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October 22, 2004
To Our Stockholders:

The purpose of this information statement is to inform the holders of record of shares of our common stock and preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date, September 24, 2004 that our board of directors has recommended, and that a majority of our stockholders intend to vote in favor of resolutions which will accomplish the following:

- Grant discretionary authority to our directors to amend our articles of incorporation to change our name from "American Fire Retardant Corp." to "Global Materials & Services, Inc." within 180 days of this information statement with the exact time of the amendment to be determined by our directors;

- Implement a reverse stock split of our common stock on the basis of one post-consolidation share for each 2,000 pre-consolidation shares;

- Amend our articles of incorporation to reduce the par value of our common stock from $0.001 per share to $0.0001 per share;

- Amend our articles of incorporation to increase the number of our authorized shares of common stock to 19,800,000,000 shares; and