Toronto, Ontario, November 23, 2014/Marketwired/ – Grenville Strategic Royalty Corp. (TSXV: GRC) (“Grenville”) is pleased to announce that it has contracted for a gross sales royalty from Switch Marketing and Communications Ltd. (“Switch Video”) in exchange for an advance of $500,000 CAD, with an option, if agreed upon by both companies, to advance an additional $500,000 CAD. In exchange for this advance, Grenville will receive a royalty based on Switch Video’s gross revenue within Grenville’s average royalty rate of between 1% and 4%.
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Collingwood, Ontario, Switch Video is recognized as one of the web’s leading video marketing companies. Switch was founded by CEO, Andrew Angus and today has grown to a staff of 25 script writers, animators, and producers based in Collingwood in addition to a sales and marketing team in San Francisco, CA. Switch has produced over 800 “animated explainer” videos for clients in 15 countries in over 10 different languages. Switch videos can be found in the learning archives of such entities as Facebook, Hewlett Packard, Shaw Media, Blackrock, IBM, Microsoft and The United Nations.
“Grenville and their team worked with us to structure a financing that allowed us to rationalize specific business activities, accelerate our growth strategy and continue to innovate and bring new solutions to market,” stated Mr. Angus. “This capital will also enable us to ramp-up our sales activities and maintain our current growth rate in our revenues”.
“Switch Video is run by a dynamic young management team, operating seamlessly between their offices in Canada, where their production team is located, and California, where management originates much of its business.” noted William (Bill) R. Tharp, President and Chief Executive Officer of Grenville. “Our capital strengthens the Company’s growth capability and provides Grenville with exposure to the growing North American video-animation marketplace”.
To date, Grenville has completed approximately $24.66 million in royalty financings, building a diversified portfolio in Canada and the United States.
About Switch Video.
Switch Video is one of the web industry’s largest video production companies based in North America. They produce simple explainer videos to help big and small companies simplify their product offerings through easy-to-watch, easier-to-understand videos in various languages. Switch Video has produced over 450 videos for clients worldwide ranging from small businesses to Fortune 1000 enterprises including – Hewlett-Packard, Shaw Communications, Microsoft, The United Nations, and Brown-Forman. For more information, please visit: www.switchvideo.com
About Grenville
Grenville is a Toronto-based company that was formed to provide royalty-based finance solutions by acquiring revenue streams generated by growing public and private, small to medium sized enterprises operating across a broad range of industrial and technology sectors. Grenville has identified a large and underserviced finance market for well-managed companies generating up to $50 million in revenue, which face difficult financing hurdles from traditional debt and equity markets. The non-dilutive royalty financing structure offered by Grenville can bridge the financing needs of these companies until traditional debt or equity is available to them on more attractive commercial terms. The application of Grenville’s royalty financing structure into sectors not traditionally serviced by royalty companies represents a new and innovative financing model – Capital Simplified – that has already attracted a considerable number of opportunities with attractive potential returns. 2
For more information, please contact:
Grenville Strategic Royalty Corp. William (Bill) R. Tharp President and Chief Executive Officer (416) 777-0383
This press release contains certain “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and may also contain statements that may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking information and statements are not representative of historical facts or information or current condition, but instead represent only Grenville’s beliefs regarding future events, plans or objectives, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of Grenville’s control. Generally, such forward-looking information or statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or may contain statements that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will be taken, “will continue”, “will occur” or “will be achieved”. The forward-looking information contained herein may include, but is not limited to, information with respect to: prospective financial performance; expenses and operations; anticipated cash needs and need for additional financing; anticipated funding sources; future growth plans; royalty acquisition targets and proposed or completed royalty transactions; estimated operating costs; estimated market drivers and demand; business prospects and strategy; anticipated trends and challenges in Grenville’s business and the markets in which it operates; the amount and timing of the payment of dividends by Grenville; and Grenville’s financial position. By identifying such information and statements in this manner, Grenville is alerting the reader that such information and statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Grenville to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such information and statements. An investment in securities of Grenville is speculative and subject to a number of risks including, without limitation, risks relating to: the need for additional financing; the relative speculative and illiquid nature of an investment in Grenville; Grenville’s lack of operating history; Grenville’s ability to generate sufficient revenues; Grenville’s ability to manage future growth; the limited diversification in Grenville’s existing investments; dependence on the operations, assets and financial health of investee companies; limited ability to exercise control or direction over investee companies; potential defaults by investee companies and the unsecured nature of Grenville’s investments; Grenville’s ability to enforce on any default by an investee company; competition with other investment entities; tax matters; Grenville’s ability to pay dividends in the future and the timing and amount of those dividends; reliance on key personnel, particularly Grenville’s founders; dilution of shareholders’ interest through future financings; and general economic and political conditions. Although Grenville has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking information and statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.
In connection with the forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained in this document, Grenville has made certain assumptions. Assumptions about the performance of the Canadian and U.S. economies over the next 24 months and how that will affect Grenville’s business and its ability to identify and close new opportunities with new investees are material factors that Grenville considered when setting its strategic priorities and objectives, and its outlook for its business. Key assumptions include, but are not limited to: assumptions that the Canadian and U.S. economies will continue to grow moderately over the next 12 to 24 months; that interest rates will not increase dramatically over the next 12 to 24 months; that Grenville’s existing investees will continue to make royalty payments to Grenville as and when required; that the businesses of Grenville’s investees will not experience material negative results; that Grenville will continue to grow its portfolio in a manner similar to what has already been established; that tax rates and tax laws will not change significantly in Canada and the U.S.; that more small to medium private and public companies will continue to require access to alternative sources of capital that Grenville will have the ability to raise required equity and/or debt financing on acceptable terms; and that Grenville will have sufficient free cash flow to pay dividends. Grenville has also assumed that access to the capital markets will remain relatively stable, that the capital markets will perform with normal levels of volatility and that the Canadian dollar will not have a high amount of volatility relative to the U.S. dollar. In determining expectations for economic growth, Grenville primarily considers historical economic data provided by the Canadian and U.S. governments and their agencies.
Although Grenville believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing, and the expectations contained in, the forward-looking information and statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information and statements, and no assurance or guarantee can be given that such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information and statements.
For additional information with respect to these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, please refer to the “Risk Factors” section of Grenville’s annual information form dated April 21, 2014 and the other public filings of Grenville available on SEDAR at 3
www.sedar.com. The forward-looking information contained in this press release is made as of the date hereof, and Grenville does not undertake to update any forward-looking information that is contained or referenced herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. All subsequent written and oral forward looking information and statements attributable to Grenville or persons acting on its behalf is expressly qualified in its entirety by this notice.
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