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Emporium, Weinstock's, Bergdorf Goodman, Holt Renfrew?Canada, Waldenbooks,
John Wanamaker, Thalhimers, & Sunset House. As president of Carter
Hawley Hale Stores finance subsidiary, & VP & treasurer of the company,
he was responsible for all finance, banking, & investment functions
including mergers, acquisitions, & divestitures, an IPO, & corporate
restructuring & re-capitalization.
William Butler is Executive VP. He was VP of business development
& remains a board member for LiveToPlay.com, an e-commerce, business-to-consumer
sports auction company. Previously, he was VP business development
& sales strategy in the military division of Weber Distribution,
a consumer packaged goods distributor to military commissaries &
exchanges in the Western U.S. & Pacific Rim countries. He practiced
business law for five years.
Financial Status
C-ME.com successfully completed its IPO 7/99. It has assets of
over $2 million, primarily in cash, & liabilities of less than $300,000.
Current assets are earmarked for implementation of its business
strategy. A Form 10K for the year ending 6/30/99 is available upon
request.
Recommendation
I recommend CMEE for midterm & long-term appreciation. It is automating
the front-end retail sourcing process. This saves retailers & vendors
money. Other things I like include:
- Extremely cost-effective for large retailers
- A must for small vendors o Unique service to a large market
- Pricing structure & strategic alliances are attractive to retailers
& vendors
- Efficient, global sourcing of broad range of products
- User-friendly site encourages retailer & vendor use
Contact
Call Elissa Kuykendall @ 626-793-5000, fax 626-7936-5096, e-mail
ir@C-ME.com, or write 600 S. Lake Ave., Suite 405, Pasadena CA 91106.
www.C-ME.com
Industry Commentary
By Tony Velocci
Fear of breast cancer is shared by countless women, for whom physical
self-examinations & periodic mammography probably are their best
hope for early detection. But a more accurate procedure may be on
the horizon.
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BioLabs, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board/BILB) of Surrey, B.C., in partnership
with privately-held Biotherapies Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., is developing
a test that measures the mammastatin levels in a woman's blood.
Clinical evidence strongly suggests that mammastatin is a key protein
that controls abnormal cancerous cell growth. It is present in the
blood of healthy women & absent in at least 90% of breast cancer
patients regardless of whether they have a family history of breast
cancer.
The blood test offers medical professionals the potential opportunity
to identify women with breast cancer before they otherwise would
have been alerted using traditional methods. In addition to BioLabs'
11% equity interest in Biotherapies, the development-stage company
also has a 50% interest in the joint venture to manufacture, market,
& distribute the blood test. Biomedical Diagnostics LLC is the joint
venture incorporated to bring to the product to market.
An estimated 186,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every
year in the U.S. alone, & another 46,000 die. Currently, about one
out of every eight women is expected to develop breast cancer in
her lifetime. BioLabs, through the joint venture, expects to target
three primary markets for the test: women over the age of 30 (420
million worldwide, including 50 million in the U.S.), breast cancer
survivors (16 million worldwide, including 2.3 million in the U.S.),
& breast cancer patients (4 million worldwide, including 700,000
in the U.S.).
Once the product is officially introduced, BioLabs President &
CEO E. Greg McCarney believes that within five years up to half
of the women in North America could include the blood test as part
of their routine health care. The global market for breast cancer
diagnostics & therapeutics is approximately $10 billion, he said.
Phase I & II clinical trials, which were approved by the Food
& Drug Administration, are under way at MD Anderson Cancer Institute
at the University of Texas in Houston. The scope of the trials has
included safety testing & dose optimization studies of human mammary
epithelial cell-derived mammastatin for use as a replacement therapy
in refractory Stage IV breast cancer patients.
Preliminary laboratory research in more than 1,000 blood & breast
tissue samples has consistently shown that mammastatin is a key
protein for controlling abnormal cell growth in breast tissue samples.
In addition, research on 29 late-stage breast cancer patients has
demonstrated that mammastatin replacement therapy has been more
than 70% effective in preventing breast cancer growth.
A major focus for BioLabs is strengthening the management team.
The company's board of directors includes Carol Patterson Neves,
who has more than 40 years of experience in financial markets. She
formerly was senior research analyst in Diversified Markets for
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. She is
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