Company Overview

Arete Industries, Inc., (the "Company") was organized under the laws of the State of Colorado on July 21, 1987, under the name "Travis Investments, Inc." In late 1987 the company completed a blank check public offering and merged with a company named Vallarta, Inc., and its subsidiary Le Mail, Inc., where after the name was changed to Travis Industries, Inc. On September 1, 1998, the shareholders approved the name change of the Company to Arete Industries, Inc. Since then, the Company has been in an evolutionary process of becoming a seed and growth stage business development company.

From inception in 1987 until early March 2000, the Company was...