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Scup you didn't stay up late enough to get your wish, but you will wake up to some nice information anyway lol.
A good day for winning brands shareholders as well....WOW that is great news!!!!
Nov
24
Open Source Ratings: Very Good Result for Winning Brands
by Eric Lehner
.Qualification to do business with the U.S. government through the General Services Administration now requires the submission of an independently determined performance score pertaining to key operating characteristics, including:
Reliability
Cost
Order Accuracy
Delivery Timeliness
Quality
Business Relations
Personnel
Customer Support
Responsiveness
The information is gleaned by a third party organization - an agency considered by the U.S. government to be objective and reliable for such information gathering. A score is created, which is considered indicative of the likelihood of performance. It is based on an algorithm derived from the analysis of feedback which the investigative agency receives in private correspondence and discussions with our commercial customer base.
The General Services Administration looks for scores of 80 or above. Our score was 92. No category of review received a score of less than 90 in our case.
Earning this rating is not something that money can buy. No dialogue between the commercial customers and the rating agency flowed through ourselves. It was direct and confidential as between the commercial customers and the rating agency. We do not have a license to publish the detailed findings nor to provide any direct quotations, however the document will form part of the legal due diligence for the end of year Management Discussion and Analysis which will be reviewed by legal counsel in the drafting of the Opinion Letter in the next reporting cycle.
This assessment has been going on quietly in the background for a long time. I read the results for the first time today.
A good day for Winning Brands.
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Here is some of my fresh new thoughts for you. We all know the Geico commercials with the pig and the groundhogs have an extremely high rating, and have made a nice impact on the company. I think Eric needs to consider this in new advertising commercials. I think he could get a family of monkeys, and have the mother monkey cleaning up mustard, ketchup, marker, and wine stains created by the baby monkey. At the end, have a saying something like this..."Winning Colours is so safe, effective, and easy to use even a monkey can use it."
That's pretty much because they have been doing the same thing for several years....solid foundational growth. The very reason I invested, and honestly I enjoy watching the growth process as it's happening.
Let me add a little insight to your opinion below based on business knowledge in general, and DD based on the company.
The company has and continues to dilute in a responsible manner to raise capital for company operations and growth initiatives, and the amount of capital being raised through 504's is decreasing as revenue increases.
diluting their stock into the ground is very much the company's fault.
Misleading shareholders in any way and diluting their stock
How many initiatves did they put out a press release on that made it sound like this company was going to take off that completely ended up flopping or stalling out. DRTV, Army, Military, C-store, ISK, Trackmoist, Piggly Wiggly, Canada Walmart, Smart Wet Cleaning, Mexico, N Korea, Germany, China, India and the list goes on.
IMO the stock is moving based on investors/traders see Q4 shaping up to be a nice quarter for winning brands, and speculating that the new year will bring forth growth at a level the company has never experienced in the past. Some prefer to get in cheap and sell at levels much higher, while others will sit on the sidelines complaining and make the same mistake they made before..."buy high and sell for a loss"
The technical side of the stock is also looking good right now as well, so it's really a combination of both.
Bla bla bla, been using Winning Colours for many years, and have eliminated most other cleaners from my cabinet. One only needs to be smart enough to follow directions to use it successfully in most applications....just my opinion from years of successful use.
Nope it doesn't take a genious to bring a bottle home, in fact it only requires a minimal IQ to follow directions to use correctly, also I guess there are people who prefer a toxic chemical smell over the banana smell lol.
It doesnt take a genious to bring a bottle home and find out it that it wont take out set in stains very well and that the order is unpleasant.
lol, it could have just been a professional courtesy for all I know lol
Haha,
minus of course their National Sales Manager Patricia Miles that has since left the company.
Anger and grudges will eat a person alive... Buying high and selling low is not the companies fault....move on, let it go, amd enjoy life!!
I don't either solar, maybe that was some info I wasn't privy too though. Seems that happened sometimes back then before the house cleaning took place.
Just my opinion, but I believe the PR today was nothing more than an attempt to please some overbearing shareholders. They have demanded news, and given the fact some things just take time for verification, the only news he could release at this time is nothing more than an operational update. When/if he releases verifiable news on these ventures in todays PR .... it will move with ease.
Over the holiday weekend we could get an update on progress from the Distribution America/ProGroup planning conference, or possibly the line review Eric attended this week, if he does it in the form of the CEO blog. If he decides to do it through a PR it probably wont be until next week. I'm looking forward to it either way.
It's quite ironic that the peeps who were slamming the stock while it was in the low 3's and upper 2's in hopes of loading the boat in the teens find themselves in quite a prediciment now lol.
They can forget about any large size loading without chasing the price up....uh oh the selling dried up lol
You need to contact your accountant for clarification. A wash trade is defined as selling for a loss, and having purchased replacement shares 30 days before or after the loss sell.
If you don't repurchase the shares sold for a loss, then the loss can be taken right up to the end of the year, and the t+3 rule has no bearing on that tax loss sale. So, if you sale for a loss on Dec. 30th, you can't repurchase the same security for 30 days in order to claim a tax loss on the stock.
I hope you got the rest of them filled at .0006 lol.
If you think this pig stinks I wouldn't buy if I were you. No need to buy any security you don't like.
After reading Eric's blog from last night it could be signals of things to come, or him only speculating on things he hopes to happen in the near future. Solar could be right in his post about things being close enough where Eric feels enough confidence to hinting toward a pending activation given the mistakes from the past...
Or:
It could be that some serious positive events transpired From the Distribution America/ProGroup executive planning conference last week that Lorne and Steve attanded. Many things could be in play here, and as for me.....I'll bet on Eric, and future success of WNBD.
One more comment on this silly salary idea.
This type of idea is only good for a short term trading play, and I'm sure Eric understands that. The only way to add continued value to this stock is growth through nationaly recognized retailers. When/if this happens all this salary crap will be forgotten, and those are the things Eric needs to remain focused on, and not some shareholders who belive him working for free will lead to success.
Get real dude lol, at the current share price it's less than 3 million shares a month...what a fleecing lol.
No takers on my poll???
Those who vote for Eric to work for free will have their shares converted to a new class of restricted shares on a 1:1 basis. The only shares purchased by these people duing this period will be the restricted class, and they will all remain restricted until Eric resumes taking his salary.
If "we" are all shareholders...E and crew are the only ones being rewarded for the consistent decline of this stock. Yes..they have to pay their own bills and should be paid something but for the commander-in-chief to take a pay raise (see filing) is wrong. Should he be asked to go without pay? I am sure he can afford it but maybe he needs to at minimum take a 2/3rds cut in pay. Shareholders on the outside are asked to be patient, sacrificing their money (and health for some) in good faith that E will turn this thing around... where is E's sacrifice? That he appears to work 24/7? He is the CEO..that is his job. His sacrifice should always be the biggest. If he wants to ask people to have faith in him, to trust what he says...he needs to show the same type of sacrifice.
Let's think about this for a minute:
Shareholders have been demanding things from Eric over the last 3 years I have been here. Some of these demands have merit at some point in time during the company's growth cycle, but increased pressure lead Eric to doing some of these things earlier than he would have liked IMO. Let's take a look at a few of the shareholder demands that Eric yeilded too, and the impact on the stock was detrimental. There are many that could be listed, but I'm just going to throw out a few.
Eric had mentioned he would begin filing when he felt the company was ready too do so, and moving forward. Shareholders began demanding he file financials immediatly. Eric followed shareholders wishes, and the stock has suffered ever since. As everyone knows that stocks move largely based on speculation, and the filings removed that aspect of the stock. If he had waited longer, and continue to focus his efforts and resources on growth instead of shareholder demands, it's possible the financials would have had a different impact on the share price.
Next would could move on to the demands of moving to a higher tier on the pink sheets market. The company once again spent valuable time and resources on this effort. Once again, because of poor decision making, and delays in getting approval the share price took a hit.
Then the demamds for awareness of the stock. I wouldn't say the hiring of an IR firm was a bad decision, but the effects it had on the stock were negligable, and it coust the company around 15k per quarter.
Now with this said I understand there are many other things which have impacted the stock, but my point is.... Let the man run the company, and we need to stop distracting him with these other ideas that may not prove fruitful.
I would like to see a survey of those who think Eric should give up compensation that would be willing to have their shares converted to a new class of shares, which would be restricted from trading until Eric begins to draw his salary, and any additional shares purchased could only be of the restricted class until the day Eric begins to draw a salary again.
haha, just trying to help in the decision of whether you will need therapy or not in this matter lol.
When you use winning colours does it create an unusual desire to do things you aren't normally accustomed to doing? lol
I hope that whole banana incident hasn't affected you mentally, but I'm now a bit concerned that it may have something to do with your love of winning colours haha.
I have fun everyday, no different than the weekend in my world. You seem to spin "even the point I make"... We have been through all this before, so I'll break it down like this.
Most here see the re-orders as a good thing, but you always find the need to look for something negative in the message. In this particular case your negative was it took them a long time to re-order, but I guess it took them that long to sell what they had lol. I simply stated the rate they sold at could be above the average of many other retailers, and possibly close the the goal set forth by the company.
Also, don't worry about my weekend, i'll be just fine lol.
What some call a stale mate, others call consolidation. There's nothing wrong with consolidating at a higher level over the last two trading sessions until we get a catalyst to send it higher. The chart looks good, but we need the news to attract new buyers in masses.
I agree 100% Mike, and I'm sure they didn't order them for kicks and grins, but that's just my opinion.
You know exactly what it means. You see the the speculated amount of 1 bottle every 1.86 days through that particular distributor as a bad thing, and I see it as a good thing.
Not quite the 1 bottle per/day goal desired by the company, but better than most, especially since the opening order was recieved in the early days of growth.
Not sure, but there are many sitting on the bid and the fence lol.
It depends of whether your glass is half full or half empty I guess. Given my last post, and the goal of the company to achieve 1 bottle per/day....Looks like they were doing better or as good as most retail at 1 bottle in every 1.86 days average.JMO
There is no way of knowing how many bottles they ordered the first time around, but the quantity on hand now is "0". You state it took them awhile to sell what they already had, and that is clear since it appears their last order date was in June of 2007. We all know that sales were extremely slow during the early years, but if they ordered the same amount (672 bottles) in June of 2007, and are currently out of product, then that's not a bad performance given the lack of product awareness in the early days.
Approx. 1250 days/672 bottles = 1 bottle every 1.86 days
Not the desired bottle per/day, but not bad either...in fact I think it's great given the early selling period, if that was the quantity of the order.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=56877022
So... 672 bottles divided among how many customers? I can't seem to find an exact number. It looks like the last time they ordered anything was in 2007? Hmmm...guess it took them awhile to sell what they already had.
That's why I referred to it as fake support in my other post, but left it out in the last one. I am certainly aware of what support is.
That's not necessairly correct. They are going to take the share price where they can find volume, and sell shares. They are creating the illusion of stronger bid support, and bringing the buying volume up to them. Naturally they can't keep the price high without buying pressure, but they are trying to sell as high as they can for their client.
They are only supplying support of about 30k-50k shares, thus allowing them to sell millions above that level... until someone hits their support....wash, rinse, and repeat
You can rest assured the MM's aren't averaging down. My opinion of the last couple of trading sessions are this. There is a large seller which has paid for broker support to move their paper. They are doing a very good job of unloading a ton of shares without completely destroying the share price. They will throw out small amounts of bid support through several different brokers to entice retail to buy at the ask. They will continue to walk it up as buying pressure increases, but as soon as someone else sells on the bid it completely knocks out all their small support...down to the actual real support. Then they will repeat the process with fake bid support until someone knocks it out from under them again.
The company needs capital for operations, and the only access is through dilution. Don't take this post as bashing the stock, because the seller could always dump the entire load on shareholders heads, but has chosen to use support. They make more money, and the stock doesn't completely implode this way. Hopefully the good news will be they will finish soon, and the stock can begin to move up again. Good luck to all.
I have no problem with anyone being excited or positive about their investment, but you are way over the top on this one with all this shorting, fake ask BS you are posting lol. I believe the only part of the banking business you are in is being paid to pump POS stocks by an institutional inverstor.....That about sums my thoughts up on the subject.