Altitude Share Discussion Threads

[kemche] 12/5/2017 13:21

hxxp://magazine.promomarketing.com/article/sunscope-announces-formation-aprinta-group/all/

[kemche] 12/5/2017 13:19

lowlife, good try - but no cigar:

They are a subsidiary of Sunscope - sales $350m

hxxp://sunscopeusa.com/general-information.html/

[lowflow] 12/5/2017 13:11

If you research Aprinta Group, you can quickly see its a tiny operation, which seems odd considering some of the statement which has been put out by Altitude.
In the 14 June 2016 RNS, they wrote:

"Billy Dolan, Chief Executive of Aprinta Group, said, "We have had this vision for three years and have looked at every option to find a technology partner that not only understood the personalised product space in fine detail, but also had every element of the technology we needed to make this a success by accommodating a significant transition of the industry to an online model. The revenue share arrangement ensures we are all incentivised to deliver this solution to distributors in the USA's $22 billion market place."

Talking about a $22bn market.

Then you research Aprinta Group

hxxp://listings.findthecompany.com/l/770306360/Aprinta-Group-Llc-in-Alexander-City-AL

"Aprinta Group Llc is a small, fairly new organization in the nondurable goods companies industry located in Alexander City, AL. It opened its doors in 2014 and now has an estimated $1.4 million in yearly revenue and approximately 6 employees."

Aprinta Group revenue is around $1.4m!!!!! They have a 0.00636% share of the market Altitude is talking about.

How much revenue can Altitude generate from a company with a gross sale of $1.4m if they are going to be their "technology partner" as they nicely write in the RNS.

[ihatemms] 12/5/2017 13:07

Lowflow - the agreement with the 'Print products' Group - is probably with Vistaprint - I would say they were fairly large -wouldn't you ?!

[lowflow] 12/5/2017 12:59

Sheep_Herder,

The companies Altitude has signed distribution agreement are tiny outfits even thou Altitude is trying to give the impression that they are large companies.

Take the agreement with Aprinta Group, Altitude wrote in the announcement RNS (14 June 2016):

"agreed a partnership with Aprinta Group ("Aprinta") based in Rochester, NY, USA, a leader in the provision of screen printing and promotional product supply to distributors, based in North America (the "Agreement")."

If you then read about the company in this article (from Jan 2017):

hxxp://www.alexcityoutlook.com/2017/01/10/aprinta-leaders-ay-despite-setbacks-they-remain-committed-to-alexander-city/

"The Aprinta Group LLC, located at 694 First Way in Alexander City, has also reduced its labor force and currently has a number of employees on seasonal layoff and other positions that are being eliminated permanently."

"Aprinta Owner Billy Dolan said that the company has endured some pretty big hits and the reductions that are now taking place are largely seasonal.

“It is always tough to make decisions like this and we waited months longer hoping to fight through the pressure,” Dolan said. “But it was necessary to stabilize Aprinta and position the company for long-term stability. We had one customer in particular that we have taken over a $4 million dollar hit in 2016. That has forced us to make these difficult decisions to right size the business.”"

“We are committed to Alexander City. We recently shut down a plant in Rochester New York to put all of our efforts into the Alexander City operation."

To me, it sounds like Altitude so called big partner Aprinta Group is having significant difficulties and they even had to close down their facilities in Rochester.

[kemche] 12/5/2017 12:57

Sheep - at the current rate I expect them to release a RNS saying "We are going to hell in a hand cart".

[kemche] 12/5/2017 12:56

I expect more shenanigans before close of play today...........

[sheep_herder] 12/5/2017 12:52

P.S. as for a shake, this will hit 40p next week if there aren't any good forward looking statements. I think there are just too many flighty investors who don't understand the timescales involved. My only issue is that I'm flat out of spare cash to buy any more.

[sheep_herder] 12/5/2017 12:49

northwards - I wonder if good stephen is in fact an MM!

[northwards] 12/5/2017 12:34

that felt like a shake to me

[kemche] 12/5/2017 12:30

Sheep - I wonder whether he has achieved his entry price?

:)

[stephen1946] 12/5/2017 12:22

Shep, The share price not factual enough???

[sheep_herder] 12/5/2017 12:18

Is the ALT gimp saying anything of a factual basis or can I not bother looking it up?

[sheep_herder] 12/5/2017 12:10

You're missing the fact that the majority of their current revenue is from the subscription model to that very same software that is now being pushed as Click2Ship. Their current business is not going to fall away. Any growth in the C2S business is a positive.

You're also missing the fact that all the customer and distributor websites are not trawlable so you'll be getting no input regarding those.

We also don't really care what the take up is right now as they've only just started the roll out. Come back in a year and if the results are the same, then you can shout I told you so from the roof tops.

So in summary, your post is as worthless a guide to the roll out as stephen's hot air is to warming my house.

[lowflow] 12/5/2017 11:58

Sheep_Herder, I am glad you asked if the message was unclear.
Altitude business in the past was focused on the exhibition market, but they have announced that they are in the future going is going to use it as a cash source if possible, but the company main focus is instead going to be on the software and online market through their own developed products such as the "artworktool" and the "Click2Ship" solutions.
The company has over the past year announced a few partnership which would be used to build these business. Such as:
19 Apr 2017 - Market Brand LLC deal
14 Feb 2017 - Launch of www.channl.com for the "Click2Ship"
5 Aug 2016 - Technology Partnership Agreement with AI Mastermind, for the "Click2Ship"
14 June 2016 - Agreement with Aprinta Group

Consequently, Altitude product will mainly be distributed through their own and their partner's website etc. Its therefore very relevant to see if the traffic at these websites is growing.

From Alexa site info page you can easily see that neither of these sites Altitude is using to distribute their products has any significant nor growing traffic. As I wrote the sites are so behind in the traffic ranking that there is big question mark to what extent they are actively used at all.

Altitude is describing its own business as a fast growing technology business while its impossible to find any evidence for this.

[stephen1946] 12/5/2017 11:53

Looks like the end game is near. Altitude is worthless.

[sheep_herder] 12/5/2017 11:04

lowflow - you'll have to explain what you're hinting at as it's quite impossible to understand WTF you are on about and what difference it makes to the price of bread.

[lowflow] 12/5/2017 11:00

A review of the activity on Altitude websites activity and their partner's website activity.
On of Altitude most important operations is the Customer Focus business. 4 of Altitude 9 subsidiaries listed in their annual report are related to the Customer Focus business (Customer Focus Software Limited, Customer Focus Exhibitions Limited, Customer Focus Software Incorporated and Customer Focus Interactive Imaging Limited).
www.customerfocus.com
The www.customerfocus.com global view rank at Alex is at 1003340, the graph at Alexa also shows that the rank of the website has collapsed over the last few months.
hxxp://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/customerfocus.com
www.channl.com
Altitude announced the 14th Feb 2017 Trading Update, that the “Click 2 Ship” business will be market through the website www.channl.com
The global rank of www.channl.com is only at 5796809, its so low that Alexa is not even providing a chart for the activity on the site.
hxxp://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/channl.com

Partners
Aprint Group
www.aprintagroup.com, traffic rank 6281598, so low that there is no traffic chart.
AI Mastermind
www.aimatermind.com, traffic rank 3145828.
It seems like Altitude own webpages doesn’t have any significant traffic nor do their so called partners websites. Market Brands LLC doesn’t even have a website, which could be explained by that the company was formed 17 Feb or that they are busy hiring 100 sales people working for Altitude – LOL.

[adventurous] 12/5/2017 10:40

Well stephen1946 - I guess the facts of your previous posts are too much for you to handle :-)

Trying to excuse your posts by insinuating that you are a company plant is somewhat mildly amusing, but then you do come across as rather potty ;-)

[stephen1946] 12/5/2017 09:34

Alt keep wheeling out these posters, does'nt change a thing.

Alt is on a cash burn, that much will be revealed next week or whenever the board wake up.

Samkhan joins late march, 11 posts, c'mon ALT you can do better than that,
Where did malcolm go? ashamed he got caught out?

Alt have always had plants on here, its what they do.

[allstar4eva] 12/5/2017 09:03

Sam exactly!!!!!