Focused on Increasing Awareness and Enhancing Shareholder Value
LAS VEGAS, July 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vivakor, Inc. (OTC PINK:VIVK), a technology and asset acquisition
company with a focus in the area of natural resources, today announced that it has retained Hayden IR, a national investor relations consulting firm, to implement a strategic investor
relations program grounded in best practices. Hayden IR will work to raise Vivakor’s visibility within the investment community by
strengthening its relationships and increasing awareness with the goal of ultimately enhancing shareholder value.
“We are encouraged by our business progress and traction over the past few months and believe we are well
positioned to penetrate market opportunities and future revenue growth,” said Matt Nicosia, Vivakor’s Chief Executive Officer. “The
available opportunities within our targeted markets are robust and created a solid pipeline of business, both organically and
through potential acquisitions. While we continue to focus on sales growth, we are busy finalizing our audit with plans to apply
for an uplist to the OTCQB and become SEC compliant with filings. As we look to all of this positive momentum, the Board and
management believed it was an appropriate time to retain a proactive strategic investor relations firm to help us reach new
potential investors and effectively communicate our investment thesis. We are confident that throughout their national footprint,
Hayden IR will help us more effectively communicate our accelerated growth strategy, business objectives and corporate milestones
to a wider audience of sophisticated investors.”
Hayden IR is a highly regarded investor relations consulting firm known for its ability to connect underfollowed
and emerging growth companies with sophisticated institutional investors, buy-side and sell-side analysts, retail brokerage firms
and accredited individual investors. Leveraging decades of cumulative experience, Hayden IR develops strategies to help clients
effectively communicate with the investment community and works to increase their exposure through targeted outreach and
transparent positioning. Hayden IR helps public companies deliver the right message to the right audience. Over time, Hayden IR
helps its clients navigate up the Wall Street value chain and to help them secure a reasonable valuation by broadening their
audience, expanding institutional ownership and ensuring clear, consistent communication with the public.
About Vivakor, Inc.
Vivakor, Inc. (VIVK) is a technology and asset acquisition company with a focus in the area of natural
resources. Vivakor’s corporate mission is to create, acquire and accumulate distinct assets, intellectual properties, and
exceptional technologies that produce solid returns to its valued shareholders and partners. The company currently focuses on
bitumen (heavy crude) extraction from shallow, oil-laden areas in Eastern Utah, along with petroleum based remediation projects
across the globe. The technologies utilized are low-cost, proprietary and proving themselves industry disruptive when measured by a
number of important factors. The general business model has been to be an acquisition hub, focused on building and acquiring
cash-flowing assets in discrete areas that have an acknowledged technological advantage and enable a substantial market opportunity
within significant target markets across the globe. Our research, and the technology we acquire are anchored by our relationships
with synergistic partners and product-specific commercialization strategies. From the point of product or technology conception, or
through acquisition, development and commercialization, we expect to have strategic partners, joint ventures or licensing
arrangements in place for many of our products in order to sustain revenue attainment.
For more information, please visit our website: http://vivakor.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based upon our current expectations and speak only as of
the date hereof. Our actual results may differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements as a
result of various factors and uncertainties, including economic slowdown affecting companies, our ability to successfully develop
products, rapid change in our markets, changes in demand for our future products, legislative, regulatory and competitive
developments and general economic conditions. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks and
uncertainties discussed in Vivakor's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which factors may be incorporated herein
by reference. Forward-looking statements may be identified but not limited by the use of the words "anticipates," "expects,"
"intends," "plans," "should," "could," "would," "may," "will," "believes," "estimates," "potential," or "continue" and variations
or similar expressions. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.
Investors Contact:
Hayden IR
917-658-7878
hart@haydenir.com
