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F.Y.MMS 2012

                                  Introduction to Heely’s

We are a designer, marketer and distributor of innovative, action sports-inspired products under
the HEELYS brand targeted to the youth market. Our primary product, HEELYS-wheeled
footwear, is patented, dual-purpose footwear that incorporates stealth, removable wheel in the
heel. HEELYS-wheeled footwear allows the user to seamlessly transition from walking or
running to skating by shifting weight to the heel. Users can transform HEELYS-wheeled
footwear into street footwear by removing the wheel. Our distinctive product offering has driven
our growth, and we believe that our HEELYS brand is becoming synonymous with an
increasingly popular lifestyle activity. We believe that the growing exposure of our HEELYS
brand will allow us to selectively introduce additional product categories in the future by taking
advantage of our expertise in product development and sourcing, strong retail relationships and
knowledge of our target consumer.

We were initially incorporated as Heeling, Inc. in Nevada in 2000 and were reincorporated in
Delaware in August 2006 and changed our name to Heely’s, Inc. Through our general and
limited partner interests, we own 100% of Heeling Sports Limited; a Texas limited partnership,
which was formed in May 2000.




                                                                                          Page | 1
F.Y.MMS 2012

                                        Target Market

The growth and longstanding popularity of skateboarding, inline skating, roller skating and
scooter riding in the United States reflect consumers’ interest in wheeled sports activities. For
example, skateboarding and inline skating have remained a part of youth culture for more than
40 and 25 years, respectively. Our HEELYS-wheeled footwear, which we believe has broad
patent protection relative to other wheeled sports products, appeals to many of these same
consumers. While the market for HEELYS-wheeled footwear has grown significantly since our
first product was introduced in 2000, we believe this market continues to have growth potential.




Our products appeal to a broad range of young, active consumers around the world who enjoy
wheeled sports activities. Our primary market is six to fourteen year-old boys and girls, an age
group in the India.




                                                                                            Page | 2
F.Y.MMS 2012

                                   Business Strengths:

Heely’s company contributes their strengths towards:

       Strong Brand Recognition.

   We believe that our brand awareness is a significant competitive strength. We have
   positioned the HEELYS brand to represent a fun, youthful and active image and we believe it
   now defines an emerging lifestyle activity with a following among consumers in our target
   market. According to data collected by NPD, a retail and apparel industry research group,
   HEELYS-wheeled footwear had a 51.0% market share in retail sales dollars and a 37%
   market share in units sold for skateboard-related footwear brands for the quarter ended
   December 31, 2006.

       Appealing, High-Quality Products.


       We strive to provide high-quality, stylish products. We carefully select our independent
       manufacturers and diligently monitor their manufacturing process to ensure the quality of
       their finished goods. To stimulate demand for our products and encourage repeat
       purchases by consumers, we endeavor to consistently offer a line of wheeled footwear
       that combines style, comfort and high-quality components including ABEC-rated
       bearings, specially formulated polyurethane wheels and abrasion-resistant outsoles and
       upper materials. We have generally introduced more than 20 standard styles each year in
       an attempt to respond to changing consumer tastes and preferences.




                                                                                        Page | 3
F.Y.MMS 2012

   Focus on Innovation with Intellectual Property Protection.

Our innovative HEELYS-wheeled footwear is highly differentiated from other wheeled
sports products and athletic footwear. We believe that our patents and pending patent
applications enable us to maintain this differentiation. We own more than 80 issued patents
and pending patent applications in more than 25 countries, of which more than 55 are related
to our HEELYS-wheeled footwear. We also have more than 75 registered trademarks and
pending trademark applications in more than 30 countries. We believe that our experience
introducing HEELYS-wheeled footwear to the market and our growing brand awareness will
allow us to successfully develop and introduce additional products incorporating innovative
designs and technologies that appeal to our target consumers.




   In-Depth Understanding of Our Target Market.

We employ a grass-roots marketing model that enables us to regularly interact with and
maintain an in-depth understanding of our target market. In 2006, our event marketing
managers, or “EMMs,” coordinated more than 3,000 in-store clinics and demonstrations,
allowing us to communicate our brand message in an interactive, fun environment. In
addition, our EMMs use online marketing techniques such as hosting message boards and
contributing to skate-oriented chat rooms. We also sponsor “team riders” to showcase
HEELYS-wheeled footwear in high-traffic, public areas. Through these multifaceted
interactions with our target consumers, we continually refine our understanding of their
evolving preferences. We intend to use this insight to develop new HEELYS-wheeled
footwear models, strengthen and extend our HEELYS brand and offer additional product
categories.




                                                                                    Page | 4
F.Y.MMS 2012

   Compelling Value Proposition for Retail Customers.

We believe that our differentiated product offering and brand name represent a compelling
value proposition for our retail customers. Our products have historically enabled our retail
customers to achieve high sales volumes at or near our suggested retail prices, rapid
inventory turns and attractive margins. These results have allowed us to develop strong
relationships and expand our product offerings with our retail customers, and add new retail
customers.




   Flexible and Efficient Sourcing Model.


   By outsourcing manufacturing, we eliminate the need to purchase raw materials and limit
   the amounts we are required to spend on working capital, capital expenditures and
   overhead. This enables us to focus our resources on developing new products and brand-
   enhancing activities. We do not have any long-term manufacturing contracts, choosing
   instead to retain the flexibility to change our manufacturing sources if necessary. We
   have developed systems and procedures that enable us to actively monitor product
   quality, control product costs and facilitate timely product delivery.




   Senior Management Team with Deep Industry Experience.

Our senior management team, which has overseen our company since its inception, has been
instrumental in developing our HEELYS brand, establishing strong relationships with retail
customers and international distributors and directing our growth. Our Chief Executive
Officer has approximately 30 years of experience in the branded footwear and action sports
industries and has held senior level positions at the Rollerblade division of Benetton Group
S.p.A. and L.A. Gear. Our Senior Vice President—Global Sales has more than 25 years of
sales and marketing experience in the athletic apparel and footwear industries and has held
executive level and sales positions at L.A. Gear, Kaepa, Nike, Stride-Rite and Wilson
Sporting Goods.

                                                                                     Page | 5
F.Y.MMS 2012

                              Heely’s Marketing Strategy

Our marketing strategy is to position our products and the HEELYS brand to represent a
lifestyle that includes excitement, individuality and the unique culture of action sports. To
promote awareness of our HEELYS brand, we utilize a multi-faceted strategy that includes
event marketing activities, television advertising, point-of-purchase, or “POP,” displays and
product placement and public relations opportunities. While we fund the cost of these
activities domestically, our independent distributors are solely responsible for these costs in
their markets.

    Event Marketing Activities

   We employ a team of six EMMs that enables us to reach consumers at the grass-roots
   level and help drive foot traffic to our retail customers’ locations. EMMs increase
   consumer awareness of our products by hosting in-store product clinics and
   demonstrations, teaching store personnel how to use our products, employing “guerrilla”
   marketing methods such as arranging for our sponsored “team riders” to skate in high
   traffic public areas and using online marketing techniques such as hosting message
   boards and contributing to skate-oriented chat rooms. EMMs educate retail sales
   personnel on techniques to maximize sell-through of our products and to promote product
   awareness and safety.

    Television Advertising

   Television advertisements are an important and highly effective tool for increasing
   awareness of our brand and products among our target consumers because these
   advertisements allow us to show consumers HEELYS-wheeled footwear in action.
   Advertisements air in selected regions of the United States during our primary selling
   seasons on cable channels such as ABC’s Family Channel, Nickelodeon and The Cartoon
   Network. As part of our regional television advertising strategy, we feature the name of a
   local retail customer at the end of our television advertisements. This tactic is intended to
   drive consumers to specific retail customers and allows us to evaluate the effectiveness of
   our advertising.


                                                                                        Page | 6
F.Y.MMS 2012

 Point-of-Purchase Displays

Certain of our retail customers have committed valuable floor space to POP displays we
provide to enhance the presentation of our products. Through the use of these POP
displays, we are able to present the HEELYS brand message to consumers in a consistent
manner and increase our shelf space in our retail customers’ locations. EMMs ensure that
our merchandise is effectively featured using POP displays.




                                                                                Page | 7
F.Y.MMS 2012

Conclusion




                      Page | 8

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Introduction to heely

  • 1. F.Y.MMS 2012 Introduction to Heely’s We are a designer, marketer and distributor of innovative, action sports-inspired products under the HEELYS brand targeted to the youth market. Our primary product, HEELYS-wheeled footwear, is patented, dual-purpose footwear that incorporates stealth, removable wheel in the heel. HEELYS-wheeled footwear allows the user to seamlessly transition from walking or running to skating by shifting weight to the heel. Users can transform HEELYS-wheeled footwear into street footwear by removing the wheel. Our distinctive product offering has driven our growth, and we believe that our HEELYS brand is becoming synonymous with an increasingly popular lifestyle activity. We believe that the growing exposure of our HEELYS brand will allow us to selectively introduce additional product categories in the future by taking advantage of our expertise in product development and sourcing, strong retail relationships and knowledge of our target consumer. We were initially incorporated as Heeling, Inc. in Nevada in 2000 and were reincorporated in Delaware in August 2006 and changed our name to Heely’s, Inc. Through our general and limited partner interests, we own 100% of Heeling Sports Limited; a Texas limited partnership, which was formed in May 2000. Page | 1
  • 2. F.Y.MMS 2012 Target Market The growth and longstanding popularity of skateboarding, inline skating, roller skating and scooter riding in the United States reflect consumers’ interest in wheeled sports activities. For example, skateboarding and inline skating have remained a part of youth culture for more than 40 and 25 years, respectively. Our HEELYS-wheeled footwear, which we believe has broad patent protection relative to other wheeled sports products, appeals to many of these same consumers. While the market for HEELYS-wheeled footwear has grown significantly since our first product was introduced in 2000, we believe this market continues to have growth potential. Our products appeal to a broad range of young, active consumers around the world who enjoy wheeled sports activities. Our primary market is six to fourteen year-old boys and girls, an age group in the India. Page | 2
  • 3. F.Y.MMS 2012 Business Strengths: Heely’s company contributes their strengths towards: Strong Brand Recognition. We believe that our brand awareness is a significant competitive strength. We have positioned the HEELYS brand to represent a fun, youthful and active image and we believe it now defines an emerging lifestyle activity with a following among consumers in our target market. According to data collected by NPD, a retail and apparel industry research group, HEELYS-wheeled footwear had a 51.0% market share in retail sales dollars and a 37% market share in units sold for skateboard-related footwear brands for the quarter ended December 31, 2006. Appealing, High-Quality Products. We strive to provide high-quality, stylish products. We carefully select our independent manufacturers and diligently monitor their manufacturing process to ensure the quality of their finished goods. To stimulate demand for our products and encourage repeat purchases by consumers, we endeavor to consistently offer a line of wheeled footwear that combines style, comfort and high-quality components including ABEC-rated bearings, specially formulated polyurethane wheels and abrasion-resistant outsoles and upper materials. We have generally introduced more than 20 standard styles each year in an attempt to respond to changing consumer tastes and preferences. Page | 3
  • 4. F.Y.MMS 2012 Focus on Innovation with Intellectual Property Protection. Our innovative HEELYS-wheeled footwear is highly differentiated from other wheeled sports products and athletic footwear. We believe that our patents and pending patent applications enable us to maintain this differentiation. We own more than 80 issued patents and pending patent applications in more than 25 countries, of which more than 55 are related to our HEELYS-wheeled footwear. We also have more than 75 registered trademarks and pending trademark applications in more than 30 countries. We believe that our experience introducing HEELYS-wheeled footwear to the market and our growing brand awareness will allow us to successfully develop and introduce additional products incorporating innovative designs and technologies that appeal to our target consumers. In-Depth Understanding of Our Target Market. We employ a grass-roots marketing model that enables us to regularly interact with and maintain an in-depth understanding of our target market. In 2006, our event marketing managers, or “EMMs,” coordinated more than 3,000 in-store clinics and demonstrations, allowing us to communicate our brand message in an interactive, fun environment. In addition, our EMMs use online marketing techniques such as hosting message boards and contributing to skate-oriented chat rooms. We also sponsor “team riders” to showcase HEELYS-wheeled footwear in high-traffic, public areas. Through these multifaceted interactions with our target consumers, we continually refine our understanding of their evolving preferences. We intend to use this insight to develop new HEELYS-wheeled footwear models, strengthen and extend our HEELYS brand and offer additional product categories. Page | 4
  • 5. F.Y.MMS 2012 Compelling Value Proposition for Retail Customers. We believe that our differentiated product offering and brand name represent a compelling value proposition for our retail customers. Our products have historically enabled our retail customers to achieve high sales volumes at or near our suggested retail prices, rapid inventory turns and attractive margins. These results have allowed us to develop strong relationships and expand our product offerings with our retail customers, and add new retail customers. Flexible and Efficient Sourcing Model. By outsourcing manufacturing, we eliminate the need to purchase raw materials and limit the amounts we are required to spend on working capital, capital expenditures and overhead. This enables us to focus our resources on developing new products and brand- enhancing activities. We do not have any long-term manufacturing contracts, choosing instead to retain the flexibility to change our manufacturing sources if necessary. We have developed systems and procedures that enable us to actively monitor product quality, control product costs and facilitate timely product delivery. Senior Management Team with Deep Industry Experience. Our senior management team, which has overseen our company since its inception, has been instrumental in developing our HEELYS brand, establishing strong relationships with retail customers and international distributors and directing our growth. Our Chief Executive Officer has approximately 30 years of experience in the branded footwear and action sports industries and has held senior level positions at the Rollerblade division of Benetton Group S.p.A. and L.A. Gear. Our Senior Vice President—Global Sales has more than 25 years of sales and marketing experience in the athletic apparel and footwear industries and has held executive level and sales positions at L.A. Gear, Kaepa, Nike, Stride-Rite and Wilson Sporting Goods. Page | 5
  • 6. F.Y.MMS 2012 Heely’s Marketing Strategy Our marketing strategy is to position our products and the HEELYS brand to represent a lifestyle that includes excitement, individuality and the unique culture of action sports. To promote awareness of our HEELYS brand, we utilize a multi-faceted strategy that includes event marketing activities, television advertising, point-of-purchase, or “POP,” displays and product placement and public relations opportunities. While we fund the cost of these activities domestically, our independent distributors are solely responsible for these costs in their markets.  Event Marketing Activities We employ a team of six EMMs that enables us to reach consumers at the grass-roots level and help drive foot traffic to our retail customers’ locations. EMMs increase consumer awareness of our products by hosting in-store product clinics and demonstrations, teaching store personnel how to use our products, employing “guerrilla” marketing methods such as arranging for our sponsored “team riders” to skate in high traffic public areas and using online marketing techniques such as hosting message boards and contributing to skate-oriented chat rooms. EMMs educate retail sales personnel on techniques to maximize sell-through of our products and to promote product awareness and safety.  Television Advertising Television advertisements are an important and highly effective tool for increasing awareness of our brand and products among our target consumers because these advertisements allow us to show consumers HEELYS-wheeled footwear in action. Advertisements air in selected regions of the United States during our primary selling seasons on cable channels such as ABC’s Family Channel, Nickelodeon and The Cartoon Network. As part of our regional television advertising strategy, we feature the name of a local retail customer at the end of our television advertisements. This tactic is intended to drive consumers to specific retail customers and allows us to evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising. Page | 6
  • 7. F.Y.MMS 2012  Point-of-Purchase Displays Certain of our retail customers have committed valuable floor space to POP displays we provide to enhance the presentation of our products. Through the use of these POP displays, we are able to present the HEELYS brand message to consumers in a consistent manner and increase our shelf space in our retail customers’ locations. EMMs ensure that our merchandise is effectively featured using POP displays. Page | 7