Tuesday August 3, 8:17 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: National Health & Safety Corporation
New National Health Board of Directors Meets to Evaluate Asset Offer
WARMINSTER, Pa., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- National Health & Safety Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: NHLT - news) announced today that it has filled the two vacancies on its Board of Directors. A company spokesperson said the new Board met on July 31 to evaluate the present offer to purchase the POWERx Division of the Company and to finance the reorganized corporation.
Dr. R. Dennis Bowers, CEO, said that Mr. James Kennard and Mr. Eugene M. Rothchild were appointed to the Board on an interim basis to represent the rights of creditors and shareholders pending the restructuring of the company. Bowers said that a meeting of the shareholders to elect a new board will be held in the near future.
Kennard, former CEO of Transicoil Inc. and a former member of the American Management Associations President's Association, is from Greentown, PA. He is a long-time shareholder and the first investor in National Health before it went public in 1992. Eugene M. Rothchild, Esq. is a practicing civil attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio and a shareholder since 1997.
National Health filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 on July 1. The company also reported that it would file a detailed restructuring plan including financial details within the next 10 days.
''We are taking aggressive action to bring the company back to a strong financial footing,'' Bowers reported. He said that plans for the company include a substantial reduction of company expenditures, a reorganization of management, relocation of customer service to a new state-of-the-art database and call center in Texas, and a ''highly visible Internet presence.''
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SOURCE: National Health & Safety Corporation |