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INVESTOR INFORMATION

We are building the world's number one media business serving the global superyacht market in print, in person and online.

About Boat International

Boat International Media is the world's leading media group serving the superyacht industry. We publish the world's best
superyacht magazines and luxury books, organise high quality events, and provide digital media services and data to owners
and professionals in the superyacht industry.

This is a market leading specialist B2B media business with a significant upside via a clearly defined international,
multi-platform growth strategy serving a high growth global industry.

Our company provides global tailored marketing solutions to our customers that are innovative, high quality and effective
mixed media programmes that deliver results.

Over the past four years we have developed a strong management team with extensive experience in specialist publishing
as well as the superyacht industry, events, marketing and the digital media.

Boat International Media produce over 1.4 million magazines each year that sell in over 57 countries worldwide and are
published in six different languages. In addition to this we organise 8 annual events across the world in London, Monaco,
Fort Lauderdale, Venice, Porto Cervo and New York. We own the world's most comprehensive database of superyachts and
our newly launched social & business networking tool for superyacht captains and crew can be found at www.dockwalk.com.

The business is currently delivering strong organic revenue growth of approximately 20% YOY. Digital revenues and
events revenues are driving new revenue and profit opportunities at a much faster pace still.

Our business serves an underlying market that is experiencing unprecedented demand; our customers order books are at all
time highs and are predicted to continue to grow for the foreseeable future.


Revenue and Growth 2004 - 2008




Business Development Timeline

2004
Acquistion of Edisea Ltd
2005 January - New US office in Fort Lauderdale opened
May - Acquisition of Dockwalk

June - Re-launch of Dockwalk and merging of Captains Log into Dockwalk
August - Launch of Boat International Russia
Sept/Oct - Launch of the Boat International networking events at Monaco Yacht Show & and Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show
2006 January - Increased Boat International USA's frequency to 7 issues a year
January - Increased frequency of Mer & Bateaux to 6 issues a year
April - The first World Superyacht Awards was launched
December - Management buyout with August Equity Ltd

2007 January - Increased Boat International USA frequency to 10 issues a year
April - The America's Cup special edition was published
September - The record size Boat International issue (MYS 2007) was published

December - Launch of The Superyachts Russia
December - Re-launch of The Superyachts book
December - Re-launch of The Refit book

2008 March - Launch of Boat International Gulf
May - Launch of Dockwalk.com
June - Acquisition of full ownership of the Captains' Hideouts Events
June - Acquisition of The Wood Report
June - Launch of the Boat International Superyacht Regatta - Silver Jubilee
July - Relocation of the UK office to larger premises in Wimbledon, London
July - 25th Anniversary of Boat International, first published Summer/Autumn 1983
October - Launch of the Superyacht Design Symposium - New York City