Cherubim Interests, a development-stage alternative construction and real estate development company, today introduced its updated corporate website (www.CherubimInterests.com). Built from the ground up, the website is designed to better communicate ongoing progress and provide thorough descriptions of the company’s products and operations, key leadership, market opportunities, and more.

The new Investors Center features the company’s news releases, stock information, regulatory filings, and an in-depth investor presentation. In today’s press release, Cherubim also said it will be launching an Investor Relations Kit in coming weeks to provide further insight into its market opportunities and current activity. The kit will be available on the corporate website.

Cherubim Chief Executive Officer Patrick Johnson stated, “We’re proud to unveil the revamped Cherubim website to better reflect our aggressive efforts to gain momentum in high-potential niche markets. Our growth strategy is based on a hybrid business model that positions us to advance our wholly owned subsidiary, BudCube Cultivation Systems USA, while exploring opportunities in vertical markets and maintaining our primary focus on real estate acquisition and development of single, multi-family and commercial rental properties, and portable, scalable plant cultivation facilities.”

For more information on the company, visit the new site at www.cherubiminterests.com or www.budcube.com

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Today, On the Move Systems issued a press release announcing that it is looking to add depth and value to the company’s launch of its upcoming “Uber-for-Trucking” online platform by possibly adding partners.

“We’re actively searching for innovative, dynamic partners who can bring the proper synergy and a complementary range of services to the table,” stated OMVS CEO Robert Wilson. “We’ve developed an aggressive plan to build revenues with our shared economy trucking platform. This plan has progressed steadily and is nearing fruition. By adding a partner that can deliver additional value to our users, such as brokerage offerings, we can become even stronger and take greater advantage of opportunities for continued growth and expansion.”

On the Move Systems anticipates introducing a new era with this game-changing, on-demand shared economy platform by allowing truckers to connect via an online app to improve operations, scheduling, routing and optimization.

A recent Frost & Sullivan report predicted trucking will soon see an Uber-style transformation, where online, on-demand apps like the one being developed by OMVS will play a major role in logistics operations and revenue-generation. Freight transportation services generate $1 trillion in revenues each year in the U.S., with trucking making up a $600 billion slice of that pie.

For more information on OMVS, please visit www.onthemovesystems.com

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ContentChecked has fashioned a ground-breaking marketplace for people with food allergies, dietary restrictions, chronic headaches and migraines and the organizations that cater to them. By inventing and introducing its ContentChecked, SugarChecked and MigraineChecked smartphone applications to this market, ContentChecked is aiming to serve, in the US alone, an estimated 15 million people living with food-related allergies (a number that has grown by 50% in the last 14 years) and an estimated 38 million people suffering from migraine and chronic headaches.

These days, ContentChecked is moving from the successful initial launch of its ContentChecked app to the wider release and marketing of all of its apps so that it may continue to impact people worldwide.

The food allergy market alone has an estimated value of $6 billion USD. For this market, the company promotes two of its three apps: ContentChecked and SugarChecked. The company’s namesake ContentChecked allows users to enter their individual allergies into the app and to scan any bar code with their smartphone while shopping or at a friend’s home in order to find out immediately if they are allergic to that item. Similarly, the company’s newest app SugarChecked pinpoints the four main types of sugars that consumers can avoid, including added sugars, artificial sweeteners, natural low-calorie sweeteners and sugar alcohols. This application serves as an easy shopping tool for consumers looking to decode often-misleading food labels, and to receive recommendations for healthier alternatives while shopping in real time.

Along with ContentChecked, the company’s other app MigraineChecked has reached broad adoption levels. This app addresses the migraine and chronic headache market by linking a person’s migraine headache to certain foods.

All in all, ContentChecked’s apps allow users to use their smartphones to scan the bar code on any food item of interest and decide if it is safe for consumption. The apps also helps users to personalize their shopping lists and ensure they purchase products that are compatible with their specific food allergies and intolerances. If the food item is not suitable for consumption, the apps will recommend an appropriate substitute per the user’s specific dietary profile.

With its latest round of funding — a $4.5 million debt financing completed in September 2015 with Hillair Capital Investments, an award winning U.S. fund, the ContentChecked team will continue the journey they began when the company was founded in 2013 to create and commercialize their current and additional food-related apps worldwide.

For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com or www.sugarchecked.com

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A growing number of Americans today are eating healthier, with a keen eye for locally-sourced, organically-grown ingredients, and this has led to an unprecedented shift towards healthy, organic foods in the roughly $709 billion in sales (National Restaurant Association’s 2015 Restaurant Industry Forecast) restaurant and foodservice industry. And while fast casual chains, which saw 11 percent sales growth the year before last overall, continue to increasingly move towards healthier choices, there has yet to be really big winners over on the $224 billion by 2018 (Euromonitor) full-service side of the equation. With recent winners in the fast casual game like Panera Bread’s (NASDAQ: PNRA) bakery-cafe locations and Noodles & Co. (NASDAQ: NDLS), which features globally inspired noodle and pasta dishes, as well as soups, salads and sandwiches, it is clear that organic choices and newly rethought menus designed to cater to the health-conscious are now officially big business in the restaurant industry.

Fusing a best-of-breed organic menu featuring fresh salads, sandwiches, wraps, Panini’s, pizzas and pasta, as well as appetizers and desserts, together with a Gymboree-like child play area that is full of climbers, ball pits, castles, dragons, pirate ships, and fun tactile games to play, is LA-based Giggles N’ Hugs, Inc. Designed as a family casual dining restaurant and playspace targeting parents and their young children, Giggles N’ Hugs has the potential to develop into a household name brand that is recognized by everyone, thanks to the deep bench of management talent, with decades of collective experience spanning both the fast casual restaurant sector, and child play area market. The concept and target market is simple to grasp, but until now no one was really catering to the upscale kid party market in dining with an organic restaurant concept, leaving the much sought after high earner demographics to fend for themselves.

Organic casual dining for mom and dad, with a giant playroom full of wonders for kids 1 to 12 to explore and play around in, getting good exercise and being periodically entertained by events like arts and crafts, puppet shows, or music. And the kids get to eat healthy, organic foods that parents can feel good about. Health-conscious, organic food-buying parents know that establishing healthy eating habits while young and associating healthy eating with physical activity is a great way to prepare kids for a lifetime of better living. Something which gives parents a huge incentive to come back again and again.

Whether it’s for a play lunch, a chance for parents to simply unwind with a drink while the kids play happily, or to leave the kids where they can enjoy themselves safely in an expansive 2,500 square foot or more play area. Under the watchful and attentive eye of trained “aides” who assist with the children’s enjoyment, parents can feel easy as they take in the consumer buffet of the numerous shops available in the mall or galleria where the Giggles N’ Hugs location is present. Being able to shop in peace, secure in the knowledge that the kids are happily playing and are safe is a godsend for busy parents. This one factor of the company’s approach to the space could drive sustained revenues to new levels amid a nationwide expansion.

This aspect of the business represents a significant asset to mall owners, offering potential mall goers a service that enables their overall experience mightily. This synergistic relationship between the nature of the business and the location where a given venue is present gives GIGL attractive expansion benefits, such as an on average 75 percent discount when it comes to commercial space rental fees, and as much as $700,000 up-front cash in some cases, enough to cover around half the build-out or site refurbish needed to open a new location. The company has taken serious interest from major mall operators throughout the country like Westfield Group, Macerich Group, General Growth Properties, and even Simon Properties, the biggest of the four, who collectively represent over 550 properties across the nation, each with access to choice demographics.

With three initial locations in upscale LA malls (Century City Mall, Glendale Galleria and the Topanga Canyon Mall) and plans to expand nationwide already in the offing, a sumptuous organic menu might drive customers in the doors, but it’s the kid-friendly amenities that will get shoppers to come back for more. GIGL takes in revenue from all the usual restaurant sources like food and beverage, as well as beer and wine, but gets the added revenues from admission fees for the play area, membership fees (one-month, three-month and six-months unlimited play) from regulars who get a substantial discount with the membership, and themed parties (roughly 40 percent of revenues), which put those typical at competitors in the industry, like Chuck E. Cheese, to shame.

At Giggles N’ Hugs, kids get organic food, drinks, a fresh desert, a wide variety of engaging activities including games, dance parties, puppet shows and music by professional entertainers, as well as return passes, and the entire party can be from among a whole range of themes. Chuck E. Cheese by comparison only offers Superhero and Princess themes, with two slices of pizza per kid, drinks, video games, and a candy piñata for around the same $350 price tag. At Giggles N’ Hugs kids can choose from over eight different themes, and the highly trained, CPR-certified staff really go out of their way to ensure the quality of the experience.

Take a closer look, visit www.gigglesnhugs.com

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Production of industrial hemp, though currently illegal throughout much of the country, is ingrained into the very fabric of the United States. George Washington was a noted proponent for hemp production, and farmers were even permitted to pay their federal taxes with the vital crop for more than 200 years. By 1850, there were more than 8,300 hemp farms across the nation. However, additional taxes imposed by the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 made hemp production too expensive to compete with international operations. If that didn’t damage the country’s industrial hemp market enough, a bit of mistaken identity with its high-inducing cousin was enough to land industrial hemp on the country’s blacklist following the Controlled Substances Act.

Although imported hemp has been legal since 1998, the federal government has been reluctant to remove the regulatory ban on the production of the useful crop. As a result, states are beginning to take matters into their own hands. In 2014, farmers in Colorado harvested the first legal, domestically-produced industrial hemp crop in more than half a century, and other states have since taken notice of the success of the Colorado industry. Hemp, Inc., through the operation of its 70,000 square-foot decortication and milling plant, is prepared to capitalize on this movement when legalization is achieved in North Carolina.

Since 2014, a total of 13 states – including South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky – have passed laws allowing industrial hemp farming for research and/or commercial purposes. In July, the state of North Carolina took a major step toward hemp legalization when it enacted a new law allowing for the prescription of hemp oils to patients with intractable epilepsy without the need for a pilot study. Hemp, Inc.’s management team highlighted the considerable promise provided by this decision.

“Many advocators and supporters feel this is a huge step for any level of medicinal use of the cannabis plant,” Craig Perlowin, secretary and director of Hemp, Inc., stated in a news release. “How long do you think it will take for North Carolina to allow it to be grown in its own backyard? After these amendments, I suspect not long at all.”

In the meantime, Hemp, Inc. is putting its decortication plant – which is among the largest in the world – to work by processing kenaf, an annual, non-wood fiber plant that’s indigenous to central Africa. For prospective shareholders, the company demonstrates tremendous potential upside, particularly as the movement to legalize industrial hemp production in North Carolina gains steam.

For more information, visit www.hempinc.com

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Cherubim Interests is a development-stage alternative construction and real estate development company operating under a hybrid business model that enables it to explore and secure various opportunities within the controlled environment agriculture sectors.

With its recent acquisition of an exclusive worldwide license to deploy a proprietary plant cultivation technology, Cherubim operates through its wholly owned BudCube Cultivation System USA subsidiary with plans to construct, deploy and lease scalable medical and recreational marijuana cultivation facilities for commercial applications.

Coupled with a real estate development and property management business model, BudCube can position itself anywhere in the world where the cultivation of cannabis is legal. The subsidiary’s unique business model positions the company to greatly benefit as more market participants seek to gain entry into a fast-growing market at an attractive price point.

Armed with the ability to lease a portable and scalable turn-key cultivation solution to growers, Cherubim aims to use its licensed solution to fill the gap for both first-time and experienced cultivators who may not have the capital resources to buy land, construct or tenant-improve existing structures for the optimum environment for developing a high-quality cannabis product.

BudCube also serves as a gateway to take advantage of increasing demand for grow space to accommodate cannabis and other plant species. In this respect, Cherubim’s ultimate plans are similar to that of mini-storage companies – think along the lines of Public Storage (NYSE:PSA) – by leasing secured square footage to individuals and corporations who need it. The company’s hybrid business model again comes into play here, as Cherubim plans to offer ingle tenant or “macro solutions” in addition to traditional multi-tenant or “micro solutions.”

Single Tenant “Micro” Application: In this model, Cherubim will enter into an agreement to provide a total cultivation solution to a sole tenant. The company will acquire and develop the land required and deploy a “macro” solution to square footage specifications required by that tenant.

Multi-Tenant “Macro” Application: Here, Cherubim will select various land positions across the United States and develop and open select secured locations where multiple tenants can lease “micro” solutions to individuals. Each location will have varying sizes based on market research relative to geographical area.

Overall, Cherubim’s strategy is to specialize in a wide array of development activities, including due diligence, acquisition, planning, construction, renovation, and property management, that will position the company to upgrade its assets to full market potential while providing a significant return to investors. This comprehensive expertise allows Cherubim to provide beginning-to-end development programs for all acquisitions.

For more information, visit www.cherubiminterests.com or www.budcube.com

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Florida-based On The Move Systems has a unique knack for entering new markets. Backed by a consistent long-term industry vision, the company is focused on establishing a scalable business that leverages private aviation routes to facilitate private air charter, freight shipment, as well as medical and exotic / animal transport services.

For five years, On the Move Systems has offered a portfolio of transportation, logistics and business services to global clients and a transportation management market that is expected to grow to approximately $15 billion over the next half decade. The company has continuously pursued one goal: to make it easier and more affordable for consumers to locate and buy transportation and logistics booking services from private air travel to luxury ground transport.

On The Move Systems is now turning its attention to ways it can help retailers. Typically, large retailers, like Wal-Mart and Amazon, invest millions in technology in order to ensure their customers’ order are quickly packaged and shipped only to see their efforts spoiled by poor delivery service during the shipment’s “last mile.” This is a situation that customers rarely take kindly to and that often results in their vowing to take their business somewhere else. On The Move Systems intends to assist retailers with this problem using its proposed shared economy courier service which promises fast, on-demand, professional, courteous delivery service.

The company also means to approach smaller retailers about its proposed shared economy courier service. Compared to Amazon and Wal-Mart, smaller retailers have limited capital resources to invest in ensuring their customers receive last-mile satisfaction. As a result, there is a promising business opportunity here for On The Move Systems. The company aims to help smaller retailers match Wal-Mart’s and Amazon’s speed, efficiency and service and put them on better competitive footing with the retail giants, especially as the holidays approach and shippers face delayed delivery times.

Market estimates have measured the annual value of large last-mile shipments at approximately $8 billion and the value of smaller shipments at a much higher number. Retail industry analysts have also forecasted that companies that can influence last-mile solutions will be able to achieve smart growth and reap profits.

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

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CD International Enterprises, an emerging leader in the field of industrial commodity distribution, is promoting rapid growth through the utilization of an aggressive merger and acquisition strategy. Earlier this week, the company took a significant step toward realizing this goal by entering into an agreement to acquire a holding company that recorded consolidated revenues of more than $25 million and consolidated net income of over $6 million in 2014, according to unaudited financial statements.

Based in Hong Kong, the acquisition candidate is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of HK International Finance & Investment Group Limited and has diversified operations in a collection of service industries – including hospitality, health endowment and construction design. CDII’s management team has already initiated its due diligence process for the acquisition, and it plans to complete an audit of the candidate’s recent financial statements by the end of this year.

“One of management’s focuses on growing the company again is growth through merger and acquisition,” Dr. James Wang, chairman and chief executive officer of CDII, stated in a news release. “Management is actively looking for merger and acquisition opportunities that align with our strategic priorities.”

Since terminating its manufacturing business in 2014 in favor of less capital intensive business opportunities, CDII has operated under two unique segments – including its mineral trading segment, which sources and distributes industrial commodities to China, and its consulting segment, which provides consulting services to firms that operate or are seeking business opportunities primarily in China and the Americas. Through these two segments, CDII has established a substantial business network throughout its target markets which is now playing a key role in its global expansion efforts.

While slumping mineral prices have had a considerable effect on its financial results in recent months, the company expects demand for its consulting services to steadily rise through 2017. This demand, in combination with the extended reach provided by its recently announced acquisition agreement, are expected to facilitate CDII’s financial growth in the months to come. For prospective shareholders, CDII’s progress toward the monetization of its established business network makes it an intriguing investment opportunity moving forward.

For more information, visit www.cdii.com

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Avant Diagnostics, an innovator in molecular diagnostics, this morning announced the start of calibration testing in preparation for the company’s validation study of OvaDx®, which will be used to support a pre-submission package to the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”). Avant expects to complete the calibration testing within 30 days.

OvaDx® is a sophisticated microarray-based test proposed for use in monitoring women previously diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Pre-clinical research studies with OvaDx® indicate high sensitivity and specificity for all types and stages of ovarian cancer.

Upon completion of the testing, Avant said it intends to test the previously purchased set of ovarian cancer specimens, including serial sets obtained from women previously diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which will serve as the validation study and form the basis of the pre-submission package that will be submitted to FDA for review and comment prior to the commencement of the OvaDx® 510(k) trial.

The validation study and 510(k) trial will be conducted in a double-blinded environment supervised by independent clinical research organization DOCRO, Inc. Validation study results are expected to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal within six months of test completion and data analysis.

“The entire Avant team has been working tirelessly over the past few months to reach this critical milestone. We look forward to communicating to our shareholders and the markets as we move through the FDA negotiations and review of our 510(k) submission,” Gregg Linn, Avant’s CEO and president stated in the news release.

For more information, visit https://avantdiagnostics.wordpress.com/

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Two of the key facilitators of the burgeoning mcommerce space (which is on track to run at around a 25.72 percent CAGR through 2019 according to a report out in May from TechNavio), continue to be digital currencies and the proliferation of point-of-sale solutions that make it easier than ever to shop on the go. Driven by such rapidly evolving technologies as the cryptocurrency Bitcoin ($3.3 billion market cap) and other digital currencies, as well as near-field communication enabled point-of-sale software and devices, m-commerce is on pace to eclipse ecommerce’s growth rate of 13 percent, running as hot as 42 percent, according to a study published earlier this year by PayPal and global market research firm Ipsos.

That same study, spanning 22 countries, showed that 64 percent of users reportedly made purchases using apps, with mobile browsers representing only 52 percent of consumer purchases. This phenomena is driven by in-app and associated retailer conveniences, like instant payment confirmation and having in-app auto reminders for things such as coupons or discounts. Such underlying market dynamics are a major reason that enterprise accelerator, Alternet Systems (OTC: ALYI), moved in August to secure a strategic partnership between its wholly-owned Alternet Payment Solutions subsidiary, and Brazilian multichannel electronic point-of-sale solutions provider, MUXI. This move showcases ALYI’s aggressive launching of efforts across the e-commerce/m-commerce and legacy electronic point-of-sale landscapes, and how the company is constantly looking to supercharge innovative services and solutions that have true disruptive potential.

MUXI’s point-of-sale administration platform POSWEB® makes it easier than ever for the over 20 million merchants in the U.S. (who collectively represent the biggest point-of-sale market on earth, at 32 percent of the global $37 billion market in 2013) to implement mobile-friendly point-of-sale solutions, which allow total proprietor control over their assets and network. POSWEB is a patented, hardware agnostic, front-end transactional platform that was designed to be the ideal answer for building a robust, modern point-of-sale deployment. MUXI’s payment solution architecture also allows for seamless, remote software updating across all point-of-sale devices in the network, with applications in the platform that also allow tablets and smartphones to be used as part of a highly cost-effective mobile point-of-sale implementation. But these solutions from MUXI are also perfect for a much wider variety of operations as well, out beyond the primary growth markets of retail and hospitality targeted by ALYI, with everyone from acquirers, payment facilitators and issuers, to banking correspondents and value-added service providers benefiting from MUXI’s wide variety of payment solutions.

These are precisely the kinds of services and solutions needed to shake up the entrenched legacy point-of-sale payments infrastructure throughout North America, with its limited ability to manage mobile apps and cutting-edge payment systems, and bring about a paradigm shift towards a tighter feedback loop on the market segmentation end of things as well. After all, one of Alternet’s main focus points is big data analytics, mainly in marketing automation and micro-segmentation. Achieving pure micro-segmentation provides a much more granular, up-close view of customer demographic, psychographic and behavioral data. By looking at an ecosystem of payments, financial accounting and social media data, the huge market in advanced predictive analytics on both the finance/telecom side, and consumer mass market sides of the equation can be tapped for sizeable revenues, to be generated from high-quality customer segmentation analysis technologies and services. This information also helps identify and cater to new, unserved and underserved pockets of consumers, as well as providing the necessary payment processing momentum to provide solutions for the unbanked, or in global markets that need greater financial inclusion.

But Alternet Systems is not content to simply rest on the laurels of bringing transformative, big data-enabling point-of-sale solutions to the U.S. market. The company is also actively looking to execute a roll-up strategy in the digital currency exchange space. Looking to launch a global digital currency exchange presence via its wholly-owned subsidiary, OneMarket, ALYI has moved aggressively to acquire its New York State BitLicense, following Coinbase into the exchange game. The company has already invested considerable time and due diligence preparing to fully launch a global digital currency exchange subsequent to the BitLicense approval which, through OneMarket, would handle digital currencies, as well as foreign currencies, and commodities.

Digital currencies like Bitcoin have become an extremely attractive play amid a growing mobile wallet market set to hit $16 trillion by 2018 (Transparency Market Research, October 2014). Contenders like PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), as well as Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Apple Pay, Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google Wallet, and Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Payments, are all vying to capture big chunks of this much sought after space.

To learn more, visit www.alternetsystems.com

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