For Immediate Release
Waterloo, Ontario, August 19, 2015: SponsorsOne Inc. (CSE: SPO) (Frankfurt: 5SO) (“SponsorsOne” or the Company”), the Company that has developed the SponsorsCloudTM platform that allows Brands to build authentic and engaged communities around their products and services, is pleased to announce that it has closed the acquisition of 100% of the shares of NFU Inc., a Toronto based Marketing Agency.
Further to the Company’s press release on June 24, 2015, the Company would like to announce that is has closed the previously announced acquisition of NFU Inc. pursuant to a share purchase agreement between the Company, NFU Inc. and certain vendors dated June 24, 2015 (the “Share Purchase Agreement”). The Company has issued 904,615 common shares in the capital of the Company (“Common Shares”) as partial consideration for the acquisition of NFU Inc. The remaining 387,692 Common Shares will be issued to the vendors upon certain conditions being satisfied pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement. NFU is now a wholly owned subsidiary of SPO and will act as the sale, support and delivery organization for Canada. NFU’s founder, Adam Pearsall will assume the roll of Chief Revenue Officer.
“NFU provides SPO with invaluable access to the creative and digital marketing industry. This includes access to potential agencies for the Company’s acquisition pipeline, major Brands as customers for SponsorsCloud, and major Influencers as participants on the platform,” states Myles Bartholomew, CEO, SponsorsOne. “This acquisition comes at an ideal time as SPO is planning to work with select brand and agency partners to launch a beta version of SponsorsCloud.”
“I am excited to be part of the SponsorsOne team because I strongly believe that after concluding alpha testing, SponsorsCloud will be the platform that rises above the noise in the Social Media Marketplace,” states Adam Pearsall, Chief Revenue Officer of SponsorsOne. “Having an intuitive dashboard available 24/7 for brand managers and influencers to monitor and engage with one another will be the foundation for the future of Social Media Marketing. The success of SponsorsOne is its multiple platform publishing / analytics tool, which enables users to monetize their networks with one click. It puts ad dollars in the hands of the individuals while building brand equity and delivering real time analytics and much greater returns on marketing dollars than current social media marketing approaches.”
SponsorsOne is pleased to also provide investors with a brief corporate update.
1. Initial beta testing is completed internally and the company is planning to start demonstrating the platform to beta launch partners and other key stakeholders. In addition, a demo login for investors will be made available to view the member side of the platform.
2. The Company continues to advance its acquisition strategy by building its acquisition pipeline. An acquisition pipeline that represents in excess of $50M in revenue and access to a number of the top 100 brands has been established, and analysis of the key target acquisitions is underway.
3. The Company continues to pursue equity and debt financing options to fund the next stage of development and growth of the Company.
About SponsorsOne Inc.:
With the SponsorsCloudTM platform, SponsorsOne is creating Brand focused proprietary ad networks. Data driven marketing campaigns and creative combined with a proprietary social ad network will change the face of the agency and the way Brands connect to their customers. Brands can now inspire real movements around their products and services in which their most valuable customers become their best salespeople producing far greater ROI than current social media advertising methods.
SponsorsOne is also the creator of a proprietary SponsorsCloud and a Social Sponsorship Currency that gives consumers real compensation for their authentic social media engagement (blogs, videos, tweets, pins and posts) along with a Social Marketplace to trade their Social Currency for products and services with the Brands they love.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Gary Bartholomew”
Gary Bartholomew, Executive Chairman
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The Canadian Securities Exchange (“CSE”) has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this Press Release.
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