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Creating Owners One Share at a Time

The Concept
Being an owner is better than just being a consumer. Owners see the world just a bit differently. OneShare.com believes in the power of ownership, and that stock ownership in real, industry-leading companies is a great gift. It’s a new, personal connection with a favorite company and a tool for learning about the stock market. One share of stock is a gift that lasts a lifetime. Plus, a framed stock certificate looks cool hanging on a wall.

Gifts for Kids
What better way to teach kids about investing than by making them shareholders? At OneShare, parents can purchase one share of stock in companies their kids love — including Disney, Mattel, McDonald’s, Dreamworks, Build-A-Bear or LeapFrog. Unlike the latest video game or a cute stuffed animal, OneShare gets shoppers to see the bigger picture by linking them to ownership. For kids, it is a learning gift that has the potential to create shared experiences and personal connections with a parent or grandparent as they track the company together over the years. These stocks can be paired with Stock Matters: An Introduction to Stocks and Ownership — a fun, new illustrated book by OneShare author Byron Beach that will excite kids about being owners, thinking like shareholders, and seeing the world just a little bit differently.

Gifts for Adults
One share of a loved company — from Hershey’s, Coca-Cola and Starbucks to Harley-Davidson, Tiffany & Co., Microsoft and Apple Computer — is a gift idea that is unique, lasting and meaningful. It’s a gift of ownership that creates a fun, personal connection with a favorite company. From Apple groupies, Harley Davidson aficionados, and Tiffany & Co. blue box lovers, to tech heads, travel bugs, music maniacs and movie fans — everyone has a favorite company or a brand that they identify with the most. OneShare offers stock in more than 130 publicly traded companies.

The OneShare Story
Launched in 1996 by CEO Lance Lee, OneShare pioneered the selling of official, beautifully framed shares of real stock as gifts. Today, OneShare is the leading supplier of individual gift shares in more than 130 of America’s favorite companies.

As a bond broker in San Francisco, Lee was constantly approached by parents and grandparents who wanted to purchase one share of stock that could be given to loved ones as a gift. Due to the high transaction costs associated with stock purchases, this was too expensive and time consuming for most gift givers. Recognizing this as a growing niche market, Lance created OneShare — a simple, fast, and affordable system for purchasing one share of real stock.

By 2001, OneShare had sold its first 50,000 stocks. In early Spring 2006, the company sold more than 7,000 framed shares of Pixar, before the company merged with Disney and the stock certificate disappeared forever. Today, OneShare has sold more than 20 million in gift stock transactions, one share at a time.

How it Works
At OneShare, gift givers can purchase one official share of stock for $39, plus the price of the stock as listed on the stock exchange, in less than ten minutes. Frames range from a complimentary hard matte paper frame to wood or brushed metal frames priced from $34-$75. In addition, gift givers can further personalize the real share of stock with a special engraved personalized message on the frame’s plaque. The official certificates are beautiful works of art, often engraved with symbols of the company’s services, products, characters or history. Best of all, gift givers can select an official share of stock to match the recipient’s passions, without worrying about sizes, colors, batteries, fading or going-out-of-style. Additionally, each share of stock now comes with an illustrated OneShare Owner’s Manual, which covers everything from voting rights and investor relations. For more information visit www.OneShare.com.

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