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Founded in 1986, the company had licenses with several major sports leagues, such as MLB, NFL, NHL, NASCAR, and the WNBA. After going bankrupt, its remaining trading card assets were purchased by Playoff, Inc (now known as Panini America).
The company was established in 1986 under the name "Optigraphics, Inc". It specialized in multiple image trading cards using lenticular printing.[2] After producing 3-D cards for Kellogg's for several years, they first released a set of nationally distributed baseball cards called Sportflics in 1986. Two years later, Optigraphics changed its name and released its first proper baseball card set called Score. The Score brand changed the baseball card industry from the "Big Three" (Donruss, Fleer, and Topps) that had been in place for seven years prior. Score's first set used a bold colorful border design (with 110 cards each in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet borders) and was the first major set to have a color mugshot of the player and was the first major set besides 1982 Fleer to have a full color back. The player biographies were by far the most extensive of any major baseball card set of its time. The 1991 and 1992 sets at 900 (1991) 910 (1992) cards were among the largest card sets of that time. The first Score football set in 1989 made even bigger waves for collectors of NFL trading cards.
Pinnacle Brands began production of its first premium quality set, called Pinnacle, in 1991 for American football and 1992 for baseball and used a distinctive black-bordered design for its first two years. Another key set, called Select, began the year afterward. Sportflics cards continued to be produced until 1990, then reintroduced in 1994 as Sportflics 2000. This would be the last set to bear the standard Sportflics name. Pinnacle released re-branded "Sportflix" baseball and football sets in 1995, and then only baseball in 1996, before abandoning the lenticular-based product lines altogether.
In 1996, Pinnacle acquired former competitor Donruss.[1] Starting in 1997, Pinnacle Brands randomly inserted in its Pinnacle set and other sets the original individual printing plates hand-signed by Pinnacle's CEO Jerry Meyer, with eight plates per card (both front and back of the card and in each of the four printing colors; black, cyan, magenta, and yellow). The 1998 printing plates were not signed, however. Around this same time, they experimented with the way cards were packaged, selling them in cans (Pinnacle Inside), tin containers (Donruss Preferred), and childproof "blister packs" (several brands).
Citing low profits, Pinnacle Brands went out of business in September 1998 and its brand names and trademarks were sold to Playoff, which then became "Donruss Playoff". The new company did not use the Pinnacle brand name, but continued to use the Score name on low-end football and hockey sets produced mostly for the retail market. Playoff, Inc. would be later acquired by Panini Group.[3]
In early 1998, Jerry Meyer was named Beckett Media's Sports Card Executive of the Year. Due to Pinnacle filing for bankruptcy less than a year later, it would be the only time Beckett would give out such an award.[4]
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James C. Cope, a former board member of Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners, pleaded guilty Friday to insider trading charges related to the bank's merger with Avenue Financial Holdings, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Cope with insider trading Friday and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee filed a parallel criminal case against Cope. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also worked on the investigation.
Cope, a Murfreesboro lawyer, made more than $56,000 by purchasing Avenue shares before the merger announcement, according to the SEC. Cope learned confidential details about the planned merger during a board meeting and made purchases during the board meeting and shortly after the meeting, according to the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Based on the terms of his plea agreement, Cope will serve two years of federal probation and he will be restricted to home confinement for the first nine months. He also has to pay a $55,000 fine. U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger will sentence him on Nov. 14, according to the U.S. Attorney's office.
The board committee meeting took place on Jan. 5, 2016, less than a month before the merger was announced after markets closed on Jan. 28. Within an hour of the meeting, Cope allegedly made four more orders of Avenue stock, and between Jan. 5 and Jan. 11, Cope bought more than 10,000 shares of Avenue stock. On Jan. 29., the stock increased by more than 40 percent to $19.24 per share, according to the SEC complaint.
Cope, 67, resigned from Pinnacle's board in April after serving on the board since 2006, according to the SEC. He is partner at Cope, Hudson, Reed & McCreary in Murfreesboro and he practices civil litigation, corporate and governmental law, the SEC said, citing his firm's website. Cope resigned as Rutherford County attorney Thursday.
Pinnacle learned in March that a board director had purchased Avenue shares in January, according to a regulatory filing made by Pinnacle in April. The bank said it believed that the purchases violated its policies for directors. Without naming the director, the bank said that the the director had resigned from the board position.
Cope joined the Pinnacle board after the bank purchased Murfreesboro-based Cavalry Bancorp, where Cope served on the board of directors. He served as chair of the Pinnacle board's human resources subcommittee and its compensation committee, according to the SEC and the U.S. Attorney statements.
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Founded in 2003, Pinnacle Asset Management, L.P. is a private, New York-based investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is a commodity trading adviser and commodity pool operator registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and is a member of the National Futures Association.
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