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

what institutional interest is there apart from family?

Thanks, oilywag, although I don't plan to go but happy to rely on feedback from Sharesure. Interesting that day after bank holiday: analysts will be even higher with their sun surfeit!

zscrooge: interesting that only holdings announcement this year has been Age of Reason Foundation which is family. Two placings were probably concentrated on institutions but not particularly large so wouldn't result in any holding over the 3% level. KBC Peel Hunt will have handlred the placings and they would be likely to palce with institutions and significant private investors, I would think.

Eric

Biotec and Starpol is my interest from EGM, what are the intended focussed product lines and who is interested in these products, I suspect large US retailers?
Greenseal is happening and will deliver good profits in the coming years however Starpol could IMO have even bigger potential due to the bio-degradability compared with ever increasing plastic costs and packaging waste regulations.
Recylability via Greenseal is a good step, bio-degradability could be even better.

If it is commercially viable (and I would hope that SEO have done their homework and it is) then Starpol and Greenseal combined could save the large retailers not only money up front in terms of lower costs, but lower fuel bills, lower product waste and a key one, lower packaging waste taxes.
The new Environmental legislation will be a key driver for changes in the way our food is packed, companies already have people with responsibility to record the amount of packaging waste, plastic/paper/wood/metal and it is an area of particular focus to reduce or replace with recyclable/returnable/biodegradable products.

Investors in SEO from sp <10p should not worry about fluctuations in sp, it should not have gone to 30p as early as May based upon "early" speculation of a Walmart deal and then we would not have had the bashers/shorters taking advantage but I can understand twitchiness of folk who got in late as the market has corrected the sp based upon current information and that is the key point here, it now has credible figures and future profit streams, in 2004 it was hope, 2005 its reality and in 2006 decent profits should start to happen for SEO and its investors.
Patience folks, SEO have created huge potential (even IC said as much) it now needs SEO management to deliver this to the market, lets hope they are just as capable of doing this.

In Moneyweek there is an interesting article about the 5 great investors of the 20th century - Peter Lynch of Fidelity renown, Eddie Lampert next generation to legendary Warren Buffett, daddy of them all Benjamin Graham (RIP) and Sir John Templeton (who ascribed his vast fortune to "consistently selling too early"!) still going strong at 92! I intend to leave these 3 pages to each of my children (with, maybe, 10,000 each in cash) as the most valuable legacy they could receive. Then I will feel comfortable about spending everything else I have on myself whilst I am still alive to enjoy it!

Peter Lynch's holy grail was the "ten-bagger" a share that makes 10 X its value within about 5 years - annual return ~160%.

SEO is undoubtedly made of the stuff of ten-baggers. Can you imagine an SP of 1.45p ( I bought in first at 8.125p, topping up several times since for an average price of 14.47p) by 2010 - I certainly can (if not well before then) and I certainly intend to be there to prove it.

sd

morning all. good posts. up a bit this morning. nice.

only up from the silly no volume print on friday...

proptrade, what do you mean by "no volume print"?

Hi All,

Nice big buying ahead of the EGM :)

Could tick up nicely by friday !

Cheers,
PM

Hi PM,

Yes I think we could be on an upward curve again now.

sorry, i meant that it was just 124 shares only that market them at 19.25 instead of 19.5. in the uncrossing there was 24,000 to buy at 19.50 and 24,124 to sell at 19.25. means not alot so the "rise" today is basically the right price as of Friday.

didn't mean to flumox anyone with some non existant jargon!

rgds
PT

well, that's alright , then!!

Nothing new in this article from Food Production Daily.com - but more exposure for SEO

http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/news-ng.asp?n=60066-stanelco-markets-new

Baza

Hi All,

Some general news items, handy 'big picture' stuff ....

Cheers,
PM


Despite the relentless attacks on Wal-Mart by community groups and labor unions, the local benefits provided by Wal-Mart far outweigh the costs, say Harvard University business professor Pankaj Ghemawat and business consultant Ken Mark.

http://www.ncpa.org/newdpd/dpdarticle.php?article_id=2148




Another future target for Greenseal and Starpol 2000 ....
Woolworths Ltd., Australia's biggest supermarket company, increased second-half profit 21 percent after cutting costs for supplying its grocery stores and buying a liquor retailer (The Australian Woolworths isn't related to London-based Woolworths Group Plc, which was founded in 1909 as part of its U.S. parent's expansion, or Woolworths Holdings Ltd., located in Cape Town, South Africa.) Chief Executive Roger Corbett has automated ordering systems and reduced inventory to cut costs as he battles Coles Myer Ltd. in Australia's A$70 billion-a-year food, liquor and grocery market.

http://www.freshplaza.com/2005/22aug/rn2_au_woolworths.htm




Supermarket rivals face off in China

French hypermarket giant Carrefour will face new competition in China when its U.S. rival Wal-Mart opens its first branch in the city of Pudong. The two chains arrived in China just a year apart -- with Carrefour making the first debut there in 1995, reported France's Le Figaro newspaper Friday. Carrefour has opened 62 stores in China and is expected to open four more by the year's end. Arkansas-based Wal-Mart opened its 48th store in China this week, and is expected to open to others in the near future. The American chain is expected to open 12 to 15 stores by the year's end, Le Figaro reports, and reach 90 by the end of 2006. For the moment, however, Carrefour leads the competition in China, with sales estimated at $1.94 billion annually, Le Figaro reports.

http://www.freshplaza.com/2005/22aug/rn2_cn_walmartcarrefour.htm





Tesco to open 20 more Malaysian stores over five years

The British Tesco supermarket giant plans to expand substantially in Malaysia, opening 20 more stores within the next five years, a report said Sunday. Tesco -- the world's third biggest retailer after US giant Wal-Mart and France's Carrefour -- operates in 12 countries in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.

http://www.freshplaza.com/2005/22aug/rn2_my_tesco.htm

Fairly old news but worth posting.
Wal-Mart to Open 365 New Stores in 2005


http://journals.aol.com/mbergdahl/Wal-MartCompetition/entries/806

Written by mbergdahl

Gives breif but good info re the Walmart intentions re new stores ect opening this year.

here we go.

again.

Aaaaah - but its Tuesday tomorrow - and you never know what might happen - maybe an RNS??

i don't think so , baza. i hope i'm wrong , but i think we are just going to have to wait for the egm statement.

baza, take a look at icu. got some last week and it's doing ok. could be a good one.

Hi All,

Anyone watch the close today ????

The mid shot up to 1p up, then dropped back to .5p up, then back to 1p up, then back to .75p up, and all in the space of a minute, and the bid and ask were the wrong way round, and both below the mid at one point !

I reckon the 1m, 1.5m and 600k are all buys, so only .5m sold today.

Blue start tomorrow, buying on speculation of news next tuesday, could be 28p by friday, following a similar rise on the speculation of a Wal-Mart or Tetrapack deal at the beginning of May '05 :)

Next weekend is going to be one VERY long weekend for SEO shareholders :))))

Cheers,
PM