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- Armada Mercantile Ltd. (CSE: ARM, OTC: AAMTF) operates as a diversified financial services and investment holding company, providing merchant banking, trade finance, venture lending, corporate finance advisory, and broker-dealer services internationally; it also invests in consumer goods and emerging technology sectors including ice cream distribution under the London Dairy brand through subsidiary Ace Foods and off-road electric vehicles via participation in ZeroNox. The company offers specialized products and services such as account receivable factoring, supply chain and revenue-based lines of credit, equipment leasing, merchant cash advances, purchase order financing, private placements, corporate debt securities, mezzanine financing, direct public offerings, mergers and acquisitions advisory, Form 10 and Form S-1 regulatory filings, Form 15C211 and DTC eligibility services, as well as capital markets consulting to clients in natural resources, travel, aviation, technology, food, banking, finance, energy, telecom, and off-road electric vehicle industries. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Roseville, California, with additional offices in Lake Forest, California, and New York, New York, Armada Mercantile maintains a nationwide U.S. finance lender license and FINRA broker-dealer status through investments including a 5% ownership stake in ANOS Holdings, LLC, acquired in March 2024, which operates ANOS Capital, a 50-year-old member of FINRA, SIPC, and MSRB focused on U.S. equities trading and capital markets. Recent expansions encompass Ace Foods' London Dairy ice cream and sorbet products entering new retail outlets in 2024-2025, including 25 supermarkets in New York City's Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Bronx markets, as well as Cardenas Markets (59 locations), Los Altos Ranch Markets in California and Arizona starting June 2025, and SaveMart, FoodMaxx, and Lucky California stores, reflecting solid sales growth and demand driving approximately 70 additional store placements; the company continues to participate in the off-road electric vehicle sector amid growing market interest.