OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of Open, Transparent and Connected financial marketplaces, today announced the following companies are verified for trading on the OTCQB® Venture Marketplace:
Firma Holdings Corp. (OTCQB: FRMA) – Firma Holdings, formerly known as Tara Minerals Corp. and formerly a subsidiary of Tara Gold Resources Corp., consists of three business segments: mining, packaging technology, and food manufacturing. It was incorporated in Nevada on May 12, 2006.
Firma Holdings’ mining business segment explores and develops mining properties which may be productive of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron, industrial metals, and other associated metals. The company’s mining business segment is in the exploration stage.
Its packaging technology business segment owns the "SmartPacTM" technology. Purchased in May 2014, this technology can be used for the preservation and protection of fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers during extended periods of shipping and storage. The technology is comprised of patents, trademarks and other intellectual property pertaining to systems and methods for packaging bulk quantities of fresh produce and flowers incorporating modified atmosphere packaging.
Its food manufacturing business segment consists of 2015 acquisition of Sicilian Sun Limited, LLC, and wholly-owned Italian subsidiary, Sicilian Sun Foods s.r.l., and two production facilities located in Alcamo and Catania on the island of Sicily.
Mountain High Acquisitions Corp. (OTCQB: MYHI) – Mountain High Acquisitions is a diversified holding company focused on the acquisition and development of businesses within the hemp and CBD nutraceutical sectors. The company's wholly owned subsidiary, GreenLife BotaniX, Inc. (www.greenlifebotanix.com), is a California-based developer and marketer of the "SuperCBD" brand of CBD hemp oil infused nutraceutical products. Freedom Seed and Feed, Inc., also a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, is an innovative Kentucky-based industrial hemp cultivation, processing, and marketing company. In 2014, Michael Lewis, COO of Freedom Seed and Feed, became the first federally permitted private citizen to farm hemp in the United States since 1937.
Oakridge Global Energy Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB: OGES) – Oakridge Global Energy Solutions is an integrated, Made in USA, energy storage solutions company that uses state-of-the-art technology to focus on making and developing advanced, high-quality cells, batteries, and power systems.
Its solutions are used in consumer, government, industrial, and military applications. The core business is in the design, development, and manufacturing of small to large format lithium ion cells, batteries, and battery systems.
Oakridge's strategy is to simultaneously deliver innovation and build an industrial scale platform that includes multiple lithium ion technologies and form factors that are optimized to address three target markets: stationary and grid storage; motive applications including fleet vehicles, EV and HEV; and specialty applications including Military, Aerospace, Marine, Industrial, Scientific and Telecom backup.
Oakridge's technology team is strongly engineering driven, with core capabilities in materials, product design, process control, manufacturing technology, quality and safety.
Its laboratory and manufacturing facilities and headquarters are located in Melbourne, Florida and it has achieved full ISO 9001 certification.
It has a team of industry experts that are driving the next generation of high performance lithium ion cells and smart battery systems, offering best-in-class cells and modules that the company believes deliver higher capacity per unit of volume and weight than similar products, enhanced cycle life and most critically, intrinsic engineered safety parameters with the highest quality standards.
Oakridge’s 12,000-square-foot North Drive facility was designed to support research in advanced lithium ion cell materials and chemistries, develop both prismatic (flat pack) and cylindrical form factor cell products, complete manual cell assembly for testing and sampling customers, and establish manufacturing lines for prismatic flat pack up to 30Ah. Its 50,492-square-feet Sarno Road facility develops and manufactures large form factor prismatics to 600Ah.
The company’s facilities have the ability to manufacture six megawatt hours of products annually. Its manufacturing capabilities are anticipated to grow with customer orders.
Rightscorp, Inc. (OTCQB: RIHT) – Rightscorp monetizes copyrighted Intellectual Property (IP). The company's patent pending digital loss prevention technology focuses on the infringement of digital content such as music, movies, software, and games and ensures that owners and creators are rightfully paid for their IP. Rightscorp implements existing laws to solve copyright infringements by collecting payments from illegal file sharing activities via notifications sent through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The company's technology identifies copyright infringers, who are offered a reasonable settlement option when compared to the legal liability defined in the Digital Millennium Copyrights Act (DMCA). Based on the fact that 24% of all internet traffic is used to distribute copyrighted content without permission, Rightscorp is pursuing an estimated $2.3 billion opportunity and has monetized major media titles through relationships with industry leaders.
Targeted Medical Pharma, Inc. (OTCQB: TRGM) – Targeted Medical Pharma is a publicly-traded, Los Angeles-based biotechnology company that develops amino acid based medical foods for the treatment of chronic disease, including pain syndromes, peripheral neuropathy, hypertension, obesity, sleep and cognitive disorders. The company also develops a line of dietary supplements designed to support health and wellness. The company manufactures 10 proprietary amino acid based medical foods, and recently launched its first dietary supplement, Clearwayz. The products are sold directly to physicians, pharmacies and patients in the United States.
The company is currently developing amino acid based therapies designed for the oral stimulation of progenitor stem cells that differentiate into neurons, red blood cells, pituitary hormones including IGF-I.
Targeted Medical Pharma and its subsidiary companies, Complete Claims Processing and Physician Therapeutics, provide healthcare practitioners and patients with clinically proven therapies required to safely and effectively manage disease without harmful side effects.
It is committed to delivering long-term value to investors by maintaining disciplined cost controls, optimizing capital investment and adhering to the highest standards of corporate governance.
U.S. investors can find current financial disclosure and Real-Time Level 2 quotes for these companies on www.otcmarkets.com.
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