Hallmark Venture Group, Inc., OTC Pink Sheets HLLK provides merchant banking, consulting and financial services to client companies. Hallmark is uniquely positioned to identify and take advantage of merchant banking opportunities through a network of financial advisors and clients in various industries, including the brokerage, Internet, manufacturing and technical marketplace.
The Hallmark Venture Group, Inc., management has a great deal of experience in mergers, acquisitions, and positioning companies to go public Hallmark Venture Group, Inc. has developed a unique niche in the financial market, taking small companies public. In the valuation of a business a publicly traded company listed on the OTC Bulletin Board is generally worth four to six times the value of the same company privately held. Hallmark Venture Group, Inc. has developed a very simple formula of staying “under the radar” of most regulations in taking small companies public. The companies are structured so there is very little for an auditor or a regulator to examine and, in turn, delay the process. New regulations from the Securities Exchange Commission in November, 2008, practically eliminated the use of shell companies in taking companies public. This created a tremendous opportunity for Hallmark Venture Group, Inc.
If Hallmark Venture Group, Inc. takes a company public it receives stock in the company and a small fee. The fee, usually $5,000, plus 500,000 shares of stock which the company can sell for at least fifty cents a share and, in most cases, more Hallmark Venture Group, Inc. in its present form can complete about six transactions a year; or, a gross income of approximately two million dollars to three and one half million dollars per year. In addition, Mr. Cashman earns consulting fees from several other companies. Hallmark Venture Group, Inc. has approximately three million shares outstanding which equates to an earnings per share of approximately one dollar. At a market value at ten times earnings, it would be reasonable to expect Hallmark Venture Group, Inc.’s stock to trade in at least the six or seven dollar range. Hallmark Venture Group, Inc. has a waiting list of companies who wish to retain its services.
Hallmark Venture Group, Inc. prefers to invest a relatively small amount of time and money in each of its client companies, usually $500,000 or less. This spreading of the risk minimizes the potential loss to Hallmark Venture Group, Inc. if one of its client companies is unsuccessful.