Company Name

RMB & Associates

Description of company/ product

(less than 100 words)

Multi facted Security Services Company

The product, under the brand name "LifeStraw", is a plastic tube 25 centimetres long and 29 millimetres in diameter. Water that is sucked through the straw first passes through a mesh of 100-micrometer spaces, then through a mesh of 15-micrometer spaces.

Water then passes through a chamber with iodine-coated beads, killing remaining bacteria. The water passes through an empty chamber, then finally passes through active carbon, removing the iodide taste and medium-sized bacteria. The entire process is powered by regular sucking, similar to using a conventional drinking straw,

Key Selling points

This product has been available in the Humanterioan sector for several years and has won numerous awards including:

•·          LifeStraw® wins the prestigious INDEX: 2005 Award

•·          LifeStraw® wins the Well-Tech Award 2006 for Innovative Technology

•·          TIME.com: 'Best Inventions 2005: Healthy Options'

•·          Forbes Magazine: Ten Things That Will Change the Way We Live - LifeStraw®

•·          Popular Science (USA): The LifeStraw - the invention of the century?

•·          Reader's Digest: LifeStraw® is "Europe's Best Invention"

•·          Esquire Magazine (USA): Innovations of the Year - LifeStraw®

We have been highly successful in growing our business in the UK, and have recognised that to grow internationally we need to look strategically at the best way to do that.

The ‘LifeStraw' product is ideal for us to launch our business internationally, being already a recognised quality product. We have appointed an International Sales Manager to handle the product, and we are now working to develop the strategy and identify the routes to obtaining business within the military sector. 

Through negotiations and working in co operation with the manufacteur we have now developed the LifeStraw for the military communities, we have beeen appointed exclusive agents for the following terrotories where we are already working on developing existing sales leads:

•1)            UK

•2)            Uganda

•3)            Brundi

•4)            Somali

•5)            Kenya

•6)            Columbia

•7)            Spain

•8)            Tanzania

•9)            Malaysia

•10)        Indonesia

•11)        India (partial)

•12)        Rwanda

•13)        DRC Congo

•14)        Oman

•15)        S Sudan

•16)        Jordan

We are also working with the manufacteurs to develop two new products for the military communities ‘LifeStraw family Military' and LifeStraw Hydro

Looking for:

Potential Investors

Patent Status:

Patented Technology

Potential Markets/ outlets

Currently have exclusitivity for the Military Sectors  and are distributor of choice worldwide