ROK engages The Americas Group to market RHS across Latin America
ROK engages The Americas Group to market RHS across Latin America
The Americas Group to market ROK Homeland Security service in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean
Ticker Symbol: RKG
WKN: A0YKFS
8th November 2011
ROK Global PLC, the mobile and web technology development company, has today announced the appointment of high-level consulting, marketing and merchant banking firm, The Americas Group, to market its ROK Homeland Security (RHS) service across Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Commenting, Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROK said “The Americas Group is an extremely well connected, proven and successful company in the delivery of international products, services and technologies into Latin America and, as such, we are very pleased to be working with such a high-powered company on the deployment of RHS into this potentially massive territory for us.”
ROK Homeland Security is a mobile phone-based service, developed by ROK, which provides real-time, secure technologies to assist law enforcement officers in the gathering and management of information in a variety of formats including encrypted data based communications and improved spatial awareness capabilities.
RHS has been specifically designed for use in counter-terrorism operations, criminal investigations, counter-narcotic operations, physical security, evidence-gathering and field communications.
“ROK Homeland Security is a fantastically effective product which we know will be of enormous benefit to law enforcement agencies.” Said Howard Glicken, Chairman of The Americas Group. “We are delighted to be showcasing the full range of its capabilities to a broad range of potential customers across Latin America.”
Listed on the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, ROK Global PLC 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 achieves in-salon retail sales of approximately US $900m annually through more than 100,000 salons worldwide. John Paul is also co-founder of Patron Tequila, the world’s leading premium tequila brand.
ROK has pioneered many new and innovative 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 multi-language text-to-speech technologies amongst others.
For more information:
www.rokglobal.com
www.theamericasgroup.net
