OSL Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: OSLH)
http://www.oslholdings.com
This diversified holding company has a number of exciting projects either in progress or on the way. The Company is centered around either developing or acquiring business ventures with the purpose of collecting and transmitting real-time consumer and business data.
The Business Units Include:
- Office Supply Line
- Corporate Diversity Solutions
- OSL Rewards
- OSL Diversity Marketplace
Office Supply Line, Inc.
The benefits to business include:
- The buying power of a $5 billion operating partner with over 100,000 products in-stock and ready for shipment immediately.
- A corporate branded web site that becomes a part of the business to those that use the system to order office supplies, furniture and anything else one would need for an office. That branding makes the person that does the procurement of items feel almost as if they are ordering from their own company. This insures loyalty and prevents the competition from coming in and swiping the client.
- Warehouses across the country insure prompt fulfillment and delivery directly to the business.
- Brand name products in all categories, including office supplies, printing supplies, paper, cleaning supplies, break-room supplies and snacks, office furniture, filing cabinets and storage solutions. And much more.
Corporate Diversity Solutions:
In December, OSL Holdings announced it had completed the acquisition of 48% of the equity interests in Corporate Diversity Solutions.
This business is a perfect complement to Office Supply Line.
Corporate Diversity Solutions (“CDS”) is a Tier One Diversity Business. Founded by four women who spent the majority of their careers in the Office Products Industry. They took a combined forty years of experience in the industry, formed a partnership and went into business. With the contribution of other family members, that forty years became over one hundred years of combined experience in the Office Products Industry. This has led to their success. As a Diversity Business, CDS enjoys special advantages that allow the Company to prosper and set a real world example for diversity in American business. As a subsidiary of OSL Holdings, CDS will continue as a Diversity Business as the management and majority ownership of CDS continues to qualify as such.
Going Viral with OSL Rewards
OSL Rewards:
We’ve all seen the success of Groupon. We’ve see the success of merchants using social media platforms like Facebook and now even Twitter. OSLH has a great product underway that will bring a Reward Currency to the marketplace that allows business and customers to use a virtual currency that shoppers early when shopping in retail stores, online, on their mobile devices and through other means.
Planned for a launch early this year, the intent of the reward offering is to design, develop and operate a loyalty program that is based on this virtual “reward currency”. As a member, anyone can earn and redeem this currency at online ecommerce sites, brick and mortar retail stores, through mobile devices and through other service providers. This is the offering of a combination loyalty program and the technology to make those loyalty rewards pay where the consumer chooses.
Obviously the Company sees the potential for OSL Rewards to “go viral” in the minds of consumers, and become very large.
Advantages to the consumer:
1. Ability to earn rewards in a way that compiles the rewards in a central account. It is not necessary to have a loyalty card for every business the consumer visits.
2. The consumer can choose to redeem the reward currency how she chooses. Perhaps she bought furniture at a furniture store and earned reward currency. The next day she visits her favorite boutique. She uses those reward currency points eared yesterday at another retailer.
3. The consumer is introduced to an entire network of great places to shop that take the reward currency.
Advantages to the merchants:
1. A stream of consumers that would never come into their business be it not for the reward currency. As consumers build up points, they are going to want to find those avenues that allow them to spend the points.
2. Conversion sales, up sales and other business with these new consumers. As the merchant builds a reputation with the consumer, the consumer comes back.
3. The merchant brings his own customers back. The first place one might think to spend a reward currency is where you know it is accepted.
4. The merchant will be visited by those that know the currency is traded at their location, and just want to get the know the merchant better.
5. Consumers can check their balances online at anytime. Some merchants products and services will be featured and integrated into the website, allowing a customer to make an instant decision on a purchase. Additionally, when the consumer does not have enough points, they can simply buy the added points online and get the product or service they want. That is right from the OSL website.
OSL Rewards is under development and details are expected from OSHL soon.
The OSL Diversity Marketplace
OSLH plans to facilitate developing electronic marketplaces with real time buy-side and sell side capabilities for multiple private & public markets. The goal is to be a leading market maker that creates an environment for commerce: Easy to use so that members can become proficient quickly; Intuitive interfaces, reports and tools to reduce the learning curve; Critical mass of participants so buyers can find the products and services they need, and sellers can locate interested buyers; Marketplace-to-marketplace interaction to give participants access to a larger or smaller “virtual” marketplace and audience as desired; Functionality rich enough to perform the range of commerce tasks from searching, sourcing, bidding, dynamic pricing, tracking, auditing and authorization management to catalog management.
Advisors Michael Jones-Bey & Ron Williams
Michael Jones-Bey is a professional with over 20 successful years in the public and private sector. Mr. Jones-Bey is serves advisor and consultant to OSL Diversity and is currently providing business development consulting services for MWBE Partners, LLC. He is using his extensive experience and relationships to help expand public and private sector business opportunities and increase access to capital for minority and women owned businesses .
Mr. Jones-Bey most recently served as Executive Director of the largest public sector supplier diversity program in the nation from 2007-2010. He was responsible for revitalizing the New York State certification program, agency compliance, and business development initiatives. Targeted industry sector capacity building and market access programs resulted in over $300 million of additional contract opportunities for minority and women owned businesses in the construction, renewable energy, and information technology industries. New contract opportunities in the financial services industry surpassed $1 billion. The success of this program was due in part to public-private partnerships that Mr. Jones-Bey created with major corporations. In order to strengthen the program in the future, he worked with the Governor’s office, MWBE advocates, and members of the legislature to craft legislation that became law in 2010. Mr. Jones-Bey’s work in the supplier diversity field has been recognized nationally, and he has received over 15 awards from the public and private sector.
Prior to this post Mr. Jones-Bey worked for former Governor (then Senator) David Paterson in several capacities including Director of Press Operations and ultimately Chief of Staff to the Senate Democratic Conference. As Senator Paterson’s Chief of Staff, he managed a 140 person operation with an annual budget of $13 million. While on the Senator’s staff he also served as his designee on the Executive Board of the Harlem Community Development Corporation.
Ron Williams currently serves advisor and consultant to OSL Diversity and is currently the Sr. Vice President for Business Development for Richardson Communications, Inc. (RCI) and Focus Technology, Inc. Mr. Williams’ responsibilities include supporting customers with development and implementation of business development strategies. Mr. Williams has over 30 years experience of business consulting experience, including assisting numerous businesses and organizations with business development strategies, strategic marketing, organizational development, public relations and government relations, in a variety of business sectors, including: aerospace, information technology and training, staffing services, real estate investment, construction services, et al, resulting in over $750 million in contracts for client firms. Customers serviced include: Command Technologies, Oracle Corporation, New Boston Fund, NEU, Metropolitan District Commission, J T Slocomb Company, Hispanic Yellow Pages, Numet Machining, et al.
Formerly, Mr. Williams served as Staff Assistant to U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd, as Business and Constituent Services Specialist.
Mr. Williams has served on the Board of Directors of the Greater New England Minority Supplier Development Council (GNEMSDC – formerly Connecticut Minority Supplier Development Council – CMSDC) since 1996; Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee (NMBEIC) Chair from 1996 – 2005; NE Regional Chair of the NMSDC’s NMBEIC from 1996 to present; and 1st Vice-Chair of the National MBEIC since 2008. There are 3,500 corporate members throughout the network, including most of America’s largest publicly-owned, privately-owned and foreign-owned companies, as well as universities, hospitals and other buying institutions. The regional councils certify and match more than 16,000 minority-owned businesses.
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Contact OSL Holdings
OSL Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: OSLH)
1710 First Ave
New York, NY 10128
(212) 419-4900
OSL Holdings Website:
http://www.oslholdings.com
Office Supply Line Website:
http://www.officesupplyline.com/
Corporate Diversity Solutions:
http://www.corporatediversitysolutions.com/
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