Company will Promote and Resell Training and Consulting Franchises for Leading Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Provider
ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Safe and Secure TV Channel, LLC SSTC, the premier internet broadband television network devoted exclusively to homeland security and emergency preparedness, has announced that Firestorm Franchising, LLC, has selected it to serve as a strategic media partner as Firestorm launches a campaign to significantly expand its franchise base.
Firestorm is a national leader in crisis management, vulnerability/threat assessment, risk mitigation, and business continuity planning for Fortune 500 companies and other organizations. With its franchisees, the company provides a range of critical decision support services and training designed to help businesses and institutions recover from natural and man-made disasters, and to keep them running smoothly during and after major crises.
In the past year, Firestorm has grown rapidly to include 19 locations and 14 franchisees, but is now seeking to accelerate its growth. Through new marketing and sales initiatives, such as the partnership with Safe and Secure TV Channel, the company is aiming to establish more than 100 franchisees nationwide during the next 18 to 24 months.
“We selected Safe and Secure TV Channel as our key media partner because they can deliver our message to the widest possible audience within our target consumer demographic,” said Jim Satterfield, President of Firestorm Franchising. “In order to increase our franchisee base, Firestorm looked for a strategic partner best able to target those seeking a professional consulting and training business opportunity to leverage their experience and contacts.”
Firestorm's services and training help organizations operate through disasters such as floods and hurricanes, health crises such as the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, and incidents of workplace violence and terrorism. Firestorm has solved problems ranging from designing continuity, workplace violence, supply chain, and pandemic plans for Fortune 500 companies to providing crisis management support after the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting tragedy.
“Demand for preparedness services continues to grow as business leaders seek ways to survive and thrive through increasing volatility in both natural and man-made crises,” said Gerard Ferri, President of Safe and Secure TV Channel. “Firestorm and Safe and Secure TV are well-positioned to capitalize on these market opportunities.”
To protect American businesses and citizens, Congress has mandated that the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA establish a certification program for Business Continuity Plans in the private sector (Public Law 110-53, Title IX- PS Prep). Firestorm Franchising LLC has been approved to accept applications for business continuity planning and consulting franchises in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Firestorm's proprietary PREDICT.PLAN.PERFORM.® methodologies provides the tools, procedures and plans that franchisees can market to companies as an aid for planning for and managing disasters and crises. Franchisees are provided with a turnkey package including training, resources, software, marketing, ongoing support and promotional materials.
SSTV (www.safeandsecuretvchannel.com) provides a wide range of multimedia content and access to thousands of professionals and consumers concerned with emergency preparedness of all varieties. During the last year, the Company has entered into a number of strategic partnerships to deliver emergency preparedness news, information, products and services to Fortune 500 and other businesses. These include an agreement with Critical Information Network (CiNet), which offers electronic coursework and training materials for first-responders and emergency personnel.
Other recent SSTV milestones include the premiere of its internet television series, “Face to Face with Homeland Security,” and an agreement making it the universal carrier to proprietary content provided by TransitSecurityReport.com Inc., a company that tracks a wide variety of dangers around the world, including disease outbreaks, earthquakes, terrorism and non-terrorism events and threats, at www.globalincidentmap.com.
About Firestorm Franchising
Firestorm Franchising, LLC is a recognized leader in business continuity, vulnerability analysis, risk mitigation and crisis management. Staffed by attorneys, engineers, physicians, law enforcement professionals, psychologists and many other talented individuals, we work directly with our Expert Council on behalf of our clients. Firestorm maintains a network of offices to be responsive and accessible to our international roster of clients. For more information, visit http://www.firestorm.com.
About Safe and Secure TV Channel
We are the first television network and multimedia information and distribution company to serve the homeland security and emergency preparedness industry. Unifying internet broadband television, print magazine publishing and electronic media. The Company intends to generate revenues through the sale of advertising in media distributed to the safety, security and preparedness B2B platform as well as the general public related industries, an estimated $45 billion market. Additionally, the Company plans to develop sales from commercial and government enterprises that focus on the homeland security industry, one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States. According to Homeland Security Research Corporation, a market research firm, the worldwide homeland security market, is forecasted to grow by nearly 100%, from $231 billion in 2006 to $518 billion in 2015. For additional information, please visit the Company's website at http://www.safeandsecuretvchannel.com.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of the Company's management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. These “forward-looking statements” are identified by words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “possible,” “project,” “should,” “will,” and similar words and expressions. These forward-looking statements involve important risks and uncertainties that could materially alter results in the future from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by us or on our behalf. Because Safe and Secure TV Channel is a development stage company with no revenue and limited resources, in addition to general economic and competitive risks facing such development stage companies in a business involving rapidly changing technology, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements: We may be unable to successfully market our products and services or obtain sufficient advertisers or advertising revenue or other revenue to offset the expenses we incur in maintaining our communications network and content acquisitions; several companies have certain functionality that may compete for market share with us, many of which are fully operating and have significantly greater financial and other resources than us; we may not be able to obtain sufficient content to generate a sufficient audience to support needed advertisers; we may experience delays in our development program, leading to loss of participant support, higher costs and losses; we may not be able to manage the significant growth it will take to achieve our business plan, including not being able to attract and retain much needed personnel on terms we find acceptable, if at all; there may not be adequate financial or other resources to complete the development or commercialization of our products and services or our expensive marketing and advertising plan; we will need to secure additional financing in order to achieve our business plan, and such financing may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all; rapid technological change may make our technology or media obsolete or not competitive; and the loss of any key personnel may prohibit the development or commercialization of our intellectual property. It is not possible to foresee or identify all factors affecting our forward-looking statements and you should not consider any list of such factors to be exhaustive. We assume no obligation and do not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
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Source: PR Newswire (June 13, 2011 – 8:00 AM EDT)
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