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Speed maybe some of mgmt want to diversify their holdings, and not have all their financial assets in one firm. Some big. people have already risked their job and taken a big risk joining a startup with a product the market has never seen before. Tbat shows me deducation and belief. Now because they aren't doubling down it says the firm is going under and it's a scam? May be some have an ill relative they are a financially taken care of, maybe some are paying 50-60 grand a year for children's schooling...and don't have spare cash. All of them already have shares and Haven't left the company which also sends a message. Maybe their are rules during a negotiation (big retailers) that prohibits buying shares, I don't know the rules with this firm.
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AtR does not help this years revenue number. What the Ar helps with this year is having more cash on hand to help with the monthly bills/burn rate. I don't know if the 12 month bill paying cycle is for all business lines or just cotton? This 12 month cycle is not etched in stone and can get shortened as they become more established. First go round you make deals that is as easy on the customers as possible when ur trying to prove your worth. Once that's done you have leverage to change the pay cycle.
Is this an existing shareholder who is trying to sell from the prospectus? It would prevent dilution if that's the case.
This in addition to the sabby deal? Can't be
The pr from the retai deal is 2nd qtr Apdn time, meaning end of March.
Anyone have any color on how the new govt contract works with how they get paid? Is it paid by markings? Is it a flat fee for unlimited markings? The potential markings in the new deal is a monster compared with the previous agreement.
Anyone have the link for the heyward 2106 results from earlier in the week?
Dr on imperial call said the car company they have been marking was a large German manufacturer going into Scandinavia....o lord why don't u buy me a Mercedes Benz.. Mercedes not a bad car to start the proof on concept with. Swedish car company starting now. Also he mentioned the amount of parts military marked, 100,000 now with the 66 new areas is 146mm pieces. Has he mentioned anything about potential revs from military? This all under the same contract with no revenue upside???
How can they have that much in acts receivable when the revenue isn't that high? I'm missing something.
They start producing these type of pr's with numbers and results we will hopefully slow down the headwind we have been facing for 3 years. Encouraged When u see a business silo with MAJOR GLOBAL car manufacturers and potential insurance company's put their shoulder behind a project. Thai proof of concept easily transferred to other countries, especially if you have the major car company's buy in already. Feel better than yesterday, morale bar was extremely low.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/applied-dna-sciences-continues-its-successful-program-protecting-automobiles-in-scandinavia-2016-12-07-51603029?siteid=nbsh I like the fact they have listed this business was worth 500, 000 in revenues. If they add the backing of the insurance company's may be able to get a double or triple in revs in this silo alone for 2017.
Are u saying with the same amount of pounds of cotton marked they could possibly double revenue for 2017 because the ginners could control the unit flow?
Any way to hear the call now, or a transcript of the call available?
Anyone have any idea what the tracelink revenue numbers are? The articles mentioned fancy %'s that we all know don't mean much until The actual numbers are stated.
I will say nice to see all these countries around the globe who will have to comply with various tracing/serialization rules in the pharma sector. I would have to believe the example in cotton where Apdn has a global tracking solution should help in their pitch to pharma firms. The articles mention the fact the big pharma firms who sell drugs globally will have to conform to each country's rules that they plant to sell to. Have to believe Apdn has a strong solution for this industry.
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I would like to hear the ceo start to release earnings estimates on a quarterly basis. They have been producing revenue now for 2-3 years in cotton and 3-4 years in govt silo. Haywood is running a public company and Apdn needs to grow up and Stop this nonsense how they have NO IDEA OR CONTROL over revenues. They have been talking with major playes in the cotton industry from retailers to ginners and players around the globe, give us numbers you expect to hit. They have said they talk with the govt on a weekly basis where do we stand? if he continues to not comment on revenue in 2017 I will assume like 2016 he has none and we will be screwed.
Is Cyber Monday Infected with More Unscrupulous Fakes?
NOVEMBER 28, 2016 BY TIM JONES
ecommerce_salesToday is “Cyber Monday.” It’s the Internet’s response to Small Business Saturday, in which people are encouraged to shop online. Every year people are doing more of their shopping online, with an increase in online shopping in 2015 of 14.6%, online purchases made up over 10% of retail sales (excluding items like gasoline and automobiles).
America’s e-commerce surge is led, not surprisingly, by Amazon, which processed over $79 billion in online sales last year. Next come Wal-Mart, with $13 billion, and Apple with $12 billion. But is there trouble brewing in Amazon’s e-commerce operation?
Amazon has been infected with fake merchandise from unscrupulous counterfeiters. They create seemingly legitimate accounts in Amazon’s 3P (third party) sales area on the site, and proceed to hustle customers with counterfeit merchandise that looks like a real steal compared to the real thing. For a long time it seemed like Amazon was either unable, or unwilling to do anything about the fake merchandise on its virtual shelves.
But now Amazon has begun to fight back. Today Bloomberg reports that Amazon is creating registries to weed out fake sellers. This could be a response to the reluctance of major brands like Major League Baseball and the National Football League to sell their merchandise on Amazon for fear it will lead to more infringement. Bloomberg describes Amazon’s new strategy:
The new Amazon teams will encourage brands — even those that don’t sell on Amazon — to register with the online store, the person said. Once registered, Amazon requires any marketplace merchants listing those products to prove that they have the brand’s permission to sell them online. Amazon began experimenting with the registry earlier this year with Nike and other companies. The bigger push in 2017 will target thousands of large companies, including those that have been reluctant to sell on Amazon because of knock-offs.
After a brief decline during the financial crisis, growth in e-commerce sales shot right back to double digits. If shoppers are going to rely on the products they’re purchasing, Amazon will need to clamp down on fakes or risk seeing that sales growth slow.H
Have we had a patent award in the last year? 70 ish patents pending and seems the trail has gone cold.
I saw Apdn is speaking at the imperial capital conference and meeting with inst customers. I'm the first person to yell these pr's pay No Bills, but I will say being associated with Imperial is a step up from our association with Maxim. What's the saying about the people you hang out with?
1mill, I find it interesting that the us govt is letting Apdn now publicly display the relationship they have with the company. Hope this is a good sign of more business and the ability of Apdn to start telling shareholders more info about new govt revenue, as opposed to the top secret information we have been used to.
Judging by the pr's that have been released, the earning s should be pathetic. Down 30-40% from 2015 maybe more. My take the dr comes out and says this was the first year we moved into a sales type business model and we have made some substantial in roads that will start to generate meaningful revenues in 2017. The longer they go with not releasing revenue pr's, the longer the downward draft will continue.
1 mill, I saw your post a few days back quoting some potential huge revenue numbers. With the paltry revenue received so far, vs a lot of time and effort put in from the govt silo, how do u see that potential increase happening. Grasping for any potential avenues of increased revenue here. I repeat potential.
Janice how much revenue on the new deal, hoperully more than the last contract. This trust in the defense contract should help sway other silos of biz, from the standpoint it's good enough for defense dept should be good enough for a plastic manufacturer.
Hopefully with the Egyptian cotton down so much because of counterfeit it reflects on how important the brand name like supima is to protect. It should be a great talking point for the industry of Cotton growers to show important it is to do what ever it takes to protect the brand i.e. Acala or supima, or be driven out of relevancy like Egyptian cotton seems to be at the moment. Hopefully Egyptian growers are ringing Apdn phones as we speak
Here is an article that sums up the cotton game the last couple years and what's happening now more importantly. Biggest question is where is Apdn in the mix. Is Cairo using their technology. This information would be very helpful to shareholders, what influence they have in the global cotton platform?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-14/dirty-linen-a-bed-sheets-scandal-is-roiling-the-cotton-industry
I would like to think Apdn has a much better handle on the usage of the shipped markings now as opposed to 2015 when they first started this. They say now 40mm was used 2015, with 2016 usage 150 million lbs. nice increase but the bigger question is how many lbs do they need to ship to make a real $$ impact with no other impactful renenue at the firm? 2017 they need to double 2016 usage, Is that possible at this stage to grow the usage to 300 million lbs? What's 300 million worth in revenue, 6mm? 9mm? 12mm? Burn rate is the enemy as we all know.
1mill I have no color on the logic behind the size of the investment. Not sure if that is the initial size sabby likes to open positions with, or that was all Apdn wanted to part with on the dilution front. Hopefully this dilution has some strategic benefit behind the investment. They seem to be known in the healthcare investment biz with I think close to 70% of the fund in Healthcare. I would assume from all their investments they are able to get close to a lot of managements thru their due diligence and continued investment holdings. They may be able to get the Apdn word in front of a bunch of the CEOs in their portfolios. Maybe we sold 10% of the company for the closer that we are all asking for in at least the healthcare space?? Time will tell.
1mill lets hope your right with potential deals but on the surface raising 5mm tells me nothing imminent. On the flip side maybe they had the ability to raise 5mm real quick, from one institutional investor and it's always better to raise money when you can than when you have to. Still waiting for the cotton to grow, only business line so far that can move the revenue needle.
Industry veterans who can't close. What they can close can't generate enough money to pay the bills. Focus on the highest revenue producing products. A 2nd grader can figure that out. Only saving grace the employees are getting diluted with us. This should light a fire under their arrse of the employees to close something.
Just a reply to the fines ..in context, not taking sides. . Anytime ur associated is not a good thing, sometimes it's A circumstance . They are not alone, u make the call
SEC Charges Six Firms for Short Selling Violations in Advance of Stock Offerings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2015-239
Washington D.C., Oct. 14, 2015 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced enforcement actions against six firms, including more than $2.5 million in monetary sanctions and, in the case of one previously sanctioned firm, an order barring the firm from participating in stock offerings for a period of one year as part of its ongoing enforcement initiative focused on violations of Rule 105 of Regulation M.
Intended to preserve the independent pricing mechanisms of the securities markets and prevent stock price manipulation, Rule 105 prohibits firms from participating in public stock offerings after selling short those same stocks.
Through its Rule 105 Initiative, which was first announced in 2013 as an effort to address violations of the rule in an expedited and streamlined way, the Division of Enforcement has taken action on every Rule 105 violation over a de minimis amount that has come to its attention—promoting a message of zero tolerance for these offenses. As a result, based on available information, the SEC has seen a dramatic decrease in Rule 105 violations since the Initiative began. In the first fiscal year after the Initiative was announced, Rule 105 violations, detected through various means available to the SEC, decreased by approximately 90 percent over the previous six years. Rule 105 violations in fiscal year 2015 were similarly lower than before the Initiative.
“This highly successful program of streamlined investigations and resolutions of Rule 105 violations has clearly had an important deterrent impact on the market while expending a fraction of the resources that we have dedicated in the past,” said Andrew J. Ceresney, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. “We will continue to target important violations that we see repeatedly with multiple actions that send important messages of deterrence.”
Rule 105 typically prohibits short selling a stock within five business days of participating in an offering for that same stock. Such dual activity typically results in illicit profits for the trader while reducing the offering proceeds for a company by artificially depressing the market price shortly before the company prices the stock. The SEC’s investigations in the current round found that 6 firms engaged in short selling of particular stocks shortly before they bought shares from an underwriter, broker, or dealer participating in a follow-on public offering. Each firm has agreed to settle the SEC’s charges and pay a combined total of more than $2.5 million in disgorgement, interest, and penalties.
The six settlements announced today involved the following entities:
Auriga Global Investors, Sociedad de Valores, S.A. – The Spain-based firm agreed to pay disgorgement of $436,940.52, prejudgment interest of $2,184.70, and a penalty of $179,277.28.
Harvest Capital Strategies LLC – The California-based firm agreed to pay disgorgement of $18,835, prejudgment interest of $619.28, and a penalty of $65,000.
J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. – The New York-based firm agreed to pay disgorgement of $662,763, prejudgment interest of $56,758.40, and a penalty of $364,689.
Omega Advisors, Inc. – The New York-based firm agreed to pay disgorgement of $68,340, prejudgment interest of $686.58, and a penalty of $65,000.
Sabby Management LLC – New Jersey-based firm agreed to pay disgorgement of $184,747.10, prejudgment interest of $2,331.51, and a penalty of $91,669.95.
War Chest Capital Partners LLC – The New York-based firm agreed to pay disgorgement of $179,516, prejudgment interest of $22,302.02, and a penalty of $150,000.
In the initiative’s initial round in 2013, enforcement actions were brought against 23 firms and resulted in more than $14.4 million in monetary sanctions. In a second round of sanctions announced in 2014, enforcement actions were brought against 19 firms and one individual trader and resulted in more than $9 million in monetary sanctions.
This third round of the initiative also demonstrates the benefits of cooperation. In contrast to nearly every other firm subject to the Initiative, War Chest Capital Partners LLC, a respondent in the SEC’s first sweep in 2013, refused at that time to review its past trading to determine whether additional violations not identified by the Division of Enforcement had occurred. The division subsequently found seven additional Rule 105 violations by War Chest, and, as a result, has today brought a second action against War Chest with increased sanctions. Under today’s order against War Chest, the firm is now subject to a censure, a significant penalty, and conduct-based order prohibiting it from participating in secondary offerings for a period of one year.
The SEC’s investigations were conducted by Lauren B. Poper, Allen A. Flood, and Christina M. Adams and supervised by Anita B. Bandy. The SEC appreciates the assistance of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Some background info on our new investor... Hal Mintz seems to be a known investor in healthcare. His fund is right around 2 billion. We are already posted in the investment list.
http://www.insidermonkey.com/hedge-fund/sabby+capital/568/
The dilution everyone knew was coming and judging from press releases have to assume revenues will be down 30-40% in 2016. Only positive is its an institutional customer who took down the whole piece who has heard the story and has information that we don't have and took down 5mm worth. Hopefully worst is behind us. Cub fans have to be happy first batter goes yard.
Why wouldn't they release the revenue numbers before the cash raise and drive the sale price up for the new investment?
I will say the quality of the brooks brother shirt that now claims American grown supima is a noticeable difference. Apdn has to be involved here.
Another day . No revenue
From the millennium post article on ur last post...are these guys competitors? They speak about our technology are they saying it's better but still in infancy? This was April as stated below.
After years of experiments, Mohamed A M Negm of the Interregional Cooperative Research Network on Cotton for the Mediterranean & Middle East Regions and Suzan H Sanad of the Cotton Research Institute, Egypt, have developed the CTAB (cetyl trimethylammonium bromide) method to extract DNA from Egyptian cotton fibres throughout the supply chain, from farming till the finished product. The isolated DNA is then used to identify varieties of cotton, thus establishing the authenticity of the product.
In April, US-based company Applied DNA Sciences introduced a DNA authentication technology which can identify premium extra-long staple kinds of cotton that have been “blended” with shorter staple cotton, according to company claims. But it is still early days for the technology.
“There are only about half a dozen laboratories across the world which can conduct such DNA tests with precision,” says K R Kranthi, director, Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur. “The nuclear DNA in the fibre gets degraded with various stages of processing of the fabric. It is challenging to find out the level of contamination.” With gaps in testing, Egyptian cotton fakes continue to flood the market.
old sheets. They now have some brands they can prove are legit.(thanks to Apdn I assume). Give them a lot of credit for offering full refunds going back a bunch of years. Has to cost them a lot of $$$. Hope that makes them very strict with vendors to have to prove their goods are 100% pure, which should lead a path right to the Apdn front door. Any other vendors they can use to prove 100% pure cotton? If not where and when is the revenue?
My mother emailed me this note. (Thanks Mrs. Otis)) . One of the few moms who knows about counterfeit cotton thanks to my pumping..
This is a Costco Label Advisory:
This is not a health or safety concern.
Our records indicate that you purchased Charisma Egyptian cotton bed sheets at Costco between August 1, 2012 and August 31, 2016.
While your sheets met or exceeded all quality testing parameters including thread count, it has recently come to our attention that there may be a possibility that another type of cotton may have been blended into the sheets.
If you are not 100% satisfied with your sheets in any way, please feel free to return them to Costco for a full refund.
Thank You.
This thing ain't moving to revenue pr's get released which we all know. Dr get some closers on board and show us some money and some sales. Industry experts who have never had to ask for an order look great on pr's, but you need seasoned industry sales people. Does Apdn have them??