Hartcourt Goes Deep Into China With Multiple Ventures
By Jack Burney
Published by OTCNN.com
06/28/2000 08:22 AM CST
The Hartcourt Companies Inc. (OTCBB: HRCT) has had a busy June, delving deeply into the Chinese market with agreements and deals. One can imagine executives in the Los Angeles office working through lunch and late into the night.
Hartcourt’s furious pace has apparently made its stock somewhat immune to the June swoon. The price started from a November ’99 low of $0.52, and climbed steadily to a peak of around $20.00, and traded in the $13.00 to $19.00 range till mid-March. It declined almost to $5.00, but experienced a June resurgence to $13.00 and closed Tuesday at a respectable $7.32.
The series of sustaining events unfolded like this.
June 1: Hartcourt subsidiary, Shanghai Guo Mao Financial Corporation, kicked off the month with the formation of a strategic partnership with China Broadcast and Television Cable Networks Ltd, also known as China Cable Networks (CCN). The alliance calls for a multi-year effort to jointly develop and deploy a financial TV channel to be marketed to 80 million Chinese cable TV subscribers across all Chinese provinces and cities. CCN will use its TV broadcasting expertise and integrated technologies to market the "CCN Financial TV Channel" with content developed by Shanghai Guo Mao. The content would be transmitted via satellite and ground transceiver systems optimized for cable TV networks.
June 6: Hartcourt subsidiary Sinobull.com became a strategic partner in China Telecom's campaign to obtain 10 Million new ISP subscribers by the end of 2001. The goal being to establish a consumer focused web portal for China Telecom’s ChinaNet ISP (www.sinohome.com), with SinoBull as primary financial data provider. A major multi-media blast with advertisements promoting sinohome.com and other ChinaNet ISP services will be distributed through Chinese-based newsprint, radio and television.
June 12: Hartcourt subsidiary Shanghai Guo Mao Financial Corporation, owned by Hartcourt's Sinobull Group, formed a joint development partnership with a China's top tier Nokia distributor, Shanghai Industry Foreign Trade Telecom Corporation (SIFTT), to offer Chinese mobile users new Nokia handsets and wireless data terminal products integrated with Shanghai Guo Mao's financial content. SIFTT is also a Nokia NOK authorized value added developer, and the partnership will provide multimedia information services over not only the existing Nokia's GSM handsets distributed in China, but also on future Nokia's wireless data terminals, including Nokia's 7110 and newer models using WAP technology.
June 15: Subsidiary SinoBull Group, signed a profit sharing content license and usage agreement with Yahoo! Holdings Ltd., the Hong Kong subsidiary of Yahoo!, which will host a number of co-branded pages containing proprietary financial content provided by SinoBull, which, in return, licensed to Yahoo! Holdings global non-exclusive rights to deliver proprietary SinoBull content over the Internet or any wireless or electronic format delivering Yahoo!
June 19: Hartcourt signed a preliminary joint venture agreement with Shenzhen Rayes Group to provide investment and technical support to COL (China Online, www.col.com.cn) -- the largest private-owned ISP in China founded in 1994. Hartcourt agreed to support COL's new business strategy and implementation plans, including broadband internet infrastructure developments. COL has 105 wholly owned or joint ventured subsidiaries today covering all of China's major provinces and cities. Since 1994, these subsidiaries have developed over 80 COL-branded portals with localized content. Completion of the deal depends on a satisfactory business model and the completion of the due diligence process being conducted by a leading U.S. investment bank to value COL's business.
Other than that, nothing much is happening at Hartcourt. (I’ll have egg roll with mine.)
Stock Action Summary
Price as of 6/27/00: $7.32
Vol: 193,300
Bid: $7.12 Ask: $7.31
52-wk Range: $0.53 - $20.50
By Jack Burney
Published by OTCNN.com
06/28/2000 08:22 AM CST
The Hartcourt Companies Inc. (OTCBB: HRCT) has had a busy June, delving deeply into the Chinese market with agreements and deals. One can imagine executives in the Los Angeles office working through lunch and late into the night.
Hartcourt’s furious pace has apparently made its stock somewhat immune to the June swoon. The price started from a November ’99 low of $0.52, and climbed steadily to a peak of around $20.00, and traded in the $13.00 to $19.00 range till mid-March. It declined almost to $5.00, but experienced a June resurgence to $13.00 and closed Tuesday at a respectable $7.32.
The series of sustaining events unfolded like this.
June 1: Hartcourt subsidiary, Shanghai Guo Mao Financial Corporation, kicked off the month with the formation of a strategic partnership with China Broadcast and Television Cable Networks Ltd, also known as China Cable Networks (CCN). The alliance calls for a multi-year effort to jointly develop and deploy a financial TV channel to be marketed to 80 million Chinese cable TV subscribers across all Chinese provinces and cities. CCN will use its TV broadcasting expertise and integrated technologies to market the "CCN Financial TV Channel" with content developed by Shanghai Guo Mao. The content would be transmitted via satellite and ground transceiver systems optimized for cable TV networks.
June 6: Hartcourt subsidiary Sinobull.com became a strategic partner in China Telecom's campaign to obtain 10 Million new ISP subscribers by the end of 2001. The goal being to establish a consumer focused web portal for China Telecom’s ChinaNet ISP (www.sinohome.com), with SinoBull as primary financial data provider. A major multi-media blast with advertisements promoting sinohome.com and other ChinaNet ISP services will be distributed through Chinese-based newsprint, radio and television.
June 12: Hartcourt subsidiary Shanghai Guo Mao Financial Corporation, owned by Hartcourt's Sinobull Group, formed a joint development partnership with a China's top tier Nokia distributor, Shanghai Industry Foreign Trade Telecom Corporation (SIFTT), to offer Chinese mobile users new Nokia handsets and wireless data terminal products integrated with Shanghai Guo Mao's financial content. SIFTT is also a Nokia NOK authorized value added developer, and the partnership will provide multimedia information services over not only the existing Nokia's GSM handsets distributed in China, but also on future Nokia's wireless data terminals, including Nokia's 7110 and newer models using WAP technology.
June 15: Subsidiary SinoBull Group, signed a profit sharing content license and usage agreement with Yahoo! Holdings Ltd., the Hong Kong subsidiary of Yahoo!, which will host a number of co-branded pages containing proprietary financial content provided by SinoBull, which, in return, licensed to Yahoo! Holdings global non-exclusive rights to deliver proprietary SinoBull content over the Internet or any wireless or electronic format delivering Yahoo!
June 19: Hartcourt signed a preliminary joint venture agreement with Shenzhen Rayes Group to provide investment and technical support to COL (China Online, www.col.com.cn) -- the largest private-owned ISP in China founded in 1994. Hartcourt agreed to support COL's new business strategy and implementation plans, including broadband internet infrastructure developments. COL has 105 wholly owned or joint ventured subsidiaries today covering all of China's major provinces and cities. Since 1994, these subsidiaries have developed over 80 COL-branded portals with localized content. Completion of the deal depends on a satisfactory business model and the completion of the due diligence process being conducted by a leading U.S. investment bank to value COL's business.
Other than that, nothing much is happening at Hartcourt. (I’ll have egg roll with mine.)
Stock Action Summary
Price as of 6/27/00: $7.32
Vol: 193,300
Bid: $7.12 Ask: $7.31
52-wk Range: $0.53 - $20.50