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couldn't Capstone Nutrition just borrow $200 million and pay those $200 million out as dividend for owners? After that it could hand the keys for $200 million free of debt price tag by letting Musclepharm buy the company with a box of Muscle Bar.
I have no idea what you are talking about?
The company is short of cash but it got a good business and the executives are against diluting the stock because they ALREADY GOT STOCK GRANTS.
So, if any cash is raised it will not be more than necessary, meaning most likely no more than 1 million shares.
If Musclepharm was such a disaster, then it wouldn't have survived from New Year till end of February.
I'm not questioning that Musclepharm is losing money in Q1....because that's pretty much painted on the wall....but I wouldn't be too surprised seeing Musclepharm posting a profit in July....I think this whole protein bar and energy drink project gonna boost revenue with $100 millio dollars in 2016....and we will start seeing this translating into profits for the company in 2015.
My price target for 2015 is $20, with market cap past $200 million.
To get there Musclepharm will need to merge with another supplement brand prior to purchasing Capstone Nutrition.
many of the daytraders that picked this stock up at the bottom don't realize that Musclepharm actually is a real supplement company that domestically and internationally sells a lot.
This is not a typical penny stock with smoke and mirrors operations....this is a real operation, that already made it big, and that is gonna keep on growing.
Go into any GNC and you will see an entire wall dedicated to Musclepharm, and you will see MP Combat strategically placed within the multi brand protein bar section.
No smoke and mirrors operations here....we got a real company.
Management has a right to think big when it comes out with these wonders of products.
These products are beautiful, fresh and people gonna buy them.
I do like Gatorade, Monster Energy, Redbull....the image and packaging are great....but there ain't anything else. Coca Cola has never cracked the code successfully, neither has Dr Pepper in this category.
Musclepharm is the missing link, man....you gotta give them credit for coming up with this nice product.
Musclepharm, gonna make you stinking $$$$$$$$$!
looks more like a freakin $20 stock now than 12 months ago.
The energy drink category is very profitable and lets face it...Brad made his first home run with Musclepharm entering this category.
He made some great protein bars and some great energy drinks....distribution will solve itself, trust me....we are gonna get rich.
Such a shame that I didn't swift from Electrobras to Musclepharm stocks today....that would have made me some easy $3000 today, and possibly another $10,000 this coming monday.
Everything looks very promising though....and please don't listen to bellator_exec....he is just upset because MP Energy tastes better than Coca Cola
They should come out with some flavors for Europe....like Fish and Chips for UK and Ireland, Black Licorice for Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Finland and Kebab for Turkey.
Assault with beet flavor, I bet Igor and Svetlana from Russia would love that.
if the company sold well through racetrac, then a prospective buyer of the company could take this to the next level, and it could consider license the business in Europe to compete against Redbull.
Starting with Fast Eddy's pretty much tells us nothing else than the company's executives need to get off the Internet and stop acting like kids. Jeremy Deluca even gives us a bird on Instagram....what is that suppose to mean from a guy in his thirties?
I'm gonna buy Assault because somebody from Musclepharm insults me on the Internet?
That was a mistake by Jeremy Deluca starting with a convenience store chain with 4 stores in very white Idaho (that is not representative of United States)......at least it should have started with a convenience store chain with at least 500 stores like Atlanta based Racetrac that got convenience stores in Florida, Georgia and Texas.
If Musclepharm cannot handle that, perhaps it shouldn't have entered this space with two products and just have focused on the protein bars.
The management cannot comment on the Walmart-GNC debacle...it is something you cannot talk about if you want to maintain business relationships and be taken seriously as a manager.
There is a reason why some ex GNC manager recently was brought in....nobody knew anything about how to sell to brick and mortar retailers like GNC and Walmart....nobody knew the rules of the game.
Same thing with convenience stores....until Musclepharm hires somebody that worked for Mars or 5 Hour Energy, it won't sell anything....because Jeremy Deluca only knows Fast Eddy's
or perhaps http://www.racetrac.com/ would be another option.
More than 500 convenience stores at gas stations...but much bigger stores than what is usual, and like 30 pumps each gas station
Speedway would be a good pick for first convenience store retail partnership. Speedway just bought all of Hess' retail locations...so, many of their stores are brand new and attracting lots of business.
Speedway got headquarters in Ohio and will now close to 3,000 retail locations and merchandise sales for close to $5 billion per year....This is a winner!
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Nice!
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This is obviously just the beginning to something bigger.
The bars are successful....just look at MuscleTech's promotional price on it's new 18 count variety pack at Muscle & Strength.
http://www.muscleandstrength.com/store/muscletech-premium-protein-plus-bars.html?CAWELAID=120139930000037967&CAGPSPN=pla&gclid=CLm5jJKz0cQCFQenaQodlU8Ahw
Hell, it's cheaper to buy these than Snickers bars.
MuscleTech felt the competition and had to promote these very aggressively. Musclepharm doesn't need to do that because it's products are way cooler looking and better tasting than MuscleTech's.
A variety pack for Costco would be a good idea for Musclepharm too, perhaps with 3 different flavors and 12 bars in total.
but you would have to travel to Boise to get them at the cheaper price.
Musclepharm is doing the right thing, by starting small....it doesn't want to repeat the Walmart failure once again by getting into something bigger than what it can handle
probably it is gonna be carried by smoothie king....
As the products have a life cycle I would be more occupied with what's going on with MP Combat Crunch....will, Musclepharm get it into Costco?
Every sports nutrition company would like to be in Walmart and Sam's Club....So, how come it's only the largest sports nutrition companies MuscleTech and Glanbia (with BSN) that are represented there with a limited number of products? Go figure!
Normalized orders from customers and no further need of financing....if that was not the case, then tell me how Musclepharm is still in business?
Musclepharm will probably keep on selling through Walmart and Sam's Club, but it will be with protein bars and drinks and perhaps some exclusively branded protein powder products....but I doubt that we will anymore Arnold Iron protein powder products at Walmart going forward.
Somehow it upset GNC....but I think Musclepharm saved the relationship and I think that it will consult GNC closely regarding products for Walmart and Sam's Club in the future.
GNC is facing increasing competition from wholesales warehouses, from drugstores and from walmart...it just cannot afford letting the core product it carries get too deep into these channels. On, the other hand if Walmart can increase brand awareness of a brand it carries through impulse purchase products like protein bars, thatll probably work for it....if not, then Musclepharm will have to come up with a product line exclusively for Walmart.
Inventory optimization at GNC means not buying anything that Walmart carries.
Musclepharm and EAS, each their own:
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/arnold-iron-whey-5lbs-vanilla/prod15290501.ip
https://www.gnc.com/pwr/product-reviews/EAS/p/2176132-EAS-reg-Myoplex-reg-LITE-Chocolate-Cream.html
The retailers are the ones that got the power...Musclepharm thought that the Musclepharm products were indispensable for retailers because of Tiger Woods and Arnold Schwarzenegger...unfortunately that's not the case.
It was all about an Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sydney Rollock fck up in trying to get Arnold Iron into Walmart.
Other customers got mad, the pricing and payment terms were horrible...and it damaged the Arnold Iron brand.
Now, Musclepharm has been taught the hard way, why no major brand puts it's branded products in Walmart....GNC and Vitaminshoppe stop ordering your products.
GNC or Vitaminshoppe clearly threatened Musclepharm to cut the ties with it if it didn't drop the Walmart and Sam's Club channel. So, they stopped ordering products from Musclepharm until the products were cleared sufficiently from the shelves of Walmart.
Notice that GNC doesn't carry the Six Star line from MuscleTech nor the Body Fortress line from Nature's Bounty.
Revenue of $40-50 million is just fine....that would make it closer to break even point, down a few million. Getting out of Walmart and lowering the manufacturing costs, that is what saves Musclepharm.
Too much authority had been given to Sydney Rollock and he didn't know more about Sales and Marketing than somebody working at Best Buy.
Musclepharm is adjusting it's organization to higher revenue...In Q3 and Q4, it lacked the flexibility in cost structure to deal with fluctuating sales....it probably needs to compensate all those that work in marketing and sales based on quarterly sales numbers and it needs to outsource logistics.
partially speculation, partially public information that confirms that somebody left around the time of the $4 million loan.
The company surely cannot sustain the SG & A nor the cost of goods sold of Q3 and Q4...that is quite obvious.
Sydney Rollock or some badly executed business process screwed things up in Q3 and Q4 last year....We will never get the whole truth as the company has declined to comment. All we can do is hoping there ain't any other issues that haven't been disclosed to investors.
..and that it might be trying to associate itself with the crossfit crowd
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What's up with this?
I guess the involvement indicates that Musclepharm has no plans of neglecting the hardcore/pro segment...
Musclepharm needs to get back to Sam's Club...in the $43-45 price range for 5 lbs and with the Arnold Muscle Bar.
It might not be worth dealing with Walmart or other off price channels until Musclepharm got enough revenue to cover endorsements and sponsorships expenses, until it got separate brand similar to Six Star and Body Fortress, and until Musclepharm got it's own manufacturing. Both MuscleTech and Nature's Bounty got their own manufacturing for the Six Star and Body Fortress products.
I think that Musclepharm is betting on selling for $10 million per quarter on protein bars....and that it is betting on doubling international sales.
Musclepharm had to buy back the 250,000 shares from Cocrystal's escrow...I believe it was part of the settlement with Cocrystal because Musclepharm was returned the other 350,000 shares of the 600,000 shares that Cocrystal held in escrow as security.
There was some give and take going on....nevertheless....Musclepharm spent $2.5 million in Q4 to buy these shares back, and another $2.5 million in Q3 to pay down the old credit line. The new credit line costed $40,000 to establish
So, it pretty much started Q4 with $2.95 million in additional cash to work with for operations...which was too little dealing with Walmart's squeezed margins and delayed payments....
In Q1, I think Musclepharm laid off 60 full time employees saving approximately $1 million per quarter, furthermore, I think that it is saving approx. $1 million per quarter on manufacturing, and that it is earning $5.5 million more because of increased sales....meaning that Musclepharm is $7 million better than last quarter....but still down $3 million.
I know that everybody is so fascinated with Apple's products..my dad got an ipad, my sister got an iphone like everybody else....but I don't want any of Apple's products
I lost all respect for Steve Jobs when he tried to treat cancer with herbs....that just told me that he was another foolish white man out of California.
Anyways, apart from Coca Cola or Mercedes Benz, I don't think that there many companies that always will be around....sooner or later most companies vanish.
are we talking about Denver in United States? I mean, no Ceo makes 4 times what a regular guy makes anywhere in America....
Perhaps in Denmark that is the most equal society in the World....it might be that a Ceo is happy with 4 times the high school teacher's salary..
a chevy colorado and some copenhagen straight, that's deep space in a nutshell.
where I live there is not a Russian or a Jew worth less that. Hell, an apartment at the ocean costs at least $3 million and all those Lambos cars, Ferretti yachts, rolex watches....God knows what they cost.
anybody that builds something up wants to get paid....so, if he is not being granted more for a while it is all good.
That said, he should have granted the stocks little by little, in order to be able to raise capital when the stock price is high.
Musclepharm burned money on a gym years ago with money from initial investors and creditors...I honestly could not care less.
The gym helped to brand an emerging company in a much cheaper way than by signing multi million dollar endorsements and sponsorship contracts.
Nature Sport may already have been developed....and is just awaiting to be manufactured and launched.
Correct. I meant accounts receivable not accounts payable.
There is not that much window dressing when you under investigation by the SEC. The SEC can demand to evaluate inventory with their own people, and they can demand proof of accounts payable.
Musclepharm is a little more restricted than other companies.
they don't live from paying endorsements and sponsorships and not selling anything.
They do need to cut expenditures and they are....but at the end of the day, they need to make sure they sell enough of high margin products....which I think they do now.
Walmart was a little too much of a task for Musclepharm in q4, and the mistake took resources out of the business. Coco Protein wasn't too successful of a product either, and it probably drained the company for resources leading up the quarter.
However, the MP Combat Crunch project has been a successful one....Musclepharm is the most successful sports nutrition company for bodybuilders in the lucrative protein bar product category.