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Marketwire TODAY - Falken Industries OTC : FLKI a BUY
FALKEN INDUSTRIES LAUNCHES SUSTAINABLE VEHICULAR CARE PACKAGING ON THE GERMAN MARKET OTC : FLKI
Intelligent technological design for a smart consumer and professional product that is now also better for the environment and in keeping with today’s needs to maintain vehicles “like new”.
Falken has switched to its Neyriat packaging innovation– a plastic, Eco Pledge Certified, made from entirely earth friendly components for its Clean Plus® product designs and conceptions in Germany. The packaging is the result of a close cooperation between Falken and its affiliates. The switch to the technologically innovative material will improve the product’s packaging carbon footprint by 32 percent and use 23 percent less fossil resources compared to the previous packaging, according to a life cycle assessment study conducted by researchers at the company’s Central European Research Unit. Falken is the first company in its industry to switch to environmentally friendly packaging for leading vehicular care product in Europe.
“Going forward, it is increasingly important for companies and brands such as Clean Plus® to realize that the path ahead is one of technological investment, sustainable development and high quality in all aspects of product production – packaging included,” says Manuel Garcia, Communications Officer. “With our affiliates and distribution partners, we have taken a first significant step in the packaging development of the future.”
In terms of the aggregate annual environmental benefit associated with the switch for the German market, Falken estimates fossil energy savings equivalent to the electricity consumed per month by 1,000 German homes, along with greenhouse gas savings equivalent to not driving a vehicle 100,000 km.
With the choice of its Neyriat innovation, Falken addressed the need to combine high-performance and quality with the sustainable standards of today and tomorrow, and the entire process needed to be more environmentally friendly and sustainable, with no compromise on quality or performance for the end user. Additionally, Falken is working to guarantee the lowest environmental impact from sourcing use, disposal, recovery and re-use.
“The Clean Plus® packaging is an excellent example of Falken’s ability to muster international collaboration amongst its affiliates and research partners for a smarter product and one it can be proud to showcase as an international best practice example,” added Garcia.
Falken is working to achieve the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) for the new packaging. The ISCC seal assures that the entire supply chain for the raw materials meets rigorous social and environmental criteria.
Falken notes that moving forward, it plans to expand the use of the Neyriat packaging to include other products in its several line conceptions in Germany and other markets.
The new packaging is indistinguishable visually and performance-wise from its predecessor, while at the same time being better for the environment.
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/falken-industries-ltd-flki-launches-sustainable-vehicular-care-product-packaging-on-otcbb-flki-1614329.htm
About Falken Industries Ltd :
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: This news release contains "forward-looking statements" made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "future," "plan" or "planned," "will" or "should," "expected," "anticipates," "draft," "eventually" or "projected." Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that our products may not achieve customer acceptance or perform as intended, that we may be unable to obtain necessary financing to continue operations and development, and other risks. You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements.
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, January 30, 2012 02:31AM | The Aging Process Bodes Well For This Global Innovator OTC : FLKI
The rising average age for cars and trucks will continue to drive increased sales for Clean Plus® distributors throughout the world. Clean Plus® is one of the best known vehicular care product conceptions of Falken Industries Ltd.
Just take a look around you the next time you’re on the highway and you’ll be convinced and rush to your broker as I did, to put a couple thousand dollars to work in its shares (Falken is traded on the OTC under the symbol FLKI). Simply, there just isn’t the proportion of new cars out there that there used to be. The average age of cars in the U.S. has been rising and in fact reached a record 11.1 years as of June 30, 2011 – its better still in the rest of the world, better of course for purveyors of vehicular maintenance products such as Falken.
Light trucks, at 10.4 years, also reached their highest average age in at least a decade. This bodes all the better for Falken’s fastest growing line of products, its Clean Plus® “Pro” suited to supply detailing centers, Bodyshops, garages, and central motor pool maintenance both military and institutional. Falken’s high end products at an average price of 25-40% less than its competitors, makes it all the more attractive.
This trend of aging vehicles reflects a combination of increased reliability that allows vehicles to physically last longer, and an economic environment that forced some consumers to hold onto their vehicles longer and repair them rather than purchase a new vehicle. This aging of the global vehicle fleet bodes well for Falken’s future.
Quite evidently, the rising age of vehicles has a positive portent for future demand of Falken product conceptions. Consumers, who need to keep their cars, will want them to last and looking good as new, and Falken’s Clean Plus® product collection is world renown to accomplish just that, both at the consumer and professional levels. As the economy improves more business will feed into Falken’s distribution consumer and professional end-users.
But even without economic improvement, vehicles of all kinds will need to be maintained, degreased, protected and serviced, increasing volume for distributors of Falken’s product ranges.
The rising price of used vehicles due to a relative scarcity of newer used models, also underlines the positive prognosis for Falken sales and profits. Larger investments in the vehicle will increase the motivation for vehicular care.
On the consumer side, Falken’s Clean Plus® products, are a God sent for retailers because they increase the targeted market share from enthusiast, to the more pragmatic and reliable female market entirely neglected by Falken competitors. Not less than 57% of Clean Plus® consumer products are purchased by women. Today the company markets two consumer lines, a high end line, which has benefited from a number of awards for innovation, and its Bianci® “Classic” line which targets price sensitive markets.
Falken is easily poised to capture the relatively high margined professional vehicular care volume which will help it materially in increasing market share in 2012 and 2013.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards. As a reliable partner FLKI creates chemistry to help distributors and retailers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, FLKI plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges such as environmental protection, energy efficiency, and mobility.
| | | | JustForBucks | Thursday, January 26, 2012 06:48AM | Just got this on the newswire…. OTC : FLKI
“Here is a quick "heads-up" to keep an eye out for FLKI!
The stock is displaying strong signs of a bullish run brewing ! We are extending our research in light of recent rumors brewing concerning newly received or soon to come echo-tech patents (see FLKI’s press release on August 11, 2011) Stay tuned...
On the stock – which is generally rated Strong BUY in the media - you’ll note...
FLKI is experiencing elevated news activity – unusual for a company that keeps its leading innovations close to the vest. Moreover its stock is forming a positive trend. The marked increase in interest and extremely bullish chart are both tell-tale signs that something big may be in the works. These recent developments have captured our and seemingly a large number of parties’ complete attention. We are digging into the factual base for the rumors right now and it keeps getting better the deeper we go!
This company is benefitting from the economic situation which is squeezing its competitors providing a free road to FLKI’s product conceptions emerging onto the scene. We believe FLKI will fill the void created by its competitors and may quickly grow to become a powerhouse in their industry!
News was issued recently which may substantially boost the company's revenue! We believe there’s more coming. The company’s announcements at least at the moment go largely unnoticed by the market, but we believe that this is about to change! When word gets out, it's sure to attract considerable attention and this may push the stock through the roof! “
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 08:02AM | High Reliability and World Class Regularity OTC : FLKI
Falken (traded on the OTC Symbol FLKI) is one of the rare companies in its industry that puts the emphasis on customer’s timing and deadline concerns. The company understands that in processing distributor requests, every minute counts. The company has earned its reputation for working hard to keep a high level of punctuality so that its global distribution network gets its merchandise on time. High levels of reliability in order preparation and logistical excellence is an important factor for product rotations and customer satisfaction, this noted advantage is an important factor explaining Falken’s competitive advantage over its well-heeled competitors. Reliability and punctuality is not only a quality issue – it also reduces costs, and Falken has always been very focused on cutting costs so that it can offer high end products at affordable prices – witness its world leading Clean Plus@ product conceptions.
Industry publication abound about everyone at Falken, and The Clean Plus@ Product Group drive to deliver outstanding and consistent punctuality, and all work hard behind the scenes to get every distributor order filled on time. Over the past year (2011) punctuality and timely order fulfillment has been central to the company’s work – from strategy and planning all the way to front-line operations. That work has paid off for the company as recent industry performance ratings have placed it in the top tier.
Punctual order fulfillment is as important as it is an essential key performance indicator and a crucial service differentiator that customers care strongly about. However, it is well known that some of the company’s competitors would rather cancel orders, than let them run late just to improve their punctuality ratings, thus it is important to rate a company’s punctuality, but also its regularity.
Order regularity refers to the actual realization and shipment of a customer order – all the more important when these customers, as here are distributors with their own customer obligations. A late order at the distribution level will impact through progressing lateness all the way down the distribution chain. Distributors are many who have switched to Falken’s Clean Plus@ conceptions because of the unreliability of their prior brand suppliers.
Falken belongs to that select group of manufacturer suppliers, with a regularity average of 99.7%, which means that orders are incomplete or late on fewer than 3 per 1,000, the highest rating in the industry.
“At Falken, punctuality, regularity and quality, will with innovative products always be at the top of our agenda” said Manuel Garcia, Communications Officer for the company. Statistics support that contention by any measure applied. “For us this is the best way to give distributors and retailers the great service and prompt order turn-around time they expect – which keeps them coming back !” added Garcia.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards. As a reliable partner FLKI creates chemistry to help distributors and retailers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, FLKI plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges such as environmental protection, energy efficiency, and mobility.
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, January 21, 2012 12:55AM | FLKI a Stong BUY, confirmed by the facts !
The salient publicly available information as at January 20, 2012 ;
Number of Shares Authorized : 210 000 000
Shares Outstanding 57 757 529
Public Float 32 264 916
Shareholders of Record 4 200
Earnings per share (EPS) 3Q 2011 $ 0.0123
Price Per Share (PPS) $ 0.0425
OTC Symbol : FLKI
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www.falkenltd.com
| | | | JustForBucks | Wednesday, January 18, 2012 07:56AM | Falken Industries Ltd (FLKI) is a STRONG BUY
FLKI isn’t a climb and crash and therefor is not the babe of day traders. Recapping and reiterating, this is a stock, that has returned its cycle traders (that includes me) 117% so far this year. It will keep doing so if history is our guide (I think the stock will end the year in the upper teens). Buy it, as I will, but think of it as being in it for months. Even though the stock delivered a great return so far this year, it has a great deal more to go because this is a company that has a lot going on.
This is one that likely fits a "buy and hold strategy." Of course - do your own due diligence.
What I like:
Existing businesses:
- bio-degradable biotech chemical & wipe industry – see www.falkenltd.com
- Diversity, consumer, professional and industrial Solutions – see www.cleanplus.com
Areas of Expansion Announced and Being Implemented:
- R&D everywhere and all the time – Google “OTC : FLKI” (without the quotes)
- Diversity in a Global Marketplace – recent Russian news a plus.
It is critical to have a business that has operations, income, revenue and a company that has a growth strategy. You have that here – FLKI.
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, January 17, 2012 06:02AM | Russia is simply too big a market to ignore and Falken Industries hasn’t done so. OTC : FLKI
Russia has undergone significant changes since the collapse of the Soviet regime and now faces challenges in changing from its oil and gas economy to becoming a leading country in the fields of high tech and modern production. All of this spells huge market potential for Falken Industries’ products, notably professional and industrial chemicals and wipes, and as a result of a growing middle class by its increasingly present consumer markets.
Falken (trading symbol FLKI) whose presence in Russia dates to before 2007 is not ignoring this stimulating market. Its product concepts carry fully accredited Russian language product lines. While the task of accreditation is long, expensive and harsh, the range of incentives created by the Russian government to ensure the development of foreign investment makes Falken’s decision to commit to a long term involvement with the country understandable.
Falken who is a patient and conservative investor, makes a business of selecting developing market based and globally integrated competitive economies. Falken has had resounding successes in attracting consumer and professional brand loyalties in all of the so-called BRIC and is projecting with great optimism its business development in Russia.
One of the key reasons for Falken’s optimism other than what it considers and may in fact be a favored status for its products and brands is the Russian government’s decision to focus on development, and the range of incentives to the businesses that choose to do business there. Falken is well known for its industrial capacities, innovations, development and high end product conceptions in the vehicular care, industrial, and disinfection area. This reputation fits perfectly with Russian ambitions of attracting companies involved in the automotive and parts, machinery, construction materials, chemicals and others. With production facilities in proximity Falken presents a key advantage for the 24 new industrial economic zones and their occupants, and notably for the Alabuga Industrial Zone in the republic of Tatarstan which has been dubbed the “Russian Detroit”. Assembly plants which Falken products are designed to supply, boasts the presence of Fiat, Isuzu, and most spectacularly the joint venture to build the Ford Explorer ! This speaks of the evolution of the markets which are the essence of Falken product conceptions, the best known of which are the Clean Plus® branded lines.
Falken’s biotechnologies and advanced materials also directly address Russian interest. Falken’s innovation, scientific and research centers will likely soon embrace the talents of Russian leading universities and R&D institutes located near these industrial zones accessing in the process highly educated and skilled professionals to meet Falken’s needs. Falken will join the ranks of the likes of Novartis, DivX, Solagran, Ze Poly and Plastic Logic who have located R&D centers there.
Since 2007 Falken has believed that long term thinking and investment in the BRIC and notably Russia would have a multi-benefit effect. The presence stimulates and modernizes growing markets for Falken’s industrial capacities and in the case of Russia, a wonderful opportunity to expand its business in one of the largest and fastest growing markets in the world.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards. As a reliable partner FLKI creates chemistry to help distributors and retailers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, FLKI plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges such as environmental protection, energy efficiency, and mobility.
| | | | JustForBucks | Friday, January 13, 2012 05:52AM | FLKI - A Pattern is Emerging and it Seems to Indicate Some Big Gains Coming!
Why can’t FLKI break through …?
Well let’s be real, FLKI has handed investors buying from 3 minutes before the close on December 30, 2011 to date, a 354% profit with short timers getting no less than 117%. I’m holding since I see the stock going to the teens over the intermediate term.
I think what is going on now – aside from a very positive base building – is that market makers are boxing in the stock with the hopes of short term small gains. Road Block offers with quantities of shares exceeding the stock’s average volume are certain to bring impatient investors to dump upon the bid where many obvious smiling faces await!
It’s a fool’s play but to dump on the bid. FLKI seems to have no shortage of good news, a great corporate infrastructure, and at least a medium sized global budget for all types of marketing and product conceptions, research and development.
If things stay constant as we have seen, then I think that we will see a breakthrough and potentially see FLKI hit $.08 on the low end and very possibly the high target for this first swing 2012 of $.14.
After all, it would only be following its historical precedent.
In the short term I think FLKI is a solid play—with the exception of its annual tax selling opportunity, there are no huge price swings either way the volume is relatively consistent for a "penny stock" and the story is good. In the long term, I feel that FLKI can achieve the goal of becoming a nationwide phenomenon!
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, December 26, 2011 12:45AM | In Comes The New Year : A Transformation At Falken OTC : FLKI
New Products and rapid expansion are in the cards for 2012 – In a big way.
Falken Industries, a leading global manufacturer of consumer and industrial wipes, disinfectant and other chemicals, and best known for its product conceptions for consumer, professional and industrial uses under the Clean Plus® brand, is in the middle of a notable transformation for both its product lines and the geographic coverage of its business.
Falken has spent years building a strong brand identity in Europe and the BRIC for its product conceptions, garnering a substantial share of the consumer and professional markets. A significant proportion of Falken’s revenues come from the repeat business, which provides relatively consistent sales from year to year. Roughly 72% of sales during the first nine months of 2011 were from repeat business. Of that 57% of consumer products were to women, targeted since 1997 with its high end easy application car care products. Falken’s conservative, slow steady-she-goes policies have paid off, increasing the company’s flexibility in funding its growth initiatives, including expanding its portfolio of products and widening its geographic footprint.
The company has been growing its distribution base rapidly; it now has a sizeable presence in the BRIC and Asia. It is also moving its efforts aggressively into India where it contemplates opening another production facility. An acquisition or two for 2012 is likely, consistent with the company’s strategy of acquiring production facilities adjacent to its own to favor faster-growing, higher-margin lines of business. Falken’s major presence in Europe makes virtually any coherent product or line an instant success, and the company is playing that advantage in encouraging and developing its discussions with US, Canadian and Mexican based smaller manufacturers that can greatly benefit from instant global distribution, and provide the company’s existing conceptions with an entry point to the NAFTA community.
The company’s record 4Q results should be viewed as consistent with the steady rise in performance witnessed in the last year. Revenues and profits are expected to rise in 2012. Operating margins should widen during 2012 on account of the rise in volumes that are being forecasted and the related improvement in fixed cost coverage. With greater focus on higher-margin product lines and its well known leadership in cost controls wider margins as a whole are ac virtual given. Commodities used in the company’s products will remain in a headwind in the coming year, but less so than in the past due to more aggressive hedging strategies and escalators built into more of its customer contracts.
Recent 4Q earnings per share were a record (EPS) 1 cent, representing 25%+ on the recent share price. For 2012 the company states that it expects to maintain this annual rhythm of growth and progression. This however does not factor an acquisition or any stock buybacks which have been the subject of discussion at shareholder meetings (2010) together with a shareholder’s clear mandate to management to address the matter of its undervalued stock. The company is expected to continue to expand its relationships with the investment banking community in an effort to enhance shareholder awareness and with that its stock valuation.
The company’s strong brand equity and the growth potential embedded in both its geographic expansion program and its efforts to broaden its product portfolio, makes its stock attractive for the intermediate to longer term (its pattern swing trades make the stock equally attractive to swing traders) to most members of the investment community interviewed. The company’s focus and investment program where the company enjoys both scale and technological expertise underlines that attractiveness. Finally, Falken will greatly benefit from the projected recovery in consumer, professional and industrial (which here includes government, rescue and military applications) over the next several years. When combining these factors with valuation considerations, much as the consulting firm concluded when advising the company in its fight against an unwanted suitor and rendering its Enterprise Value of 80 cents, the company at its present quote, is in my view obviously, considerably undervalued.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards. As a reliable partner FLKI creates chemistry to help distributors and retailers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, FLKI plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges such as environmental protection, energy efficiency, and mobility.
| | | | JustForBucks | Wednesday, December 14, 2011 08:31AM | FLKI's Brilliance and Professional Lines Continue Their Expansion With Record Activity at the Clean Plus® Product Group
Record Breaking Sales Are Projected for 2012 With No Sacrifice to Margins
TRENTON, NEW JERSEY--(Marketwire - Dec. 14, 2011) - FALKEN Industries Ltd (OTCBB:FLKI), has experienced a tremendous surge in popularity for a number of its product conceptions, and notably those in the Professional Line of its Car Care collection. The line includes its unparalleled Brilliance collection.
FALKEN whose renown in the industry as a "trend-setter" is oft' commented, has been innovating successfully since 1997 when it launched a consumer product conception designed to prove its contrarian pretention at the time, that women, and not the industry's model "macho man", would constitute the major market for Auto Care. "The Clean Plus® "Premium" collection was born of that effort" says Manuel Garcia, communications officer. The product line, first to introduce for Auto Care a collection of convenient wipes, has been a and continues to be a dramatic success. Added Garcia : "The company is now forewarning an all-kill in the automobile after-market industry with the release of their new, enhanced, professional car care product lines, which includes products such as Brilliance, unique compounds that successfully compete with the well-known, but considerably more expensive, 3M and Dupont competitor products in tens of thousands of Auto-body Shops, and Detailing Centers."
On September 26th, FALKEN's enhanced Professional Car Care line with 10 new products conceived from FLKI original research and development. "This release brought to 13 the total number of new exciting products that are sure to capture the heart of distributors, retailers and End-users" said Garcia.
The products have already started to prove themselves and continue to rise in popularity. The products are designed to be high performance, easy to use, time saving and accessible in price for every-one, not just high-end end-users.
With this winning portfolio of innovative products, record breaking sales are projected for 2012 with no sacrifice to margins. In its most recent third quarter ending September 30, 2011, the company earned 1 cent per share (EPS) while its stock price is currently 0.045 (PPS).
About Falken Industries Ltd:
Falken Industries Ltd (OTCBB:FLKI) is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards. As a reliable partner FLKI creates chemistry to help distributors and retailers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, FLKI plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges such as environmental protection, energy efficiency, and mobility.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: This news release contains "forward-looking statements" made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "future," "plan" or "planned," "will" or "should," "expected," "anticipates," "draft," "eventually" or "projected." Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that our products may not achieve customer acceptance or perform as intended, that we may be unable to obtain necessary financing to continue operations and development, and other risks. You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements.
| | | | JustForBucks | Thursday, December 8, 2011 06:50AM | FALKEN Statistics suggest now is a time to buy FLKI
Aside from the strong start to this year’s holiday by a strong 3Q (EPS 1 cent or 25% on PPS of 4,5 cents), there are other reasons to be interested in Falken Industries Ltd’ stock trading under symbol FLKI on the OTC.
On a historical basis, Falken’s business, and with progressive better knowledge of the stock by the investment banking community, tends to fare best between October and March, in large part because of its specialty winter products, ie de-icers, anti-freezes etc. and strong presence in frigid markets. Using data compiled since 2000, the best three months for FLKI on an absolute basis are March (+14.7%), November (+13.3%) and May (+ 20.1%), while the worst months are August (-0.8%) and September (-0.6%). Perhaps more importantly, however, is how FLKI’s activities have fared on a relative basis when compared to its competitors - excellent. This is perhaps the best indicator of seasonal interest, and I am convinced that as a result of such activities, 2012 will drum up substantial interest in the stock.
FLKI has indicated in a recent press release that it expects a very good 4Q, and has projected 1Q 2012 figures up 14%. That indicates to me that now is a relatively good time to put some FLKI stock in my portfolio (bearing in mind that past performance is no guarantee of future results – now my a… is covered !)
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, December 6, 2011 10:51AM | December 06, 2011 09:28 ET
Falken Industries Ltd Provides Outlook for the Clean Plus® Product Group and Update on Advancing Product Portfolio at Analyst and Investor Event
- Portfolio of Major Products Driving Long-Term, Double-Digit Revenue Growth from New Production Facilities.
- Net Sales in First Quarter Fiscal 2012 expected to top 14% Growth Quarter-Over-Quarter
- Pipeline Highlights Include Progress for Brilliance Collection
TRENTON, NEW JERSEY--(Marketwire - Dec. 6, 2011) - Falken Industries Ltd. (OTCBB:FLKI) yesterday hosted a trade Analyst and Investor Day from 3:00-5:00 p.m. at the Headquarters of the Clean Plus® Product Group in Oslo, Norway.
Falken discussed the business strategy and positive financial outlook as related to its newly expanded production unit, its expanded capacities and priority focus on research and development in conjunction with an expanding family of global partners and distributors. The policy accelerates Falken' strategy to build a sustainably profitable company with expertise in developing a broad, diversified portfolio of products and pipeline candidates.
The company also provided an update on its financial outlook, including positive revenue growth and expected Adjusted EBITDA margin expansion, as well as confirming its belief for good results for the 4Q 2011 and as stated above, further growth in the 1Q 2012.
Management representatives discussed the rationale and vision for current policies and highlighted recent advances of Falkens' product conceptions and late-stage pipeline candidates.
Also discussed were the positive evolution and contribution of Falken's expansion in product innovation and manufacturing capabilities, as previously announced in press releases. Finally, a lively discussion occurred relating to the growth outlook and financial expectations for Falken, including, consistent with a shareholder mandate early 2011, an acknowledged interest in improving the performance of its greatly undervalued stock.
"The creation of a strategic advisory unit within the company is a significant inflection point in the transformation of Falken into a sustainably profitable company with growing revenues and margins," commented Manuel Garcia, communications officer. "It will be a dramatically different company, with a broad portfolio of diverse and significant commercial products and pipeline candidates to drive growth and profitability."
About Falken Industries Ltd :
Falken Industries Ltd (OTCBB:FLKI) is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards. As a reliable partner FLKI creates chemistry to help distributors and retailers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, FLKI plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges such as environmental protection, energy efficiency, and mobility.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: This news release contains "forward-looking statements" made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "future," "plan" or "planned," "will" or "should," "expected," "anticipates," "draft," "eventually" or "projected." Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that our products may not achieve customer acceptance or perform as intended, that we may be unable to obtain necessary financing to continue operations and development, and other risks. You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements.
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/falken-industries-ltd-provides-outlook-clean-plusr-product-group-update-on-advancing-otc-bulletin-board-flki-1595254.htm
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, December 3, 2011 08:47AM | The Power Behind This Company’s Bright Future OTC : FLKI
The decade-long campaign to reform and restructure the doctrine in auto care that maintained a macho theme for its product mix is over. The vision of this small company’s belief that women, with 50% ownership of all vehicles, and 80% of the contribution to the decision to acquire a vehicle has prevailed, jettisoning the company as a successful global player with its conceptions distributed throughout the world, under its own well known brand Clean Plus® or that of its competitors !
The automobile after-market is about to enter a new and challenging stage, one in which the strengths and weaknesses of its key players are sure to be thrown into sharp relief.
In November of this year, with one eye on the several presidential elections, and the other on the economic fiasco, and the need to buttress the weakening finances of its behemoth and smaller end-clients, Falken, traded under the symbol FLKI has continued its incessant concentrated effort to attract technological know-how, increasing distributor and retailer support and developing innovative solutions for its governmental, military and industrial end-users.
While as a percentage FLKI’s investment in research and development is considerably higher than the declining average of the behemoth parents of its competitors, it represents a challenge for the automobile aftermarket-care sector and Falken’s management and several thousand strong shareholders base. Any cap on FLKI’s innovation and development, some believe, could hamper the company’s chances of raising the necessary investor interest needed to modernize still further its production capacities and meet the increasing needs of its global distribution network.
The success of FLKI’s concerted effort to sustain a continued improvement on productivity within the context of a fixed price policy to its global distribution, throws the company in sharp relief with its competitors, notably in the current environment which the world’s economies are likely to continue for another five years. Still more, the company is generally unchallenged in its embrace and alone reflects the importance of being an industry front runner.
For the last three years, FLKI has implemented an unprecedented program of investment and product development. The company has invested heavily in infrastructure, technology and services in efforts to improve the reliability of its existing distribution system – consigning to history disruptions in supply - and to connect production operations with its global distribution. During this period capacity has substantially increased with bottom line consequences as were evidenced in FLKI’s 3Q 2011 reporting (EPS .01, PPS .045). FLKI can now guaranty immediate supply, globally, in all but the most adverse conditions.
In the process, FLKI has substantially increased its ability to enter new markets, and done so with no meaningful increase in debt or dilution Although the company policy of holding the line on prices to its distributors means that the top-line growth potential of FLKI are by definition limited, the decision is applauded by industry distributors with the result that the defection rate of its competitor’s distributors in its favor is occurring at a surprising rate. Management believes that growth will result in 2012 as a result of the integration of this business, which it termed “substantial”.
Manuel Garcia, communications officer for FLKI during a telephone interview stated : “Management’s policy to hold prices and maintain margins as it has done through aggressive cost controls and efficiencies, while leaving us with almost no space to grow our income outside of competitor defections or acquisitions, brings welcome predictability to our distribution and into our business environment. Our customers will be able to grow their businesses with a generally positive intermediate term impact on our own.”
Garcia added : “FLKI’s priorities for the coming years are to continue its focus on improved operational efficiencies, and to grow the business by creating a business environment loaded with incentives that will enhance profitability for existing distributors, and draw the interest of others to expand their lines to carry those of the company – in lieu or in addition.”
Lastly the company, consistent with the shareholder meeting held early 2010 has retained consultants to address the issues of its underperforming stock and to overall its IR and shareholder awareness programs. It is expected that the long neglected stock will come to be recognized by the investment banking community at its potential value (some place enterprise value figures at 80 cents). Moreover this policy has already produced unintended consequences with a number of inquiries from potential partners seeking to make the most of FLKI’s technological experience and expertise. Joint ventures or outright acquisitions by FLKI are a distinct possibility.
Garcia concluded with a smile : “It’s as simple as that.”
There is little reason to suggest that Garcia’s confidence is misplaced.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards. As a reliable partner FLKI creates chemistry to help distributors and retailers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, FLKI plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges such as environmental protection, energy efficiency, and mobility.
| | | | JustForBucks | Sunday, November 20, 2011 12:52AM | A Very Precise Balance In This Ensemble – The Brilliance Collection. OTC : FLKI
Supporters of haute detailing answer that these automated and electronic systems are far from perfect, and do little to protect the vehicle – being far surpassed by high end products such as those conceived by FLKI.
“New Technology” and “new materials” are in fact, nothing new at all. From the very first days of Chemical development including wet wipes, when the processes enjoyed a status akin to that of a scientific domain in vehicular maintenance and care, research and development has always been part of Falken Industries’ (FLKI) culture.
At the heart of man’s relationship with his car is the essential paradox of striving for ever greater accuracy, reliability, and performance using principles that have remained unchanged for a century. Those who question the relevance of car care today cite the abundance of accurate and efficient mechanical and automated vehicular wash stations as a by-product of countless commonplace retail gas and centers. Supporters of haute detailing answer that these automated and electronic systems are far from perfect, and do little to protect the vehicle – being far surpassed by high end products such as those conceived by FLKI.
While there is truth to each position, they are essentially specious arguments along the lines of the apocryphal medieval theological debate as to the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin (for a start, are these angels dancing the tango or waltzing?). The argument that the ubiquity of cheap, automated car washes has removed the need for high end consumer and professional products destined to car care is easily demolished by drawing parallels with, say, food : if it were simply a matter of calorie intake then mankind would neither eat truffles nor drink La Veuve.
The conception of high end revolutionary products such as that practiced by FLKI is about much more than cleaning and maintenance; it is a cultural activity that combines both highly advanced scientific methods and centuries-old artisanal techniques to create products of wonder, that in terms of their physical presence and performance, are among the most valuable in the trade.
So while the company’s behemoth competitors such as 3M (Meguiars), Clorox (Armor All®), and Honeywells (Holt®) may flaunt their parent’s avant-garde technical credentials with an almost wanton fashion, FLKI contents itself with just two words “Advanced Research”; words that have appeared oh-so discreetly on the packing cartons of some of the most unique and popular products to come out of its productions in recent years. They are words which appear to describe its best known product conceptions – the Clean Plus® Product Group, a brand at the very, very, cutting edge. It is in this product line that the new “Brilliance” collection makes its debut.
This revolutionary assembly of components is the subject of a number of patent applications. But although its defining characteristic is the combined use of components that have made their appearance in FLKI products since 2005, “Brilliance” is really the latest episode in a series of technical developments that can be said to have started exactly 15 years ago when FLKI launched the Clean Plus® product conception, and notably its vehicular cleaning wipes targeting women and their cars.
In anthropomorphic terms the balance achieved in the mixtures is sometimes referred to as the heart of the product. That comforting ease of application and brilliant result is so reassuring, so much more human, than the immobile and automated works of an electronic system. These products are a talking point, keeping the car personal, and its pleasures a reality.
However, these monumental discoveries raise a set of entirely new problems, problems with which FLKI researchers have wrestled for the ensuing decade, trying to compensate for the effects of friction, changes in temperature, fluctuations in magnetism and external shocks on the metallic body and plastic or rubber guards. Over time incremental advances in component design and the adoption of temperature-resistant alloys were developed to overcome the problems.
What makes the new Brilliance collection so important is that it combines innovative materials with radical design and new thinking to overcome decades old problems. When surveyed piecemeal the advantages are impressive. But when they are seen in the context of their own back-story, and when their remarkable physical properties of lightness and uniformity, and their resistance to magnetism, temperature, corrosion, and shocks are maximized through innovative design which was possible only by using revolutionary techniques, their impact upon the vehicular care industry – auto care – is almost incalculable. This is likely amongst the biggest breakthrough in “new technology” for this industry.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards. As a reliable partner FLKI creates chemistry to help distributors and retailers in virtually all industries to be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, FLKI plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges such as environmental protection, energy efficiency, and mobility.
| | | | JustForBucks | Thursday, November 17, 2011 09:19AM | Falken Industries (OTC : FLKI) Product conceptions won the coveted European Product Innovation Award out of 2.923 entries.. For 18 years, the jury, comprised of a group of international product design experts, considered criteria such as design quality, finish, choice of materials, degree of innovation, environmental impact, and functionality to determine the recipients of this year's awards
Falken which trades under symbol FLKI and is rated a Stong Buy, recently reported record 3Q 2011 earnings of 1 cent per share (currently trading at .0461).
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:01AM | A Knack For Maximizing Money-making Benefits OTC : FLKI
Innovation is central to Falken Industries product development strategy. Its approach to product pipeline development combines the proprietary and beyond conception, the strategic outsourcing of developmental work to key joint ventures or affiliates, which will enable it to utilize the best existing expertise/technologies to create new product concepts.
In order to maximize commercial benefits arising from the innovative advantages inherent in its product conceptions, Falken has since 1997, invested in strong intellectual property for all of its product candidates. This long term strategy as witnessed by the last few quarters is starting to pay off nicely.
Its current product pipeline, relationships and global network is the envy of its competitors.
A key factor for Falken is its successful ability to develop and nurture partnerships, licensing and collaboration. Falken’s strategy is to utilize its unique oft’ patented technology platforms to offer innovative and profitable licensing opportunities to selected companies with significant market potential as partners. Falken’s technology and know-how can enable partners to create new products and/or prolong current patented products. Falken also encourage inquiries from potential new investors and collaboration with other companies and academia. The company will even consider an acquisition or minority investment.
The Company’s current focus is based on the significance of unmet needs and the time-to-market process for its product conceptions in selected market segments. Falken primarily offer solutions for the vehicular after-market industry, the best known of which are the Clean Plus® branded products, but its technology, has produced product conceptions for professional and industrial use which have met with great success, and otherwise which can be explored for niche markets and for technical-use product categories such as its anti-microbial, bactericide, lipo-protective, hypoallergenic, hand and body wipes which have gained strong global recognition, notably in emergency relief and military applications.
Falken Industries uses its own capacity to perform early and late-stage quantifiable development. The manufacturing, marketing and sales of products however are outsourced, almost exclusively through joint-ventures, affiliates or contract licensees.
In summary, Falken Industries whose stock is traded under the symbol FLKI is actively supporting earlier stage corporate research collaborations where the combination of technologies, resources, and expertise can advance product candidates more effectively.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, November 7, 2011 09:59AM | Falken Industries Ltd 3Q Reports Record Revenues for 3Q
3Q Operating Profits Soared to $ 771,680, or 1 Cent Per Share, on Strong Global Product Demand - Resulting in Record Net Operating Profits.
TRENTON, NEW JERSEY--(Marketwire - Nov. 7, 2011) - Falken Industries Ltd (OTCBB:FLKI)
Operating Revenues for this international leader in the industry soared for the 3Q notwithstanding continuing heavy research and development and promotional support for a fast expanding global distribution network.
"FLKI continues to buck the trend, refusing a policy of pass-along price increases and holds its uncontested leadership with retailers and distributors for important price stability" said Manuel Garcia, communications officer. Net operating margins have held firmly notwithstanding heavy promotional expense for all of 2011.
Much of the reported success of the company lies with its noted procurement and purchasing efficiencies which have hedged its raw material cost up to three years, given it substantial cost advantages over its competitors.
Sales are projected to increase by more than 20% for the 4Q bested by significant further increases in global market share because FLKI product concepts have been filling the voids created by over-priced and over extended competitors
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, October 22, 2011 05:38AM | Making the Most Of a Natural Talent OTC : FLKI
While this little company’s offering has understandably seduced its markets, it hasn’t, preferring to operate out of the spotlight of its acquisition oriented and far larger competitors, yet managed to seduce “the” market – stock market that is.
Falken Industries, known under the symbol FLKI is one of the little known industry leaders. It has a number of brands, but the best known of its conceptions is the Clean Plus® collection. Faken (FLKI) whose product conceptions include household names, operates in the chemical and wet-wipe industry. FLKI’s activities touch upon the consumer, the professional, and industry, going from formulated to liquid bulk.
With a global distribution network, including key strategic Super Distributor Platforms and its renown Global Trade raw material procurement and hedging unit, FLKI, while small is a complex organization. Manuel Garcia, Communications Officer attributes the successful track record of the company which was launched in 1997 and has been publicly traded since 2006, to the company’s clarity of approach. “We believe in three things,” he says, “the first is that the customer is king. That is easy to say but we are genuinely passionate about this and spend a lot of time making sure this is part of our DNA. The second is that simplicity works; we try to provide a very simple organization across all our operations and relationships in order to keep the overhead to a minimum. The third,“ he continues, “is that our people and relationships are our greatest asset. To be successful, you need to get the best people you can and to keep on training and motivating.”
The management tenets encapsulated in this philosophy would win approval in any MBA course.
The opportunities and potential presented by the crisis commencing in 2008 has not been lost on the strategist in FLKI who have targeted industrial activities in real estate, heavy engineering, transport and box retail as well as the production of bio-fuel derivatives. The company announced on several occasion that it had decided to increase investments targeting the world’s needs in the future. “We recognize that growth is going to be huge in a number of the company’s sectors and are acting accordingly” said Garcia.
It is a strategy the company believes that plays to the company’s core strengths giving it a big advantage. “We have also made huge investments in technology that is already significant in increasing our production yields” continued Garcia.
The company expects sales to double in 2012 across all its business activities and there is apparently plenty more to come.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, September 26, 2011 10:23AM | Falken Sales On Tract For Growth OTC : FLKI
Profit growth for this amazing company – try Googling OTC : FLKI - coupled to a historically cheap share price spells, in my view, the humble opinion of an industry analyst, an excellent opportunity for the myriad of by-standing investors.
Clearly, Falken (FLKI) sales, notably through its well known product conceptions and Clean Plus® image are, to the extent of its car care and maintenance vehicular products tied to auto sales. Well, auto sales are up in the US rising again in August compared to last year, and FLKI sees further gains ahead as Japanese and other automakers replenish their inventories. But the US is but one albeit a large one of the many global markets assuring FLKI’s future growth. Global automotive sales are growing, and with them the battered shares of any company even remotely tied to the Automotive After-Market are certain to make a meaningful price appreciation. FLKI’s depressed share valuation presents, I believe, a buying opportunity.
In terms of operations and strategy, the company is on track and the necessary funds for implementation of its announced strategic plans are available. Just this year, the company invested nearly one million dollars in enhancing its 30 000 square foot research and production facility in Normandy France – which I took the opportunity of visiting during the summer breaks – a beautiful building and site, staffed with top notch researchers and engineers !
The outlook for 2012 is nothing less than positive. The company’s competitive strength combined with its strong balance sheet puts the company in an excellent position to take the necessary steps to create a foundation for sustainable growth and increased profitability.
New product development brings to light nearly 160 products in its pipeline. The first tranches of these market launches are expected by the end of this year. In addition, FLKI has increased collaboration with research-based customers though these development contracts are complex and long-term.
People talk of the risk of recession; I don’t believe that is likely to happen. In all events this is already priced into the battered share valuation. Assuming even a remote recovery, FLKI shares should make a decisive move to the upside. Global markets are in a multiyear uptrend for automobile sales where the company does most of its business. With this projected growth and related margin expansion, I would expect that FLKI profits would be significant.
Fundamentally the outlook for the Automotive After-Market is positive. And the persistent risk of rising costs of raw materials presents no problem for FLKI a renowned leader in procurement and hedging – which has been amply covered by industry press of its World Trade Unit. Moreover the company is right on to rising opportunities in emerging markets where FLKI is well established. This will drive global demand for its products and assuredly offset relatively soft European present demand.
The trend in new vehicle sales, translates to greater supply of used vehicles in operation. Those vehicles need car care. FLKI’s well known professional product mix has proven the delight of Bodyshops and Detailing Centers the world over.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Sunday, September 11, 2011 04:30AM | A Fresh Idea in Management Leadership OTC : FLKI
As an industry analyst I often stress to find a management system approaching the making of a fresh idea. That undoubtedly explains why people are searching for new ways and new blood.
But even small companies can be found to be glowing with industry success and amazement for their management individuality amongst their peer.
Falken Industries Ltd, publicly quoted under symbol FLKI on the OTC is such a company. This management gives meaning to the art of possibilities; this company hums the euphonious sound of success. Simply it’s a good management story to tell. Not only does the company operate in a pressure-cooker market place, but it marches to the tune of creativity like no other in its field.
Even colossus like Clorox can’t compete. Their Armor-All® and STP brands are for sale as they have confirmed, their growth stunted in part by the likes of FLKI concepts such as Clean Plus® and its global distribution, to say nothing of its focused and continuing research and development
This company has been building since 1997, and has been publicly traded since 2006, in the industry it has had to follow or rather break step, with the powers of multi-nationals like 3M which owns Meguiars®, Honeywell which owns Holts®, and of course Clorox which owns Armor-All®. Its ability to succeed this long and achieve trade leadership, raises eyebrows in the industry but has yet to manifest itself by stock-market investors, though the company’s large trading swings have returned swing traders substantial annual yields going to 300%. In part the investment community’s unawareness is due to management’s well known preference for keeping their noses to the grindstone of business in the misguided belief that if the business goes well the shares will follow. This belief is due for a radical change however, and management now claims to be addressing some of its attention to the issue of the greatly depressed valuation of its shares and I for one suspect this will become obvious fairly quickly.
Management explains their work by first defining a clear idea of what it is that they want as a work product. Manuel Garcia, the company’s communication officer says “We’d be idiots not to make use of the extensive experience available to us.” Hence, management meets regularly with internal and external contributors “we give our collaborators, a sense of ownership and responsibility while also planting the seed that will help us achieve the results targeted.”
The hierarchy seems to carefully avoid creating any perception that they are imposing their will. Certainly choices and decisions can ruffle some feathers, but few would doubt that these choices are made for the good of the company or the more than 160 product conceptions on which it is currently working. “It’s a delicate balance, but still the best result will happen when all employees and collaborators are able to feel that they’re accessing their own point of view about the projects as well” added Garcia.
Everyone at FLKI works at being accessible, whether touring a production site, or a research and development facility it’s a constant that management understands that it can get more by really showing a collaborator that it knows who they are and can identify with them and that it trust them.
It’s a cliché certainly, “Connect with your customers – and actually listen to them on occasion”. But it is rarely done in the automobile after-market industry an important component of FLKI’s concepts and activity. Management is everywhere. Heavily involved in disaster relief through large donations to civil and military rapid reaction crews; education, through grants and internships; arts, through funding and events; and informal activities ranging from sponsoring sports and musical events to school football teams. FLKI also set up direct lines of communications through its blog, and dedicated Email addresses.
The rule and objective seem simple : aspiring managers should apprentice in every part of the operation. In other words, get to know what the people in marketing actually do for a living, same goes for logistics, research and production.
Of one thing there can be no doubt, this management wants the company and its reported 4200 shareholders to do well, very well indeed.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, September 3, 2011 11:42AM | Intellectual Property Portfolio, makes this one a big target for acquisition OTC : FLKI
Have you noticed that patent portfolios are drawing a lot of investor attention these days? Forget the Mega-Google-Motorola acquisition whose sole admitted purpose was the acquisition of Motorola’s patent portfolio. Board rooms and courts are full of talks and controversy about intellectual properties issues which have nothing to do with smart-phone technology.
The opportunities are not limited to high-profile large-cap companies, a prime example of that is a small but very successful global company from New Jersey. Falken Industries Ltd which trades on the OTC under the symbol FLKI has more than 3 million dollars, at book, in extensive and enforceable intellectual properties.
Now it is axiomatic that larger companies with greater financial and marketing resources would presumably be best positioned to exploit these advantages. In FLKI’s industry, and notably in its vehicular care activity, names like 3M (which owns Meguiars), Clorox (which owns Armor-All), Honeywell (which owns Holt), are just three of the majors which come to mind as entities that would greatly benefit from FLKI brands, product development, management and research contributions and its global distribution networks - advantages they do not presently own. With a market cap of approximately $ 5 million, control of this package could conceivably be acquired by any one of these colossus (or any of hundreds of US companies seeking instant European and global distribution for its wares) for little more than pocket change, even at a premium of 200% over the quoted share price.
“Intellectual properties can be used strategically and tactically”, says Manuel Garcia, communications officer, “they help our company protect its products, and whichever way marketed, protect and cement its revenue stream.”
This explains FLKI’s determination in amassing a pipe line which bests 160 products and a collection of intellectual property which has always been a priority. It would not be the first time a well heeled acquirer made suggestions to acquire the company or its brand and intellectual property portfolio. And it is not to be dismissed that if the company’s shares, battered by the crisis continue to seriously undervalue the company that some astute competitor simply starts to acquire shares, with a relatively large float for a company its size and a reported 4200 shareholders the thought is attractive. In a recent valuation report, it was opined that just acquiring FLKI’s distribution network and logistic facilities to expand distribution of an acquirer’s product mix in Europe would cost more – with great risk if done alone – than the market cap of this company. Moto – this company is worth acquiring just for the step in feature of its European distribution, and the $ 3 million + in intellectual property and its ongoing multi-million dollar valued business and brand(s) comes free.
Given the tremendous recent interest in and valuations for intellectual properties, it is more than likely that FLKI will start looking for ways to monetize them to a greater extent than ever before. The company all but confirms this. “We are looking at alternatives for the intellectual properties we own. Over the past year we have seen the value of our intellectual properties rise substantially as other industry players increasingly understand the strategic and economic value of this type of asset” concluded Garcia.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:38AM | Taking The Offensive OTC : FLKI
Falken Industries Ltd (FLKI) was quick to respond to the global financial calamity which has swept the world and devastated its entire industry. “We’re active in many fields and long term we can contribute to our industry’s recovery through our daily operations” said Manuel Garcia, communications officer.
With a heart disproportionately large to its size, the company is always present with generous product donations to civil defense and the military involved in rescue missions throughout the world. Within hours, the company had responded to the March Japanese Earthquake and tsunami, and arranged for massive donations of several containers of highly effective Clean Plus® degreasing, disinfecting and other protective and cleansing products, including its inimitable bio-degradable, lipo-protective, hypoallergenic disinfecting hand and body wipes, particularly effective for military and civil aid operations where water is scarce or contaminated. As a result, of this kind of repeated generosity (just Google FLKI news-releases) the company’s products have become well known and in high demand throughout the Global markets.
FLKI has a robust business these days. A top tier leadership position in its industry, 117 representative points in 69 countries, and an active research and development focused on a wide range of products, new development areas, from degreasers, to high end tech cleansers for the aerospace industry, to disinfection, biotech, energy and textiles - the company is rolling ! To keep the momentum going, Management recently unveiled its 2012 Initiative Proactive Management Plan, the two key elements of which are : boosting the investment budget for the next two years by 40% to encourage employees to “think big” and basing remunerative incentives to collaborators on individual, not divisional, performance to encourage them to pursued independent risk-taking initiatives, including cross-divisional collaboration.
This concern characterizes Management’s overall approach. In the resources sector, for example, Management is crafting a portfolio that combines projects that offer immediate if not spectacular potential earnings with high-risk/high return projects such as biotech endeavors. “The company is interested in steady income, not gambling” said Garcia. The same philosophy underlies Management’s push into building and running modern additions to its production and research facility. The returns might be modest, but earnings will be stable, risk will be low, and demand – particularly in the developing world – for FLKI’s product mix is soaring.
FLKI is also placing some serious bets in China. The company has interest in nearly 100 hundred product development projects, and expects to forge a comprehensive strategic alliance for distribution. The tie up will give FLKI better access to information, closer access to the Chinese government, and easier access to the Chinese currency, which is not yet freely traded.
Recruitment and encouraging study and fluency of the Chinese language among its existing collaborators has become a priority to FLKI’s decision to make inroads in the country. “The first generation of self-made entrepreneurs who run big Chinese companies didn’t have the luxury of going to foreign universities and can’t speak English” said Garcia. “They don’t like using interpreters. Unless you speak Chinese, you won’t get their business.”
The company’s insight, forethought and bold actions explain why the company is likely remain ahead in its existing markets and stay ahead of its rivals in Asia’s new economic superpower.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Sunday, August 21, 2011 12:32PM | An Industry Trailblazer OTC :FLKI
Part of Falken Industries’ (FLKI) success is due to its expertise in risk management. This strength is especially important in these challenging times, and the company’s successes are amply reported in press and industry communiqué, just Google FLKI and see for yourself. Political changes in the company’s markets, the BRIC, the Middle East, and crisis and disasters in its main market in Europe and its developing market in Japan have made the global economic outlook uncertain for all in including this industry leader in the automobile after-market.
Let’s face it, risks abound internationally as well as domestically. Clouding the company’s business activity are concerns about inflation, driven by the increasing costs of food and fuel. And of course much depends on the success of various governments in territories where the company operates.
All government, and the US at the lead are proclaiming their promotion of capital market development as part of their program and FLKI is not staying passively still. The company will be diversifying the types of businesses it creates to meet the needs of a wider variety of clients. The world’s graying population means the demand for its diverse portfolio of existing and pipeline products will increase, while younger and more high-net worth investors will be seeking more aggressive and outlandish vehicles on which the company’s high end brands flourish.
Finding and creating a wider variety of effective and innovative products, is the task of FLKI’s growing family of chemical specialist and engineers, most of which are housed at its European research and development facility. FLKI is a big investor in talent, and its turnover rate is much lower than its competitors. The exclusive in-depth research of the FLKI team provides the best opportunities for the FLKI distribution global network and clientele, and in my view, investors and shareholders of this small quality public company, will greatly benefit from the fact that valuations of its shares are lower today than before the crisis. Simply my point is that while always a swing trader’s paradise, the share price ignores all basis of fundamental value.
As many of its markets continue to grow, so does the competition of course. The company was founded in 1997 and its well known and respected pioneering spirit and flair for entrepreneurialship have propelled the company to a well known leadership position in the industry.
The company has done that in part by creating a corporate culture that rewards long-term performance as opposed to short term results. Shareholders have seen major returns and swing traders have for years enjoyed average annual yields of over 300% by trading in and out of its regular cyclic movements.
The company is aggressively pursuing mergers or acquisitions, and has begun expanding the company’s business across entire regions. Management has set a formidable but achievable goal of making the company a respected player with growing global influence. To do that management plans to build on the reputation, trust and faith they have earned through superior performance and making the tough decisions that protect the interest of their shareholders and clients.
Manuel Garcia, communications officer said, responding to the company’s interest in enhancing shareholder interest : “We put our clients first, because without clients we clearly would not have a company.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, July 5, 2011 06:14AM | Focus on a winner OTC : FLKI
Expanding margins, strong international markets and diversified manufacturer this little company deserves your attention and investment !
Lo the tidings of this lonely analyst for the automobile after-market ! Questions here, questions there but where is the next gem ? I should say, where is the next gem in this industry ?
Falken Industries Ltd, a small but well placed New Jersey company seems to fill all the prerequisites of persistent interests. Falken is a diversified manufacturer of car and vehicular treatment products. The company is expanding its margins, growing international sales, reducing an already very low debt level, and in my view given its competition, will increase its earnings by about 23% in the next twelve months.
As Falken expands its position in developing markets where I would expect demand for vehicular care to strengthen, and invests in technology, profitability should increase. I also believe that the company’s draconian efficiency in purchasing and supply-chain cost savings and other cost-reduction initiatives seen over the last couple of years will enhance margins in a significant way. Simply the longer term trends as the company’s global markets gradually recover and aggressive moves to enhance the company’s business spells huge potential for the company, and a fortiori appreciation of its ridiculously depressed stock from current levels.
The company’s major businesses are centered around two product groups ; impregnated wipes, and chemicals, the businesses are divided into the following markets : residential and consumer, professional, industrial, agriculture and government. Product conceptions include a selection of more than 160 products in current production and a pipeline of at least as many – see for example www.cleanplus.com .
Falken is targeting international sales of 40%, up from the current 28% with emerging regions seen accounting for at least 25% of sales. In 2010 66% of total sales were derived from the European Community, while 20% from other developed countries and 14% from fast-growth emerging regions, especially China, Latin America, India and the Middle East. It recently added to its manufacturing capacity in both China and Mexico, as well as cooperative engineering centers in India and China.
As the company previously announced, it is pursuing one or more acquisitions and expansion beyond the European Community and into the United States over the next several years, especially in the professional and government businesses. The company believes it will close 2011 with sales growth exceeding 20%, and I believe that is a very conservative estimate.
The company is worth the attention and its insertion in your portfolio – starting with mine.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Friday, May 27, 2011 06:07AM | The Little Company That Angered The Day Traders OTC : FLKI
Once upon a time there was a little corporation that, due to circumstances mostly beyond its control, became the target of unrequited love and solicitous offers. It’s royalty revenues since the great financial crisis, were real and profitable but flat.
All concur that its globally recognized talents in cost cutting during lean years, and its outstanding relationships – off balance sheet assets worth several times its book – were the envy of many of its more robust competitors – the little corporation was and remains a leader in its industry.
The company hid itself well from predators. While easily qualified to up list to the full reporting boards, it elected to be a reporting company hiding on the Pink Sheets, there, sitting quietly with a much coveted “Current Information” rating it proceeded to perform its award winning product conceptions. Suddenly however by this twist of fate, the little corporation took itself down to a local watering hole in the middle of a week day and announced that a formal offer for control had been made for its shares.
“Hey guys” it said to the financial moguls that preyed for the little corporation’s consulting work, “take a look at this and tell us what we ought to do…” And so, out came the grizzled fellows of the legal and accounting world, to the task, while the little corporation sat, mulling the unfairness of Business and dreaming in a pre-strategic way of how it might rid itself of this positive prominence.
It started quickly, the rumor mill, the chat boards, the short term and even the day guys. As different as Buffet is to the man on the street whose job has been shipped off overseas, these day traders had no interest in the strong fundamentals of the little corporation or in the reputation of its fiercely independent management. Forewarned, they nevertheless moved in to cash in on the control offer. The pace never slowed, even as management warned that it did not a fortiori see a shareholder benefit in the transaction.
Of course the little corporation asked all the necessary questions. It even expressed appropriate envy and congratulatory zeal to the raider. It couldn’t help itself when it said to the invader “I see that you might think yourself all mighty and powerful, but consider that your revenue stream is only high this year in comparison with that of others that have been depressed by conditions that may quickly change”.
The little corporation realized very quickly however that the raider needed more than its brands and conceptions, it was targeting the little corporation’s pyrrhic operating efficiencies, and possibly even its dramatic R & D activities. Without the acquisition the raider had only one direction to go: down.
The little corporation sat and thought, and began over the following three and four months to feel a great deal better. It was dejected about its decision to favor cost efficiencies and purchasing methodology over sales, never losing the R & D ball, but, it thought “I’ve got nothing but upside compared with my established raider friend here. My best days are ahead. I can grow without a lot of fuss and muss. My projections for this year are already in the black.”
And so both sides pondered for a bit more, the little corporation increasingly cheerful, the raider sinking into the murk. Try the raider did, again and again it said “we’ve eyed you with great interest for quite some time, just as your competitors do, you’re a great little fellow, and you’ll fit perfectly, you’re on the come and I must acquire control of you, that will solve a lot of my problems.”
Well the little corporation’s decision was to protect shareholder long term interest. Its guru consultants agreed and the news of “ney” in the press release was a terrible blow to the expectations of hungry triple bag day traders. They sold and sold one chasing the other, the price of the shares tumbled creating fabulous opportunities for the little corporation’s faithful longer term investors who gobbled up the shares as fast as the day traders were throwing them.
The little corporation, a successful internationally acclaimed developer of consumer, professional and industrial products, the best known of which is the Clean Plus® brand was right to turn and run as fast as its little legs could carry it.
As to its shareholders, well witness the bounce, heck I’ll even trample my neighbors and get on the wagon for a few thousand ; symbol FLKI.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Sunday, March 20, 2011 02:01AM | A COMPANY DRIVEN WITH COMPASSION AND A PASSION FOR SHAREHOLDERS AND THE WORLD OTC : FLKI
Just peruse the press releases, the press, the unsolicited commentary – Google FLKI, it’s a company that will impress, a company I think you’ll want to add to your portfolio for intermediate growth and profit; if you do, you’ll have company, about 4 200 shareholders – and here is but one of the reasons why ;
Falken, publicly trading under symbol FLKI, is a global player in its industry, but it is also well known for its presence, side by side with military and disaster relief crews everywhere in the world where disaster strikes ; Haiti, New Orleans, Norway, France, Thailand, the Philippines, South America, and now Japan to name but a few. This is a company with a heart far larger than its size would suppose – but with a know-how and product mix first on the check off list of must haves in military and disaster relief campaigns – ignoring other Falken core businesses such as its leadership positions in the automobile after-market, professional vehicular care, and industrial applications, but only for the sake of this article.
Manuel Garcia, Communications Officer contacted for this article following a most recent press release about the company's participation in the Japanese relief effort said : “Falken Industries, is driven by a passion to make a difference in people's everyday lives. It shows in its commitments to research and development, in recruitment, and as Japan demonstrates once again, in supporting humanitarian relief and disaster management efforts.” These are core to the company’s commitment to develop technology solutions, tools, and practices that can foster social and economic change.
Through partnerships with leading nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), international humanitarian organizations, and government organizations, Falken finds innovative ways to lend its expertise and familiar technology to help make communities more resilient in disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and most importantly their recovery and rebuilding.
The response phase includes the mobilization of the necessary emergency services and first responders in the disaster area. This is likely to include a first wave of core emergency services, such as firefighters, police and ambulance crews. When conducted as a military operation, it is termed Disaster Relief Operation (DRO) and can be a follow-up to a Non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO). These may be supported by a number of secondary emergency services, such as specialist rescue teams.
There is a need for both discipline (structure, doctrine, process) and agility (creativity, improvisation, adaptability) in responding to a disaster. Combining that with the need to onboard and build a high functioning leadership team quickly to coordinate and manage efforts as they grow beyond first responders indicates the need for a leader and his or her team to craft and implement a disciplined, interative set of response plans. This allows the team to move forward with coordinated, disciplined responses that are vaguely right and adapt to new information and changing circumstances along the way.
The aim of the recovery phase is to restore the affected area to its previous state. It differs from the response phase in its focus; recovery efforts are concerned with issues and decisions that must be made after immediate needs are addressed. Recovery efforts are primarily concerned with actions that involve rebuilding destroyed property, re-employment, and the repair of other essential infrastructure. Efforts should be made to "build back better", aiming to reduce the pre-disaster risks inherent in the community and infrastructure. An important aspect of effective recovery efforts is taking advantage of a ‘window of opportunity’ for the implementation of mitigation measures that might otherwise be unpopular. Citizens of the affected area are more likely to accept more mitigation changes when a recent disaster is in fresh memory.
Falken and its leading global product line Clean Plus@ have come to set the standard for the industry. Around the world, military and emergency relief crews use Falken anti-microbial, disinfectant, degreasing and radiation cleansing technology to address the things that are important to them and to protect crews and victims alike. Falken understands that many of the products it conceives that businesses and consumers use to be more productive, can also help government, inter-government, and nongovernmental organizations meet the challenges of providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
Falken technologies promote efficient performance and resolves issues taxing the decision-making process in the prevention, preparation, response, and recovery phases of a disaster. Falken is committed to utilizing its global distribution network to support disaster preparedness and contingency planning to pre-stage materials before a disaster strikes.
The rising incidence and severity of natural disasters in recent years has prompted Falken to take a hard look at how it should be responding to these situations. The pressure from employees, shareholders, governments in its operating markets and the world community to become involved is significant. What should the company do to provide positive support in the relief or recovery phase of a disaster?
Facing the reality of three major disasters in 13 months, with, argue some scientific luminaries, a fourth likely to hit the California Coast, Falken is striving to facilitate its response time. As a consequence, it has also initiated an in-house service that improves multi-agency operational effectiveness through collaboration and information-sharing. Clean Plus® hand, body and surface cleansing, degreasing and disinfection products can as a consequence find themselves where they are needed most in the shortest time periods. Falken’s communication processes also enable governments to reduce costs and more effectively detect and prevent threats to citizen safety, and to prepare for, and respond to, critical incidents. First responders with the necessary situational awareness can thereby integrate their assessments directing Falken product shipments to the most affected areas, pinpointing tracking and identifying critical infrastructures thereby enabling nongovernmental organizations and doctors to deliver medical care to the most remote areas of disasters.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates inM Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, February 7, 2011 10:24AM | Industry Gem Finally Approves Steps to Up-list to a Higher U.S. Stock Exchange OTC:FLKI
I’ve been following this company since 1997 and it has been interesting to watch it grow from an idea to an internationally respected corporation, a leader in the industry.
Management notwithstanding the publicly traded status of the company has always managed to keep itself below the radar, that is, until late last year faced with an unfriendly bid for control, it could no longer do so.
It amazes me how stock traders of today’s chat rooms and message boards can display such incredible disregard for the basics, foremost among these, the short term acumen and patience necessary to a great winner. In the case of FLKI, you could smell the sizzle for the last year. Everything was obvious, but like a baby wanting it now, they let the golden egg dissipate out of their avaricious pockets to fill those of the more patient of their acolytes. It’s the beauty of this game of course that they’ll – or at least some of them – will have a chance to get back in, late but in time for a worthwhile return.
I concluded long ago, that for these folks, money doesn’t seem to be the primary motive, most lose money all of the time; it’s the adrenaline rush of a quick in and out that does it for them. I have written a number of articles on the subject.
The current tale will undoubtedly remind you of another tale, that of the hare and the turtle, how much plotting however does a stock investor need when the news is good, the earnings and prospects growing, the fundamentals scream yes and the charts rate the stock buy buy buy. Let the stock stand still a while, let it go back and forth, give it the time to rise to its proper level. Well for these amazing traders, you guessed it, if its not now, and I mean now, they dump it, feeding volatility, lavishing commission income upon the brokers, and perpetuating a syndrome that ensures extravagant losses.
Stocks like people need time to rest and consolidate.
Well there were and remain plenty of astute investors with their pockets wide open to purchase the stock at half the price these impatient traders laid out for the privilege of ownership. They’re there buying of course because of what’s to come and it takes no investment genius to figure it out.
FLKI’s decision to commence the process for up-listing to a more senior market is fueled by the well reported rapid progress in its portfolio of high end product development, by the rapid expansion of its global distribution network, and by time and again witnessed, the growing world-wide interest in its Eco Pledge Standard for a Green, earth friendly production of biodegradable products. And yes let me say it now ahead of the naysayers, possibly as a management defensive technique against an unwanted bid for control even at the hefty price of $ 1;50 for newly issued shares (diluted value about 55 cents by my best count). But so what – the end result is a massive improvement in the value of the stock whichever way it goes, and as for me let me stay with tested and enthused management any day.
As any good due diligence will prove, Falken Industries Ltd (OTC:FLKI) stands for solid gains in global implantations of its product conceptions and for growing global interest in the Company's exceptional biodegradable product mixes, including products, notably wipes for disinfection and degreasing, designed for rescue teams, the military, and general utilities. Moreover it is apparent to all who take the time, and management shares the opinion, that FLKI substantially meets the requirements to up-list to a more senior U.S. stock exchange.
In fact, FLKI’s Advisory Board approved steps that would initiate a reverse stock split as early as this year, if needed, to meet minimum stock price requirements of the senior U.S. stock exchanges and is establishing audit, compensation and nominating committees in advance of a planned up-listing. Nothing light about that news.
It makes sense, moving to a senior U.S. exchange should be a high priority for the company given the progress of its business interest, the demand upon its product conceptions, the major expansion of its distribution network, and its industry leadership and growing global interest in its Eco Pledge unique standard for ensuring “Green” products. Listing on a more senior U.S. exchange will assuredly in my view help increase visibility for the company and help attract a broader class of institutional investors. That stands for value building for shareholders.
I remember reporting on the vociferous shareholder demands presented at last year’s shareholder meeting. The company took the hint and direction of its 4,200+ shareholders. For the first time in a decade it initiated an effort to devote resources to investor awareness. That also will translate to value building for shareholders.
Clean Plus® products, FLKI’s most popular branded line of 160+ product conceptions, include disinfection and cleansing wipes tailored to crisis and disaster rescue teams, and notably to military applications, and products to purify brackish water. Custom wipes allow military and rescue personnel to ensure health and cleanliness while essentially eliminating the need for water in parts of the world devastated by intense drought conditions – Iraq, Afghanistan any one?
So let’s call it a spade, FLKI is not a sub-penny stocks that may trade on the hype of the morning call only to crash (there is a reason for the statistic that day traders loses on more than 88% of their trades). Let’s give a hoorah for the short and intermediate term investors that have the stamina, the intelligence and the good sense to make an investment and stick to it for at least as long as the news and performance is positive ; as for me, front and center my example herein, I’m buying up to 13 cents and riding happy for the rest.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Sunday, January 9, 2011 08:05AM | FLKI a break-through within days...
Technically Speaking on FLKI:
Rated STRONG BUY http://barchart.com/quotes/stocks/FLKI
Rated STRONG BUY http://www.allotcbb.com/quote.php?symbol=flki
FLKI is about ready to explode (assuming it stays consistent), give it a few days at the most. I’m loading up under 14 cents.
I’ll spare you more quotes, suffice it that I’m adding more today ! Do your DD; for short timers, remember historically the stock opens about a penny lower and closes on a high or unchanged.
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, January 4, 2011 07:22AM | Technically Speaking on FLKI:
Rated BUY http://barchart.com/quotes/stocks/FLKI
Rated STRONG BUY http://www.allotcbb.com/quote.php?symbol=flki
I’ll spare you more quotes, suffice it that I’m adding more today ! Do your DD; for short timers, remember historically the stock opens about a penny lower and closes on a high. The stock is also presented on Alphatrade for those that use that service. FLKI has broken out, and made a new high yesterday. The techies say the following : “Price and moving averages has closed above its Short term moving average. Short term moving average is above its mid-term; and above long term moving averages. From the relationship between price and moving averages; we can see that: this stock is BULLISH in short-term; and BULLISH in mid-long term.” I think the conclusion is the stock is a BUY TODAY !
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, January 1, 2011 04:09AM | Technically Speaking on FLKI:
Rated BUY http://barchart.com/quotes/stocks/FLKI
Rated STRONG BUY http://www.allotcbb.com/quote.php?symbol=flki
I’ll spare you more quotes, suffice it that I’m adding more on Monday, do your DD; for short timers, remember historically the stock opens about a penny lower and closes on a high. The stock is also presented on Alphatrade for those that use that service. And yes, I only trade one or two stocks at a time, but read Fortune, I’m in good company. One of top 10 Hedge Fund Managers says “I prefer to trade one or two stocks at a time and stay, as long as the going is good. I don’t mind a good company trading sideways for even a couple of years, it builds explosive growth”… FLKI has broken out and stayed there even in this period, give it the interpretation that you will, it has to be good.
| | | | JustForBucks | Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:19PM | Somewhere, Sometime In The Next Decade; a 2010 Year End Vision. OTC : FLKI
It’s 2011 and the last few years, barring rare exceptions, have not been too kindly to those of us in the Industry. Yet, we of the old school that have reassuringly hedged the changing market place and targeted the developing opportunities are an increasingly elite group desperate to keep our gem for 2011 ever secret.
The US’ long and costly military efforts has provided a resounding victory, not of the kind delivered in the premature speech of our Commander in Chief, but for the coffers of those whose economy is closely aligned with the needs of military procurement such as our little gem.
Middle Eastern oil, a political and military football at the best of times, is still not at rest providing huge opportunities with suppliers of degreasers and oil treatment commodities for platforms, distilling sites, spills, shipping such as our sweet little gem.
A toxic stew of geopolitical conflict, suicide bombs, rising world demand, natural disasters, growing scientific and governmental hostility to carbon emissions, plus unprecedented oil company profiteering – all put upward pressure on gasoline prices and supplies and will continue to do so for at least a decade. Vehicles of all kinds have become longer term investments feeding demand upon the providers of products designed to ensure their maintenance and care, such as our gem.
Gasoline shortages and rationing will in the predictions of certain gurus become endemic by 2012, and the free flow of oil will slowly disappear on and through 2019. But, vehicular care will prosper as yesterday’s models must do the duty of tomorrow’s never to come. A windfall, for the purveyors of professional, industrial and consumer products addressed to the preservation of these dinosaurs, yes such as our gem.
Global warming is all about us, apace, until brought to a halt by the shortages of gas, as industry and the US government continues to demand incontrovertible proof of the phenomenon’s existence before agreeing to even consider maybe possibly the idea that a regime of limiting carbon dioxide emissions was a part of and intelligent design that should be the almighty’s blueprint for his kingdom. Pray for the wide spread use of disinfectant and cleansing chemicals such as those produced by our gem.
With no oil in the coming, things will get worse from an emissions perspective as people fall outside the grid and take to burning coal, wood and plastic to power their lives and their vehicles, opening large opportunities to supply bio-degradable cleansing and disinfection products such as those in the lines of our gem.
Meanwhile, hurricanes multiplied in intensity and frequency and large chunks of the American South East will become submerged. The Eastern seaboard will boil in summer and water mains freeze in ever more bitter winters. These events and situations will raise a compelling demand, for disinfection wipes, and other products produced by whom other than our gem.
Our great leader spurred to action, and in one final act declared martial law, extended his tour to extra-constitutional length, and got tough raising federal fuel economy standards dramatically, while at the same time, however decreeing an adjustment in the US gallon. Following this correction, a Super Large Chevy Pick Up returned a spectacular 36 mpg overnight and easily met the new standard. Gasoline prices will continue to rise. Nothing works, and our leader will suffer the adverse reaction of a defective mood stabilizing pill accidentally prescribed by an alcoholically refreshed physician and with that, crashing his bicycle. No one could sue because lawsuits for medical and corporate malfeasance, wanton pollution and defective products had long been outlawed.
Relief would come in the likes of the new master, the Hydrogen Age had come, all while Congress considered the essentials of moving a six ton Cadillac SUV.
A New infrastructure was about; government is now pumping $2 trillion to allow the widespread use of hydrogen fuel cell cars. Satisfying the fossil fuels industries, hydrogen was derived by law strictly from gasoline and coal, using electricity from pollutants fired by oil and coal, and of course the amazing atom.
So welcome to the next decade. Gasoline will now be $ 105 a gallon – but you can’t get any.
A Grand Master of finance once said “What’s important is not where the company maintains its headquarters, but from where it derives it revenues.” Our little gem generates its activity and revenues from without US borders.
But, getting to the personal; where are the cars, meant to be driven ? The refuseniks like me who persist in running his 1965 Red Ford Mustang on an octane-laden, eco-neutral cocktail of beard trimmings and cockroach shit, are all headed to the same list, that of the Wanted.
On the way to the post office to see if my likeness accompanies America’s Magnificent 10, I’ll call my broker to pick up another few thousands shares of this gem, my gem for 2011 (don’t tell anyone, symbol FLKI).
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, December 21, 2010 06:15AM | FLKI Accumulates STRONG BUY Ratings
It’s no secret that I am a believer in FLKI
I have my money there, averaging two trades per week, on 30 000 share increments. I see the stock as an intermediate term investment, and it has rewarded me very well.
Let’s see what the Guru’s have to say about FLKI’s ability to meet the essential standards for your money and mine (you’ll find it on a minimal DD) ;
Multiple closings on the high of the day FLKI does that ;
Minimum institutional Hedge Fund criteria for dollar volume ($ 1 million per month), yeah FLKI does that ;
Pattern of 4% breakouts establishing money flowing in – establishing the beginning of a major uptrend, yeah FLKI has that ;
Strong technical BUY recommendation (check the chart), yeah FLKI has that ;
Strong fundamentals, yeah FLKI has those (check the news) ;
And a spicy bonus with a likely bidding war for its acquisition, yeah FLKI has that.
So have you done your DD yet ?
Do it and BUY FLKI Today, remember it opens about 1 cent lower than its prior close and closes on the high. I’m in for another 30 000 shares today, maybe even a trade or two.
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, December 20, 2010 06:48AM | | "The counter offer for FLKI as best I can guess will push the price to $1.80 per share. Remember the offer is cash for as many new shares as will give the buyer control. If you do the math that means the quoted shares as is will rise to 50c per share fully diluted and to about 65 cents on the counter-offer price. From the goings on the market obviously hasn't done the math (though wake up time will undoubtedly happen), somehow not believing the press relases because the price of $ 1.50 seemed too high ! This of course is because no one bothered to see that the offer involved the issue of new restricted shares, so that the $ 1.50 fully diluted translates to a share price on the market of 50 cents, to 65 cents if the counter offer is as expected. Still, consider that this is currently a .125 stock, so the upside is enormous, and the downside negligible if you believe the chartist (based on the handsome volume, it is obvious that the "smart money" is accumulating the stock. The confusion of course is not surprising because management is seen as fighting the offer. Look at the press realeases ! As for me, I'll stick to my belief that the acquistion will go through and that the new book value of 50 to 65 cents per share will be the bottom end of the quote. The stock historically opens low and closes high, so do your DD and put in your buy orders before the opening. That said, the stock is a strong buy on the fundamentals and on the chart as well. | | | | JustForBucks | Friday, December 17, 2010 03:35AM | I. Day traders can shake you up, but they are a necessary evil !
Don’t you just love the predators? I’m speaking of course of the pro-traders aka MM’s and two of their “tricks” reported to me in an interview held yesterday with a large MM in small caps. He confirmed that they have been visiting short term tactics on FLKI hence my interest – their considerable interest in the stock makes it all the more attractive to short term traders (which doesn’t count me) and speaks of a maturity in the stock that is orgasmic for intermediate and longer term investors.
II. The question presented was “How do you buy a strong steady riser like FLKI on the “cheap”, an essential process for the day or short term trader, this is how they do it as witnessed from some incoherent behavior in FLKI who nevertheless continues its steady rise and maintains its STRONG BUY rating with analyst, as your DD will confirm.
III. The intra-day dump.
(i) Following a buy of at least 10000 shares at the offer, dump 5-10 000 shares on the bid(s) once or twice a day, then immediately take the highest bid making sure your bid shows ie 5000 shares or more and wait for the panic in unknowing or novice traders, they’ll dump like crazy the usually small positions they have and you pick up 20 000 or more shares at a 25-30% discount from the offer. Once the dump is over quickly cancel your bid even if unfilled and put in your sell order just above the lowest offer – keep the offer just above the lowest offer and take your sales as they come – never take the lowest offer since success lies in the upticks.
IV. The closing dump – the ultimate greed.
(ii) An MM has 90 seconds to fill, so to close a stock on its low is a sure fire way to panic unknowing or novice traders. To close on a dump is certain to provide an entire overnight period for the panic to fester and grow ! These traders will dump on the bid (like yesterday for FLKI) less than 90 seconds before the close. As an example, yesterday a 5000 share dump on the bid occurred 58 seconds before the close ! Investor purchases cannot be filled within the remaining period so that the stock closes at a low panicking their target unknowing or novice traders. Before the opening they put a bid in at 1 cent below the lowest offer at closing the prior day and sweep the panic sales the following morning. Hence the pattern of opening low and closing high, save for this exception.
V. The pattern fits and will increase the attractiveness of the stock for traders.
Seems to me simple enough and it certainly explains FLKI’s trading pattern, and the fact that FLKI seemingly always opens low and closes high.
FLKI has more than 4200 shareholders with no controlling block and that number is rising, thus the majorities are investors not traders. The sudden interest of professional traders (MM’s) means that FLKI will now be more volatile and therefore attractive to a new family of short term traders never before interested. There is room for all, FLKI’s fundamentals are excellent, its business real, its product lines globally known, and its stock is perfect for investors like me, and now even for the aggressive short term traders many of whom are on this board ! | | | | JustForBucks | Thursday, December 16, 2010 03:48AM | Well have you done your DD on FLKI ? The performance is steady, outstanding and for those of you that like charts, it screams at you
BUY BUY... sounds like a pumper doesn't it ? In truth the company has great fundamental value, a real company with a real business and real products, distributed globally, recently approved as a Walmart supplier and planning major branded product introductions in the US etc. It's the target of an acquisition attempt, and its technical chart:
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/chartingbasics.aspx?intraday=off&timeframe=1y&charttype=line&splits=off&earnings=off&movingaverage=20day&lowerstudy=volume&comparison=off&index=&drilldown=off&sDefault=true&symbol=FLKI&selected=FLKI,
confirms a strong buy; finally Marketwire Press is very enlightning. For the last two days I have been buying and trading a part with great profit and success. Remember it opens low and closes high. You need to put in orders before the open. Do your DD and I think you'll agree with me.
| | | | JustForBucks | Wednesday, December 15, 2010 04:25AM | | FLKI what can I say, I'm in heaven rolling in dough. And I owe it at least for the big play to a guy on these pages, confirmed by others that the chart was really great. I don't deal with charts so I talked fundamentals, the prospect of a successful bidding war since the company is under "attack by a would be acquirer", and the historical pattern of swing trading opportunities. You can tell the bidding war is going to heat up, and with it the stock, look at this http://www.marketwire.com/press-rele...KI-1369075.htm, great of course but the timing could be a management defensive technique, in all event do your DD and get in on the buy early, the stock tends to open lower and close high. Yesterday it closed on the high of the day on strong volume... I'm buying more. | | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 01:20AM | Serving the Global Community OTC : FLKI
This successful global company makes products for the consumer, professional and industrial sectors that target fast growing economies with eco-friendly innovations.
In mid-2010 Helle Madso, president of Falken Industries brought all of her management together for a special two-day brainstorming session. The purpose was to ask the big question says Madso, what will the world be like 10 years from now ? And how should Falken respond to those changes ?”
Madso and her team reached two conclusions: first, in order to participate fully in global growth, Falken needed to expand even more aggressively its current presence in fast growing emerging markets; and second, that the company should take its Eco-Pledge Standard even further with proactive stance toward ecological problems that will develop products with minimal environmental impact.
The focus on environment concerns made sense. The company operates in consumer, professional and industrial segments producing impregnated wipes and chemicals, all of which are directly entwined with sustainability issues. Every day products like vehicular shampoo, detergents, and other washing liquids all require hot and cold water at the point of use. Now that water is an increasingly scarce resource, and CO2 – which is emitted when generating the electricity to heat the water – is seen as contributing to global warming, products that reduce water use and CO2 emissions offer irrefutable environmental benefits.
Falken holds a leadership position in waterless car-wash products, impregnated wipes, and industrial concentrates.
Madso, wasn’t kidding. She shortly thereafter unveiled an environmental statement that committed the company to clear numerical targets, starting with its home market, Europe : a 30% cut in the amount of water required by the company’s products and a 35% cut in carbon dioxide emissions, vis-à-vis the company’s 2005 figures, by 2015. “As a company it’s important for us to reduce CO2 emissions and water use at the procurement and manufacturing stages” explained Manuel Garcia, Communications Officer.
The Eco-Pledge logo adorning the labels of Falken’s new ultra-eco-friendly products encapsulates this philosophy of corporate responsibility. New concentrations means smaller packaging producing less physical waste, and improved cleaning power coupled with the ease of just a single rinse dramatically cuts vehicular washing time, with proportionate water and electricity savings.
Creating eco-conscious products like these, is not only about being a good corporate citizen. With interest accelerating at all levels about sustainability, Falken’s advanced ability to produce environmentally responsible products constitutes a major competitive advantage, one that Madso intends to reinforce with considerable new investments in research and development.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Friday, November 19, 2010 07:32AM | Huge News, everything in its proper context OTC : FLKI
There is not much to add to the three recent press releases undoubtedly produced under imprimatur of legal obligations of disclosures. A principal supplier likes what he sees in the form of a very successful, innovative company, a gem of its industry and decides that the added value will look better on its balance sheets and income statements than on its target’s : For sure.
It helps that the offer was officially noticed at $ 1,50 per share on condition of course of (i) a control block, and (ii) the usual due diligence. Well we know from the Press Releases that both sides are busy with due diligence, and we also know we are told, that indications seem to weigh in on a value nearing $ 1,80 to $ 2,00 per share. I agree on that latter part.
What makes it more difficult is that the target is the oft’ stated target of numerous rumors past, itself. Falken Industries Ltd (OTC : FLKI), a star of its industry with a global presence and a pipeline of new products which defies its size. Its leading brand Clean Plus® is swallowing market share in virtually all its markets, and the logistic, purchasing, hedging and distribution platforms are the envy of more than one of its behemoth competitors, all that is well said, but the real gem is the potential, what does the future bring ? This is why, FLKI is a company that will fetch more than the $ 1,50 per share proposed and management knows it, even if they don’t want us to believe it.
It has been noted time and again that the value of FLKI’s distribution network and intellectual properties is far greater than the sum of its operating businesses. I agree. I have covered this company since its infancy in 1997 and watched its complex business grow, its rights, its options, its ventures and joint ventures all off balance sheet and income statement – a neat trick which in my view had for its objective to keep the company off the Pac-Man feeding track. However who better than a major supplier to add up all of these off balance sheet and income statement possibilities, and fearing no predator exercise rights and options and consolidate this myriad of activity, assets and revenues into a mass ?
Management has been intensely concerned about independence, and I have little doubt that surrendering control to the likes of its unwanted but friendly suitor will impact dearly upon its flexibility and efficiencies. However taking the company and building a colossal one for the industry will take little effort and far less creativity than management has exercised in building its networks of complex ventures and operations, and produce a company quite alike in size and resources to its obvious competitors. The key difference is that these resources will be consolidated under one roof, hurting undoubtedly the entrepreneurial drive of these fractional and independent entities working under a common goal and operational function. But, the whole will for valuation purposes be worth considerably more than the sum of the independent parts linked by the ink of agreements. A great deal more than the $ 1,50 per share purported to be this would be acquirer’s highest price.
The company’s news has been compact and revealing of a fundamentals concerned management. Stocks, investments bankers, traders were never the darlings of this management who steadfastly steamed its uncanny structural designs and product innovations until, it could hide no longer.
It is no wonder that the news is not moving the market more; investors and shorter term traders are not likely to identify a Christmas era gift in the form of bargain basement discounts on FLKI shares. The announcement seems to have been coordinated to fall during these festive times. Precisely in my view, in a concerted effort to keep the stock from unrealistic explosions, this management can find its analogy in the hare and the turtle fairy-tale. Slowly and quietly it walks, but at the end it wins.
It takes no genius to connect the dots. The announcements by management however reluctant, the declaration of an aggressive acquisition policy, the offer by a major supplier close enough to digest and comprehend a complex structure designed to keep the company off the sight of the well heeled behemoth parent companys of its competitors, the appointment of an M & A specialist on its Board, and the recent hiring of a regulatory affairs specialist to perform a valuation and due diligence - leads one to think an up-listing to the BB or NASDQ is in the works. What is obvious today is that the company was gearing up for some kind of major transaction.
The time frame is a question mark, though both sides have agreed that their due diligence would terminate by the end of the 1Q 2011. What isn’t a question mark is that the company will soon spark a bidding war over FLKI shares notwithstanding management’s best efforts to avoid it.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Thursday, November 18, 2010 09:41AM | DUE DILIGENCE ONGOING On $ 1,50 per share offer OTC : FLKI
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Falken-Industries-Ltd-OTC-FLKI-Retains-Europes-Capprocon-Business-Valuation-Due-Diligence-OTC-Bulletin-Board-FLKI-1356056.htm
I’m grabbing 12 000 shares for $ 1500, as a wait to March 31 won’t kill anyone !
| | | | JustForBucks | Friday, November 12, 2010 06:27AM | Falken a Great Present Opportunity OTC : FLKI
Stong BUY recommendation on FLKI from BarCharts : http://barchart.com/quotes/stocks/FLKI | | | | JustForBucks | Wednesday, November 10, 2010 02:59PM | Technically Speaking OTC : FLKI
Speaking of FLKI, the consolidation phase is at an end and a break-out to .23-25 cents is a certainty.
The techies support this conclusion in their reports and FLKI is promoted as a strong buy :
The price and moving averages have closed below FLKI's Short term moving average. The short term moving average is above its mid-term; and above its long term moving averages. From the relationship between price and moving averages; we can see that: this stock which is still consolidating is NEUTRAL in short-term; and BULLISH in mid-long term. A close at .14 cents or higher puts the stock in The very BULLISH category with a run to .23+ a certainty.
Bollinger Bands
The Bollinger Bands have closed above the bottom band by 39.3%; Bollinger Bands are 116.9% wider than normal.The large width of the bands suggest high volatility as compared to FLKI.OB's normal range. The bands have been in this wide range for 12 bars. This is a conclusive sign that the current sideway trend is ending.
Time to buy now for run to the mid-twenties.
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, November 9, 2010 01:42AM | Preferring the long term interest of shareholders over the short term sloganeering of chat rooms and promoters OTC : FLKI
The general apathy of short term traders is in all too many cases, joined to willful ignorance. At a time when rage is rampant and rationality in retreat, they reject any fundamentally based consensus, for that reason alone. None wants to hear about the damnably complicated business of doing business.
Stock Market short term traders are as baffling as they are offensive and even dangerous. Yet their kind of apathy to business realities is deeply ingrained. Short term traders build the life of their activity around the idea of the future and would, one would think, avoid the distractions of the burdens of the past and refuse to be distracted from their mission. It is vital to understand the short term trading community’s deepening lack of interest for corporate affairs because it is that apathy, not the activism of past, that is likely to guide – or constrain or confuse – the actions of corporate Investor Relations Departments for the foreseeable future.
There’s a sort of rubber band effect in the American short term trader’s current opinion with the focus always “snapping back” to concerns wholly unrelated to corporate fundamentals where such concerns, notably in Pink Sheet companies is paramount – many corporations, conscious of the fickly minds of short term traders and the irrational behavior they can produce for a stock are or stay on the Pink Sheets by choice even as they could easily gravitate to the larger trading markets, such is the case with “Current Information” rated Falken Industries Ltd (FLKI). Traders are exceptional examples of a class which can be diverted by major hype, be it explicit, specific or dramatic, but once the hype fades, these people return their attention to finding the next rainbow. This proclivity resemble and attention-deficit disorder.
The challenge for small thriving publicly traded corporations like FLKI, who only this year, more than a decade after its formation, established an Investor Relations Cell, is to resist that tendency. The corporation understands the need to engage the world. It is committed to exercising its global leadership in its industry and to muster its global landing platforms and activities to partnering with new members of its distribution network, reaching out to clients, competitors and suppliers to enhance its own business opportunities. But, preferring the long term interest of its more than 4200 shareholders over the short term sloganeering of chat rooms and promoters, the corporation which is successful and profitable, has failed to bring the trading community along with it, even as its reputed and historical swing trading history has made millions for some.
The general apathy of short term traders is in all too many cases, joined to willful ignorance. At a time when rage is rampant and rationality in retreat, they reject any fundamentally based consensus, for that reason alone. None wants to hear about the damnably complicated business of doing business. Concentrating on business, as FLKI management insist on doing, is the work of cynical or hapless management, or both. In the meantime the whole industrial world is taking notice and the corporation’s never wavering management continues to fend off acquisitions, but for how long ?
The trader’s impulse to ignore fundamentals and give management time to nurture its business including acquisition offers that its good work may be generating hurts all players. Management is correct in espousing a policy of sticking to business less it suffer the backlash against its longer term investors. Manuel Garcia, communications officer and responsible for the Investor Relations Cell at FLKI opines “we deplore the lack of intermediate to longer term interest by the investment banking community and short term traders, but we continue to defend our priorities in developing our business throughout the globe. Our business is not fueling a counting-house where everything is reduced to moving the stock a few pennies up or down each day.”
Sometimes it takes a dramatic event to focus the trading community’s attention. That time is now, but apathetic and emotional as their record would suggest they’ll miss the big opportunity leaving the big bucks for investors, albeit for the mega-buck pennies they’ll probably earn on the way up.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, November 8, 2010 07:24AM | Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is up 80% – but it's Greatly Oversold!
FLKI has nearly DOUBLED still, as it sits consolidating after an incredible Triple Digit run....but the MACD is only now kicking in!
And that's a fabulously good sign – indicating there will be lots more upside for traders who jump in NOW at under 15 cents!
Because the last time the MACD crossed over, the stock jumped more than 80%!
And the stochastics are favoring the bulls, too, because even with all that accumulation ramping up, they are still greatly oversold.
A word to the wise: Another near double is on its way!
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, November 2, 2010 05:52AM | FLKI has spent the few days consolidating after a spectacular Triple-Digit run, but there are unavoidable signs that all the power coiled up in this ticker is getting ready to bust out again as soon as next week!
Since the run up last week the accumulation line has been making sharper upward moves!
And yet, even with all that accumulation ramping up, the stochastics are still very close to being oversold!
So any slight nudge could push the oscillator back below the magic 20 level – where FLKI will attract hordes of momentum traders!
In other words, this stock is bubbling with some quick profit potential!
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, October 23, 2010 11:28AM | The Coming of “Value Base” Hostilities Spell Cash For Shareholders OTC : FLKI
Horrors of horrors it happened, swiftly and unexpected a letter arrived expressing serious interest in acquiring a control position in the company at $ 1.50 per share - in cash.
Most companies do it regularly. This one prefers to do it when nobody’s watching. Others are at it brazenly if fleetingly.
The “it” is building value for shareholders, ignoring the “street”, the chat-rooms, the desires of impatient traders, the doomsayers, and the edgy shareholders. As for the first, well there haven’t been much of that lately, crisis and all, as for the second, well I have been writing about them in my capacity as an automobile after-market analyst for years. As to the third they spurt and as quickly as they appeared the value built on hype is gone.
Falken Industries (OTC : FLKI) has been amazingly ignored by the investment banking community and that suited it well. Rather than concentrate on short term results, it set about since 1997 becoming one of the world’s foremost companies in its industry with product conceptions trading the world over. Try Googling the symbol FLKI, you’ll see what I mean.
Then horrors of horrors it happened, swiftly and unexpected a letter arrived expressing serious interest in acquiring a control position in the company at $ 1.50 per share. Management is on overtime. Two press releases later we know that there is no ambiguity in the effort to fairly and properly consider the offer. We also know that we’ll get more news and it’s likely to suggest an increase in price. What we must know also is that management will dispense news on a “has to” basis and through minimal sufficient media.
Does this sudden attempt to absorb a thriving small but publicly traded company with no control block say something about the shifting landscape of the post crisis-world ? Are acquirers trying harder to find the gems in the backdrop ? Investment bankers were always too high-minded to consider this company, and until this year’s near shareholder mutiny at the annual meeting compelling the creation of a communication cell to consider the interface with the investment community, management interest for the shares were strictly limited to keeping their nose on their business, creating value, off balance sheet value such as brand value, intellectual property, distribution network etc. This company has done it all, and has done it well: witness a starting offer at $ 1.50 a share when the stock was trading at a dime !
The company did its part to ensure its focus on business by preserving its anonymity status in the investment community and it is likely that it will do all it can to downplay its exposure even now. Management heretofore has been firm in its conviction that a control position would inevitably impact upon the company’s ability to develop creative conceptions, it did all it could to avoid addressing the point that it’s market cap grossly underestimated its true value (by about 20:1 ! To those that argued that high stock value was a symbol of economic virility it convincingly countered its world-wide renown, its award winning product conceptions, its reputation and the envy of its colossal competitors. Problem is that it has done its job too well, and created value that can not longer be fully ignored.
This marks the coming of “value based hostilities”. The Company is worth at best guess about $ 2.50 to $ 3.00 a share when taken as a whole. It trades at under 20 cents trading recently on respectable volume.
The time has come for the stock price to reflect the company’s standing in the industrial community, and compressing the release of news through the pinhole of a needle is not going to be easy. Investors are still obviously unaware of the situation or arguably, are giving management’s reputation for incredible creativity to preserve its independence too much credit. Recent trading at 16.5 cents per share suggests that traders believe that the probability of a closing is only about 10%. There have been other acquisition rumors in the past but this one comes with the drum of solid cash at ten times the current trading price, and that’s just for openers.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Thursday, October 7, 2010 02:58AM | Falken Industries Ltd OTC: FLKI
MARKETWIRE
Oct 07, 2010 04:30 ET
Falken Responds and Brings Much Needed Relief to Victims of the Toxic Sludge Leak in Hungary (OTC:FLKI)
The chemical accident, which occurred on Monday at an aluminum plant 165 kilometers west of Budapest, is the largest of its kind in Hungary's history, having already killed four people and threatening to contaminate the Danube River.
Falken, a global leader in military and disaster relief cleansers and disinfectants is again spontaneously hand in hand working with the relief and medical assistance teams.
TRENTON, NEW JERSEY--(Marketwire - Oct. 7, 2010) - Falken Industries (OTC:FLKI) while egregiously ignored by Wall Street is well known in the industry for its leading product conceptions and innovations, and with military and disaster relief authorities for its humanitarian and earth friendly policies which make a difference for millions in all areas of our small planet.
In the steps of Hurricane Katrina, the disaster in Thailand, the Oil Spill Control effort in Southern Norway, the Floods of the Philippines and the disaster in Haiti, and now the toxic sludge leak in Hungary, Falken is again spontaneously working with the relief and medical assistance teams, cooperating with military and civil defense units and providing essential degreasing, cleansing and disinfectant materials.
Falken Industries Ltd in a telephone interview on Friday, confirmed that it would underwrite a donation of 4320 buckets of its award winning 800 hand wipe product each bucket containing SN10® its fastest acting, most effective and safest anti-microbial known in the industry in an effort to quickly assist relief and medical workers laboring under tragic circumstances in Hungary.
The donation valued at cost totals € 96.400 about $ 125,000.
FLKI's proprietary platform technology has proven effective in surface, water, and airborne applications and in military and civil defense. The technology can neutralize harmful environmental contaminants, toxins, and dangerous microorganisms. The obvious of which are spores, mold, fungi, bacteria, and viruses, features essential to the disaster relief operations now being conducted.
Product conceptions based on the company's proprietary SN10© platform, disinfect, decontaminate, and sterilize. The company believes this class of products has important applications for Healthcare Facilities, Consumers / Household use, Industrial Applications, as well as the proven utilization for Military / Homeland Security.
The product, part of the Clean Plus® collection originally conceived by FLKI is widely available globally through a network of more than 380 landing platforms known as Super Distributors. This network enhances the speed at which these important components of emergency relief can be dispatched on site. Distributors interested in representing the Clean Plus® line of product should address their inquiries directly to the Clean Plus® Product Group – see www.cleanplus.com.
Falken Communication Officer Manuel Garcia stated, "Falken's heart goes out to the victims and families of this disaster, and this latest gesture is consistent with FLKI's policy to bring immediate solutions to those in need."
About Falken Industries Ltd:
Falken Industries Ltd (OTCBB:FLKI) is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: This news release contains "forward-looking statements" made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "future," "plan" or "planned," "will" or "should," "expected," "anticipates," "draft," "eventually" or "projected." Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that our products may not achieve customer acceptance or perform as intended, that we may be unable to obtain necessary financing to continue operations and development, and other risks. You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements.
For more information, please contact
Falken Industries Ltd
Manuel Garcia
Communications Officer
+1609 357 0316
mgarciafaure@falkenltd.com
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, October 4, 2010 01:52AM | This Company Gives Proven Meaning to The Power of the Purse OTC : FLKI
Strategists in this small unknown to all but the industry knew, and were proved correct, that female consumers would open their wallets – big time. That means that the 650 million women in the FLKI distribution network are an emerging powerhouse of probable sales
Shoppers throughout the West, as the techies of economic theories would say are wary of a double-dip recession, and consequently are still pinching their pennies. Global Strategy Executives at a small publicly held company Falken Industries predicted as much long before the so-called crisis. And so its intense investment in its global network of landing platforms and Super Distribution has long favored the BRIC, Eastern Europe and other developing markets.
Strategists in this small unknown to all but the industry knew, and were proved correct, that female consumers would open their wallets – big time. Retail sales in FLKI markets have grown by 25 percent annually from 2007 to 2009, making the its market sectors arguably the healthiest of any industry player in the world. Consumer confidence for FLKI product conceptions is high, and as in all other markets trading FLKI product conceptions, female shoppers are leading the way: last year women in these markets saved just 24 percent of their income, compared with 55 percent in 2006. Not unlike the 80% in the traditional west, three quarters of women say they’re the ones who control the family purse strings. That means that the 650 million women in the FLKI distribution network are an emerging powerhouse of probable sales for its distributors.
The sudden rise of this female market was a predicted and welcome event for FLKI whose consumer products are for 57% sold to women in retail concerns ranging from hard-discounters to local gas stations. For years and to the present FLKI’s multinational consumer product competitors have ignored women because their contribution to household income was small, and interest unrelated to the industry. They targeted (and continue to do so) their wares to the macho-enthusiast (8% of the market), rather than the woman whose interest commenced by the belief that a vehicle was but an extension of the household. FLKI whose President and Founder is not surprisingly a woman, then of 26 years of age, has been targeting its consumer lines of products to women since 1997 and is a global leader, with more than 160 products in the active market place, more than 170 in the pipeline and more than 200 in development.
The decision was made at inception, back in 1997. FLKI’s product conceptions would target the female market, and with good cause ; in 1950’s women contributed just 20 percent of household income, 40% in the 1990’s and then reached 50% last year. More than 50% of all registered vehicles are in the name of a woman, and women in additional to controlling a great deal of spending decisions, form a steadfast and uncontroverted 80% of the components of any decision to buy a new car.
While other companies scramble to figure out how to capitalize on this shifting dynamic, FLKI is estimated to have at least a 2-3 year head start an growing over its competitors, its most popular brand conception Clean Plus® is a standard of quality and performance which regularly reaps the number one award from trade and professional industry. Most recently it was reported the number one product recognition award from Auto Plus, the utmost respected objective trade magazine in France. FLKI product conceptions have one coveted awards across the world including the European Product Innovation Award for a line of disinfectant hand care products devised for police and military concerns.
What is now becoming a nuanced, and in many ways for the industry more helpful picture is emerging. Women tend to shop more frequently than men, and spend more on cleaning product, notably they view automobile car care as just another assortment of cleaning products.
Helping FLKI product conceptions as well is the recent advertising and marketing blitz by many global leasers targeting women directly. Women are 57% of all sales of FLKI product conceptions. “The future of car care is female” concludes Manuel Garcia, Communications Officer of FLKI, “and women know and want our company’s product”.
Women are pragmatic consumers, and given performance and quality tend to be brand loyal “their intense focus on value explains the continued success of our consumer lines” added Garcia.
Men tend to buy brands they prefer for lack of alternative experimentation, they like to pay more because high price argues, often falsely, greater value and performance, but females re skewed to buy the best deal sacrificing nothing to quality or performance.
One thing remains clear, female spending will likely continue to rise, with studies revealing that women surveyed planned on spending more in the second half of 2010 than they did in the first. FLKI radiates this trend and their enthusiasm is clearly linked and dependent of sort to the term “the power of the purse.”
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Friday, October 1, 2010 02:39AM | INNOVATION is the building block of this factory OTC : FLKI
This company's green up technologies are coalescing into a larger movement. Energy costs are rising as petroleum sources appear to be dwindling. Manufacturers everywhere are seeking an alternative to heat-beat-and treat manufacturing and coming to its models for solutions.
Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, manufacturers have been building things by a process that is now known as “heat, beat, and treat.” And so the rule said, get the untreated materials and using massive amounts of power to high temperature, weighty machines to bend it into form, and noxious chemicals to maintain its devise, potency and resilience get it done.
It been some time now since Falken Industries, moved by the advances in know-how, mounting energy expenditures and the shift toward exploiting with less took a new tack: to find inspiration for new products, and to learn how to conceive and manufacture them in a way that is more proficient, lower-cost, and friendlier to the surroundings.
Among the many FLKI product conceptions on the market today are self-cleaning windows and exterior paints without the use of harsh cleansing agents. Fabrics for wipes, paints and cosmetics are all being developed with colors inspired from the environment; a new kind of plywood is being manufactured from FLKI conceptions without formaldehyde-based adhesive. These developments address a $ 1.5 billion dollar market.
To a certain extent, scientists, designers and artist have been looking to nature for ideas for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The US military seeks natural products for lightweight, self repairing armor and uniforms, and even Russia and its ex-satellites are demonstrating growing interest in FLKI innovation and product conceptions.
FLKI green up technologies are coalescing into a larger movement. Energy costs are rising as petroleum sources appear to be dwindling. Manufacturers everywhere are seeking an alternative to heat-beat-and treat manufacturing and coming to FLKI models for solutions. At the same time advances in nanotechnology – the ability to working at the molecular scale – started making FLKI engineers rethinking and reengineering product conceptions. “Our processes are diminutive, amenable, and malleable and bowed with appendages and heaps of sensors.” Says Manuel Garcia FLKI’s Communications Officer. Working with nanotechnology he says allowed the company’s engineers to begin thinking about and building things at the molecular level too.
It’s no wonder that FLKI’s on the contact list of most major corporations calling to find out how its innovative manufacturing and product conceptions might work for them.
“We are at that early volatile expansion phase” Garcia says.
Undeniably a large amount of the principal expansion is probable still to come. FLKI product conceptions are being tested and have been found to increase efficiency up to 40%. That could translate to a huge deal for FLKI’s global distribution network.
Some of the company’s most intriguing discoveries are being made in wipe and disinfectant compatible product lines, cleansing agents that are non-toxic and do not freeze. Its product conceptions are conventional standards in India, Brazil, the Middle East, Europe and elsewhere.
With nearly two hundred products at the experimental stage and more than 170 in the pipeline FLKI is growing rapidly through-out the developing world in particular. “There’s a enormous responsibility to build out the correct way” says Garcia. And, looking back at this company’s product development wisdom is an assured way to do it.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, September 18, 2010 12:51PM | Addressing the high cost of inventory OTC : FLKI
To achieve success, the accent remains and the practice demands inventory cost controls and performance to an extreme, here is one leading firms comments on the matter.
While the Automobile After-Market which I cover as an analyst is not at the upper end of a guru’s relevant attention, it bears repeating that whilst the fashion isn’t on the innovation words of « just in time », the accent remains, and the practice demands for such performance are at the extreme. Distributors notably are bearing untold ills from the high cost of inventory. Retailers have shifted that cost through draconian demands and contracts of adhesion to the distributor. The distributor seeks as best he can to shift it with more difficulty upon the manufacturer. Few manufacturers have mastered the purchasing, manufacturing and logistics problems as well as Falken Industries, best known for its conceptions marketed under the Clean Plus® brand, and I undertook to discover their secret.
Mastering the high cost of inventory need not be an unattainable goal for a distributor and strangely enough, the benefit seems to inversely relate to the size of the manufacturer, at least in this case and in this industry. The key component though is determination, support and processes of the manufacturer whose goods the distributor represents and purveys.
For this article, and in order to ensure the veracity of the inversed relation to size and service, I visited three of the best known manufacturers in this industry; a large multi-national colossus in Ohio, a medium specialty product firm in Illinois and Falken, a small publicly traded company in New Jersey. All companies are extensive global players but only the last had the majority of its operations outside the United States. The most interesting responses were outlined in three questions which I posited to Manuel Garcia, Communications Officer at Falken.
My three questions and the answers were as follows:
1. How has Falken provided the support and integrated the process to service its 380 worldwide distributors and 68 landing platforms?
Garcia: “Our stock support program concerns the entirety of the professional actors in the Automobile After-Market ; let’s face it, distributors, manufacturers and retailers are submitted to the same constraints. We were consequently collectively compelled to review our entire stock and inventory strategies. To finance a stock for 380 distributors, taking even only one of our product groups, is a costly prospect. Consequently to reduce the effective cost to our distributors, we have made substantial improvements to our network of proximate global distribution platforms by enhancing the benefits for those platforms as outlined in our Strategic Alliance Agreements also known as Super Distribution Agreements. Consequently our distributors have no problems of excess inventories. They can be in possession of stock merchandise in day +1 in 83% of our markets and day plus overseas or road transport everywhere else.”
The conclusion to be taken is that proximity of distribution and production centers is the first key element to reducing inventory costs. The economies of centralized logistics are overwhelmed by the inefficiencies in transport and delays.
2. What do you think of the concept of sales on line, on the Internet?
Garcia responded “In some of our markets, in France notably, the activity of selling on line is experiencing major growth. Nevertheless it is but 2% of our distributor activity, though one would imagine that exponential growth can be anticipated. The key point is for the distributor and the manufacturer to ensure a coherence in both price and terms of sales and to make sure that each service is value added, paid for, and understood by the consumer, i.e. advise, warehousing, hotline, after-sale service etc. We believe in a likely development for these sites, and believe that their market share will expand notably with the DIY (Do it yourself) client base. These on site “InterShops” seem to respond to the need of the consumer who has become savvier with the internet, but more demanding in service with legislation in strong support.”
The conclusion to be drawn is that while it is possible through a centralized picking center to administer these internet orders, it is far more efficient and consequently cost effective to do so from a proximity landing platform, so that even this up and coming novel business medium is enhanced by proximity logistics and productions.
3. What are your priorities in terms of development with your distributors?
Garcia smilling, continued: “The key word is support: We develop services directly targeting our distributor’s verified and acknowledged needs and by extension the needs of their customers. The most known of our support programs is our uniform global pricing strategy which subsidizes differences in purchasing power in our various markets. However not to be discounted is our monumental emphasis on training, and dissemination of logistic and technical information which are at the heart of our distribution strategies. We recently launched the Clean Plus® Service concept which includes a number of loyalty building components and financial, pricing and logistical models. Also, independent of this concept we propose extensive training for our distributors. Finally, in the scope of our implantation efforts, we heavily subsidize through discounts or outright support payments the effort, because our ultimate objective is to ensure the availability of innovative new products in all global markets within three months of their introduction.”
And thus the lesson to be drawn is that proximity of production and logistic is the key to addressing the high cost of Inventory management, ensure flexibility and response time and acknowledge that the future belongs to the smaller innovative companies rather than their collosal competitors whose activity in the industry is incident or collateral in its smallest terms.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards. | | | | JustForBucks | Friday, September 3, 2010 08:01AM | A Tiny Patch Of Rubber - Makes The Car OTC : FLKI
What, exactly makes driving fun ? I asked Theodore Roberts, Product Development Engineer at Falken Industries Ltd a publicly traded little known by the investment community global corporation whose name needs no further introduction to the trades and industry for the conception of innovative automobile, professional and industrial products and accessories. “It all starts with a tiny patch of rubber” he responded.
Indeed. Consider the poor little contact patch : six square inches of patterned rubber, drumming away on the tarmac of a thousand revs per minute for 1200 hours or more. Most motorists who stop and think about the tires on their car (and I’m sure there aren’t too many that do other than for the regular coating of a Clean Plus® Tire Shine or Back to Black !) hardly ever consider the rolling action of the tire and the wear that results from it – though they might possibly wince from time to time at the after-effects of confrontation with a sharp stone curb or an unidentified object lying in the road.
But there’s so much more to the tire contact patch – and its neighbor the sidewall – than that. They are the beginning and the end of all our fun driving experiences. And the more sporting the driver is, the more important these four little bits of rubber become. They are the beginning of the handling equation, signaling to the driver the level of grip being developed and in turn asking for input from the steering wheel or the throttle. And they become the end of the handling equation after the driver has made the input, reacting to absolutely dictate the attitude of the car.
So let’s look at the factors that determine the size and nature of that contact patch – and then examine the implications for keen drivers.
If our sports car had no engine and therefore an ideal weight distribution of 50/50, all four tires could be the same size and construction. Indeed, low powered hatchbacks and saloon cars where the ultimate handling qualities are not near the top of the priority list have all their tires the same as one another. But in a rear-wheel drive car, as the designer starts asking the driven wheels to handle lots of power and torque – and ideally the weight distribution is biased towards the driven wheels too – so the tires at that end are designed to be slightly larger than those on the un-driven axle. On a rear-drive car this increase in width also helps with the task of supplying better traction – always a requirement on high performance cars. (It now starts becoming very clear why the majority of powerful sports cars and super cars favor the rear mid-engined layout. A radical front mid-engined car with a slight rearward weight bias can handle pretty well but the packaging is much more difficult.)
As we know, the steering (or front axle) is at the very heart of a car’s handling character – numb steering runs all else that follows. Front-wheel drive has its limits in a performance car for obvious reasons like rearward weight transfer under acceleration and traction, but the main reason why it is usually a disaster is down to our little friend the contact patch. Imagine that poor piece of tire trying to cope with cornering loads and traction loads at the same time and then being asked for sensitive feedbacks from steering inputs !
The majority of our cars today are designed with front-wheel drive – it’s easy to package and it’s cheap. And I suppose most of these fairly low-powered cars re not driven anywhere near the limit. Unfortunately, a large percentage of our younger car buyers have never experienced a rear-wheel-drive car and have come to think that front-wheel spin and torque steer are what all cars do !
Another unfortunate factor in the fun takes is that marketing departments push for ever larger tire sizes, with the result that he limit of adhesion becomes very difficult to reach on a dry road and when it is reached the transition to problem time is very fast indeed !
For me as a driver there is nothing more satisfying than driving a well-balanced rear-drive car with really good steering feel. I suppose my ultimate car for this experience is my Lotus Elan which has sublime steering and about 52 percent of its weight on the rear axle. The Elan’s added bonus is that it sits on 155 wide tires, opening up the possibility of safe four-wheel drifts to all.
A lightweight rear-drive spots car with great steering and the correct size of tires for its performance envelope is something I wish every sporting driver could – experience currently a Lotus Elise comes closest to achieving this set of deliverables. Unfortunately I’m a little too tall to fit in the Elise. Perhaps I should fit those 145 tires to my Smart Coupe, I’ll take the opportunity to apply a glowing Clean Plus® Tire Shine – an enthusiast I am and will be always.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Thursday, July 29, 2010 01:36PM | Focusing On Global Strategy OTC : FLKI
To boost efficiency and profitability, some companies like Falken (OTC symbol FLKI) have become faster and more adaptive multinationals.
If adversity is the best teacher, the Great Recession should have been a prime learning opportunity for companies worldwide. It certainly was for this company, the New Jersey based creator of innovative global brands and products, the most notable of which is the Clean Plus® brand. They’ve been at it for going on two decades. Considering that it garners 90% of its royalty and license income from abroad, the company’s challenges were great and compounded by a strong Euro that cut into profits coming and going. Coming because sales into dollar based economies were impossible due to high prices, and going because now that the dollar has firmed up substantially, its currency losses for GAAP reporting are substantial – so substantial in fact that they wiped out singularly the entire second quarter profit. A mere paper loss of course since most of the company’s purchases for raw material and research is European based – but still not designed to favor motivation among wall street traders that have ignored the company since its inception.
“We learned valuable lessons and gained a healthy sense of crisis” said Manuel Garcia, Communications Officer. But for the currency loss the company has been profitable in each of the last three quarters.
As one would expect, the tactical practice orchestrated by Helle Madso, FLKI’ president required a mindset totally different than that practiced in the industry. Management and the entire global distribution network had to realize that business as usual was not an option. Changing an ingrained distribution culture was not easy, yet Madso was able to accelerate a program of structural reform. “We consolidated overlapping functions and shortened supervisory processes” she explained. “Now we’re leaner, more reactive and able to provide stronger support for members of our distribution networks.”
The revamp also extended to the manufacturing units. Traditionally the company had routed different research and productions in separate, dedicated plants and facilities. To improve efficiencies it created multipurpose production units to manufacture chemicals and impregnated accessories such as wipes. Workers switch between different roles in the assembly process. The new composite system delivers such significant productivity gains and cost savings that Madso is now keen to roll out the process globally. “The financial crisis taught us that we can’t control our environment. What we can do is have a culture that adapts to circumstances” she says. “Ultimately it’s the adaptable who survive.”
To ensure that the company grows and prospers over the next decade, Madso has devised a plan for the next stage of globalization. The multipronged strategy involves building up the product lines, expanding the reach, and moving even more aggressively into the emerging markets of China and other Asian countries, and not to be forgotten, diversifying into new lines of business, notably disinfection and medical care.
If the rapid success of the company’s pipelined products is anything to go by, FLKI looks to be well on its way to meeting its targets. The company’s product conceptions are shaking up the market. Products renowned for their convenience, portability and usability (the company’s line product motto is “It Simply Works”.) have attracted large new audiences. Women where the purchase rate has tripled, and the middle aged, two groups generally ignored by the company’s competitors. “We’re aiming at 20% global market share by 2015, and it’s a target we’re confident of hitting” says Garcia.
In medical and disinfection products Madso’s goals are equally clear. She wants to grow the rigid business by around 70% in the next five years. Social and economic trends are aligning to support Madso’s bold vision. Eager to expand, but aware that developing the business almost from scratch would require a huge investment, Madso took the bold step of going on the acquisition trail targeting small to medium sized companies in Chemicals, wipes, and related productions.
Of course the relative economic robustness of developing countries vis-à-vis the developed world is another major post–recession paradigm shift that no company can afford to ignore. With no debt and a booming distribution network, market demands for FLKI product conceptions are on the rise. “Making a big push into these markets is the N°1 priority in the midterm” said Garcia.
Expanding into new business areas is as important as expanding into new countries. FLKI devotes a significant proportion of the roughly 10% of revenues it commits to research and development every year to move into promising new business areas.
But just as important to the company’s success is its policy on corporate social responsibility. Whether aligning itself with the UN’s Global Compact for sustainability and responsible business practices, or creating green products in environmentally responsible ways, all of FLKI’s initiatives are inspired by its “Social IN” philosophy. This helps people worldwide lead healthier and more fulfilling lives, and maintains that the value of a company that does right by its shareholders and society at large will inevitably rise.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 03:37AM | FREE TRADE MATTERS OTC:FLKI
The word "trade" doesn't get warm receptions in polls, so it's no surprise that politicians speak only with the export side of their mouth, leaving out the import side of the free-trade equation
There aren't many CEO's of successful companies on the good-guy list these days, but Falken Industries' President Helle Madso certainly makes the grade. Falken conceives, creates, and manufactures things; it does not practice financial spins or guru magic. It cleans oil rather than spill it. As it stands in the world today, this company is an active generator of the sort of industrialized jobs that a recession-wrecked world very much needs.
In part, this company's ability so compete so successfully on the world markets is that its policies do a 180° on US trade policy.
This dynamic company offers a brilliant example both for the havoc wreaked on the US job market by the Great Recession - and the prospective for world markets to turn that desolation around. Last year the company proved itself a master of cost management and the envy of the industry. Its distribution network shed none of the 12.000 employed, its marketing and promotional activities were increased, profits were unprecedented and the distribution and landing platforms are recruiting.
Most of that job growth is linked to a substantial rise in cross export activities from its 380 worldwide distribution points. Nearly 70% of FLKI's product conceptions are sold only overseas. And, amazingly this company is finally no longer unique - though it retains a substantial lead - in the industry as other multinationals are recognizing the trend. The activities of countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa was the primary focus at a recent corporate colloquy sponsored by the company, convening CEO's, members of the press and analyst of the industry.
When Madso looks around the globe, she sees the influential of emergent countries moving uncompromisingly to remove trade barriers, while the US sits in the bleachers. Taiwan and China, are but to inking a mutual free-trade deal, as are South Korea, China and Japan team up to produce a free-trade bloc. The European Union where the company is firmly established as an industry leader with its Clean Plus® product conceptions will complete an agreement with South Korea that will lower tariffs on its product exports to the country.
How does a multinational like FLKI react to the US stand-still on world trade? Instead of abandoning the opportunities, companies like FLKI are finding ways to circumvent the tariffs, all to often by creating the jobs elsewhere. "It will cause us to invest more and more inside those trade zones" says Manuel Garcia, FLKI Communications Officer.
The US gives lip-service to being dedicated to getting key trade agreements enacted, but the Obama administration's support for business and therefore credibly for lasting jobs remains tepid. Getting whatever through this Congress will debilitate the Democratic Party’s liberal base, and this is an election year, hence the US will proceed with baby steps, slowing growth for FLKI competitors because the company, contrary to many of its larger competitors, is firmly established with distribution and landing platforms in all foreign trade zones.
And still to FLKI's good fortune, the word "trade" doesn't check well in polls, so it's no surprise that politicians speak only with the export side of their mouth, leaving out the import side of the free-trade equation.
Madso fully understands the emotional politics of free trade, and fears its row. "As CEO's were accused of short term beliefs, but FLKI has never thought less than 10 years out" says Madso. During the last decade the company has effectively concentrated on establishing its distribution network, trade zone landing platforms, and a reputation for product conceptions that have given it global leadership and a logistical 96.7% perfect delivery ratio to clients everywhere in the world.
"US policies refusing to be more proactive on trade, are destructive to the industry, simply, if the US hopes to compete from a US manufacturing base creating jobs here, it has to get off its hind quarter." concluded Garcia.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Friday, July 2, 2010 07:25AM | WOMEN leadership in the marketing machine OTC : FLKI
The how to of success : Buck the trend, witness a 26 year old (in 1997) Norwegian entrepreneur and her extraordinary success in that ever so macho world of automobile aftercare
As actress, singer, director and producer Jada Pinkett Smith once said "We still have a ways to go for more doors to open for women on every front. But it's looking up." Witness a 26 year old (in 1997) Norwegian entrepreneur and her extraordinary success in that ever so macho world of automobile aftercare. Her brain child, the Clean Plus® branded products, and her company Falken Industries Ltd of Trenton New Jersey, are global operators distributing product conceptions through more than 380 distribution plateforms worldwide.
Car care products directed to women ? And why not ? While and notably in 1997 such a statement would hardly suit the then conventional wisdom a quick look at these product conceptions and you can wonder why they do not yet figure quite prominently in product-placement opportunities in your local movie sequel. Well quite aside from the fact that they are as likely to do so as girls evolving from Manolos to Louboutin stilettos, or Apple Computers substituted by the sleeek Hewlett Packard machines that look a bit like fashion accessories themselves these products designed and vested with style and performance are certain to make women's hearts beat faster provide speed, ease, and a marvelous shine.
Did you know that women own more than 50% of all registered automobiles ? Did you know that women are 80% of the component of a decision to buy a car ? Yet world wide there is but one company, that starting in 1997 has created a line taking women as a primary target.
FLKI and the Clean Plus® product group are not the only companies eying the women's market and wondering if it might hold a secret to success in a rough economic climate. FLKI is simply the first to identify it and to secure for itself a well implanted leadership position. Even before the economic crisis, FLKI realized that women's financial power in both rich and poor countries was increasing, but the downturn gave women an extra leg up. Men lost more jobs, whereas women started more companies. Meanxhile the pay gap continued to decrease. Assuming the trend continues women will make more than average man by 2024 with developing and major emerging market nations following closely behind.
What's amazing is that FLKI's collosal competitors were unable to cotton onto this, leaving this enormous market to the Clean Plus® group and its distribution channels. Simply the general concensus of the established companies, ie Turtle Wax, Armor All, 3M, Meguiars, Auto Glym, Sonax etc ignored and seemingly continue to ignore that women make the majority of purchasing decisions in automotive selections, but for these giants of industry, they remain an afterthought when it comes to product development and marketing. "A lot of the people making these decisions at these top companies are still older men" says Manuel Garcia communications Officer for FLKI.
"Women are much more likely to pay a premium for their favorite products, typically those that greater aesthetic and emotional appeal" said Helle Madso, president of FLKI and creator of the Clean Plus® conceptions. it's no accident that Clean Plus® is the most favored brand across all product categories for women.
They make things that work and which are beautiful is a comment oft heard by this writer in various interviews. The products have better finishes, more sensually appealing components and higher-quality.
The industry remains blind to FLKI's success in product conceptions, its traded stock (symbol FLKI) is nowhere near reflecting its potential, and the sound of women stating that the industry has failed to meet their needs has no listeners save in the halls of Trenton or Oslo Norway where the product group is headquartered.
The Clean Plus® product group crafts strategies geared toward women's life cycle and its web site is far more accessible than that of its competitors. It's a smart move given that women are going to control the majority of the world's new earned income over the next decade, and they'll be spending it on a lot more than $ 800 gold heels.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, June 12, 2010 11:35AM | FALKEN STAYS ON TOP OTC : FLKI
It is more than eight years since I first wrote about the Falken (FLKI) concept - most known for its Clean Plus® product conceptions. The idea that a concept targetting women in car care, complete with a how to that didn't assume an out of its element consumer would come to play a new and mor muscular role in the global market for car maintenance, care, and detailling. Throughout the period leading up to the economic crash of late, I often felt that the durability of this small creative company taking on behemoths of the trade, would have to be tested through an economic shock.
It is one thing to come up with great concepts and designs, great performance an still greater abilities to control cost and deliver better for less - when everything elsewhere seems fine, but strenght can only really be proven through less favorble external conditions. The reent turmoil certainly qualified as that and the FLKI concept an product distribution network survived it well. Indeed, these days I think that the combined world wide sales of FLKI product concepts and its distributors might exceed that of its largest competitors such as 3M's Meguiars, Clorox' Armor All, Honeywell's Holt and Turtle wax. Projecting historical rates of growth and notably current performance and abilities as noted in press releases and other professional media, by 2017, combined. So why has this crisis been good for FLKI ?
It has demonstrated the failing and unsustainability of the pass along, no price is limited philosophy of its competitors as of the arrogance of lacking research and development - a wax is a polish is a wax, same sh.. different label so present in the market for car care notably with the then controlling brands. The decline of these giants convinced FLKI that they must seize and quickly, what it takes to stimulate spending on car care if it had to have any chance of achieving its goals. The two recent press releases reporting 4Q and 1Q results demonstrate that FLKI's swift and savvy stimulus plan for its distribution network is working. FLKI has overtaken its largest competitors in at least one of its product conceptions and is hot on their heels, or may even have surpassed them in products covering the professional trades, industry, and private label.
Despite the crisis, FLKI management did not panic and the stability culture in the company fostered by its management has survived. Extraordinary work on the procurement side has bested its production costs by large margins over that of its strongest competitors. Low inflation is a new reality, and the investment climate is strong - FLKI is seizing the opportunity expanding its global distribution of innovative product concept, priced on a global price list adjusted for purchasing power. Implantations in the BRIC, but also in the struggling "third world" and East Block are developping aggressively.
FLKI has improved its business model in large part by boosting efficiency in nearly every aspect of its activities. It's distribution expansion has for the better part of two years targetted the so-called N11, or the "Next 11" many of which have emerged from the crisis in better shape than predicted. I Asia, Populous Indonesia is perhaps the most exciting of these countries and some people are suggesting it might even become as big as one of the BRICs where FLKI product conceptions are very present. FLKI's prospects with its wide range of producgt conceptions, over 160 products in active production, and at least as many in a "ready" pipeline coupled to its ability to raise prices and still remain considerably below its nearest competition makes its prospects for the future quite encouraging.
Mexico, Nigeria and Turkey also show great promise for FLKI product conceptions. Turkey is especially intriguing, given its young and vibrant population and its unique position as a bridge between East and West. FLKI new business development efforts are activelly present with distribution platforms already in Turkey.
What is FLKI going to look like as it adjusts to these demands upon its creativity, conceptions, procurement and logistic challenges ? Surely there will be all sorts of unpredictable political and econmic developments associated with its rise. This makes its talented management, and strong focus on procurement and operating costs all the more important as a venue for enhancing profit. FLKI already exerts a disproportionate impact, given its size, on the huge automobile after-market industry. My bet is that FLKI and its shareholders will become wealthier, and that the consumer will continue to enjoy high tech, top of the line product conceptions at prices it can actually afford.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, February 15, 2010 02:10PM | Small is best, but hedge the political risk by investing in that opportunity choosing the safer route OTC : FLKI
Unless you like the high of loss and figure among the family of day traders betting on odds of 1080:1 you’ll insist on these rules as a precondition of your dollar’s transmission.
You know things are out of whack when the press reports overwhelming confidence by Americans because the nation only lost 11,000 jobs in the current month, and traders call a stock that returned 1,900% in the last 52 weeks and the swing traders among them 890% then 390% then a final 40%, and in 2010 is repeating the pattern by its current downswing, a pig.
For the first item after all, the unemployment rate did come down to “only” 10%, the worst in decades, for the second to hell with the facts and fundamentals, the history and record, the to easily manipulate volume and the chart that’s what’s important and that of course is what is contributing to the remarkable success story of these individuals, 1080 of them lose money to every one that makes some.
Consistent with both examples is that there is no real end in sight. U.S. unemployment is expected to remain in the stratosphere for years to come, the best projections putting it at 8 percent for 2014. “The average American will not be better off in five years – unemployment will remain high and wage growth will continue to be flat,” said chief among the gurus George Soros who forecast n “age of wealth destruction” four months before the crisis hit.
As to the second item, volume and charts are wholly irrelevant, flat is the new up with two to three swing trades provided for the short term hungry, setting up the next high.
And while the first will be pumped with billions – to a point - to prevent job losses from being worse, nothing but fools will pump up the traditional day trader’s heaven, Pink Sheet non reporting, no information, no business but great hype and web sites entities that fill the interest of gossip in chat rooms.
Things are different and require different measures. In the first instance growing debts will not allow the governments anywhere to spend much more for dubious results. In the second every investor and trader can change his destiny, notably with the high yield potentials found on Pink Sheets.
Beware of your reaction. Pink Sheets finds hundreds of behemoths companies like Toyota amongst its ranks. And with them hundreds of small companies, with real businesses, real products, real potential, innovative management : one common feature, they are “reporting companies” which on Pink Sheets means they hold the designation “Current Information”. Any company proposed that does not hold a “Current Information” should be dismissed from consideration at once.
Among the “Current Information” companies there are tell-tale signs of concerns. Ambiguous unverifiable press releases, no press or industry reports or articles present on a Google search of the symbol, the horrific mention of “over priced” in relation to their stock by industry analyst, the ever present projections relating to income, and products and approvals forever to come and flower the bed of anxious shareholders and example that comes to mind is SPGN and there are hundreds of these chat room sweetheart that have tanked investor hopes and bounties.
This is an era where normal is defined otherwise. Flat is the new normal. Crash the stock will drop 15 to 25%, bang it will take its time (two to three months) to pop back up and establish a new base above the last. It will do this two to three times during the year. Volume and charts are of no consequence for these stocks, what goes in goes out the same way, in chunks of 10,000 in and 5000 out. Due diligence has changed. Go right to management or to the internet shop, buy (do not ask for free samples), use, touch, smell and witness the reality of the product, call the company or better address a note to the dedicated Email line for shareholders – ask where and how you can buy the products. Best still write the communication officer – not the IR or PR firm… the communication officer of the company. Beware a communication officer who turns to be the President, CEO or some other high ended “title” his or interest will be to promote shares not the business.
There are key differences in this recession and past ones. Small is best. By small I mean companies with a market capitalization of no less than 10 million, a float of no less than 4 times the number of shareholders, and total shares outstanding of no more than 75% of the currently authorized. Unless you like the high of loss and figure among the family of day traders betting on odds of 1080:1 you’ll insist on these rules as a precondition of your dollar’s transmission.
Remember debts, the ratio of current assets to current liabilities is crucial in these times of difficult money. Strike immediately any company with current liabilities superior to current assets.
Globalization continues to take a toll on US based companies, and this is reflecting in the job market, now even white-collar. Emerging markets have come out of the financial crisis richer and stronger. Hedge the political risk however, invest in that opportunity choosing the safer route a small (market cap between 10 and 50 million) company rated “Current Information” on the Pinks who is well positioned in emerging markets putting the focus of its investment and new business development there. Finding this is relatively easy, Google the press on the stock symbol, seek reports on activity in emerging small countries.
Note that these targeted countries have better educated, more-productive workers which are increasingly able to perform jobs higher up the food chain. Demand is just beginning and the prize will go to the product or brand that present, will aggressively indoctrinate the populace of these countries, jump starting and then keeping their interest.
I am an analyst in the Automobile After-Market Industry, and am conscious that
This article begs the question of what company do I know that meets all of the prerequisite criteria to merit your investment dollar. I can only answer in respect to my industry, and there I can only underline one such company, Falken Industries, a small ($ 30 million market capitalization) New Jersey based publicly traded company (symbol FLKI) whose award winning product conceptions are present globally and whose aggressive strategic leadership on establishing landing platforms in countries such as Egypt, Bulgaria, Russia etc is well known. One by one and unambiguously the company historically meets these investment criteria. The stock has recently been hit by heavy profit taking and is positioned to enter its first swing trade for 2010 – I’m buying, what more can I say?
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, February 13, 2010 01:56PM | Whereas the industry must play catch up, this company continues its uninterrupted motoring through world wide markets. OTC : FLKI
The blathering nabobs of negativism are ignoring the facts – the important facts.
Pessimism in the Automobile Industry, let alone the Automobile After-market industry has controlled emotions for all of 2009. The gurus on both sides are all holding to the theory that nothing will work. It can’t work. Well they’re wrong, and couldn’t be more wrong. While traders, notably the one’s who call themselves “day traders” (and I don’t mean the professionals of the trade) are a demonstrative case and classic example of throwing good money after bad, it has become a foregone conclusion that these individuals are in the game not for the gain, but for the high – how else can you define someone making repeated bets 1080 / 1 against him?
But there is an exception to all this gloom and doom. A small company very much in that industry, that has been making industry news since its inception in 1997.
This company has been plotting, fiddling and concentrating on the fundamentals of its business. Do you remember a time when publicly listed companies were more worried about their products than their quarterly filings? Well here is an example, this small company barely $ 30 million in market cap, has clobbered giants and established itself as a formidable global player with its product conceptions distributed world wide. Just Google FLKI you’ll see plenty to wonder about. “The company‘s success has been better than we expected, in fact than anyone in this industry expected” said Manuel Garcia, communications officer.
Skeptics are now focused on the why’s of the company’s relative unknown status with the investment banking industry. With more than 4000 shareholders; there never fail to be one to remind management that its disengagement with the promotion and public awareness of its stock is contributing to the grossly undervalued share price of barely 20 cents.
While not a day trader’s paradise, the company historically caters to swing traders and intermediate investors. Traditionally it provides 2 to 3 swing trades each year, last year 3, yielding 890%, 390%, and 40% - and now has seemingly bottomed on what will be its first swing trade for 2010. Project a price? Sure I will. I project a bounce over the next two to three months breaking its last established swing high of 19 cents and all the way through to 23 cents – that would complete the first swing trade for 2010.
The entrepreneurial management is fiercely independent and known for its seeming disinterest for pursuing let alone cooperating with its regular mega-bucks suitors. But with rumors tossing about prices of near $ 3 per share for how long? This is a company that has sacrificed nothing for the betterment of shareholders, delivering a 1900% return for those on board in the last 52 weeks.
This notwithstanding impatience remains. This is not a short term day trade. The fundamentals are fabulous – and I should know, as I have been an analyst in the Automobile After-Market Industry for the last 26 years. I have covered this little company since its birth in Trenton in 1997. Success is on the way for disheartened short term traders, even volume and pretty charts will come. This is strongly suggested by readily available data, and it all will happen sooner than one thinks because at last, the company has announced the creation of a public awareness cell within its communication department.
It’s too late for FLKI competitors to recapture market share lost to the company’s aggressive implantations. In fact it’s simply much cheaper to take the company out, buy it and buy it cheap on a deal which I would speculate can be done for between $ 2-3 per share. Less for a sizeable portion in fact, because there is no controlling block, and a large increasing float. It should be no major problem acquiring 10-15% at under or just above a dollar with much of it at present undervalued levels.
Fourth quarter figures are expected to be announced on February 15 +/- with major news thereafter so says the scuttlebutt in the industry. Reportedly a significant increase in sales will be announced. With the economy improving and the four steps of market recoveries rolling along, demand will pick up. This will have a major impact on FLKI, but little to show for its publicly traded behemoth competitors whose car care subsidiaries have little to offer to counter FLKI award winning product conceptions and therefore to the managerial requirements of quarterly reporting.
We’re in the fourth step right now, but whereas the industry must play catch up, FLKI continues its uninterrupted motoring through world wide markets.
The industry with rare exceptions such as the one depicted above has suffered this economic contraction with a darkened mood. Much of its pain self inflicted. Prognosticators have been spectacularly behind the curve. Oops, since the unforeseen debacles of 2008, existential angst has led forecasters to err on the side of bearishness. Combine ennui with a tendency to extrapolate existing trend lines in the future and gloom begets gloom.
Nothing of the sorts can be found in the executive offices of FLKI where management radiates a mysterious enthusiasm. Something is cooking, and a quick Google search of FLKI may suggest the cause for the absence of pessimism. For the press covering this company, it has become an article of faith that it will continue to lead the industry globally. With an admitted more than 160 products in the pipeline and enough awards to wall paper a warehouse it is not a difficult assumption. It follows that the company’s policies can spell only success and that with a capital S.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, February 8, 2010 03:43PM | Will they ever learn – chat rooms - Running with the herd chasing and paying dearly for rainbows!
There’s no gold at the end of those rainbows but the sweet and bitter adrenaline rush of talking big and talking day trade is well worth the pecuniary losses.
There are two regular presences found on the chat rooms; they are dominated by the “living room day traders” whose chances for a loss are stacked against them with the odds playing 1080/1, and they are sprinkled with chat room investors. The first bunch think the stock market is nuts and that its primary purpose is to give each and every one an opportunity to buy and sell quickly and often such, seemingly, as to ensure to a maximum; the American dream the constitutional right to lose one’s money – albeit the losers will say, but the sweet and bitter adrenaline rush of talking big and talking day trade is well worth the pecuniary losses.
Meandering through the ever changing recommendations – stocks are usually promoted artificially on a mere say so, and this is particularly notable on the day trade chat rooms – one can see the pattern and it’s never good. The stress and dialogue is never on the company but on volume, chart, cryptic press releases and micro engineered pop ups to sucker the gullible all of which for the small companies being “discussed” are and can be easily manipulated. It’s exciting and that’s the point for the 1080 losers to every one winner: it’s great to be the one though!
Try an intelligent communication or posting some fundamentally and verifiable useful reason to buy a stock and the promoters (the 1 in the 1080 present on the chat rooms) download an arsenal of diatribe, even going to having the innocent soul “banned” from the site for suggesting some reading before letting loose on one’s dollars. Chat rooms are a sucker’s game designed to attract the unknowing gluttons for punishment who rather than Google a company to see what the press or news releases say, rather than Email the company and get some veridical information, will rush to buy on an unknown promoter’s – often moderator’s - say so. The feeling of owning hundreds of thousands, even millions of shares (of a stock selling for a fraction of a penny) simply is worth the loss.
The second batch believes the economy is doomed and so the overwhelming consensus triggers a reflex reaction since the end is near; let’s make a killing, what the hell. The selection process is simple, any one of the fraction of a penny stocks promoted to the herd grazing in the chat rooms. Drunk with greed, driven by the high, the participants mask the depression and dejection driving their internal mechanisms; they buy for the sake of buying, knowing that the promoter will soon drop the bottom out. Look at SPGN for one of thousands of examples I have documented all of which were heavily promoted on the chat rooms.
Personally, a swing trader right of Attila the Hun, I like stocks that sit in sideway trades slowly building their fundamental business rather than their volume and charts. The first will ensure the other and the market is full of small (market capitalization of $25 million or less) companies that meet exacting rules to justify investment. Let’s take one as a mere example of hundreds – Falken Industries traded on the OTC under symbol FLKI.
As a general rule I stay away from companies (i) whose market capitalization is less than $ 10 million, (ii) whose press releases are not backed up by articles and general industry press, (iii) who are not rated “Current Information” on the Pink sheets, where most of these companies can be found together with Toyota and many other behemoths of international business, (iv) that do not provide swing trade opportunities, not less than one and not more than three annually. I like to see discussion about real deals at press conferences, not prospective deals. I like press releases that follow press conferences. I like to see products not pretty web sites neatly conceived by IR or promotion outfits. In fact the rule I usually find to apply in small cap situations is that success is generally inversely related to the size and complexity of the company’s corporate web page. I buy their products on their web store, touch them, feel them, use them and pepper their shareholder, info, or communications department with questions about products, products, and more products, a small company with less than 50 product conceptions and global distribution will not earn a right to my dollars. A small company that takes more than 48 hours to answer my Email will get no further attention either. FLKI passes all of these tests – and strangely enough, though it generated a juicy 1900% return for its investors in the last 52 weeks, it also generated 890%, 390% and 40% on three swing trades during 2009.
I am an analyst for the Automobile After-market industry. Consequently I admit to more familiarity (and a likely penchant) with companies such as FLKI who have a dominant global business in the industry. But the importance of the criteria is paramount and must be found, notably in a Pink Sheet stock, and this, whatever the industry you favor.
Of course one could simplify the advice for present chat room will be victims; as Keynes said, “the central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion.” Good companies not unlike FLKI are of no interest to the dominant promoters which monitor the activity on chat rooms and spin their stock on volume and charts. You can be certain that when the chat room crowd sounds off on where a stock is going, that sudden burst is the center of the herd as it thunders toward a cliff.
Manic speculator is too kind a word for the 1080 / 1. They are a credulous kind easily parted from their money. Volatility, volume, charts and madness are the order of the day. Chat room moderators, all too often promoters pushing their wares sit around salivating – banning from their sites any participant polluting the environment with logical and edifying information: there should be no sunshine cast upon the goings on of their chat room.
Some will argue that the 1080/1 should have to pay for their sins of greed and leverage. I have to concede that this is tempting at least for the knowing, but chat rooms would have nothing to exploit if they were populated by anyone other than those noteworthy for their distinct credulity.
After every crisis one can find predictions abound that the crisis will be followed by a rebound and then a long period of sideway trading. I don’t buy it. Sure this is backed by past performance, but if the past was a a real component of the future, I and all other industry analyst would be rich.
Prudently I consider alternatives. As a contrarian I run from obsessions – much like those regularly found on chat rooms.
As for now my best gem in the rough, fundamentally sound, globally present and with more than 160 product conceptions out and an equal number in the pipeline, trading sideways for a time, rising bit by bit, I sound off on FLKI. Of course I know that because as you guessed it I touched it, felt it, smelled it, and confirmed it all before I put the whole dollar it took to buy 5 shares at the current 20 cent price.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, February 6, 2010 12:20PM | LAGGARD The « IN » word in business development? OTC : FLKI
Implanting the Philippines? Surely you jest!
Well if there’s one thing to be said about a small (market capitalization under $ 30 million) publicly traded company that’s also an uncontested innovative global industry leader, is that it never gets boring.
Falken Industries (OTC : FLKI) has an incredible knack for finding the most unusual markets and polishing them to gem like qualities. It does equally well in introducing its product concepts years before its competitors appear or come to take the market seriously. Today the target of its attention is; the Philippines.
The world has been passing the Philippines by, unmistakably. Back in the 60’s, the country had the second-highest per capita income in Asia, lagging behind only Japan. But in the decade that followed, South Korea and Taiwan had surpassed it, ten years later it was Malaysia and Thailand that streaked by and China not to be outdone did it in the 90’s. Now, to the dismay of the Philippine privileged class, Indonesia has roared by to pass it.
I was back in the Philippines (my first visit there was while on R & R from Vietnam in 1967. I was deployed there with the USMC from 1966 to 1968) just last fall: very little had changed in Manila. I was back in the same hotel as 15 years before while covering an Asian Automobile After-Market convention. There are few options upon which I could target my interest, there were hardly any new companies to meet and the same handful of family businesses controlled or in the least dominated the market. Jeepney buses were about, triggering a nostalgic remembrance of years gone by. To place your thoughts in time, Jeepneys were around during WWII and remains even today the preferred mode of public transportation.
The point is made early to foreign travelers. From spanking clean ultra modern airports everywhere throughout Asia travelers to Manila must plow through a 1970’s style budget facility overwhelmed by excessive painstaking controls and a novel tax which must be paid in local currency to pass through the return gate; tax calculated to leave you with a few hundred useless pesos when boarding (no credit cards accepted – cash only and pesos at that). The obvious mechanism is apparent; the tax forces a remainder from the even number that cash withdrawal from the local machine will oblige – nice way to generate foreign currency reserves !
Some of us can remember the 50’s and the 60’s. The Philippines were then the star of the day – remember Burma and Sri Lanka – they were part of the club of three. Forget the last two who fell into disuse and disfavor long ago. The Philippines is now a horrific reminder of how fancy projections go askew and why playing catch up lacks the element of inevitability – and this even for the Philippines which is, hands down, a wealthy state in terms of human capital and natural resources… hum are we getting close to a motive for FLKI’s global strategic success in these countries ?
True, the Philippines are not the only country that has lost its way, history – current history is tormented with such instances. The Philippines have missed out on waves of investment led booms and the quantifiably few successes translate into no real progress for a nation whose population is increasing at the rate of 2% annually. The country is a laggard. One obvious cause is the highly subjective enforcement and interpretation of laws and regulations. Simply the rules can change on a whim midway through the game.
Little wonder then that there is so little foreign investment – the Philippines attracted barely 12% of the amount invested say in Indonesia. It takes guts, experience and a strong back to navigate these waters. But why then FLKI’s keen interest and decision to proceed: Auto sales have stagnated and remain at the level of the 90’s. This translates to a huge pool of used vehicles requiring repair, maintenance and car care! That coupled to FLKI’s extensive experience in developing these markets, makes for a huge opportunity.
Will the game change with the forthcoming election? Manuel Garcia, communications Officer at FLKI had this to say : “Six years ago Indonesia and the Philippines were on parity and while Indonesia is hardly the epitome of economic virtue, it has, due to a modicum of political stability, had relative success over the past few years. We believe the same will occur in the Philippines and that reforms will usher in the good times.”
Garcia added: “And yes, FLKI will have no competitors. Existing products are meaningfully inferior to FLKI’s product conceptions, appallingly expensive, and lacking in all manufacturer support.”
With 10 million Filipinos abroad – many of which apparently shareholders of FLKI - better prospects are very likely to bring some of that talent to return home enhancing prospect for well established brands (FLKI’s most successful product conception is the Clean Plus® branded lines) by adding to the economy’s underlying productivity – it thus seems timely and judicious for FLKI’s decision to undertake the establishment in the Philippines of a landing platform and production facility targeting the Asian markets.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Friday, February 5, 2010 08:53AM | Why Bulgaria - nothing new about this "Normal" OTC : FLKI
What's a small publicly traded company (OTC : FLKI) from New Jersey doing establishing landing platforms for its product conceptions in far remote places like Bulgaria ?
These are no fools rushing in.
With a market capitalization of under $ 30 million, a global success disproportionate to its size and product concepts sitting on the shelves of retailers and in the shops of professionals and assembly plants of factories almost every where, the company keeps the momentum going and that, without skipping a beat.
Following the announcement of a recently signed $ 6 million agreement for distribution in Egypt, the company is now underway to establish a landing platform for distribution of its conceptions in Bulgaria : why ?
Manuel Garcia, communications officer responding to puzzled looks at the Press Conference said : "Modern Bulgaria is a vibrant growing nation that like FLKI is looking to the future".
The country is also seeped in a rich cultural heritage. Since the fall of the USSR, Bulgaria has been undergoing dramatic economic changes, shifting to a free market economy, privatization, and has benefited from significant international investment. Bulgaria, a member of the European Union since 2007, has an industrialized open free market with a large advanced private sector and strategically state-owned enterprises. The recent global financial crisis has proven no crisis at all with the impact on Bulgaria far less than that suffered by its sister EU states. Unemployment is low and the country has a stable rate of economic growth. It's expected that Bulgaria will join the Euro-zone as early as this year. Bulgaria's economic climate is poised for further growth and investment.
More importantly, Eastern Europe and the ex-soviet states where its product conceptions are widely distributed put the area high on the priority agenda for FLKI. Bulgaria has long been an important stabilizing factor in Eastern Europe's economic and political climate. At a crossroad, between major FLKI markets, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, Bulgaria holds a strategic geographic location. Bulgaria strategic geographical location between the Black Sea and bordered by Turkey, Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Romania holds a significant role for trade of FLKI product concepts in the region.
Bulgaria has a long history of foreign rule, and rich cultural fusion which has formed a cultural tapestry that can be seen in Bulgaria's culture, language and religion. Its rich history has left a significant historical legacy, spectacular architecture and beautiful cultural works.
Modern day Bulgaria keeps alive its ancient traditions while embracing the future as it grows into a modern state. The country has a well-developed energy sector which places it in a significant role throughout the Balkans where FLKI professional and industrial products are widely respected.
Bulgarians are enjoying an increased prosperity and the higher level of disposable income has created a high demand for high performance convenience oriented products such as those conceived by FLKI.
The Clean Plus® Product Group who will establish the landing platform has a growing relationship with Bulgarian consumers and is confident that its strategy for Eastern European markets will continue to prosper. The Product Group has a significant presence and continues to cut major inroads into Eastern Europe as it concludes numerous distribution arrangements in Turkey, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Moldova, Russia and Poland.
Bulgaria is the logical next step to complete coverage of the Baltic area. These are no fools rushing in.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:52AM | Set For the Title - Again OTC : FLKI
Yes, this company is is likely to again foil the industries toils and win back-to-back successes?
Fate still has a chance to play cruel tricks to the enthusiastic bunch of researchers, engineers and chemists making up the FLKI research and development teams manning the controls where award winning product conceptions take shape, but barring her unwelcome intervention, it seems likely that FLKI will claim this year's title for European Product Innovation for its "Brilliance" line of professional car care, body shop and detailing products targeting the likes of Fortune 500 giants 3M and Dupont. The products, launched at the Equip'Auto Trade Show in October of last year are rolling off the production line by the truck load and are expected by industry gurus to generate well in excess of $ 12 million in sales.
With 160 products in daily production and a like amount in the pipeline FLKI has set itself for an impressive 2010, and the purveyors of its major brand conception, Clean Plus® will undoubtedly lift the year's winning cup.
That would be a noteworthy achievement under any circumstances, but is all the more remarkable because FLKI is a small ($ 25 million market capitalization - traded on the OTC under symbol FLKI) battling the financial Goliaths of the industry in all its domains. Ask FLKI's communication officer Manuel Garcia to explain how a debt free modestly funded outfit like FLKI can successfully and regularly take on the might of big-budget operations and the answers can vary, yet they have a common thread. The self-effacing answer from Garcia is that the research and development is the easy part. "Everyone on the FLKI product conception team is really passionate about their work and puts in far more time than they really should," he says. "Having the right people - a truly dedicated team where it's more about trying to get the results than lining pockets - has helped FLKI pick up points and repeated successes, you have to have the right people behind you or it doesn't matter how much money you've got." He added.
A quick comment is in order on the point of lining pockets. FLKI shareholders - some 4000+ strong - seem to be doing a nice job of that. With a 52 week return of 1900% for the long term holders and 890%, 390% and 40% in three swing trades last year, the company made # 1 on CNN's List of Best Performing Stocks for 2009.
But the technical crowd in the investment banking industry also agrees that this year is a positive mover for this stock as well, just to take one report from the gurus at ALLOTCBB "From the relationship between price and moving averages; we can see that: this stock is BULLISH in short-term; and NEUTRAL in mid-long term" and "(t)he narrow width of the bands suggests low volatility as compared to FLKI.OB's normal range. This is often a sign that a stock may be about to initiate a new trend."
FLKI has long been known for having the best engineers on the grid. This is perhaps because from personal observation, this global company really does operate like one big family. Their guys going from the seed of idea to the distribution of the finished product are much focused and have an incredible eye for the sort of detail that breeds reliability and their experience in consumer, professional and industrial products has meant that they have not made the silly mistakes that regularly cost their competitors, sales, positioning and market share.
Expanding the feeling of family beyond the company to its global network of landing platforms and distributors has also helped. Because of its size FLKI limits the amount of outside help upon which it relies. It is a model of vertical integration and a master at establishing partnerships making it a hands down industry leader in procurement and purchasing for example - just Google FLKI.
Maintaining good relationships is facilitated by FLKI's devotion to the concerns of the global distributors who promote its product conceptions. It innovates and struggles to prevent pass-along increases in prices that are nothing but the consequence of inefficiency or a callous disregard for the difficulties faced by resellers. The extraordinary success of one, the Clean Plus® Product Group is exemplary; the group has not raised prices to its distributors and retailers since 2001 and has suffered not the slightest drop in net operating margins.
"Being friendly with people, year in year out is the simplest thing we can do," said Garcia. FLKI knows from experience not to skimp on quality so that each product concept is a major challenge, because with a criterion of quality no lesser than the best of its competitors and prices not more than 25% less it takes a well oiled machine to roll these out. And this machine can be revved up to 10.000 RPM without the slightest damage. FLKI technical personnel all know the value of checking and then rechecking every component of a product's composition. What is crucially important is that product conceptions always make it to the end of the race! Reliability of performance, price and availability has been incredible for this industry player, with worldwide statistics for perfect delivery exceeding 98.6%. Incredible reliability certainly explains the worldwide leadership position of FLKI product conceptions.
And luck? Well admittedly even with all the foregoing it's not in the bag. But FLKI is known to make its own luck. They drive their entire effort to stay out of trouble, focused and indoctrinated with the idiom that to win you have to finish.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:55AM | Hey, Do You Smell The Coffee ? OTC : FLKI
What's with the 100%, 200% or even 300% projected gains you're hearing about?
This always happens. I cover a small company ($ 25 million market Capitalization) like Falken Industries traded on the OTC under symbol FLKI whO fires up on a slow pace to heaven this past year yielding a 1900% increase for its investors in 52 weeks - giving up not a sous and people talk like I have some kind of crystal ball. Absolutely not.
To respond. I believe that the company is likely to top 600% this year from its present laughable and seriously post crisis undervalued position of 20 cents. That would bring it to $ 1.20 with its next resistance level at $ 1.23.
Simply, FLKI has consistently made positive gains from $0.01 to more that $0.20 oscillating to the delight of traders, three times for the year handing them the healthy bounty of 890% on the first swing, 390% on the second and 40% on the third. At .20 cents it closed 1900% higher than its 52 week low so that even passive investors were well rewarded - if you consider 1900% adequate of course.
Let's ignore the credible speculations of an acquisition at and around $ 3-4 per share which are permeating the mills.
FLKI, is going places. This is no ordinary company that just appeared out of nowhere and is beta-testing a product for the benefit of chat room traders. With more than 160 award winning products in production covering the spheres of consumer, professional and industrial segments, it counts fortune 500's and numerous major retailers on a global basis as users and or resellers of its award winning product conceptions.
FLKI has a 13-year history of bringing to market a full suite of innovative, high performance and value products - just Google FLKI you'll get the idea. Its product lines address the needs of consumers, businesses, financiers, scientist, engineers, militaries, aerospace, civil defense and automotive and vehicular after-care users.
These are the kind of products that turn otherwise mundane functions into moving, real time, high performance effective results. Some of these products are light years ahead of anything I've seen in the industry - and it shows, FLKI is turning the industry on its ear.
What does the industry see in FLKI? A better way to do business and to jump ahead of the competition. FLKI is a trend setter by excellence, it resourceful and savvy buyers pay 30% less than its colossal competitors, it sources even prime raw materials, it hedges market fluctuations to the fine tuning of a high tech banking institution (I know the analogy may not be timely !); but best of all, it conceives and designs products that are the envy of its industrial competitors and the pleasure of the consumer.
With a global network of more than 380 locations in 53 countries and territories pushing its product conceptions, it's no wonder that it is fueling interest of the industry giants.
When and if the investment banking community ever wakes up on this one it's simply going to be too late. While FLKI's ferociously independent management is unlikely to let go to progressively better offers with open arms, there is no blocking majority and with over 4000 shareholders and prices rumored to approach $ 3-4 per share, greed and shareholder interest has to eventually overcome the creative blood and independence that made the company the global leader that it is.
Well let's pay no mind and keep riding the slow train to success. 1900% last year wasn't simply so bad and if they send us our severance at $ 3-4 a share as expected, well I guess I'll go quietly...
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:37AM | I'm sitting back watching that time when everyone will rush OTC:FLKI
The market is not happy, it kicked and moaned most of the time as the news went from bad to worse and people decided to feed up a nasty correction. Everyone is moving to solve the issues which ail the world and this from both sides of our planet. Where's the sensible approach?
Lucky for all, I am neither a political analyst nor a guru of any sort preaching one thing or another. I am but a humble industry analyst and cover the most mundane of industries, the Automobile After-Market Industry; but mundane it is no longer. There's money to be made here, and the big one's are handing out both their money and market share to the small industry gems not unlike Falken Industries Ltd, a small company (market cap $ 25 million), brain child of a young Norwegian MBA and traded under symbol FLKI.
Very prudently, the company has been making its moves, it launched in 1997, and since its award winning product conceptions have lined the walls of award winners and the shelves of retailers and users globally. The company is responsible for more than 160 products currently in production. Through the thick and the thin this company moves early and has become an industry model at cost controls and in stemming the flow of its liquidities. Free of debt, it nurtures its business and as it names implies, from high beyond, it pinpoints a market and sweeps upon its unsuspecting prey. All too often, the hard won, century old markets of complacent monster sized competitors - but only a little bit will do you for this flexible instrument of creativity.
We don't have year ends yet of course but we do have an Internet full of useful information. Just Google "FLKI" (without the quotes) and read on. Management, which tends to be right of Attila the Hun in my humble view, suggest that preliminaries might indicate that sales accelerated 1.9 percent for the month of December - a normally dismal period for that portion of its business dealing with auto-care products, this from 0.6 percent the previous month. My own bet is that sales climbed 10.7 percent in the fourth quarter.
For the first time since 1997, FLKI doesn't deny acquisition or merger invitations or interest. It's incredibly creative management doesn't seem to take lightly its fall into major corporate America but the scuttlebutt suggest that at the $3 or $4 a share people are talking, the company is a done deal. Moreover there does not appear to be a controlling block so that astute competitors could quietly finesses at least positions of up to 4.9% (about 392,000 shares - a whopping $ 80,000 at these prices) before they sprang. The stock a basic unknown to the trading community is selling at 20 cents.
Let's no forget that FLKI sits with the technology, skill, and purchasing knowhow to tackle a 9.5 billion dollar industrial segment.
As I see it, the market's inaction, unwitting ignorance of this opportunity can't last. It is possible because the hapless competitors circling have no possible interest in putting a light on it, and the investment community are too busy licking their wounds or for the smaller part wasting their time on chat rooms. Hapless I say about the competition, because given FLKI's commanding global lead in product conceptions and branding, its is outrageously cheaper for them to buy the company than to try to take back the market share they have lost, let alone acquire FLKI's or that of its collaborators.
To me, the market's reaction is pretty entertaining - I'm sitting back watching that time when everyone will rush - the herd is on its way paying dollars for what they could have acquired for pennies today. I'm similarly amused from my reading of chat room commentary crafted by the know it alls who claim all the wrong thing as a prerequisite to a buy. Result a 1080:1 loss ratio. But say they, it's the adrenaline rush that counts.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards. | | | | JustForBucks | Thursday, January 21, 2010 01:51AM | An Industry as irrational as ever OTC:FLKI
This crisis hit the Automobile After-Market industry as many other crisis have by the busting of arrogance grown of inertia, a lack of imagination, care and creativity. This was caused by the now notorious slackening of entrepreneurial policies and drive as corporate colossus after another acquired the few, the all, of the active players of the time, leading to a longstanding disdain for new, active, performing and innovative products and the economic discipline that tight entrepreneurial budgets compel.
The alarms were there as far back as 1997, when a small company called Falken Industries launched its product conceptions against its gigantic competitors, throwing the industry on its knees. Yet, the all knowing of the day, unimpressed by this newcomer stuck to their policies of targeting the 8% market of automobile enthusiasts, ignoring the 92%, and largest amongst these; women.
Women in 1997 owned 50% of all cars on the road in most western countries. Women, while few in the enthusiast category, were prominent in the care of their automobiles which for the most part they considered an extension of their homes. Women in 1997 had no products in car-care addressed to their particular needs; quick, painless, efficient and effective car maintenance. That is, until 1997 when this then tiny little company which to this day remains a small company ($ 25 million in market capitalization) launched the conception that would become the Clean Plus® Product Group, a global industry leader in consumer, professional and industrial chemicals and cleaning and maintenance products.
Meanwhile, its competitors sank deeper and deeper in the red. Behind this inaction lay the belief that the policies and few players that had sustained this market could continue to exist with a callous disregard for the wants and needs of the consumer. And hence, the less they did the better. For a long period this held, the market remained in the hand of a half a dozen companies all individually large enough to intimidate any would be entrepreneur. The quick buck of other industries flagged their entrepreneurial interest away from the automobile after-market in all events.
It's too late now. The cost of playing catch up in global markets dominated by Clean Plus® and other FLKI product conceptions would far exceed the cost of acquiring this gem, publicly traded under symbol FLKI. Predictably overtures have occurred attempting to motivate the management of FLKI to abandon for the sake of the buck, albeit a lot of them, their fiercely valued creative independence. Solicited routinely, the time will come when the interest of its 4000+ shareholders will prevail, and this unique gem of the industry will be swallowed by the mighty giants and once again the industry will be dominated by the half a dozen few. This hypothesis is all the more realistic when you consider that the investment banking industry has yet to focus on this up and coming opportunity, licking their wounds, and laying their hyperbole on the new issues that fill their coffers not unusually at the expense of the takers. FLKI is a virtual unknown outside of the industry which keeps its stock down to a fraction of its value. An acquisition would likely bring $ 3 to $ 4 per share based on history for this industry, yet the stock trades today at .195 cents - go figure. Lastly and very suggestive of preparation underway, the company recently announced in a recent press release the appointment of a giant of the acquisition and merger field to its Board of Directors.
Meanwhile, FLKI management seems well focused on development of its conceptions in the emerging nations (BRIC) and is taking to tightening its hold on the European markets where markets are lolling in their splendid berths, enjoying the declining dollar and British pound whose fall enhances the value of the euro, the currency of choice for FLKI.
So will the industry, and notably this formidable innovator end in an anti-climax? I don't think so. The crisis hit an industry that was already in the throes of change. But, where that process will lead and whether it will be enough to awaken the entrepreneurial drive that fuels consumer demand remains open to question.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, January 18, 2010 03:40AM | FALKEN Brings Much Needed Relief to Victims of the Haiti Earthquake OTC : FLKI
This company has a heart disproportionate to its size ! Its humanitarian surface exceeds that of its colossal competitors, but then so does everything it does. An exceptional company it gives spontaneously, quantities that make a difference and to all areas of our small planet.
In the steps of Huricane Katrina, the disaster in Thailand, the Oil Spill Control effort in Southern Norway, the Floods of the Philippines and now the disaster in Haiti, Falken is again hand in hand with the relief and medical assistance teams, cooperating with military and civil defense units and providing essential degreasing, cleansing and disinfectant materials.
Falken Industries Ltd (FLKI) in a telephone interview on Friday, confirmed that it would underwrite a donation of 4320 buckets of its award winning 800 hand wipe product each bucket containing SN10® its fastest acting, most effective and safest anti-microbial known in the industry in an effort to quickly assist relief and medical workers in the recent Haitian disaster and tragedy.
The value at cost of the donation is € 86,400 or $ 100,000.
FLKI's proprietary platform technology has proven effective in surface, water, and airborne applications and recently in military and civil defense. The technology can neutralize harmful environmental contaminants, toxins, and dangerous microorganisms. The obvious of which are spores, mold, fungi, bacteria, and viruses, features essential to the disaster relief operations now being conducted.
Product conceptions based on the company's proprietary SN10© platform, disinfect, decontaminate, and sterilize. The company believes this class of products has important applications for Healthcare Facilities, Consumers / Household use, Industrial Applications, as well as the proven utilization for Military / Homeland Security.
The product, part of the Clean Plus® collection originally conceived by FLKI is widely available globally through a network of more than 380 landing plaforms known as Super Distributors. This network enhances the speed at which these important components of emergency relief can be dispatched on site.
Falken Communication Officer Manuel Garcia stated, "Falken's heart goes out to the victims and families of this disaster, and this latest gesture is consistent with FLKI's policy to bring immediate solutions to those in need."
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
Distributors interested in learning more about the Clean Plus© Product Group's capabilities and opportunities should visit www.cleanplus.com.
| | | | JustForBucks | Sunday, January 17, 2010 04:52AM | Through natural selection, the best one survives OTC : FLKI
The industry is better off embracing entrepreneurial complexities rather than shoehorn another faulty but comprehensive paradigm.
It was not that long ago that the behemoths of my industry, the Automobile After-Market were considered to be all-knowing. Before the crisis, the prevailing dogma in this world of giants was to follow each other, to not rock the boat, and that a label and design change “will do ya”. These notions once seemed self-evident to industrialist and their investors.
Well these industry giants have enjoyed exalted status for decades, or at least they did until the creation of Falken Industries Ltd, a small (market capitalization about $20,000,000) traded on the OTC, under symbol FLKI. This company, the brain child of a then 26 year old Norwegian woman toting her recently printed MBA from a top European school, quickly recognized the flaws of such rigid thinking and launched in 1997 a revolutionary concept targeting the waste of her giant competitors, which has today become a global leader, expanding the market and taking a progressively more important morsel of the competition’s market share.
The waste was what is today the singularly major market of FLKI; women. Today 57% of all sales of FLKI product conceptions, best known under the Clean Plus® brand, are women.
“The industry had gone astray, ignoring 92% of the market to concentrate on the world of the macho enthusiast, itself only 8%, leaving the balance for the taking; so that’s what we did” said Manuel Garcia, communications Officer at FLKI. Yet the industry continues to vigorously defend their creed very much as an alcoholic denies he has a problem.
Is it worth the thought? For these giants, the auto-care business handled by some far strewn subsidiary somewhere on the organizational chart represents a microbes’ portion of their business. This small incidence in their business in all cases a small fraction of 1% of sales, doesn’t merit the time of senior management or the impact that a capital injection might support. And so, big as they might be, they are, as evident, subject to assault by companies a fraction of their size.
FLKI management to their credit saw the trouble coming. Never falling prey to the herd mentality or to the scattershot findings of big shot industry gurus with no principles to show how to apply their convictions in the real world. It continued its quest for a different way to run an Automobile After-Market business targeting a market that no one addressed or wanted; women.
Little by little FLKI pocked holes in the prevailing theory. It was first to developed and grow a line of auto-care wipes, and its then revolutionary and currently amazing system for procurement ensured rising margins in a time of declining demand guaranteeing its dominance in difficult markets, this all while its competitors were raising prices, abandoning marginal markets, and losing market share. “We built our company on an understanding that the industry giants simply don’t know” added Garcia. The secret seems to lie in FLKI’s ability to study and evaluate markets. To catalog segments and activities and chart their fortunes over time, to categorize the market’s many players. That means identifying the various participants in any given market, and learning what kind of strategy is popular at a particular moment in time. “What is their biomass? How are they going to interact with each other? How are they going to interact with each other? Incredible as it may seem giants as they may be, FLKI competitors do not collect this kind of information. Yet, FLKI researchers argue that consumers adapt and will vary depending on their psychology at any given moment. Over time, tracking a wide variety of settings, FLKI is able to develop an extraordinarily good sense of how the consumer market will behave and target those conclusions with product development that hits the epicenter of growth in the industry.
While it cannot be determined if FLKI’s substantial global lead over its much larger competitors can continue, the company has already done what no one else has dared to do – propose a successor to the vaunted, but flawed industry dogma. It is clear however that the greatest lesson painted by the extraordinary success of this near unknown company (though its stock’s behavior seems to suggest that will change quickly) is that the industry should forego grand unified models for entrepreneurial and unpredictable ones, which of course is an incongruous fit into the Corporate America environment into which these behemoth subsidiaries are compelled to operate. Consequently it is a reasonable bet that FLKI will continue its global operations devoid of real and meaningful competition until that day when it too, driven eventually by the greed of a substantial offer succumbs and falls prey to the acquisition of a behemoth – management and shareholders crying for the loss of their independence all the way to the bank.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:27AM | That market, the woman and her car. OTC: FLKI
It was not that long ago that the behemoths of my industry, the Automobile After-Market, led every one to believe that they were all-knowing. That is of course, like the crisis for the financial markets, the car care industry was rocketed to different pastures by a small company (about $ 20-25 million in market cap) currently traded on the over-the-counter markets under symbol FLKI. This company struck in late 1997 and has continued its aggressive product conceptions, designs and target objectives to become a global brand and product conception leader.
In 1997 a then 26 year Norwegian woman debarked packing her recently earned MBA from a top European School. FLKI's President and founder had won the seed capital for her brain child idea whom she posited as inevitably qualified to take a huge market heretofore ignored. To the land of the free, the land of opportunity she headed.
The market she targeted; the woman and her car.
This was 1997, and the car care industry was, according to the prevailing dogma of the day a man's business. The industry was uniquely dedicated to the one that would rather spend the weekend in the garage than at home with his family: the so-called car enthusiast. Devoted to his car, egotistic to a fault, this consumer was easily manipulated into a craving to pay three times the price to give his car nothing but the best - he got it, a label, a macho design and often a decent product too if you ignored the exorbitant price.
One would have thought that large companies, who enjoyed exalted status for decades before, would have understood that an industry catering to only 8% of the global market is simply not rational. Well they didn't, they left a 92% gap open big enough to pass a tank. And pass the FLKI crew did. In the decade that has followed FLKI has garnered awards, renowned brand and reputation for performance and quality, management perseverance, and better products at one third the price all of which quickly put FLKI in the elite team of global players.
Google FLKI and you'll wonder why the company is so unknown by the investment community. "We prefer it that way - the focus stays on our shareholder interest rather than short term reporting exigencies" said Manuel Garcia, Communications Officer.
There's much to say for Garcia's confidence even from the perspective of an investor and there are near 4000 of them (officially there are approximately 3,600 shareholders). A look at the last 52 weeks for the stock reveals a rise in the stock value of 1900%. No chart for day traders granted, but a pattern of two to three rounds of favorable trading activity is evident each year since 2006. The first in 2009 gave traders 890%, the second 390% and the third 40%. For my money, be it the little that there is, those kind of returns without the investment community's imprimatur have the merit of being real.
This kind of rigid thinking and notions remains. The industry still vigorously defends their continuing and persistent century old strategy, modernizing by copying all too often conceptions designed by competing engineers, or revamping entire lines with a quick brush of label design.
Makes you think doesn't it. The race between the hare and the turtle comes to mind. FLKI's young and dynamic President and her staff in product development are plotting along at just my speed. Slow but sure, look at all those people in the dust.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Sunday, January 10, 2010 02:12PM | Look under the doomsayers – opportunity abounds, here’s one OTC:FLKI
Sometimes you have to wonder. As an analyst for the Automobile After-Market, I am compelled to take note of industry news. And so, the FLKI Press Release pointedly released to the public after the market close on Friday was on my desk seconds after its release (Major Board Appointment Promises Substantial Momentum in FLKI Growth ). The release begs the question: Why would an albeit small company (market capitalization barely $ 20 million at Friday’s closing price) whose fundamentals leave no room for criticism in the opinion of most analyst including yours truly await market close before releasing outstanding good news? It’s come to that in these days of mass confusion. The gems in the market, good companies, seem embarrassed or afraid of releasing good news - their share price may pop up too fast they fear and with it expectations for short term objectives anathema to progress for a fundamentally based entrepreneurial business.
Take the only release this past Friday concerning my industry. There President and founder Helle Madso of Falken Industries – best known for the company’s Clean Plus® product conceptions, seems almost embarrassed that a mega buck master financier and industrialist would be willing to give of his time and expertise to her company, a company she says has yet to be discovered by the investment banking community. Well Ms Madso, let’s leave well enough alone and don’t worry about the investment bankers!
In the 52 weeks just past with its stock suffering the merciless battering of the “crisis”, the company that no one seems to know managed to provide a return of 1900% for shareholders of record, a family which currently counts up to nearly 4000 strong. Granted the company will not prove of interest for the day trader since its history of volatility demonstrates two or three major swings in the market each year with each swing finishing on a higher close. The first of these swings provided short term investors with an 890% increase – putting the company first on CNN’s list of best companies - before crashing down from profit takers to establish a significant bottom at .19 cents. The second of these swings in 2009 made a profit for short term traders of 390% and the third swing of the year returned a late trade profit in early January of 40%.
Now while there is no joy for the typical non-pro day trader if he cannot spend his life on chat boards enriching the pockets of brokerage firms on statistic showing losers toping winners by a healthy 1080 : 1, it seems to me that a “trader” on a rotation of three pulling down profits of 890%, 390% and 40% ought to be very happy. But what about the investor, the guy or girl that will put their chips out and check on it in a year or so, well at least on this unknown company, if history repeats itself in the forthcoming year, they’ll have to settle for a miserly 1900%.
FLKI’s new director will assuredly facilitate the passage of this entrepreneurial company to that of a major corporation. It is also possible, and likely that this appointment is consistent with press releases past where the company announced a new policy of growth by acquisition. Big guns like this one don’t come on board a company of this size without purpose or motive.
Unfortunately the market has so set itself that the better companies tell us nothing good except in passing at the close of a Friday, leaving the weekend to bury the news in a flutter of prospective “good news” announcements timed to surface at the opening of the markets to feed the appetite of day traders for fractional penny stocks. This leaves us in a quandary. Has the market turned entirely contrarian? Do we – should we - read opening market good news as fodder for the unwary? The feeling seems to weigh in favor of the latter. Good companies, the small companies with a real business, real potential, and steady solid upward motion with or without a rotation styled to spike investor interest at the expense of day traders, seem to be establishing a pattern in press releases favoring an effort designed at satisfying the disclosure requirements and crossing their fingers that the herd will not, on the news, stampede its stock. Timing is now a component of press release consideration.
Is that any way to run a business?
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Saturday, January 2, 2010 10:20AM |
A DESIGN REVOLUTION OTC:FLKI
In the days when printing was also a matter of hot metal, compositors - the people who set type - held over groups of familiar, indeed over-used, expressions in what was known as a cliché. Bad journalism still depends on them. But one cliché no-one ever thought they would need is the FLKI Design Revolution. Yet, we have one now on a road near you.
The back-story is fascinating, revealing the strange behavior patterns that animated and continues to animate other members of the industry. Sigmund Freud thought there was a natural instinct to incest, hence his Oedipus complex. An Ozark redneck agreed: surprised to find his new wife a virgin he returned her, saying, “if she ain’t good enough for her kin folks, she ain’t good enough for me.”
The new recently announced Brilliance product collection in the Clean Plus® “Pro” line of FLKI’s conceptions is a product of some surprising relationships.
Deep breath.
The CEO and founder, a Norwegian young woman who in 1997 was 26 years of age and well armed for business with a top European MBA completed her studies in graphic design. It wasn’t long before she concluded that her countrymen did not have what it takes to make a great product and decided to do her thing in a corporate design from the land of the free - Falken Industries was thus born. Today, the Chief Product Development Engineer is an award winning French-born man then 38 years of age who studied engineering of course, but then went on with Arts and Design. It was 1997 the coming of an age missed by all of us others in the industry. It was also the year I began, as an analyst in the industry, to cover this amazing company.
The design boss is a young American from Texas, standing 6’4” and towering over his European staff, the creative team. A graduate of a prestigious Arts and Designs institution in New York, he worked his way through the school of hard knocks, attacking the manfully, loyally if totally wrong historically influenced designs of the established industry to achieve world wide prominence in the industry for his work on FLKI product conceptions.
“The thing about FLKI product conceptions is that they have the winning looks that weapons have” said Manuel Garcia, Communications Officer. Notions of FLKI designs sometime incongruously turn up on the ineffably feeble competition in products that have no similarities whatsoever to weaponry in looks or performance. Working out of an advanced studio the creative team labors on designs for various conceptions which at the prototype level must meet competition with performance not less than any competitor existing but at a 25% lesser cost to the consumer. “Price and Performance are important contributions to a products success, but it’s on the drawing board of design that the weaponry takes shape. It’s just brilliant” added Garcia.
There are no established clichés with this design team and there will be nothing to be lost by extreme forms of design bravery. The prevailing atmosphere is the seductive prospect of working on an empty canvas with each product conceptions released from the hearth of the FLKI research and development center.
Is this the FLKI Design Revolution? Definitely maybe, but it’s only fair to warn those of its competitors still sitting on the thought of pulling forward traditional well nurtured past designs that the ancient Greeks knew that incest often leads to tragedy.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Monday, December 21, 2009 07:48AM | Left turn to purgatory OTC:FLKI
You know the problem with society today? We're far too happy and contented. Not that I'm pushing sickness and disease to make the world a more pleasant place to live, but a sense of proportion wouldn't go amiss.
Having beaten off (mostly) the hunger, cold and deadly infections that have spoiled the fund for several millennia we're now convinced that full fat milk is a global killer. Cultural paranoia suggests that exposing my children to sunlight without 100% total screen caked upon them will have a fatal effect in the long run; and letting them ride a bike without a helmet - well I should expect social services at the door !
On the road cars are safer then they have ever been. They're packed with safety, airbags compressed in cubbyholes, and warnings are everywhere in the road system telling of your entry into a crumble zone. Road maintenance makes you feel like your car is going to fall apart when you get out and slam the door. Car care maintenance has become a regular obligation save for those that are fortunate enough to exchange a chemical products budget for that of a new car payment.
The law is there for us too. Forget the issues of minors, licenses etc. It's now illegal to eat while driving. This is now a dangerous offence. Now I see others worry still more. Those that would be police in my part of the world have stricken the heart of car enthusiasts; you're now an offender if you overtake a car. I'm not talking about tire-squealing charges in the face of oncoming traffic - I'm talking about legitimate, smooth maneuvers on empty roads. Nowadays, they all get the same reaction - when I look in the mirror after passing someone, I see shocked faces, flashing headlights and hand gestures. I need a sign in the back window next to the Clean Plus® racing stripes that says "What"?
Some cars are worse than others. I recently drove Falken Industries'roadster at a corporate event for distributors and industry press - that was okay because people can't wait to let you by, just to have a closer look. But this 1959 Triumph TR3 A with its loaded history of roadster rallies and Le Mans and other speed and endurance markings is an open invitation for undisguised hatred on the road. We all know FLKI and its best known product conceptions under the Clean Plus® brand has a reputation already for its leadership in the industry, but the company has taken this to new heights sponsoring and participating in world wide sports racing events. Sharp, responsive and devastatingly quick like their corporate strategies, the FLKI half a century old roadster exclusively maintained with Clean Plus® products looks sparkling new as it skips down a line of traffic like a pebble across a pond, each move made in utter control and confidence by the driver; me. Every enthusiast, child and woman looks upon the car in awe. Kids waive, drivers give the thumbs up.
But all this doesn't go well with all. Dark and mysterious bureaucrats in government redesign roads to deliberately reduce visibility and crate adverse cambers, all to cause accidents and so slow people down. This dystopian vision is of a future where we all stop thinking for ourselves and follow each other moronically like sheep. Now more than ever, we follow each other on autopilot in a 50 mph mobile queue, absorbed in some mindless local radio and totally oblivious to the machinery beneath us. In an environment like this overtaking someone is like walking into a stranger's house and switching TV channels while they're in the middle of watching their favorite soap. In a second they switch mode from dribbling imbecile to affronted civic leader. "How dare you overtake me"?
People even close up the gap, so you can't squeeze in front of them, happier to see you pulverized in a head-on collision than get away with such antisocial behavior as passing them by.
This is because while they have no intention of passing, you're not allowed either; when you overtake, you're breaking rank, rocking the boat; you're dropping your socially numbing drugs and starting to feel real emotions. It's not allowed. An enthusiast just wants to drive his car, not drift in a fog, but driving with your brain engaged is "dangerous".
So I think my conclusion is, we're all doomed and we might as well blow our brains out now and be done with it. But in the meantime remember to show your real humanity, that spark of car and independence, by not following the herd. Obviously I'm not suggesting you drive fast and overtake things, because that would be dangerous and irresponsible but you could do as I do, when I want to stand up for myself.
I dig out my overalls, grab my Clean Plus® high ended tool and product kit, polish and detail the car, drink full fat milk, buy another thousand shares of FLKI and then ride my bike around the park without a helmet.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Friday, December 18, 2009 08:50AM | A better way to do business OTC:FLKI
Are you one of those masochistic fractional penny day traders that elucidates on chat boards? Then as playing 1080:1 odds against myself is not my game what follows, a thought on a good sound fundamentals trading opportunity, is not likely to be of much interest to you; you might actually make some money! Instead, you'll probably prefer the excitement and the thrill of buying millions of most likely worthless shares betting on the buy of the next credulous victim of the hype of some promoter or his cousin the pumper to up the bargain by .0002 on manipulated charts or volumes. It works 1 time in 1080, but it provides the rush of adrenaline that only high risk of and actual losses can provide.
Time and again, I am asked; why buy this stock? As an analyst for the Automobile After-Market I am told to cover this or that corporation. I write reports and findings and give my opinion. As to which stock someone should buy I cannot opine. What I can do however is level the playing field by providing my opinion based on the conclusions I have reached in the course of my journalistic undertakings.
I'm talking about my favorite stock for 2011, Falken Industries trading on the OTC under symbol FLKI. The stock has found a hard and confirmed bottom in the .18 to .19 cents level and has been trading sideways since. This is seasonal and will not last very long. Simply said, the stock at these levels is an absolute steal; in my opinion of course.
People ask me all the time so here it goes : Do I see 100%, 200% or even 300% gains for FLKI? Absolutely not. We're talking 700% potential WITHIN A YEAR and that's .15 cents a share less than its closest level of resistance at $ 1.23.
I've followed this company since 1997. FLKI is going places. This is no ordinary small-cap (market capitalization at the moment is $ 15 million) that just appeared out of nowhere and is beta-testing a product.
Countries, States, Cities and multinationals are just some of the bigwigs using FLKI product conceptions. Consumers are in the hundreds of thousands.
FLKI has a 12-year history of bringing to market a full suite of innovative chemical and wipe products and innovations, the best conception of which are known under the Clean Plus® brand. The company is green and unique in its mix of entirely bio-degradable conceptions. It has years of advance over its competitors and the product mix and pipeline to sustain those advances for years to come.
FLKI also provides industry-leading, interactive product conceptions and solutions that help business, healthcare; science, vehicular care, janitorial and engineering users gain critical advantages from all sorts of uniquely performing products.
These are the kinds of products that take dull and boring work and turn it around into moving, real time, immediate and efficient performance. They allow users to complete mundane tasks rapidly with performance that's light years ahead of anything I've seen.
What do multi national clients, major chain stores, convenience stores and industrial concerns get from these products that keep them loyal to FLKI?
Well, certainly a better way to do business, and a definite and meaningful jump ahead of their competition. FLKI has for years won industry awards for innovation and recognition for its leading price / performance / rotations.
The press is fabulous and the professional media couldn't be better. Just Google FLKI and see for yourself. The deals are real and significant, and as word gets out, the share price sitting at a confirmed bottom of 18-19 cents could start a quick climb AGAIN.
700% gains are darn near a sure thing for 2011!
Think about it. Or better yet, stick a couple thousand dollars worth of shares in your mad money or rainy day fund.
| | | | JustForBucks | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 03:59AM | Don't fix them: The world's dilapidated roads to the rescue OTC:FLKI
The Automobile After-Market, barring a couple of small firms is comatose, wrecked by a crisis that doesn't seem to end and as to which most companies can see no light.
Yet there is a great opportunities at these devastating times. Devastation of the economy and of the people making it up makes for greater incentive, indeed for the necessity to hold on; to life of course but more importantly for the industry to the old family car. The older and the more worn it is the more car care equipment and products are necessary to keep the beast rolling.
But help is on the way. Government has told us so. While they all pumped trillions of dollars into their financial systems, they pumped life into this industry by pulling money away, the rescue of the Automobile After-Market industry is highlighted by government's starvation of the world's roadway infrastructure.
The world's roads are falling apart. It's a global disgrace and we're paying for it twice over, in taxation and repair bills. Those repair bills are a de-facto subsidy to the Automobile After-Market industry.
The world's road system is falling apart - literally. Chronic under-investment slashed local authority budgets and spiraling compensation costs mean motorists are facing the misery of driving on potholed, cracked and rutted roads that won't be repaired for years. A grim picture of our crumbling road network; but good cause to believe in the success of those companies of the Automobile After-Market Industry that supply the wares to automobile and vehicular maintenance and care : one such leading global company is a small public company traded on the OTC under the symbol FLKI.
As best the experts tell it there is a ten year backlog of road maintenance work in the western world alone. That's a give or take a billion one trillion dollar shortfall, and a lot of hay. In the United States, roads are resurfaced approximately every 55 years whereas the recommended timescale is 20 years.
Quite aside from the advantages visited upon the industry, lawyers in certain jurisdictions are having a field day. Annual compensation claims against state, municipal and federal authorities for road damage and accidents have sky rocketed to hundreds of millions.
When I say Automobile After-Market, put the stress on the word "after" this because warranty claims premised on damage caused by road surface represent one in six of the warranty claims handled for vehicle breakdown. Damaged suspensions are the leading claim according to the Automobile Industry and its Dealerships who pay the bill. This is a fast growing trend which is seriously impacting on the increasing losses of the Automobile Industry to the proportionate benefit of the Automobile After-Market who supplies the parts, the products and the chemicals for maintenance, rectification and repairs.
The problem as I see it is that the world is locked in a spiral of decline. Less money each year is spent on addressing this situation. Motorist contribute about 800 billion dollars to their respective treasuries each year, yet only 12% of those amounts is actually budgeted, let alone spent, on roads and that doesn't mean to the limited task of maintenance and repairs.
The dedicated fund for routine maintenance remains available to busy government accounting gurus for allocations to fill any short elsewhere. The fault as best I can lay it is with the federal governments. While one can see increases being allocated to State and other authorities the funds are not restricted to road repairs and maintenance, hence it is too often diverted away to education, health or another more evocative and politically attractive issue.
This to me makes no real sense. You don't have to be politically savvy to realize that improving what people see when they walk out of their front door has voter appeal. Yet, don't take the bet, road improvements is an uphill battle as is improving the transportation system, over the years less than 4% of road related income has been spent on transportation. The word "pittance" comes to mind.
See an opportunity in the Automobile After-market? Yes, my instinct and the excellent fundamentals move me to the stock of a small innovative and highly successful company; FLKI. The company stands to pick up a massive morsel of these easy pickings and at current share prices is a steal – every one aware of the nightmare of roads and their effect on vehicles of all kind should own a couple thousand dollars worth of FLKI shares.
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 09:14AM | Blind, the world is blind OTC : FLKI
When it comes to gems in the proverbial haystack, industrial giants not unlike investors and traders are simply blind. Assuredly it is hard to find that perfect little company that for a decade and more seems to be doing nothing wrong. This is why I have been fascinated by the brain child of a young Norwegian woman Falken Industries Ltd, which trades on the OTC under symbol FLKI. I have covered the company since its inception in 1997 off and on and it never ceases to amaze me.
Recently I penned an article for the trades dealing with the ignored segment of the market, the Muslim world. I noted that FLKI had made substantial investments over several years and that it had established itself nicely in a semi unique position as the supplier of clean innovative products for this world whose markets are estimated at $ 4 trillion. Picture my amazement to find that tiny little FLKI (market cap about $ 15 million and whose shares recently bottomed at .18 to .19 cents) had a leadership position with entire product lines designed to those markets. I mean versions in Arabic, meeting all separate regulatory and filing requirements of the different countries, and designed to respond to cultural and esthetical preferences. The Muslim world is clearly targeted and not some offshoot export market; this is true at least for FLKI and the purveyors of its product conceptions.
I was not surprising thus when at a meeting of the press this morning, FLKI communications officer Manuel Garcia announced that FLKI had made a $6,075,000 agreement for distribution of its consumer product concepts in Egypt.
Distributed globally by The Clean Plus® Product Group, this group spent several years joint developing a network of distribution points. These efforts were concluded by a formalized agreement for Super Distribution of the Clean Plus® Premium Auto Care line in Egypt. The Agreement provides for wholesale purchases of $ 1,250,000 each year for the product segment.
Egypt with its near 82,000,000 population is experiencing a booming market, notably for FLKI product conceptions. An effective and efficient distribution infrastructure is crucial for the continued development of FLKI product line conceptions. Egypt is a modern society and has proven to have a strong economy. It is consequently not surprising that Egypt now ranks amongst Super Distributors, landing platforms charged with servicing and developing the distribution network for a market and market segment.
Moreover, Egypt has embarked on the journey of upgrading and improving its infrastructure as business and technology evolves, traffic grows and the usage of modern transport and communication devices increases in the country. In this direction, Egypt has been witnessing an aggressive development of a large number of projects, educational, infrastructure, and bandwidth allocation for several years. These developments are attractive and quickly attracted The Clean Plus® Product Group to the country three years ago. Today a major commitment results consistent with the group’s dedication to establishing major global service and delivery centers in the country.
With a wide range of more than 160 product conceptions and half again in the pipeline, FLKI is poised to enter many markets. Their proprietary balanced blend of products enhances the fundamentals of the company.
| | | | JustForBucks | Wednesday, December 9, 2009 07:53AM | The Great Problem, no, it’s the great solution: OTC : FLKI
While in Germany recently I suffered the excruciating waste of time caused by a flood of rubber-neckers. This was on A1 one of Germany’s traditional highways. Being the person that I am - always looking for a good story - I investigated. The Polizei (Police) had stopped a car, a Golf, which was being driven with 12 persons on board. It was a sudden reminder of my college days.
While my German is assuredly lacking, I did manage to get the gist of the defense being opposed to the troopers. The driver simply said they were car sharing because of high fuel prices.
With the cost of gasoline and car care in general escalating, I wondered whether this is the kind of madness we are all going to be saddled with. I decided to investigate.
The figures back up this tragedy. The Automobile After-Market and gasoline purveyors are jacking prices up like there’s no tomorrow. Estimates run that US consumers are spending $ 65.7 million more on gasoline each and every day, with the average driver spending $ 87.43 per month on car maintenance, detailing, beautifying, washing etc. It’s the same story in Europe.
This, impacts most directly upon the poorest families with those in rural areas spending as much as 25% of their incomes operating a car. Resentment by the consumer targets government first of course since its taxes on fuel running from a low of 61.1% are significant. But, surprisingly consumer protest against car care industrialist and notably the better known brands was vicious. “it’s horrible, we can’t buy new cars anymore so we have to maintain our cars better and longer but we can’t afford a bottle of top quality polish” said Carl Johnson of Maury County Tennessee.
I contacted the marketing or communications officers firstly of the three largest US brands in terms of distribution, two of which are owned by colossus each a member of the Fortune group of elites. Cost increases are inevitable, raw materials are beyond our control, our general overhead keeps rising and quality isn’t free was the redundant come back.
I then flew to New Jersey, and eventually cornered Manuel Garcia, communications director of Falken, a small company traded on the OTC under symbol FLKI. The company has achieved industry renown because of its top end quality and incredibly successful cost controls - not the least of which is for raw material managed through its affiliate World Trading. “Nonsense, we have not raised prices since 2001 and continue to receive prizes for performance and innovation, the latest of which was for our “Brilliance” collection which we introduced in October” said Garcia. Much of this is the subject of press releases and general industry media easily found by searching FLKI on Google.
It seems that FLKI competitors are fanning the flames of protest across the global markets. While the flare ups have quieted as we enter the holiday season, there is much industry agreement that they will flare up again in the spring of 2010 just before the season for car care commences – retailers beware! FLKI with its publicized higher quality and lower prices seems meaningfully in good position. “In fact we have been contacted in the last two months by two of the three biggest retailers in the world and the largest auto parts store chain in Europe. All for our branded and private label products - the notable fact here is that they called us” added Garcia.
The relatively stable Automobile After-Market was first hit by the events of 9-11 and the political fallout that resulted rocked the already fragile oil-rich Middle East. The invasion of Iraq, political instability in Venezuela and America, India and China’s insatiable thirst for oil have all sent prices soaring. The industry, very much “oil” dependent for its plastic accessories, bottles, pumps and polishes, compounds and various chemicals was shattered by a barrage of price increases across the board.
Then Hurricane Katrina hit the American Gulf Coast, devastating half its key oil producing plants, followed by Hurricane Rita, which further hampered rebuilding operations. The result was that the industry’s raw material and accessory costs rose more than 40% with no end in sight. Add to that the fact that demand for the base raw material, oil, was voracious - America will for example use 4% more oil this year than last - at a time when supplies were a their all time lows and there you have it : disaster.
But wait, what about little FLKI (current market cap about $ 15 million). Hedged for three years out and protected by solid moves through its affiliate, the company suffered none of these intemperate costs. It increased no price, substantially increased production capacities and market share, all while increasing margins. “The confusion disappears when you consider that our competitors are huge and firmly believed they could leverage their non-auto care products to force their over-priced and lesser performing products ahead in the aisles. This of course is no more” suggested Garcia. A number of calls to chains, petroleum companies, and other retailers and distributors of FLKI product conceptions confirmed the incredible: there have been no price increases on these products since 2001. “Economies of scale are helping us still more as we penetrate or take market share. This is notable most recently in the Clean Plus® product conception for the automobile body shop, detailing and restoration industry, the so-called “Pro” line” said Garcia.
Well, where does this lead us? Well at the onset let me say that I do not recommend 12-up car sharing. It’s very painful I would imagine, and certainly dangerous. It will also positively damage the suspension of your car. Sensible car sharing on the other hand can work as more and more people are discovering through their burgeoning cars-pools.
Until things improve, the family car will stay. The cost of maintenance must include car care products of high end quality and at prices we can all afford. In the immediate short term - assuming FLKI competitors have the savvy to maintain quality and substantially lower their prices - Clean Plus® products with a 47.1% average advantage on industry pricing ex-vat has the global edge. “There’s been a price increase every few months for the last 5 years by our competitors and they have shown no lateral thinking in trying to alleviate the situation” concluded Garcia. I agree.
Let me go stock up. While at it I may just buy some FLKI stock as well – timing is everything and the spring is just around the corner.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
| | | | JustForBucks | Tuesday, December 8, 2009 12:47PM | THE REAL EMERGENCE in the Emerging markets OTC : FLKI
Looking around for a bright spot in this world economy? Good luck. People have been at it for better than two years now.
What were growth markets once as numerous as reverse mortgages, equity kickers, no interest, teaser rates, all motors of specialized economic activities have grown increasingly scarce. Suddenly however out come the consultants, the economist, the business types, all pointing their finger to the rise of a new emerging markets, one that will end up being the largest and most powerful of all : women.
Hello, where has everyone been? Women are poised to drive and lead the post-recession world economy. Globally, women earn and control the flow of some $ 5 trillion projected to double in the next 5 years. That's a lot of money for businesses that anticipated this ? one of these businesses is a business in a surprising industrial environment, the Automobile After-Market (it's actually the company's principal field of activity but the company is wide and far reaching). The company, Falken Industries Ltd, publicly traded under symbol FLKI, is the brain child of a then 27 year old woman. The year was 1997, a decade before the wise men of today realized that the market was huge - the female market that is.
No question, car care is the world of men, macho men for the most part, or enthusiast that would rather spend the weekend in the garage than with the wife and children. But that market today and in 1997 is only 8% of the car care market - but take a look around, only one company in the field caters to women's needs, desires, abilities, focus and objectives. That company is FLKI, best known for its conceptions for the global brand Clean Plus®.
It's kind of amusing isn't it? Here a young woman sits on top of a man's business and in a class believed to lead the world out of its ills for knowing in 1997 what the geniuses are discovering today.
Now it simply isn't that simple. Worldwide total income for men is $ 23.4 trillion, more than double the income generated by women, but the gap is shrinking significantly because the vast majority of new income growth is destined to women. A fortiori to businesses which are known and have built a strong reputation in the service of female interest. Women will be driving the cars and the shopping and as a result hope the predictors of our future, the recovery.
That is saying a great deal. That growth is more than twice the size of the two hottest markets, India and China combined - and FLKI predicted it, argued vehemently for it, and fought hard and fast for its beliefs. I know because I have been following this gem since 1997. Today, women make up 57% of all sales of FLKI product conceptions.
Let alone the leaders of the political world, finance or business - the executives of the Automobile after-market to this day maintain their traditional positions and targets. Some have made feeble attempts at redirecting without success a portion of their businesses toward the female segment. Strangely enough three major competitors of FLKI are owned fully by corporate giants whose most favorable interest they incomprehensibly ignore, to acquire or license FLKI technology and intellectual properties. Acquisition rumors abound of course, but the FLKI management team is a tough bunch that won't let go of the independence, flexibility, and rapidity to launch product conceptions with extraordinary success. In sum there is undoubtedly a number, but its likely to be in the $ 8 per share range, still peanuts for any one of the colossus that own the poor performing competitors of FLKI and its licensees and distributors.
"The power of the purse" proclaims women the economic engine of the future, but better still it will capitalize the development of products and conceptions that are devoted to female needs: like FLKI's car care conceptions for the Clean Plus® "Premium" line.
When's the last time you polished your car with a Carnuba wax using no more force than can be garnered from your little finger. It takes more than elaborate targeted designs, it takes performance that a woman can deliver without brute force. Again FLKI stands alone in this market.
True, women are focused more on health and children, but 50% of the cars are registered in a woman's name. Half of those cars are exclusively cared for by a woman who considers the car just an extension of her household.
And then there is the influence factor. Women are a comfortable 80% of the components leading to the decision to buy a car. It makes you think doesn't it? Why in 2009 in the Automobile After-Market and car care in particular, there is only one global company recognized and known for its product conceptions targeting women.
In this industry and in general one can suppose, women's rights over all are gaining, but male chauvinism is still resisting strongly. "Look lovely and keep quiet !" it wasn't that long ago that this was a dominant theme as was the notion that women were sex objects sufficiently fulfilled by homemaking.
There is still strong resistance and most particularly in the Automobile After-Market. Women are simply not taken seriously - all one need do is attend an International car show or watch the interface between a woman and a typical mechanic - what does she know after all? but a woman's success and global leadership is reality rather than theory. And this woman, FLKI's President and founder brings to the top of the Automobile After-Market industry a more human approach about running a car care company. This, in a world that's appreciating it more and more: just Google FLKI you'll know just why.
It's a stock every woman should have - and every man wanting to ride the emergence of the greatest emerging market this planet has ever experienced.
Falken Industries Ltd OTC : FLKI is a diversified industrial conglomerate that operates in Chemicals, Wet Wipe and Biodegradable Technology. Falken Industries Ltd is the concept behind more than 160 products distributed through a network of global platforms and the recipient of trade awards for innovations, biodegradability and environmental and health quality standards.
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