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Joe Roetheli is strong as they come! ABA AWARD for BEST BUSINESS IN AMERICA under 100 employees in 2005! He is involved in up to a dozen companies right now bringing products to market, consulting and funding...not to mention does almost more charity work than what really pays the bills.
Best of all...he is a real entrepreneur, not a crook. I've used his products, know where he lives, go to a restaurant next to his spa and have friends that know him on a personal basis. Who knows where this one goes, has to be one of the safest plays in these markets with huge upside.
S&M Nutec went up 92,000% from 1999-2007!
Can't wait to see what Joe is up to with AXGI!
Look me up if you need some help Superstar, doing a great job, awesome find. I may even run by one of the shops this week if the storm isn't too bad. Love this play!
PM for you on the stellar find! You and HDOG stacking up some serious DD!
AXGI~5 MIL FLOAT~ACTIVATED NV SOS~AMAZING CEO!
The real deal, I personally am familiar with the family and have purchased their products...one company $380 MIL in sales in 05!!!
HDOGTX Share Monday, January 31, 2011 2:15:13 PM
Re: INV286 post# 116 Post # of 136
New CEO is a specialist in taking companies public, buy and accumulate with only 5 mil float!!
Masked Superstar Share Wednesday, December 01, 2010 5:15:16 PM
Re: Masked Superstar post# 108 Post # of 136
Roetheli's evergreen persistence drives life
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2007/04/30/story13.html
Joe Roetheli has plenty of green to retire on, having built S&M NuTec LLC into the world's most successful dog treat company, then selling it to Mars Inc. last year.
But Roetheli, whose company sold 750 million Greenies in the decade he and his wife, Judy, owned it, claims he's lived only a third of his life -- 59 years.
"I plan to live to at least 150," Roetheli said at the modest North Kansas City headquarters of Key Companies & Associates LLC -- the umbrella for a stable of startups.
And considering the spunky entrepreneur's track record, it doesn't seem wise to bet against him or the Roethelis' half-dozen new companies.
"If I had to pick one person to make a new project successful, I'd pick Joe," said Brad Allen, who joined S&M NuTec in 2001 and remains COO of its successor, the Greenies Co.
Among the many reasons for Roetheli's success, Allen said, are his passions for learning and problem-solving.
Solving his wife's problem with their dog's smelly breath led Roetheli to develop Greenies, the teeth-cleaning, gum-disease-preventing treat that accounted for $380 million in 2005 sales.
Meanwhile, Roetheli's love of learning led him to "Blue Ocean Strategy," a recently published book that is helping the Roethelis screen new opportunities.
The trick, the book explains, is to offer compelling new products and services, thus avoiding commoditized markets and cutthroat pricing.
Using that strategy, the Roethelis have invested in new ventures such as a day spa in Briarcliff Village, a line of simple but innovative tools and a charcoal smoker distributorship.
But Joe Roetheli said entrepreneurs must use their heads as well as books.
"Think, think, think. And furthermore, think creatively," said Roetheli, who can boil any business situation down to a catchy credo.
To get to Roetheli's essence, however, you have to dig deep -- to his roots.
In 1854, a group of 25 Roethelis left Switzerland for the United States. Only three survived the sinking of their riverboat and a cholera epidemic that greeted the family in Hermann, Mo. Roetheli's great-grandfather, who was 9, was the oldest survivor.
Penniless but persistent, he eked out a living by farming in Hermann, as did Roetheli's grandfather and father. Meanwhile, Roetheli said, a branch of the family that remained on Swiss soil was passing on a persistence gene that a distant cousin would inherit.
In 2005, Serge Roetheli completed a five-year, around-the-world charity run for kids, with his wife, Nicole, tagging along on a motorcycle.
"Many times, while we were building our company," Joe Roetheli said, "I said, 'Whatever our hurdles are, they're nothing compared to what Serge and Nicole are facing.' That helped us find some way under, around or through any hurdle we faced."
Apparently, Roetheli added, he inherited some persistence, too.
The Roethelis needed plenty of it when they launched S&M NuTec because they were in short supply of capital, said Larry Lee, a director for the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Having given up his post as an economic development official for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Roetheli outsourced the manufacturing of Greenies. But even that would have been impossible to swing had he not been able to negotiate several equipment leases in which the lessors agreed to bear expensive mold costs.
"All the leasing companies told him no," Lee said, "But Joe just kept calling and calling until he wore the companies down -- all 17 of them."
Persuading bankers to back the venture was even harder for the two, who had no business or sales experience.
Later, after Greenies took off, a banker called on S&M NuTec and was promptly pelted with marshmallows.
"He had to learn what our culture was like if he wanted to do business with us," Roetheli said.
Having fun always has been central to that culture. So the Roethelis readily adopted the marshmallow-throwing practice, called Shenanigans, after a doctoral student at Rockhurst University told them it improves productivity by 20 percent.
"Whenever there was tension in the air, someone would get on the intercom and say, 'Everyone meet in the cafeteria for Shenanigans,'" Allen said. "Then everyone would go throw marshmallows at each other for four or five minutes."
Shenanigans might not be for every company. But any business would do well to emulate the way the Roethelis treated their 100 employees, Allen said.
Joe Roetheli was careful about whom he hired, interviewing each applicant personally and asking questions such as "Why is a manhole cover round?" to get into the job seeker's head.
Once selected, however, employees became kin and were richly rewarded for helping the cause, Allen said.
Today, helping others is an even bigger part of the Roethelis' cause. Among their new ventures is a nonprofit effort to produce inspiring videos, including one about Serge Roetheli. In addition, the couple's Li'l Red Foundation just announced $1.25 million in gifts to support entrepreneurship, pet therapy for the elderly, eye care in the Third World and help for the homeless in Jamaica.
"Before I got into business, my goal in life was to be a good husband and father and make enough money to support my family," Roetheli said. "Now my goal is to be a good husband and father and a creative entrepreneur who helps many others."
Joe Roetheli
Title: CEO of Key Companies & Associates LLC
Age: 59
Family: Wife, Judy; two sons, Steffan, 28, and Michael, 26
Education: Bachelor's in agricultural economics and doctorate in economics from the University of Missouri, master's in food and resource economics from the University of Florida
Hobbies: Working, hiking and traveling
Masked Superstar, great post...
Very familiar with the Roetheli's, buy Greenie's for my dog and Briarcliff Village is a very high end shopping center where they have their day spa.
http://briarcliffvillagekc.com/
AXGI...Very familiar with the Roetheli's, buy Greenie's for my dog and Briarcliff Village is a very high end shopping center where they have their day spa.
http://briarcliffvillagekc.com/
Masked Superstar Share Wednesday, December 01, 2010 5:15:16 PM
Re: Masked Superstar post# 108 Post # of 125
Roetheli's evergreen persistence drives life
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2007/04/30/story13.html
Joe Roetheli has plenty of green to retire on, having built S&M NuTec LLC into the world's most successful dog treat company, then selling it to Mars Inc. last year.
But Roetheli, whose company sold 750 million Greenies in the decade he and his wife, Judy, owned it, claims he's lived only a third of his life -- 59 years.
"I plan to live to at least 150," Roetheli said at the modest North Kansas City headquarters of Key Companies & Associates LLC -- the umbrella for a stable of startups.
And considering the spunky entrepreneur's track record, it doesn't seem wise to bet against him or the Roethelis' half-dozen new companies.
"If I had to pick one person to make a new project successful, I'd pick Joe," said Brad Allen, who joined S&M NuTec in 2001 and remains COO of its successor, the Greenies Co.
Among the many reasons for Roetheli's success, Allen said, are his passions for learning and problem-solving.
Solving his wife's problem with their dog's smelly breath led Roetheli to develop Greenies, the teeth-cleaning, gum-disease-preventing treat that accounted for $380 million in 2005 sales.
Meanwhile, Roetheli's love of learning led him to "Blue Ocean Strategy," a recently published book that is helping the Roethelis screen new opportunities.
The trick, the book explains, is to offer compelling new products and services, thus avoiding commoditized markets and cutthroat pricing.
Using that strategy, the Roethelis have invested in new ventures such as a day spa in Briarcliff Village, a line of simple but innovative tools and a charcoal smoker distributorship.
But Joe Roetheli said entrepreneurs must use their heads as well as books.
"Think, think, think. And furthermore, think creatively," said Roetheli, who can boil any business situation down to a catchy credo.
To get to Roetheli's essence, however, you have to dig deep -- to his roots.
In 1854, a group of 25 Roethelis left Switzerland for the United States. Only three survived the sinking of their riverboat and a cholera epidemic that greeted the family in Hermann, Mo. Roetheli's great-grandfather, who was 9, was the oldest survivor.
Penniless but persistent, he eked out a living by farming in Hermann, as did Roetheli's grandfather and father. Meanwhile, Roetheli said, a branch of the family that remained on Swiss soil was passing on a persistence gene that a distant cousin would inherit.
In 2005, Serge Roetheli completed a five-year, around-the-world charity run for kids, with his wife, Nicole, tagging along on a motorcycle.
"Many times, while we were building our company," Joe Roetheli said, "I said, 'Whatever our hurdles are, they're nothing compared to what Serge and Nicole are facing.' That helped us find some way under, around or through any hurdle we faced."
Apparently, Roetheli added, he inherited some persistence, too.
The Roethelis needed plenty of it when they launched S&M NuTec because they were in short supply of capital, said Larry Lee, a director for the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Having given up his post as an economic development official for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Roetheli outsourced the manufacturing of Greenies. But even that would have been impossible to swing had he not been able to negotiate several equipment leases in which the lessors agreed to bear expensive mold costs.
"All the leasing companies told him no," Lee said, "But Joe just kept calling and calling until he wore the companies down -- all 17 of them."
Persuading bankers to back the venture was even harder for the two, who had no business or sales experience.
Later, after Greenies took off, a banker called on S&M NuTec and was promptly pelted with marshmallows.
"He had to learn what our culture was like if he wanted to do business with us," Roetheli said.
Having fun always has been central to that culture. So the Roethelis readily adopted the marshmallow-throwing practice, called Shenanigans, after a doctoral student at Rockhurst University told them it improves productivity by 20 percent.
"Whenever there was tension in the air, someone would get on the intercom and say, 'Everyone meet in the cafeteria for Shenanigans,'" Allen said. "Then everyone would go throw marshmallows at each other for four or five minutes."
Shenanigans might not be for every company. But any business would do well to emulate the way the Roethelis treated their 100 employees, Allen said.
Joe Roetheli was careful about whom he hired, interviewing each applicant personally and asking questions such as "Why is a manhole cover round?" to get into the job seeker's head.
Once selected, however, employees became kin and were richly rewarded for helping the cause, Allen said.
Today, helping others is an even bigger part of the Roethelis' cause. Among their new ventures is a nonprofit effort to produce inspiring videos, including one about Serge Roetheli. In addition, the couple's Li'l Red Foundation just announced $1.25 million in gifts to support entrepreneurship, pet therapy for the elderly, eye care in the Third World and help for the homeless in Jamaica.
"Before I got into business, my goal in life was to be a good husband and father and make enough money to support my family," Roetheli said. "Now my goal is to be a good husband and father and a creative entrepreneur who helps many others."
Joe Roetheli
Title: CEO of Key Companies & Associates LLC
Age: 59
Family: Wife, Judy; two sons, Steffan, 28, and Michael, 26
Education: Bachelor's in agricultural economics and doctorate in economics from the University of Missouri, master's in food and resource economics from the University of Florida
Hobbies: Working, hiking and traveling
AXGI~Check out new info...ground floor right now on this one!
HDOGTX Share Monday, January 31, 2011 2:15:13 PM
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New CEO is a specialist in taking companies public, buy and accumulate with only 5 mil float!!
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=59368590
http://nvsos.gov/sosentitysearch/CorpDetails.aspx?lx8nvq=KSfJDPD4EHh9AMUQrPwAJw%253d%253d&nt7=0
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=57275748
AXGI has "layup" written all over it! Could be a fun one.
AXGI gettin love as new details coming out!
HDOGTX Share Monday, January 31, 2011 2:15:13 PM
Re: INV286 post# 116 Post # of 120
New CEO is a specialist in taking companies public, buy and accumulate with only 5 mil float!!
AXGI interesting info leaking out here, don't be left out. :)
AXGI could be a fun one Davo! Remarkable find H, as always. :)
AXGI~interesting info leaking out! :)
If that's what the magic 8 ball says I'll take some, have to start somewhere! :) You must know something we don't.
Interesting article about the Madoffs of penny stocks...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/28/us-nirgroup-hedgefunds-idUSTRE70R79I20110128
I would rather be lucky than good any day! About time things started picking up around here again, damn courts love to slow everything down.
Hopefully that gets back to being a habit around here. Could be a fun year for CNWD.
Looks like ICOA is getting some talk again, good to see.
Sorry to hear about the extent of your losses. I believe you are doing the right thing with that amount, at least you have the best chance of getting something back that way. Who is Sean, if you don't mind me asking? I haven't followed much around here for months because it makes me sick to my stomach. I think for $50k I would go have a face to face with these boys...actually, would have been there a long time ago. If there is anything real at all about ACLH the product seems phenominal...hope this year brings you some cash back.
GL
RIGH didn't turn out to be what many had expected that's for sure. When are they going to do something to stop this free fall? I really expected something to come through before Xmas but glad I didn't get back in. Hopefully they get this thing headed North again this spring.
Wow, is anyone ever going to finally take these clowns down? Put them beside Madoff!
LOCN gonna start getting jiggy with it again? Been kind of a strange ride so far but she seems to run like crazy when anything happens.
Keep your eyes on it, hopefully you get a chance to hit the upside. News will probably come out of nowhere at this point but it might not break so quickly, hopefully everyone gets a little momo when she finally starts moving again.
GL
From time to time you just got to go with it Liverkick!:)
Starting to get warmed up again in ICOAland...good to see.
One tick at a time...
Nice to see things turning green again over here, interesting company if it gets rolling.
Gl
Not much else to do at this point, not intelligently anyway. I want a small piece of the pie right now and will watch it closer than a 5 year old at the mall! If they drop any kind of news whatsoever CSCE is going to rock. If the news is substantial and verifiable...who knows what happens.
You know, for some strange reason, I think things are going to work out great with TRDY and whatever is going on may be completely out of Stan's control at the moment. I have seen it too many times in other businesses, experienced it myself and think there is a completely reasonable explanation that will eventually come out here. Normally, I would not say that about a stock in these markets and definately wouldn't continue to hold shares but something just feels different about TRDY.
I'm impatient just like everyone else, but if my top one or two scenarios play out here it will come together more like a bigger board type of play. If Stan is our man then he also has that kind of history so he isn't going to rush a bs PR just to make everyone happy. I want to hear something as soon as possible just like everyone else, but I am holding out for something pretty damn substantial.
In all stocks if a clear path isn't laid out in front of you, you just have to go with your gut and that's what I'm doing.
GL
It was a mess months ago when a couple of those non-supporting types continued to bring up nonsense about the old management and many folks were upset because they lost some money in a front loaded pump...including myself. That crap had nothing to do with whatever is developing here now though. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to look at the history and connections these guys bring to the table and I love it when insiders are buying more stock. When things finally come together and they pull the curtain back I think it will be worth the wait for sure.
GL
I really like the possibilities, unfortunately it's just pure speculation at this point. They could chose to do nothing with the shell for a long, long time, but I believe they have other intentions. Someone posted that they have been working on things behind the scenes for around 5 months already in case they were fortunate enough to pick up the shell in court. If that's truely the case, it all could come together rather quickly. I don't want to have too much money here until it all starts warming up again. However, if one PR, LOI or some kind of statement from the company comes out about what they plan to do with this shell, the PPS goes NORTH before most could catch it I think. Another interesting play here for sure.
A private company with ties to the oil and gas industry just picked up an abandoned shell company in court...pretty juicy start IMO.
Financials getting closer every day, greener days just over the horizon.
Goose egg, don't see that one often. Lookin forward to the turnaround, let's hope something worthwhile comes out of this mess.
No kidding, we've been keeping the fires burning long enough. hahaha! Funny thing, I'm not worried a bit that great news is coming, just going about my business until it does.
One of these days the boys are going to release news that changes the landscape around here, they have to be working on something substantial. Looking forward to finding out what grand plan is and if they are bringing any more of their wallstreet friends to the party.
Another great week H, enjoy your weekend!
Green is good, our day is a comin! :)
Just another week closer to the yellow brick road. Oil can Stan has a party to plan. :)
I have all kinds of hope now, any time you have a resident "non-supporter" I think that is a good thing! :)