By Gary Scott

International investments can create fortunes if you spot the correct international investment trends. One way to spot these trends in international investments is to understand systems.

We looked at two ways to view systems for profit in yesterday’s message.

A third way to gain profits from systems is to look for businesses that utilize systems to improve upon proven products. For example, some time back I confessed my addiction to pie and how we suffer the wretched dangers of blackberry and naranjilla pie, for only a dollar at the Shanandoa Pie shop here in Ecuador.

So I took note when one of our delegates at a recent course told us how his brother, David Barash, has used systems to create the Vermont Mystic Pie.

David was into pie and had a background of systematizing foods with a socially innovative touch.

He has great experience in food systems having started his career with Celestial Seasonings Tea Company before joining Ben and Jerry's as one of its founding senior executives. He then ran Autumn Harp Natural Skin Care and then was instrumental in helping Stonyfield Farm develop a successful certified organic yogurt product line. He also helped The Organic Cow of Vermont in its market launch and distribution of the first organic milk in the Northeast. Finally, before launching Vermont Mystic Pie he was Chief Operating Officer for Organic Commodity Products (OCP), the leading provider of organic chocolate and cocoa ingredients to the natural foods industry where he also worked with Newman’s Own Organics, the leading consumer brand in Natural Foods.

Original financing for Mystic Pie came from the Barred Rock Fund, a socially progressive venture capital fund established by Ben Cohen with money from the sale of Ben & Jerry’s to Unilever.

Dave has created systems to take advantage of the conflux growing demand for a premium, all-natural, bake-and-serve pies that meets with a Vermont apple market drop of 40% in the last 15 years.

There is an abundant supply of apple varieties that are good for making pies.

By creating an added value market for Vermont utility apples, Vermont Mystic Pie contributes to rebuilding the Vermont apple sector.

Vermont Mystic Pie uses King Arthur Flour, Cabot Creamery Butter and fresh Empires, Cortlands and Northern Spy apples from Champlain Orchards which use strict ecological growing standards.

Dave started distributing Vermont Mystic Apple Pies in September 2004. By early 2005, his pies had earned shelf space in over 85 stores in New England, New York and New Jersey. The pies generally retail for $9.49 - $9.99.

Vermont Mystic Pie is not a public company yet. Dave Barash is the majority shareholder of the Vermont Mystic Pie Company. The Barred Rock Fund is a minority shareholder. Ten percent of the company has been set aside for eventual ownership by a nonprofit organization to be named at a later date.

I am sharing this because the way to cash in on innovative new systems is to watch them before they go public. Be ready to jump on this one when they do if the numbers look good.

This business has everything, experience, initial capital, strong fundamentals of growing demand, cheap apples, high valued added, social enhancement, organic wellness and a time proven product (pie).

One fundamental recommendation at our sites is to invest in what you know and love. See why

So I have my eye on Mystic Vermont Pie because I love all the positive business aspects and I love pie!

You can learn more at www.vermontmysticpie.com/

On the subject of pie you can improve your health as you purify yourself and smell like apple pie with a shamanic health tip.

Finally look for shifts of utility of crumbling systems. All systems are subject to the laws of thermodynamic entropy. Entropy is the amount of energy in a system that cannot be used to do work. In other terms, it is also a measure of the disorder and randomness present in a system. In short all systems over a period of time deteriorate.

One example of this is our environment including our water supply. This is why these messages continue to look at investments in water.

One company that has been providing water pollution treatment facilities to the industrial arena and is expanding into municipalities is Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL). We first looked at Pall four months ago in December.

Sales for the last quarter increased 2% to $478.4 million and earnings were $32.4 million as compared to $32 million and 26 cents per share last year. Reported sales for the six months increased 3% to $909.6 million and earnings were $57.5 million or as compared to $53.7 million last year.

Pall’s business is based on two broad markets: Life Sciences and Industrial. The company provides leading-edge products to meet the demanding needs of customers in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, transfusion medicine, semiconductor, water purification, aerospace and broad industrial markets. Total revenues for fiscal 2005 were $1.9 billion.

The share price of Pall has risen from $27 to 31 in the last four months, once again proving that it pays to invest in water! Learn more about how to develop investing philosophies and investing in water. Join Merri, Thomas Fischer of Jyske Bank and me at our next International Business and Investing Made EZ course in North Carolina.

Another way to protect against eroding system is to be able to earn anywhere in the world. This can be fun as well as profitable. For example at our recent Import Export course we saw some incredible views such as this tiny crafts village slowly being shrouded in the mists.

The group stopped the bus and just stood there watching this beauty. Then they got together to show you how they felt about learning how to earn money abroad! In this case a picture speaks louder than words!

Learn how to earn anywhere you travel. See beautiful sights like the one above. Join Merri and me and our Ecuador Import-Export Expedition.

Until next message may all your travels and systems be good!

Gary