I am the UK representative for AK Comics of Egypt.
We are looking for investment of $3 million and muslim-investor.com was recommended to us by a stock market analyst as a good place to start. We would welcome your advice.
Without taking too much of your time at this stage, let me give you a brief outline to what we do:
We started in 2002. We produce a comic book, just like Spiderman or Batman, called 'Middle East Heroes' which sells 80,000 copies a month throughout the Middle East on newstands - more in fact than Superman or Spiderman do in the US. It has a very high brand recognition in the Middle East - it is sponsored, for example, by Cadburys and Egypt Air. We recently successfully launched in the UK and the USA markets and we have a distribution agreement with Diamond who service comic book stores in these two areas. We also have a contract to produce an animated TV series for Egyptian television and there is talk of a movie in the near future.
Please look at our website on www.akcomics.com
The business is profitable, relatively cash-rich and we are looking to move to the next level of development. This includes an art school; expanding the product into North Africa and mainland Europe; and related products such as action figures and trading cards. We are also interested in providing an extremely low-cost but high-quality printing facility for European and US companies.
Of course, ideas cost money and this is why we would like to work with you.
I hope you feel it is worth developing this conversation further. If so, I would be pleased to provide the more detailed business plan, projections and so on that would be required for investment.
I look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Best wishes
Andrew Stephenson
AK Comics UK
Brief outline of management team:
Ayman Kandeel - Economics professor, Cairo University
Marwan el-Nasher - Chief Executive and MBA graduate
Andrew Stephenson - Financial analyst and Economics Lecturer, Bellerbys College, UK