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You may have heard the buzz about joint ventures as a marketing technique, but you are still unsure how these strategic alliances can help your business. Joint ventures are an effective way to build a customer list and boost a bottom line for companies of all shapes and sizes.
We have outlined five reasons to seriously consider joint ventures. It may be best to take into account these points before deciding if this type of partnership is the right choice for you.
They Cost Little
One of the best features of joint ventures is that they cost very little money to establish. Once you have chosen a partner and drawn up an agreement, you can choose from a variety of online or offline marketing methods to advertise your partnership. Many of these methods cost little to launch, and since you are splitting marketing costs with your partner, you reap an even better value from your advertising budget.
They are Effective
Many businesses attest to the effectiveness of joint ventures in building a solid customer base and exploding company profits. These strategic alliances work for a variety of reasons, but the bottom line is that they do work in many situations. If you are looking for a fast, effective way to build a customer list, joint ventures are one of the best options available today.
You Can Target Your Market
One reason for the effectiveness of joint ventures is that they provide the perfect venue for targeting your market. By joining forces with another company that has a target market similar to your own, you multiply your advertising opportunities without losing your focus. The key is in finding the right partner up front, and then the marketing will nearly take care of itself.
They Work for All Kinds of Businesses
Joint ventures help small businesses build a bigger customer base. They provide larger companies with the opportunity to test out new products with potential customers. Businesses of all sizes enjoy the chance to stretch their advertising budget for a better value for their marketing dollar. This means you can approach a potential JV partner without worry that the business will be the wrong size for your needs. This marketing approach benefits businesses big and small.
They’re Mutually Beneficial
Joint ventures are one of the most symbiotic relationships around. These strategic alliances, when done right, offer benefits to both companies that join the partnership, even though the specific benefits might differ for each company. Even when a larger company joins forces with a newcomer to the market, both businesses can reap the benefit of profit sharing and market building. Rarely do advertising approaches stand to benefit everyone involved as effectively as the joint venture.
Joint ventures offer a host of benefits to the companies that choose to create them. By joining forces with another company that has a similar target market, you expand your advertising opportunities and build a larger customer list almost instantaneously. There are few marketing strategies that offer the same value and potential as the joint venture today.
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Caledonia Mining (LON:CMCL, TSE:CAL) is rated a buy up to 16 pence a share by broker Collins Stewart, which initiated coverage on the Zimbabwe gold play today.
A bullish assessment of the company’s prospects by analyst John McGloin immediately piqued interest in the stock, which rose 0.7 pence to 8.7 pence a share.
The company owns the producing Blanket gold mine in Zimbabwe, some very exciting exploration targets nearby and the Nama copper project in Zambia’s copper-belt.
McGloin points out the potential of Nama is significant if, as suspected, part of the licence area contains a possible extension to the world-class Konkolo North project.
“This exploration upside comes for free at the current price,” the analyst adds.
Caledonia’s Blanket mine is in the Gwanda greenstone belt, and was acquired from Kinross in 2006 (before that it was owned by Falconbridge).
Output was approximately 18,000 ounces last year rising to a target of 40,000 ounces of the precious metal for this year.
With cash costs falling and on target to go below US0 an ounce this year, the current management, led by Stefan Hayden, is sweating the assets more efficiently than the mine’s two previous owners.
Gold recoveries have improved markedly from around 80 per cent on acquisition to the present sustained gold recovery level of 92 per cent. Now management’s ambition is to further increase Blanket’s output – to a target of around 100,000 ounces by 2015.
Before it can do this it needs to increase its reserves and resources, which at the current production rate of 40,000 ounces per year gives Blanket at least a 13-year mine life.
It is currently sinking one new shaft and rehabilitating three others on two of its highly prospective brown-field satellite zones – GG, which is seven kilometres from Blanket’s metallurgical plant, and the Mascot Project Area, which is 42 kilometres away.
Caledonia also isn’t ignoring the potential of the Blanket Mine footprint itself.
It is developing the 22-Level Haulage, which is essentially a horizontal tunnel 750m below surface that will provide access for further exploration of the up-dip and down-dip extensions of the mine’s known main ore bodies above and below this depth.
This is a much faster and cheaper approach to exploration than drilling all the way from surface.
The 22-Level Haulage itself will then be over 3 kilometres long and will provide immediate mining access to these resources from the recently upgraded number four shaft and automated ore loading system.
Blanket has already installed substantial excess capacity in its crushing, milling and CIL circuits, which can handle 2,400, 1,800 and 3,800 tonnes per day respectively. Daily throughput at a production rate of 40,000 ounces of gold per annum is roughly equivalent to a plant throughput of 1,000 tonnes per day. This means that Blanket can immediately treat 80 per cent more additional ore with little or no requirement for new investment in the processing plant.
The only increased costs would be the mining, transport and consumable costs related to the additional tonnage, and the result would be a significant decrease in the cost per gold ounce produced as the fixed costs are amortised over the increased production.
This busy round of resource development activity will produce an updated 43-101 reserves and resource statement by mid-2011 with a further updated reserve and resource statement a year later.
Hayden has set aside US million for exploration this year and early next.
If Zimbabwean iIndigenisation rules are enforced, under the existing legislation, Caledonia would be obliged to sell a 51 per cent shareholding to black Zimbabweans over the next four to five years.
Caledonia had been hoping for a compromise deal, which seems unlikely ahead of the general election later this year as the issue of indigenisation in the mining sector has turned into a political football.
Finally Nama consists of four large scale, long term, contiguous mining licences covering more than 800 square kilometres in one of the world’s premier locations for conventional copper-belt type mineralisation.
As mentioned earlier one of those mining licence areas borders onto the world class Konkola copper property being developed jointly by Brazilian giant Vale and African Rainbow Minerals, the South African mining company currently capitalised at around USbillion.
They are currently investing a massive US0 million in Konkola and expect to be in production by 2013.
Caledonia’s immediate plans are more modest by comparison. It is initially drilling four holes, each about 800m deep, on its Konkola East Target at a cost of just over US million.
Subject to the drilling results and board approval, further drilling this year will either be focused on defining this target to a 43-101 compliant stage.
That, or an initial programme of holes may be drilled on its second copper belt target, Kafwira, which lies about 20 kilometres northwest of the Konkola East target.
The drilling programme has just started, and the initial results are expected this summer.
Should the drilling yield encouragingly positive results, then management wants to pull the trigger on a much more ambitious drilling programme.
Collins Stewart’s DCF valuation also shows that Caledonia is currently trading at a 30 per cent discount to the net present value of the Blanket Mine (based on a 10 per cent discount rate), when similar projects tend to be valued at 1.5 times NPV.
“Exploration success has the potential to expand the group’s resources, with Nama having the potential to be a share price driver,” McGloin concludes.
Skrine Lives Up to Parisi Speed School Tradition at NFL Combine
Buster Skrine flew under the radar at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, despite twice being selected first team All-Southern Conference. After the NFL Scouting Combine, he’s on everyone’s radar screen.
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Buster Skrine flew under the radar at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, despite twice being selected first team All-Southern Conference. After the NFL Scouting Combine, he’s on everyone’s radar screen. “Skrine leaves Indianapolis as the fastest man from the 2011 combine” according to Sports Illustrated.com
Skrine spent the last weeks preparing with the Parisi Speed School Combine program before he was clocked between 4.27 and 4.29 on a number of watches at the NFL Combine on Tuesday. He also clocked the fastest 60 yard shuttle in the combine, and the second fastest shuttle and L drill. On the heels of the NFLPA Texas vs the Nation game, where he showed that he could play with the top talent in the country, this athlete is getting some significant NFL attention.
"Buster Skrine was one of the most determined and dedicated athletes I have worked with over the last 12 years in my NFL Combine program. He was detail oriented and was driven to prove not only that he deserved to be at the Combine, but that he was the fastest athlete there. His attention to training, diet and recovery was the difference that allowed him to run in the 4.2′s and deliver what is arguably one of the best Combine performances ever." Martin Rooney, Director Parisi Speed School NFL Combine Program: COO Parisi Franchise Systems parent company of Parisi Speed School
That sentiment is echoed by his University of Tennessee coach Ross Huesman: “He’s as good or better than everybody I’ve ever been around… I would love to have Buster for my own son. That’s the type of kid he is.”
“Tenacious” and “conscientious” are tags that have consistently been applied to this player who racked up 156 tackles, 21 pass break ups, and 5 interceptions for the Mocs and was voted a team captain his Senior year. And, of course, “fast.”
"After impressing everyone with his explosive 40-yard dashes, Skrine also looked good throughout the positional drills, showing excellent quickness, loose hips and great ball skills…Buster has unquestioned potential." (Sporting News)
Skrine said that he will bring more than just speed to whichever team drafts him in April. “I always give 110%, I take constructive criticism, and I bring a positive attitude.”
Suddenly, Skrine’s on those radar screens.
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