DGAP-News: ROK Global PLC : ROK Wins 2 Further US Government Law Enforcement Agency Contracts
ID: 418434
ROK Global PLC : ROK Wins 2 Further US Government Law Enforcement
Agency Contracts
03.06.2011 / 11:02
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Corporate Press Release
Friday, 3th June 2011
PRESS RELEASE
ROK Wins 2 Further US Government Law Enforcement Agency Contracts
Ticker Symbol: RKG
WKN: A0YKFS
'Deployment of ROK Mobile Security service currently 60% ahead of schedule'
London and Los Angeles, 3rd June 2011
ROK Americas, the US subsidiary of mobile applications and web technologies
company ROK Global PLC, has today announced the company has signed 2
further contracts for the provision of its specialist mobile security
software to more US Government Law Enforcement Agencies.
These 2 new contracts are in addition to the first such contract - signed
and announced on the 23rd May 2011 - and follows exhaustive testing of the
ROK proprietary software undertaken since January 2011 by a range of US Law
Enforcement Agencies.
Further contracts are currently in negotiation.
Commenting, Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROK said 'For security
reasons, we are unable to announce the scale and scope of these agreements
but we are able to report the ROK Homeland Security service is currently
exceeding its deployment schedule by 60% and, as a result, we will now be
revising our Group revenue forecasts upwards, from $15 million to $20
million, for the close of the financial year ending March 2012.'
ROK's mobile security applications provide robust, real-time, simple and
secure technologies to assist law enforcement agencies in the gathering and
management of key information in a variety of formats. The cutting edge
technology developed by ROK includes encrypted data based communications
for use in counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics operations, border
security, criminal investigations and personal protection.
Listed on the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, ROK Global was
co-founded by US Billionaire John Paul DeJoria and UK-based serial
technology-specialist entrepreneur, Jonathan Kendrick.
In addition to being co-founder of ROK, John Paul DeJoria is Chairman and
CEO of John Paul Mitchell Systems, the producer and manufacturer of Paul
Mitchell hair care products which achieve in-salon retail sales of
approximately US $800m annually through more than 100,000 salons worldwide.
John Paul is also co-founder of Patron Tequila, the worlds leading premium
tequila brand.
ROK has pioneered many new technologies in the rapidly-evolving mobile and
web space, including high quality mass-market Mobile TV (which can be
streamed, live and on-demand, over mass-market 2.5G as well as 3G and
Wi-Fi) as well as mobile security technologies and multi-language
text-to-speech technologies.
'We are delighted at the speed of our success in delivering ROK software to
assist law enforcement officers address key security issues inside the
United States and we are confident we shall see many more deployments of
the service shortly.' Added Kendrick.
www.rokglobal.com
irgermany@rokglobal.com
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forward- looking statements, including, but not limited to, certain delays
beyond the company's control with respect to market acceptance of new
technologies or products, delays in testing and evaluation of products, and
other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
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