Alottafun! Inc. Enters Into Letter of Intent with Preston Tire, Inc.
22 December 2000
Alottafun! Inc. Enters Into Letter of Intent with Preston Tire, Inc.WEST BEND, Wis., Dec. 21 Michael Porter, CEO of Venture Development, Inc., formerly Alottafun! Inc. (Frankfurt: AZE), announced today that Venture Development, Inc. and Preston Tire, Inc., a privately held company located in Kingwood, W.Va., have entered into a letter of intent to explore the possible acquisition of Preston Tire by Venture Development and to examine other business combinations. Terms and conditions of the letter of intent will be disclosed upon completion of the due diligence process. Preston Tire maintains an approved and permitted tire recycling facility on 110 acres in West Virginia. Preston Tire is the only tire recycling facility in the state of West Virginia and has permits that enable it to recycle tires from West Virginia, the bordering states and New Jersey and New York. It has permits to construct seven storage and holding cells with room to expand to a total of eleven. Each cell is capable of holding 720,000 tires that have been shredded into two-inch chips. The company has three operational shredders, conveyors, and other equipment necessary for the environmentally safe processing and conversion of scrap tires. The company is evaluating and negotiating to purchase equipment for processing tire chips into crumb rubber. Crumb rubber is currently used in the manufacture of over 200 products ranging from impact barriers to pencil sharpeners. Video cassettes, tennis courts, handbags, ballpoint pens, and roofing shingles can be made from crumb rubber. It is believed that in the U.S., one tire is produced for every person per year. Of the 270,000,000 tires that are scraped each year, only 20,000,000 are recycled in one form or another. Alottafun! Inc., now Venture Development Inc., in stride with its new identity and corporate focus, is in the business of acquiring, developing and consolidating revenue generating companies that have profits and assets, or those entities that have a clear plan to achieve significant revenues, profits and assets. The Company continues to seek interesting candidates that will blend with the primary new focus of Venture Development Inc.