D. Orzechowski also serves as treasurer, principal accounting officer, principal financial officer and corporate secretary. He has more than 30 years of distinguished financial and operational experience. Orzechowski began his career at Coopers & Lybrand in 1982, received his CPA certification in 1984, and received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in accounting from Georgetown University in 1982.

Ronald Fisher, vice president of business development, is leading the commercialization of PrintRite3D® 5.0. Fisher is a mechanical engineer with hands-on experience in quality, manufacturing and product development. He has distinguished himself as a lead sales and marketing officer as well as a chief operating officer most recently before joining Sigma in technology startup that grew from market entry to successful exit by merger-acquisition.

Sigma Labs Inc. (SGLB), closed Friday's trading session at $0.9899, off by 0.512563%, on 39,552 volume with 83 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 194,088 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.451099991/$2.46000003.

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The Green Organic Dutchman (TSX: TGOD) (OTC: TGODF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight The Green Organic Dutchman (OTC: TGODF).

The Green Organic Dutchman (TSX: TGOD) (OTC: TGODF) was featured today in a publication from Investing News Network. Another Canadian cannabis firm saw a massive value drop on its announcement of a US$25 million registered direct offering, which will dilute the value of its existing shares.

The Green Organic Dutchman (TSX: TGOD) (OTC: TGODF), whose principal location is in Hamilton, Ontario, produces farm grown, organic, pesticide-free medical cannabis in small batches using all natural, organic craft growing principles. TGOD is licensed under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR) to cultivate medical cannabis. The company carries out its principal activities producing cannabis pursuant to the provisions of the ACMPR and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Canada).

Committed to becoming the global leader in delivering organic cannabis solutions that enhance people’s lives, TGOD consistently adheres to the highest levels of excellence. Its world-class management team includes a proven group of leaders with outstanding executive and operational experience specific to consumer packaged goods, consumer products, cannabis and finance industries.

TGOD is positioned as one of the highest quality and most cost efficient cannabis producers in Canada by leveraging innovative technology and low-cost power solutions. It holds one of the largest land packages under a single ACMPR license in Canada, providing future cannabis Agri-park style development and opportunities for joint ventures, licensing and distribution partners. Its industry leading alliance partners include Eaton, Ledcor Group and Hamilton Utilities Corp.

Eaton is the second largest power management company in the world and promises to supply innovative and cost effective power solutions to meet TGOD’s growing demands. Construction management is supplied by Ledcor, Canada’s second largest multidisciplinary construction company and a pioneer in the Green Building Industry. An alliance with Hamilton Utilities Corp allows TGOD to reduce its power costs from $0.13 per kWh to less than $0.05 per kWh. Greenhouse design is provided by Larssen Greenhouse, whose 25-plus years of experience in building some of the most modern and sophisticated greenhouses in the industry will provide TGOD with state of the art, climate-controlled hybrid greenhouse solutions.

Canada is quickly becoming a hub for cannabis investors with over $1.3 billion raised by Canadian companies to date. There are 58 licensed producers to service a population of 36 million and only two organic producers. TGOD, which holds licenses in Ontario and Quebec, is strategically located in both provinces that together claim 22 million Canadians as residents. Another estimated 57 million people live next door in six U.S. bordering states.

The Canadian cannabis market currently has a massive supply demand gap, which makes TGOD’s expansion plans even more important to investors. These plans include a combined build-out capacity of 970,000 square feet, allowing TGOD to produce 116,000 kg annually of organic cannabis. Upon completion, Phase One in Hamilton, Ontario, which is fully funded, will provide 150,000 square feet of growing capacity capable of producing up to 14,000 kg of cannabis or $112 million in revenue at $8 a gram.

The company’s Quebec expansion will be constructed on a recently secured 75-acre property near Montreal. This new property has a planned expansion of 820,000 square feet capable of producing 102,000 kg of organic cannabis. The first phase of this expansion is underway and construction is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. Quebec’s first phase will consist of 220,000 square feet capable of producing 22,000 kg of cannabis. Two additional expansion phases will add 250,000 square feet (26,000 kg of cannabis) and 350,000 square feet (54,000 kg of cannabis). Power costs remain exceptionally low for both facilities with access to all other needed utilities available and close by.

TGOD also plans to gain a share of the burgeoning cannabis oils market which by Q1 2017 accounted for 49 percent of all cannabis sold in Canada under the ACMPR, up from only 27% in Q2 2016. TGOD has ordered a purpose-built extraction laboratory with an estimated commission in Q4 of 2017. This is a commercial-scale CO2 extraction unit capable of processing up to 12,000 kg of raw material per year and producing approximately $170 million worth of organic cannabis oils. Raw cannabis oil provides a significant downstream manufacturing opportunity into several potential recreational market verticals including edibles, beverages, topicals and concentrates.

Data from the Canadian ACMPR Market Trends report indicates a rising number of consumers will continue to seek out healthier, less conspicuous ways to consume cannabis, ensuring sales of organic cannabis oil products remain brisk. Organic cannabis products demand a significant premium compared to non-organic products and the demand keeps growing.

Plans to take the company public are underway with an initial public offering (IPO) slated for January 2018. In November, the company raised $13 million in equity financing and in March closed a $27 million non-brokered private placement. Another $20 million is currently being raised before the IPO in January, which will be utilized for expansion plans.

TGOD is uniquely positioned between the medical and recreational cannabis industry since Canada is scheduled to legalize cannabis for all adults in mid-2018. As of August 2017, TGOD has 2,400 shareholders. Established in 2012, TGOD’s motto, “Making Life Better,” can be seen in its strategic partnerships, top quality management team, and dedication to organic farming and principles.

To learn more about the company and how to invest, contact TGOD directly at financing@tgod.ca

The Green Organic Dutchman (OTC: TGODF), closed Friday's trading session at $0.5125, off by 1.4423%, on 515,400 volume with 463 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 1,357,942 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.469300001/$4.38000011.

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ChineseInvestors.com (CIIX)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight ChineseInvestors.com (CIIX).

ChineseInvestors.com (OTCQB: CIIX) CEO Warren Wang recently joined Donald Baillargeon on MoneyTV to discuss company news, such as subsidiary CBD Biotech’s recent attendance at the 2019 China Industrial Cannabis CBD Industry International Conference in Haerbing, China. To view the full article, visit http://cnw.fm/qF9Hn.

Founded in 1999, ChineseInvestors.com (CIIX) has become a leading financial information website for Chinese-speaking investors in the United States and China. Recognizing unprecedented opportunities in the U.S. cannabis industry, CIIX is also laying the groundwork to capitalize on growing demand for cannabidiol (CBD)-based nutrition and health products.

Through its primary website, www.ChineseInvestors.com, CIIX offers a variety of investor education products and services, including real-time market commentary, analysis and educational related services in Chinese language character sets; consultative services to smaller private companies considering becoming a public company; and advertising and public relations related support services.

At the center of this initiative is the ChineseInvestors Method, a unique integration of a disciplined investing process, web-based tools, personalized instructions and support. Using this strategy, CIIX provides reliable market information to help investors make informed investment decisions and meet their individualized financial goals.

CIIX is also leveraging its financial expertise to enter into the burgeoning CBD industry, which within a few years has grown from a relatively invisible sector to a billowing market expected to reach $2.1 billion in consumer sales by 2020.

The increasing demand for CBD-based products is a catalyst for innovative business endeavors. To this accord, CIIX has established a three-year development plan to capitalize on the convergence of CBD and the nutrition and health products market in mainland China, where the benefits of CBD oil have not been widely recognized.

Under a wholesale agreement with a reputable CBD health brand, CIIX is launching the world’s first online CBD health products store published in the Chinese language. The site, www.ChineseCBDoil.com, caters to a growing number of Chinese people awakening to the numerous health benefits of CBD oil for treatment of a variety of conditions such as anxiety, stress, poor sleep, Alzheimer’s disease, and more. CIIX expects to launch this website at the end of January 2017, and plans to sell CBD-infused products via online and in-store.

In conjunction, CIIX’s cannabis-focused “Yelp”-style mobile app is in development as a platform for Chinese people to review and discuss various cannabis products. The app will be the first marijuana social media mobile app designed for Chinese-speaking customers worldwide.

ChineseInvestors.com (CIIX), closed Friday's trading session at $0.17245, off by 3.5245%, on 213,119 volume with 47 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 45,595 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.165000006/$0.550000011.

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Wonderfilm Media Corporation (TSXV: WNDR) (OTC: WDRFF)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Wonderfilm Media Corporation (OTC: WDRFF).

Wonderfilm Media (TSX.V: WNDR) (OTCQB: WDRFF), a producer of high-quality feature films and episodic television with international appeal, is strategically operating on a lean production budget model. To view the full article, visit http://nnw.fm/Z2yFq.

Wonderfilm Media Corporation (TSXV: WNDR) (OTC: WDRFF) main business is the worldwide production of high-quality feature films and episodic television. The Wonder?lm team includes Hollywood veterans who have packaged, produced and delivered several profitable recent films, including “BlacKkKlansman,” “Get Out” and “The Hurt Locker.” Having these individuals on the Wonderfilm team demonstrates the company’s proven access to Academy Award-quality films and upside.

Wonder?lm maintains a continuing $58 million annual production slate to meet the constant and growing need for content worldwide. The company’s risk-averse production process results in predictable and consistent revenue streams.

Soaring demand for content from streaming providers is fueling industry growth. The global media and entertainment market is expected to grow from $1.9 trillion in 2017 to $2.4 trillion in 2022, a five-year CAGR of 4.4%.

The company recently formed Wonderfilm Global, an international film and television sales and distribution joint venture that is expected to generate significant incremental revenue.

Wonderfilm has strong relationships throughout the entertainment industry, which enables cost-effective production budgets and in-demand content creation.

Management Team with Proven Track Records

Kirk Shaw: Over 240 movies and seven television series to his credit. Headed up Canada’s largest independent film and television production company, attaining $100 million revenue two years straight with 8% EBITDA.

Dan Grodnik: Founded Mass Hysteria Entertainment, a publicly traded company, and became its chairman/CEO. Produced over 50 feature films, including “Bobby,” the 2006 Robert Kennedy biographic film.

Shaun Redick & Yvette Yates: $300 million+ USD total production budgets to date with a combined 175 award wins/355 nominations, including 10 Oscar nominations. In 2017 and 2018, they produced two of the most successful Hollywood films of those years: “Get Out” ($255 million USD gross revenue) and “BlacKkKlansman” ($100 million USD gross revenue). Scheduled to produce two to three films per year for Wonderfilm, with the first release slated for October 2020. Committed to the 4% challenge to give more women and women of color the opportunity to direct.

Jeff Bowler: 2017 Emmy Award-winning producer. Vice president of acquisitions and production for The Exchange, one of the top film sales and finance companies in the world. Bowler is the executive for Wonderfilm Global distribution.

Bret Saxon: Through his company, TMP Inc., Saxon created M&A deals worth over US$750 million across 113 countries. Produced several feature films and made-for-television movies, including Wonderfilm’s 2019 movie “Zombie Tidal Wave” for NBC/Universal’s SYFY.

17-Title Movie Slate — Greenlit

Wonderfilm currently has 17 films greenlit with combined budgets totaling $58 million. Wonderfilm production stars include: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Guy Pearce, Ryan Phillippe and Anne Heche, to name a few.

Some of the company’s most notable greenlit projects include the horror film “Amityville 1974,” slated for theatrical release in October 2020, and the action film “Inside Game” starring Tyrese Gibson, which will be released to theaters in fall 2020.

The company is also actively developing a number of other new IP projects, including a dramatic biographic feature titled “Life and Times of Steve McQueen,” a film adaptation of the bestselling novel “Merchant of Death” and a television series headed by “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” creator Anthony Zuiker.

 

Potential for Breakout Success

Wonderfilm movies have the potential for millions of dollars in revenue from the kind of breakout success generated by films like “Saw” and “Get Out,” which would propel Wonderfilm and its revenue streams to a new level. Wonderfilm has several potential breakout films in its development/production queue.

Note: Potential breakout films are not factored into company’s revenue projections.

Base Hits and Home Runs

In tandem with its slate of high-profile films, Wonder?lm continues to finance, produce and deliver many profitable low-risk, lower-budget films that are base hits. Shaun Redick is a home run hitter, and his upcoming Wonderfilm projects are anticipated to be home run hits for the company, while base hits such as “Zombie Tidal Wave” provide a consistent source of revenue.

Recent Industry Breakout Films Include:

  • SAW – $1.2 million budget = $103.9 million in sales
  • Pulp Fiction – $8 million budget = $212 million in sales
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding – $5 million budget = $250 million in sales
  • Lost in Translation – $4 million budget = $120 million in sales
  • Get Out – $4.5 million budget = $255.5 million sales (Shaun Redick)

Note: Revenue from most of Wonderfilm’s current slate will be recorded on the books in 2020 or 2021.

Recent Wonderfilm Releases

  • Aug. 17, 2019: Co-produced with NBC/Universal, “Zombie Tidal Wave” premièred on the SYFY channel to strong ratings.
  • Aug. 29, 2019: “The Fanatic” starring John Travolta opens in U.S. theaters.
  • Sept. 5, 2019: “Tammy’s Always Dying” premiers at Toronto Film Festival.
  • Nov. 8, 2019: “Primal” starring Nicolas Cage opens in U.S. theaters.

Wonderfilm Global Distribution

At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Wonderfilm officially launched Wonderfilm Global, a new film, television and media foreign sales/distribution joint venture with 101 Films and Paul McGowan.

Wonderfilm acquired 51% ownership in the joint venture structure and immediately began attaching its own productions to Wonderfilm Global. The joint venture represents a significant opportunity for Wonderfilm, changing how the company does business.

The intention behind Wonderfilm Global is to keep distribution margins in-house that previously went to other companies. Since most Wonderfilm movies are relatively low-risk and easy to sell because they feature desirable cast and genre, third-party distribution companies were previously earning approximately 10%, plus expenses, on Wonderfilm movies without any level of risk. Now, revenue is generated through presales of Wonder?lm projects and, at times, third-party films. The average Wonder?lm movie is pre-sold for $5million, garnering $500,000 to $750,000 per sale as a commission. These commissions now stay in-house with Wonder?lm Global, and the company expects to sell 10 to 12 third-party films between fall 2019 and fall 2020, generating roughly $6 million in commission income.

A further revenue source is generated from theatrical sales through a 50/50 upside split once the minimum sales threshold is met.

Wonder?lm Global has offices in Vancouver, Beverly Hills, London, Ireland, Seoul and China.

Wonderfilm Business Model

Wonderfilm productions are structured to begin generating a return to the company as soon as the camera starts rolling.

Return Before a Film is Delivered: Producer fee line items are included in each production budget. These range from $50,000 to $500,000, depending on the total budget, and are paid to Wonderfilm most commonly on the first day of principle photography.

Distribution: Wonderfilm Global charges sales and distribution fees within each production budget to cover its presale costs.

Note: Wonderfilm’s productions are all structured to minimize risk by matching budget to funds available.

Return After a Film is Delivered: Unsold presale territories are countries or territories left off of a film’s presale list, either for strategic reasons or because the broadcaster/distributor is waiting to see the completed film. These outside-the-budget distribution sales become Wonderfilm profit centers.

Sales overages once contracted presale threshold is surpassed.

The company’s film library grows with each new production, adding to future sales revenue. Depending on the agreement, exploitation rights for future worldwide sales return to Wonderfilm four or seven years after delivery. As of October 2019, Wonderfilm’s growing film library comprises 18 titles for future exploitation.

Note: The nature of the film business is that box office revenue lags production up to a couple of years.

$50 Million Wonderfilm Production Fund (WPF):

Wonderfilm is in the process of raising $50 million to establish a Wonderfilm Production Fund (WPF). WPF is designed to consolidate traditional production financing models into a single diversified, asset-backed debt instrument.

The WPF is a highly specialized investment vehicle with noncorrelated market returns normally reserved for institutional banks and specialty lenders, and it would pay 8% interest directly from each Wonderfilm movie or series budget and not from corporate funds. These same interest payments are already added to each production budget, as the company currently closes a separate financing for every film. The WPF would significantly streamline Wonderfilm’s production rate, adding revenue more quickly and broadening the yearly production slate.

For fund investors, the WPF is a dedicated production-financing vehicle designed to offer a risk-moderated approach to investing in film finance. The managed process provides structure and reassurance that are normally experienced only when working with an institutional lender that has a dedicated staff and resources.

All projects being financed are for Wonderfilm productions, with the fund collateral fully secured by receivables, including presale contracts, government incentives, or a guarantee from Wonderfilm for any unsecured amounts as may be permitted.

Wonderfilm Media Corporation (OTC: WDRFF), closed Friday's trading session at $0.085, off by 11.4583%, on 241,000 volume with 48 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 53,451 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.072099998/$0.452270001.

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No Borders Inc. (OTC: NBDR)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight No Borders Inc. (NBDR).

No Borders Inc. (OTC: NBDR) was featured today in a publication from CBDWire, examining how companies that manufacture or sell (or do both) products need reliable and secure supply chains to flourish. Smart companies have supply chain management in place to ensure everything from raw materials for production to efficient packaging and delivery. They know that disappointed customers won’t hesitate to look for another vendor or product.

No Borders Inc. (OTCQB: NBDR) specializes in the acquisition, creation and scaling of commercial products by utilizing cutting-edge technologies designed to reduce costs while increasing revenues and shareholder value. With active subsidiaries in healthcare, education, cannabidiol (CBD), finance and technology, No Borders is uniquely positioned to use its expertise to improve margins and add business lines within target verticals. No Borders is headquartered in Arizona with remote work resources in the U.S., South America, Asia and Europe.

Different by Design

Deeply experienced at actionable data compilation, analysis and utilization, No Borders believes that data utilization in a Web 3 ecosystem of predictive analytics, blockchains, consensus algorithms, IoT and 5G are vital keys to the future of disrupting global business.

The company leverages its technological talent and visionary approach alongside best-in-class branding, messaging and product teams to simultaneously deploy multiple vertical product offerings at the same time.

With resources around the world, No Borders operates as a 100% remote work, lean operating organization with a founding ideological focus on “Lifestyle by Design.” No Borders’ teams are built by allowing people to work when they want and from where they want as long as deliverables and results are achieved. This structure allows for strategic talent acquisition without the need for relocation or commuting; lowered operating and fixed costs; as well as improved morale and substantially increased staff productivity.

NBDR Companies

  • No Borders Dental Resources Inc. provides equipment and supplies to medical and dental professionals across the U.S. through the trade name, MediDent Supplies. MediDent has a strategic focus on expanding product portfolios and optimizing lifetime customer value while minimizing customer acquisition cost in the medical, dental and veterinary spaces.
  • No Borders Naturals is a purveyor of health and wellness products for active consumers and their pets. No Borders Naturals aims to be an industry leader in alternative wellness product offerings and is currently expanding its digital offering with impactful product up-sell opportunities such as a series of “Buy Two-Get One” on products on its 1000mg CBD tincture, collagen and retinol beauty cream.
  • No Borders Labs Inc. provides leading-edge tech tools to the No Borders family of companies along with building, testing and deploying technology solutions and products to the market while also offering consulting, architecture and software development services to external businesses looking to update their technology infrastructure for greater efficiency, security and transparency.
  • No Borders Funding Inc. provides internal capital and strategic funding options for the family of No Borders companies while actively engaging and networking to find, acquire, structure and deploy unique financial products, solutions and systems with traditional, distributed ledger and blockchain technologies.
  • No Borders Education Inc. provides internal staff training and strategic education tools for the No Borders family of companies while pursuing external revenue generating educational opportunities within the verticals for which No Borders deploys products, services or technologies.

 

Leadership

No Borders CEO Joseph Snyder is a serial entrepreneur whose experiences in real estate investment, financial services and digital strategy over the last 15 years provide a strong, grounded foundation for the structure and ideas outlined in the company’s strategic plan. He brings a unique set of long-term business experiences that provide No Borders with a clear “mile-high” view of the intricately linked systems and challenges associated with growing and scaling our vision.

COO Cynthia Tanabe, a licensed real estate agent/broker since 2004, has successfully built a highly respected investor and bank-focused real estate and property management firm in Arizona with tens of millions of dollars of properties owned and sold.

CTO Chris Brown has 14 years of experience in the IT industry ranging from full stack programming, hardware support, engineering and maintenance, to enterprise-level information system analysis, design, development and implementation. From his background in Air Force intelligence to earning dual B.S. degrees in computational mathematics and biochemistry from Arizona State University, Brown has been engrossed with technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and decentralized blockchain ledger systems and their connections with real world business applications.

Management is backed by an advisory board with a diverse range of expertise blockchain, brand development, specialty retail, branded consumer products, technology, marketing and other specialties pertinent to No Borders’ growth strategy.

No Borders Inc. (NBDR), closed Friday's trading session at $0.015, off by 9.0909%, on 24,835 volume with 8 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 65,537 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.007699999/$0.048799999.

Recent News

Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (OTC: GRYN)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (GRYN).

Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: GRYN) is looking ahead of potential upcoming requirements for more industry regulation for public safety with the appointment of a new Head of Quality and Compliance. The premium cannabis cultivation and branding enterprise has appointed seasoned business executive Sid Senroy, MBA, to the position, with the goal of guiding the company’s efforts to form cross-functional alliances for growth and improvement and of leveraging existing expertise, increased productivity levels, compliance and efficiencies.

Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (GRYN) is a full-scope, premium hemp cultivation and branding enterprise focused on the cultivation and processing of industrial hemp for the purpose of extracting cannabidiol (CBD). With more than 25 years of experience in agricultural science and innovation, Green Hygienics aims to become one of the largest providers of industrial hemp-derived CBD products on the planet.

Green Hygienics’ business model includes generating revenues from the sale of hemp and premium-grade CBD products, creating trusted global consumer brands, developing valuable intellectual property (IP) and growing rapidly through strategic acquisitions. With direct regard to acquisitions, the company acts as a business accelerator and a vertical integrator supporting rapid growth and development of companies with extraordinary potential.

Innovation – the Future of Commercial Cultivation

The greatest challenge of the cannabis industry is determining how to deliver a safe and premium-quality product on a consistent basis; antiquated production methods are riddled with recalls and are unsafe from a cultivation production standpoint. Green Hygienics’ solution is to employ scientific methodology combined with sustainable farm practices to achieve optimal soil refinement. The company’s objectives are to produce higher yields and a superior product on a consistent basis to always remain compliant through diligent testing. A secure, premium-quality supply chain is the foundation for the company’s operations.

Green Hygienics’ cultivation approach is based on scientific measurements and data analysis, which transform the cultivation environment into a laboratory environment to deliver superior product.

State-of-the-Art Processing

Processing hemp to produce the finest-quality CBD is a complex, multistage process that should be performed with adherence to the highest standards. Once harvested, the hemp must be carefully handled, dried and stored to prepare it for CBD extraction. Each and every step must be given full care and attention. Green Hygienics’ ambition is to create state-of-the-art infrastructure, employ the latest large-scale processing technologies and adhere to strict quality management systems.

The company strives to constantly develop innovations in industrial hemp for CBD cultivation and to create solutions that lower costs, deliver higher yields and address the challenges of large-scale production.

Brand Development, Marketing and Direct Sales

One of the core drivers of the Green Hygienics business model is to develop or acquire unique brands with global distribution potential. The company sees the market becoming increasingly competitive, and establishing Green Hygienics’ own distinct, trusted brands will be important. By controlling its own supply chain, the company can also leverage strategic advantages in the marketplace, such as the ability to deliver a “best in class” product on a consistent basis. Successful branding is demonstrated by a positive response to a company’s customer service, reputation and products, and Green Hygienics Holdings is acutely aware of the value in this.

Ahead of the Curve

The clear competitive advantage Green Hygienics holds over industry peers is cultivating premium product within the upper-scale product category more efficiently than anyone else in the industry. Currently, the average-size hemp farm in North America is 9 acres. Green Hygienics addresses the challenge of scalability through its farming methodology.

The company’s objective is to produce a higher quality of product at a lower cost and to deliver the finest-quality product to consumers without exception.

In today’s market, inefficient companies and those that produce an inferior product will become vulnerable or disappear, adding considerable value to companies like Green Hygienics that efficiently innovate and operate. The premium cannabis market will continue to achieve higher pricing, and the demand will stabilize. At the end of the day, successful branding backed by superior product will cause companies like Green Hygienics to rise above the competition.

Outlook

Companies within the cannabis sector, states and lawmakers are still figuring out how legislation, consumer demand and innovations will shape the industry. As a safeguard and for long-term resilience, Green Hygienics is preparing for the next plateau with proprietary cultivation and processing systems and tightly controlled growth environments that enable containment of production costs, delivery of higher yields and production of a premium product. These margins will provide the company with a strategic advantage within an increasingly competitive marketplace.

Green Hygienics is constantly studying the market dynamics in North America and abroad and anticipates that both the domestic and international markets will appreciate and be willing to pay a premium to those companies that can deliver best-in-class products.

In line with this expectation, the company’s additional objectives are to secure investment, enhance its balance sheet and increase its value through profitable operations as well as through acquiring and owning the real estate or land it builds upon. Over the long term, this will help Green Hygienics grow in value, provide leverage for rapid expansion and offer security for investors. The company will be positioned to capitalize on any opportunity within the industry or to acquire distressed assets, which is part of its growth strategy.

Green Hygienics plans to establish lead brands starting in the California market, to secure trademarks, and to develop and secure intellectual property assets with regard to cultivation and processing.

Green Hygienics Holdings Inc. (GRYN), closed Friday's trading session at $1.91, up 1.5957%, on 7,654 volume with 13 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 10,753 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.201100006/$2.48000001.

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OriginClear (OTC: OCLN)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight OriginClear (OTC: OCLN).

OriginClear’s (OTC: OCLN) Spanish partner, Depuporc(R), recently showcased its manure-treatment pilot system in Spain (http://nnw.fm/o68Ts). The system fully integrates OriginClear’s Electro Water Separation(TM) (“EWS”) and Advanced Oxidation(TM) (“AOx”) technologies. To view the full article, visit http://nnw.fm/0B8xG. Also today, NetworkNewsWire released a report on the company detailing how OCLN has reached an agreement to market worldwide its Spanish partner’s – Depuporc S.L. – integrated manure wastewater-treatment system (http://nnw.fm/Dk9t5). OriginClear will market the system through its network of licensees and potential sales channels; the agreement allows OriginClear to name certified manufacturers as needed to support sales.

OriginClear (OTC: OCLN) leads the self-reliant water revolution, deploying advanced technologies at the point of use, with modular, prefabricated systems that create durable assets and water independence for industry, commerce and agriculture.

Failing infrastructure and the rising cost of water are driving businesses to treat their own water. OriginClear leads this megatrend with on-premise systems enabling very high purification and recycling levels that centralized systems cannot achieve.

Systems installed at the point of use become productive assets for businesses that also increase property values. And OriginClear helps corporations improve their environmental, social and governance (ESG) standings with world-class water management.

Operations & Markets

OriginClear leads a new generation of water companies that focus on meeting the needs of businesses looking for compact, advanced technologies that can be shipped to and installed at the point of use. The company manufactures and distributes its professional-grade water treatment and conveyance products to commercial and industrial properties, fielding both direct and indirect sales channels to reach end-market clients such as hotels and resorts, real estate housing developments, office buildings, military installations, schools, farms, food and beverage manufacturers, industrial warehouse, oil and gas producers, and medical and pharmaceutical facilities.

From its Texas-based factory, OriginClear designs and prefabricates an entire line of plug-n-play containerized units called Modular Water Systems™ that enable water purification, recycling and wastewater management.


Industrial Pretreatment Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) designed by Daniel M. Early, using reinforced thermoplastic modules.

These onsite modular products provide clients with water independence through ownership and operational control over water quality, enabling them to increase productivity while reducing environmental, health and safety risks from pollution, contamination and corrosion. Modular water products are trusted to balance performance with cost-effectiveness, enabling business users to go well beyond municipal standards for water quality, therefore achieving high levels of satisfaction for their own customers, and improved sustainability for their properties.

OriginClear’s water treatment equipment can boost real estate asset value as a fundamental capital improvement, combined with long-lasting water savings for the corporate bottom line.

Product Portfolio

OriginClear groups its products into three main categories:

  1. Water Treatment: achieving high grade purification.
  2. Water Conveyance: water transportation and pumping.
  3. Advanced Technologies: commercialization of innovative technologies.

OriginClear’s complete line of compact, on-site, point-of-use products include: advanced purification systems that are skid, rack-mounted and containerized for reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, media filtration, disinfection, water softening, ion exchange and electrodeionization (EDI), combined as needed in small to medium commercial and industrial applications, and custom-build projects. Water conveyance products include pump and lifting stations, modular storage tanks, and control monitoring panels.

OriginClear’s line of modular water products and systems is key to the self-reliant water treatment revolution as they create “instant infrastructure” – fully engineered, prefabricated and prepackaged systems that use durable, sophisticated materials. The units are available in standard capacities for onsite closed-loop systems at commercial business locations.

The company’s rugged wastewater treatment plants, highly reliable pump stations, and premium water purification units typically offer 25 percent lower initial costs over conventional systems, with greater quality and full connectivity. These pump stations and wastewater treatment products utilize high density thermo-plastics (HDPE) and proprietary, innovative prefabrication methods and materials that deliver the longest life and strongest products.

Breakthrough Technologies

OriginClear has a long history of innovation through its OriginClear Technologies division, which is responsible for identifying leading-edge technologies to solve today’s toughest challenges. These advanced technologies are the centerpiece of the division’s international licensee network. The technologies are developed in OriginClear Technologies, and licensees integrate them into their own products.

Electro Water Separation™ (EWS) and Advanced Oxidation (AOx™) are the principal, well-proven technologies.

EWS is OriginClear’s breakthrough water cleanup technology which utilizes a catalytic process to concentrate and eliminate suspended solids in the worst commercial and industrial wastewater.

AOx is OriginClear’s proprietary advanced oxidation technology which generates a dense cloud of ozone, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals, dramatically reducing or eliminating dissolved organic microtoxins, including bacteria and viruses, hormones, drugs, pesticides such as Roundup, and synthetics. AOx has also been shown to effectively reduce harmful chemicals such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide – the “rotten egg” smell in crude oil that reduces its value.

Through international licensing and partnerships, OriginClear’s advanced technologies are being adopted to treat tough water problems in East and South Asia, Europe and the Middle East, and North America.

Market Opportunity

In just 10 years, the global water services market has doubled into a trillion-dollar industry, driven by improper sanitation and water scarcity. Only 20 percent of all sewage and only 30 percent of all industrial waste are ever treated. Additionally, water leakage results in the loss of 35 percent of all clean water across the planet; reducing that percentage by half would provide clean water for 100 million people. This is a situation of great danger, but also great potential.

The statistics demonstrate that we can no longer rely on the efficiencies of giant, centralized water utilities to meet these challenges. An increasing number of businesses are starting to take notice, instead conducting their own water treatment and recycling. Whether by choice or out of necessity, those businesses that do invest in onsite water systems get a tangible asset on their business and real estate, and can enjoy better water quality at a lower cost.

Out of the public’s eye and with OriginClear’s help, a growing number of self-reliant businesses are building Decentralized Water Wealth™ for themselves while also helping their community. They know that environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing guidelines, which represent $22 trillion of assets under management around the world, specifically note the key indicator of how well corporations manage their water.


10,000 Gallon per Day Industrial Membrane Bioreactor Waste Water Treatment Plant designed by Daniel M. Early, PE, using long-lived Structural Reinforced ThermoPlastic (SRTP)

OriginClear is a key enabler of ESG water management for corporations that are increasingly responsible for what was once delegated to central utilities. For example, when a corporation manages its own water, and uses OriginClear’s proprietary hybrid treatment methods, it can significantly reduce both water use and nutrient footprints (carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) in one compact package.

These hybrid processes feature advanced blackwater treatment with advanced clean water processing. They can convert toxic nutrients to less harmful compounds, and even capture them for beneficial reuse purposes, as shown in OriginClear’s recent case study.

Revenue Growth through Synergy

Since OriginClear acquired it in 2015, Progressive Water Treatment has generated steady revenues in the range of a million dollars a quarter. It is now the Fabrication and Manufacturing Division for the whole company. The team at Modular Water Systems, headed by Chief Engineer Daniel M. Early, is responsible for overall design and high-level engineering. It relies on the Fabrication and Manufacturing Division to add incremental revenue for its modular product line, without requiring large increases in personnel.

OriginClear believes that these two business units can develop growing revenues through synergy and ultimately help achieve overall profitability. OriginClear also seeks to acquire profitable water companies that can complement the synergy of its existing units and accelerate both revenues and profitability. However, acquisitions are neither guaranteed, nor essential to OriginClear’s continued growth.

 

Leadership

OriginClear’s management team brings strong leadership and a background in managing business operations, sales, technologies, and finance. The team combines idealism with solid commercial skills, achieving a triple bottom line of environmental, social and financial gain.

Riggs Eckelberry – Chairman, CEO and Co-founder
Riggs Eckelberry is a veteran technology manager who led companies to multiple exits during the high-tech boom of the 90s and early 2000s. Eckelberry came to the water industry from a quarter century in high technology, specializing in commercializing breakthrough technologies. During the dotcom boom, he worked on a series of tech successes, such as Quarterdeck’s CleanSweep; security software vendor Panda Software; and the sale of companies to EarthWeb, BeFree, and BellSouth. Just prior to founding what is now OriginClear, he helped drive security software company CyberDefender to an IPO on the Nasdaq as its president and chief operating officer.

Thomas Marchesello – Chief Operating Officer
Thomas Marchesello is a business operations and technology executive with over 20 years’ experience in manufacturing and distribution of products and services. He has 12 years in private equity M&A, doing buyside acquisitions of small to midsize corporations. He has over 10 years advising innovative corporations on ESG strategy and speaks often about industry trends. He began his career in the U.S. Air Force, Space Command Headquarters for environmental sciences. He has held key roles for Fortune 500 companies such as Sony, Thompson Reuters, Morgan Stanley, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Daniel M. Early, PE – Senior Engineer
For the past 25 years, Dan Early has worked as an engineered products development specialist with very strong understanding of the complex and interconnected disciplines, economies, and governmental regulation needed to develop and sustain modern civil infrastructure systems that reflect a balance of environmental stewardship, social expectations, and cultural requirements. Since 2010, Early has specialized in the research, development, and deployment of next generation water infrastructure technologies using heavy plastic manufacturing. His initiatives and innovations anchor Modular Water Systems’ product line.

Marc Stevens – Director of Fabrication and Manufacturing
Marc Stevens brings nearly 40 years of experience to OriginClear’s manufacturing team. His experience in mechanical design, equipment fabrication, installation and a wide range of projects led to his founding what is now OriginClear’s Fabrication and Manufacturing Division. He supervises the design, building and installation of customized, large-scale water treatment systems, including purification technologies for process waters for boilers and cooling towers, drinking water and various industrial waste water applications. Stevens leads the team that also manufactures OriginClear’s standardized Modular Water Systems.

OriginClear (OCLN), closed Friday's trading session at $0.20, off by 4.7619%, on 84,174 volume with 29 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 49,822 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.100000001/$5.80000019.

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Marijuana Company of America Inc. (MCOA)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Marijuana Company of America Inc. (MCOA).

Marijuana Company of America Inc. (MCOA) was featured today in a publication from CBDWire, examining how a new trend in the pet industry, and that’s CBD for pets. CBD, or cannabidiol as the science nerds call it, is extracted from hemp, and according to the anecdotal evidence that’s piled up over the years, it is a powerful medicine. Users have claimed relief from a plethora of illnesses including chronic pain and insomnia.

Marijuana Company of America Inc. (OTC: MCOA) (the “Company”) are pioneers in the cannabis industry going back to 2009 when Don Steinberg, MCOA’s CEO, founded the first marijuana company ever to trade on a U.S. stock market, Medical Marijuana Inc. Since then, Don and his partner, Charlie Larsen, have formed Global Hemp Group and Marijuana Company of America. They have experienced the shift of legislation first hand, not only for the legalization of marijuana but also the emerging hemp-based CBD products.

The CBD market is growing exponentially and consequently the founders of MCOA have constructed their business model around the development of industrial hemp-based CBD products. The industrial hemp plant can be used to produce products that are carbon neutral or even carbon negative. It is one of the longest, strongest natural fibers on earth, used as a building material that is free of mold, pesticide-resistant, and fire proof. Hemp has also been described as a “super food,” which provides additional business opportunities. No part of the plant is left unused and the Company’s overall strategy is to take advantage of every profit center from farm to the multiple valuable finished products.

The cannabis and hemp industries are experiencing unprecedented growth that is expected to continue for many years as these industries are now accepted globally and continue to mature and expand. North American consumers spent $6.7 billion on legal cannabis products in 2016, up 34% from 2015’s $5 billion. This trend is widely expected to explode at a 27% compounded annual growth rate to reach $22.6 billion by 2021, according to ArcView Market Research.

The company offers investors the opportunity to be on the forefront of cannabis and hemp innovation through cultivation, processing in the legal cannabis and industrial hemp sectors. The Company’s business model includes producing a diverse portfolio of synergistic business segments that provide value to its shareholders. Its vertically integrated business model and distribution platforms are positioned to capture market share by developing recognizable and valuable brands.

Under the MCOA umbrella, wholly owned subsidiary hempSMART™, Inc. is committed to bringing high quality CBD-based products to the market through its affiliate marketing program. Through hempSMART, MCOA’s strategic approach to the distribution of products is through a networking architecture geared to maintain customer loyalty and capture market share. The patent-pending product “hempSMART Brain,” is designed to revolutionize the safe and effective support of healthy brain function. The brand new product, HempSMART DROPS, is a full-spectrum CBD tincture formulated with hemp and fractionated coconut oils. The hempSMART marketing team has decades of experience, and is well positioned to take the hempSMART brand to a global audience.

Marijuana Company of America Inc. (MCOA), closed Friday's trading session at $0.07, off by 6.5421%, on 304,805 volume with 153 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 460,106 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.023/$1.44000005.

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Sugarmade, Inc. (SGMD)

The QualityStocks Daily Newsletter would like to spotlight Sugarmade, Inc. (SGMD).

Sugarmade, Inc. (SGMD) was featured today in a publication from CBDWire, examining how as the market for CBD kept growing, sellers kept running into one question: can my pets use CBD? Naturally, pets get affected by all kinds of ailments, and the CBD pet industry grew around this concept. In 2018, it was valued at $8 million, and it’s expected to grow to $1.16 billion by 2022. Clearly, Americans love their pets, and they’re not shy about spending on them.

Sugarmade, Inc. (SGMD), one of the largest publicly traded hydroponics supply companies moving into the industrial hemp space, is a product and brand marketing company investing in products and brands with disruptive potential. Sugarmade’s brands include: ZenHydro.com; CarryOutSupplies.com; and BudLife. Headquartered in Monrovia, California, a city within Los Angeles county, Sugarmade has various business operations in diverse marketplaces including packaging and paper goods for various industries, agricultural supplies.

Sugarmade has expanded into the European hydroponics supply market with a growing base of orders taken through Amazon UK. Over the past few financial quarters, Sugarmade has seen revenue growth patterns expand geographically. As recently as mid-2017, the majority of hydroponic-related revenue growth was seen from California and other West Coast marketplaces, however growth is becoming more geographically dispersed among U.S. states where legalization has eased restriction. This movement into the United Kingdom further expands the base of geographic growth areas for Sugarmade.

Sugarmade recently launched a new corporate initiative in the booming industrial hemp and CBD, committing up to $1 million in capital over the next 12 months to invest in Hempistry, Inc., a privately held Nevada corporation. Hempistry has begun planting an ultra-high cannabidiol (CBD) industrial hemp strain on a land option it holds on 23,000 acres of prime Kentucky farmland. The strain of industrial hemp being grown by Hempistry is ultra-rich in CBD but contains less than 0.3 percent of THC, the psychoactive ingredient found in cannabis. The U.S. hemp industry is expected to produce well over $1 billion in revenues in 2018, with a compound annual growth rate of 14 percent through 2022, according to the Hemp Business Journal.

Demand for industrial hemp and products derived from hemp is soaring, with no let-up in sight, which the company sees as a “tremendous opportunity to become a supplier to this fast-growing sector,” said Chairman and CEO Jimmy Chan, who is also an advisor and minority shareholder of Hempistry.

Sugarmade’s investment into the market for high-CBD hemp is expected to be highly accretive for common shareholders in two ways. First, Sugarmade’s investment will be in the form of common shares in Hempistry allowing Sugarmade common shareholders to possibly benefit from any future initial public offering of Hempistry. Second, Sugarmade is expected to sign a supply agreement with Hempistry for cultivation supplies, which would be additive to corporate revenues.

Sugarmade has also completed a master market agreement with industry leader BizRight Hydroponics, Inc., a leading marketer and manufacturer of cannabis and hydroponic growth supplies, which offers a range of hydroponics-related products including: HPS grow lights, electronic ballasts, HPS bulbs, nutrient mixes, environmental control products, pH measurement and calibration solutions and storage products. BizRight operates the ZenHydro.com website and other e-commerce properties and sells various products to distributors and retailers. BizRight is expected to produce in excess of $30 million in revenues during 2017, with substantial growth expected for 2018.

Sugarmade division CarryOutSupplies.com, the leader in paper and plastic take-out supplies, serves nationwide customers by offering a wide array of high quality products that are cost-efficient, custom-made and delivered on time. This business unit currently serves 2,000 quick service restaurants, garnering from 30-40 percent of the market share. Sugarmade plans to expand operations via the addition of market share and the introduction of new product offerings.

Management

CEO Jimmy Chan is an experienced business executive instrumental in growing multiple business operations with a strong expertise in international trade and banking, and international manufacturing and importation. He is also the founder of CarryOutSupplies.com, a company that revolutionized the custom-printed paper supplies subsector of the quick service restaurant industry, which merged with Sugarmade in 2014.

Arman Tabatabaei serves as operations consultant, providing high-level, day-to-day strategic guidance and tactical operational supervision for all aspects of the corporation’s business. He is an expert at data collection and analysis relative to resource management, risk forecasting and profit and loss management.

Sugarmade specializes in growing and acquiring innovative brands to maximize value for company employees, shareholders and other stakeholders. Sugarmade believes its future is very bright as the company expands operations within the cultivation sector and rapidly increases its revenue base. 6

Sugarmade, Inc. (SGMD), closed Friday's trading session at $0.0124, off by 7.4627%, on 6,149,804 volume with 193 trades. The average volume for the last 3 months is 6,663,231 and the stock's 52-week low/high is $0.0073/$0.108000002.

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