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Started: RetiredBanker, 17 Oct 2024 11:10
Last post: mxd2025, 10 Dec 2025
Comfortably retired in Monaco ?
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Company Name: DEMOS CICLITIRA LIMITED
Company Number: 00525529
Received for filing in Electronic Format on the: 27/08/2025 XE9TSMG3
Termination Details
Date of termination: 21/08/2025
Name: MR JOHN DAVID NIKOLAS CICLITIRA
**Headquartered in Basildon, Gerald McDonald Group is a family-owned business and the largest independent juice blender in the UK. For over 100 years it has supplied the food and drink sector with its wide range of juices, concentrates, herbs and spices.
The business has now acquired Demos Ciclitira, an importer and packer of dried ingredients including fruits, seeds and grains that has also operated in the region for nearly 100 years.
Hindsight is such a wonderful thing.
If over the period from Jun '22 to Jun '24 when I was averaging down on this PoS, I had instead been buying more stock in ALTN, I would now be sitting on a £250k profit instead of a £50k loss. Long live the Kazak Nepo Oligarch !
So what has happened here? Anybody in the know with any updates? It surely can't be that easy to just drift off into the abyss...
Feel for anyone who has lost money on this. I first came across this share when Justin Waite made a vid on it. Glad I merely added it to my watch list. But I made losses elsewhere like udog and Angus when the hype was there. The house always wins as they say. Just got to be more careful in future
Is that the final insult.
Started: John-Wild, 25 Apr 2025 15:45
Last post: John-Wild, 2 Aug 2025
Hi Darola
If you want to talk about my new business Iconic Bricks .
Email me at duncan@iconicbricks.com.
We did buy some of our old models and bricks back.
how to get in touch jw?
a retail park be me has an iconic bricks dinasour trail. i took a look at their website and it’s basically a reinvention of the old bright bricks. led by duncan the old founder. just goes to show how incompetent dc was. duncan started bb and lvcg bought it as a thriving company for 8m - although i don’t know how much of that him and his partners saw as it was mostly tied up in shares. on exiting duncan has started again and is building another thriving business - he slready employees more than 10 builders. so there was/is money in the bricks. dc unfortunately a genius at business structuring, funding and capital markets but a **** business man when it comes to making money for anybody else.
I have been in touch with the administrators as I’m looking to get some back for Iconic Bricks.
If any old investor's who lost out want to help out then please get in touch.
Still waiting for a firm date and who is doing the auction
Where did you see that the assets were going to auction? Thanks.
Just a pile of bricks left DC has taken everything else should be in jail. Asking people for money for what was already dead.
Started: eddieblack, 3 Jun 2025 21:49
Last post: eddieblack, 3 Jun 2025
360 items in the sale where's the rest lol
Brick sale has happened elephant and baby sold for £1150 1600 hrs build 5 builders as an example not even enough to clear what is owed. Robbed.
W w w.bllnr.com/art-craftmanship/my-favourite-things-david-ciclitira
I doubt there is a next step here. But someone seems to be doing ok :
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Were are all the bricks.when is the next step .
Its not even about the decimal place, its been liquidated check on companies house they couldn't even bother to rns it its gone for those who dont know!
Anyone else seeing this share at 30p . :-) must try harder Halifax , the decimal place is important ;-)
So in essence it’s dead!
At at the moment there is almost zero chance.. a winding up order can be reversed in 5 days but there is no business and a lot of debt, cs never came through but i dc has lied all the way through
Not moaning just informing people who don’t know what happened today so jog on
You sound surprised. You were warned last year but you chose instead to shoot down the messengers and ignore the warning. You need to accept your portion of responsibility and move on. Remember there are options open to you but its for you to decide if you want to take them. Moaning on here won't do you any good.
Dc is a liar!!! I will expose him in detail but right now i am not in the mood, he is an evil and heartless…
2 actually both are gone.
Forgive me don't know where you get your information from but It's wrong
15:35
He even had the cheek to get a few more grand out of sh recently to try and stop the winding up order, he knew people had already lost a lot. He is probably the most evil human i have ever encountered in my lifetime
Says DC in one breath, whilst forgetting he shafted shareholders by selling Startart for £m’s and buying back for 1/10 of the price. I do hope that business fails now LVCG can’t support its costs
I really don't want to carry on either I am very tired rather sick simply not well. I tried as hard as I could but we have run out of time I am afraid. I have lost £2 m and my health.
21:54
He is crying we have run out of time , i have lost £2m and my health .. what about us sh dc?
Started: ThereSheGoes, 14 Sep 2024 10:42
Last post: asimpleinvestor, 15 Sep 2024
😂
Sigh of relief for you Simple. You can get a good nights sleep now.
I said i will not post, i do not hold czn, i posted on there once to ask a question to conpare it to lvcg as they did a rto too and ended up with 10 times more shares!!
If knco's portfolio consists of Curzon and here no wonder he has lost the plot. He needs to appoint someone with power of attorney over his finances to protect him from his own actions.
Euston...You had me concerned for a moment as I believed I was familiar with all the shares in my portfolio. However, after reviewing, I realised I do not hold any investments in CZN. It seems they faced similar challenges as seen here, and the administrators had to initiate a CVA to rescue the company, which was then followed by significant dilution to lift the suspension of trading. That is one hell of a placing compared to the current shares in issue and can understand the drop on Friday. Talk about shareholders abandoning ship...
Is KNCO baby reindeer in disguise?
Sent frm mi ifone
Started: ThereSheGoes, 9 Sep 2024 14:44
Last post: LodovicoBuonarro, 13 Sep 2024
Zero hope of any return, will not get accounts done or relist
So do we still have hope off some return?
Hell is depicted as a place brimming with energy and excitement, while heaven is considered serene; the latter often imagined as a realm of boredom, sitting on a cloud, idly strumming a harp, amidst relatives one might have sought to avoid in life.
Hopefully karma inflicts some of the pain and suffering DC has endured on shareholders
Dantes 9 circles of hell would be appropriate
In a word - YES.
I wouldn't be surprised to see this parasite make a derisory offer (as in £1) for the share capital in a reverse takeover next...
Welcome to iteration 22 of Parallel Media/LVCG whatever he calls his bandwagon next....
The Company announces that, following its recent announcements, BLI was placed into administration during the afternoon of 12 September and that Ben Woodthorpe and Simon Jagger of ReSolve Advisory Limited have been appointed as Joint Administrators of that business (the 'BLI Administrators').
The potential restructuring and/or sale of assets of BLI will be realised by the BLI Administrators in due course and, where surplus funds are generated, these will be distributed as payments to BLI creditors in accordance with the statutory priority.
For expressions of interest in the business and/or assets of BLI, please contact ReSolve on 020 8066 3858 or by emailing daniel.hashemi@resolvegroupuk.com.
Trading in the Company's shares are currently suspended pursuant to AIM Rule 40 and late publishing of the annual accounts.
Further to the appointment of the BLI Administrator, the Company has effectively ceased to control and conduct all, or substantially all, of its existing trading business, activities or assets and accordingly the Company will be regarded as an "AIM Rule 15 cash shell" as defined under the AIM Rules. Subject to any other matters, AIM Rule 15 states that the Company has six months to make an acquisition or acquisitions which constitute a reverse takeover under AIM Rule 14 after which the shares would be suspended.
Live Company Sports and Entertainment (Pty) Limited and KPOP Lux Limited remain within the group but are currently inactive.
The Company announces that the hearing for the winding up petition that was heard yesterday in relation to its creditor Creative Technology Northern Europe AB has been deferred until 8 October 2024. LVCG has been notified of two statutory demands pending, cumulatively totalling circa £40,000. These are both disputed and an application will be made to court to have both set aside.
The Company continues to consult with its re-structuring advisors with a view to putting LVCG into administration as soon as is practical. The Company and its administrators, when appointed, will continue to investigate opportunities for maintaining some ongoing value for shareholders.
The Company announces that its substantive business, Brick Live International Limited ('BLI'), has filed a Notice of Intention to appoint administrators with the Court and will update the market further shortly.
Started: Hughesleisure, 9 Sep 2024 19:24
Last post: Euston2283, 10 Sep 2024
Just wondering if our shareholder representative will be in court today representing the shareholder?
DC is displaying his sociopathic tendencies in trying to give shareholders hope, when there is none.
He’s playing with us like a cat with a mouse. The mouse will die but the cat likes to play and prolong the suffering of the mouse for their own entertainment.
It’s a sick scenario, but it’s in both the cats and DC’s nature, they can’t help themselves.
He feels nothing from ruining lives and losing life savings. In fact, he has returned to take more (to keep the company alive). He sold us a dead duck in smart art for over £1m and then took it back at 1/10 of the price. It shouldn’t be legal and I would love it if he became personally liable for his misdemeanours.
He clearly didn’t pay anyone but himself
DC might not generate any revenue if the winding-up order is approved. The court could hold the directors personally accountable for the company's debts including his Director loans and potentially impose a ban on serving as a director for up to five years.
Congratulation DC. 21st company and shareholders screwed. Even DC's rampers could not save this company, but on the bright side, DC still makes more money and lives the high life in Monaco . On the brighter side, Karma is coming as all of DC's corrupt money will do him no good. Health not good and getting worse, no hope in the long term I suspect. What goes around comes around.
Started: aimofthegame6, 9 Sep 2024 14:28
Last post: Knigel, 9 Sep 2024
First - I sincerely apologise to those who warned us - I didn’t get why non holders would keep posting - but you did have past experience of DC… I held this share on and off for years but agree that the patterns were (now) clear what the end game was - probably since the London KPOP cancellation - personally I felt the company should have gone ahead with the dates even if it meant a loss - reputation etc. StartArt was a sham - DC just kept creaming off money from this venture. The sad truth is that if someone capable had been at the helm - we could have done ok with KPOP and the sports division. The only good thing to come out of this is that DC will never again be allowed near a listed company. Btw I do hope TSG posts soon - he was apparently in the room and surely he can give us a summary of what went wrong - we apparently had two cornerstone investors ready to invest since a few months ago!!! Apologies again - when I invest next time I probably will stay off the chat rooms…
Raising £1m of investor funds to buy out a private company owned by DC .. by a company listed and owned by DC. Always been evident what the game was here, finally found out and hopefully karma reaches the right places.
Started: asimpleinvestor, 9 Sep 2024 07:24
Last post: Euston2283, 9 Sep 2024
TSG the shareholder rep telling everyone "not to jump to negative conclusions" on 29th August. What are your thoughts and words now? DC has screwed us all including you.
Congratulations to DC. The plan all along was to screw small hard working investors out of their hard earned money. The Monaco lifestyle is expensive after all ! The plan worked and he has a nice smile on his face at our expense. I am down 8.6% of my total shares investment.........but others are a life savings down. Enjoy the money while you can DC.....revenge is a dish best served cold!
The models are all built from ABS bricks and the LEGO and unbranded are used in the same way.It would take a lot of extra hours on the build time just to put the LEGO bricks on the outside. I know as we tried it once.
Ah the bricks.
Something some of you may not be aware of.
When building a set, the interior (hidden) bricks are made up of cheap, poor quality blocks. The best quality (lego) blocks are only used on the outside.
If you've been using a calculation with a price for lego blocks for all their blocks (or Ciclitira has been using it to give a high estimate) then you need to re evaluate.
The real value, if any, in the sets is the steel.
Personal liability: Directors may be personally liable for company debts if they are found to have acted wrongfully or fraudulently
These are the legal consequences of a winding up order
Fair point. I thought years ago you could only be a director of failed companies 3 times. Have the rules changed or is England that desperate.
DC has already screwed shareholders of 21 companies. Why should he stop now?
I'm sure he will when he's got every penny he can out of it before the plugs pulled. Wonder what his next adventure will be called if he ha the gaul to go public ??
Couple tours to do DC taking every last penny he can. Needs to take his head out off the sand and just tell us.
I agree pal that probably only chance is a reverse take over as I said a few weeks ago, but I hoped that was the corner stone investor's. Think this our last chance as it seems DC proves even more that he couldn't run a pi** up in a brewery.
Started: Hughesleisure, 2 Sep 2024 13:52
Last post: Knco, 4 Sep 2024
Last time it was suspended the company gave a reason as to why it shouldn’t be struck off the next day after the notice in the gazette, so i was expecting something on companies house today. this can only mean one thing!
I’ve been in some too and i know a little about what is happening here. Its not coming back unless dc wants it to lets put it that way!
Knco - you remind me of a former poster who flipped flopped weekly and left their stress online - please put into one post what you are currently putting in 3-4-5 posts - for your own sanity - there isn’t a dime we can do about this until the next RNS and I been in shareholder action groups and cannot recall them ever making a difference - sorry..
Still not statement to say cause has been shown why it shouldnt be struck off.
Some will try to keep you hoping here but this is not going to come back imo, dc has screwed everyone, the man has no shame and no conscience
Started: 212hl, 23 Aug 2024 10:17
Last post: Euston2283, 3 Sep 2024
TSG.....Could you give us an idea of how DC defines the word "soon" as in news coming soon! Is it in hours, days, weeks or as we have all guessed.......MONTHS!!
Placing involves a subscription by Scott Kaintz, a director of Curzon, for 966,667,200 new Ordinary Shares in the Company (the "Director Shares"), at the Placing Price being £0.0003 per new Ordinary Share.
Been doing some research on cva’s and admin, there was an rns fron curzon, nominal value was 1p yet they raised shares at .0003 ? The proposal didnt go through but the placees ended up owning 92% of the company? Not sure if i read the rns correctly but i thought you cant do a placing below nominal value, can someone explain?
Please remember this is DC we are talking about. Formulating a plan is not in his skillset......bull$#itting the shareholder is. Communicating with the shareholder is a no go for him as well. I am hoping for good news but I doubt we will get any. DC is not fit to run a bath let alone a company on AIM.
Tsg has said there might be an update but don’t jump to negative conclusions, i am sure there is a plan so lets just wait and see.
I was starting to think TSG was DC - if there’s a more positive RNS in the next week or so that I am obviously wrong… Bennster has the right mindset - believe your investment is now zero as at least there’s only possible upside from there GLA
As nice as those sets look, this will not change the fate of lvcg
Just came back from Uxbridge - Chimes - nice set on display:
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https://pasteboard.co/tMSWb4T74YrX.jpg
https://pasteboard.co/sgbmjaicT8tQ.jpg
GLA
Started: Knco, 21 Aug 2024 13:38
Last post: asimpleinvestor, 22 Aug 2024
Because we can knigel and know it winds you up so. I'm quite aware investing in this share was a piece of bad judgement on my part but I was sensible enough to sell but you yourself have admitted the same and yet you chose to stay so what does that say about you. I wont rub it in but I will continue to post for the reasons I have already given in an earlier post. You're a Democrat but you don't believe in the democratic right to post on an open forum and utilising the right of free speech to share an opinion. You can't make it up.
Why in earth do some of the NON HOLDERS continuing to post on a share which we know won’t have news until late September!!!? You do know that since you held the shares not so long ago - your constant trashing just shows what poor investment judgment YOU have! It’s laughable and foolish but perhaps trolling is some kind of drug to you to cope with your miserable lives… anyway I sit and wait - we will get the accounts audited late September (unless they won’t sign off on the going concern note) and then it will either be very good news or very bad news - as a democrat and positive person - I will also focus on a positive outcome - it’s simply a better way to live - so pleaseeee switch off and Wait!!!!!
The company cannot afford to hire individuals/companies with a proven track record for establishing, managing, and operating a music festival; such expertise does not come cheaply, nor is it available on a buy now pay later basis. Consequently, it falls among the many second-tier hopefuls who believe they can profit significantly on a low budget but often end up bankrupt in the attempt.
Welcome to reality KNCO. This has been a disaster with DC in charge. Glad to see you are not telling everyone to throw the kitchen sink at this share and buy buy buy. It's now a dogs dinner at best.
Kpop is lucrative, it’s not kpop that has led the company to this situation, rather it’s the management and execution. Dc is not fit for this role. If it was led by someone with a proven track record we could have potentially made a decent profit.
Started: eddieblack, 19 Aug 2024 20:59
Last post: asimpleinvestor, 21 Aug 2024
To be honest I haven't looked at vast for a while as I think DC and AP are sharing a villa in an undisclosed secret location somewhere keeping their heads down
Good point Simple. By the way "steward1" over on Vast had a question for you. Not sure if you have seen it.
He couldn't say that even if he wanted to under Market Abuse regulations. He has to follow the letter of the law eddieblack.
Yea that's how I read what's going to happen. wish he would just come out and say it .couple off bricklive tours to cream off then that will be it. DEAD
The RNS said end of Sept for accounts filing. I read that as end of Sept we might hear some news. It doesn't matter any more, we all know what's happening here.
If you want an update on KPOP check out the website - still advertising July 12-13 2024 in Frankfurt.
If you want an update on Startart - that cost us a load, made a loss and is now back in his hands.
If you want an update on Formula-e, DC had a great weekend but it's not on this year.
If you want an update in bricklive talk to the guy who took over the business.
If you still think there's a cornerstone investor waiting to make your money back go see a shrink
Remember what we are left with - a pile of bricks with secured loan against them and debt.
Started: PrivateRyan, 9 Aug 2024 09:27
Last post: asimpleinvestor, 9 Aug 2024
Suedee5 - Curiosity about how it unfolds remains. Having been invested for a considerable period, and despite having sold my holdings prior to suspension a second time, I retain an interest in its developments to ascertain if it represents a future investment opportunity worth revisiting. There are shares I've relinquished without further interest, others that pique my interest yet remain uninvested, and those I currently hold. Then there are shares like this one, from which I've divested, but continue to monitor in case my initial assessment was mistaken, and the company proves worthy of revisiting. Nothing sinister I assure you. The loss of a few quid is immaterial, if anything it helps to reduce my CGT bill, as they were held in my trading account rather than my ISA, something DC is adept at.
Thanks Tsg. Thanks for the work you are doing for shareholders Sorry to hear your news My experience when I worked for a bank was that many of the people I knew got new jobs virtually immediately and were actually happier and more prosperous in a new role. Good luck and fingers crossed lvcg will come good and surprise us all!
TSG - I hope things turn out well for you. I was employed by a large retail employer for 35 years that suddenly went bust due to covid. I was thankfully tupe to a new employer which I didn’t enjoy so eventually took a career break but now happy with a new employer. These situations can work in your favour but obviously it’s a shock and you need time to consider all your options GL and we appreciate your updates
Thank you TSG, I totally understand you can’t divulge anything at this stage and need some time out, I personally appreciate everything you are doing as our SH representative.
Im really sorry to hear that you may be made redundant, I truly hope things work out for you.
Sorry I was posting to ASI before I saw your message.
ASI, to a degree, I do agree with some of your comments, the company may have engineered this predicament, however, we don’t know the reasons why at this stage.
I would like to ask you a genuine question, you’ve confessed that you’ve sold out, so please explain what your fascination is with the company, it’s not that you can influence SP or protectional investors, the only thing I can think of is your angry that things haven’t panned out as you’d hoped and you’ve lost money, if this is the case, surly as an investor we all know the pitfalls.
Iv lost money in other companies but Iv licked my wounds and moved on.
I’m just intrigued why you post here, no sarcasm intended just trying to understand.
Started: eddieblack, 3 Aug 2024 17:25
Last post: LodovicoBuonarro, 4 Aug 2024
Is it any wonder there are no updates of staff are not being paid or getting worthless shares
Could we have any updates as to where we are with bricklive tours. as they don't update page not been done in ages must be busy 😂.as this seems to now being the only income we have.
Started: LodovicoBuonarro, 3 Aug 2024 16:26
Last post: Euston2283, 4 Aug 2024
The kpop reputation for this company is in tatters amongst the fans. They are fully aware of past disappointments.
So DC put in his own money to keep the company afloat!
Or, was it to remove Startart to make for a cleaner administration? How many millions did he make selling a percentage of start art and then buying it back at a fraction of the price. Dodgy dealing at best.
When the company goes under he has his convertible loan that entitles him to the Lego sets and bricks so that will be his security sorted.
Is it not the Directors duty to act in the interest of shareholders?
I’m not convinced the cornerstone investors exist, who would invest in a kpop related business when our reputation is in tatters?
Let’s see what September brings, or December or March 25
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