DANVILLE, CA, Jan 23 (MARKET WIRE) --
S3 Investment Company, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SIVC), a holding company with
two subsidiaries doing business in the China market, today announced the
appointment of Matthew Totty to the position of Director of Research for its
Redwood Capital subsidiary.
In the Director of Research position, Mr. Totty will work with the S3 and
Redwood Capital management teams on Redwood's future investment banking deals.
He
will work with the company's Chinese due diligence team to confirm
financials and estimates and to create business plans, presentations and other
relevant information. He will also provide assistance with the public company
management and planning for S3.
Redwood Capital, which provides advisory services for private Chinese
companies
seeking access to the U.S. public markets through reverse merger/acquisition
transactions, participated in a recently closed acquisition transaction
involving Dalian Chuming, a pork processing company with USD $70.4 million in
sales in 2006, and USD $89.7 million in unaudited sales in the first three
quarters
of 2007. Energroup Holdings Corporation, a publicly traded Nevada corporation,
has
acquired all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Precious Sheen
Investments Limited, a British Virgin Islands corporation ("PSI") and parent
company of PRC-based Dalian Chuming. Energroup Holdings Corporation is traded
on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board market under the symbol ENHD.
Mr. Totty has been involved in many startup companies in the capacities of
Founder, CEO, President and Head of Research, focusing on business plan
development, infrastructure and financial modeling. Mr. Totty has taken these
companies from start-up to IPO and acted as Chief Equity Analyst for many
investment banking deals and public companies.
Mr. Totty began his career as a retail securities broker and soon
transitioned
to one of the nation's top performing analysts and hedge fund managers. Mr.
Totty was identified as the #1 performing analyst on Wall Street by the Wall
Street Journal in 1996 and his newsletter, Totty's Leading Industry Growth
Stocks, was listed as "the fastest growing and hottest stock newsletter" in
1997.
Mr. Totty founded The Buy, Sell or Hold Company, listed in 2000 as one of
the South's top 50 fastest growing companies and Top Stock Analysis Websites
according to Individual Investor and Online Investor magazines. Mr. Totty
applied
his training as an analyst, along with industry standard tools to develop the
Instant Analyst software, the world's first online stock analysis software,
which served tens of thousands of brokers and investors.
Mr. Totty has aided in managing over $250 million and held the title of
Chief Equity Analyst at three retail brokerage firms serving hundreds of
brokers. One such firm managed the "best-performing" short-selling hedge fund
in the nation according to MAR Research.
Because of his success, Mr. Totty has consulted for several companies and
brokerages and helped initiate policies and procedures at firms with offices
across the nation. Mr. Totty has hosted two financial television programs and
has
been featured on additional TV, magazines and newswires around the globe.
Mr. Totty has also been a contributing analyst to William O'Neil & Co.'s
Institutional Research Department, publishers of Investor's Business
Daily,Zacks Research and First Call's earnings estimates. Mr. Totty has been an
affiliate of the Market Technicians Assoc. (MTA) and a colleague of the
International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA).
In 1999, Mr. Totty and his company were asked to be a prestigious member
ofthe Business Council for the United Nations.
"We are pleased to bring Matt Totty aboard to apply his considerable
experience and
expertise on behalf of our Redwood Capital subsidiary and its role in reverse
merger transactions involving private Chinese companies," said Jim Bickel,
chairman and chief executive officer of S3 Investment Company. "Mr. Totty
is clearly well qualified to serve as Director of Research, and we look
forward to his immediate attention on current Redwood clients who seek to
enter the U.S. capital markets."
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About S3 Investment Company
S3 Investment Company, Inc. (http://www.s3investments.com) is a holding
company
with two subsidiaries doing business in the China market. S3 holds a 100%
equity interest in Redwood Capital (http://www.redwoodcapinc.com), which assists
private Chinese
companies in accessing U.S. capital markets by utilizing a network of investment
banking relationships to achieve reverse merger transactions, and a 51% equity
interest in SINO UJE (http://www.sinouje.com), a non-stocking distributor of
medical and industrial high-tech products to markets throughout China.
Any statements contained herein related to future events are forward-looking
statements and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Readers are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on forward-looking statements. S3 Investment Company, Inc.
undertakes no obligation to update any such statements to reflect actual
events.
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