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Fineline Holdings, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: FNLH)
November 30th, 2005.

 
 Fineline Holdings Inc. (Pink Sheets: FNLH) 

Dear Readers,

There are very few Americans (or residents of first-world nations) who don’t have a mobile (cell) phone. And more and more each day are becoming obvious extensions of our personalities and preferences.  Ring tones, screensavers, games and more are big, big business and savvy companies are cashing in on buyers who are happy to pay to personalize their phones.

Some time ago we introduced our readers to an interesting company called Fineline Holdings Inc. (Pink Sheets: FNLH), which has built a business from licensing its proprietary characters for theme parks, entertainment and other media. While those applications have been lucrative for Fineline, time may prove that they fall short of the apparently enormous opportunities for the company in the mobile phone industry.

News released just this week by Fineline details an agreement in which Fineline’s diverse character groups will be distributed to a potential audience of ONE BILLION mobile phone users through a leader in that industry. 

Perhaps SmallCap Sentinel analyst D.R. Clark puts this in perspective best.  “As mobile phones celebrate near global ubiquity, creative content companies are finding that telephones are fertile ground for their products in the form of screensavers, games and wallpapers," stated Clark. "Phones are being personalized and customized like a personal dashboard or computer desktop.  It's become an enormous, fast-growing business and leading creative companies are racing to cut deals with distributors of downloadable content to mobile phones." 

"A company like Fineline Holdings, which just announced a licensing agreement with leading downloadable content provider Mobile Streams, has found that it can compete on a global scale using Mobile Streams' potential audience of over one billion users as a springboard," Clark added. "Now, Fineline's portfolio of original animated character groups will reach an audience that a company like Fineline could only have dreamed of just a decade ago. The exposure and profit opportunities for a relatively small company are remarkable." 

Please take a moment to read the *NEWS* included below and feel free to peruse our previous profile on Fineline - HERE or to view their website full of characters - HERE.
 
    **Breaking** News From Fineline

Press Release 
Source: Fineline Holdings, Inc. 
Tuesday November 29, 9:00 am ET
 


Fineline Holdings Inc. Characters to be Available to Over 1 Billion Mobile Phone Users Worldwide with Mobile Streams, Inc. Agreement

KENT, Ohio, Nov. 29, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Fineline Holdings Inc. (Other OTC:FNLH.PK - News) announced today that it has entered into a distribution rights and licensing agreement for mobile devices with Mobile Streams, Inc. of Richmond, Virginia. GeDo Licensing, the marketing company for Fineline, brokered the agreement. Under the agreement, Fineline will license its content, including over 200 plus original cartoon characters, to Mobile Streams for as downloadable content to a potential market of over 1 billion mobile (cellular) phone users worldwide. And with strong branded partnerships with Adidas, Goal.com, BMG, Trust the DJ and Radio Shack, Mobile Streams is leading the pack in mobile content management and delivery.

Mobile Streams, a global leader in creating and distributing downloadable mobile content, will adapt music, images and video content using Fineline's portfolio of original animated character groups into a format suitable for distribution as mobile content - such as ring tones, animations, video clips, images and other content available via download to mobile phone users.

"With billions of mobile phone customers throughout the world, the revenue potential is tremendous. The potential revenue that may be generated through the vast mobile content market will add substantially to Fineline's revenue stream over the next three years," said Robert Petry, CEO of Fineline Holdings Inc. "Revenue is expected to start immediately and is expected to grow as other products are added to the mix. We are excited about the potential added value we will gain through exposure to the worldwide market as a result of this relationship."

According to industry sources, the global market for mobile entertainment will be worth a stunning $42.8 billion by 2010. Mobile Streams, which distributes content to users in 81 countries, is double the size of any other single content distributor, providing downloadable content to 9 of the 10 major European carriers. Mobile Streams delivers its own globally focused, 'direct to consumer' graphics http://www.mobilebackgrounds.com and ringtones http://www.ringtones.com at their websites, the template for its white label site offering, and distributes its content to established industry brands that include Vodafone, Hutchison 3G, Sony Music (UK preferred partner), Sony Ericsson, Samsung Fun Club, Sam's Club (Wal-Mart), Cingular, and Sonera Zed.

About Mobile Streams, Inc.
Mobile Streams is the leading creator and distributor of downloadable mobile content. Its products include monophonic, polyphonic and voice ringtones, color wallpapers, animated color screensavers, animated MMS messages and downloadable or streamed video. Mobile Streams has accumulated a library in excess of 25,000 pieces of content and has taken a 'full service' approach to the value chain that includes the provision of: market evaluation and campaign consultancy, rights acquisition, content creation, WAP portal and web site creation, hosting, delivery, billing, licensing, and reporting, all of which are handled internally.

Mobile Streams maintains close working relationships with the mobile network operators and supplies a great deal of content direct to their portals. As one of the first partners to supply the Vodafone Live! portal with downloadable content in the UK, Mobile Streams remains as a preferred supplier for the O2 Revolution service. Globally, Mobile Streams supplies content to 8 of the 10 largest mobile network operators. http://www.Mobilestreams.com

About Fineline Holdings, Inc.
Fineline Holdings, Inc. creates original cartoon characters for licensing and film & television animation. Their team of artists develops original cartoon characters with an eye on current market trends as well as recognized names. From concepts and sketches all the way to the manufacturer style guides. Fineline's entire library of more than 200 new cartoon characters in over 20 character groups for 'teens, kids and adults, covering the Internet, sports, satires, just plain fun, and much more can be viewed at http://www.finelineproperties.com.

About GeDo Licensing a division of GeDo Designs, Inc.
Gedo Licensing was created to better serve, it's clients and it's properties in the kids / youth market segment GeDo Designs with over 60 years combined experience in toy, pet products and product design. Creating GeDo Licensing will help focus our presence in the licensing market place. GeDo Designs represents Fineline Properties and other original cartoon characters for licensing and film & television animation. With complete product design, branding, marketing, engineering and prototyping to round out its services. http://www.GeDoDesigns.com

Safe Harbor Statement:
The information contained in this press release, other than historical information, consists of forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. These statements may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in such statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Important factors beyond the Company's control, including general economic conditions, consumer spending levels, competition from toy companies, motion picture studios and other licensing companies, the uncertainty of public response to the Company's properties and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations.

Contact:
          Fineline Holdings Inc.
          Robert Petry
          (330) 283-5635

Source: Fineline Holdings Inc.
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 About Fineline Holdings

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Fineline Holdings creates original cartoon characters for licensing and film & television animation.  Fineline's Kent, Ohio-based studio is home to its team of creative graphics artists that develop original cartoon characters with an eye on current market trends as well as recognized names

While other companies that develop cartoon characters generally have one or two character groups of a particular genre, Fineline maintains a library of more than 200 copyrighted and trademarked cartoon characters in over 22 character groups covering the Internet, sports, satires, and educational markets for teens, 'tweens, kids and adults.  Fineline is a dynamic company that looks for existing, successful markets that lack quality cartoon characters, and develops characters specifically for those markets. While at this time, the public may not recognize Fineline's stable of characters visually, the names will sound quite familiar.  This is due to Fineline's marketing vision, to use popular words, names and terms to name their characters. 

The Fineline character group Kooties™ has a name that has been in American pop culture for over 50 years; all of the Fineline sports characters have names that are recognized slang terms for positions, moves and plays; and the Fineline computing and Internet characters have names that are familiar to any computer user.  From crazy and outrageous to fun and family oriented, Fineline produces it all.

But Fineline isn't just about characters. The Company's real strength lies in its creativity. The huge Fineline library of characters is always growing and the creative directors at the Company are always on the lookout for new trends and markets that can benefit from the success a cartoon character can bring. Not only does Fineline produce its own in-house characters, it also generates revenues as a full-service artistic development service to outside companies.

Fineline management is seasoned in the business of cartoon characters and CEO, Robert V. Petry has placed characters on various products from Kelloggs, Wendi's Hamburgers, and Thom McCann Shoes. Among the many other accomplishments of Fineline's lead management, Mr. Petry was also responsible for placing a character in the logo of Daiwa Securities, the worlds biggest brokerage firm, that was part of the corporate brand for five years.
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A BRIEF WORD ABOUT THE GROWTH OF THE CARTOON INDUSTRY

As Fineline CEO Robert V. Petry recently said, the cartoon market is "Blooming."

When consumers see names like Spiderman from Marvel comics or Superman from DC Comics or images like Hello Kitty from Sanrio or Nemo from Pixar, they not only identify with them, they spend money on them. While the world of characters and 'Toons' has steadily expanded from the days of Tugboat Willie through Roger Rabbit to the Incredibles, the central placement of cartoon characters throughout product marketing and branding around the world has exploded. 

From print to merchandise to television animation, from motion pictures to corporate logos to cereal box promotions, cartoon characters have captured the hearts (and dollars) of people and children everywhere.  Licensing from one foreign market to another has become its own industry. 

 "Our characters are designed for the licensing and animation industries, which are both bigger and hotter than ever before." 

FineLine's Moodies™ character group was picked up by 4Kids Entertainment, the agent for such major properties as Pokémon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Yu-Gi-Oh!  4Kids Entertainment (NYSE KDE) will serve as the exclusive licensing agent covering Film, TV and merchandise licensing for the cartoon character group. 


    Fineline Characters 

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Ten cute and colorful Good Kooties™ who help rid the world of the Bad Kooties™

 
We all know about giving and getting Kooties™.  But did you know there are two types of Kooties™?  There are Good Kooties™ and the Bad Kooties™. Most of us are familiar with the Bad Kooties™ - they're the ones that cause all the negative emotion in the world. When you are feeling sad, angry, sick or just a bit down, you know you've got Bad Kooties™ around. But help is on the way! The Good Kooties™ have special powers, reflected in their names, that eliminate the Bad Kooties™. And they can also pass on their positive emotions to the person receiving them!
AND DON'T FORGET 
Clever, Cuddley, Cutie, Happy, Healthy, and Smoochie Kootie

AND DON'T FORGET
The troublemakers we all know and love!

 As much as these guys try to cause mischief & mayhem, 
they don't stand a chance with the Good Kooties™ around! 

Kooties™ Computer desktop wallpapers - Individual Kooties™ character coloring pages
Kooties™ electronic greeting cards - Kooties™ Pinball
Kooties™ Matching Game

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD !

Management at Fineline is currently in negotiations with a distribution company, working with with major US studios, to produce either an animated feature or a live action feature of the Kooties™!  Owning the characters, Fineline will participate in the net revenues from all sources derived from exhibition and use of the Motion Picture merchandise.


From the unique and outrageous to family fun for all ages, Fineline has it all.

Solar Sisters, sassy girls who embody the signs of the Zodiac.
Exploring the Internet in a whole new way with the eKids™. 
Cartoon character sports teams like Hoopsters.
12 fun and crazy eggs that will crack you up!
Extreme Board sports characters 
 

Fineline Characters appear around the world
In South Korea for example at ippark.com



The Solar Sisters link is HERE

The Majors Baseball link is HERE


distribution

Fineline doesn't create or sell merchandise.
Fineline characters are licensed to manufacturers that distribute product to retail stores, 
online merchants, and through global wholesalers that distribute their own 
proprietary products for each character group. 
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    Financial Highlights For Fineline

Fineline is a fully reporting company in current compliance and has filed to return to the OTCBB 
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Sector: Services 
Industry: Business Services
Recent Price $0.06
Trf Agent: Pacific Stock Transfer
52-Week High $3.50 
52-Week Low $0.04 
Shares O/S (Millions) 1.421 
Float  707,000 
 

To view the latest filings from Fineline, the link is Here
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    To Contact Fineline 

Headquarters 
Fineline Holdings, Inc. 
110 South Water St., Kent, Ohio 44240
Phone: (330) 678-5558 - Fax: (330) 678-1334 

Email: For general questions: the link is HERE
For licensing inquiries: the link is HERE
To visit the Fineline Web site, the link is HERE 


Kooties™ and all associated images, logos, names and artwork are copyrights and trademarks of Fineline Properties.com, Inc. 
All images, characters, names, logos, and designs are © & ™ 1998-2004 Fineline Properties.com, Inc.


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