Since 1996, First Canadian Capital Corp. has provided corporate communications, investor relations and market awareness services to micro-cap, small cap and mid-cap public companies listed on North American stock exchanges. In ten years of business, we have developed an extensive database of financial professionals that know us well, and that consistently provide our clients with a highly qualified audience. FCCC uses a hands-on approach with its network, assertively and individually making contact with each investor that we anticipate may have an interest in a particular client. Through warm and cold phone calling, emailing, face to face meetings, broker luncheons and investment group presentations, we ensure that a client’s story is widely discerned. We do this by proliferating the message at every opportunity, and through all means at our disposal. Essentially, FCCC’s program generates for our clients, a large and avid investor following in an extremely efficient and time-effective manner.
THE FIRST CANADIAN APPROACH
The First Canadian Approach
While all public companies need to facilitate ongoing interaction with the financial community, we understand that each company has its own communications’ objectives. At First Canadian Capital Corp., we help our clients meet these objectives through custom tailored strategies founded upon four important principles:
Sharp Focus: Investor relations is a unique discipline that requires a keen understanding of the intricacies present within the financial marketplace. Since its inception, First Canadian Capital Corp. has applied a specific and targeted approach when representing its clients. In such a large and diverse marketplace, we focus on attracting and corresponding with the right investment professionals to bring your company the right kind of exposure. This approach has enabled us to build a solid presence in various financial markets and within a diverse range of industries.
Senior Professionals: First Canadian Capital Corp. offers clients the benefit of market-trained, senior account professionals. Our people possess strong knowledge of the financial markets, with backgrounds in such disciplines as investment banking, security trading, accountancy, corporate law, marketing, money management, public relations and equity research.
Strong Relationships: Our success and your’s is contingent upon our relationships and credibility with key investment professionals. First Canadian’s intimate network numbers in the thousands of private investors and brokers, and we also utilize a proprietary, extended database which contains over 60,000 institutional and individual investors, analysts, market makers, journalists, editors, brokers and portfolio managers world-wide. Our database and the unique way we maintain it enables us to build, track and manage your target audience with proficiency.
Tangible Results: First Canadian Capital Corp. produces results that are tangible and measurable. They include a strengthened, augmented and more informed investor base as well as a stronger and more prevalent corporate identity, which translates into healthier stock performance on public markets.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF AN EFFECTIVE IR PROGRAM:
The following points highlight some of the successes that FCCC’s IR programs have achieved for our clientele over the last three years:
Face to face meetings for management with sector analysts at all of the top Canadian brokerage houses.
Client introduction to numerous small cap fund managers in Canada, the United States and Europe.
Complete organization of several property visits to client projects in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, the United States, Mexico and Bolivia. These field trips were typically attended by analysts, fund managers, bankers and major investors from First Canadian’s network.
Introductions through FCCC in the most recent 18 months led to our clients closing on four separate financings, totalling $23.4 million.
Countless one on one meetings, group presentations and luncheons with pre-qualified brokers at Canadian and U.S. retail firms.
Continued dialogue with Canadian and U.S. based newsletter writers, many of whom have published reports and recommendations on our clients.
FCCC has arranged for articles on our clients to be written and published in Resource World, Investor’s Digest, Northern Miner, The Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette and other publications. Media efforts have also resulted in numerous client interviews on ROB-TV, 680 News and CityPulse-24.
On the whole, First Canadian’s program has consistently provided quantifiable results for our clients, including: published reports from mainstream analysts, institutional involvement, improved liquidity, closed financings, high profile media coverage, letter writer advocacy, and a substantial increase in awareness within all facets of the North American investment community.
SERVICE LISTING
Our full range of investor relations services are listed below. Please contact First Canadian Capital Corp. to discover how our knowledge and expertise can be applied to fulfill your corporate communication needs.
authoring, designing and distributing all print media including investor relations packages, news/press releases, annual/quarterly reports, newsletters, articles and various special interest publications to existing as well as potential shareholders and members of the global investment community
distribution, of financial news publications arranged by First Canadian to feature your firm, to the global investment community
creation of your company's online presence including full website design and hosting
scheduling, coordinating and directing presentations with investors and relevant industry participants.
maintaining an ongoing and proactive dialogue about your company with existing and potential shareholders.
coordination of telephone, mail and email campaigns to specified target audiences
scripting for various corporate events
conference call organization
coordination of annual general meetings
media surveillance of your company, competition and industry
