Thursday, September 20, 2007

Talon Metals Corporation

Industry: Mining

Main business locations: Brazil

Registered Office:
Geneva Place 2nd Floor,
333 Waterfront Drive
Wickham's Cay Road Town,
Tortola, British Virgin Islands

Renamed on July 5, 2007

Listed on: Toronto Stock Exchange
Ticker: BZM, TLO

Financial highlights: (compare to 2005 financial highlights)
Total Assets: (2006) CAD 19,863,941
Shareholder’s equity: CAD 24,104,131
Net loss: (2006) CAD 1,976,205
(the company currently invests in exploration)


Auditors: Zeifman & Company LLP

Bankers: Cidel Bank & Trust Inc., Bridgetown, Barbados

About the BVI company:

Talon Metals Corp. (formerly Brazmin Corporation) is a mineral exploration company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of high quality base and precious metal projects. Currently the main projects of the company located within the Tapajós Gold District in Brazil are Água Branca Gold Project and São Jorge Project. The company owns approximately 17% of stock of Brazauro Resources Corp., an exploration and development company in Brazil.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Renaissance Capital Investment Management Limited

Renaissance Capital Investment Management Limited is a BVI fund management company being part of Renaissance Investment Management Group.

Industry: Financial Services

Main markets: Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Registered Address:
Craigmuir Chambers,
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Date of incorporation: 2003

About the BVI company:

Renaissance Capital Investment Management, based in the British Virgin Islands, was established as an independent business as part of the Renaissance Capital Group, - an independent group of finance and investment companies specializing in the developing markets. BVI-based Renaissance Capital is working in the spheres of investment banking, asset management, merchant banking and consumer financing.

Renaissance Capital Investment Management Limited is licensed to provide management services under Section 24 (1) of the BVI Mutual Funds Act, 1996 (as amended).

Renaissance Capital has two business lines – asset and fund management and wealth management services to high net worth individuals. Its clients include the largest Russian insurance companies, most of Russian non-state pension funds, and a number of the largest Russian corporations. Renaissance Capital provides strategic and financial advisory services to many Russian and other CIS corporations in all the leading sectors of economy.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Deswell Industries, Inc.

Industry: Manufacturing

Main business locations: Asia

Registered Office:
H.W.R. Services Limited
P. O. Box 71,
Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town,
Tortola, British Virgin Islands

Incorporation year: 1987

Listed on: NASDAQ
Ticker: DSWL

Financial highlights:
Total Assets: (2006) USD 130,670,000
Shareholder’s equity: (2006) USD 106,768,000
Net Sales: (2006) USD 115,276,000
Income before taxation: (2006) USD 9,992,000

Auditors: BDO MaCabe Lo Limited

Bank: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited

SEC Counsel: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP

About the BVI company:

Deswell Industries, Inc. is an independent contract manufacturer of injection-molded plastic parts and components, electronic products, components and subassemblies; supplier of metallic molds for the company's plastics and electronics operations, manufacturer of metal parts for original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers.

Deswell has its registered office in BVI, but its executive office is located in Hong Kong. Company conducts all kinds of its manufacturing activities at separate plastics, electronics and metallics operation factories located in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in China.

The company sells its products to customers in Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan), the United States and Europe (Germany, Italy).

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Orca Exploration Group Inc.

Industry: Mining

Main business locations: East Africa

Registered Office:
PO Box 3152
Road Town
Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation date: August 31, 2004 (renamed on April 2, 2007)

Listed on: Toronto Stock Exchange
Ticker: ORC.A; ORC.B

Financial highlights: (compare to 2005 financial results)
Total Assets: (2006) USD 43,904,000
Shareholder’s equity: (2006) USD 37,889,000
Total Revenue: (2006) USD 13,828,000
Profit before taxation: (2006) USD 4,261,000

Subsidiaries:
PAE PanAfrican Energy Corporation (company registered in Mauritius)
PanAfrican Energy Tanzania Limited (company registered in Jersey)

Auditors: KPMG

Lawyers: Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP

About the BVI company:

Orca Exploration Group Inc. is an international public company registered in the British Virgin Islands, focused on natural gas exploration, production, development and marketing in Tanzania, through the wholly-owned subsidiary PanAfrican Energy Tanzania Limited. Company's head office is located in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania). The Company is also engaged in oil and gas appraisal in Italy.

Orca Exploration Group Inc. was previously operating as EastCoast Energy Corporation, which was originally a subsidiary of PanOcean Energy Corporation. It was distributed to shareholders and separately listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in August 2004. In November 2006, EastCoast shareholders approved company's name change into Orca Exploration Group Inc. Orca started trading on the TSXV on 4 April 2007.