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An explanation of who Fields Technologies is and what they do.
Fields Technologies, Inc., formerly known as AmeriNet Group.com, Inc., is a holding company with two operating subsidiaries: Wriwebs.com, Inc. (WRI) and AmeriNet Communications, Inc. (AmeriCom). The Company also holds minority interests (less than 20% ownership) in two operating Florida corporations, Trilogy International, Inc. (Trilogy) and Vista International, Inc. (Vista), and provides consulting services to other corporations. Fields Technologies currently has one active consulting agreement, that being with FundsAmerica Finance Corporation (FundsAmerica), a recently organized Florida retail mobile home re-finance company. In June 2001, the Company acquired Park City Group, Inc., a software development company.
Wriwebs.com, Inc.
WRI is an Internet presence provider located in Pompano Beach, Florida offering residential and business users web-hosting and design services, as well as a wide range of other e-commerce solutions including e-mail, personal home pages, chat rooms and electronic commerce. WRI also offers ancillary services including leased high-speed Internet access lines as a reseller of long distance service; web-site development, maintenance and storage; and, Internet advertising, promotion and consulting.
The hosting services available through WRI include virtual hosting and collocation. Virtual hosting allows a client's web-site (which may be hosted on either a UNIX or NT server platform) to be connected to the Internet through the Company's subsidiaries' network operations centers. Collocation permits a client's Internet content to be hosted on a dedicated server located at the Company's subsidiaries' network operations centers, eliminating or substantially reducing the capital investments a client is otherwise required to make and reducing certain of the client's security concerns associated with connection of the client's private network(s) to a web-server.
WRI provides web hosting and Internet access services from initial simple online brochures to complex interactive multi-media applications. Its secure network operations center is comprised of dedicated Dell, Compact and other dedicated servers, multiple high-speed fiber optic connections to the Internet, and an uninterruptible power supply and environmental controls, is monitored 24 hours a day to minimize service interruptions. WRI maintains high-bandwidth paths to the Internet with dedicated T1 lines through Intermedia Communications.
WRI provides its customers with the following products either individually or as part of a one-stop package custom designed for each client's individual needs, including: Programming and Applications Development (customized application development including web-portals, total e-commerce solutions, e-marketing packages, shopping carts, real-time audio and video, custom online databases, virtually interactive communications and purchasing systems); and Content Management, Intranet and Extranet Systems, and Web-site Development and Maintenance: (Web-site Hosting and Internet Access, shared hosting and co-location services, Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL), Dedicated access (T-1 and T-3 service) and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)).
AmeriNet Communications, Inc.
AmeriCom operates through two divisions: The Firm Multimedia, a full-service advertising agency; and Ocala News Tonight, a nightly half-hour newscast. AmeriCom has suspended operations of the Ocala News Tonight division indefinitely and its current operations are limited to The Firm Multimedia division. The Firm Multimedia division is a national full-service advertising agency. Its services include consulting on marketing and advertising issues; graphic layout, design, and printing; video and audio production; media planning and placement; internet website design and promotion; interactive CD-rom design; long and short-form direct response television production; long and short-form direct response placement; and, placement of long-form television programming under commercial leased access FCC rules.
AmeriCom provides incremental advertising services to national, regional and local advertisers and marketers. AmeriCom maintains websites under each of its trade names. AmeriCom offers its general advertising services throughout the United States. The Firm Multimedia website features video and audio clips illustrating its work as well as examples of graphic design and links to authored websites. AmeriCom provides clients with a turnkey e-commerce approach by both authoring websites and providing website owners with marketing and advertising services designed to increase visits by potential customers. AmeriCom also provides clients with consultative advice covering a wide range of issues including domain names, domain registration, competitive content items (e.g., pricing, placement, inventory, target marketing, and demographic data), qualitative factors and perceptual customer research.
AmeriCom is active in the business to business (B2B) Internet website promotion and operation industry. It offers clients comprehensive rather than piecemeal services through its centralized, in house capacity to develop required strategies and materials and to articulate required messages in multiple media. Because of AmeriCom's comprehensive capabilities, its clients can either supplement or replace expensive, economically inefficient in house, full service advertising departments retaining the benefit of their centralized responsibility aspects.
AmeriCom is in the process of developing a proprietary financial news program to be presented over a national syndicate of local cable television systems using a combination of placement techniques, including leased cable access. The proposed program will target emerging public companies that generally do not have access to the public exposure available for larger more mature companies from analysts in the national media.
Trilogy International, Inc.
Trilogy is a network marketing and e-commerce company that provides: responsible pet nutrition and pet care products that help pets live the healthiest, happiest and longest lives possible; human nutritional supplements; and environmentally safe consumer cleaning products. However, almost all of Trilogy's current marketing activities are directed towards its pet care products.
Vista International, Inc.
Vista is a cruise and leisure travel marketing, training and reservations organization operating largely through home-based professional sellers of vacation travel. Vista works closely with the industry's largest cruise lines including Carnival Corp., Royal Carribean International, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of United Kingdom based P&O.
FundsAmerica Finance Corporation
The Company's first consulting agreement was signed on May 18, 1999, with FundsAmerica, a recently organized Florida corporation that operates as a development stage retail finance company concentrating on refinancing mobile homes. FundsAmerica believes that reporting company status will facilitate its ability to package and resell loan portfolios. The Company is not involved in FundsAmerica's operations, and will provide only the described consulting services. |
