We will receive up to $3,000,000 if all of the shares of common stock offered
by us at $1.50 per share are purchased. We cannot guarantee that we will sell
any or all of the shares being offered by us. This is a best efforts offering
with no minimum offering amount.
The table below estimates our use of proceeds, in order of priority, given the
varying levels of success of the offering.
Offered Shares Offering Proceeds Net Offering Principal Uses of Net Proceeds [2]
Sold Proceeds [1]
Inventory: $135,000
Marketing & Advertising: $405,000
500,000 shares Working Capital: $54,590
(25%) $750,000 $704,590 Repay Debt: $110,000
Inventory: $297,500
Marketing & Advertising: $892,500
1,000,000 shares Working Capital: $154,590
(50%) $1,500,000 $1,454,590 Repay Debt: $110,000
Inventory: $460,000
Marketing & Advertising: $1,380,000
1,500,000 shares Working Capital: $254,590
(75%) $2,250,000 $2,204,590 Repay Debt: $110,000
Inventory: $622,500
Marketing & Advertising: $1,867,500
2,000,000 shares Working Capital: $354,590
(maximum) $3,000,000 $2,954,590 Repay Debt: $110,000
[1] Includes estimated offering costs of $45,410 which must be paid regardless
of how much is raised. The estimated offering costs include the SEC filing fee
of $409.20; Legal fees and expenses of $15,000; Accounting fees and expenses of
$25,000; and miscellaneous costs of $5,000. Working capital will be used to pay
general and administrative expenses, legal expenses, accounting expenses and
estimated public company reporting costs of $50,000 for the next twelve months.
[2] Our anticipated post-offering burn rate of approximately $25,000 per
month includes our anticipated public company reporting costs of $50,000 per
year. Those expenses may increase if we are able to grow our operations and
marketing activities. Marketing expenses primarily include costs associated
with advertising and some travel and entertainment expenses and development,
preparation and printing of marketing materials. Funds projected above allocated
to the hiring of employees and independent contractors, are those who would be
engaged to help conduct our business operations, and exclude compensation that
would be paid to our officers. The funds from this offering will not be used to
pay our officers for any services related to activities undertaken to further
the success of this offering, whether provided prior to, during, or subsequent
to the offering. None of the proceeds will be used to reimburse our presidnet
for any expenses that he may have contributed to the Company.
The Company currently does not maintain inventory as all inventory is held by
either our customers or our clients. In addition to sale of products for which
our clients hold the ownership rights, we have started to sell products which
for which we rather than some independent third party have the ownership rights.
We call these products our proprietary products. The Company will use a portion
of proceeds to stock inventory for a line of proprietary products which the
company will contract manufacture. A portion of proceeds will be used to repay
debt of $100,000 issued November 7th, 2011. The note matures twelve months from
date of note at an interest rate of eight percent per annum. Payment is due and
payable at the term end of note. The term of the note was recently extended
twelve months to November 7, 2013.
Companies in the consumer products and wholesale and retail distribution
markets continue to face intense competition, slow growth, rising costs and
a fragile economic environment. The sector is highly dependent on household
income to drive sales and is price sensitive to economic issues such as rising
input commodity prices, energy costs, interest rates, unemployment, a
weakening dollar and consumer confidence levels.
The company competes in a market which requires becoming an approved vendor
of record to the nation’s largest retail chain stores. The process is costly,
time consuming and in many instances requires a prior relationship. There are
significant barriers to entry including a vendor approval process which
requires carrying sufficient product liability insurance; past experience as
a retail vendor; a D&B rating; membership in EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
and; Vendor approval of customer’s supplier network which assures proper
computer qualifications for transmitting information back and forth. The
retailer may also require a vendor to offer multiple sku’s (market ready
products).
Many of our competitors have substantially greater financial, marketing,
personnel and other resources than we do.
The major competitors are:
· Media Funding Solutions – Provides funding for retail advertising
campaigns.
· Idea Village Products Corp. – Markets “As Seen on TV” products to
leading discount retailers, major drug stores and specialty retailers in
the U.S.
· Product Placement & Promotions, LLC – Provides product branding,
promotion and placement services.
· National Product Placement - Provides product placement services.
We compete with based upon:
· Product review - The Company has expertise in package design, contract
manufacturing, chain store sales programs, broker services and mail order
and catalog sales.
· Barriers to entry – The Company can reduce the time and expense a client
would incur to bring their product to market at retail chain stores. The
Company’s established vendor accounts enable more speedy product placement
at the retail level as well as the ability to launch a test market to a
smaller demographic within the retail chain store infrastructure. Because
the Company represents the client’s products, the company is the approved
vendor of record for those products. The client cannot sell those product
under a separate vendor relationship with the same customer unless the
products are discontinued and the client establishes a new vendor
relationship with that customer.
Company Description
We were formed on February 3, 2005 as Phillips Sales & Marketing, Inc., a
Florida corporation, and changed our name to American Retail Alliance, Corp.,
a Florida corporation, on January 23, 2012.
As used in this registration statement, the following terms have the following
meanings:
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We are the vendor of the products
· Our customers are the retail facilities to which we sell the products
for resale to the ultimate consumer.
· Our clients are the third party owner of the products we sell. These
could be a manufacturer of the product or someone who owns the rights to
the product and has it made by a third party manufacturer for sale to us.
We are the vendor of a variety of consumer non-durable and durable products
which we acquire from our clients. We sell these products in the United States
through customers such as Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, McKesson, Kerr Drug,
Amway and independent pharmacies as well as product specific catalogs. Our
current product offerings are designed to appeal to a broad range of
consumers.
We maintain vendor relationships with customers such as Walgreens, CVS,
Rite Aid, McKesson, Kerr Drug and Amway. In general, products cannot be
sold to these customers by us or by any other party without a vendor
relationship being in place. In order to obtain a vendor relationship, we
must undergo an extensive application and screening process by a customer.
Once we are qualified by a customer, we are assigned a Vendor Number which
allows us to sell to the customer. We must follow sales procedures as
specified by each customer. However, products are sold to customers on a
purchase order basis. Customers are not obligated to purchase products from
us and may stop purchasing products from us at any time.
We have no written agreements with our clients. Products are purchased from
clients on a purchase order basis. We are not obligated to purchase any
products from clients, and clients are not obligated to sell products to
us and may stop selling products to us at any time.
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Our address is 2979 West Bay Drive Suite 2 , Belleair Bluffs, FL 33770 .
Our telephone number : 727-581-1500.Our website : www.americanretailalliance.com.