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Friday, January 26, 2007

Swiss Hawk AG Acquires Shareholding in Scandinavian Digital Media Company HomeTV

Swiss Hawk AG Acquires Shareholding in Scandinavian Digital Media Company HomeTV

ZUG, Switzerland, January 26/PRNewswire/ -- Swiss Hawk AG (Frankfurt:YQO, ISIN: CH0028361019, Bloomberg: YQO:GR)
announces that is has acquired a shareholding of approx. 6% in Horse Creek
Entertainment AB (publ), the owner and promoter of HomeTV, which is fast
becoming a leading Scandinavian provider of Video on Demand (VOD) content
solutions. Furthermore Swiss Hawk AG is negotiating an additional substantial
investment into the company in the near future.

The HomeTV management have confirmed their interest to seek a listing on
the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB) Open Market by Q2/2007.

About HomeTV

Horse Creek Entertainment AB (publ) / HomeTV is a European digital media
company, focused on providing Video on Demand (VOD) content solutions. HomeTV
is aiming at becoming the leading Scandinavian provider of VOD titles, VOD
programming, management and home shopping services. The company offers its
services on the following VOD websites: www.hometv.se (Scandinavia),
www.hometvone.com (UK) and www.hometv1.com (Germany). HomeTV's VOD services
have been available since July 2006, and currently VOD services are provided
to the Swedish, Norwegian, UK and German markets. Compared to all other VOD
providers in the Nordic countries, the HomeTV VOD service offers the best
technical solutions to its customers. In addition to the standard content,
HomeTV launched HomeTV NightClub offering a VOD service for adult movies
(www.hometvnightclub.com) now available in the Scandinavian and Finnish
market.

HomeTV has negotiated VOD media distribution agreements with Warner
Brothers and Scanbox as well as other content providers for distribution of
content in the Scandinavian markets. Currently, the company is also
negotiating further content distribution agreements, and a franchise
agreement for the Baltic region and aims for a European wide expansion of its
business within 6 - 12 months. HomeTV aims to directly challenge its European
peer group competitors such as www.maxdome.de in the German market.

About Swiss Hawk AG

Swiss Hawk AG is a unique quoted investment vehicle trading in high
growth alternative asset class investments. The company pursues an aggressive
investment policy focusing on investments with high growth potential in the
short to medium term. Swiss Hawk currently specialises in pre-IPO and IPO
transactions in the following business sectors:

- Digital Media & Entertainment

- Real Estate Investment Management & Finance

- Renewable Energy & Environmental Technology

Website: www.SwissHawk.com


For further information contact:
Christine Steiner,
Tel: +41-41-729-2080,
Email: contact@swisshawk.com

Source: Swiss Hawk AG

For further information contact: Christine Steiner, Tel: +41-41-729-2080, Email: contact@swisshawk.com

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