TO ALL: WE HAVE A WINNER!
Thank you all for your wonderful ideas. The thing I like best about working for you -- the shareholders -- is that you all want to be, and truly SHOULD be, active participants in OZON's future success.
I have had no less than 476 emails, and that doesn't count the posts here on SI. Each communique offered terrific ideas and suggestions.
The decision was no small task, especially when you consider that our lawyers had to conduct copyright searches for every name that made it to the short list. We passed on many possibilities because someone beat us to it.
Although my personal favorite didn't make it because someone had copyrights to the name, or such a close proximity to it, I wanted to share with you the short list and the submitter:
Rick Monihan (BAC-OFF), Bill Rogers and John Donovan (Nature's Own Way), John and Mary Krone (Bio-Pure), Wayne Perry (TROXY), Stephanie Raitch Mocilan (Blue Sky System), Steven Young, who just had a birthday (MicrobeNater), David Fielding (ZoneDefense), Mike Laven (RainPure), Andrea Kowalski (CycloZone), Robert Lembo (THOR), Criggal, sorry I don't know your first name since it wasn't on the email (Pro-Nutech), Marc Berger (OXYCLEAN), Scott Orshan (Oxygiene Spa), James Lee Bland (Pure-O-Clean), Gordon Quickstad, you handsome devil (HydroPure), Dezert, again, sorry I don't know your first name (OTRES), Dr. Jeff Henken (O-So-Fresh), Julio Gonzales (EnviroSafe Pure-O-Clean), Commander Scott Waddle and his entire family (Oh-So-Clean), Sri Koneru (PureAllFoods), Mike Stuy (Nature's Ozon), Jack Rogers (OZONOW), John, sorry I didn't get your last name (NatureWash) and Carolyn S. (FreshWash).
The final winner came as a last minute entry from Brenda Greer and it is ECO-PURE. We asked our attorneys to copyright several versions (Ec-O-Pure, ECO-PURE, EcoPure) just to be on the safe side. Brenda, you will get your 50 dollars, not male deer (bucks) right away!
I want to thank each and every one of you. Bill and I were just thrilled by the number and quality of responses. In fact, Bill told me tonight that he wants ALL investor relations efforts to be INTERACTIVE which means that you will be very involved with Company strategies, marketing campaigns, annual reports and product issues, should you elect to be.
Frankly, in all of my many years doing this, I have never been so impressed with and delighted to work for such an outstanding group. Go OZON and its shareholders!
Melinda Ballard
Cyclopss Corp.
P.S. A special thanks to Mike Laven, Bruce Becker, Bradley Whitney, David Fielding, Luis Castro, Sandie McGuinness, Dennis P., Wayne J. Mr. Jeff, John Daggs and to Marlin Harmon, whose wife just delivered a beautiful baby girl. And, another special thanks to Dr. Jeffrey Henken who supplied me with good jokes and a lot of laughs (via email) during the selection process. |
