Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Compass Travel Club Ltd

Industry: Tourism

Main business locations: Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, Spain, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Cyprus, Egypt

Registered Office:
P.O. Box 146,
Road Town,
Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation date: December 20, 2002

BVI company registration number: 525118

About the BVI company:

Compass Travel Club is a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and offering travel agent services in the resorts of Spain, Cyprus, Egypt, UAE, Austria, Turkey, India, Portugal, Tunisia, Croatia, etc.

Company's partners are located in the countries of Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Thailand.

Compass Travel Club has offices in Moscow (Russia), Punta Cana (Dominican), Hurghada and Sharm-El-Sheikh (Egypt), Larnaca (Cyprus).

Friday, February 23, 2007

Farnel Capital

Industry: Software Development

Registered Office:
P.O. Box 3321,
Road Town,
Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

About the BVI company:

Farnel Capital offers web-site development for maritime and transport companies, as well as completed software solutions. The company provides services on an Internet-resource development to the companies engaged in the sea transportations. Company's prospects include marine agencies, transport and forwarding companies.

The BVI company offers extensive opportunities on business expansion for sea container shipping and inland transportation. The main site service is presented by the Internet freight exchange, system for posting, searching and sending requests on cargo transportation and open transport offers.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Bonso Electronics International Inc.

Industry: Electronics

Main business locations: Worldwide

Registered Office:

P.O. Box 71,
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation year: 1980

BVI company registration number: 9032

Listed on: NASDAQ
Ticker: BNSO

Financial highlights:
Sales (2004): USD 74,706,725
Net Income (2004): USD 2,268,610
Assets (2004): USD 53,598,445

Bankers:
Hang Seng Bank Ltd.
Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited

Auditors: PricewaterhouseCoopers

Legal Advisors on BVI law: Harney Westwood & Riegels

About the BVI company:

Bonso Electronics Limited was incorporated as manufacturer of electronics weighing scales and balances. Together with its subsidiaries, the company designs, develops, produces and sells electronic sensor-based and wireless products.

In the last years, through the adoption of full vertical integration of its production and marketing facilities Bonso Electronics has been transformed from a typical OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) company to an international corporation developing both ODM (Original Design Manufacturer) and OBM (Original Brand Manufacturer) business.

This vertical integration has been strengthened by the acquisition of Korona Haushaltswaren GmbH & Co. KG, of Germany in 2001 and of Gram Precision Inc. of Canada in 2002.

Bonso Electronics is headquartered in Hong Kong, but company's production is centered at the 600,000 square foot manufacturing plant in China. This facility was completed in 1998, employs about 3,000 workers.

Friday, February 16, 2007

PlayTech Limited

Industry: Online gaming; Software development
Main business locations: Worldwide

Registered Office:
Playtech Ltd
Trident Chambers
Road Town
Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation date: 12 September, 2002

Listed on: London Stock Exchange
Ticker: PTEC

Financial highlights:
Sales (2005) : $47.6
Operating profits (2005) : $35. 6 million

Auditors: BDO Stoy Hayward LLP

About the BVI company:

Playtech is the publicly traded online gaming software supplier offering value-added solutions to the online gaming industry's top operators. The company designs, develops and deploys unified software platforms for the online gaming industry.

Among Playtech's clients there are GoldenPalace.com, Sunny Group, Hard Rock Casino, Sports Interaction, Christchurch Casinos, the Action Online Group. There are also such successful brands as casinotropez.com, clubdicecasino.com, BetWWTS.com and SportsInterAction. Operators working with Playtech can choose to license the gaming software on their own.

Currently the company is focused on Asia and Europe. Playtech's clients in the UK include such household names as bet365, the Tote, Betfred, and the Leisure and Gaming group.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Reverse International Limited

Industry: Telecommunications

Main business locations: Australia

Registered Office:

Beaufort House,
PO Box 438,
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

About the BVI company:

Reverse International Limited provides 8000 Reverse as the way to call reverse charge to Australia. One number given allows to call Australia reverse charge from most phones from most overseas destinations.

Reverse International Limited also supplies its Credit Card Calling Service.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

General Enterprise Management Services Limited (GEMS)

Industry: Financial Services

Main business locations: Asia Pacific region

Registered Office:
Omar Hodge Building
Wickhams Cay I
P.O. Box 362
Road Town, Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation year: 1998

Financial highlights:
Funds under management (2005): US$650 million

Main institutional investors:
AIG, GE Capital, Spectrum Value Management, Hutchison Whampoa, Dubai Investment Authority, Japan Tobacco, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Richemont

About the BVI company:

General Enterprise Management Services Limited (GEMS) was founded in 1998 by Simon Murray as an independent investment company just for management of private equity funds. Now it is a private equity fund management group that manages the GEMS Funds (I, II and III), which in its turn make direct investments in the Asia Pacific region. Funds under management in these three Funds total over US$650 million, representing capital commitments from corporate clients, prominent family offices and select individual investors from around the world.

GEMS provides outstanding returns to its investor base, which includes private investors and major multinational institutions such as AIG, GE Capital, Spectrum Value Management, Hutchison Whampoa, Dubai Investment Authority, Japan Tobacco, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Richemont and others.

GEMS Funds have committed to more than 26 deals over seven years at a total value of approximately US$450 million. GEMS I has already made gross distributions totaling over US$252 million.

Friday, February 2, 2007

Object Software Limited

Industry: Software Development

Main business locations: Global

Registered Office:
P.O Box 71,
Craigmuir Chamber,
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation year: 1995

About the BVI company:

Object Software Limited was incorporated in 1995 in the British Virgin Islands. It develops entertainment software for the PC and operates online PC games in China, through its affiliate Object Online Technology Co., Ltd.

It also operates a development studio in Beijing, through its wholly China-based subsidiary Object Software Co., Ltd. During these years Object Software has developed six single player PC games and two online PC games. Among these companies there is the first computer game developed in Mainland China for distributing in the US. In 1996 it was awarded an 82% rating by PC Gamer in the United States.