BLT - Blis Technologies

[emearg]

Great to see they are being proactive in their endeavours to continue with growth. Maybe a tie up with comvita could come out of this appointment?......a match made in heaven .....what a product for comvita to add to their range ah?......honey based lozenges laced with a bit of oral probiotic called BLIS!........a world first.

Good idea yes...world first no: http://honeyblis.co.nz/

[GR8DAY]

.....OOPS! (stand corrected emearge......how could I forget THAT world first?)..........still a grand idead for Blis to persue I believe. Comvita must surely have massive exposure around the globe with their own honey products.......hey what a partnership.....maybe the new director with his contacts in Comvita will make the suggestion......lets just see how proactive the new man is. I see he is a director of several successful local companies here in the Bay of Plenty.

[pierre]

Some good news from BLT.

GENERAL: BLT: New Offshore Marketing Configuration for BLIS Technologies

New Offshore Marketing Configuration for BLIS Technologies

NZX-listed BLIS Technologies Limited has announced a reconfiguration of its
offshore marketing arrangements in line with its strategy of broadening its
product offering beyond ingredients and into finished products of BLIS
K12(TM) and BLIS M18(TM) oral health probiotics.

US-based Stratum Nutrition had been distributing BLIS ingredients in North
America, Europe and Asia since 2012. Following a recent review of the
ingredient sales and marketing strategy in conjunction with Stratum Nutrition
a new arrangement has been signed where Stratum Nutrition will now focus
solely on North America - the US and Canada - while BLIS will manage all
other markets.

BLIS Technologies chief executive Dr Barry Richardson said the change in
relationship between BLIS and Stratum Nutrition is a natural evolution as
elements of the BLIS strategy begin to fall into place.

Dr Richardson said the company's new Dunedin manufacturing plant is
operational making lozenges and nutritional formulations for the local market
under the BLIS brand as well as supplying finished products to overseas
markets.

"Stratum Nutrition is primarily an ingredient business whereas our company
has been steadily adding a range of finished product. We want to retain the
expertise of Stratum in that North American ingredients market but become
more directly involved in finished product markets in Europe and Asia. At
this stage we have no intent to develop a North American presence in finished
product. We have enough to do in Europe and Asia."

Working with Stratum, BLIS has been experiencing growth in ingredient sales
in North America. Dr Richardson said the company's increasing ingredient
sales over the past 12 months is due to North American consumer product sales
with BLIS K12(TM) although BLIS M18(TM) is also starting to get attention as
well.

"Both Stratum and ourselves are agreed it will be of greater benefit for BLIS
if Stratum continues to focus strongly on the US and Canada to build
ingredient sales there. Stratum will continue to have an exclusive
arrangement for these markets as we believe they are ideally positioned to
grow ingredient sales in that sector and we have a good working
relationship."

The new arrangement includes a Stratum Nutrition-funded clinical trial of
BLIS K12(TM) or BLIS M18(TM) either in North America or Canada. Clinical
trials in Italy and India have consistently reinforced the efficacy of BLIS
K12(TM) and BLIS M18(TM).

Richardson said the reconfiguration presents an opportunity to become more
intimately involved in our European and Asian markets. This includes
bringing on board a new business manager for the Asia Pacific region, Dr Paul
Donohoe, to improve penetration into Asia Pacific regions, especially Japan,
Taiwan and South Korea.

"The timing is right. We have good existing relationships but now we will go
much more deeply into understanding those consumer markets."

[GR8DAY]

.....yet more good news Pierre? Im hearing some tones of OPTIMISM there......sounds like they are making some good progress in both Nth America AND Asia/Europe. Good reason to feel buoyed by this report I believe.

[pierre]

.....yet more good news Pierre? Im hearing some tones of OPTIMISM there......sounds like they are making some good progress in both Nth America AND Asia/Europe. Good reason to feel buoyed by this report I believe.

Agree with you Gr8day. BLT talking positively about marketing activity in European & Asian markets, penetration into Japan, Taiwan & South Korea and appointing a new business for that region certainly bodes well for the future.

Now that they have their production facility in operation, focus on sales and marketing can only be a good thing for both the top line and ultimately, the bottom line.

"Richardson said the reconfiguration presents an opportunity to become more
intimately involved in our European and Asian markets. This includes
bringing on board a new business manager for the Asia Pacific region, Dr Paul
Donohoe, to improve penetration into Asia Pacific regions, especially Japan,
Taiwan and South Korea.

"The timing is right. We have good existing relationships but now we will go
much more deeply into understanding those consumer markets."

[Wallace D]

To all the BLT bulls, just to say hi as a new ST member and to thank all the positive contributors, especially simla for his relentless support of the Company.

We love the products and haven't had sore throats since we started using K12 over a year ago, also find the M18 very effective for oral health, extremely noticeable difference when I don't use it, even when I had a recent cavity/ decay issue, and a week until my appointment, it seemed to relieve the bad taste that was developing (I guess the wrong bacteria were increasing?).

Wish the company all the best, and think the world will be a better place when the products are more widely embraced.



Disclosure: holding

[skid]

Speaking of Simla--what happened to him--did he finally jump ship?

[simla]

As I posted before Christmas, I remain positive but I feel I've done enough for a Mallowpuff these days. Legs up time. Should be an interesting year though.

[pierre]

As I posted before Christmas, I remain positive but I feel I've done enough for a Mallowpuff these days. Legs up time. Should be an interesting year though.

Hey Simla - we've missed you. I think you might be up for a whole packet of those delicious treats this year. Chances are looking pretty good that 2015 should be a very interesting year for BLT and its supporters - but we'll just have to stay patient till the May announcement - unless there's a major breakthrough in the next 6-8 weeks!

Meantime, enjoy your relaxation.

[simla]

Thanks. Hope you're right.