Provisional results for a year just beginning
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Industry Focus Report: Advertising Agencies

The following Industry Focus Report is for: Advertising Agencies. Ahhh, Madison Avenue New York, New York! The very best advertising agencies in the world reside here and as such have produced some amazing results. Unfortunately, as a whole, the industry looks overpriced with a current multiple of 68! There seems to be some individual companies that show signs of value however… take a look.

Please Feel Free To Comment.

Industry Overview:
Industry Size: B
Industry P/E: 68.2
Industry ROE: 3.7%
Industry NPM: 2.1%
Div. Yield: 1.6%

Leaders in Market Capitalization:
Omnicom Group Inc. Common Stock [OMC] .7 B
Interpublic Group of Companies, [IPG] .0 B
Focus Media Holding Limited [FMCN] .9 B
Monster Worldwide, Inc. Common [MWW] .9 B
ValueClick, Inc. [VCLK] 1.5 M
VisionChina Media, Inc. [VISN] 4.5 M

Price vs. Value Analysis

Omnicom Group Inc. Common Stock [OMC]
Market Value: .7 B
Recent Price: .63
Fair Value: .01

Interpublic Group of Companies, [IPG]
Market Value: .0 B
Recent Price: .18
Fair Value: .07

Focus Media Holding Limited [FMCN]
Market Value: .9 B
Recent Price: .91
Fair value: 11.01

Monster Worldwide, Inc. Common [MWW]
Market Value: .9 B
Recent Price: .89
Fair Value: .86

ValueClick, Inc. [VCLK]
Market Value: 1.5 M
Recent Price: .81
Fair Value: .90

VisionChina Media, Inc. [VISN]
Market Value: 4.5 M
Recent Price: .09
Fair Value: .50

Each Industry Focus Post provides a basic intrinsic value analysis for each of the top companies. This provides a preliminary estimate of the relative value of the stock price based on historic earnings growth and future estimates of cash flows.

However, while this may be effective as a preliminary screen, it should not be relied upon as the final estimate of future value. Each year I research 215 industries and provide reports on an almost daily basis to visitors. Remember, just because the Fair Value is lower or higher than the recent price does not mean it’s a good buy right now. If it were that easy, everyone would be great stock pickers.

* Only the top companies in the industry are highlighted.
** N/A – Not available or ZERO

B = Billion | M = Million | K = Thousand
ROE = Return on Equity | NPM = Net Profit Margin

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Expo Suzhou Pavilion

Large number of visitors were deeply attracted by the epitome of this southern city with 2500-year history.

Walked into the Expo site in Puxi Area E, approached Suzhou Pavilion, the immediate presentation was a exquisite southern ancient city. Stone bridge, garden, ancient well, bamboo …… fully showed the charm of Suzhou Watertown. The most impressive thing of Suzhou Pavilion was the Chinese ink painting on the huge two-story facade. The mural was based on the painting created by the well-known landscape painter in Suzhou – Liu Maoshan. Those views with appropriate distance were respectively drawn by means of three processes – jet-drawing, painting, hand-painting. It’s said that in order to one-time success, each action was very careful. It took two weeks to complete the whole mural, and it became the unique huge Chinese ink painting. Visitors followed the slope of the old bridge, slowly walked towards the entrance of Suzhou Pavilion. On the slope, many tourists enjoyed the ink painting on the side, or were busy taking photos.

Entered Suzhou Pavilion along the slope, reached the core area of the hall. Here using upper and lower thermocline of the wall inside the exhibition hall, setting up a large 
projector, which is the Suzhou Pavilion’s “main event”. The large projection, inosculated high-tech sound, light, electricity and Suzhou human element in one picture, giving 
people a sense of shock. On top of pavilion, set a massive number of lights, audio equipment which were aiding in film. The projection was playing Suzhou Expo official movie shot by the director Ning Hao. Visitors were standing on the corridor, savor the unique flavor of Suzhou brought by the film. It was a sense of shock brought by the integration of a 
distant Suzhou culture and modern city, so that visitors had a more profound understanding to the city.

After watching the video, visitors walked along the corridor, enjoying the Suzhou Embroidery works displayed on the surface of the wall on another side. “Too exquisite, too real, 
and really don’t know how the embroidery were made!” Visitors were deeply impressed by the intricate workmanship of Suzhou Embroidery. Came to the end, reaching a small “Suzhou family”. Here, the flower windows, carved beams, painting buildings, black bricks, each detail followed the old method came down from thousands ago, refusing to use a nail or a rivet, and wholly used tenons. Look, the Suzhou Embroidery performance and carveing show, the Suzhou woman wearing cheong-sam at the table was embroidering a delicate embroidery with each stitch. On the other side, also a woman, was sculpting a woodcarving. Many tourists were watching the “miracle” created by Suzhou women’s hands with interest.

In addition, Suzhou Pavilion also displayed a miniature version of the Humble Administrator’s Garden; an electronic version of the “Suzhou Flourish Scene”  hanging on the wall; a 
lifelike electronic background screen playing Suzhou’s 3D API, these let the visitors not only taste Suzhou cultural in this charismatic building, but also realize that Suzhou 
city as a modern metropolis brought its contemporary style.

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Ny TV Festival, Boston Film Festival, Temecula Valley Film & Music Fest, Business of Film Conference 2008, Gene Autry Film & Music Festival, New York

IMFF Cinedays M, taking place in Skopje through September 7, celebrates the past, present and future of the music and film. The Festival’s focus is on music-related content, including feature films, documentaries and short films submissions that have an emphasis on music – rock, jazz, blues, soul, reggae, punk, pop, reggae …. old and new. River View Players based in Harlem open a new performance series on September that will present readings of plays (featuring DuEwa Frazier, Lit Noire Publishing), short stories, poetry, music and films every Sunday from 4 to 6 in the back room of Cafe Largo. Free food tastings will be offered from the Cafe on this occasion, and the event is free and open to the public.  indieWIRE presents filmmaker Alan Ball and actress Summer Bishil in a discussion of their new film, ‘Towelhead,’ at the Apple Store, SoHo, September 8. “The Down-Low on Distribution” is a seminar on September 10 in Los Angeles attempting to decode the different distribution deals so that you can get the best rights in your agreement. New York Television Festival which has featured acclaimed independent pilots that were purchased by networks such as NBC Universal, A&E, and the like, will feature an “Industry Day” session in which industry leaders participate in a number of panel discussions, when it runs September 12-17.

At this year’s Boston Film Festival a program of shorts, documentaries and feature films premieres during the festival’s run from September 12-19,  and  evening  receptions are hosted by regarded chefs and restaurateurs providing the ideal scene for filmmakers and talent to network as well as sponsors to entertain. The IBC 208 Conference and Exhibition, September 12-28 in Amsterdam, addresses personalised content over the web; future broadcast businesses and the changing audience; the “digital dividend” and the battle for bandwidth; production and protection of all types of content, and other areas. At “Fund Your Film Workshop With Stu Pollard,” key elements of an independent film business plan, including structure, layout and research and a primer on private equity financing for truly independent projects, will be reviewed when the one-day session meets September 13 in Dallas. Independent Film Week, formerly know as the IFP Market, is still a gathering for industry professionals where pitch meetings search for new talent, and cash, product donations and services are awarded to participants. The Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival’s social calendar starts with Opening Night Festivities on September 17, followed by daily and nightly filmmaker/musician receptions, industry workshops, a Lifetime and Career Achievement Awards Black Tie Gala, a Sunday morning Hot Air Balloon Ride, a Closing Night Wrap party (September 21) and Best of Fest special screening presentations and more. The NBC Universal Women Writers Workshop, September 18-25 in Toronto, will target intermediate women screenwriters who have a treatment or first draft, and will work toward the development of their next draft of a feature script. It will focus on script development and building on concepts introduced in the Feature Film Writing Program emerging module.

Screenwriting and the Business of Hollywood, will be conducted September 19 and 20 from Rock Island, by Act One Seminars, intensive, practical workshops for aspiring and professional writers and entrepreneurs who are serious about their Christian faith and who dream of creating culture that respects and enriches a global audience. SWAMP and TALA present the Business of Film Conference 2008, a September 20 event at Rice University Media Center focusing on the business of making movies with professionals from the film, legal and financial worlds that address a wide range of topics, including budgeting for film, funding resources, music rights, distribution and more. The Film, Stage and Showbiz Expo will allow participants to showcase their film/video/movie reel for Producers and Production Companies at a private screening area all day at the Expo, and Telsey + Company will conduct an open talent search for some of the hit Broadway shows they represent at the one-day event, September 21, in New York. In Gene Autry, Oklahoma, the Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum celebrates the legacy of the singing cowboys with its Film & Music Festival. It’s a gathering of cowboy and country singers, cowboy poets and storytellers, Western film stars and look-alikes, and it happens from September 24-28. The 17-day New York Film Festival gets underway September 26 in New York, with its program of emerging and international filmmakers. Black Entertainment Magazine in conjunction with Talents Connection hosts the September 27 Business, Arts & Entertainment Conference in Los Angeles, with slated workshop sessions on “Surviving Hollywood,” and “Getting your children in commercials,” and a premiere screening of soon to be released BEM film ‘True Riches’.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Bit Torrent, as well as on The Actor’s Checklist podcast blog, a great place to get your iPhone, ipod or Apple TV download from. The Free Home Video Showcase serves as an archive for all past video presentations. This month on video you will see trailers and sample clips of ‘True Riches’ a collaborative production of Talents Connection, and BEM Films, slated for a premiere screening at the Business, Arts & Entertainment Conference, September 27 at LA Convention Center. Strange comedy from The Pimps Horror House™ TV show Cleveland. The creative duo of H.G. Robert and Wayland Anderson, that form DANCEWORDZ, a production company that writes, choreographs and stages shows for professional companies and art programs. The Actor’s Checklist now lets you check the latest musical artists song releases on Apple’s iTunes, updated on an hourly basis.

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New Canon Black and White Photocopiers/Printers – A Winner at On Demand

Only last month we reported here at Canon Copiers on the surprise release of two new photocopiers ranges from Canon, the iR ADV 6000 and the iR ADV 8000, which complete the formidable imageRUNNER Advance portfolio. The iR ADV 8000 is Canon’s solution for light production monochrome printing and comes in to replace the ageing iR 7000 range. It’s an impressive package â?? more compact and versatile than its predecessor and also much easier to use. And even before the Canon imageRUNNER advance 8000′s full UK release (which is taking place in June), it’s already been singled-out for praise by a leading industry authority. The 8105 black and white photocopier/printer, the highest performance model in the 8000 range has just been awarded Honourable Mention at the Best of Show Awards at this year’s On Demand expo in the US.

On Demand

On Demand is the leading digital printing and automated production show and is the largest expo of its kind, dedicated to technologies which personalise, manage, print and deliver content. For fifteen years running, printing, IT and communications professionals have gathered at On Demand to see all the latest solutions and better understand the ways in which their industries are developing and increasingly, converging.

Best of Show

The â??Best of Show’ Awards Program is now in its fifth year. It’s a joint collaboration between the On Demand Conference and Expo organisers and InfoTrends, a leading market research and consulting firm in the digital imaging and document solutions industry. The founding idea, as On Demand Event Director, Debra Brown put it, has been to recognise

“cutting-edge solutions that are pioneering new technologies in the digital printing marketplace.”

This year, the Best of Show Awards were judged across nine different categories by an expert panel chosen from the printing and graphic arts community. These categories being â?? 1:1 Communications, Bindery Finishing and Mailing Equipment, Colour Digital Printing Equipment, Innovative Use of Technology, Monochrome Digital Printing Equipment, Print MIS/ERP, Web-to-Print solutions and Workflow Solutions.

The awards were open to all On Demand exhibitors and to be eligible company’s products must have been available after April 2009 and have been generally available at the time of On Demand which was held in April 2010.

Black and White Photocopiers

Canon is truly delighted to have received Honourable Mention, Best of Show, in the Monochrome Digital Printing selection. While judges at the awards never release information on their choices, it is almost certain two very innovative aspects of the Canon imageRUNNER Advance’s design and build will have stood out for them. As Canon’s recent Third Insight Report into the effects of the recession highlighted, adaptability in the printing industry is becoming increasingly important. The new Canon imageRUNNER Advance 8000 is designed to expand or compact, depending on user requirements, and the Advanced Space design which has already proved an enormous draw on the imageRUNNER Advance colour equivalent, is likely to have proved a real hit with the selection panel. As Trevor Dodsworth, Head of Product Marketing, Canon Business Solutions UK commented,

“The scalability offered by the new devices is crucial to our customers, enabling them to increase their capabilities as their customer profile and work mix changes, or as digital volumes grow. It was a natural move for Canon to introduce the new black and white printers which will provide the same user benefits and will therefore, we believe, be a very attractive proposition for CRDs (Central Reprographics Departments) in particular.”

Green Black and White Printers

In addition to the Canon imageRUNNER Advance 8000′s scalability options, the machine’s environmental credentials, like others on the imageRUNNER Advance platform, should have given the judges some pause for thought. Canon, it seems, has been doing more than any other manufacturer in recent years to limit the environmental impact of its office business solutions. The imageRUNNER Advance has been designed through Canon’s Life Cycle Assessment product design system to minimise the device’s carbon emissions throughout the entire life cycle, from manufacturer and supplier logistics to delivery and energy consumption during use. And with green technology innovations such as increasing use of recycled materials in the build and the incorporation of bioplastics, it’s expected that the new series will reduce total associated CO2 emissions by as much as 30%. It is also expected that the new monochrome imageRUNNER Advance 8000 series will offer the lowest Total Energy Consumption in its class (TEC, as defined by ENERGY STAR®).

Canon Copiers is delighted with the news from On Demand and is thrilled to be one of the first Canon Solutions Partners to be able to offer the new Ir ADV 8000 series for sale from June 2010. The company’s Sales Director told us,

“We’re overjoyed by the news from On Demand expo in the US. To be recognised by one of the leading authorities in the States is a major coup for Canon, and this even before the product’s been formally released for sale in the UK! …but we all genuinely feel this time that a product which is not only better performing but also much kinder to the environment than anything in its class at the moment, deserves all the praise it gets.”

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