SEATTLE - February 22, 2011 (Investorideas.com Defense Newswire) - Visualant, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUL), a pioneer provider of industry-leading color based identification and diagnostic solutions announced today that senior management of the Company, working with two members of the Visualant Board of Directors from Japan, have outlined the strategy for introducing the Visualant Spectral Pattern Matching ("SPM") technology to the Japanese market.

The Japanese directors will work with the Company to initiate a Visualant Co Ltd, a Japanese subsidiary corporation, which will enter into a master license agreement to the Visualant SPM technology for the Japanese market. The Visualant KK will work to license the Visualant SPM technology to strategic Japanese partners. In addition, the Visualant KK will seek Japanese technology to distribute in North America through Visualant's TransTech distribution subsidiary.

Edmonton, Alberta CANADA - February 18, 2011 (InvestorIdeas.com Newswire) - United Protection Security Group Inc. (UZZ - TSX Venture), is pleased to announce that Fredy Ramsoondar has been appointed CEO of the Company.

Mr.Ramsoondar has been a key member of the management team since joining the Company in December 1999 and was the Company's CFO since 2005.

The Founder and outgoing CEO S.Jorstad states, "I am proud of the growth of our Company and its accomplishments over the years. Fredy's move to the CEO's position will allow me to get back to doing what I enjoy the most, and which built the Company from inception in 1989, which is: identifying and creating business opportunities. I will continue to hold the role of Executive Chairman with responsibilities of vision and opportunity creation".

SEATTLE - February 18, 2011 (Investorideas.com Defense Newswire) - Visualant, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUL), a pioneer provider of industry-leading color based identification and diagnostic solutions, announced today that its licensee for environmental applications, Javelin LLC, is focusing its initial development efforts on utilizing the Visualant Spectral Pattern Matching ("SPM") technology to determine the presence of oil in water and the presence of adulterates in oil.

The Visualant SPM technology, with its ability to map color at the photon level both within the humanly visible spectrum as well as in the near infra-red and near ultra-violet, can be used as a diagnostic tool for a host of environmental applications. These include determining the presence of foreign substances such as oil in water and determining water quality among many others.

SEATTLE - February 11, 2011 (Investorideas.com Defense Newswire) - Visualant, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUL), a pioneer provider of industry-leading color based identification and diagnostic solutions, an emerging leader in security and authentication systems technology and distributor of a wide variety of security solutions through its wholly-owned subsidiary, TransTech Systems, Inc., announced today that NBT Equity Research LLC has released a supplemental research report on the Company. The supplemental research report can be accessed through the Visualant website at www.visualant.net or on the NBT Equity Research website at www.nbtequitiesresearch.com/vsul.

NBT Equity Research LLC is a member of the NBT Equity Group LLC. They were founded by well known research analyst Tobin Smith. Tobin Smith is a contributing market analyst for Fox News Channel and a regular panelist on its highly rated "Bulls & Bears" weekly investment program.