Wolverhampton-based Jonathan Kendrick’s ROK Global mobile phone and technology company is due to be listed on the GXG Exchange in Copenhagen. The move follows the 2010 listing of ROK on the Open Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

The move comes at a time when ROK has been diversifying in a big way. As well as its core business of mobile phone services and entertainment software, it is also involved in industrial technology, ballistic protection, oil spill protection and security software under the trading name of Homeland Security.

Jonathan Kendrick, aged 53, founded the Albrighton-based ROK Entertainment Group eight years ago and it goes from strength to strength. With mobile phone streaming products available to more than 700 million mobile phone users worldwide, ROK is continuing its serious assault on the US market.

It has also concluded a deal to pre-install some of its services on mobile handsets in Mexico and South America.

ROK sells in the States through ROK Americas, based in Los Angeles, with Jonathan Kendrick as its president. ROK Americas is bringing the company’s live, on-demand, streaming mobile phone video services to the burgeoning North American market.

ROK’s other international ventures, which include mobile phone services in the Middle East and Africa have all been successful.

ROK Entertainment has become one of the world’s leading companies in mobile telephone entertainment software, allowing its customers to watch TV programmes, films and music videos on their mobile phones.

Towards the end of 2007 ROK floated on the US stock market, capitalised at £719 million. Jonathan Kendrick, who comes from Claverley, has a substantial share, as well as owning 40 per cent of ROK Mobile.

ROK has offices all around the world including nine in China – the world’s biggest single mobile phone market. As well as its Albrighton headquarters ROK has a UK development centre in Bridgend, South Wales.

Jonathan Kendrick began his career with Goodyear Racing before securing for himself the European rights of the then unknown Yokohama Tyres. He marketed the brand shrewdly with sponsorship deals with Ayrton Senna and Eddie Jordan before selling the European operation back to its Japanese parent at a healthy profit.

He then ran Lighter Than Air, an innovative balloon advertising company, which merged into Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. At that time he recognised the untapped potential of mobile phone technology and in 2002 ROK was born. His nephew, James Kendrick is CEO of the company.