as I stated on the old thread...there are far more pros then cons in this 10-q
CORPORATE MISSION AND OBJECTIVES
In order to accomplish its goals, CalbaTech is pursuing a strategy of combining products and technologies, and the companies that provide them, into the following divisions: 1) Molecular Applications; 2) Research Reagents; and 3) Cellular Therapeutics. By pursuing such a strategy,
each division should produce value added and increasing returns on shareholders' investment through cross marketing of products and geographic expansion, as well as to achieve product enhancement and efficiency
KD MEDICAL, INC.
CalbaTech acquired KD in the last quarter of 2004. This acquisition substantially increased both product range and revenue in the Research Reagents Division. The product ranges of KD and Molecula are highly complementary, with little over lap. A strength of KD is in the supply of specialized media for culture of model research organisms such as bacteria, yeast, insects and mammalian cell lines. It also supplies products to approximately 300 National Institutes of Health ("NIH") laboratories, contracts invaluable for establishing new products in a favorable government setting. Its secondary products are related to molecular biology reagents. Conversely, Molecula's primary focus is in the design and supply of high value molecular biology reagents such as siRNA and DNA antisense oligonucleotides. It also has reagents such as IPTG that are complementary to customized media. KD believes that the addition of new product lines could significantly
increase its revenues within the NIH, to as much as $5 Million annually, within the next five years. A large proportion of molecular biology research depends upon culture of a model organism (bacteria, fruit fly, etc.), which is genetically manipulated by transfection of customized oligonucleotides (siRNA). Thus, an alliance of KD and Molecula will be well placed to provide a competitive single source for these culture media transfection reagents and specialized modifier molecules such as siRNA. Further, as explained above, KD's long standing and trusted position, as a major in-house supplier to NIH will greatly ease entry of Molecula's siRNA into that major market. Please see
www.kdmedical.com.
CUSTOMERS
KD Medical and Molecula service five distinct customer types: 1) Federally funded research centers such as the National Institutes of Health, the Naval Medical Center, and the National Cancer Institute; 2)Federally funded "Supply Stores" such as at the National Institutes of Health; 3) University and private research centers such as
Glaxo Smith-Kline, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Pfizer Research, and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals; 4) Medical distributors such as Fisher Scientific and VWR International; and 5) OEMs such as Genetix, Ltd. and PML Microbiologicals, Inc.
MARKET SIZE
The general laboratory supplies
industry is 12 to $14 Billion, and the molecular biology market to which the Company provides products and services for medical research and drug discovery on which billions of dollars are spent each year. Specifically,
the molecular biology market is approximately $600 Million per year, and the RNAi market is estimated to be $328 Million by 2010.
FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS
The Reagents Division has two companies with combined 2005 revenues of
approximately $1.225 Million in gross revenues. CalbaTech believes that combined revenues within the division will be $1.5 Million in 2006. Within three years, it is anticipated that
revenues will grow to $5 Million.
PATENTS AND PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY
It is the Company's intention to protect its proprietary property through the filing of U.S. and international patent applications, both broad and specific, where necessary and reasonable.
The Company believes it will attain strong and broad patent protection for its technologies. It is the Company's intention that all its products be protected under various pending patents, issued patents, copyrights and trademarks. The Company has the policy of disclosing its proprietary information only under a Confidentiality Agreement. This Agreement has a special clause regarding ownership by the Company of all inventions related to, or based in any way upon, the Company's technologies.
...I went ahead and locked the old one.
