Mon, 17 Jul 2006 9:31:00 PDT
FORT MYERS, FL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/17/2006 -- (
I would like to explain some reasons why a reverse split of the company's shares is important and beneficial to our stockholders and Innova Holdings, Inc. A reverse split of 1 for 10 means that for every 10 shares you own they will be combined into one share. In theory, the value of that one share should be worth 10 times what it was before the reverse split, although we can provide no assurance that this will occur. As an example, if you own 1,000,000 shares and they have a market value of $.025 per share before the reverse split, you will receive 100,000 shares after the reverse split and, in theory, the 100,000 shares you receive after the reverse split should have a value of $.25 per share. In both cases, before and after the reverse split, the shares in total should be worth $25,000.
Many of our stockholders have asked why we are doing this and others have been asking why we aren't doing it for the past several months. Let me address our strategy.
Our Board of Directors, financial advisors, and your management team believe a reverse split now will create a more stable capital structure enabling our company to achieve continued growth, by:
-- bringing the number of shares outstanding to a more realistic,
manageable and attractive level, which may help generate investor interest
in the Company and help the Company attract and retain employees and other
service providers, and
-- using available shares sparingly to raise the growth capital necessary
to fund future growth through acquisitions, product development, and to
finance the sales and marketing activities necessary to achieve higher
levels of sales and eventually profits.
Although we can provide no assurance that the reverse split will indeed
lead directly to our goals, it's the opinion of our Board of Directors,
financial advisors and management that it is a necessary step.
We believe we have been successful to date in achieving goals that are fundamental to our growth strategy:
-- We entered into an exclusive worldwide agreement with Mesa Robotics,
Inc. to market and sell their industry and Military line of unmanned mobile
robotic vehicles. We intend to concentrate on several key markets for these
products -- the Military, Homeland Security and the First Responder markets
including Fire, Police and Sheriffs' departments. We are moving on these
fronts and investing cautiously in the resources that we believe will lead
to success in this marketplace.
-- We acquired the business assets of CoroWare, a software system
integrator with a focus on unmanned mobile robotics, web-based software
services, and other system integration services. We believe that these are
growth markets.
-- We developed and launched the third generation, open architecture PC
industrial robot controller for RWT -- the URC3™ -- for which we have
already received the first multi-unit order. Reaching the full sales
potential of this product will require building broad awareness in the
targeted industrial markets about the URC3's features and functions, and
the cost benefits it provides by, we believe, extending the useful life of
robots and other forms of capital equipment already installed, reducing the
downtime of production systems, eliminating the need for large spare parts
inventories, and simplifying training, programming, operations, and
maintenance. To that end, we plan to launch aggressive advertising, public
relations, and direct mail campaigns with industrial trade journals to
communicate this message of the URC3's success stories by our existing
customers.
-- We repaid well over one million dollars in old debt including debt
that has burdened our balance sheet and our organization since the reverse
merger in August 2004. We still have debt to pay down.
Going forward we believe there are more opportunities for growth through
continued hard work, and improving our market position in the industrial
and service sectors. We intend to use the new URC3 to offer retrofitting of
existing industrial robots. We expect to target acquiring key companies
that will compliment our technologies and possibly allow us to gain
additional market share in the industrial and service robotics markets, the
motion control market, and the software systems integration market. We also
intend to aggressively launch a sales and marketing initiative of the Mesa
Robotics line of unmanned robotic vehicles.
All of these activities will require capital -- growth capital -- and we see the reverse split as a key step in realigning the shares outstanding to be at a more balanced and reasonable level which may attract more investors to appreciate the value proposition of our company as a long term investment. I personally have been presenting the merits and attributes of our company to investors around the country for some time now, and the one question that constantly comes up is, "Why aren't you going to do a reverse split to reduce the number of shares outstanding? Then we can seriously look at investing in your company." So, we have been effective in telling potential new investors about our company, but the number of shares outstanding often is the key obstacle to new investment.
In closing, I would like to point out that in the past year we have booked new orders, fulfilled a multiple unit order with our patented open PC Universal Robot Controller, received our third US Patent office pioneer patent, obtained a single source contract from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for a Hubble Telescope project, reported revenue, acquired CoroWare, while still forming another subsidiary, Innova Robotics, to distribute the Mesa products into the Unmanned Robotic Vehicle markets... while retiring over one million dollars of corporate indebtedness.
I strongly believe we need to reduce the number of outstanding shares to continue our growth plan and increase our stockholders' value. I kindly ask for your support as we move towards continuation of our growth strategy. Thank you so much for your continued support.
Sincerely,
Walter K. Weisel Chairman and CEOwww.innovaholdings.com
Sandra L. Brooks INCOMM International Inc. Tel: (904) 636-5085
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