0001354488-14-005298.txt : 20141030 0001354488-14-005298.hdr.sgml : 20141030 20141030093534 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001354488-14-005298 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20141029 ITEM INFORMATION: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets ITEM INFORMATION: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20141030 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20141030 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ISSUER DIRECT CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000843006 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COMMERCIAL PRINTING [2750] IRS NUMBER: 261331503 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-10185 FILM NUMBER: 141181870 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 500 PERIMETER PARK DRIVE STREET 2: SUITE D CITY: MORRISVILLE STATE: NC ZIP: 27560 BUSINESS PHONE: 9194611600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 500 PERIMETER PARK DRIVE STREET 2: SUITE D CITY: MORRISVILLE STATE: NC ZIP: 27560 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: DOCUCON INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20071002 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: DOCUCON INCORPORATED DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 8-K 1 isdr_8k.htm CURRENT REPORT isdr_8k.htm


UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 

FORM 8-K

 
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  October 29, 2014
 
 

Issuer Direct Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 

 
Delaware
1-10185
26-1331503
(State or other jurisdiction
(Commission
(I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation)
File Number)
Identification No.)
 
500 Perimeter Park, Suite D, Morrisville, North Carolina 27560
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
 
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (919) 481-4000
 
N/A
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
 
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Item 2.01 Completion of Acquisition.

On October 29, 2014 (the “Closing Date”), Issuer Direct Corporation, a Delaware corporation, (the “Company”) completed its acquisition of all of the assets relating to the “Accesswire” business (as defined below) owned and operated by Baystreet.ca Media Corp., a British Columbia company (“Baystreet”) pursuant to the terms of an Asset Purchase Agreement dated October 2, 2014 (the “Purchase Agreement”) by and between the Company, Baystreet and Aaron Bodnar (the “Bodnar”).  Bodnar is the sole stockholder of Baystreet.

Accesswire is a business corporate news and content distribution and dissemination business (“Accesswire”).  The Company purchased all assets relating to Accesswire, including customer relationships, distributor relationships, trademarks, software and goodwill (the “Assets”).  In consideration of the Assets, the Company paid to Baystreet on the Closing Date the following: (i) $1,700,000 in cash from the Company’s current cash reserves and (ii) 15,385 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 (the “Shares”).  All such Shares are “restricted securities” as such term is defined in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Purchase Agreement. The Purchase Agreement was included as Exhibit 2.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 7, 2014 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 3.02.  Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

All information set forth in Item 2.01 above is hereby incorporated into Item 3.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K.

This Current Report on Form 8-K is neither an offer to sell nor the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. The Shares described herein have not been registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States of America absent registration or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act.

Item 8.01.  Other Events.

On October 30, 2014, the Company issued a press release announcing the completion of the Accesswire acquisition.  A copy of the press release is filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
 
Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)  Exhibits

99.1           Issuer Direct Completes Acquisition of Accesswire
 
 
 

 
 
SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
Issuer Direct Corporation
 
       
Date: October 30, 2014
By:
/s/ Brian R. Balbirnie  
   
Brian R. Balbirnie
 
   
Chief Executive Officer
 
       

 
EX-99.1 2 isdr_ex991.htm PRESS RELEASE DATED OCTOBER 29, 2014 isdr_ex991.htm
Exhibit 99.1
 
Issuer Direct Completes Acquisition of Accesswire
 
Immediately Accretive Transaction Adds Several Hundred Clients, New Private Company Vertical Opportunity
 
MORRISVILLE, NC / ACCESSWIRE / October 29, 2014 / Issuer Direct Corporation (the “Company”) (NYSE MKT: ISDR), a market leader and innovator of disclosure management solutions and cloud-based compliance technologies, today announced that it has closed its acquisition of Accesswire, a leading newswire upstart. Through this acquisition, Issuer Direct is now one of the industry’s fastest growing newswires.
 
The acquisition has significantly bolstered the Company’s disclosure management platform for public companies, providing its growing base of customers a single-sourced, consolidated disclosure and communication offering for disseminating news to regulators, shareholders, potential investors and now via its newswire. Accesswire services will be an integral part of the Company’s Cloud-based platform for disclosure and communications.
 
“This acquisition continues the strong momentum for Issuer Direct, broadening our client base by several hundred additional public and private companies and further expanding our already comprehensive offering,” said Brian Balbirnie, Chief Executive Officer of Issuer Direct. “Having a newswire network within our ecosystem is fundamental to our overall strategy.  Not only do we plan to continue to build upon Accesswire’s existing network, we expect to leverage this powerful news dissemination platform by distributing news through our current PrecisionIR platforms and social media properties. Furthermore, this acquisition will allow us to further diversify our client base beyond the publically traded companies that have formed our historical client base, enabling us to provide services to privately held companies.”
 
Issuer Direct’s salesforce will add Accesswire’s direct clients to its pipeline moving forward. The immediate mandate will be to introduce Issuer Direct’s shareholder communication and disclosure management offerings.  Additionally, the sales team will engage shareholder communication and disclosure management customers to discuss the new tools clients can utilize with the addition of Accesswire. There are also several dozen resellers of the Accesswire brand, those resellers will have direct access to the Disclosure Management workflow engine to optimize and scale their newswire efforts – Issuer Direct plans on strengthening these reseller relationships with tools, technologies and its 24/7 newsroom editorial services.
 
Mr. Balbirnie added, “Owning the newswire function outright allows our platform to access and leverage real time press release analytics. These analytics will allow our clients to see retail and institutional investors who engaged with their news, far beyond what traditional distribution channels illustrate today, those investors are now viable prospects to become new shareholders.”
 
Accesswire distributes news content to millions of desktops globally, via its distribution network of newspapers, trade publications and online platforms and portals, including both online brokerages, and institutional terminals.
 
Mr. Balbirnie concluded, “This is natural fit, we have millions of shareholders in our platforms from PrecisionIR – the very same investors seeking corporate documents, annual reports and news or earnings information – we truly have built a very compelling platform for the corporate issuer marketplace.”
 
About Accesswire:
 
Founded in 2010, Accesswire is a news distribution service, operating one of the industry’s fastest growing newswires. Accesswire’s leadings technology platform is a cloud-based news dissemination platform focused on delivering rich dynamic content, including media, and video. With distribution partners such as Dow Jones, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Yahoo Finance and dozens of aggregators in North America for over 1,000 customers worldwide.
 
About Issuer Direct Corporation:
 
Issuer Direct is a disclosure management and targeted communications company. Our integrated platform provides tools, technologies and services that enable our clients to disclose and disseminate information through our network. With a focus on corporate issuers, the Company alleviates the complexity of maintaining compliance with its integrated portfolio of products and services that enhance companies' ability to efficiently produce and distribute their financial and business communications both online and in print.
 
More Information on Issuer Direct:
 
Tearsheet
Annual Reports
Media Kit
Corporate Timeline
 
 
 

 
 
Forward-Looking Statements
 
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") (which Sections were adopted as part of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995). Statements preceded by, followed by or that otherwise include the words "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan," "project," "prospects," "outlook," and similar words or expressions, or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "should," "would," "may," and "could" are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical facts. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause Issuer Direct’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any anticipated results, performance or achievements. Issuer Direct disclaims any intention to, and undertakes no obligation to, revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, a future event, or otherwise. For additional risks and uncertainties that could impact Issuer Direct’s forward-looking statements, please see Issuer Direct’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013, including but not limited to the discussion under "Risk Factors" therein, which Issuer Direct has filed with the SEC and which may be viewed at http://www.sec.gov/.
 
Contact:
 
Hayden IR
Brett Maas
(646) 536-7331
brett@haydenir.com
Hayden IR
James Carbonara
(646)-755-7412
james@haydenir.com
Issuer Direct Corporation
Brian R. Balbirnie
919-481-4000
brian.balbirnie@issuerdirect.com