Full Circle Image, Inc. Enters into Share Exchange Agreement with Smart Cartridge Limited.ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Full Circle Image, Inc., a franchisor and remanufacturer of printer ribbons, laser toner and ink jet cartridges, today announced that it has entered into a share exchange agreement with Smart Cartridge Limited and its shareholders. As a result of the transaction, Smart Cartridge, a company based in Edinburgh Scotland, will become a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Full Circle, and the shareholders of Smart Cartridge will acquire approximately 65% of Full Circle's common stock. Full Circle will continue the combined operations For the department of the British War Office during World War II, see . In the military, combined operations are operations conducted by forces of two or more allied nations acting together for the accomplishment of a single mission. See also
The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close during the third quarter of 2006, and is also contingent upon Adj. 1. contingent upon - determined by conditions or circumstances that follow; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress" contingent on, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on, contingent Full Circle entering into certain financing arrangements with a third party capital provider and the approval of certain matters by the current shareholders of Full Circle. Full Circle Image is an International Franchise Company that deals in the remanufacturing and distribution of new and remanufactured Laser Toner Cartridges, Ink Jet Cartridges, Computer Printer Ribbons, and other types of consumable printing or imaging products. It currently has sales and remanufacturing facilities in Rochester and Grand Rapids, Minnesota Grand Rapids is a city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 7,764 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Itasca County6. Mayor Jim Millis was elected in 2006 and began a four year term in January 2007. , and a sales office in Lakeville, Minnesota Lakeville is a suburb 23 miles (37 km) south of downtown Minneapolis in the U.S. state of Minnesota in Dakota County. On the south metro fringe, Lakeville is one of the fastest growing cities in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. . In addition to its Franchisee owned sales operations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. it also has minority ownership positions in the Full Circle Image Franchisee owned remanufacturing plants in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. and Panama City, Panama. The company trades under the symbol FCLE FCLE Full Circle Image, Inc (stock symbol) and can be found at http://www.pinksheets.com Smart Cartridge Limited was conceived in the late 1990's to enter the rapidly growing ink cartridge franchising business in the United Kingdom. The company was organized in 2001 to specialize in (i) the refilling and remanufacturing of ink jet, laser, copier and fax cartridges; (ii) the provision of related office supplies; and (iii) the development of a franchising system under the name "Smart Cartridge." Since opening the first Smart Cartridge Limited store in 2001, the company has franchised 47 Smart Cartridge Limited stores in Scotland, England, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and the Dominican Republic. Certain matters discussed in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Although Full Circle believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved. The accuracy of such statements is subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. |
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