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SHOT Spirits Corporation and Beverage Pouch Group are pioneers in the single serve Ready to Drink alcohol category. Founded in 2003, SHOT Spirits has their corporate headquarters in Irvine, California. They and Beverage Pouch Group have more than 50 years of combined expertise in alcohol distilling, distribution and field marketing, retail placement, promotion and consumer trial and adoption.

SHOT Spirits Corporation has an investment and technical agreement for 15 percent in The Beverage Pouch Group LLC (BPG). The Beverage Pouch Group LLC is a member of the PPi Technologies Global Group of companies. The PPi Technologies Global Group offers StandUp pouch and tray machinery solutions including consumables and end-of-line equipment. The PPi Technologies Global Group through their PouchPac™ Innovations LLC division has several joint and individual patents. The Beverage Pouch Group offers through ShotPaQ® the ShotPak® Brand of ready-to-drink shots without the glass. They sell spirits and cocktails in a patented

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Morgan Stanley Capital International stock benchmark for frontier markets looks set to include Ghana, Botswana, Jamaica and Trinidad Tobago by May 2009.br /br /The classification was created by MSCI for stock markets that have less-developed economies and financial markets than emerging markets, and that typically have more restrictions on foreign stock ownership.

Is Purchasing $700 billion of Toxic Assets the Best Way to Recapitalize the Financial System? No! It is Rather a Disgrace and Rip-Off Benefitting only the Shareholders and Unsecured Creditors of Banks Whenever there is a systemic banking crisis there is a need to recapitalize the banking/financial system to avoid an excessive and destructive credit contraction. But purchasing toxic/illiquid assets of the financial system is not the most effective and efficient way to recapitalize the banking system. Such recapitalization - via the use of public resources - can occur in a number of alternative ways: purchase of bad assets/loans; government injection of preferred shares; government injection of common shares; government purchase of subordinated debt; government issuance of government bonds to be placed on the banks' balance sheet; government injection of cash; government credit lines extended to the banks; government ...

SkyPostal Networks, Inc. (SKPN.OB), an international mail distribution company focused on the Latin America-Caribbean region, is led by an experienced team of directors. The four new directors were elected earlier this summer and will each serve a three year term on the board.

One of SkyPostal’s newest members, Florian Schuhbauer has been a partner at the General Capital Group, GmbH in Munich since 2006. Schuhbauer earned a Diplom-Betriebswirt degree in Business Administration from the Frankfurt School of Finance in Management and a German professional degree of Bankkaufmann, a banker certification given by the Hannover Chamber of Industry and Commerce. After some work in risk management, mergers and acquisitions, and equity research, Schuhbauer jointed the Corporate Development team at Deutsche Post AG in 2002. He was appointed as CFO and Executive VP at DHL Global Mail where he took global responsibility for strategy development and execution.

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A few things today.There is a new frontier market CEF from Morgan Stanley that has ticker FFD. Here is a little bit of info, here is a little more but for now the MS page has no info to speak of.According to the Yahoo News release, linked above, frontier can include Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ecuador, Estonia, Ghana, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macao, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Oman, Panama, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.The money was just raised so the fund owns nothing yet. It may take a while to deploy ...

Growers Direct Coffee, Inc. (GWDC.OB) is a leading worldwide distributor and marketer of whole green-bean coffee produced in Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, and Ethiopia. The company sells its coffee beans directly to coffee roaster retailers, commercial roasters, coffee brokers, and gourmet roasters and retailers. The company offers its products throughout the US, Canada, and Europe.

The recent rise in the stock price of Growers Direct Coffee can be attributed to recent management changes made at the company. In late July, the former CEO Terry Klassen resigned. The company had not been able to secure additional funding to execute their business plan. Lenders had cited the company’s “overzealous use of funds.”

Subsequently, Growers Direct Coffee announced a new management team. Mr. JD Douthitt became Chairman of the Board, Mr. Nepal Muhuri became interim CFO, Mr. Paul Khahshouri became interim CEO, and Mr. Mick Rynning became a new director of the company. The

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