--- title: "Circle Group Holdings" url: https://duttonassociates.com/research/CRGQ/ description: "Company profile for Circle Group Holdings (CRGQ) as published by Dutton Associates, with company facts and the firm's published research on the company." --- # Circle Group Holdings CRGQ BB 1011 Campus Drive Mundelein , IL 60030 Phone: (847) 549-6002 Circle Group Holdings is an eMentor Capital firm. eMentor Capital is a patent-pending business model that combines funding, intelligence and support to speed business growth while giving owners greater control of their original vision. By merging innovative e-solutions and consulting with investment banking financial services, Circle Group has created what it believes to be the next evolution in growing and developing business In 1998, Circle Group (then Circle Group Internet, Inc.) became the first company to engineer a complete end-to-end stock offering over the Internet. The company sought to assemble and communicate with a large pool of qualified investors to create a more direct method of capital engagement. This effort very quickly enabled Circle Group to raise $2.5 million in less than a month via a Regulation A offering directly and entirely over the Web. Circle Group was the first company to accomplish such a goal. Its self-directed effort involved none of the more traditional venture capitalists, investment bankers or brokerage houses. Circle Group has since purchased a broker/dealer and assembled a team of talented analysts to join its technical staff. In 2000, the company established the patent-pending eMentor Capital business model, by adding its consulting division, Consulting CGI to its two other subsidiaries, CGI Total Media and CGI Capital. These three areas work together to give entrepreneurs a greater likelihood for success, and investors By 2003, according to research from IDC, an estimated 67 percent of Internet users will log on outside the United States; and the foreign share of e-commerce will reach 56 percent -- up from 26 percent in 1998. In business-to-business e-commerce, although the United States currently controls over 60 percent of the global market, Gartner Group projects that the American share will plunge to less than 40 percent by 2004, when worldwide B-to-B reaches $7.3 trillion. These statistics show the Internet is growing quickly into the global markets, and Circle Group plans to be a leader in the globalization In April 2000, Circle Group began formalizing its global initiative through CGI Worldwide, Inc. The goal is to license the patent-pending business model to securities companies throughout the globe. CGI's initiative is to mentor these companies into using its business model to build and successfully grow companies within their country. Circle Group would, in turn, receive a licensing fee for the business model, and a small equity stake in their Initial trading of the common shares began in April 2002 on the OTC Bulletin ## Company Facts **Symbol**: CRGQ **Exchange**: BB **Equity Data**: (as of 5/30/2003) **Shares Outstanding**: 24,698,443 **Recent Trading Price**: $ 1.12 (06/02/2003) **J.M. Dutton Analyst**: Richard W. West, CFA www.crgq.com [Back to the coverage register](https://duttonassociates.com/research/) [Rating schedule](https://duttonassociates.com/Ratings/Ratings.html) ## Published Research - 11/06/2003Research noteTermination of Research Coverage - 07/21/2003Research noteCircle Group Achieves Successful Pilot Production Of ZTRIM - 06/12/2003Research noteFiber-Gel Technologies (Circle Group) Announces New VP Of Technology And Development To Assist In Z-TrimÌs Commercialization - 05/19/2003Research noteCircle Group Reports Increased Revenues And Decreased Losses - 05/05/2003Research reportCircle Group Neutral Rating Maintained In Quarterly Report - 04/18/2003Research noteCircle Group Reports Reduced Loss For 2002 and Growing Prospects For Z Trim - 03/13/2003Research noteCircle Group Closes On New Contracts - 02/04/2003Research noteCircle Group Holdings, Inc. Announces Partnership With Hyacinth Resources For Z-Trim In Asia - 01/30/2003Research noteCircle Group Holdings, Inc. Signs Financial Consultant Agreement - 01/28/2003Research noteCircle Group Holdings, Inc. Signs Financial Consultant Agreement With Continental Executive Jet - 01/02/2003Research noteComments On The Circle Group Shareholders Meeting And A Strategic Alliance Announced - 12/18/2002Research reportCircle Group Neutral Rating Maintained In Quarterly Report - 12/02/2002Research noteCircle Group Holds Shareholders' Meeting For Name Change; Reports Nine Months Results - 11/04/2002Research noteCRGQ Subsidiary Retained by Two Firms for Corporate Finance - 09/12/2002Research noteCircle Group Files 8-K Providing Terms of Fiber-Gel Acquisition