• CloudCommerce’s recently announced rollout of SWARM offers a proprietary, audience-driven business-intelligence solution
• The global business-intelligence market is projected to see 11 percent annual growth
• CloudCommerce subsidiaries provide branding, data analysis, digital marketing and web design services

For marketers, connecting with the consumers most likely to need their products is like finding that proverbial needle in a haystack. Consequently, a lot of digital marketing today operates on the timeworn spray-and-pray model or delivers “stalker ads” that surreptitiously pursue consumers from site to site, even though those consumers may have already purchased the product being advertised. Spray-and-pray is inefficient, since the model often serves up ads to the wrong markets. Stalker ads are equally ineffectual. In addition, they annoy viewers and are costly both in terms of dollars and distinctiveness for brands. Fortunately, solutions now being offered by CloudCommerce Inc. (OTCQB: CLWD) promise to provide a new promotional paradigm for marketers. The company’s flagship SWARM is an end-to-end audience intelligence solution that helps businesses identify which consumers to talk to, what to say to those consumers and how to motivate those consumers to take meaningful action.

SWARM combines a range of disciplines – advanced data science, behavioral science, artificial intelligence and marketing research – to discover, develop and create custom audiences for any business activity (http://ibn.fm/T7Am8). The intelligent audience-building tool analyzes markets using marketing personas, or archetypes of attributes and attitudes common to customers.

The use in marketing of these personas is well established, but, typically, personas are constructed using demographic data such as gender, race, age, income, etc. SWARM takes the analysis deeper by employing a behavioral-science approach to audience creation and communication. Using SWARM, marketers can examine consumer motivations and the factors that trigger consumers’ decisions to buy. Promoters then have the opportunity to communicate more effectively with their prospects, leading to greater brand acceptance and increased revenues.

CloudCommerce expects that SWARM will benefit from the rapidly growing market for business intelligence. According to Market Research Future, the global business-intelligence (BI) market will grow from $16.3 billion in 2016 to $34.3 billion by 2022, at an compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.03 percent (http://ibn.fm/NKj1t).

CloudCommerce also offers a range of complementary services through subsidiaries. DataPROPIA is the company’s data-analytics unit. This service collects, aggregates and analyzes data from a wide variety of sources. Data and behavioral scientists then segment and model that data to be deployed in targeted marketing campaigns. DataPROPIA has data-analytics expertise in retail, wholesale, distribution, logistics, manufacturing and other industries.

Parscale Digital is CloudCommerce’s digital-marketing division. The unit develops marketing plans for clients and assists in the execution of powerful call-to-action digital campaigns that boost exposure and widen national reach.

Two other business units make up the CloudCommerce family. Giles Design Bureau is the group’s branding specialist subsidiary, while WebTEGRITY develops commerce-focused, user-friendly digital websites and apps for online marketers.

Earlier in September 2019, CloudCommerce announced the appointment of NetworkNewsWire (NNW), a multifaceted financial news and publishing company, as its corporate communications agent (http://ibn.fm/AS4dY).

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.CloudCommerce.com

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to CLWD are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/CLWD

• The company’s CEO says that its partnership with My Home Group Real Estate could boost solar sales to $2 million monthly by 2020
• SING’s president noted that both SING and the real-estate firm jointly benefit when agents refer Direct Solar installations to home buyers and sellers
• CFN Media Group released analysis of SING’s savvy investment in a cannabis automated-speed packager

SinglePoint Inc. (OTCQB: SING) CEO Greg Lambrecht said in an interview on MoneyTV with host Donald Baillargeon that a strong performance by subsidiary Direct Solar could drive company revenues in FY2020 to anywhere from $15 million to $25 million. Lambrecht noted that the solar division is already generating $1 million a month in solar contracts. By 2020, that monthly sales total could be dramatically higher (http://ibn.fm/65SFM).

“Solar is a monster right now,” Lambrecht stated in the interview. “It’s taken on a life of its own. Direct Solar could take contracts up to $2 million per month in 2020.” The company exec explained that great opportunities exist to sell solar to an audience of environmentally conscious millennials eager to find alternative energy made more affordable by the availability of government rebates and financing through SING’s new arm, Direct Solar Capital.

In the podcast ‘Clean Tech and Climate Change’ by InvestorIdeas.com (http://ibn.fm/Dqplr), SING President Wil Ralston reported that Direct Solar’s recent partnership with My Home Group Real Estate LLC will be mutually beneficial to both companies. While SING has seen an increase in referrals to home buyers/sellers for more solar installations, the real estate group – the second-fastest growing residential real-estate brokerage in the nation – can provide alternative energy options for homeowners who are eco-conscious, searching for cleaner alternative fuel systems and looking to reduce their reliance on the grid as well as reduce utility bills (http://ibn.fm/e3X0B). The real-estate firm has some 2,500 agents.

“We have already reached a level of nearly four contract closings per day nearly seven days a week,” Ralston noted on the podcast. Highlighting the company’s potential for growth, he added, “We have the scalability to go nationwide in the future. We are already in 11 cities.”

In addition, Lambrecht was optimistic about SING’s focus on the launch of Pure American hemp cigarettes. He said that SING would show the new line of hemp cigarettes at the National Association of Convenience Stores’ (NAC) convention, scheduled October 1-4 in Atlanta. Nationwide, there are some 340,000 convenience stores, and SING is distributing a sophisticated mailer to major buyers, Lambrecht said. He also noted that SING’s tagline – ‘Make the Switch’ – is aimed at encouraging smokers and vape consumers to convert to pure-hemp cigarettes instead.

CFN Media Group published an analysis article lauding SING’s investment in cannabis automated-speed packager Jacksam Corp. (OTCQB: JKSM), operator of the proprietary Convectium 710 Shark packaging system (http://ibn.fm/Ndawb). The article praised the system’s ability to “[run] circles around the competition,” as “none of the limited amount of competition even comes close to the speed or diversity of the 710 Shark.” SING now holds roughly six percent of the outstanding shares of Jacksam Corp., the article reported. In March 2017, SING made a $400,000 cash-and-stock investment into then privately-held Convectium, which has developed automation solutions for the cannabis industry that fill, cap and package THC and CBD concentrates some 60-times quicker than manual methods (http://ibn.fm/bQ0p3). In a news release describing the benefit of SING’s investment (http://ibn.fm/eArgl), CEO Greg Lambrecht concluded, “We were confident in the investment in Convectium 2-1/2 years ago and are greatly looking forward to the coming years under their new business model.”

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.SinglePoint.com

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to SING are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/SING

• The direct-selling industry reached record numbers last year, continuing its consistent growth
• SHRG’s global expansion plan includes strategic steps to align with its mission
• The company has reported record-breaking growth in sales and Elepreneur numbers

In a global industry that reached $192.9 billion last year and saw a year-over-year increase of 1.5 percent from 2017 (http://ibn.fm/ypRTN), Sharing Services Global Corporation (OTCQB: SHRG) is ideally poised to benefit from a growing worldwide interest in direct sales.

SHRG has seen consistent record-breaking success as it has engineered a strategic paradigm shift in home-based entrepreneurship. With global expansion in mind, the company officially changed its name earlier this year from Sharing Services Inc. to Sharing Services Global Corporation (http://ibn.fm/Rzzx5), a move that was closely followed by a ticker symbol change as well.

“We are pleased to have our trading symbol changed to better reflect our new name, which more closely aligns with our mission to expand globally,” Sharing Services CEO John “JT” Thatch stated in a news release (http://ibn.fm/8mb8U). At the time, company leaders shared a strategic plan to grow the business both organically and through acquisitions inside or outside the United States, noting that they saw excellent growth opportunities in Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia.

Shortly afterward, the company, through wholly owned subsidiary Elepreneur LLC, announced plans to hold its first event in Canada since detailing its global expansion strategy (http://ibn.fm/Umyzy). The meeting was held in Ottawa, Ontario, May 3-4. “We are pleased to enter the Canadian market and share our great products while continuing to create our ’Blue Ocean Strategy’ in other countries outside the U.S.,” added Thatch. “This is a very exciting time for our company and its great team of Elepreneurs.”

As apparent proof that the company is on the right road, SHRG has consistently reported increasing sales numbers since its wholly owned subsidiary, Elevacity Global LLC, released a line of health and wellness products in December 2017. Sales for its most recent fiscal year totaled $85.9 million, marking a nine-fold increase from its $8.4 million total from the year before (http://ibn.fm/50ess).

In addition to the new product line, Thatch credits the financial success of the company in large part to its independent representatives, or Elepreneurs. Following a modern direct-selling model that focuses on achieving healthy minds and bodies, happiness in quality of life and wealth accumulation, SHRG’s Elepreneurs are enthusiastically sharing the company’s mission, opportunity and products. Tens of thousands of Elepreneurs have elected to join the company, and that number continues to increase each month.

Sharing Services Global Corporation owns, operates or controls an interest in a variety of companies specializing in the strong direct-sales space and is focused on reshaping how entrepreneurs build their businesses in today’s modern world. SHRG leverages the capabilities and expertise of companies that sell products direct to the consumer through independent representatives, called Elepreneurs.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.SHRGInc.com

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to SHRG are available in the company’s newsroom at  http://ibn.fm/SHRG

• Developer of state-of-the-art custom farm containers for farmers, growers, restaurants, hotels, casinos, entrepreneurs, and investors throughout North America
• Featured in MarketWatch, Business Insider and Bloomberg, recognized for its innovation and contributions to end world hunger
• Modular, stackable and mobile GrowPod systems address the issues of providing a clean and safe food supply, reducing world hunger, maximizing crop yields, and offering a rapid and inexpensive pathway for entrepreneurs and businesses to enter multiple agricultural sectors
• GrowPods allow cultivation to take place year-round, which maximizes customers’ ROI

GP Solutions (OTC: GWPD) is developing scalable farming systems for soil-less indoor organic farming. The company’s GrowPods are automated micro-farms that use hydroponic technology and unique soil systems to cultivate the highest-quality specialty leaf crops. The system is designed and engineered for ease of use, allowing users to farm year-round in any location of the world, supporting the company’s mission to provide customers with the ability to cultivate their own organic “superfoods.”

GrowPod Design & Function

GrowPod is a modular, stackable and mobile vertical growing environment specifically engineered to maximize yield and automation. GrowPods are available as a vertical pod, stacker pod or custom-built pod.

The Stacker Pod is a certified organic soil system that offers growers multiple levels of planting in order to maximize space and produce options with different fruits and vegetables. The Vertical Pod utilizes a vertical hydroponic system. It is affordable, scalable, efficient, automated and sustainable. The output provides customers with fresh and clean produce year-round in any climate. The Custom Pod is built to suit the farmer’s specific crop and grow goals.

Each 320-square-foot GrowPod container will have an annual production capability of up to four times that of outdoor growing methods, dramatically increasing profitability to the grower. The controlled environment of the GrowPod ensures efficient power and water usage in growing a wide range of horticultural and agricultural products in all environments and climates.

Thanks to a combination of hydroponic and certified organic soil systems, crop yields are higher, faster, and more consistent that conventional means. Customers can enjoy an average of eight higher yield crop cycles anywhere in the world.

GrowPod Features:

• Modular, stackable and mobile
• Fully insulated, food-grade shipping container
• Engineered for automation
• Efficient LED lighting
• Hydroponic or soil-based platforms
• Proprietary air and water filtration
• Climate-controlled
• Remote monitoring

GP Solutions also offers many services to its customers, including:

• Shipment and installation service of its shipping container farms
• On-site training
• Provision of custom planting and harvesting schedule
• Provision of growing supplies, seeds, nutrients, packaging, branding and repair materials
• On-site visits, on-call and scheduled maintenance, and re-supply
• Remote monitoring and automated control of environmental nutrients, environmental growth factors (PH, temperature, light) and circulation
• Technical assistance
• Consulting and custom facility systems design

Competitive Advantage

GrowPods allow cultivation to take place year-round, which maximizes ROI. The systems are sealed from outside pathogens, contaminants, pesticides, and the result is clean and robust crop production.

GP Solutions also has a line of remarkable new proprietary soil mixtures and nutrient lines which contain no animal products. These products are vital, as many other soils and additives can contain harmful pathogens and contaminants that can cause crops to become tainted or fail rigorous testing.

Global Solution

GP Solutions has partnered with the world’s leading food nonprofit companies, including Feeding America, Seeds of Hope, Habitat for Humanity, Meals on Wheels America, L.A. Kitchen, and Farm Bread, to help insecure communities take control of their own food dependence using container farms.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.GrowPodSolutions.com

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to GWPD are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/GWPD

• IONIC Brands has developed its sense of where the company belongs within the adult-use cannabis industry by finding where the market is and anticipating where it’s going, technologically
• The company’s West Coast locations are centered in the world’s largest legal recreational cannabis market, and its product line has been developed to specifically cater to consumers’ interests
• IONIC Brands is also preparing to launch its Slim-line Vape pen with Bluetooth technology in the coming weeks – a new development that builds on medical dosing trends to safely and conveniently dose cannabis to recreational users
• The company’s most recent quarterly financial report revealed record revenues that made a 377 percent leap over the prior year’s period

In order to achieve market success, it’s imperative for a company to have a sense of place, both within the terms of the marketplace in which it’s competing and within the geocultural climate where its customers live and breathe every day.

IONIC Brands Corp. (CSE: IONC) (OTC: IONKF) (FRA: IB3) growing a complement of products as a national cannabis holdings company within the recreational adult-use space shows that it knows where it stands and also that it has a prescient idea of where the industry’s road to success is leading.

IONIC Brands is developing a premium and luxury consumer portfolio led by a multi-state consumer-focused cannabis concentrate brand. Its base is on the West Coast, where the adult recreational use market for cannabis is booming with the largest volume of business in the world.

The company’s product line includes six cannabis formulations presented in three distinctive mood offerings designed to appeal to recreational users according to the consumers’ preferences for rich sociability, serene relaxation or enlightened creativity (http://ibn.fm/lRDWW).

The company has also recently closed a successful financing drive to fund various strategic business acquisitions – another part of IONIC Brands’ model for building revenue. In particular, the company’s completion of an exclusive Heads of Agreement with Lifespot Health Limited (ASX: LSH) further demonstrates IONIC’s understanding of how location plays into the success of a cannabis enterprise; the agreement will provide the company with the ability to assimilate short-range Bluetooth technology into its vaporizer hardware.

The connectivity and control that Bluetooth provides within a specific geographic field without inconvenient electronic apparatus additions mean that IONIC Brands can adapt science already successfully used in medicinal applications to manage the dosing aspects of its vaporizer products.

Medical device maker Orthogonal reports that more than 75 percent of its clients use Bluetooth Classic or Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) technologies to ensure connectivity in their wearable, implantable and portable medical devices. Those medical devices comprise a market that Orthogonal expects to exceed $180 billion by next year, even as Bluetooth-equipped smartphones are expected to approach six billion users across the world (http://ibn.fm/OZvFK).

Under the agreement with Lifespot, IONIC Brands expects to upgrade its cannabis vaporizers and develop new vaporizer technologies to better ensure a safe, desirable experience for recreational users.

“Smartphone Bluetooth technology is the future of cannabis delivery and dosing,” Chairman and CEO John Gorst stated in a July news release (http://ibn.fm/omm1l). “The company is ecstatic to offer consumers advanced delivery technology that, before this agreement, was only available to medical patients.”

The company expects to launch the first Bluetooth-enabled vaporizer and platform specifically designed for cannabis use as the Slim-line Vape within the next few weeks.

The company’s visionary approach to its sense of place helped it achieve record revenues for the second quarter reporting period. IONIC ended June with a year-over-year increase of 377 percent in sales, amounting to a $3.86 million increase for the three-month period.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.IONIC.social

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to IONKF are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/IONKF

• The telecommunications industry is preparing for its next evolutionary stage as carriers and their customers begin anticipating 5G data speed enhancements for mobile technology
• Spectrum Global Solutions is an end-to-end provider of telecommunications infrastructure solutions helping to position businesses for the 5G network revolution
• The company recently announced that it has renewed a key three-year contract with a tier 1 carrier for outside plant labor, construction and maintenance services
• Spectrum Global also noted in August that it had been awarded $3.6 million in new contracts with new and existing clients, dealing primarily with 5G network establishment

Telecommunications network service provider Spectrum Global Solutions Inc. (OTCQB: SGSI) announced recently that it has succeeded in renewing a key contract with a U.S.-based tier 1 carrier to which it has previously provided outside plant labor, construction and maintenance services.

The three-year contract with the large-scale telecommunications firm is confidential under the terms of the agreement and based on demand, but Spectrum Global’s announcement notes that a comparable contract with the same company during the prior three-year period generated more than $17.5 million in revenue (http://ibn.fm/dJnz3).

“We believe that these types of contracts will grow to become particularly valuable as the vast investments that carriers are making into their communications infrastructure come to fruition,” CEO Roger Ponder stated in a news release. “It is estimated that the infrastructure cost for 5G alone will exceed $1 trillion, creating an immense opportunity for us to enable carriers to provide improved data connectivity to increasingly data-hungry consumers nationwide.”

5G network rollouts began earlier this year, promising an exponential increase in data transmission speed for the customers of mobile carriers. The technology will be based initially on ‘5G NR’ (5G New Radio) software that relies on existing 4G LTE networks until the carriers evolve with an entirely new infrastructure that will support a more efficient operation (http://ibn.fm/Xakkr).

Spectrum Global is a holding company that serves the needs of the communications technology industry from end to end, with engineering and infrastructure services across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Caribbean delivered through its subsidiaries, AW Solutions, ADEX Corp. and TNS Inc.

ADEX won the most recent contract renewal, and Ponder notes that the agreement creates “exciting ancillary opportunities for (SGSI) to win new business for (its) AW Solutions and TNS subsidiaries as well.”

In August, SGSI announced that it had been awarded $3.6 million in new contracts across all of its subsidiaries and that the majority of the contracts involve setting up 5G network infrastructure for new and previously existing clients (http://ibn.fm/YfGC7).

“As we continue to expand our service offering to support the rollout of 5G, which requires a large number of small cell deployments rather than a fewer number of larger towers as was traditionally seen, our opportunity pipeline continues to grow at a rapid rate,” Ponder stated at the time. “I look forward to continued operational execution on this front and long-term shareholder value creation.”

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.SpectrumGlobalSolutions.com

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to SGSI are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/SGSI

• Supreme Cannabis subsidiary 7ACRES recently released its first sativa-dominant strain, with rare sensory characteristics differentiating the high-end flower offering
• Supreme Cannabis is positioned to develop value-add new cannabis products with its acquisition of Truverra
• The company’s collaboration with PAX Labs Inc. creates inroads into the lucrative Canadian vaporizer segment

The Supreme Cannabis Company Inc. (TSX: FIRE) (OTCQX: SPRWF) (FRA: 53S1), a diversified portfolio of cannabis brands that deliver positive experiences, continues to expand through several brand offerings designated for its discerning customer base. Through its various brands, SPRWF continues to synthesize its consumer-driven approach with a strong foundation of business fundamentals to realize promising revenue goals.

Recently, SPRWF announced the initial market entry of Jack Haze, a proprietary strain from its 7ACRES subsidiary. The unique 7ACRES Jack Haze strain is the first of a series designed to differentiate the high-end flower offering of 7ACRES from that of its competitors. That superior quality, the company says, will enable it to maintain premium pricing across Canada. Jack Haze is the company’s first sativa-dominant strain, offering rare sensory characteristics and a crisp and zesty evergreen flavor with visual appeal. The Jack Haze strain will be available in September in select Canadian provinces supplied by 7ACRES (http://ibn.fm/5LWXI).

“This cultivar’s expression possesses a unique haze profile with a classic, sweet sativa smell and strong visual appeal,” Chief Advocacy Officer and Founder John Fowler stated in a news release. “As we develop and introduce unique strains, we further differentiate 7ACRES’ high end flower offering and continue to achieve premium pricing across Canada.”

As the company enhances and expands its flower offering under its 7ACRES brand, it is also taking steps to prepare for ‘Cannabis 2.0’ products in Canada. SPRWF recently acquired Toronto-based and privately held Truverra. This move intensifies Supreme Cannabis’ focus on expanding its cannabis presence in Canada (http://ibn.fm/K9vAr).

Through the acquisition of Truverra, Supreme Cannabis gained a 5,000-square-foot Health Canada licensed facility in Scarborough, Ontario. Truverra’s wholly owned subsidiary, Canadian Clinical Cannabinoids Inc. operates this strategically located and licensed facility. From this operating asset, Supreme Cannabis is preparing to produce high-quality cannabis extracts, including concentrates and vaping liquids.

“The recent introduction of Health Canada’s amended cannabis regulations creates a distinct opportunity for Supreme Cannabis to establish a leading position in the cannabis extracts markets,” SPRWF CEO Navdeep Dhaliwal stated in a news release. “With the acquisition of Truverra, we secure a Toronto-based facility equipped to extract our high-quality inputs for concentrates and vaping liquids in the near-term.”

Deepening its Canadian market presence, Supreme Cannabis has also partnered with PAX Labs Inc. (http://ibn.fm/Akxxr), a market leader with over 1.5 million devices sold worldwide and a “reputation as the best pen-and-pod system in the U.S.” This move allowed Supreme Cannabis to become a foundational brand partner and supplier for the PAX Era in Canada. Supreme Cannabis’ subsidiary, 7ACRES, was one of only four licensed producers chosen to be an initial partner in creating cannabis oil pods for the PAX Era.

Analysts from CFN Media Group (http://ibn.fm/Plad0) noted in a recent report that “nothing speaks more clearly to the ability to scale than Supreme this month providing revenue guidance for the next year in the range of $150 million to $180 million.” The article adds that “the robust growth is owed to management’s ability to make prescient moves to stay in front of regulation changes in addition to operational excellence.”

The Supreme Cannabis portfolio includes 7ACRES, its wholly owned subsidiary and multi-award-winning brand; Blissco Cannabis Corp., a wellness cannabis brand and a multi-licensed processor and distributor based in British Columbia; Truverra Inc., a global medicinal cannabis brand and licensed cultivator; Cambium Plant Sciences, a cultivation IP and plant genetics firm; Medigrow Lesotho, a cannabis oil producer located in southern Africa; Supreme Heights, an investment platform focused on CBD brands in the UK and Europe; and a brand partnership and licensing deal with Khalifa Kush Enterprises Canada.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Supreme.ca

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to SPRWF are available in the company’s newsroom at  http://ibn.fm/SPRWF

• VPR Brands specializes in vaporizers & accessories for essential oils, cannabis concentrates and extracts (CBD), and e-cigarettes containing nicotine
• The company’s assets include issued U.S. and Chinese patents for atomization-related products
• VPR Brands CEO, President and Chairman Kevin Frija recently purchased a significant number of shares of the company

VPR Brands LP (OTCQB: VPRB) is a technology holding company that fosters brands via direct sales and licensing opportunities in the CBD (cannabidiol) vertical. A unique technology enterprise, the company’s assets include patented atomization-related products and technology. VPR Brands had full-year revenues of approximately $4.6 million in 2018 (http://ibn.fm/iB1FH). For Q1 2019, its quarterly revenues increased approximately 31 percent year-over-year to $1.3 million (http://ibn.fm/wjpxq). As his company continues to increase its earnings, CEO, President and Chairman Kevin Frija also continues to invest in it, and he has accrued a significant amount of VPR Brands shares.

VPR Brands’ product family includes vaporizers and accessories for essential oils, cannabis concentrates and extracts, and e-cigarettes that contain nicotine. For investors, the company’s focus is really a fundamental one – to keep adding products and distribution to boost sales and profits. This emphasis helped VPRB attain its revenue achievements in 2018 and so far in 2019.

The company’s experienced and forward-thinking management is also driving its growth. CEO, President and Chairman Kevin Frija recently showed his faith in the company’s direction and strategic initiatives by purchasing a significant number of shares of VPR Brands. Investment analysts often correlate such personal investment from internal leadership with a company’s future potential.

This was the case recently with biopharmaceutical company CTD Holdings Inc. (OTCQB: CTDH), based in Florida. Over the last few weeks, several of its board members personally bought over 500,000 shares of CTDH common stock on the open market. CTD Holdings Chairman and CEO Scott Fine purchased another 50,000 shares in recent weeks, adding to his position. This brings his total ownership to over 6.7 million shares (http://ibn.fm/G3YBd). As one article noted (http://ibn.fm/hgWHO), “When the people close to operations are heavily invested, it is often for good reason and warrants investor attention.”

Similarly, Frija’s support of his company shows his confidence in its growth potential. Pertaining to recent trades, he recently purchased 124,500 shares of company stock on August 19, 2019. Prior to this, Frija purchased 963,860 shares of VPRB on August 16, 2019. Frija owns 10 percent of the company and continues to deepen his support, having bought almost three million shares of VPR Brands since May of this year. These transactions have increased his total share count from greater than 15 million to more than 18 million (http://ibn.fm/zbRFe).

VPR Brands has a diverse line-up of quality brands. These include GoldLine, GoldLine Hemp, HoneyStick, Helium, Vaporin, Krave and VaporX, with HoneyStick being the company’s flagship brand. Additionally, VPR Brands recently entered the CBD space with the GoldLine CBD product line (http://ibn.fm/I2ttF).

VPR Brands continues to focus on building first-rate brands in the nicotine and cannabis marketplaces. The company, with its astute management clearly centered on the major market opportunity in smokables and extracts, offers investors a doorway into booming verticals. VPR Brands is positioned at the crossroads of two industries set to lead the way to future growth.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.VPRBrands.com

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to VPRB are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/VPRB

• The health and wellness industry has been growing in recent years amid increasing efforts to improve quality of life, as well as concerns about the rising costs of medical care
• The global hemp industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 34 percent between now and 2025 as a subset of the wellness industry
• Texas-based Neutra Corp. is expanding into hemp cultivation and purified hemp extract products under a revenue-generating model that emboldens its strategy for building natural remedies to better the human body and the global environment
• A key part of the company’s strategy involves the recent acquisition of hemp-based health and nutritional product retail brand Vivis Corp. and an LOI to obtain J3 Holdings’ land, warehouse and cultivation license for growing and refining hemp

Neutra Corp. (OTCQB: NTRR) is a company intent on pursuing its interest in developing modern, healthy living solutions in a world that’s ever more focused on quality of life concerns and the rising costs of health care. Neutra Corp.’s initial focus was on bringing to market products derived from all natural and organic origins, as a nutraceutical firm developing natural remedies that promote the body’s ability to heal and maintain itself, when the company was founded in 2011.

The explosion of nutraceutical opportunities in the cannabis derivative market as societal attitudes and governmental regulations have undergone changes in recent years has led Neutra Corp. to pursue the possibility of monetizing early stage research and development efforts to constructively aid the human body and the global environment, scaling vertically with nutraceutical, food and environmental purification holdings.

“In 2019 we’re really looking at trying to figure out how to participate in the hemp-based CBD market,” CEO Sydney Jim said during a recent interview with NetworkNewsAudio (http://ibn.fm/yy7WS). “Our overall goal is to become a vertically integrated company from cultivation to manufacturing to formulation of products and then to distribution and retail sales.”

The wellness industry grew by 6.4 percent each year from 2015 to 2017, topping $4.2 trillion as a market growing nearly twice as fast as the global economy, according to a report issued last fall by The Global Wellness Institute (http://ibn.fm/s6lZR). The global hemp industry is forecast to grow as a segment of the health and wellness market with a CAGR of 34 percent between now and 2025, according to Research and Markets analysts, growing from $4.6 billion to $26.6 billion (http://ibn.fm/W9YOL).

As the global cannabis market continues to grow, it will have a constant need for developing technologies and products that increase business efficiencies in plant cultivation processes, the types of plants to be cultivated and consumption methods. Neutra Corp. is constantly combing the industry for the latest and greatest products to test, prove and bring to market, whether lighting resources, dosage devices, pesticide alternatives or plant nurturing elements, according to the company’s most recent quarterly statement issued September 23 (http://ibn.fm/teboZ).

As part of Neutra Corp.’s strategy for generating revenue, the company recently announced the tactical acquisition of emerging hemp-based health and nutritional product retail brand Vivis Corp. from Jim, who is also Vivis’ founder and CEO. All of Vivis’ CBD products are tested and certified by a third party to ensure their purity (http://ibn.fm/g8KeW).

Vivis has one product line that uses a 99 percent or higher grade of hemp-extracted crystalline CBD, and the company expects to soon launch a second brand with an 80 percent or higher grade of full-spectrum CBD extract.

The company intends to entrust the manufacturing of its products to a nutraceutical contractor to private label all of its products and sell them under Neutra Corp.’s unique brand, according to Neutra Corp.’s quarterly report. The company will continue seeking ways to fund its ventures as a natural part of operations, and it believes that its projects and initiatives will successfully come to provide cash flow that Neutra Corp. can use to finance future growth.

Neutra Corp. has also signed a letter of intent to acquire J3 Holdings, a company that has land, a warehouse and a license to cultivate and refine hemp that are expected to prove valuable additions to Neutra Corp’s stable.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.NeutraInc.com

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to NTRR are available in the company’s newsroom at http://ibn.fm/NTRR

• The consolidation of corporate pharmacy chains and constantly increasing competition are two of the main factors contributing to the problems facing independent and community pharmacies
• The pharmaceutical sector is incredibly lucrative, with large players such as Amazon also attempting to secure part of the market; as a result of such large developments, community pharmacies have been experiencing declining profits and margins
• Trxade Group is working to empower independent pharmacy owners by providing valuable support and information about affordable supplying options; access to real-time information gives small pharmacies the tools needed to compete against large industry players

Growing competition and the consolidation of corporate pharmacy chains are two of the biggest challenges that small and independent pharmacies have to overcome. Companies like Trxade Group Inc. (OTCQB: TRXD) are working on the development of technological solutions that will enable small industry players to remain competitive.

A number of pharmacy chains dominate the prescription drug market in the U.S. Statistics from 2018 suggest that the biggest industry player alone holds 24.2 percent of the market, followed by the second largest chain, which holds 17.5 percent (http://ibn.fm/nLdnb). Adding declining margins to the mix makes it very difficult for small community pharmacies to stay afloat.

One of the latest developments that has impacted the business of small pharmacies in the U.S. is the Amazon acquisition of PillPack (http://ibn.fm/2Qbnc). The deal was concluded in 2018, but the effect it’s having on the pharmaceutical market is only being amplified with the passage of time.

PillPack offers online sales, delivering most of the medications that consumers can get in brick-and-mortar pharmacies. Automatic refills and 24/7 customer support add to the convenience of the service and boost the threat that smaller industry players are facing.

All of these major developments are contributing to a trend that has been ongoing for several years. Since 2016, there has been a sustainable declining profits trend among independent pharmacies (http://ibn.fm/M9wU8). During that year alone, overall gross margins for prescription and non-prescription products were 22.1 percent, in comparison to 24 percent in 2010. As a result of such trends, the number of independent pharmacies has been steadily declining.

However, community pharmacies and small businesses do have an opportunity to fight back and ensure their economic survival. This is where Trxade Group, an integrated pharmaceutical services company that focuses on supporting independent and community-based pharmacies, comes in.

The company’s Trxade Exchange platform creates new and widens existing distribution channels for independent pharmacies. The service enables members of the platform to view manufacturer, wholesaler and buyer group prices. The real-time information makes it easy to access the most affordable supplies and improve overall margins.

As of September 2019, Trxade Exchange’s membership has reached 10,500 pharmacies out of the 24,000 independent entities operating in the U.S. Joining the platform makes it easier for smaller industry representatives to compete with the large retail chains that have solid, affordable supply agreements because they can buy in bulk.

Trxade Group is constantly working to empower small businesses. Apart from its Trxade Exchange platform, the company is developing additional products to maximize data analysis capabilities and inventory management.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.TrxadeGroup.com

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