Antennas America Fully Subscribes $8 Million in Private Placement Equity Financing.Business Editors WHEAT RIDGE Wheat Ridge, city (1990 pop. 29,419), Jefferson co., N central Colo., a suburb of Denver; inc. 1969. Chiefly residential, Wheat Ridge is the site of an annual carnation festival. , Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000 Antennas America, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :ANTM ANTM America`s Next Top Model (TV show) ), announced today that it has fully subscribed Fully Subscribed A situation in which an underwriting firm has successfully sold to investors all of its available issues of a public offering of securities. When the issue is fully subscribed, the underwriter's risk of being undersubscribed (being unable to sell its allotment of $8 million of private placement equity financing Equity Financing The act of raising money for company activities by selling common or preferred stock to individual or institutional investors. In return for the money paid, shareholders receive ownership interests in the corporation. , consisting of the sale of 16,000,000 shares of the Company's common stock and warrants to purchase 16,000,000 additional shares at a price of $1.50 per share. The shares and warrants have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933. The Company has agreed to file a registration statement for the stock and warrants covered by the Private Placement within 10 business days after the Company is required to file its annual report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2000. The funds will be used to support acquisition initiatives as well as internal investments in research and development, marketing and production, all of which are part of the Company's business plan. The Company will focus on markets with existing presence and selected new wireless markets to realize growth in a focused manner. To help realize the expected growth, the Company is taking advantage of a rare opportunity to acquire and integrate, at a reasonable cost, wireless technology and component companies having high internal growth rates Growth Rates The compounded annualized rate of growth of a company's revenues, earnings, dividends, or other figures. Notes: Remember, historically high growth rates don't always mean a high rate of growth looking into the future. . The combination of high internal growth rates and new acquisitions will help the Company command premium shareholder value during a window of opportunity for companies that provide competitive solutions for the rapidly expanding wireless market. "We are extremely pleased to receive this financing. Antennas America is transitioning from an antenna solutions company to a more encompassing wireless solutions company. Both internal and acquisition growth initiatives are critical at this point in the transition and the additional investment made possible by these funds will help us meet our time-to-market objectives," stated Glenn Befort, Chief Executive Officer of the Company. "The Company's initial acquisition, Winncom Technologies, and its newest acquisition announced today, Starworks Wireless, Inc., doing business as The Kit Company, were both timely and strategically sound and we expect to be able to add additional acquisitions to allow a more rapid expansion into the wireless markets of interest," added Mr. Befort. Antennas America, Inc., headquartered in Wheat Ridge, Colorado The City of Wheat Ridge is a Home Rule Municipality located in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Wheat Ridge is a western suburb of Denver. The Wheat Ridge Municipal Center is 5 miles (8 km) , with its Winncom Technologies subsidiary located in Solon, Ohio Solon (pronounced Sew-len) is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and is a suburb of Cleveland in the Northeast Ohio Region, the 14th largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 21,802. , and its Starworks Wireless subsidiary, doing business as The Kit Company, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is a wireless technology company that does marketing, distribution and servicing, as well as selective design and manufacturing, of a broad range of component and network solutions in support of wireless applications. The Company's wireless solutions are marketed through the Company's internal sales force, OEMs, numerous reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. distribution channels, retail and the Internet to support network deployment in the growing domestic and global wireless markets. For more information about the Company and its products, please visit our web sites at www.antennas.com, www.winncom.com and www.thekitcompany.com. This is not a solicitation solicitation In criminal law, the act of asking, inducing, or directing someone to commit a crime. The person soliciting another becomes an accomplice to the crime. The term also refers to the act of obtaining bribes, as well as to the crime of a prostitute who offers sexual to buy or sell securities and does not purport to be an analysis of the Company's financial position. This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements and assumptions upon which forward-looking statements are based are reasonable it can give no assurance that such expectations and assumptions will prove to have been correct. See the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for additional statements concerning important factors, such as demand for products, manufacturing costs and competition which could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations. |
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