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Phoenix Associates Provides Shareholders With an Update on Business Operations
Phoenix Associates Land Syndicate (Phoenix)
(OTC: PBLS), a holding company with assets in oil, sand & gravel, soil
products, land development, trucking, contract hauling, swimming pool
construction and construction related industries, released the following
comments from Mr. Paul Alonzo, CEO and President:
Due to recent requests from shareholders and interested investors, I have
compiled a short list on Phoenix's current financial status and some of my
expectations for the years 2005 and 2006. While we are working towards
providing the public with audited financials, the numbers provided today
are un-audited. Before I give out any numbers, I would like to say some
things about some of our great managers:
Nobody believed it could be accomplished but under the direction of the
Operations Manager, Adam Alonzo (Murphy Sand & Gravel), and with the
assistance of Operations Manager, John Zornes (Bayou State Trucking), the
Murphy Sand and Gravel Pit, located in Pearl River, Louisiana, reopened for
business at 6 a.m., Monday, September 19, 2005, under generator power. By
12 noon, C.S.T., CLECO, the power company servicing Murphy, had the entire
operation with electrical power. This incredible task was accomplished,
after the Murphy operation was devastated during Hurricane Katrina, by Adam
Alonzo, along with contractors, timber cutters, electricians truckers and
the power company. Yes, he is my son.
1. Phoenix Division, Murphy Sand and Gravel, Manager Adam Alonzo: The
gravel pit should generate in excess of $2,310,000.00 in revenues for the
year 2005. With what will possibly be the largest construction boom in
Louisiana and New Orleans history, the gravel pit revenues for 2006 are
sure to increase.
2. Phoenix Division, Oil & Gas, Manager John Barksdale: The acquisition of
Rome Oil and Mid-South Resources will add a minimum of $1,368,000.00 in
revenues for Phoenix for calendar year 2005, with expectations the two oil
companies will generate over $12,000,000.00 in revenue for the company in
2006. Phoenix is able to acquire these two oil and gas companies with stock
and a small cash payment. After paying for the acquisition, Phoenix coffers
are still healthy enough to finance and bring into production the next ten
wells which our research indicates will be the most profitable.
It is my policy that Phoenix need not go into debt to develop these oil and
gas properties. Our policy shall be to raise money for future drilling (if
need be) on a non-recourse method without putting Phoenix into debt.
3. Mineral Assets: Our gravel pit has proven mineral reserves in the amount
of $300,000,000.00 and the addition of Rome Oil and Mid-South Resources
brings another $200,000,000.00 worth of mineral reserves to Phoenix's
balance sheet. I anticipate Phoenix having over $1,000,000,000.00 worth of
mineral reserves by the end of 2006.
4. Phoenix Division, Heaslip Construction - Manager, Mark Dishon: Gross
revenues for our construction division could exceed $2,000,000.00 for
calendar year 2005. Our research and experience shows the average
repair/remodel cost for homes in our area of the country to be around
$80,000.00 per house. Unfortunately, there are literally thousands of homes
in need of repair due to the hurricanes. I expect record breaking years for
Heaslip during what I know will be one of the largest re-building efforts
ever taken in the history of our country. If we get just a small piece of
the action, revenues for our construction division should really take off
during 2006.
5. Phoenix Divisions, Ann Arbor Pools - Manager, Dennis Scherdt and Great
Lakes Pool Plastering - Manager, Byron Ross: These two companies should
bring in approximately $2,288,000.00 in revenues to Phoenix during the
calendar year 2005. Both of these companies also stand to break all sorts
of records during the soon to be construction boom of 2005 and 2006.
6. Phoenix Division, Bayou State Trucking - Manager, John Zornes: Our
trucking division tries to avoid the costs and hassles of owning trucks and
the maintenance and insurance issues that come with ownership. Bayou
provided jobs for owner operators and leases equipment from time to time
when necessary. Revenues to calendar year 2005 should be around
$650,000.00. For all qualified drivers with proper credentials and proof of
insurance, Bayou is paying $45 per hour for tandems, $55 per hour for
tri-axles and $65 per hour for eighteen wheelers. Again, with the coming
construction boom, I expect annual revenues for our trucking division to
also increase during 2006.
7. Phoenix Division, Acquisitions and Business Development - Manager, Ron
Blackburn, assisted by Patti Fischer and Roger Stone: We are in a constant
search for profitable companies to acquire where the acquisition can be
accomplished with little or no debt and in which the acquisition brings
immediate revenue growth and assets to Phoenix. We are in negotiations at
this time with several companies we will try to acquire.
During the year 2004 when Phoenix was a much smaller company than we are
today, we grossed a little over $3,000,000.00. While the addition of the
conservative estimated numbers I gave above add up to a little over
$8,600,000.00 in revenue. I am sure with the rapid growth we are currently
experiencing in the last part of 2005, that our gross revenues will wind up
exceeding $10,000,000.00 for the year with profit exceeding what our gross
revenues where in 2004.
For 2006, since we expect revenues from our oil and gas division to be much
more that $12,000,000.00, and because we have other acquisitions in the
works in the oil and gas division, and since it is reasonable to assume
that all of our construction related divisions should profit greatly from
the expected construction boom in 2006, it is reasonable to expect that
Phoenix's 2006 revenues could be as much as four to five times greater than
our 2005 revenues. I am also happy to report that management has been very
successful in control of day to day costs of operations and avoiding
unnecessary debt which means profit in 2006 should rise in proportion to
revenues quite nicely.
As CEO of Phoenix and on behalf of all of our managers and employees I
would like to say that our hearts and prayers are with all of the victims
of these two terrible hurricanes that struck our shores and that we as a
company are dedicated to doing our best in re-building this great part of
our great country.
Forward-Looking Statements:
This press release contains statements that are "forward looking" and are
made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and federal securities laws. Generally, the
words "expect," "intend," "estimate," "will" and similar expressions
identify forward-looking statements. By their very nature, forward-looking
statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that
may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or that of our
industry, to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any of
our forward-looking statements. Statements in this press release regarding
the Company's business or proposed business, which are not historical
facts, are "forward-looking" statements that involve risks and
uncertainties, such as estimates and statements that describe the Company's
future plans, objectives or goals, including words to the effect that the
Company or management expects a stated condition or result to occur. Since
forward-looking statements address future events and conditions, by their
very nature, they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results
in each case could differ materially from those currently anticipated in
such statements. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made.
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