Published: July 21, 2005
Graystone Park Enterprises, Inc. Announces the Completion of an Agreement to Acquire 100% of IC Places.com, Inc.
Graystone Park Enterprises Inc. (OTC: GPKE)
announced today that it has signed an agreement with IC Places.com, Inc. of
Kissimmee, Florida (Flagship Web Site: www.ICDiz.com), to acquire it as a
100% wholly owned subsidiary.
Under the agreement Graystone (GPKE) will secure the funding needed to
launch all of the 400 IC Places web sites and administer the filing
requirements to register IC Places as its own public company.
About IC Places, Inc.
IC Places owns and operates a network of city-based web sites that are used
by both travelers and local individuals. The sites offer 11,000 hotels,
2,700 restaurant, 2,000 golf courses, discount event tickets, discount car
rentals, discount airfare, attraction tickets and much more.
IC Places has created four distinct demographic groups of web sites.
Currently, two of these groups have been launched. The first group is
UnofficialU.com, aimed at college students, aged 18-24, nationwide and
specifically targeting the top 50 colleges in North America. The vision of
Unofficial U is to entertain and inform college students, along with
providing great travel packages for spring break and summer vacation. The
premiere Unofficial U web site is www.unofficialu.com/OHIOSTATE for
students on the campus of Ohio State.
The second web site is www.icplaces.com (the namesake of the company). This
web site includes 150 city-based web sites targeting the 35-54 age groups.
The premiere icplaces.com web site is www.icdiz.com covering Orlando,
Florida, and the Disney area.
The two final groups of sites which will be launched in September of 2006
will cover retired travelers aged 65 and up, and the final site will focus
on the recent college graduates aged 25-34. Upon full launch, the IC Places
network will own and operate 400 web sites.
Looking to the future
In October of 2005 IC Places plans to launch an Independent Travel
Consultant (ITC) program whereby individuals with an entrepreneurial sprit
can own their own home-based travel business for a small one-time fee. The
ITC program is web based. The program is a self paced environment to allow
success for both full-time and part-time Consultants.
The IC Places Difference
With more online travel companies trying to be everything to everybody in
the world and using call centers staffed by people on the other side of the
world ... IC Places is stepping up to change the game. All IC Places web
sites have a very distinct target market that is divided up by location and
demographics. This means that if a client wants to travel to Walt Disney
World in Orlando, Florida, they will visit www.icdiz.com a singular site
dedicated to the Disney area. Upon launch of the ITC program in October of
2005 visitors will even be able to phone IC Places and speak to a Travel
Consultant that lives in the Disney area. These ITCs are real people that
live and breathe the cities they live in.
"When we decided to focus on each city as an individual entity it all fell
into place," said Shawn Conti, President of IC Places Inc. He went on to
say, "Who better to guide you to the best hotel or restaurant in New York
City, a native New Yorker who lives in and loves his city, or somebody that
has never been there but is reading about it off their computer screen for
the first time when you phone them?"
"We have ITCs waiting to join us in October who live and are native to
Orlando. Some of these people started working at Disney while still in
high school. They would spend two or three days a week at the theme parks
during the summer learning all about the area and attractions. They will
give our visitors a real 'insider approach' to enjoying that city. Now
imagine that on a global scale, personal knowledge of what a city has to
offer leads to the ultimate guest experience!"
About Graystone Park Enterprises, Inc.
Graystone Park Enterprises, Inc. was founded to assist the small business
entrepreneur in growing his company and reducing the pitfalls that normally
stall a start-up company. Graystone plans on acquiring middle stage
companies in need of assistance to dramatically increase its market share.
Graystone projects to acquire 5-10 companies in 2005, and an additional
8-12 companies in 2006. Graystone will maintain a substantial percentage of
each subsidiary company after the subsidiary begins trading under its own
symbol. Graystone expects its revenues, and the value of its equity
positions to be in the double-digit millions by the end of this year. With
Graystone's projected aggressive growth in revenues and asset ownership, it
is expecting to be AMEX qualified in 2006. GPKE has the knowledge and
expertise to take many growth companies to the next level. In doing so it
is able to capitalize on various markets to maximize return on its
investment. The GPKE dividend distribution plan puts an emphasis on
bolstering shareholder value.
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for forward-looking statements made on behalf of the company. All such
forward-looking statements are, by necessity, only estimates of future
results and actual results achieved by Graystone Park Enterprises, Inc. and
may differ materially from these statements due to a number of factors.
Graystone Park Enterprises, Inc. assumes no obligations to update these
forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in
assumptions or changes in other factors affecting such statements. You
should independently investigate and fully understand all risks before
making any investment decisions.
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