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[superg1] 03/5/2017 08:50

Guys the name Smooth gorilla derives from a business a director had hence it can only be someone with such knowledge. The sour grapes started post Neill leaving Elektron.

Daley the CEO has destroyed Elektron and pays himself vast sums including bonuses.

I thought £120k wasn't bad tbh Barder pays himself £250k each year and delivers nothing. 100's of examples available on the AIM.

[superg1] 03/5/2017 08:46

Smooth

You are an Elektron sour grape fella and as usual are posting details which are untrue.
Typical Elektron behaviour hence the court case against the CEO etc.

[phoenixs] 03/5/2017 08:09

Oh dear I detect real animosity here. Filtered

[smoothgorilla] 03/5/2017 08:03

They pay themselves £120k each to run a £6m business. Nice work if you can get it.

[phoenixs] 03/5/2017 07:59

I was not aware that gorillas had hats to eat. I was thinking more along the lines of gorillas in the mist as far as your reasoning goes. The company have already said that they would not meet targets sometime in January which you should be aware of if you read the rns statements. As you say we shall see but at least VRS do not have very highly paid directors stealing shareholder funds for their own ends or grabbing options for noext to no cost.
Watch this space and we will see what happens in the coming weeks and monyhs

[smoothgorilla] 03/5/2017 07:52

Quite right. £30k is probably materiality for this bunch and the difference between the going concern being signed off by the auditors or not.

[luckyorange] 03/5/2017 07:50

Don't forget the savings, there's the chairmans salary to start with and then other Directors no longer employed lol

[smoothgorilla] 03/5/2017 07:47

Growing in people, costs and hence losses. I agree. A shame the management attempt to hide this from shareholders.

[luckyorange] 03/5/2017 07:42

You are impatient, the ink and Nanene as well as AAC are part of the growing company that VRS has become. I will let you off with a pork pie hat should you be wrong ;-) (unless of course that is against your religion then it will need a re-think)

[smoothgorilla] 03/5/2017 07:33

Yes don't get me started on the ink. When is the air bottling factory going to be commissioned to great fanfare to mask horrific losses?

DYOR but when there's no discussion of revenues it is to hide losses and cash burn. Time will tell when the results or a trading statement are announced. Happy to eat my hat should I be wrong but you can't say I haven't given you fair warning.

[luckyorange] 03/5/2017 07:25

If you are going to ramp it SmoothGorilla don't forget the ink :-)

I can't help feeling that you have a beef with Neill Ricketts?

[smoothgorilla] 03/5/2017 07:06

I would have thought it was obvious to all why there has been no trading update.

Rockets only likes to issue good news. I expect carbide revenues to be under £3m for the full year and an horrific loss which required the placings. He is selling air.

I expect the Chairman resigned because he was tired of it. 4 directors left in 4 years including a founder, 2 chairman not to mention a stream of senior management.

I also expect a trading update alongside a meaningless investor event or pitiful order for heat sinks or graphene. You'll see that any hint of bad news is dealt with in the same way.

[superg1] 03/5/2017 06:32

Already had one a while back with the Cambridge ink news included.

[luckyorange] 03/5/2017 06:18

If a cottage industry started up with graphene enhanced products what would sell well?

I hadn't thought about a trading update john henry,it is a fair point as shareholders should be kept informed how their company is progressing i.e. are TC and AAC performing above/below/on expectations. Personally I am happy to wait until EOY report and accounts with forward looking statements.

[john henry] 02/5/2017 23:20

Disappointed not to have seen a trading update. Year ending 31st March 2017

[phoenixs] 02/5/2017 14:35

neill ricketts twitter.

wonder whether the sky report on British engineering doing well on the back of a weaker £ is also helping VRS's carbide business. If so, we could be in for some good news.

[rogerbridge] 29/4/2017 21:24

Cheers chumbo

[chumbo] 29/4/2017 18:39

Roger - twitter feed:

Neill Ricketts‏ @neillricketts · 59m59 minutes ago

hxxp://sec2sv.com/scaleups-call/ Apply if you are a Euro scaleup for the best advice & support in the US @Number10gov @richardbranson @MindTheBridge

[rogerbridge] 28/4/2017 19:52

I wonder how N.R. found prospects in Mexico?

[superg1] 28/4/2017 17:59

I just read the directa results and wonder how on earth they managed to lose so much cash. Then some weird comments on tyre sales and a write down in excess of the revenue of an apparent returned order.

I'm not going to bother trying to digest and understand it.

[superg1] 28/4/2017 14:10

I switched off from Directa as everything they seemed to achieve was in Italy. On the bike tyres I know a load of cycling nuts. If something is out there to go faster they get it. None buy the Vittoria tyres, as they had never heard of them so clearly a marketing issue there.

Not picking on HayD and not looked it up, whoch way is that exclusivity as Everpower have their own graphene opions and more than one, just asking.

[cyberbub] 28/4/2017 11:32

I would think we should start seeing news of supply contracts in the next couple of months? At least early heads of terms agreements or 'sample' sales.

[phoenixs] 28/4/2017 11:02

It will do as a delayed trade later.

[festario] 28/4/2017 11:00

I bought another 80k shares at 10.45am, not showing on the lists? Hmm.