for more information about stanelco click on the links.

driver's research page link
http://www.moneyam.com/InvestorsRoom/posts.php?tid=7681#lastread
website link
http://www.stanelco.co.uk/index.htm

CHICAGO (AFX) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. went outside its ranks to find a chief financial officer for the international division, naming Wan Ling Martello on Thursday.

Martello is the latest in the revolving door of top managers at the world's largest retailer .

The executive will join the company's Bentonville, Ark., headquarters on Nov. 14. In her last job, she was president of the U.S. division of NCH Marketing Services Inc., which provides management solutions to manufacturers, merchandisers and retailers throughout the world.

She has held other financial positions at NCH and was a corporate controller for Borden Foods when it was owned by Kravis Roberts & Co. She also held various financial posts at Kraft Foods Inc.

Martello replaces John A. Lewis, a senior vice president who left Wal-Mart in June for a similar job at Safeway Inc.

no 7am RNS news about a deal with Walmart - could see a big SEO sell off on what could be - a very red Friday -

indicators say - sell off - not complete - on pause - for yesterday - resume today - ?

Bosley
Sorry to add to the confusion havent got time to post all of the info but here are the salient pastes from my files.

2/07/2005 SEO announces
SEO and SP Metal own Biotec SEO has the golden share. You may think that they are competitors but NB.
SEO is a IP Co specializing in Packaging and RF Technology only. (Full Stop) SEO do not manufacture Starpol film. They own 50% of Biotec who make Starpol 2000 pellets and resins.
SP metal is a converter of Biotec pellets into packaging products, ie plastic bags and films.
SEO call the Biotec film Starpol 2000.
SP Metal call it Biodegradable film.

Note the Road Map:-
19th July 2005 Stanelco confirms Mondini as Partner for Greenseal. (G. Mondini supply tray lidding machines to NatureWorks LLC etc. (Not in USA as far as I know)

Jul 26, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Stanelco Inc., the American subsidiary of British-based Stanelco Group (UK:SEO) , has received a conditional commitment from joint venture partner SP Metal to buy 10,000 metric tons of its new biodegradable resin material, Starpol 2000(TM), for $25 million a year

30 August 2005
Stanelco PLC ("Stanelco" or "the Company") Supply Agreement with NatureWorks LLC
Stanelco, has entered into a supply agreement with NatureWorks LLC, for PLA which is the largest component of Stanelco's recently announced Starpol 2000TM range of biodegradable, compostable plastic materials. A minimum of 15,000 tonnes of Starpol 2000TM will be produced and sold within the next 12 months.

Friday, September 16, 2005 (PR for NW Trial)
NatureWorks PLA Helps Delhaize Extend Environmentally-Friendly Packaging To Belgian Customers - Environmentally-aware consumers in Belgium can shop with good conscience at Delhaize supermarkets thanks to the introduction of fully compostable packaging for selected fresh produce.

NB NatureWorks have been supplying ordinary PLA packaging solutions to Delhaize for 12 mths.

The difference of 5,000 tons of Starpol in the figures above may account for the Asda contract.

Advanced Energy Industries Inc and Premier Technology may also be players in this charade.

SP Metal is a very large Co but probably has the worst PR. You can try to email them for clarification of where the 10,000 tons of Starpol is going, but dont hold your breath. They appear to operate on a need to know basis.

I know that packaging is now stanelcos main buisness, but I was wondering if the growth in japan might support the communications/. electronics side of the buisness and improve revenue From memory that seemed to be were a lot of their buisness came from. Does anyone elsa have any thoughts? Or have I got it all wrong!!!!

Lindos

Morning all.

Its not often that I agree with ii, but I think that the price is heading south now until a really positive RNS appears.

The results of the ASDA Starpol trial is two and half weeks away. Lets hope that we don't have to wait that long for something to bite on.

The oily one

Bema,
May be a bit late to add, but I am intrigued by the possibilities of the dissolvable sachet that sainsburys were to use for soup. Can't think how to phrase the question, but are there any movements or developements either on that front with sainsburys or any signs that this may be discussed with the Knorr/Heinz type companies, or even discussed with MOD type establishments as better field supplies?
Its another one of those where the possibilities just keep adding up and since the product is, in effect, developed I can't understand the quietness on that front.
Thanks,
Alan

Soup packets were always going to be low margin, low volume affairs; would a customer want to put a whole packet into a cup as well?

Hygiene reasons for me would make this a no!

Fair point sham, but if the packet was boiled the hygeine is not an issue, and leaving the retail market aside for a moment, outdoor type activity places are always looking for this kind of product as simple, lightweight, and easily disposed of, and they will pay a large premium for those attributes.
Can't help thinking, also, that armed forces worldwide, spend a great deal of time ensuring that they leave no trace of where they have been, for security reasons, and so have to take all the provisions packaging with them when they have used their supplies. If I was CO in the paras, or something I would want to know more about the potential applications!
I don't for one moment think it is a mega margin producing thing, but it intrigues me as to where the idea went.
Alan

Good point, didn't think of that angle.

Have read the sas books and they even carry their own faeces with them rather than leave them for someone to find!

Re the disolvable packaging. As i understand it back in the days when Reckitts were looking at the issue re washing powder, blocks etc, the idea was for the portions to be in the disolvable wraps which in turn would have been in a larger none disolvable ( but still biodegradable ) packet. The same would presumable be with soups, so the hygiene issue would not arise. The issue was more for convenience from what i remember and also the less waste.

Now 8:1 @ 14.5 : 15 and 560k v 25k

alan - you mean you're not a para? Always pictured you in a little red beret with strings coming out behind your ears and lots of silk floating behind you. Gosh, sorry, had you all wrong - lol!

sd

Ah,
Your getting mixed up, SD, between my daytime job and moonlighting as a fantasy fetishist gigolo!!
Alan

5:4 and 14.5 : 15 @ 265k v 285k

I just bought a cfd @ 15 - fingers crossed

morning. ynotif, a little convoluted but a possibilty that you are right. it just makes you wonder why seo don't make things less ambiguous in the announcements. maybe then howard wouldn't have to come out with crap like, "the market doesn't understand" .
alan, the dissolvable packaging is from aquasol and i believe is still there in the background.

baza

Agree andysmith re short term price movement without significant RNS (that don't expect). As he agrees ii it could be said that I agree ii!!! Important to see whether sp tests the 12p level again and if so whether it breaks that level. There could be signs that we are establishing a stable period - or relatively - with trading between 12p and 17p as bulls and bears slug it out. Dangerous time, methinks, for CFDs; at least until a definitite new trend is esablished..

Eric

"Major steps are also being made in both Europe and North America towards the commercialisation of a number of projects, particularly those involving Biotec's materials and Stanelco intends to update the market with these developments shortly."

Enough said

That was very cryptic Biscuit - Are you anticipating an announcement - or just reminding us what was said previously - or both ????

Eric/Andy - not what I wanted to hear - but respect your views. I sold out my previous cfd's at 16 - but wanted to be back in before Mondays announcement. Just felt that we had temporarily bottomed. I now get the feeling I may have called this one wrong - but will wait and watch.

Please dont say I told you so on Monday if it drops further - i will just quietly sell my cfd and reap my losses. Not touching my real shares - they are there to stay.
Baza

Bhunt, What margin are you getting on SEO's CFDs?


Interested have thought of using them on this share.