Regulation S-B
 
Item 101 Description of Business
a.
Business Development.
Describe the development of the small business issuer during the last
three years. If the small business issuer has not been in business for
three years, give the same information for predecessor(s) of the small
business issuer if there are any. This business development description
should include:
1. Form
and year of organization;
2. Any
bankruptcy, receivership or similar proceeding; and
3. Any
material reclassification, merger, consolidation, or purchase or sale
of a significant amount of assets not in the ordinary course of business.
b.
Business of Issuer.
Briefly describe the business and include, to the extent material to an
understanding of the issuer:
1. Principal
products or services and their markets;
2. Distribution
methods of the products or services;
3. Status
of any publicly announced new product or service;
4.
Competitive business conditions and the small business issuer's competitive
position in the industry and methods of competition;
5. Sources
and availability of raw materials and the names of principal suppliers;
6. Dependence
on one or a few major customers;
7. Patents,
trademarks, licenses, franchises, concessions, royalty agreements or labor
contracts, including duration;
8. Need
for any government approval of principal products or services. If government
approval is necessary and the small business issuer has not yet received
that approval, discuss the status of the approval within the government
approval process;
9. Effect
of existing or probable governmental regulations on the business;
10. Estimate
of the amount spent during each of the last two fiscal years on research
and development activities, and if applicable the extent to which the
cost of such activities are borne directly by customers;
11. Costs
and effects of compliance with environmental laws (federal, state and
local) ; and
12. Number
of total employees and number of full time employees.
c.
Reports to security
holders. Disclose the following in any registration statement you
file under the Securities Act of 1933:
1. If
you are not required to deliver an annual report to security holders,
whether you will voluntarily send an annual report and whether the report
will include audited financial statements;
2. Whether
you file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. If you are
a reporting company, identify the reports and other information you file
with the SEC; and
3. That
the public may read and copy any materials you file with the SEC at the
SEC's Public Reference Room at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20549. State that the public may obtain information on the operation of
the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. If you
are an electronic filer, state that the SEC maintains an Internet site
that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information
regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC and state the
address of that site (http://www.sec.gov). You are encouraged to give
your Internet address, if available;
d. Canadian
Issuers. Provide the information required by Items
101(f)(2)
and 101(g)
of Regulation S-K.
Regulatory History |
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57 FR 36451, Aug. 13, 1992
63 FR 6370,
6379, Feb. 6, 1998 |
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