Yes, Three Graces is quite a curveball... Doesn't seem to exist though. Seems to be just another vapor company and announcement that cannot be confirmed or denied. And the only Three Graces I could find is a trademark owned by a winery in Australia. Hmmmm.
This looks a lot like the 2009 announcements of distribution of a non-existent Thai beer and a similar non-existent Armenian Cognac. Of course none of the announcements ever materialized as deals or sales. And I'm going to add a new twist... Anyone ever hear the name Paul Fuegner or run into him during REAL DD? Suggest you google him. He was the Dan Senters of 2009 except a helluva' lot more experienced, seasoned and capable. He didn't last long at Marani though. Seems just several months and having gotten hold of his resume recently, all evidence of anything to do with Marani has been removed. This guy was an all-star. Way beyond anything Dan Senters has done and unlike Senters, a documented history of each and every position over the past 30 years from Sara Lee to Skyy Vodka where he doubled sales. Regardless the point is, the game plan from 2009 is being followed to the letter. Let's look at 2009:
Marani becomes a public company and raises big $$$... Magrit talks about worldwide distribution of Marani Vodka... Marani announces new bottle design... Marani announces hiring media company for advertising... Marani announces contrats for $50 million for India, Dubai, Pacific Rim and South America... Marani announces the addition of beer, wine and cognac distribution deals... Marani announces entry into Von's, Ralphs and 1500 retail outlets... Marani hires Paul Fuegner to execute Marani sales plan for worldwide distribution... Stock soars to $2 and O/S is expanded to 175M shares ... Marani reports $26 million accumulated loss on $400K in gross sales... Marani ceases operations. Any of this sound familiar?
Let's move to 2013...
Marani sells a huge amount of stock and issues more to take care of debt... raises big $$$... Magrit talks to media about relaunch and worldwide distribution of Marani Vodka... Marani announce a new bottle design... Marani hires Broadcat West for advertising... Marani announces $100 million plus in contracts for Brazil, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain and Monaco... Marani announces the addition of other products, cognac, wine, et. al... Marani announces entry into Costco... Marani hires Dan Senters to execute Marani's plan for worldwide distribution... Stock soars from $.0001 to $.04 and O/S is expanded from 175M to over 500M... Marani reports $2500 in sales since the relaunch... Accumulated loss expand past $31M... See above for what's next in this all too transparent game plan.
It's not "like" 2009-2010... It's IDENTICAL. And just wait till you see what I've found out peeling this onion of a company through the corporate machinations and maneuvering. It's an unreal web and I think the complexity of it was intentional. A Nevada company acting as the public entity through a proxy "private" California company but the California company is actually the controlling entity even though it is wholly owned subsidiary of the Nevada company... it goes on and on. I haven't been able to figure it all out but it's just not right. There are also so many non arms length transaction and transfers along with egregious conflicts of interests. Magrit and family have been on both sides of so many transactions. She even collects a consulting fee privately from what I can tell for each private placement. You guys have a big mess on your hands and that $2,000,000 debt is growing every day. We won't even go into the accumulated loss. If Magrit and family do what they did in 2009 and give themselves $6 million is cash and stock consideration that loss should be well into the $40 million range.
