WHITEFISH, MT / October 2, 2014 / When Blue Water Global Group, Inc. (OTCQB: BLUU) recently announced that it had executed a definitive agreement to acquire a significant equity position with Next Level Hockey LLC., it represented one of three separate but coordinated strategies for building revenue. Each one is designed to support the others, while maintaining independent operational capabilities. It’s this multi-foundational approach that provides a degree of market security and growth potential not usually found in development level companies.
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Building Shareholder Value By Taking Companies Public
Through a strategic alliance agreement with Taurus Financial Partners, LLC, Blue Water Global Group has the exclusive right to participate in early stage equity investments and future spin-off transactions. Specifically, it allows Blue Water to obtain significant blocks of stock as they go public. It is a unique opportunity based upon the connections and qualifications of J. Scott Sitra, Blue Water’s President and CEO, who also founded and heads Taurus Financial Partners. His impressive experience in taking companies public, together with his detailed knowledge of securities law, are attractive offerings in the marketplace. By applying this extensive knowledge base, plus covering procedural costs involved in taking a company public, Blue Water can obtain blocks of stock from these companies in compensation. Such a growing asset of stock holdings will later be sold to support Blue Water’s other endeavors, potentially allowing the company to grow the business while avoiding dilutive financing. Also, a percentage of the stock will be distributed to BLUU investors as dividends, providing shareholders with a nice bonus and mitigating some risk.
The recent agreement with Next Level Hockey gives Blue Water a net 15% equity interest when it goes public on the OTCBB, which should occur in the summer of 2015. Blue Water is careful about evaluating potential companies, and anticipates significant upside potential in Next Level shares once listed. Next Level Hockey is growing rapidly in the sports training industry, with two successful advanced hockey-training centers and with plans to expand into new locations in the Northeast.
Blue Water earlier completed a similar transaction with Stream Flow Media, a development stage business focused on creating online gaming and media solutions catering specifically to customer loyalty and retention applications, including corporate training solutions. Stream Flow utilizes its proprietary technology to develop applications that are designed for the client’s specific business requirements. The proprietary aspects of the technology are owned exclusively by Stream Flow and are licensed to its clients on a per-use basis. These applications can be used on mobile devices, social media networks, and web-based platforms. Stream Flow is also developing gaming applications that will be marketed under its own brand.
Identifying And Filling A Critical Unmet Need In The Growing Caribbean Tourist Market
Assets from Blue Water’s equity investments are seen as providing long-term support for another side of the company’s business, which involves a large and growing market that has a major unfilled gap. The estimate of tourist dollars flowing each year into the Caribbean runs from the millions to the billions, much of it spent by North American cruise passengers. With sun and surf splashed islands lined up like a string of tropical pearls, the Caribbean is the perfect cruise venue, and its popularity continues to surge. Major cruise line operators, including Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NASDAQ: NCLH), profit from a number of key metrics in this space. The magic of a Caribbean cruise is clearly not limited to the ship. It is every bit as much about the ports of call, such as St. Maarten in the Dutch West Indies. Visited by over 1½ million tourists annually, St. Maarten has the Caribbean’s biggest cruise ship terminal as well as the busiest airport, and that is just one of many growing ports.
At each port, the story is much the same. The tourists get off the boat, they enjoy the beauty of the island, and they spend money. They spend money on souvenirs, services and entertainment, side excursions, and most importantly on food and restaurants. In spite of the reputation of cruise ships as floating feedbags, cruise passengers can easily tire of the same ship restaurants and the islands offer the possibility of something different. Eating at a port of call is for many people a key part of experiencing it.
Unfortunately, the local fare in many Caribbean ports tends to come in only two varieties: high-priced gourmet style restaurants, and small family-owned operations that often gouge the tourist and display inconsistent quality. Research indicated that what is missing is a restaurant that is clearly tied to the Caribbean while also being a dependable brand for both new and returning tourists, offering consistently high quality at a reasonable price. A popular Caribbean associated brand could rapidly spread to all the ports served by the cruise industry as tourists learn to identify it with the overall Caribbean vacation experience. This is especially valuable given the fact that many Caribbean tourists are now return visitors, both cruise and non-cruise.
Targeting this major opportunity, Blue Water Global Group is developing the Blue Water Bar & Grill™ restaurant brand, offering a dining experience that uniquely captures the look and feel of the Caribbean while offering consistent quality and affordable prices. The company is already actively engaged in obtaining the necessary government approvals to construct its initial Caribbean island restaurant at St. Maarten, in the Dutch West Indies, one of the most popular Caribbean destinations. Permits are expected by December 2014 with plans for the grand opening sometime in the first half of 2015. The restaurant design will be based on an open-air environment, with a large covered outside patio, a beautiful water view, a pool with a swim-up bar, and even fire pits to complete the atmosphere. From St. Maarten, the company plans to expand at the rate of approximately one new location annually to Aruba, Barbados, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, and Nassau.
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Branding As A Platform For Additional Products
One of the key advantages to brand building is its ability to be a natural platform for launching new products. It’s an important way to leverage initial investments, taking advantage of the name recognition and customer base that is already there. In the case of Blue Water Global Group, their developing Caribbean restaurant brand will be grown in conjunction with the development of a line of premium rums through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Blue Water Beverage Brands, Ltd. According to the company, these will be premium Caribbean rums, made of organically grown Caribbean sugar cane, harvested at the peak of freshness and carefully crafted by a master rum maker. The rums are being produced in the Dominican Republic and will be sold initially at Blue Water’s restaurants and other retail locations. By linking their restaurant brand and rum brand, the two offerings will support each other. The company expects tourists will learn to take the vacation experience back with them by purchasing this homegrown Caribbean rum. It will also tap into rum’s growing global popularity.
The strength of the spirits market, and premium rum in particular, is shown in the recent acquisition of Beam, Inc., one of the world’s leading premium spirits companies and makers of Calico Jack rum, by Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd. (OTC: STBFY). In a recent interview, Appleton Estates Master Blender Joy Spence reinforces the notion that top shelf rum is the next big thing in the spirit world, showing double-digit growth in 2013. Appleton Estate Jamaica Rum is owned by Davide Campari-Milano S.p.A (OTC: DVDCF) and is distributed by Campari America.
The first two Blue Water rums, Blue Water Ultra Premium Rum™ and spiced Blue Water Caribbean Gold™ Premium Rum, have just recently gone into production, and will be expanded in 2015 through distribution channels into neighboring islands, such as the exclusive St. Barts, French West Indies, and Anguilla, British West Indies. The company plans to continue expanding these brands throughout the Caribbean Region and to eventually export them into the United States as early as 2016. The long-term potential is substantial, given the growing global market for rum and the company’s consistent branding model. It also leaves the door open for other new products.
Benefits Of A Multi-Pronged Approach
Blue Water Global Group has carefully structured these multiple operations so that they provide support to one another as they develop. It represents a remarkably integrated foundation for revenue building into multiple growing markets. It’s an unusually well planned approach for growth that offers both stability and flexibility.
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