Opportunity Snapshot
- Country: Thailand
- Industry: Retail Trade
- Stage: Expansion/Growth
- Years in operations: 40, Employees: 15
- Investment size: $2,000,000 / min. $1,000,000
- Type of investment: Equity
Investment Opportunity
Thailand-based Bvlgari-quality Astrological-Jewelry brand willing to globalize. The investor must provide a fully-qualified Business Manager to foster globalization.
Something hot is happening in Asia. If you are a hip, businesses-minded investor with capital, you are going to love this opportunity.
The market for New-Age/Mind, Body & Spirit/Metaphysical products comprises 150+ million buyers according to www.bookmarket.com/statistics.html.
We’re talking about Romancing the Stone. It’s the hippest thing in jewelry since Bvlgari, and much better: with a spectacular array of unique designs featuring only clean gemstones.
COMPANY HISTORY
1975: Established in Bangkok, Kingdom of Thailand
2015: 3 Retail Stores, and
3 extramural shows per month
20,000-client database
99% of AGT sales are within Thailand
BUSINESS MODEL
Each client, based on their Sidereal Horoscope, receives a personal ‘Gem Prescription’ to choose their own most auspicious gemstone to be mounted in the company’s design of their choice.
All gemstones are eye-clean, top color (‘jyotish’).
Every 21-K gold creation includes dried herbs that complement the gemstone’s Planetary Power.
Through 2015, 20,000 unique astrologically meaningful designs have been created and sold.
BRAND
Timeless, personalized and propitious fine jewelry.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Jewelry and gemstone enthusiasts, Baby Boomers, Millennials, New Age, metaphysical and astrological devotees: In short, lovers of beauty and inquiring minds.
MISSION
Profit, while awakening the world to the auspicious benefits of Sidereal Astrology
VISION
Before Globalization: sell auspicious gemstone jewelry to help people improve their personal fortune for globalization: Internationally, capitalize on the global atmosphere of ‘Malaise’.
INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS
US$ 2 Million to become a Participating-Partner: for 33% ownership.
Based on $40 per share for 50,000 available shares.
With an option to increase to 51%, based on sales performance during the
following 3 years.
For Globalization efforts, Investor must provide a fully-qualified International-
Business Manager for AGT™.
• Job-description is available on request.
PROJECTED DISBURSEMENTS
Pay off all debts and loans – bank and personal:
• Bank OD: $180,000
• Bank Loans: $104,000
• Private Loans (Interest-Free): $121,000
• Gold & Gems Bills: $156,000
Hire professional local General Manager
Six major jewelry-Trade Shows: Las Vegas, Tokyo, Basel, Italy, Hong Kong, and
Beijing: US$100,000
Increase gold and gems inventory (including high-end precious gems): $100,000
Increase backup cash-flow on AGT’s current account: $50,000
Open a new primary and well-located showroom in Thailand: $50,000
Hire an International PR Company for overseas media promotion: $15,000 per
year
Trademark AGT’s™ Brand in 10 countries Worldwide: $15K x 10 = $150,000
Expand Franchise branches in America, Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, India and
Singapore: Approximately $15,000 per country = $100,000
Competitive Advantage
OTHER WESTERN SIDEREAL-ASTROLOGY EXPERTS
The best-known Western authors on Sidereal or Vedic Astrology are:
• Howard Beckman: http://www.vedicworld.org/new_rishikesh/howard_beckman.html (“Mantras, Yantras and Fabulous Gems: Healing Secrets of the Ancient Vedas”, “An Intro to Vedic Astrology: Spiritual Science of the Ancients” and “Vibrational Healing with Gems”
• Tom Hopke: www.tomhopke.com (“How to Read Your Horoscope: The Basics of Bona Fide Astrology” and “The Divine Path of Prediction”)
• William Levacy: www.vedicsky.com/ (“Vedic Astrology Simply Put: An Illustrated Guide to the Astrology of Ancient India” and “Beneath A Vedic Sky”)
While these authors promote the astrological significance of gems, they deal mostly with the esoteric side of Sidereal Astrology. Brown’s “Ancient Astrological-Gemstone Talismans” book specifically addresses how the Planetary Powers subjectively affect humans with earthly objects: Gemstones, Herbs, Nuts and Seashells.
VALUE POINTS
• Franchise-able:
10’, 20’ and 30’ branded booths are already designed.
Franchise and Non-Circumvention Agreements are completed.
• Trend-setting - our brand delivers the ultimate in personalized fine jewellery
• High-Quality 21K Gold Manufacturing operations
• Provides the finest natural precious gemstones in the world
• Each numbered piece comes in an exotic-hardwood box with the company's logo
• Customer database: 20,000 wealthy socialite clients
• 20,000 timeless & auspicious designs
• Brown founded and developed Planetary Gemologists Association: www.p-g-a.org, with 7 million hits yearly
• More than 500 articles published in International magazines: on Sidereal Astrology, Planetary Gemology and Planetary Jewelry
• 35 TV-Show interviews
• 11 design books published
• 2nd Edition of Ancient Astrological-Gemstone Talismans book already completed
• 15 years perfecting the company's website, including Shopping Cart.
• 11 subsidiary Websites
• Unique AstroMac Gem-Choosing System
• De facto: Brown is Thailand’s Royal Jeweler
• Numerous championship awards from Thailand’s OTOP (One Tamboon ‘Town’, One Product) competition
• Sacred 999 Project: March 2015, the company is sponsoring a charity hospital-project for HM Princess Sirindhorn: A numbered 1 to #999 collection of Ganesha- and Garuda-Navaratna pendants
• Local media firmly establishes our branded jewelry as “Thailand’s Own.”
• The auspicious Bvlgari of Thailand.
• Novel/Movie in the works
• Unlimited Department of Export moral support for International Shows
• AGT™ Brand Recognition in Thai Hi-So and Royal circles
• The Thai Government and Military love and buy the metaphysical power of AGT™ designs and gems
Rationale for the deal
POWER OF LUCK
From 1988 to 2008, our company's yearly growth averaged 15%
From October 2008 to September 2009, sales tripled! Why?
Because, after the Global financial crash, everyone was looking to change their luck with our branded Planetary Power products.
BIRTHSTONES ARE PASSÉ
Birthstones have been on the wane in the New Millennium. There has never been any attempt to mass-market Sidereal-Astrology’s Planetary-Gemstone concept to fill the Birthstone void.
It is time for a replacement.
Our world today is plagued with economic, political and weather disasters wherever you look. People always want to improve their personal fortune. The Power of Good Luck always sells.
DESIGNER PLATFORM
In the mid-‘60’s, Brown was writer and lead singer for the legendary rock band, The Misunderstood…Until he was drafted for Vietnam. After boot-camp, he went AWOL and fled to India. While studying Sanskrit and Vedic manuscripts at an austere Ashram in northern India, Brown learned about the relationship between gems and luck. Although our company was first established in Bangkok in 1975, it was after Brown graduated from the Gemological Institute of America in the late 80’s that he began to develop the discipline known as Planetary Gemology.
It dynamically defines, clarifies and illustrates that Planets, the Sun, and the Moon direct their Forces through specific natural gemstones and earthly herbs. Any individual’s birth – date, time and geographical location – dictates which planets most effectively conduct planetary energy through certain gems and talismans to that person. The gem prescription identifies which gems are good for a person, which gems are not, and why.
In 2005, Brown founded the Planetary Gemologists Association™ (PGA™): www.p-g-a.org. Now with over 250 Members, and 7 million website hits yearly, he wants his auspicious talismans, based on Planetary Gemology, to bring his philosophy, good luck and good fortune to the Western World.
PROMOTION
Richard Shaw-Brown II is passionately dedicated to Planetary Gemstones, Planetary Jewelry and the craft of writing. He enjoys promoting what he loves. He welcomes the opportunity to speak to at small and large venues: whether Corporations, Associations or Private Gatherings. All our flyers, press releases, business cards, bookmarks, postcards, and promotional posters are created in-house: for consistent Branding.
Use of financing
PROJECTED DISBURSEMENTS
Pay off all debts and loans – bank and personal:
• Bank OD: $180,000
• Bank Loans: $104,000
• Private Loans (Interest-Free): $121,000
• Gold & Gems Bills: $156,000
Hire professional local General Manager
Six major jewelry-Trade Shows: Las Vegas, Tokyo, Basel, Italy, Hong Kong, and
Beijing: US$100,000
Increase gold and gems inventory (including high-end precious gems): $100,000
Increase backup cash-flow on AGT’s current account: $50,000
Open a new primary and well-located showroom in Thailand: $50,000
Hire an International PR Company for overseas media promotion: $15,000 per
year
Trademark AGT’s™ Brand in 10 countries Worldwide: $15K x 10 = $150,000
Expand Franchise branches in America, Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, India and
Singapore: Approximately $15,000 per country = $100,000
Opportunity for the investor
OPPORTUNITY
The Thai political problems for the past few years and the massive increase in the price of gold in 2011 decreased Thailand sales. Our company has taken on debt and has no budget for advertising, PR, and expansion.
Now you can invest and benefit from the Global Expansion of our brand.
OBJECTIVE
Expand the brand globally:
• Increase budget for advertising and promotion
• Increase gems and jewelry inventory
• Open one new Bangkok retail outlet
• Pay the company's debts and loans
INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS
• US$ 2 Million to become a Participating-Partner: for 33% ownership.
• With an option to increase to 51%, based on sales performance during the following 3 years.
• Investor must provide a fully-qualified Business Manager for our brand: Including globalization efforts.
o Job-description is available on request.
ROI
• 99% of AGT’s™ sales have been in Thailand…since it was founded in 1975
• Since its registration 20+ years ago, the company's Bangkok-sales growth averaged 15% per year: until the gold price skyrocketed
• Our sales tripled from 2008 to 2009
• International sales will dwarf Thailand sales.
The potential is so great it is difficult to quantify
• A few years ago, an American consulting firm determined the returns from our Franchise in Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas. He projected sales in the first year to be ten times the Thailand sales.
• Once the company has the capital to start entering the global markets, a conservative-growth estimate of AGT’s™ annual sales would be
100% the first year
150% the third year
200% the fifth year
and so on.
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