Joytoto USA Inc. (JYTO.OB) has announced that it plans to distribute the popular Korean online game, “Gersang”, on its U.S. site. The game will be marketed as “The Great Merchant” on the U.S. website. Work continues on the English translation, which should be completed and available for closed beta service during the fourth quarter of 2008.

Joytoto selected “The Great Merchant” for U.S. release due to its popularity in the Korean online gaming market. This game is one of the most successful Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) that Joytoto has released to the Korean market. Daum, which is South Korea’s second-largest web portal and search engine, rated the Korean release of the game as the fourth most popular online game played in Korea. The game has also received a variety of awards, including the Korean Entertainment Grand Prize.

Online gaming is one of Joytoto’s business segments. Joytoto

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Chiquita Brands International sells many bananas - and other products too - as evidenced by their sales data. Their approximate annual revenue is $4.5B. Trading on the NYSE, the company is part of the Farm Products industry and has their headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are a marketer and distributor of bananas, other fruits, and convenient green salads.

Their primary brands are Chiquita and Fresh Express. Chiquita acquired Fresh Express in June of 2005. Fresh Express is the packaged salad and fresh-cut fruit business that Chiquita purchased from Performance Food Group. Chiquita normally gains 59 percent of their sales from European and other international markets, and 41 percent from North America.

The company operates three business segments. The banana segment sources, transports and distributes their top-quality bananas around the world. Their salads and healthy snacks segment distributes value-added salads and fresh vegetable and fruit ingredients used in the food service industry. This

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