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| The company is raising outside capital, has raised both common equity and preferred equity and is growing very nicely |
| We are very excited about FGF and the potential for the reinsurance and merchant banking as they continue to scale and add value |
| If you want to refer to Slides 5 through 7, at Strong, we are continuing to see strong organic growth with increasing demand from our exhibitors for laser upgrades and other investments they're making in upgrading their auditoriums to premium cinema |
| Our Technical Services group continues to perform at a high-level and they've really done a nice job of expanding market share and becoming the go-to service partner for the cinema industry |
| It's a really attractive cap table that we're proud of |
| Our screen business continues to perform well with laser upgrades driving steady demand from cinema exhibitors |
| So I feel very good about that model |
| So right now, I'm really pleased with the progress we've made in that business |
| Manufactured housing is a wonderful industry that we are really excited about |
| And when the opportunity to do the deal with Paul Rivett came along, we jumped on it and thought it was a really good opportunity |
| Our merchant banking continues to create new opportunities as well, and I'm really excited about the future there |
| We are one of only a handful of SPAC teams getting deals done right now, which shows the strength of our team |
| There's no doubt that rising interest rates and lower lumber prices have impacted the stock price, but we believe there's good value in the company |
| Overall, we are very excited about the outlook for Entertainment business, the increasing demand for premium immersive experiences, and we expect to see continued positive momentum |
| Over the past year, GreenFirst has continued to successfully execute on its strategy to monetize noncore assets, streamline operations and strengthen their balance sheet |
| Services revenue benefited from the continuing momentum in installation services, which saw its seventh consecutive quarter with year-over-year increases as well as increases in revenue generated from field maintenance and monitoring |
| I'm proud of our team for the way they innovated, and I'm very happy that the capital markets were supportive of it |
| The reinsurance business is performing very well and continuing to patiently grow and allocate capital |
| I think we've done a good job with that |
| Overall, we've healthy liquidity, enough to operate the business on a day-to-day basis |
| Margins on services benefited from the strategic move away from outsourcing the installation work to utilizing internal labor to complete the projects |
| They had a very good quarterly release |
| In terms of how we evolve our entertainment business from its core roots, which is a great business, solid cash flow, profitable business with a long operating history, and how we evolve that business into other areas of entertainment |
| And it's really become from what was a few million dollars of revenue when we started it to now a much larger company with great prospects |
| Firefly continues to build a powerful technology model for the outdoor advertising space, and we are patient supporters of their long-term growth and value creation plans |
| And I'm actually quite happy that we had this boom so that it brought awareness and understanding of SPACs |
| We think we have a great team from the perspective of getting -- due diligencing and really working hard to find the right transaction to do |
| FG Financial is a critical part of our strategy both now and in the future, and we are excited about the financial services platform we're building |
| So that's much more regular jobs, smaller jobs, regular jobs that can really build a nice steady stream of cash flow when you're not -- while you're waiting for the big win, on something like Safehaven |
| And if you know anything about Google, Google is obviously really successful in the advertising space and they have lots of money |
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| Some of the things that happened post the SPAC transaction, we are surprised with the CEO leaving and the earnings disappointment |
| What's really neat about the iCore transaction, one, is that we got a deal done in a very difficult environment; but two, is how we did it |
| And I think that as an ongoing concern, you'll likely have to run your company properly until there's a strategic transaction to do |
| It's been a very challenging market for many micro cap and small cap stocks, but the market is no excuse, as many companies are executing and seeing their stock prices rewarded |
| And that's impacted the housing market and that's -- lumber prices have fallen some |
| It's a disruptive -- it's an industry that's being disrupted from a streaming standpoint |
| I think from the outside looking in, when I initially heard about getting into content production, I was concerned about the cash flow dynamics of the business and how much risk you all were taking |
| I can tell you, I'm personally frustrated that they have not happened |
| So that's not been great |
| How could you do this? It was like we had -- so I recused myself from that decision to let the Board make the decision because I knew it was going to be a controversial decision |
| And if you remember back then, we were under tremendous amounts of pressure to exercise all of them |
| But Convergent had a customer that defaulted on us |
| A lot of the other publicly traded lumber companies have gotten hit as well |
| No worries |
| So I apologize |
| But they seem to be back on track |
| These statements are also subject to risks and uncertainties and may cause actual results to differ materially from those described in today's call |
| Well, that’s risk |
| The Strong Global Entertainment IPO was completed, but the value creation we are hoping for hasn't been recognized by the market |
| So the SPAC market, as you know, had hundreds of SPACs that were launched in 2020, '21 and got oversaturated with people looking for deals |
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