Form SB-2 for Design Source, Inc.

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on ________________________.

Registration No. ________________

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM SB-2
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

DESIGN SOURCE, INC.
(Name of small business issuer in its charter)

Nevada

2200

N/A

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Organization)

(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code)

(IRS Employer Identification #)

DESIGN SOURCE, INC.
100 Europa Drive, Suite 455
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27517
(919) 933-2720

NEVADA CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
101 Convention Center Drive, Suite 700
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109

(702) 873-3488

(Address and telephone number of registrant's executive office)

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

Copies to:
Conrad C. Lysiak, Esq.
601 West First Avenue, Suite 503
Spokane, Washington 99201
(509) 624-1475

 

APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC:

As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

If this Form is filed to register additional common stock for an offering under Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed under Rule 462(c) of the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed under Rule 462(d) of the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. [   ]

If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made under Rule 434, please check the following box. [   ]

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Securities to be Registered


Amount To Be Registered


Offering Price Per Share


Aggregate Offering Price


Registration
Fee [1]


Common Stock:

4,000,000

$

0.05

$

200,000

$

100.00

[1]   Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee under Rule 457(c).

REGISTRANT HEREBY AMENDS THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON DATES AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO DELAY ITS EFFECTIVE DATE UNTIL THE REGISTRANT SHALL FILE A FURTHER AMENDMENT WHICH SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL THEREAFTER BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 8(a) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, OR UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON DATES AS THE COMMISSION, ACTING UNDER SAID SECTION 8(a), MAY DETERMINE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Prospectus

DESIGN SOURCE, INC.
Shares of Common Stock
1,000,000 Minimum - 4,000,000 Maximum

Before this offering, there has been no public market for the common stock.

We are offering up to a total of 4,000,000 shares of common stock on a self underwritten basis, 1,000,000 shares minimum, 4,000,000 shares maximum. The offering price is $0.05 per share. In the event that 1,000,000 shares are not sold within 180 days, at the sole discretion of the company, we may extend the offering for an additional 90 days. In the event that 1,000,000 shares are not sold within the 180 days, or within the additional 90 days if extended, all money received by us will be returned to each subscriber without interest or deduction of any kind. If at least 1,000,000 shares are sold within 180 days, or within the additional 90 days, if extended, all money received by us will be retained by us and appropriated for the uses set forth in the Use of Proceeds section of this prospectus. All subscription funds will be retained in a separate bank account at Wachovia Bank. During the 180 day period, and the additional 90 period, no funds will be returned to you. Funds will only be returned to you in the event we are unable to raise a minium of $50,000 in our escrow account. If we do raise a minimum of $50,000, the cash will be delivered to us and there will be no refund. Our escrow agent is Conrad C. Lysiak, Attorney and Counselor at Law.

Our common stock will be sold by our officers and directors.

Investing in our common stock involves risks. See "Risk Factors" starting at page 6.

 

Offering Price


Expenses


Proceeds to Us


Per Share - Minimum

$

0.05

$

0.005

$

0.045

Per Share - Maximum

$

0.05

$

0.0025

$

0.0475

Minimum

$

50,000

$

14,500

$

35,500

Maximum

$

200,000

$

14,500

$

185,500

The difference between the Aggregate Offering Price and the Proceeds to Us is $14,500 which includes, $10,000 attorney's fees which will be owed to Conrad C. Lysiak, our attorney upon this offering being declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. It's illegal to tell you otherwise.

The date of this prospectus is ____________________.

 

 

 

 

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Until _______________ 2004, ninety days after the date of this prospectus, all dealers effecting transactions in our registered securities, whether or not participating in this distribution, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to the obligation of dealers to deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Page No.


Summary of Prospectus

6

Risk Factors

7

Use of Proceeds

9

Determination of Offering Price

10

Dilution of the Price You Pay for Your Shares

10

Plan of Distribution; Terms of the Offering

12

Business

15

Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition or Plan of Operation

22

Management

25

Executive Compensation

26

Principal Shareholders

27

Description of Securities

28

Certain Transactions

29

Litigation

29

Experts

30

Legal Matters

30

Financial Statements

30

 

 

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SUMMARY OF OUR OFFERING

Our business

We are a start-up stage company. We are a company without revenues or operations, we have minimal assets and have incurred losses since inception. We are developing a website (www.sourcedesigninc.com) that will offer textiles to the commercial designer market. These will be offered at direct-from-manufacturer prices enabling commercial interior designer to cut costs. In addition to offering a vast array of commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics, we will feature industry information that will enhance the operations knowledge of interior design firms. We have not generated any revenues and the only operations we have engaged in is the creation of the website and the development of a business plan.

Our principal executive office is located at 100 Europa Drive, Suite 455, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27517, our telephone number is (919) 933-2720 and our registered agent for service of process is Nevada Corporate Headquarters, 101 Convention Center Drive, Suite 700, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109. Our fiscal year end is March 31.

The offering

Following is a brief summary of this offering:

Securities being offered

Up to 4,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.00001.

Offering price per share

$ 0.05

Offering period

The shares are being offered for a period not to exceed 180 days, unless extended by our board of directors for an additional 90 days.

Net proceeds to us

Approximately $35,500 assuming the minimum number of shares are sold.
Approximately $185,500 assuming the maximum number of shares are sold.

Use of proceeds

We will use the proceeds to pay for administrative expenses, the implementation of our business plan, and general working capital.

Number of shares outstanding before the offering

718,457

Number of shares outstanding after the
offering if all of the shares are sold

4,718,457

Selected financial data

The following financial information summarizes the more complete historical financial information at the end of this prospectus.

 

As of March 31, 2004

 

(Audited)


Balance Sheet

 

 

Total Assets

$

5,163

Total Liabilities

$

-

Stockholders Equity

$

5,163

 

 

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Period from

 

 

April 2, 2003 (date of inception)

 

 

to March 31, 2004 (Audited)


Income Statement

 

 

Revenue

$

-

Total Expenses

$

30,760

Net Loss

$

(30,760)


RISK FACTORS

Please consider the following risk factors before deciding to invest in our common stock.

Risks associated with Design Source, Inc.:

1. Because our auditors have issued a going concern opinion and because our officers and directors will not loan any additional money to us, we have to complete this offering to commence operations. If we do not complete this offering, we will not start our operations.

Our auditors have issued a going concern opinion. This means that there is substantial doubt that we can continue as an ongoing business for the next twelve months. As of the date of this prospectus we have not commenced operations. Because our officers and directors are unwilling to loan or advance any additional capital to us, except to prepare and file reports with the SEC, we will have to complete this offering in order to commence operations.

2. We lack an operating history and have losses which we expect to continue into the future. There is no assurance our future operations will result in profitable revenues. If we cannot generate sufficient revenues to operate profitably, we may suspend or cease operations.

We were incorporated in April 2003 and we have not started our proposed business operations or realized any revenues. We have no operating history upon which an evaluation of our future success or failure can be made. Our net loss since inception is $30,760 of which $19,119 is for legal fees and $286 is for audit fees in connection with this offering. $11,250 is for the preparation of a business plan and initial development of our website and $105 is for general office costs and bank charges. Our ability to achieve and maintain profitability and positive cash flow is dependent upon

 

*

completion of this offering

*

our ability to locate manufacturers who will sell to our customers

 

*

our ability to attract customers who will buy from our website

 

*

our ability to generate revenues through the sale of

Based upon current plans, we expect to incur operating losses in future periods because we will be incurring expenses and not generating revenues. We cannot guarantee that we will be successful in generating revenues in the future. Failure to generate revenues will cause us to go out of business.

3. We have no clients, customers or suppliers and we cannot guarantee we will ever have any. Even if we obtain clients, customers and suppliers, there is no assurance that we will make a profit.

We have no clients, customers or suppliers. We have not identified any clients, customers or suppliers and we cannot guarantee we ever will have any. Even if we obtain clients, customers and suppliers for our services, there is no guarantee that our suppliers will supply us, or that our customers will use our website to buy the commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics we offer. If we are unable to attract enough suppliers to offer their commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics for sale or enough customers to buy the from our website to operate profitably we will have to suspend or cease operations.

 

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4. We are solely dependent upon the funds to be raised in this offering to start our business, the proceeds of which may be insufficient to achieve revenues. We may need to obtain additional financing which may not be available.

We have not started our business. We need the proceeds from this offering to start our operations. If the minimum of $50,000 is raised, this amount will enable us, after paying the expenses of this offering, to locate and initiate negotiations with various manufacturers of commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics to have them offer their products on our website at a pricing level that will enable us to attract a large client base. It will also enable us to conduct surveys to identify suppliers and customers and to complete the website. We may need additional funds to complete further development of our business plan to achieve a sustainable sales level where ongoing operations can be funded out of revenues. There is no assurance that any additional financing will be available or if available, on terms that will be acceptable to us.

5. Because we are small and do not have much capital, we must limit marketing our services to potential customers and suppliers. As a result, we may not be able to attract enough customers to operate profitably. If we do not make a profit, we may have to suspend or cease operations.

Because we are small and do not have much capital, we must limit marketing our website to potential customers and suppliers. The sale of commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics via our website is how we will generate revenues. Because we will be limiting our marketing activities, we may not be able to attract enough customers to buy or suppliers to sell to operate profitably. If we cannot operate profitably, we may have to suspend or cease operations.

6. Because our officers and directors will only be devoting limited time to our operations, our operations may be sporadic which may result in periodic interruptions or suspensions of operations. This activity could prevent us from attracting suppliers and customers and result in a lack of revenues which may cause us to cease operations.

Our officers and directors will only be devoting limited time to our operations. Peter Reichard, our president, treasurer and a member of the board of directors, will be devoting approximately twenty hours a week to our operations. Peter Coker, our secretary and a member of the board of directors, will be devoting approximately twenty hours a week to our operations. Because our officers and directors will only be devoting limited time to our operations, our operations may be sporadic and occur at times which are convenient to our officers and directors. As a result, operations may be periodically interrupted or suspended which could result in a lack of revenues and a possible cessation of operations.

7. Because our management does not have prior experience in marketing of via the Internet, we may have to hire individuals or suspend or cease operations.

Because our management does not have prior experience in marketing via the Internet, we may have to hire additional experienced personnel to assist us with our operations. If we need the additional experienced personnel and we do not hire them, we could fail in our plan of operations and have to suspend operations or cease operations entirely.

Risks associated with this offering:

8. Because there is no public trading market for our common stock, you may not be able to resell your stock.

There is currently no public trading market for our common stock. Therefore there is no central place, such as stock exchange or electronic trading system, to resell your shares. If you do want to resell your shares, you will have to locate a buyer and negotiate your own sale.

 

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9. Because the SEC imposes additional sales practice requirements on brokers who deal in our shares which are penny stocks, some brokers may be unwilling to trade them. This means that you may have difficulty reselling your shares and this may cause the price of the shares to decline.

Our shares would be classified as penny stocks and are covered by Section 15(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules promulgated thereunder which impose additional sales practice requirements on brokers/dealers who sell our securities in this offering or in the aftermarket. For sales of our securities, the broker/dealer must make a special suitability determination and receive from you a written agreement prior to making a sale for you. Because of the imposition of the foregoing additional sales practices, it is possible that brokers will not want to make a market in our shares. This could prevent you from reselling your shares and may cause the price of the shares to decline. See "Plan of Distribution; Terms of the Offering - Section 15(g) of the Exchange Act."

USE OF PROCEEDS

Our offering is being made on a self underwritten basis - with a minimum of $50,000. The table below sets forth the use of proceeds if $50,000 or $200,000 of the offering is sold.

 

$50,000


$200,000


Gross proceeds

$

50,000

$

200,000

Offering expenses

$

14,500

$

14,500

Net proceeds

$

35,500

$

185,500

The net proceeds will be used as follows:

Website development

$

10,000

$

25,000

Database

$

5,000

$

25,000

Marketing and advertising

$

15,500

$

60,500

Salaries

$

0

$

55,000

Working capital

$

5,000

$

20,000

Total offering expenses to be paid from the offering proceeds is $10,000 for legal fees, which will be paid to our attorney, Conrad C. Lysiak, $100 for SEC registration fees, $1,000 for printing expenses, $2,000 for Blue Sky and $1,400 for transfer agent fees. All other expenses of the offering have been prepaid by our officers.

We intend to develop and maintain a database of all customers to develop a database of potential customers and their specific wants and needs. The database will be developed from information available from our Internet web site, periodicals and information, we accumulate as we sell our products. The feasibility of collecting the data is high. We believe it will take approximately two months to create a workable database. We intend to begin assembling our database with all future customers. The estimated cost to develop and maintain the database is $5,000 to $25,000.

Marketing and advertising will be focused on promoting our website to prospective customers though direct sales and will be based on the list of prospects developed from our database and the market survey. The advertising campaign will include the design and printing of various sales material. The cost of developing the campaign is estimated to cost between $15,500 to 60,500.

We intend to establish an office to maintain the website and database. This will include physical office space, computer equipment, telephones and other assets as required to maintain the operations.

If we raise the maximum amount under this offering, we intend to pay salaries to our officers, or, to outside employees or consultants to assist our officers in managing our business. In addition, we intend to hire one or two sales employees to handle Internet transactions with our customers.

 

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Working capital is the cost related to operating our office. It is comprised of expenses for rent, telephone service, mail, stationary, accounting, acquisition of office equipment and supplies, expenses of filing reports with the SEC, travel, and general working capital.

DETERMINATION OF OFFERING PRICE

The price of the shares we are offering was arbitrarily determined in order for us to raise up to a total of $200,000 in this offering. The offering price bears no relationship whatsoever to our assets, earnings, book value or other criteria of value. Among the factors considered were:

*

our lack of operating history

 

*

the proceeds to be raised by the offering

 

*

the amount of capital to be contributed by purchasers in this offering in proportion to the amount of stock to be retained by our existing Stockholders, and

 

*

our relative cash requirements.

DILUTION OF THE PRICE YOU PAY FOR YOUR SHARES

Dilution represents the difference between the offering price and the net tangible book value per share immediately after completion of this offering. Net tangible book value is the amount that results from subtracting total liabilities and intangible assets from total assets.

As of March 31, 2004 the net tangible book value of our common stock outstanding was a deficit of $5,163 or approximately $0.007 per share based upon 718,457 shares outstanding.

If 100% of the shares are sold:

Upon completion of this offering, in the event all of the shares are sold, the net tangible book value of the 4,718,457 shares to be outstanding will be $190,663, or approximately $0.04 per share. The amount of dilution you will incur will be $0.01 per share. The net tangible book value of the shares held by our existing stockholders will be increased by $0.033 per share without any additional investment on their part. You will incur an immediate dilution from $0.05 per share to $0.04 per share. After completion of this offering, if 4,000,000 shares are sold, you will own approximately 84.77% of the total number of shares then outstanding shares for which you will have made a cash investment of $200,000, or $0.05 per share. Our existing stockholder will own approximately 15.23% of the total number of shares then outstanding, for which they have made contributions of cash, totaling $35,923, or approximately $0.05 per share.

If 75% of the shares are sold:

Upon completion of this offering, in the event 75% of the shares are sold, the net tangible book value of the 3,718,457 shares to be outstanding will be $140,663, or approximately $0.038 per share. The amount of dilution you will incur will be $0.012 per share. The net tangible book value of the shares held by our existing stockholders will be increased by $0.031 per share without any additional investment on their part. You will incur an immediate dilution from $0.05 per share to $0.038 per share.

After completion of this offering, if 3,000,000 shares are sold, you will own approximately 80.68% of the total number of shares then outstanding shares for which you will have made a cash investment of $150,000, or $0.05 per share. Our existing stockholders will own approximately 19.32% of the total number of shares then outstanding, for which they have made contributions of cash, totaling $535,923, or approximately $0.05 per share.

 

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If 50% of the shares are sold:

Upon completion of this offering, in the event 50% of the shares are sold, the net tangible book value of the 2,718,457 shares to be outstanding will be $90,663, or approximately $0.033 per share. The amount of dilution you will incur will be $0.017 per share. The net tangible book value of the shares held by our existing stockholders will be increased by $0.026 per share without any additional investment on their part. You will incur an immediate dilution from $0.05 per share to $0.033 per share.

After completion of this offering, if 2,000,000 shares are sold, you will own approximately 73.57% of the total number of shares then outstanding shares for which you will have made a cash investment of $100,000, or $0.05 per share. Our existing stockholders will own approximately 26.43% of the total number of shares then outstanding, for which they have made contributions of cash, totaling $35,923, or approximately $0.05 per share.

The following table compares the differences of your investment in our shares with the investment of our existing stockholders.

Existing stockholders if all of the shares are sold:

Price per share

$

0.050

Net tangible book value per share before offering

$

0.007

Potential gain to existing shareholders per share

$

0.033

Net tangible book value per share after offering

$

0.040

Increase to present stockholders in net tangible book value per share after offering

$

0.033

Capital contributions

$

185,500

Number of shares outstanding before the offering

 

718,457

Number of shares after offering held by existing stockholders

 

718,457

Percentage of ownership after offering

 

15.23%

Purchasers of shares in this offering if all shares sold

Price per share

$

0.05

Dilution per share

$

0.04

Capital contributions

$

200,000

Number of shares after offering held by public investors

 

4,000,000

Percentage of ownership after offering

 

84.77%

Purchasers of shares in this offering if 75% of shares sold

Price per share

$

0.05

Dilution per share

$

0.038

Capital contributions

$

150,000

Number of shares after offering held by public investors

 

3,000,000

Percentage of ownership after offering

 

80.68%

Purchasers of shares in this offering if 50% of shares sold

Price per share

$

0.05

Dilution per share

$

0.033

Capital contributions

$

100,000

Number of shares after offering held by public investors

 

2,000,000

Percentage of ownership after offering

 

73.57%

 

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION; TERMS OF THE OFFERING

We are offering 4,000,000 shares of common stock on a best efforts, 1,000,000 shares minimum, 4,000,000 shares maximum basis. The offering price is $0.05 per share. Funds from this offering will be placed in a separate bank account at Wachovia Bank. We will hold the funds in an account until we receives a minimum of $50,000 at which time it will be delivered to us. Any funds received by our escrow agent thereafter will immediately be paid to us. If we do not receive the minimum amount of $50,000 within 180 days of the effective date of our registration statement, 90 additional days if we so choose, all funds will be returned to you without a deduction of any kind. During the 180 day period and possible additional 90 day period, no funds will be returned to you. You will only receive a refund of your subscription if we do not raise a minimum of $50,000 within the 180 day period referred to above which could be expanded by an additional 90 days at our discretion for a total of 270 days. There are no finders involved in our distribution.

We will sell the shares in this offering through our officers and directors. They will receive no commission from the sale of any shares. They will not register as a broker/dealer under Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in reliance upon Rule 3a4-1. Rule 3a4-1 sets forth those conditions under which a person associated with an issuer may participate in the offering of the issuer's securities and not be deemed to be a broker/dealer. The conditions are that:

1. The person is not statutorily disqualified, as that term is defined in Section 3(a)(39) of the Act, at the time of his participation; and,

2. The person is not compensated in connection with his participation by the payment of commissions or other remuneration based either directly or indirectly on transactions in securities;

3. The person is not at the time of their participation, an associated person of a broker/dealer; and,

4. The person meets the conditions of Paragraph (a)(4)(ii) of Rule 3a4-1 of the Exchange Act, in that he (A) primarily performs, or is intended primarily to perform at the end of the offering, substantial duties for or on behalf of the issuer otherwise than in connection with transactions in securities; and (B) is not a broker or dealer, or an associated person of a broker or dealer, within the preceding twelve (12) months; and (C) do not participate in selling and offering securities for any issuer more than once every twelve (12) months other than in reliance on Paragraphs (a)(4)(i) or (a)(4)(iii).

Our officers and directors are not statutorily disqualified, are not being compensated, and are not associated with a broker/dealer. They are and will continue to be one of our officers and directors at the end of the offering and have not been during the last twelve months and are currently not broker/dealers or associated with a broker/dealers. They have not and will not participate in selling and offering securities of an issuer more than once every twelve months.

Only after our registration statement is declared effective by the SEC, do we intend to advertise, through tombstones, and hold investment meetings in various states where the offering will be registered. We will not utilize the Internet to advertise our offering. We will also distribute the prospectus to potential investors at the meetings and to our friends and relatives who are interested in us and a possible investment in the offering.

We intend to sell our shares in the states of New York, Illinois, Georgia, Wyoming, Colorado, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and/or outside the United States of America.

 

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Section 15(g) of the Exchange Act

Our shares are covered by section 15(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Rules 15g-1 through 15g-6 promulgated thereunder. They impose additional sales practice requirements on broker/dealers who sell our securities to persons other than established customers and accredited investors (generally institutions with assets in excess of $5,000,000 or individuals with net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or annual income exceeding $200,000 or $300,000 jointly with their spouses).

Rule 15g-1 exempts a number of specific transactions from the scope of the penny stock rules.

Rule 15g-2 declares unlawful broker/dealer transactions in penny stocks unless the broker/dealer has first provided to the customer a standardized disclosure document.

Rule 15g-3 provides that it is unlawful for a broker/dealer to engage in a penny stock transaction unless the broker/dealer first discloses and subsequently confirms to the customer current quotation prices or similar market information concerning the penny stock in question.

Rule 15g-4 prohibits broker/dealers from completing penny stock transactions for a customer unless the broker/dealer first discloses to the customer the amount of compensation or other remuneration received as a result of the penny stock transaction.

Rule 15g-5 requires that a broker/dealer executing a penny stock transaction, other than one exempt under Rule 15g-1, disclose to its customer, at the time of or prior to the transaction, information about the sales persons compensation.

Rule 15g-6 requires broker/dealers selling penny stocks to provide their customers with monthly account statements.

Rule 15g-9 requires broker/dealers to approved the transaction for the customer's account; obtain a written agreement from the customer setting forth the identity and quantity of the stock being purchased; obtain from the customer information regarding his investment experience; make a determination that the investment is suitable for the investor; deliver to the customer a written statement for the basis for the suitability determination; notify the customer of his rights and remedies in cases of fraud in penny stock transactions; and, the NASD's toll free telephone number and the central number of the North American Administrators Association, for information on the disciplinary history of broker/dealers and their associated persons.

The application of the penny stock rules may affect your ability to resell your shares.

Offering Period and Expiration Date

This offering will start on the date of this prospectus and continue for a period of up to 270 days.

Procedures for Subscribing

If you decide to subscribe for any shares in this offering, you must

1. execute and deliver a subscription agreement

2. deliver a check or certified funds to us for acceptance or rejection.

All checks for subscriptions must be made payable to Escrow for Design Source, Inc.

 

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Right to Reject Subscriptions

We have the right to accept or reject subscriptions in whole or in part, for any reason or for no reason. All monies from rejected subscriptions will be returned immediately by us to the subscriber, without interest or deductions. Subscriptions for securities will be accepted or rejected within 48 hours after we receive them.

Separate Account for Subscriptions

Subscriptions will be placed in a separate bank account at Wachovia Bank, until we have received $50,000. Upon receipt of $50,000, we will withdraw and use the funds. If we do not receive the $50,000 within 270 days of the effective date of this offering, all subscriptions received by us will be promptly returned to each investor without interest or deduction therefrom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BUSINESS

General

We were incorporated in the State of Nevada on April 2, 2003. We have not started operations. We are in the process of developing a website that will offer commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics to interior designers. We have not generated any revenues and the only operations we have engaged in is the creation of the website and the development of a business plan. We maintain our statutory registered agent's office at 101 Convention Center Drive, Suite 700, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109 and our business office is 100 Europa Drive, Suite 455, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27517. Our telephone number is (919) 933-2720. This is the office of our President, Peter Reichard. Pursuant to an oral agreement we use a portion of his offices rent free. Upon the completion of this offering we will start paying Mr. Reichard rent of $400.00 per month.

We have no plans to change our business activities or to combine with another business, and we are not aware of any events or circumstances that might cause this plan to change.

We have not begun operations and will not begin operations until we complete this offering. Our plan of operation is prospective and there is no assurance that we will ever begin operations. Our prospects for profitability are not favorable if you consider numerous Internet-based companies have failed to achieve profits with similar plans.

We have not conducted any market research into the likelihood of success of our operations or the acceptance of our operations by the public.

We intend to offer a comprehensive supply, market and distribute commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics to the interior designer industry and individual retail customers on our Internet website. These commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics will be offered at direct-from-manufacturer prices. In addition to offering a vast array of fabrics, we will pass on industry information to interior designers that we acquire from manufacturers of fabrics we will sell. We will not seek out such information or pay for such information. We will not charge for the dissemination of such information. We intend to display the information on our website. We have not conducted any marketing studies to determine if there is a demand for such information. The information is part of our marketing program. A brief list of what we intend to offer in the five categories of interior textiles as follows:

*

bedspreads

 

*

drapery

 

*

panel

 

*

upholstery

 

*

wall-covering

Website

We have retained Essential Business Solutions, as our outside technology provider to develop our website. EBS will provide the following services for the website: disk space, bandwidth, 155 mbit backbone, pop mailboxes, e-mail forwarding, e-mailing aliasing, auto responder, front page support, unlimited FTP access, java chat, hotmetal/miva script, shopping cart, secure transactions signio support, cybercash support and macromedia flash. The foregoing will allow us to offer upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics to interior designers, promote our products in an attractive fashion, and communicate with our customers on-line.

The website is intended to be a destination site for the interior design industry. We intend to source out a large network of suppliers all related to the decorating business so that interior designers and individual consumers will be able to buy all of their decorating supplies from our website. The site will offer a large array of products and by becoming a "one-stop shopping" destination will significantly enhance the efficiency of the purchasing process simultaneously reducing the time and

 

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cost of finding reasonably priced decorating products or fabric supplies. We intend to continually source out and negotiate strategic relationships with individual suppliers and manufacturers to offer their products on our website. We intend to negotiate discounted pricing from the manufacturers in exchange for promoting their products to the extensive database of interior designers and individual consumers that we intend to develop and maintain through our extensive marketing program. We do not intend to sell the names in our database to anyone.

We also believe that the lack of financial security on the Internet is hindering economic activity thereon. To ensure the security of transactions occurring over the Internet, federal regulations require that any computer software used within the U.S. contain a 128-bit encoding encryption, while any computer software exported to a foreign country contain a 40-bit encoding encryption. There is uncertainty as to whether the 128-bit encoding encryption required by the federal government is sufficient security for transactions occurring over the Internet. Accordingly, there is a danger that any financial (credit card) transaction via the Internet will not be a secure transaction. Accordingly, risks such as the loss of data or loss of service on the Internet from technical failure or criminal acts are now being considered in the system specifications and in the security precautions in the development of the website. There is no assurance that such security precautions will be successful.

Other than investigating potential technologies in support of our business purpose, we have had no material business operations since inception in April 2003. At present, we have yet to acquire or develop the necessary technology assets in support of our business purpose to become a Internet-based retailer focused on the designer industry.

The Internet is a world-wide medium of interconnected electronic and/or computer networks. Individuals and companies have recently recognized that the communication capabilities of the Internet provide a medium for not only the promotion and communication of ideas and concepts, but also for the presentation and sale of information, goods and services.

Convenient Shopping Experience

Our online store will provide customers with an easy-to-use website. The website will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will be reached from the consumer's home or office. Our online store will enable us to deliver upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics. We plan to meet the interior designer needs by providing:

Interior Designer Needs


Sourcedesigninc.com Services


Access to an extensive array of fabrics

Continually updated database of from over 150 mills worldwide

Use of a powerful search engine

An extensive database of fabrics that can be searched according to the designer's specifications resulting in high-resolution graphics on-line

Ability to find a broad assortment of fabrics
that will ship quickly

A broad assortment of quick-ship fabrics within the database

Next day sample delivery

Next day delivery of samples for tactile experience

Ability to see the fabric applied on furniture frames

Mapping technology which enables the designer's clients to visualize the fabric on a furniture frame

Ability to easily present fabric options to their clients

Capability to e-mail fabric image files to clients, have physical samples in their hands the next day and the capability to create electronic color boards for client presentations

Cost savings

Savings of up to 50% for fabric purchases.

Real time product availability and delivery information

Product availability information updated daily

On-line product ordering

Up to the minute shipping information

 

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Customer Service

We intend to provide a customer service department via email where consumers can resolve order and product questions. Furthermore, we will insure consumer satisfaction by offering a 30-day money back guarantee. We do not intend to create a reserve account for our guarantee and will pay any refunds from general revenues.

Online Retail Store

We intend to design our Internet store to be a place for interior designers and individual consumers to shop within the commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics industry. We will establish a high-speed Internet-based, searchable, and continually update our database of 150 mills worldwide and other regional distribution channels. We will offer a cost advantage and reduce time delays involved with distribution. Our website will allow interior designers a process, combined with product mapping, to track their orders.

Shopping at our Online Store

Our online store will be located at www.sourcedesigninc.com We believe that the sale of commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics on the Internet can offer attractive benefits to consumers. These include enhanced selection, convenience, quality, ease-of-use, depth of content and information, and competitive pricing. Key features of our online store will include:

Browsing

Our online store will offer consumers several subject areas and special features arranged in a simple, easy-to-use format intended to enhance product selection. By clicking on a category names, the consumer will move directly to the home page of the desired category and can view promotions and features.

Selecting a Product and Checking Out

To purchase , consumers will simply click on the "add to cart" button to add to their virtual shopping cart. Consumers will be able to add and subtract from their shopping cart as they browse around our online store prior to making a final purchase decision, just as in a physical store. To execute orders, consumers click on the "checkout" button and, depending upon whether the consumer has previously shopped at our online store, are prompted to supply shipping details online. We will also offer consumers a variety of wrapping and shipping options during the checkout process. Prior to finalizing an order by clicking the "submit" button, consumers will be shown their total charges along with the various options chosen at which point consumers still have the ability to change their order or cancel it entirely.

Paying

To pay for orders, a consumer must use a credit card, which is authorized during the checkout process. Charges are assessed against the card when the order is placed. Our online store will use a security technology that works with the most common Internet browsers and makes it virtually impossible for unauthorized parties to read information sent by our consumers.

The estimated price of providing online check out service is 2%-5% of gross revenues. The cost of the online check out service is incorporated into the sales price of the product.

We will offer our customers a full refund for any reason if the customer returns the purchased item within thirty days from the date of sale in the same condition it was sold to the customer. After thirty days, we will not accept any product returns or refund any money to a customer.

 

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Source of Products

We intend to purchase commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics directly from the manufacturer/supplier based upon orders we have already received from interior designers and individual customers. We will purchase fabric from three sources: mills, textile converters, and re-upholstery jobbers. A portion of the purchase price, between 40% and 70%, depending on the prices we negotiate with the manufacturer, will be used to acquire the commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics from the manufacturer. The basis for our mark-ups will be solely determined by us in order to generate a profit and remain competitive with other competitors. The product will be shipped directly from the manufacturer to the customer, thereby eliminating the need for storage space or packaging facilities.

We intend to source out and negotiate with large industry leaders to offer their products for sale on our website either directly or via a direct link to their websites. In addition, we intend to locate and negotiate relationships with smaller, new manufacturers to offer their products on a more exclusive basis.

We are not involved in negotiations with any major manufacturers and do not intend to do so until after the offering is complete.

Fabric manufacturers (mills and converters) produce two classifications of product, open line and restricted production fabrics. The construction and basic styling of the two classifications are the same. Open line product is designed by the mill to reflect the most current fashion trends and is available to all customers. Typically, open line represents 80% of the manufacturer's production and is usually available for quick shipment and delivery. Restricted production fabrics are designed by the distributor so they can differentiate their product from other distributors. Typically, restricted production represents 20% of the manufacturer's production, forces the manufacturer into short production runs, and costs more to produce. Distributors also require a minimum of three-year availability from the fabric manufacturer regardless of the volume generated on a specific pattern. For similar constructions, restricted production fabrics are priced 15% higher than open line fabrics.

The table below summarizes our method from the current distribution methods:

Process Differentiation

 

Current Distribution


sourcedesigninc.com


Fabric Selection

Review sample books from 5 to 10 distributors with unknown product availability

On-line selection of worldwide product that represent current fashion with 100% availability eliminating the need for expensive physical product libraries.

Interior Designer's Fabric Review Process

Select from various distributors' sample books with considerable product redundancy. The search will consume an hour or more

Using a powerful search engine, select fabrics according to specified criteria from a highly structured and comprehensive database of textiles. The search will take only a few minutes.

Ordering Samples

Phone or fax to confirm pricing and availability, consuming an hour or more.

Samples shipped Next Day

Forward request at the end of the search via e-mail, consuming a few seconds.

(Price and availability are known)

Samples shipped Next Day

Product Visualization: Mapping Fabric to Frame

Not Available

On-line

 

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Delivery Information

6 to 48 hours

On-line - instant

Ordering Yardage

Phone or fax, confirmed by mail or return fax, status updates by phone or fax

e-Purchasing, confirmed on-line,

status updates on-line

Delivery of Orders

2 to 12 weeks

3 days to 8 weeks

Comparative Price*

A $30 list price

A $20 list price

*       Bedspread and drapery have lower economic value

Revenue

We intend to generate revenue from four sources on the website:

1.

Revenues will be generated from the direct sale of products to customers. We would order on behalf of our customers directly from our suppliers at the time of the order being received from a customer and the product would be shipped directly to the customer. That way we avoid having to carry any inventory that can be costly and become obsolete. We would earn revenue based on the difference between our negotiated price for the product with our suppliers and the price that the customer pays;


2.


Revenues will be generated by fees received for sales that originate from our website and are linked to those manufacturers that we will negotiate relationships with. Our customers would link to the manufacturer's website directly from our site and we would be paid a fee for directing the traffic that result in sales;


3.


We plan to offer banner advertising on our website for new manufacturers hoping to launch new product lines;


4.


Finally, we plan to earn revenues for special promotions to enable manufacturers to launch new lines - we would sell "premium shelf space" on our website.

We intend to develop and maintain a database of all interior designers, apprentices and individual customers who order commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics listing their specific wants and needs.

We intend to develop and launch an advertising campaign to introduce our website to potential customers. Databases for interior design schools, interior design associations and trade magazines are publically available through internet research, telephone directories and periodical research.

Delivery

We will offer three delivery options. The designer will specify delivery requirements, the search will return only fabrics that meet the required lead-time. We plan to assist the designer with the supplier's ability to meet the lead-time requirements. The existing national distributors' requirement for restricted production fabric adds time and cost to their supply chain. Mills cannot reasonably plan production and respond to delivery within less than six to eight weeks for low volume fabrics that most of the restricted production fabric represents. To service designers, the distributors must maintain inventory for every item in their sample books and guess which fabrics will sell in volume. Current distributors maintain approximately 100 yards of inventory for 95% of their fabrics (4,000-8,000 SKU's) and 500 to 1,000 yards on 5% of their fabrics (300 SKU's). By comparison, we will offer delivery on 25% of our fabrics with two-day delivery. Further, we will offer delivery on an additional 25% of ou r fabrics with two to three week delivery. Aligning selection and delivery with reliable supply is the most effective method of offering a broad selection of product.

 

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Competition

The electronic commerce market is intensely competitive. The market for information resources is more mature but also intensely competitive. We expect competition to continue to intensify in the future. Competitors include companies with substantial customer bases in the computer and other technical fields. There can be no assurance that we can maintain a competitive position against current or future competitors, particularly those with greater financial, marketing, service, support, technical and other resources. Our failure to maintain a competitive position within the market could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. There can be no assurance that we will be able to compete successfully against current and future competitors, and competitive pressures faced by us may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

www.textileweb.com, www.fabric.com, www.internetdesigncenter.com, and www.blueboltnetworks.com offer the same services that we do. Upon initiating our website operations, we will be competing with the foregoing, in addition to non-Internet commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics companies.

We intend to build a website that is easy to use and that offers a wide product selection at competitive prices. We believe potential customers would be drawn to our website instead of to other companies they are familiar with because they would able to choose from an array of products, quickly and easily, allowing them the freedom to carry on with their own business.

Our competitive position within the industry is negligible in light of the fact that we have not started our operations. Older, well established commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics companies with records of success will attract qualified clients away from us. Since we have not started operations, we cannot compete with them on the basis of reputation. We do expect to compete with them on the basis of price and services. We intend to be able to attract and retain customers by offering a breadth of product selection on our website through our relationships with major manufacturers and on the cutting edge newcomers to the industry. We will offer attractive, competitive pricing and will be responsive to all our customers' needs. We intend to offer the manufacturers advertising to our extensive database of interior designers, apprentices and individual customers that we will develop through our extensive marketing and advertising campaign.

Peter Reichard, our president, treasurer and a member of the board of directors, will be devoting approximately twenty hours a week to our operations. Peter Coker, our secretary and a member of the board of directors, will be devoting approximately twenty hours a week to our operations. Because our officers and directors will only be devoting limited time to our operations, our operations may be sporadic and occur at times which are convenient to our officers and directors. As a result, operations may be periodically interrupted or suspended which could result in a reduction of revenues and a cessation of operations.

Marketing

We intend to market our website in the United States and in Canada through traditional sources such as trade magazines, conventions and conferences, newspaper advertising, billboards, telephone directories and flyers/mailers. We intend to target purchasers of commercial interior furnishings as interior designers and individual customers. We may utilize inbound links that connect directly to our website from other sites. Potential customers can simply click on these links to become connected to our website from search engines and community and affinity sites.

 

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Insurance

We do not maintain any insurance and do not intend to maintain insurance in the future. Because we do not have any insurance, if we are made a party of a liability action, we may not have sufficient funds to defend the litigation. If that occurs a judgment could be rendered against us which could cause us to cease operations.

Employees; Identification of Certain Significant Employees.

We are a development stage company and currently have no employees, other than our officers and directors. We intend to hire additional employees on an as needed basis.

Offices

Our offices are 100 Europa Drive, Suite 455, Chapel Hill, North Carlina 27517. Our telephone number is (919) 933-2720. This is an office leased to our president, Peter Reichard. Mr. Reichard allows us to use approximately 200 square feet of the office for our operations. Pursuant to an oral agreement with Mr. Reichard, we will pay $400 per month in rent, once this offering has been completed.

Government Regulation

We are not currently subject to direct federal, state or local regulation other than regulations applicable to businesses generally or directly applicable to electronic commerce. However, the Internet is increasingly popular. As a result, it is possible that a number of laws and regulations may be adopted with respect to the Internet. These laws may cover issues such as user privacy, freedom of expression, pricing, content and quality of products and services, taxation, advertising, intellectual property rights and information security. Furthermore, the growth of electronic commerce may prompt calls for more stringent consumer protection laws. Several states have proposed legislation to limit the uses of personal user information gathered online or require online services to establish privacy policies. The Federal Trade Commission has also initiated action against at least one online service regarding the manner in which personal information is collected from users and provided to third parties. We will not provide personal information regarding our users to third parties. However, the adoption of such consumer protection laws could create uncertainty in Web usage and reduce the demand for our web based products.

We are not certain how business may be affected by the application of existing laws governing issues such as property ownership, copyrights, encryption and other intellectual property issues, taxation, libel, obscenity and export or import matters. The vast majority of such laws were adopted prior to the advent of the Internet. As a result, they do not contemplate or address the unique issues of the Internet and related technologies. Changes in laws intended to address such issues could create uncertainty in the Internet market place. Such uncertainty could reduce demand for services or increase the cost of doing business as a result of litigation costs or increased service delivery costs.

In addition, because our products are available over the Internet in multiple states and foreign countries, other jurisdictions may claim that we are required to qualify to do business in each such state or foreign country. We are qualified to do business only in Nevada. Our failure to qualify in a jurisdiction where it is required to do so could subject it to taxes and penalties. It could also hamper our ability to enforce contracts in such jurisdictions. The application of laws or regulations from jurisdictions whose laws currently apply to our business could have a material adverse affect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Other than the foregoing, no governmental approval is needed for the sale of our products.

 

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MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OR PLAN OF OPERATION

This section of the prospectus includes a number of forward-looking statements that reflect our current views with respect to future events and financial performance. Forward-looking statements are often identified by words like: believe, expect, estimate, anticipate, intend, project and similar expressions, or words which, by their nature, refer to future events. You should not place undue certainty on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this prospectus. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or our predictions.

We are a start-up stage corporation and have not started operations or generated or realized any revenues from our business operations.

Our auditors have issued a going concern opinion. This means that our auditors believe there is substantial doubt that we can continue as an on-going business for the next twelve months unless we obtain additional capital to pay our bills. This is because we have not generated any revenues and no revenues are anticipated until we complete the development of our website, source out suppliers to sell and source out customers to buy our products. We believe the technical aspects of our website will be sufficiently developed to use for our operations 70 days from the completion of our offering. Accordingly, we must raise cash from sources other than operations. Our only other source for cash at this time is investments by others in our company. We must raise cash to implement our project and begin our operations. Even if we raise the maximum amount of money in this offering, we do not know how long the money will last, however, we do believe it will last twelve months. We will not begin operations until we raise money from this offering.

To meet our need for cash we are attempting to raise money from this offering. We believe that we will be able to raise enough money through this offering to begin operations but we cannot guarantee that once we begin operations we will stay in business after operations have commenced. If we are unable to secure enough suppliers to provide us with products at suitably low pricing or enough customers willing to buy the product at higher than the price we have negotiated with our suppliers, we may quickly use up the proceeds from the minimum amount of money from this offering and will need to find alternative sources, like a second public offering, a private placement of securities, or loans from our officers or others in order for us to maintain our operations. At the present time, we have not made any arrangements to raise additional cash, other than through this offering.

If we need additional cash and cannot raise it we will either have to suspend operations until we do raise the cash, or cease operations entirely. If we raise the minimum amount of money from this offering, it will last a year but with limited funds available to develop growth strategy. If we raise the maximum amount, we believe the money will last a year and also provide funds for growth strategy.

If we raise less than the maximum amount and we need more money we will have to revert to obtaining additional money as described in this section. Other than as described in this section, we have no other financing plans.

Plan of Operation

Assuming we raise the minimum amount in this offering, we believe we can satisfy our cash requirements during the next 12 months. We will not be conducting any product research or development. We do not expect to purchase or sell plant or significant equipment. Further we do not expect significant changes in the number of employees.

Upon completion of our public offering, our specific goal is to profitably sell a comprehensive supply of products on our Internet website to the interior design industry and individual retail customers. We intend to accomplish the foregoing through the following milestones:

 

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1. Complete our public offering. We believe that we will raise sufficient capital to begin our operations. We believe this could take up to 180 days from the date the Securities and Exchange Commission declares our offering effective. We will not begin operations until we have closed this offering. We intend to concentrate all of our efforts on raising as much capital as we can during this period.

2. After completing the offering, we will immediately begin to establish our office and acquire the equipment we need to begin operations. Establishing our offices will take approximately a week. We believe that it will cost $10,000 to establish our office. We do not intend to hire employees. Our officers and directors will handle our administrative duties. A detailed breakdown of the cost of operating our office is set forth in the Use of Proceeds section of this prospectus.

3. After our office is established, which we said should be 10 days after completing our offering, we intend to contact and negotiate with large industry leaders to offer their product on our website. We also intend to locate smaller, new manufacturers to offer their product on a more exclusive basis. We believe we should have one contract signed within 30 days of setting up our office. The execution of additional contracts with suppliers and the development of the website will be ongoing during the life of our operations. As more products are added and as our customer data base expands, we will have to be continually upgrading the website. We believe that it will cost up to $10,000 in order to have our website initially operational and $5,000 to have our data base initially ready to receive information. Both the initial operation of the website and the data base will be ready 60 days from the signing of our first contract with a major supplier. At that point we will be able to accept orders for th e products we will sell. As additional contracts are signed with suppliers, we will up-grade the website. As our customer base increases we will up-grade the data base. Both upgrades will be ongoing during the life of our operations. In addition to offering commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics, we will pass on industry information to interior designers that we acquire from other interior designers and manufacturers of commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics we will sell.

4. As soon as our website is operational, which as we have said will be approximately 60 days from setting up our office, we will begin to market our website in the United States and in Canada through traditional sources such as trade magazines, conventions and conferences, newspaper advertising, billboards, telephone directories and flyers / mailers. We intend to target purchasers of commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics such as interior designers and individual consumers. We may utilize inbound links that connect directly to our website from other sites. Potential customers can simply click on these links to become connected to our website from search engines and community and affinity sites. We believe that it will cost a minimum of $15,500 for our marketing campaign. If we raise the maximum amount of proceeds from the offering, we will devote an additional $45,000 to our marketing program. Marketing is an ongoing matter which will continue during the life of o ur operations. We also believe that we should begin to see results from our marketing campaign within 30 days from its initiation, or 90 days from setting up our office.

5. Part of our marketing program includes sourcing out and identifying interior designers and individual consumers who may become potential buyers of commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics from our website. The process of sourcing out suppliers includes identifying manufacturers, large and small by research into existing databases via the internet and research in trade magazines and directories. This process will start as soon as our office is operational and will be ongoing during the life of our operations. Sourcing customers may consist of telephone surveys and may contain questions which would determine the marketing approach and acceptability of specific products. It will also involve research into existing databases available via the Internet to target and extract the applicable names and contacts to create our own customized database. We intend to look into the databases of design schools, interior design associates, trade magazines as well as telephone dir ectories. Databases for design schools, interior design associates, and trade magazines are publically available through internet research, telephone directories, and periodical research. The cost to source and analyze all of the material to identify suitable candidates to develop and maintain the database is estimated to cost $5,000 to $25,000.

 

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6. Within 90 days from the initial launch of our website, we believe that we will begin receiving orders from purchasers.

7. Once the website is fully operational; we have located and negotiated agreements with a suitable number of manufacturers to offer their commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics for sale; and, we have begun to receive orders for commercial upholstery, drapery, bedspread, panel, and wall-covering fabrics, we intend to hire one or two part time salesperson(s) to call on interior design firms to introduce them to our website. The salesperson(s) will also call on various manufacturers to continue to source new products to offer for sale.

In summary, we should be in full operation and receiving orders within 100 days of completing our offering. We estimate that we will generate revenue 120 to 180 days after beginning operations.

Until our website is fully operational, we do not believe that large industry leaders will provide us with their best prices. We believe, however, that once our website is operational and we have developed at significant data base of customers, large industry leaders will provide us with their best prices. There is no guarantee that the large industry leaders will provide us with their best prices.

If the manufacturers do not provide their products to us on reasonable terms, we may have to suspend or cease operations.

We will not be conducting any research. We are not going to buy or sell any plant or significant equipment during the next twelve months.

If we cannot generate sufficient revenues to continue operations, we will suspend or cease operations. If we cease operations, we do not know what we will do and we do not have any plans to do anything.

Limited operating history; need for additional capital

There is no historical financial information about us upon which to base an evaluation of our performance. We are in a start-up stage operations and have not generated any revenues. We cannot guarantee we will be successful in our business operations. Our business is subject to risks inherent in the establishment of a new business enterprise, including limited capital resources and possible cost overruns due to price and cost increases in services.

To become profitable and competitive, we have to locate and negotiate agreements with manufacturers to offer their products for sale to us at pricing that will enable us to establish and sell the products to our clientele. We are seeking equity financing to provide for the capital required to implement our operations.

We have no assurance that future financing will be available to us on acceptable terms. If financing is not available on satisfactory terms, we may be unable to continue, develop or expand our operations. Equity financing could result in additional dilution to existing shareholders.

Results of operations

From Inception on April 2, 2003 to March 31, 2004

During the period we incorporated the company, hired the attorney, and hired the auditor for the preparation of this registration statement. We prepared a business plan. We are creating an Internet website. Our loss since inception is $30,760 of which $19,119 is for legal fees and $286 is for audit fees in connection with this offering. $11,250 is for the preparation of the business plan and initial development of the website, and $105 is for general office costs. We have not started our proposed business operations and will not do so until we have completed this offering. We expect to begin operations 100 days after we complete this offering.

 

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Since inception, we sold 718,457 shares of common stock to one of our officers and one individual and raised $35,922.85.

Liquidity and capital resources

As of the date of this registration statement, we have yet to generate any revenues from our business operations.

We issued 718,457 shares of common stock through a Section 4(2) offering in April through September 2003. This was accounted for as a sale of common stock.

As of March 31, 2004, our total assets were $5,163 in cash and we had no liabilities.

MANAGEMENT

Officers and Directors

Each of our directors serves until his or her successor is elected and qualified. Each of our officers is elected by the board of directors to a term of one (1) year and serves until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified, or until he or she is removed from office. The board of directors has no nominating, auditing or compensation committees.

The name, address, age and position of our present officers and directors are set forth below:

Name and Address


Age


Position(s)


 

 

 

Peter A. Reichard
2211 Wright Avenue
Greensboro, North Carolina 27403

47

president, treasurer, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors

 

 

 

Peter L. Coker
12804 Morehead
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27517

61

secretary and a member of the board of directors

The persons named above have held their offices/positions since inception of our company and are expected to hold their offices/positions until the next annual meeting of our stockholders.

Background of officers and directors

Peter A. Reichard has served as our President, Treasurer, and member of our board of directors since September 2003. Mr. Reichard is a partner of Tryon Capital Ventures, LLC, which is a full service investment banking/merchant banking firm. He has been with the firm since March 2003. During the months from December 2002 through March 2003, Mr. Reichard was involved with establishing the Sandpiper Fund, an early stage venture fund in eastern North Carolina. From October 2001 through December 2002, Mr. Reichard was the Finance Director for the Erskine Bowles for U.S. Senate campaign. He served as the Finance Director for the Mike Easley for Governor campaign from January 1999 through October 2001. From January 1985 through December 1998, Mr. Reichard was employed by the Greensboro Area Chamber of Commerce. He began as Manager of Membership/Government Affairs, and then after three years became Vice President and four years later, President, a position he held for six years. Mr. Reichard holds a Bach elor of Arts degree in political science from Guilford College (1980).

 

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Peter L. Coker has served as our Secretary and member of our board of directors since September 2003. Mr. Coker is a partner of Tryon Capital Ventures, LLC, which is a full service investment banking/merchant banking firm. He has been with the firm since January 2004. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of eTrials Worldwide, Inc. (as board member), Beijing Med-Pharm Corporation (as Chairman of the Board) and The North Carolina State University Investment Fund (as Chairman of the Board). Prior to his work at Tryon Capital Ventures, he was a managing director of Tryon Capital Holdings, LLC, which is also an investment banking firm from June 2001 through December 2003. As Senior Managing Director for Capital Investment Partners, LLC, from June 1996 through May 2001, Mr. Coker worked with small companies primarily in North Carolina that needed financing. He would perform due diligence on them, help structure the new financing and search for interested investors. Mr. Coker has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from North Carolina State University (1966) and an Master of Arts degree in Economics from North Carolina (1968).

Conflicts of Interest

The only conflict that we foresee is that our officers and directors devote time to projects that do not involve us.

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The following table sets forth the compensation paid by us from inception on April 2, 2003 through March 31, 2004, for each of our officers and directors. This information includes the dollar value of base salaries, bonus awards and number of stock options granted, and certain other compensation, if any. The sum of $11,250 was paid to Tryon Capital, a merchant banking group, that includes Mr. Reichard and Mr. Coker as partners.

Summary Compensation Table

 

 

Long-Term Compensation

 

 

Annual Compensation

Awards

Payouts

 

Names
Executive
Officer and
Principal
Position







Year
Ended







Salary
(US$)







Bonus
(US$)




Other
Annual
Compen-
sation
(US$)




Under
Options/
SARs
Granted
(#)



Securities
Restricted
Shares or
Restricted
Share/Units
(US$)






LTIP
Payouts (US$)




Other
Annual
Compen-
sation
(US$)


Peter A. Reichard,
president and
director

2003
2002
2001

0
0
0

0
0
0

5,625
0
0

0
0
0

0
0
0

0
0
0

0
0
0


Peter L. Coker,
secretary and director


2003
2002
2001


0
0
0


0
0
0


5,625
0
0


0
0
0


0
0
0


0
0
0


0
0
0

$11,250 was paid to Tyron Capital. The $11,250 represent compensation to Messrs. Reichard and Coker in their capacities as officers and is evidence as payments of $5,625 each to Mr Reichard and Mr. Coker.

We have no employment agreements with any of our officers. We do not contemplate entering into any employment agreements until such time as we begin profitable operations.

The compensation discussed herein addresses all compensation awarded to, earned by, or paid to our named executive officers.

There are no other stock option plans, retirement, pension, or profit sharing plans for the benefit of our officers and directors other than as described herein.

 

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Long-Term Incentive Plan Awards

We do not have any long-term incentive plans that provide compensation intended to serve as incentive for performance.

Compensation of Directors

Our directors do not receive any compensation for serving as members of the board of directors.

Indemnification

Under our Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of the corporation, we may indemnify an officer or director who is made a party to any proceeding, including a law suit, because of his position, if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in our best interest. We may advance expenses incurred in defending a proceeding. To the extent that the officer or director is successful on the merits in a proceeding as to which he is to be indemnified, we must indemnify him against all expenses incurred, including attorney's fees. With respect to a derivative action, indemnity may be made only for expenses actually and reasonably incurred in defending the proceeding, and if the officer or director is judged liable, only by a court order. The indemnification is intended to be to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Nevada.

Regarding indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, which may be permitted to directors or officers under Nevada law, we are informed that, in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, indemnification is against public policy, as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.

PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS

The following table sets forth, as of the date of this prospectus, the total number of shares owned beneficially by each of our directors, officers and key employees, individually and as a group, and the present owners of 5% or more of our total outstanding shares. The table also reflects what their ownership will be assuming completion of the sale of all shares in this offering. The stockholders listed below have direct ownership of their shares and possess sole voting and dispositive power with respect to the shares.

 

 

 

Number of

 

 

 

 

Shares After

Percentage of

 

Number of

Percentage of

Offering

Ownership After

 

Shares

Ownership

Assuming all of

the Offering

Name and Address

Before the

Before the

the Shares are

Assuming all of the

Beneficial Owner [1]


Offering


Offering


Sold


Shares are Sold


 

 

 

 

 

Peter A. Reichard

0

0.00%

0

0.00%

2211 Wright Avenue

 

 

 

 

Greensboro, North Carolina

 

 

 

 

27403

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter L. Coker

518,457

72.16%

518,457

10.98%

12804 Morehead Chapel

 

 

 

 

Hill, North Carolina 27517

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All officers and directors as

518,457

72.16%

518,457

10.98%

a group (2 persons)

 

 

 

 

 

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Lawrence J. Reichard

200,000

27.84%

200,000

4.23%

5433 E. View Park

 

 

 

 

Chicago, Illinois 60615

 

 

 

 

[1]       Peter L. Coker and Peter Reichard are our only "promoters" of our company.

Future sales by existing stockholders

A total of 518,457 shares of common stock were issued to an officer and director, all of which are restricted securities, as defined in Rule 144 of the Rules and Regulations of the SEC promulgated under the Securities Act. Under Rule 144, the shares can be publicly sold, subject to volume restrictions and restrictions on the manner of sale, commencing one year after their acquisition.

Shares purchased in this offering, which will be immediately resalable, and sales of all of our other shares after applicable restrictions expire, could have a depressive effect on the market price, if any, of our common stock and the shares we are offering.

There is no public trading market for our common stock. There are no outstanding options or warrants to purchase, or securities convertible into, our common stock. There are two holders of record for our common stock. The record holders are our officer and director and one shareholder who collectively own 718,457 restricted shares of our common stock.

DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

Common Stock

Our authorized capital stock consists of 100,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.00001 per share. The holders of our common stock:

*

have equal ratable rights to dividends from funds legally available if and when declared by our board of directors;

 

*

are entitled to share ratably in all of our assets available for distribution to holders of common stock upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our affairs;

 

*

do not have preemptive, subscription or conversion rights and there are no redemption or sinking fund provisions or rights; and

 

*

are entitled to one non-cumulative vote per share on all matters on which stockholders may vote.

All shares of common stock now outstanding are fully paid for and non-assessable and all shares of common stock which are the subject of this offering, when issued, will be fully paid for and non-assessable. We refer you to our Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and the applicable statutes of the State of Nevada for a more complete description of the rights and liabilities of holders of our securities.

Non-cumulative voting

Holders of shares of our common stock do not have cumulative voting rights, which means that the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding shares, voting for the election of directors, can elect all of the directors to be elected, if they so choose, and, in that event, the holders of the remaining shares will not be able to elect any of our directors. After this offering is completed, assuming the sale of all of the shares of common stock, present stockholders will own approximately 15.23% of our outstanding shares.

 

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Cash dividends

As of the date of this prospectus, we have not paid any cash dividends to stockholders. The declaration of any future cash dividend will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend upon our earnings, if any, our capital requirements and financial position, our general economic conditions, and other pertinent conditions. It is our present intention not to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future, but rather to reinvest earnings, if any, in our business operations.

Anti-takeover provisions

There are no Nevada anti-takeover provisions that may have the affect of delaying or preventing a change in control.

Reports

After we complete this offering, we will not be required to furnish you with an annual report. Further, we will not voluntarily send you an annual report. We will be required to file reports with the SEC under section 15(d) of the Securities Act. The reports will be filed electronically. The reports we will be required to file are Forms 10-KSB, 10-QSB, and 8-K. You may read copies of any materials we file with the SEC at the SEC's Public Reference Room at 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC also maintains an Internet site that will contain copies of the reports we file electronically. The address for the Internet site is www.sec.gov.

Stock Transfer Agent

We have not selected a stock transfer agent. We will do so upon completion of this offering.

CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS

On April 3, 2003 through September 30, 2003, we issued 518,457 shares of common stock to Peter Coker in consideration of $25,922.85.

On September 30, 2003, we issued 200,000 shares of common stock to Lawrence Reichard in consideration of $10,000. Lawrence Reichard is the brother of Peter Reichard, our president.

During the period ending March 31, 2004, we paid $11,250 to Tryon Capital, a merchant banking group that includes Peter Reichard, our president and Peter Coker, our secretary. The $11,250 was compensation paid for services rendered by Mr. Reichard and Mr. Coker in their capacities as our officers.

We currently use a portion of Peter Reichard's office space on a rent free basis. Upon completion of this offering, we will begin paying Mr. Reichard $400.00 per month as rent for the space.

LITIGATION

We are not a party to any pending litigation and none is contemplated or threatened.

 

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EXPERTS

Our financial statements for the period from inception to March 31, 2004, included in this prospectus have been audited by Williams & Webster, P.S., 601 West Riverside Avenue, Suite 1940, Spokane, Washington 99201, as set forth in their report included in this prospectus. Their report is given upon their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.

LEGAL MATTERS

Conrad C. Lysiak, Attorney at Law, 601 West First Avenue, Suite 503, Spokane, Washington 99201, telephone (509) 624-1475 has acted as our legal counsel.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Our fiscal year end is March 31. We will provide audited financial statements to our stockholders on an annual basis; the statements will be audited by a firm of Certified Public Accountants.

Our financial statements from inception to March 31, 2004 (audited), immediately follow:

INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT

F-1

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Balance Sheet
Statement of Operations
Statement of Stockholders' Equity
Statement of Cash Flows


F-2
F-3
F-4
F-5

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

F-6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Board of Directors
Design Source, Inc.
Chapel Hill, NC

INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT

We have audited the accompanying balance sheet of Design Source, Inc. (a Nevada corporation and development stage enterprise) as of March 31, 2004, and the related statements of operations, stockholders' equity and cash flows for the period from April 2, 2003 (inception) through March 31, 2004. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Design Source, Inc. as of March 31, 2004 and the results of its operations, stockholders' equity and cash flows for the period from April 2, 2004 (inception) through March 31, 2004, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company has generated no revenue. This condition raises substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Management's plans regarding this issue are also discussed in Note 2. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

/s/ Williams & Webster, P.S.
Williams & Webster, P.S.
Certified Public Accountants
Spokane, Washington
May 11, 2004

 

 

 

F-1

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DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

(A Development Stage Enterprise)

BALANCE SHEET


     
   

March 31,

   

2004


ASSETS

   
     
 

CURRENT ASSETS

   
   

Cash and cash equivalents

$

5,163


     
 

TOTAL ASSETS

$

5,163


     
     

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

   

   
 

CURRENT LIABILITIES

$

-


     
 

COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

-


     
 

STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

   
   

Common stock,$0.00001 par value;

   
     

100,000,000 shares authorized,

   
     

718,457 shares issued and outstanding

 

7

   

Additional paid-in capital

 

35,916

   

Accumulated deficit during development stage

 

(30,760)


     

Total Stockholders' Equity

 

5,163


     
 

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND

   
   

STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

$

5,163


 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

F-2

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DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

(A Development Stage Enterprise)

STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Inception

 

 

(April 2, 2003)

 

 

through

 

 

March 31, 2004


 

 

 

REVENUES

$

-


 

 

 

GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

 

 

 

Professional fees

 

19,405

 

Consulting

 

11,250

 

Office supplies and expenses

 

105


 

 

TOTAL EXPENSES

 

30,760


 

 

 

LOSS BEFORE TAXES

 

(30,760)


 

 

 

INCOME TAX EXPENSE

 

-


 

 

 

NET LOSS

$

(30,760)


 

 

 

NET LOSS PER COMMON SHARE,

 

 

 

BASIC AND DILUTED

$

(0.05)


 

 

 

WEIGHTED AVERAGE NUMBER

 

 

 

OF COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING,

 

 

 

BASIC AND DILUTED

 

577,131


 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

F-3

 

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DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

(A Development Stage Enterprise)

STATEMENT OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY


 

 

 

 

 

 

Common Stock


 


Deficit

 

 

 

Accumulated

 

 

 

Additional

During

Total

 

 

Paid-in

Development

Stockholders'

 

Shares


 

Amount


 

Capital


 

Stage


 

Equity


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stock issued upon incorporation at $0.05 per

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

share for cash and expense reimbursement

435,000

$

4

$

21,746

$

-

$

21,750

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stock issued for cash at $0.05 per share

200,000

 

2

 

9,998

 

-

 

10,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stock issued for expense reimbursement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

at $0.05 per share

83,457

 

1

 

4,172

 

-

 

4,173

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss for the period ended March 31, 2004

-


 

-


 

-


 

(30,760)


 

(30,760)


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balance, March 31, 2004

718,457


$

7


$

35,916


$

(30,760)


$

5,163


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

F-4

 

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DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

(A Development Stage Enterprise)

STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS


     
   

From Inception

   

(April 2, 2003)

   

through

   

March 31, 2004


     

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

   
 

Net loss

$

(30,760)

 

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to cash used in operating activities:

   
   

Expenses paid by officer

 

24,923


 

 

Net cash used by operating activities

 

(5,837)


     

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

 

-


     

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

   
 

Advance from director

 

1,000

 

Proceeds from issuance of common stock

 

10,000


 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

 

11,000


   
 

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents

 

5,163

     

Cash at beginning of period

 

-


     

Cash at end of period

$

5,163


     
     

SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW DISCLOSURES:

   
 

Income taxes paid

$

-


 

Interest paid

$

-


     

NON-CASH FINANCING AND INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

   
 

Common stock issued for advance and reimbursement of expenses

$

25,923

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

F-5

 

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DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

(A Development Stage Company)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

March 31, 2004


NOTE 1 - ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

Design Source, Inc. (hereinafter "Design" or "the Company") was incorporated on April 2, 2003 under the laws of the State of Nevada for the purpose of offering textiles to the commercial designer market utilizing the internet. The Company's headquarters is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Company is a development stage enterprise.

The Company's year end is March 31.


NOTE 2 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

This summary of significant accounting policies is presented to assist in understanding the financial statements. The financial statements and notes are representations of the Company's management, which is responsible for their integrity and objectivity. These accounting policies conform to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and have been consistently applied in the preparation of the financial statements.

Accounting Method
The Company's financial statements are prepared using the accrual basis of accounting in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Going Concern
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.

For the period ended March 31, 2004, the Company had an accumulated deficit during the development stage of $30,760. The Company does not have a source of revenues to continue its operations. This condition raises substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. For the twelve-month subsequent period, the Company anticipates that its minimum operating cash requirements to continue as a going concern will be approximately $60,000. Management's business plan is to develop a website to offer textiles to the commercial design market. Management also plans to raise initial capital through the sale of shares of common stock. The future of the Company is dependent upon management's successful development and implementation of its business plan resulting in the generation of revenues. If successful, future cash requirements may be met through the operating activities. The financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and cla ssification of recorded assets, or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary in the event the Company cannot continue in existence.

 

F-6

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DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

(A Development Stage Company)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

March 31, 2004


NOTE 2 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Continued)

Development Stage Activities
The Company has been in the development stage since its formation and has not realized any revenue from its planned operations. It is primarily engaged in offering textiles to the commercial designer market utilizing the internet.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In May 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 150, "Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Both Liabilities and Equity" (hereinafter "SFAS No. 150"). SFAS No. 150 establishes standards for classifying and measuring certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equity and requires that those instruments be classified as liabilities in statements of financial position. Previously, many of those instruments were classified as equity. SFAS No. 150 is effective for financial instruments entered into or modified after May 31, 2003 and otherwise is effective at the beginning of the first interim period beginning after June 15, 2003. The Company has determined that there was no impact to its financial statements from the adoption of this statement.

In April 2003, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 149, "Amendment of Statement 133 on Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities" (hereinafter "SFAS No. 149"). SFAS No. 149 amends and clarifies the accounting for derivative instruments, including certain derivative instruments embedded in other contracts, and for hedging activities under SFAS No. 133, "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities". This statement is effective for contracts entered into or modified after June 30, 2003 and for hedging relationships designated after June 30, 2003. The adoption of SFAS No. 149 is not expected to have a material impact on the financial position or results of operations of the Company.

Use of Estimates
The process of preparing financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires the use of estimates and assumptions regarding certain types of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses. Such estimates primarily relate to unsettled transactions and events as of the date of the financial statements. Accordingly, upon settlement, actual results may differ from estimated amounts.

Cash and Cash Equivalents
For purposes of the statement of cash flows, the Company considers all short-term debt with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments
All financial instruments are accounted for on an historical cost basis, which, due to the short maturity of these financial instruments, approximates fair value at March 31, 2004.

 

F-7

 

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DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

(A Development Stage Company)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

March 31, 2004


NOTE 2 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Continued)

Concentration of Risk

The Company maintains its cash in primarily one business checking account, the funds of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Compensated Absences

Currently, the Company has no employees; therefore, no liability has been recorded in the accompanying financial statements. The Company's policy will be to recognize the costs of compensated absences when there are employees who earn such benefits.

Basic and Diluted Earnings (Loss) Per Share
The Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 128, which provides for calculation of "basic" and "diluted" earnings per share. Basic earnings (loss) per share includes no dilution and is computed by dividing net income (loss) available to common shareholders by the weighted average common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted earnings (loss) per share reflect the potential dilution of securities that could share in the earnings of an entity similar to fully diluted earnings per share. Diluted net income (loss) per share is the same as basic net income (loss) per share as there were no common stock equivalents outstanding.

Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes revenue from product sales when the products are shipped and title passes to customers. Outbound shipping charges are included in net sales with the corresponding cost included in cost of sales. Other service revenue is recognized when services are performed and billable.

Web Site Development
An outside consultant will plan and develop the Company's web site to facilitate the Company's business plan. The planning and development costs incurred in this project will be expensed as incurred in accordance with Statement of Position 98-1 "Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use" as amplified by Emerging Issues Task Force Abstract No. 00-2, "Accounting for Web Site Development Costs." During the period ended March 31, 2004, the Company had not incurred any web site development costs.

Provision for Taxes
Income taxes are provided based upon the liability method of accounting pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109, "Accounting for Income Taxes" (hereinafter "SFAS No. 109"). Under this approach, deferred income taxes are recorded to reflect the tax consequences in future years of differences between the tax basis of assets and liabilities and their financial reporting amounts at each year-end. A valuation allowance is recorded against the deferred tax asset if management does not believe the Company has met the "more likely than not" standard imposed by SFAS No. 109 to allow recognition of such an asset.

 

F-8

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DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

(A Development Stage Company)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

March 31, 2004


NOTE 2 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Continued)

Derivative Instruments
The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 133, "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities," as amended by SFAS No. 137, "Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities - Deferral of the Effective Date of FASB No. 133", SFAS No. 138, "Accounting for Certain Derivative Instruments and Certain Hedging Activities", and SFAS No. 149, "Amendment of Statement 133 on Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities", which is effective for the Company as of January 1, 2001. These statements establish accounting and reporting standards for derivative instruments, including certain derivative instruments embedded in other contracts, and for hedging activities. They require that an entity recognize all derivatives as either assets or liabilities in the balance sheet and measure those instruments at fair value.

If certain conditions are met, a derivative may be specifically designated as a hedge, the objective of which is to match the timing of gain or loss recognition on the hedging derivative with the recognition of (i) the changes in the fair value of the hedged asset or liability that are attributable to the hedged risk or (ii) the earnings effect of the hedged forecasted transaction. For a derivative not designated as a hedging instrument, the gain or loss is recognized in income in the period of change.

Historically, the Company has not entered into derivatives contracts to hedge existing risks or for speculative purposes.

At March 31, 2004, the Company has not engaged in any transactions that would be considered derivative instruments or hedging activities.


NOTE 3 - COMMON STOCK

The Company is authorized to issue 100,000,000 shares of$0.00001 par value common stock. All shares have equal voting rights, are non-assessable and have one vote per share. Voting rights are not cumulative and, therefore, the holders of more than 50% of the common stock could, if they choose to do so, elect all of the directors of the Company.

Upon incorporation, the Company issued 435,000 shares of common stock at a price of $0.05 per share as reimbursement of a cash advance and expenses paid personally by a director totaling $21,750.

During the period ending March 31, 2004, an additional 283,457 shares of common stock were issued at $0.05 per share for reimbursement of expenses paid personally by a director totaling $4,173 and for cash totaling $10,000.

 

F-9

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DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

(A Development Stage Company)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

March 31, 2004



NOTE 4 - INCOME TAXES

The following is a reconciliation of income tax, computed at the federal statutory rate, to the provision for taxes:

   

March 31, 2004


 

 

Amount


 

Percent


Federal tax (benefit)

$

(10,000)

 

34.0 %

North Carolina state

 

(1,900)

 

6.5 %

 

tax (benefit)

       

Valuation allowance

 

11,900


 

40.5 %


 

$

-


 

-


Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes.

Significant components of the deferred tax assets at March 31, 2004 are as follows:

   

March 31,
2004


Deferred tax asset:

 

 

Net operating loss carryforwards

 

$

12,000

Excess book accumulated amortization

   

400


Deferred tax asset

 

12,400

Valuation allowance for deferred asset

   

(12,400)


Net deferred tax asset

$

-


At March 31, 2004, the Company has federal net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $29,000, which expire in the year 2023 and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $29,000, which expire in the year 2018.


NOTE 5 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

One of the directors of the Company advanced $1,000 cash to open a bank account and additionally, personally paid expenses of the Company in the amount of $24,923. To repay the total amount of $25,923, the Company issued a total of 518,457 shares of common stock at a price of $0.05 per share to the director.

NOTE 6 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

The Company is presently undertaking the required steps to register as a publicly traded company. In this regard, the Company has signed a contract with a securities attorney to assist in this matter. The total fees to be paid to the attorney amount to $25,000. Of this amount, $15,000 was paid when attorney services began and is recorded as legal fees in the accompanying financial statements. The remaining $10,000 will be due when the Company's registration statement is declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Upon the successful registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Company anticipates paying rent in the amount of $400 per month to the president of the Company on a month to month basis.

 

F-10

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PART II. INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

ITEM 24. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

The only statute, charter provision, bylaw, contract, or other arrangement under which any controlling person, director or officer of the Registrant is insured or indemnified in any manner against any liability which he may incur in his capacity as such, is as follows:

1. Article XII of the Articles of Incorporation of the company, filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Registration Statement.

2. Article X of the Bylaws of the company, filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Registration Statement.

3. Nevada Revised Statutes, Chapter 78.

The general effect of the foregoing is to indemnify a control person, officer or director from liability, thereby making the company responsible for any expenses or damages incurred by such control person, officer or director in any action brought against them based on their conduct in such capacity, provided they did not engage in fraud or criminal activity.

ITEM 25. OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION.

The estimated expenses of the offering (assuming all shares are sold), all of which are to be paid by the registrant, are as follows:

SEC Registration Fee

$

100

Printing Expenses

 

1,000

Blue Sky Fees/Expenses

 

2,000

Legal Fees/ Expenses

 

10,000

Transfer Agent Fees

 

1,400


TOTAL

$

14,500



ITEM 26. RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES.

Since inception, the Registrant has sold the following securities which were not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Name and Address


Date


Shares


Consideration


Peter L. Coker
12804 Morehead
Chapel Hill, NC 27517

04/02/03

518,457

 

 

$25,923

 


Lawrence J. Reichard
5433 E. View Park
Chicago, Illinois 60615


9/30/03


200,000

 

 


$10,000

 

We issued the foregoing restricted shares of common stock to one of our officers and directors and to one shareholder pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933. Both individuals are sophisticated investors and were in possession of all material information relating to the company. Further, no commissions were paid to anyone in connection with the sale of the shares and general solicitation was not made to anyone.

 

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ITEM 27. EXHIBITS.

The following Exhibits are filed as part of this Registration Statement, pursuant to Item 601 of Regulation S-B. All Exhibits have not been previously filed unless otherwise noted.

Exhibit No.


Document Description


3.1

Articles of Incorporation.

3.2

Bylaws.

4.1

Specimen Stock Certificate.

5.1

Opinion of Conrad C. Lysiak, Esq. regarding the legality of the Securities being registered.

23.1

Consent of Williams & Webster, P.S., Certified Public Accountants

23.2

Consent of Conrad C. Lysiak, Esq.

99.1

Subscription Agreement.

ITEM 28. UNDERTAKINGS.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.

In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

1. To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

a. To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

b. Reflect in the prospectus any facts or events which, individually or together, represent a fundamental change in the information in the registration statement. Not withstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (Section 230.424(b) of this chapter) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement.

c. To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any change to such information in the registration statement.

 

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2. That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

3. To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing of this Form SB-2 Registration Statement and has duly caused this amendment to the Form SB-2 Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on this 3rd day of June, 2004.

DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

 

 

 

 

BY:

/s/ Peter A. Reichard
Peter A. Reichard
President, Principal Executive Officer, Treasurer, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and member of the Board of Directors

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENT, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints, as true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution, for her and in her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendment (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and to file the same, therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and to make any and all state securities law or blue sky filings, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying the confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or any substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this amendment to the Form SB-2 Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

Signature


Title


Date


 

 

 

/s/ Peter A. Reichard
Peter A. Reichard

president, principal executive officer, treasurer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, and a member of the board of directors

June 3, 2004

 

 

 

/s/ Peter L. Coker
Peter L. Coker

secretary and a member of the board of directors.

June 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit 3.1 - Articles of Incorporation

Exhibit 3.1

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

OF

DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

* * * * *

FIRST

The name of the corporation is Design Source, Inc.

SECOND

Its principal office in the state of Nevada is located at 101 Convention Center Dr. #700, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109. The name and address of its resident agent is Nevada Corporate Headquarters, Inc., 101 Convention Center Dr. #700, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109.

THIRD

The purpose or purposes for which the corporation is organized:

To engage in and carry on any lawful business activity or trade, and any activities necessary, convenient, or desirable to accomplish such purposes, not forbidden by law or by these articles of incorporation.

FOURTH

The amount of the total authorized capital stock of the corporation is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) consisting of One Hundred Million (100,000,000) shares of common stock of the par value of $0.00001 each.

FIFTH

The governing board of this corporation shall be known as directors, and the number of directors may from time to time be increased or decreased in such manner as shall be provided by the bylaws of this corporation.

 



There are three initial members of the Board of Directors and their names and addresses are:

NAME


POST-OFFICE ADDRESS


John Ciannamea

 

2113 Wisley Way

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wake Forest, North Carolina 27514

 

 

Bradford B. Walters

 

 

32 Wedgewood Road

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nikola Stefanovic

 

 

 

5630 West Market Street

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apartment H

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greensboro, North Carolina 27409

The number of members of the Board of Directors shall not be less than one nor more than thirteen.

SIXTH

The capital stock, after the amount of the subscription price, or par value, has been paid in shall not be subject to assessment to pay the debts of the corporation.

SEVENTH

The name and addresses of each of the incorporators signing the Articles of Incorporation are as follows:

 

NAME


 

 

 

 

POST-OFFICE ADDRESS


Conrad C. Lysiak

 

 

 

 

601 West First Avenue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suite 503

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spokane, Washington 99201

 

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EIGHTH

The corporation is to have perpetual existence.

NINTH

In furtherance, and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the board of directors is expressly authorized:

Subject to the bylaws, if any, adopted by the stockholders, to make, alter or amend the bylaws of the corporation.

To fix the amount to be reserved as working capital over and above its capital stock paid in, to authorize and cause to be executed mortgages and liens upon the real and personal property of this corporation.

By resolution passed by a majority of the whole board, to designate one (1) or more committees, each committee to consist of one (1) or more of the directors of the corporation, which, to the extent provided in the resolution or in the bylaws of the corporation, shall have and may exercise the powers of the board of directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. Such committee or committees shall have such name or names as may be stated in the bylaws of the corporation or as may be determined from time to time by resolution adopted by the board of directors.

When and as authorized by the affirmative vote of stockholders holding stock entitling them to exercise at least a majority of the voting power given at a stockholders' meeting called for that purpose, or when authorized by the written consent of the holders of at least a majority of the voting stock issued and outstanding, the board of directors shall have power and authority at any meeting to sell, lease or exchange all of the property and assets of the corporation, including its good will and its corporate franchises, upon such terms and conditions as its board of directors deem expedient and for the best interests of the corporation.

 

 

 

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TENTH

Meeting of stockholders may be held outside the State of Nevada, if the bylaws so provide. The books of the corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes) outside the State of Nevada at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the board of directors or in the bylaws of the corporation.

ELEVENTH

This corporation reserves the right to amend alter, change or repeal any provision contained in the Articles of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute, or by the Articles of Incorporation, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

TWELFTH

The corporation shall indemnify its officers, directors, employees and agents to the full extent permitted by the laws of the State of Nevada.

I, THE UNDERSIGNED, being the incorporator hereinbefore named, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the General Corporation Law of the State of Nevada, do make and file these Articles of Incorporation, hereby declaring and certifying that the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of March, 2003.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Conrad C. Lysiak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONRAD C. LYSIAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

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STATE OF WASHINGTON

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

)

SS.

COUNTY OF SPOKANE

 

)

 

On ths 24th day of March, 2003, before me, a Notary Public, personally appeared CONRAD C. LYSIAK, who severally acknowledged that he executed the above instrument.

 

/s/ Natasha Spirit Lysiak

 

Notary Public, residing in the State of Washington, residing in Spokane.

My Commission Expires:

September 18, 2004

[Notary Stamp]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit 3.2

Exhibit 3.2

BYLAWS

OF

DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

I.     SHAREHOLDER'S MEETING.

.01   Annual Meetings.

The annual meeting of the shareholders of this Corporation, for the purpose of election of Directors and for such other business as may come before it, shall be held at the registered office of the Corporation, or such other places, either within or without the State of Nevada, as may be designated by the notice of the meeting, on the first week in September of each and every year, at 1:00 p.m., commencing in 2004, but in case such day shall be a legal holiday, the meeting shall be held at the same hour and place on the next succeeding day not a holiday.

.02   Special Meeting.

Special meetings of the shareholders of this Corporation may be called at any time by the holders of ten percent (10%) of the voting shares of the Corporation, or by the President, or by the Board of Directors or a majority thereof. No business shall be transacted at any special meeting of shareholders except as is specified in the notice calling for said meeting. The Board of Directors may designate any place, either within or without the State of Nevada, as the place of any special meeting called by the president or the Board of Directors, and special meetings called at the request of shareholders shall be held at such place in the State of Nevada, as may be determined by the Board of Directors and placed in the notice of such meeting.

.03   Notice of Meeting.

Written notice of annual or special meetings of shareholders stating the place, day, and hour of the meeting and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called shall be given by the secretary or persons authorized to call the meeting to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. Such notice shall be given not less than ten (10) nor more than fifty (50) days prior to the date of the meeting, and such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail addressed to the shareholder at his/her address as it appears on the stock transfer books of the Corporation.

 

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.04   Waiver of Notice.

Notice of the time, place, and purpose of any meeting may be waived in writing and will be waived by any shareholder by his/her attendance thereat in person or by proxy. Any shareholder so waiving shall be bound by the proceedings of any such meeting in all respects as if due notice thereof had been given.

.05   Quorum and Adjourned Meetings.

A majority of the outstanding shares of the Corporation entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of shareholders. A majority of the shares represented at a meeting, even if less than a quorum, may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified. The shareholders present at a duly organized meeting may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough shareholders to leave less than a quorum.

.06   Proxies.

At all meetings of shareholders, a shareholder may vote by proxy executed in writing by the shareholder or by his/her duly authorized attorney in fact. Such proxy shall be filed with the secretary of the Corporation before or at the time of the meeting. No proxy shall be valid after eleven (11) months from the date of its execution, unless otherwise provided in the proxy.

.07   Voting of Shares.

Except as otherwise provided in the Articles of Incorporation or in these Bylaws, every shareholder of record shall have the right at every shareholder's meeting to one (1) vote for every share standing in his/her name on the books of the Corporation, and the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares represented at a meeting and entitled to vote thereat shall be necessary for the adoption of a motion or for the determination of all questions and business which shall come before the meeting.

II.     DIRECTORS.

.01   General Powers.

The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by its Board of Directors.

 

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.02   Number, Tenure and Qualifications.

The number of Directors of the Corporation shall be not less than one nor more than thirteen. Each Director shall hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his/her successor shall have been elected and qualified. Directors need not be residents of the State of Nevada or shareholders of the Corporation.

.03   Election.

The Directors shall be elected by the shareholders at their annual meeting each year; and if, for any cause the Directors shall not have been elected at an annual meeting, they may be elected at a special meeting of shareholders called for that purpose in the manner provided by these Bylaws.

.04   Vacancies.

In case of any vacancy in the Board of Directors, the remaining Directors, whether constituting a quorum or not, may elect a successor to hold office for the unexpired portion of the terms of the Directors whose place shall be vacant, and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. Further, the remaining Directors may fill any empty seats on the Board of Directors even if the empty seats have never been occupied.

.05   Resignation.

Any Director may resign at any time by delivering written notice to the secretary of the Corporation.

.06   Meetings.

At any annual, special or regular meeting of the Board of Directors, any business may be transacted, and the Board may exercise all of its powers. Any such annual, special or regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corporation may be held outside of the State of Nevada, and any member or members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation may participate in any such meeting by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other at the same time; the participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

A.   Annual Meeting of Directors.

Annual meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held immediately after the annual shareholders' meeting or at such time and place as may be determined by the Directors. No notice of the annual meeting of the Board of Directors shall be necessary.

 

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B.   Special Meetings.

Special meetings of the Directors shall be called at any time and place upon the call of the president or any Director. Notice of the time and place of each special meeting shall be given by the secretary, or the persons calling the meeting, by mail, radio, telegram, or by personal communication by telephone or otherwise at least one (1) day in advance of the time of the meeting. The purpose of the meeting need not be given in the notice. Notice of any special meeting may be waived in writing or by telegram (either before or after such meeting) and will be waived by any Director in attendance at such meeting.

C.   Regular Meetings of Directors.

Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such place and on such day and hour as shall from time to time be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors. No notice of regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be necessary.

.07   Quorum and Voting.

A majority of the Directors presently in office shall constitute a quorum for all purposes, but a lesser number may adjourn any meeting, and the meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice. At each meeting of the Board at which a quorum is present, the act of a majority of the Directors present at the meeting shall be the act of the Board of Directors. The Directors present at a duly organized meeting may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough Directors to leave less than a quorum.

.08   Compensation.

By resolution of the Board of Directors, the Directors may be paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors and may be paid a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors or a stated salary as Director. No such payment shall preclude any Director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.

.09   Presumption of Assent.

A Director of the Corporation who is present at a meeting of the Board of Directors at which action on any corporate matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless his/her dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless he/she shall file his/her written dissent to such action with the person acting as the secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered mail to the secretary of the Corporation immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. Such right to dissent shall not apply to a Director who voted in favor of such action.

 

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.10   Executive and Other Committees.

The Board of Directors, by resolution adopted by a majority of the full Board of Directors, may designate from among its members an executive committee and one of more other committees, each of which, to the extent provided in such resolution, shall have and may exercise all the authority of the Board of Directors, but no such committee shall have the authority of the Board of Directors, in reference to amending the Articles of Incorporation, adoption a plan of merger or consolidation, recommending to the shareholders the sale, lease, exchange, or other disposition of all of substantially all the property and assets of the dissolution of the Corporation or a revocation thereof, designation of any such committee and the delegation thereto of authority shall not operate to relieve any member of the Board of Directors of any responsibility imposed by law.

.11   Chairman of Board of Directors.

The Board of Directors may, in its discretion, elect a chairman of the Board of Directors from its members; and, if a chairman has been elected, he/she shall, when present, preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and the shareholders and shall have such other powers as the Board may prescribe.

.12   Removal.

Directors may be removed from office with or without cause by a vote of shareholders holding a majority of the shares entitled to vote at an election of Directors.


III.     ACTIONS BY WRITTEN CONSENT.

Any corporate action required by the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, or the laws under which this Corporation is formed, to be voted upon or approved at a duly called meeting of the Directors or shareholders may be accomplished without a meeting if a written memorandum of the respective Directors or shareholders, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all the Directors or shareholders, as the case may be.


IV.     OFFICERS.

.01   Officers Designated.

The Officers of the Corporation shall be a president, one or more vice presidents (the number thereof to be determined by the Board of Directors), a secretary and a treasurer, each of whom shall be elected by the Board of Directors. Such other Officers and assistant officers as may be deemed necessary may be elected or appointed by the Board of Directors. Any Officer may be held by the same person, except that in the event that the Corporation shall have more than one director, the offices of president and secretary shall be held by different persons.

 

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.02   Election, Qualification and Term of Office.

Each of the Officers shall be elected by the Board of Directors. None of said Officers except the president need be a Director, but a vice president who is not a Director cannot succeed to or fill the office of president. The Officers shall be elected by the Board of Directors. Except as hereinafter provide, each of said Officers shall hold office from the date of his/her election until the next annual meeting of the Board of Directors and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified.

.03   Powers and Duties.

The powers and duties of the respective corporate Officers shall be as follows:

A.   President.

The president shall be the chief executive Officer of the Corporation and, subject to the direction and control of the Board of Directors, shall have general charge and supervision over its property, business, and affairs. He/she shall, unless a Chairman of the Board of Directors has been elected and is present, preside at meetings of the shareholders and the Board of Directors.

B.   Vice President.

In the absence of the president or his/her inability to act, the senior vice president shall act in his place and stead and shall have all the powers and authority of the president, except as limited by resolution of the Board of Directors.

C.   Secretary.

The secretary shall:

  1. Keep the minutes of the shareholder's and of the Board of Directors meetings in one or more books provided for that purpose;

  2. See that all notices are duly given in accordance with the provisions of these Bylaws or as required by law;

  3. Be custodian of the corporate records and of the seal of the Corporation and affix the seal of the Corporation to all documents as may be required;

  4. Keep a register of the post office address of each shareholder which shall be furnished to the secretary by such shareholder;

 

 

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  1. Sign with the president, or a vice president, certificates for shares of the Corporation, the issuance of which shall have been authorized by resolution of the Board of Directors;

  2. Have general charge of the stock transfer books of the corporation; and,

  3. In general perform all duties incident to the office of secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him/her by the president or by the Board of Directors.

D.   Treasurer.

Subject to the direction and control of the Board of Directors, the treasurer shall have the custody, control and disposition of the funds and securities of the Corporation and shall account for the same; and, at the expiration of his/her term of office, he/she shall turn over to his/her successor all property of the Corporation in his/her possession.

E.   Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers.

The assistant secretaries, when authorized by the Board of Directors, may sign with the president or a vice president certificates for shares of the Corporation the issuance of which shall have been authorized by a resolution of the Board of Directors. The assistant treasurers shall, respectively, if required by the Board of Directors, give bonds for the faithful discharge of their duties in such sums and with such sureties as the Board of Directors shall determine. The assistant secretaries and assistant treasurers, in general, shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to them by the secretary or the treasurer, respectively, or by the president or the Board of Directors.

.04   Removal.

The Board of Directors shall have the right to remove any Officer whenever in its judgment the best interest of the Corporation will be served thereby.

.05   Vacancies.

The Board of Directors shall fill any office which becomes vacant with a successor who shall hold office for the unexpired term and until his/her successor shall have been duly elected and qualified.

.06   Salaries.

The salaries of all Officers of the Corporation shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.

 

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V.     SHARE CERTIFICATES

.01   Form and Execution of Certificates.

Certificates for shares of the Corporation shall be in such form as is consistent with the provisions of the Corporation laws of the State of Nevada. They shall be signed by the president and by the secretary, and the seal of the Corporation shall be affixed thereto. Certificates may be issued for fractional shares.

.02   Transfers.

Shares may be transferred by delivery of the certificates therefor, accompanied either by an assignment in writing on the back of the certificates or by a written power of attorney to assign and transfer the same signed by the record holder of the certificate. Except as otherwise specifically provided in these Bylaws, no shares shall be transferred on the books of the Corporation until the outstanding certificate therefor has been surrendered to the Corporation.

.03   Loss or Destruction of Certificates.

In case of loss or destruction of any certificate of shares, another may be issued in its place upon proof of such loss or destruction and upon the giving of a satisfactory bond of indemnity to the Corporation. A new certificate may be issued without requiring any bond, when in the judgment of the Board of Directors it is proper to do so.


VI.     BOOKS AND RECORDS.

.01   Books of Accounts, Minutes and Share Register.

The Corporation shall keep complete books and records of accounts and minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors and shareholders and shall keep at its registered office, principal place of business, or at the office of its transfer agent or registrar a share register giving the names of the shareholders in alphabetical order and showing their respective addresses and the number of shares held by each.

.02   Copies of Resolutions.

Any person dealing with the Corporation may rely upon a copy of any of the records of the proceedings, resolutions, or votes of the Board of Directors or shareholders, when certified by the president or secretary.

 

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VII.     CORPORATE SEAL.

The following is an impression of the corporate seal of this Corporation:

 

 

 

 

 


VIII.     LOANS.

No loans shall be made by the Corporation to its Officers or Directors


IX.     INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

.01   Indemnification.

The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgment, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person's conduct was unlawf ul. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and with respect to any criminal action proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that such person's conduct was unlawful.

 

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.02   Derivative Action

The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in the Corporation's favor by reason of the fact that such person is or was a Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorney's fees) and amount paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to amounts paid in settlement, the settlement of the suit or action was in the best interests of th e Corporation; provided, however, that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable for gross negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of such person's duty to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that, the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as such court shall deem proper. The termination of any action or suit by judgment or settlement shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation.

.03   Successful Defense.

To the extent that a Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or Agent of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise, in whole or in part in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Paragraphs .01 and .02 above, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith.

.04   Authorization.

Any indemnification under Paragraphs .01 and .02 above (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because such person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Paragraphs .01 and .02 above. Such determination shall be made (a) by the Board of Directors of the Corporation by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of Directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (b) is such a quorum is not obtainable, by a majority vote of the Directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (c) by independent legal counsel (selected by one or more of the Directors, whether or not a quorum and whether or not disinterested) in a written opinion, or (d) by the Shareholders. Anyone making such a determination under this Paragraph .04 may determine that a person has met the standards therein set forth as to some claims, issues or matters but not as to others, and may reasonably prorate amounts to be paid as indemnification.

 

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.05   Advances.

Expenses incurred in defending civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding shall be paid by the Corporation, at any time or from time to time in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding as authorized in the manner provided in Paragraph .04 above upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent to repay such amount unless it shall ultimately be by the Corporation is authorized in this Section.

.06   Nonexclusivity.

The indemnification provided in this Section shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any law, bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested Directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person's official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, and administrators of such a person.

.07   Insurance.

The Corporation shall have the power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability assessed against such person in any such capacity or arising out of such person's status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability.

.08   "Corporation" Defined.

For purposes of this Section, references to the "Corporation" shall include, in addition to the Corporation, an constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had the power and authority to indemnify its Directors, Trustees, Officers, employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation or of any entity a majority of the voting stock of which is owned by such constituent corporation or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a Director, Trustee, Officer, employee or agent of the corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Section with respect to the resulting or surviving Corporation as such person would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence ha d continued.

 

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X.     AMENDMENT OF BYLAWS.

.01   By the Shareholders.

These Bylaws may be amended, altered, or repealed at any regular or special meeting of the shareholders if notice of the proposed alteration or amendment is contained in the notice of the meeting.

.02   By the Board of Directors.

These Bylaws may be amended, altered, or repealed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the entire Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting of the Board.

XI.     FISCAL YEAR.

The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be set by resolution of the Board of Directors.


XII.     RULES OF ORDER.

The rules contained in the most recent edition of Robert's Rules or Order, Newly Revised, shall govern all meetings of shareholders and Directors where those rules are not inconsistent with the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, or special rules or order of the Corporation.


XIII.     REIMBURSEMENT OF DISALLOWED EXPENSES.

If any salary, payment, reimbursement, employee fringe benefit, expense allowance payment, or other expense incurred by the Corporation for the benefit of an employee is disallowed in whole or in part as a deductible expense of the Corporation for Federal Income Tax purposes, the employee shall reimburse the Corporation, upon notice and demand, to the full extent of the disallowance. This legally enforceable obligation is in accordance with the provisions of Revenue Ruling 69-115, 1969-1 C.B. 50, and is for the purpose of entitling such employee to a business expense deduction for the taxable year in which the repayment is made to the Corporation. In this manner, the Corporation shall be protected from having to bear the entire burden of disallowed expense items.

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit 4.1

Exhibit 4.1

     

Number

DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

Shares

 

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF $0.001

 
 

NEVADA 100,000,000 SHARES COMMON STOCK AUTHORIZED,

 
 

PAR VALUE

 
   

CUSIP ___________

   

SEE REVERSE FOR

   

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

This

   

certifies

   

that

   

is the owner of

   
     

FULLY PAID AND NON-ASSESSABLE

 
 

SHARES OF COMMON STOCK OF

 
     
 

DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

 
 

transferable on the books of the corporation in person or by duly

 
 

authorized attorney upon surrender of this certificate properly

 
 

endorsed. This certificate and the shares represented hereby

 
 

are subject to the laws of the State of Nevada, and to the

 
 

Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Corporation,

 
 

as now or hereafter amended. This certificate is not valid

 
 

unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent. WITNESS

 
 

the facsimile seal of the Corporation and the signature

 
 

of its duly authorized officers

 

 

 

PRESIDENT

[SEAL]

SECRETARY

 

 

 


The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations.

TEN COM

as tenants in common

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT



Custodian



TEN ENT

as tenants by the entireties

 

(Cust)

 

(Minor)

JT TEN

as joint tenants with the right of
survivorship and not as tenants
in common

Act



(State)

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

For value received, ______________________________________ hereby sell, assign and transfer unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER
IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE

_____________________________________________________________________________________
(PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE)

_____________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ shares of the capital stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint

_____________________________________________________________________________, Attorney to transfer the said stock on the books of the within named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated _______________________

X ________________________________________________________________________________
THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THIS CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATSOEVER. THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (Banks, Stockbrokers, Savings and Loan Associations and Credit Unions)

 

 

SIGNATURE GUARANTEED:

 

 

 

 

TRANSFER FEE WILL APPLY

 


EXHIBIT 5.1

EXHIBIT 5.1

CONRAD C. LYSIAK
Attorney and Counselor at Law
601 West First Avenue
Suite 503
Spokane, Washington 99204
(509) 624-1478
FAX (509) 747-1770

 

June 3, 2004

 

Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Avenue N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20549

RE: DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

Gentlemen:

Please be advised that, I have reached the following conclusions regarding the above offering:

1. DESIGN SOURCE, INC. (the "Company") is a duly and legally organized and exiting Nevada state corporation, with its registered office located in Las Vegas, Nevada and its principal place of business located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Articles of Incorporation and corporate registration fees were submitted to the Nevada Secretary of State's office and filed with the office on April 2, 2003. The Company's existence and form is valid and legal pursuant to the representation above.

2. The Company is a fully and duly incorporated Nevada corporate entity. The Company has one class of Common Stock at this time. Neither the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, and amendments thereto, nor subsequent resolutions change the non-assessable characteristics of the Company's common shares of stock. The Common Stock previously issued by the Company is in legal form and in compliance with the laws of the State of Nevada, its Constitution and reported judicial decisions interpreting those laws and when such stock was issued it was duly authorized, fully paid for and non-assessable. The common stock to be sold under this Form SB-2 Registration Statement is likewise legal under the laws of the State of Nevada, its Constitution and reported judicial decisions interpreting those laws and when such stock is issued it will be duly authorized, fully paid for and non-assessable.

3. To my knowledge, the Company is not a party to any legal proceedings nor are there any judgments against the Company, nor are there any actions or suits filed or threatened against it or its officers and directors, in their capacities as such, other than as set forth in the registration statement. I know of no disputes involving the Company and the Company has no claim, actions or inquires from any federal, state or other government agency, other than as set forth in the registration statement. I know of no claims against the Company or any reputed claims against it at this time, other than as set forth in the registration statement.

4. The Company's outstanding shares are all common shares. There are no liquidation preference rights held by any of the Shareholders upon voluntary or involuntary liquidation of the Company.

 


Securities and Exchange Commission
RE: DESIGN SOURCE, INC.
June 3, 2004
Page 2

5. The directors and officers of the Company are indemnified against all costs, expenses, judgments and liabilities, including attorney's fees, reasonably incurred by or imposed upon them or any of them in connection with or resulting from any action, suit or proceedings, civil or general, in which the officer or director is or may be made a party by reason of his being or having been such a director or officer. This indemnification is not exclusive of other rights to which such director or officer may be entitled as a matter of law.

6. All tax benefits to be derived from the Company's operations shall inure to the benefit of the Company. Shareholders will receive no tax benefits from their stock ownership, however, this must be reviewed in light of the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

7. By directors' resolution, the Company has authorized the issuance of up to 4,000,000 shares of common stock.

The Company's Articles of Incorporation presently provide the authority to the Company to issue 100,000,000 shares of Common Stock, $0.00001 par value. Therefore, a Board of Directors' Resolution which authorized the issuance for sale of up to 4,000,000 shares of common stock would be within the authority of the Company's directors and the shares, when issued, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

I consent to filing this opinion as an exhibit to the Company's Form SB-2 registration statement.

Yours truly,

/s/ Conrad C. Lysiak
Conrad C. Lysiak

 

 

 

 

 


Exhibit 23.1 - Consent of Williams & Webster, P.S.

Exhibit 23.1

 

Board of Directors
Design Source, Inc.
Chapel Hill, NC

 

 

CONSENT OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

 

We consent to the use of our report dated May 11, 2004, on the financial statements of Design Source, Inc. as of March 31, 2004 and the period then ended, and the inclusion of our name under the heading "Experts" in the Form SB-2 Registration Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

/s/ Williams & Webster, P.S.
Williams & Webster, P.S.
Spokane, Washington

June 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 


Exhibit 23.2

Exhibit 23.2

CONRAD C. LYSIAK
Attorney and Counselor at Law
601 West First Avenue
Suite 503
Spokane, Washington 99201
(509) 624-1475
FAX: (509) 747-1770

 

CONSENT

I HEREBY CONSENT to the inclusion of my name in connection with the Form SB-2 Registration Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as attorney for the registrant, Design Source, Inc.

DATED this 3rd day of June, 2004.

Yours truly,

/s/ Conrad C. Lysiak
Conrad C. Lysiak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Exhibit 99.1

Exhibit 99.1

SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT

Design Source, Inc.
2113 Wisley Way
Wake Forest, NC 27587

Dear Sirs:

Concurrent with execution of this Agreement, the undersigned (the "Purchaser") is purchasing __________________________________________________ (__________) shares of Common Stock of DESIGN SOURCE, INC. (the "Company") at a price of $0.10 per share (the "Subscription Price").

Purchaser hereby confirms the subscription for and purchase of said number of shares and hereby agrees to pay herewith the Subscription Price for such Shares.

Purchaser further confirms that Mr. Peter Reichard solicited him/her/it to purchase the shares of Common Stock of the Company and no other person participated in such solicitation other than Mr. Reichard.

MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO: DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

Executed this _____ day of ___________________, 2004.



 





 

Signature of Purchaser



 

Address of Purchaser

 



 

Printed Name of Purchaser

 

PLEASE ENSURE FUNDS ARE IN US DOLLARS

 

X $0.10

=

US$

Number of Shares Purchased

 

 

 

Total Subscription Price

 

Form of Payment:

Cash:___________

Check #: _____________

Other: _________________

 

DESIGN SOURCE, INC.

 

By:



 

 

Title: