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I'm sure he is advising George in a number of ways.
I agree. I've e-mailed George and Ken several times over the last year and haven't gotten a response. The RealHemp guys are very good about returning e-mails and phone calls, but they can only speak for the hemp operations.
Ken needs to be replaced with someone a little more respectful to shareholders.
Hopefully management can learn how to share things with the market.
$0.04s.
Agreed.
It's a real shame management doesn't feel like they should update shareholders on their stevia operations, given stevia's recent headlines and the fact that stevia/aquaculture are the only things making money right now.
George's tax company's website: http://www.edutaxadvisors.com/
George is trying to run a multi-million dollar company, I'd hope he's not responding to e-mails from shareholders with 0.01% stake in the company. Ken's the problem here. Communicating with investors is the job of IR, it's in the job title. Ken's PRs totally lack focus and communicate virtually nothing, and he may as well not have e-mail.
He needs to be replaced.
I've spoken with a few big investors about STEV and they all think it's a scam because of the dilution and the unbelievable incompetence Ken has shown in the way he's handled IR over the course of the last 12 months.
There's no question -- he needs to be replaced.
Ken needs to be replaced. Simple as that. He is totally incompetent.
The idea that the company will potentially split into two is big news and deserves its own PR, not one line at the bottom of an unrelated PR.
The company raised capital for its (stevia-focused) farm management operations/expansion in 2014 by releasing a timely PR about registering a hemp subsidiary to raise its share price, and then added 60,000,000 shares to the market.
Very little of that capital has been invested into hemp operations, as evidenced by the lack of revenue. Instead, they've taken all of the capital raised by hemp/cannabidiol-focused PRs and invested it into stevia and aquaculture operations.
Now that they've wrung all of the capital they can from hemp/CBD hype, they want to split up the assets? Why? So they can make a clean break? Put hemp/CBD behind them? Is this George's plan -- raise the A/S to 750,000,000 so there are plenty of shares to dilute the next time a bubble forms and he can release another series of hype PRs?
Is the management really so unaware as to how this appears to shareholders?
Maybe they have a good explanation, but sharing this information in one line at the bottom of an unrelated PR is a little self-sabotaging. George needs to replace this IR as soon as possible and find representatives who will attract investors -- not raise questions about the legitimacy of the company.
Q1 just ended. March 31 is the end of Q4 for STEV. We'll get the Q1 financials in July.
What advantage would they get from splitting the company into two public companies?
Taking a break from the forum. Will continue corresponding with some of the good longs here via e-mail. Contributed all of my DD last year and now I'm just sort of wasting time here. Good luck to all!
BTW, if we aren't already e-mailing, PM me your address and I'll send you a hello.
The RealHemp guys did a great job with their website. Ken could learn a thing or two about communication.
Are we going down to $0.01 before a rebound? Will there be a rebound? Not if Ken has his way.
This is weird as hell but I like it.
Today THCZ announced a stevia sweetened beverage. The PR shows up under STEV on eTrade. Let's expect a PR about this soon? Maybe we are supplying hemp and stevia.
Next we'll supply aquaculture and produce some sort of strange fish, hemp, stevia hybrid drink. It'll be a diet drink because you'll puke your brains out after the first sip.
George and Ken do PR non-material things. They do not PR material things. This is the bullshit game we play with IR at Stevia Corp.
George is "cautious," yet we have a half-dozen PRs with hypothetical patents (applications filed) "in development" and advisory board appointments. Meanwhile, we have actual, material hemp products for sale and receive no update. George is so afraid of damaging his reputation that he makes poor PR choices and damages his reputation. Ken's head is too far up his own ass to see this, and the 22-year-old public relations manager is obviously related to or sleeping with one of the managers of the company because she doesn't seem to be doing a damn thing about it either.
Dilution and lack of publicity.
Ken needs to be replaced. No doubt about it.
Good volume today.
LOL. We'll bounce off it. In one direction or the other.
200DMA -- WE'RE COMING FOR YOU!
Fed Up is now on Netflix. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the stevia side of this business.
Welcome back.
Open the floodgates!
Agreed. Hope Ken & George share this information soon.
I mean $10M in revenue for 2014, and the IP that produced it.
Don't underestimate the value of this company's farm management system, which can be licensed out as IP. Everyone is focused on CBD but there is a lot of money to be made elsewhere.
I would imagine another PR is coming with information about their bulk products.
"We have been working hard to bring products to market and want to give you a sneak-peek. What do you think? #realhemp" https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCp-kYLVIAAfaj3.jpg
https://twitter.com/RealHempLLC/
RealHempStore in July, same month as financials. Good chance we'll break $10M in revenue for 2014.
C'mon, George. Feed the chickens!!!
BTW, no hard feelings to Ken or Jessica. I'm obviously full of shit and having fun at their expense. We need updates, though. Get on it.
I would imagine Ken represents several public companies and that Stevia Corp. is low on his priority list. It's time to replace him and find someone who is ready to keep investors informed through this company's next stage of development and operation. In the off chance that Stevia Corp. is the only client he represents, then it's definitely time to replace him. Flush the incompetence. Jessica Scott must go as well.
Can shareholders proxy vote to replace Ken and his IR firm?
I'm disappointed in Ken and George for not updating shareholders. They raised a ton of capital last year and very little of it has gone to RealHemp. The majority has been devoted to operations in Asia and we have received no updates about them except that we should expect a 50% larger harvest. That's a great update, but what else? And if you're hesitant to share information about the new joint ventures or ongoing aquaculture operations, why not share that the RealHemp products are now available for bulk purchase? It's on the website, but we need a PR and blast e-mail.
The continued raising of capital and dilution would have a negligible effect on our share price if Ken and George updated the shareholders as to how this capital is being allocated, and what the results of these ventures are. Obviously the longs here trust George to run a successful company and make good decisions about capital investment, but we need some information if we're to continue buying shares and putting money in.
I've e-mailed IR several times about this, but Ken is too busy counting his money to acknowledge any of it.
Just need Ken to PR about our hemp products.
"Looking for #bulk #Cannabidiol (CBD)? We can supply 1kg or larger orders. goo.gl/69XPg4 pic.twitter.com/zeYgFcYEtU"
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