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THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
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GENESISINTERMEDIA.COM, INC.
5805 Sepulveda Boulevard, 4th Floor
Van Nuys, CA 91411
NOTICE OF ACTION BY THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF STOCKHOLDERS
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF GENESISINTERMEDIA.COM, INC.:
The holders of a majority in interest of the outstanding voting capital
stock of GenesisIntermedia.com, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
have proposed to change the Company's name to GenesisIntermedia, Inc.
On February 14, 2001, the board of directors unanimously approved the
adoption of a proposed amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company to (i) change the Company's name to GenesisIntermedia, Inc., and (ii)
increase the number of authorized shares of the Common Stock of the Company to
125,000,000 and Preferred Stock of the Company to 25,000,000 subject to
Stockholder approval.
On March 21, 2001, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares
of our Common Stock approved in writing the amendment.
The authorization of the amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation
by the board of directors and the stockholders shall not become effective until
at least 20 days after the mailing of the enclosed Information Statement. The
amendment has been approved by written consent and without the need for any
action to be taken by you.
Your consent is not required and is not being solicited in connection
with this action. Pursuant to Section 228 of the Delaware General Corporation
Law, you are hereby being provided with notice of the approval by less than the
unanimous written consent of the eligible voting stockholders of the Company.
Pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, you are being furnished with an
Information Statement relating to this action.
WE ARE NOT ASKING YOU FOR A PROXY AND YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SEND US A PROXY.
THE ATTACHED INFORMATION STATEMENT IS BEING SENT TO YOU FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES
ONLY.
The attached Information Statement is being provided to you pursuant to
Rule 14c-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Information Statement
contains a more detailed description of the proposed amendment. I encourage you
to read the Information Statement thoroughly.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
March 27, 2001 Ramy El-Batrawi
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
GENESISINTERMEDIA.COM, INC.
5805 Sepulveda Boulevard, 4th Floor
Van Nuys, CA 91411
INFORMATION STATEMENT
WE ARE NOT ASKING YOU FOR A PROXY AND YOU
ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SEND US A PROXY.
GENERAL
This Information Statement is being furnished to the stockholders of
GenesisIntermedia.com, Inc., a Delaware corporation, in connection with the
approval of an amendment to our Certificate of Incorporation by the written
consent of the holders of a majority in interest of our voting capital stock. On
February 14, 2001, our board of directors approved an amendment to our
Certificate of Incorporation to change our name from "GenesisIntermedia.com,
Inc." to "GenesisIntermedia, Inc." and to increase the authorized shares of
Common Stock to 125,000,000 from 25,000,000 and Preferred Stock to 25,000,000
from 5,000,000.
On March 21, 2001, the holders of approximately 72% of our outstanding
Common Stock beneficially owned by Ramy El-Batrawi and Ultimate Holdings, Ltd.,
gave their written consent to the adoption of the proposed amendment. The
authorization of the amendment to effect the name change shall not become
effective until at least 20 days after the mailing of this Information Statement
to all stockholders of record. This Information Statement will be sent to
stockholders of record on or about March 21, 2001. The record date established
by the Company for purposes of determining our outstanding number of shares of
Common Stock was March 21, 2001.
No special meeting of stockholders to approve the proposed amendment is
required under Section 228 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which
provides that the written consent of the holders of outstanding shares of voting
capital stock, having not less than the minimum number of votes which would be
necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares
entitled to vote thereon were present and voted, may be substituted for such a
meeting.
Pursuant to Section 242 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, a
majority of the outstanding shares of voting capital stock entitled to vote is
required to amend our Certificate of Incorporation. The holders of a majority of
the outstanding shares of our Common Stock desired to proceed without a meeting
of stockholders to (i) eliminate the costs and management time required to hold
a special meeting of stockholders and (ii) effect the proposed amendment as soon
as possible and therefore accomplish the purposes of the proposed amendment in a
timely manner.
Accordingly, all corporate actions necessary to authorize the amendment
to the Certificate of Incorporation have been taken. Pursuant to the rules and
regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the authorization of the
amendment by the board of directors and stockholders shall not become effective
until at least 20 days after we have mailed this Information Statement to our
stockholders. Promptly following the expiration of this 20-day period, we intend
to file a Certificate of Amendment to our Certificate of Incorporation with the
Delaware Secretary of State. The amendment will become effective on the date of
that filing.
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Under Section 228 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, we are
required to provide prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without
a meeting to stockholders who have not consented in writing to the action. No
additional action will be undertaken as a result of the written consent, and no
dissenters' rights under the Delaware General Corporation Law are afforded to
stockholders as a result of the adoption of the proposed amendment.
THE AMENDMENT TO THE CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION HAS BEEN APPROVED BY
THE STOCKHOLDERS WHO HOLD SUFFICIENT VOTING SECURITIES TO APPROVE THIS ACTION.
THIS INFORMATION STATEMENT IS BEING PROVIDED TO YOU SOLELY FOR YOUR INFORMATION.
WE ARE NOT ASKING YOU FOR A PROXY AND YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SEND US A PROXY.
All holders of our Common Stock of record at the close of business on
March 21, 2001 will receive this Information Statement.
EXECUTIVE OFFICES
Our principal executive offices are located at 5805 Sepulveda
Boulevard, 8th Floor, Van Nuys, CA 92411. Our telephone number is (818)
902-4100.
VOTING SECURITIES
The close of business on March 21, 2001 as the record date for the
determination of stockholders entitled to vote with respect to the stockholder
authorization of the amendment to our Certificate of Incorporation. At the close
of business on the record date, we had issued and outstanding 21,222,767 shares
of common stock held by 46 stockholders of record.
Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote. Our common stock is
the only outstanding security eligible to vote on the amendment. The consent of
the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock was
necessary to authorize the amendment. The stockholders that executed the written
consent hold approximately 82.6% of the outstanding shares of common stock.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF DIRECTORS, MANAGEMENT AND PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS
The following table sets forth certain information as of February 28,
2001 regarding the beneficial ownership of (1) each class of our securities by
each person who is known to us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of any
class of our voting securities and (2) each class of equity securities by (a)
each director, (b) each named executive officer and (c) all directors and
executive officers as a group. Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance
with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission. In computing the
number of shares beneficially owned by a person and the percentage ownership of
that person, shares of common stock subject to options held by that person that
are currently exercisable or become exercisable within 60 days of February 28,
2001 are deemed outstanding. Those shares, however, are not deemed outstanding
for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person.
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Unless otherwise indicated in the table, the persons and entities named in the
table have sole voting and sole investment power with respect to the shares set
forth opposite the stockholder's name. The address for all of the executive
officers and directors is 5805 Sepulveda Boulevard, Van Nuys, California 91411.
Numbers of Shares Options Included
Name and Address Beneficially Owned In Total Percentage of Class
------------------------------------------- ------------------------ ------------------- -----------------------
Ramy El-Batrawi....................... 9,045,969 -- 42.6%
Ultimate Holdings, Ltd................ 8,504,931 -- 40%
13 Parliament St. Hamilton
HM 12 Bermuda
Douglas E. Jacobson................... 450,000 600,000 4.9%
Craig T. Dinkel....................... 282,000 450,000 3.4%
George W. Heyworth.................... 150,000 -- *
Michael R. Fugler..................... -- 150,000 *
Stephen A. Weber...................... -- 150,000 *
All directors and executive officers as a 18,432,900 1,350,000 53.1%
group (6 persons)
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* less than 1%
AMENDMENT OF OUR
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION TO
CHANGE THE COMPANY NAME
(ITEM I)
Our board of directors and the holders of a majority of the outstanding
shares of our common stock approved the amendment to change our name from
"GenesisIntermedia.com, Inc." to "GenesisIntermedia, Inc."
Reasons for the proposed name change
Our current name is GenesisIntermedia.com, Inc. We operate through
numerous distinct marketing channels. Through Centerlinq, we are a leading
provider of public Internet access portals in shopping malls. We also market
products and services that we or third parties develop via network, cable
television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the Centerlinq network. The holders
of a majority in interest of our voting capital stock and our board of directors
believe that the ".com" suffix does not accurately characterize our present
multi-faceted operations and that it is in our best interest to delete the
".com" suffix from our name. Because the board believes there is substantial
goodwill in the "Genesis Intermedia" name, the board determined to change our
name to "GenesisIntermedia, Inc."
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AMENDMENT OF THE COMPANY'S CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
TO INCREASE THE NUMBERS OF AUTHORIZED SHARES
(ITEM II)
Our Certificate of Incorporation currently authorizes the issuance of
25,000,000 shares of common stock, with a par value of $.001 per share, and
5,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $.001 per share. Our
board of directors and the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of
our common stock approved an amendment to the Company's Certificate of
Incorporation to increase the authorized number of shares of common stock to
125,000,000 and to increase the authorized number of shares of preferred stock
to 25,000,000.
Reasons for the proposed increase of authorized shares.
As of March 21, 2001, we had approximately 21,222,767 shares of common
stock issued and outstanding.
The board of directors and the holders of a majority of the outstanding
shares of Common Stock believe that the availability of authorized but unissued
shares will provide the Corporation with the flexibility to issue Common Stock
for a variety of corporate purposes, such as to effect future stock splits in
the form of stock dividends, to make acquisitions through the use of stock, to
raise equity capital, to adopt additional employee benefit plans or to reserve
additional shares for issuance under such plans and under plans of acquired
companies. The board of directors believes that the proposed increase in
authorized Common Stock would facilitate the Corporation's ability to accomplish
stock splits in the form of a stock dividend and other business and financial
objectives in the future without then necessity of delaying such activities for
further shareholder approval, except as may be required in particular cases by
the Corporation's charter documents, applicable law or the rules of any stock
exchange or national securities association trading system on which the
Corporation's securities may then be listed. Other than as permitted or required
under the Corporation's employee benefit plans and under outstanding options,
warrants and other securities convertible into common stock, and the acquisition
described above, the board of directors has no immediate plans, understandings,
agreement or commitments to issue additional common stock for any purposes.
Whether or not the Corporation's shareholders approve this proposal will not
impact the Corporation's existing agreements to issue stock, including pursuant
to the acquisition described above. No additional action or authorization by the
Corporation's stockholders would be necessary prior to the issuance of such
additional shares, unless required by applicable law or the rules of any stock
exchange or national securities association trading system on which the Common
Stock is then listed or quoted. The Corporation reserves the right to seek a
further increase in authorized shares from time to time in the future as
considered appropriate by the board of directors.
Under the Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation, the Corporation's
stockholders do not have preemptive rights with respect to Common Stock. Thus,
should the board of directors elect to issue additional shares of Common Stock,
existing stockholders would not have any preferential rights to purchase such
shares. If the board of directors elects to issue additional shares of Common
Stock, such issuance could have a dilutive effect on the earnings per share,
book value per share voting power and shareholdings of current stockholders.
The proposal could have an anti-takeover effect, although that is not
its intention. For example, if the Corporation were the subject of a hostile
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takeover attempt, it could try to impede the takeover by issuing shares of
Common Stock, thereby diluting the voting power of the other outstanding shares
and increasing the potential cost of the takeover. The availability of this
defensive strategy to the Corporation could discourage unsolicited takeover
attempts, thereby limiting the opportunity for the Corporation's stockholders to
realize a higher price for their shares than is generally available in the
public markets. The board of directors is not aware of any attempt, or
contemplated attempt, to acquire control of the Corporation, and this proposal
is not being presented with the intent that it be utilized as a type of
anti-takeover device. In addition tot the Corporation's Common Stock, the
Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation currently empowers the board of
directors to authorize the issuance of one or more series of preferred stock
without stockholder approval. No shares of preferred stock of the Corporation
are issued or outstanding.
The proposed Amendment will become effective upon filing of a
Certificate of Amendment to the Corporation's Certificate of Incorporation with
the Delaware Secretary of State. However, the board of directors retains
discretion under Delaware law not to implement the proposed amendment. If the
board of directors exercised such discretion, the number of authorized shares
would remain at current levels.
No dissenter's rights
Under Delaware law, stockholders are not entitled to dissenter's rights
of appraisal with respect to the proposed amendment.
The complete text of the amendment is set forth in Exhibit A to this
Information Statement and incorporated by reference. The text is, however,
subject to change as may be required by the Delaware Secretary of State. Upon
filing of a Certificate of Amendment with the Delaware Secretary of State, the
amendment will be effective.
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EXHIBIT A
Exhibit A RESOLVED that Article FIRST of the Certificate of Incorporation
of the Corporation be amended to read in its entirety as follows:
FIRST: The name of the corporation is GenesisIntermedia, Inc. (the
"Corporation").
RESOLVED, that the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is
hereby amended by striking the first sentence of Article FOURTH thereof and
substituting in lieu thereof the following:
FOURTH: The Corporation shall be authorized to issue one class of
Common Stock, consisting of 150,000,000 shares designated as Common
Stock with par value of $.001 cents, and one class of Preferred Stock,
consisting of 30,000,000 shares designated as Preferred Stock."