RE: SBTX25 Oct 2021 11:01
Just heard from my best friend Suha Appleman (SA), the African matchbox seller who is stockpiling boxes of matches in the biggest test he could rent ready for his product launch this Friday. He's selling his matches to the 6M strong tribe of Uncle Sam who live across the pond who do not have fire. He has had a huge amount of interest and enquiries from Uncle Sam which he told me was increasing at "an alarming rate". He's then employed all the local tribe making matches 24/7 to fill his order.
Well he asked me to help fund this enterprise, and myself among others put in quite a lot of money to aid him as we believe his magic slow burn formula made from 5 ingredients, will enable even the poorest firelighter in tribe Uncle sam to get a blaze going to cook food to make them feel and look better, rather than eating their normal raw meat.
Well my mate SA, hes a pretty shrewd and charismatic guy, who tells me that "hes never let any one down" , and I believe him. Also heard that just in case the tribe making matches lose his "slow burn formula", hes stockpiling extra matches to ensure supply available so he can guarantee fire to those in Uncle Sam who subscribe to his matchbox delivery service by fed ex. Also his current tribe want to do other things so are making a set number of matches to order.
Well his previously appointed packer came to me saying SA has bought in a professional team to handle distribution so he wont not be limited to 10 boxes a day. As I've a vested interest in this investment I asked the packer exactly what he had in his tent last Friday. Well he told me those matchboxes are big at 165 X 120 X 30mm and hold 28 matches each, and as SA has got his eyes on expansion, hes fitting them on EU pallets, so can fit 40 per level, or 400 per foot so 1600 on a pallet 4 feet high. Also just before he left last friday he counted 138 pallets, or 221K boxes, With more still arriving.
Well I know SA was planning on a soft launch which I fully endorse, however the word soft is often open to misinterpretation, just ask my misses, when I;ve been on the Friday night root beer .
However I'm really pleased with this, and have just been pondering what my mates order size is...... and this bit is just me thinking of production run sizes and rounded orders I'd go 250k boxes or 7M matches.
So as always "hold em golden tickets".