Big Sofa Technologies Share Discussion Threads

[pet lover] 10/7/2017 08:11

Gary about time you gave up mate.

BST is well on its way to being a £300M pound company.

Great news today.

These new guys, appointed today, (unlike yourself) are go getters.

They have proven track records.

Please, do us all a favour and go back to your NEW : NEW WORLD OIL LOSERS THREAD.

[panic investor] 10/7/2017 08:06

If I read correctly yesterday they have either 2/3 competitors worldwide - still researching but a good rns

[hazl] 10/7/2017 08:05

What a strength to have the Unilever connection.

[hamidahamida] 10/7/2017 08:05

GheeBee get life you are barking up the wrong tree nowMaking yourself look stupid

[gheebee] 10/7/2017 08:02

Global agreement in place with Unilever since Jan 16, total revenue in 16 less than £700k, so no.

Lord Leon Brittan was a boardroom colleague of Mr Kugler at Unilever. Just saying.

[hamidahamida] 10/7/2017 08:02

What a knockout appointment

[toffeeman] 10/7/2017 07:59

No one has yet answered my post from above and so I re-post:


What I want to know is what the BST software (whatever it is) actually DOES and whether:

1. It has any competitive advantage over other similar offerings.
2. If they have protected IP

I need to understand the detailed answer to these two questions (which currently I don't).

If the answer to either question is no then there is no investment case.

All imho

[bad gateway] 10/7/2017 07:39

More good news with industry heavyweights coming onboard here, good to see and bodes well for their offering imo.

[smart_investor] 10/7/2017 07:33

Snippets from the RNS:

Big Sofa appoints "Market Research Heavyweights"

"Big Sofa (AIM: BST), a 'fast-growing' international video analytics provider"

"further validation of the Company's technology and services"

"Big Sofa is exceptionally well-placed to capitalise on this shift"

[hazl] 10/7/2017 07:33

COULDN'T have come at a better time. IMO

'Big Sofa Appoints Brand and Market Research Heavyweights as Strategic Advisers



Big Sofa (AIM: BST), a fast-growing international video analytics provider to consumer brands and market research agencies, is pleased to announce the appointments of former Unilever plc director, Ralph Kugler, and market research expert Simon Chadwick, as strategic advisers to the board.'

[smart_investor] 10/7/2017 07:30

Big Sofa Technologies Group plc



("Big Sofa" or the "Company")



Big Sofa Appoints Brand and Market Research Heavyweights as Strategic Advisers



Big Sofa (AIM: BST), a fast-growing international video analytics provider to consumer brands and market research agencies, is pleased to announce the appointments of former Unilever plc director, Ralph Kugler, and market research expert Simon Chadwick, as strategic advisers to the board.



Ralph Kugler is currently Chairman of Cognita Schools, and of Headbox, and is Board Director at Keter Group. He is also Chairman of the International Advisory Board of Leeds University Business School. He spent over 25 years at Unilever plc, most recently as Executive Director on the Main Board, and Global President of Home and Personal Care. He was previously President of large regional Unilever businesses including Latin America and Europe. He has also been Non-executive Director of InterContinental Hotels Group plc and Advisor on the Board of Mars, Incorporated.



Simon Chadwick has over 40 years' experience in the market research industry and is currently Managing Partner of Cambiar, which he founded in 2004 to provide strategic assistance to market research companies as they confront rapid and fundamental change in the industry. Prior to this, Simon was CEO of eight market research companies around the world, ranging from start-ups to the multinational NOP World, which was sold to GfK in 2005. Simon is also Chairman of the Insights Association and Editor-in-Chief of Research World, as well as a being a Fellow of the Market Research Society.


Simon Lidington, Chief Executive Officer of Big Sofa, commented:


"Big Sofa's core customers are major brands and market research agencies. To have attracted two individuals in Ralph and Simon - with their vast experience in each core customer category - to our advisory panel, is further validation of the Company's technology and services.

"Both Simon and Ralph are strongly aligned with our belief that video will continue to transform the consumer insight industry and that Big Sofa is exceptionally well-placed to capitalise on this shift. We look forward to benefiting from their strategic advice as we grow."

[hazl] 10/7/2017 07:29

'Big Sofa Appoints Brand and Market Research Heavyweights as Strategic Advisers



Big Sofa (AIM: BST), a fast-growing international video analytics provider to consumer brands and market research agencies, is pleased to announce the appointments of former Unilever plc director, Ralph Kugler, and market research expert Simon Chadwick, as strategic advisers to the board.'

Couldn't have come at a better time.

[smart_investor] 10/7/2017 07:21

RNS just released

Big Sofa Appoints Brand and Market Research Heavyweights as Strategic Advisers

[hazl] 10/7/2017 06:40

Be fine if it was constructive Taurus but I now see it is very much the reverse.

[pet lover] 10/7/2017 06:27

New posts on my thread this morning.

That thread is thankfully Troll free, if you want to post on it, you need to be a premium poster on ADVFN.

I have placed another posters revenue projections on it, (copied from this site).

Hope that's ok with that poster.

[pet lover] 10/7/2017 06:18

My own forecast is for £1M revenue a month by December and growth of 1,000% in revenues this year.

IMHO , I believe the potential growth rate has been UNDERESTIMATED from June 2017 onwards.

REASONS.

1/ The posters starting number in January 2017 is based on the average monthly income of 2016.

It does not reflect that revenues in the late months of 2016 would be higher than the first months, i.e. Month on month growth.

2/ The poster than starts June with £189,000.

That may be correct, but if the 3 agreements are chipping in licensing fees, and Survey income, it looks like an undershoot to me.

Breaking it down as per BST revenues as we were told at the investor show.

Licensing fees 25%

Video useage 65%

Tec and BST inhouse fees 10%

Breaking that down would produce around £27,000 for June in licensing fees,( times 12 for a full year,) : £110,000 per year per agreement.

To me that sounds far to low.

[pet lover] 10/7/2017 05:54

A POSTER FROM THE OTHER THREAD WITH HIS / HER CALCULATION OF POSSIBLE 2017 REVENUES.

Smart_Investor 9 Jul '17 - 11:04 - 674 of 693

My prediction & simple calculations on potential Calendar 2017 revenues on what we know:

Full year results for 2016 showed revenue of £760,000. If that revenue over the calendar year is split into months it gives average monthly revenues of £63,000 a month in 2016.

In the year end results for 2016, looking forward into 2017 we were told and I quote from the RNS 'Strong start to 2017, with revenues in June more than three times greater than January'.

We can take a good guess at the January 2017 revenue figure based on average monthly income from the year before - it being £63,000.

Now we can work out June 2017 revenues based on quote in the RNS saying revenues in June 2017 being three times greater than January 2017.

£63,000 (average monthly 2016 revenue) x 3 = £189,000 June 2017 revenue

This is where it gets exciting in my opinion. HotStockRockets found out from the company and I quote: 'The bottom line is that sales were indeed a mere £757,000, that was c100% up on 2015. Sales in June 2017 will be thrice what they were in January 2017. And those close to the company expect sales by December to be 3-5 times higher than they are in June.'

June Revenue = £189,000

They say sales in December to be 3-5 times higher than June.

That give a potential December revenue figure of between £567,000 (three times) & £945,000 (five times)

So potentially in December 2017 revenues for that month alone be more than the total revenue (£760,000) announced for calendar year 2016.

Did someone comment put a rocket up your portfolio?

[pet lover] 09/7/2017 20:45

GheeBee - 04 Jul 2017 - 18:02:48 - 381 of 382 IMIC Loan Note Holder Community - IMIC
Right ho. I'm fully expecting someone representing large scale owners to attend in order to make life difficult for the Board anyway. The problem for the two current directors, it seems to me, is that if the company is forced into liquidation by loan note creditors they will have to explain the actions of themselves and their predecessors still alive regarding the original related party Afferro deal, the mountain of debt, the cozy arrangements with AIOG and the subsequent passing of funds to the Cooper brothers in Canada. Not to me or you but to the liquidator and the UK authorities. And that's without explaining away the investment from Niel Group, with its direct links to the Ablyazov-Khrapunov Kazakh fraud syndicate. Quite a few people have an interest in keeping this one alive, I reckon anyway.

[pet lover] 09/7/2017 20:41

GheeBee - 17 Mar 2017 - 15:58:53 - 73 of 145 FIH - Falkland Island Holdings - FIH
Freely admit I've now sold out. Staunton should have increased their offer not reduced their threshold. Dolphin is about to be submerged in a political tsunami when Elsztein's miitary links are exposed and then the knives will be out for the Rowland family as well. Keeping FIC in public hands is the only acceptable way forward although the Swiss fish merchants might be allowed to take control of the board.

[pet lover] 09/7/2017 20:40

If any investor wants to know more about GheeBee, and the BB 'S he visits, with the same smear: / vendettas

Tap on his username and read all his posts.

They all have a common theme as you can clearly see.

I went back and found 1/2 dozen companies.

I list a few here.

[gheebee] 09/7/2017 20:22

Some Sunday evening fun.....
Compare and contrast this website for an MR video company

With this website for another MR video company

then scan this presentation

and ask yourself which one would you go forward with if you were SSI?

Then remember that BST was incubated by Unilever over 3 years (or one technical lifecycle as some call it), that Unilever has a strategic partnership with IPSOS and so does P&G, it seems. Then mull over that the service contract, as opposed to the sales partnership, with Unilever was from Jan 2016 and that the UK Government facilitation contract ended in May this year (why did no one mention that before?)

And just for finishers, have a look at Companies House, the red font and the recent auditor filings and see if you can work out what's happened before the Nomad and the market do.