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Hopefully the next update will give some firmer timetable of expected milestones in the process.
It was 4 months between the updates received, so another 4 months will be getting close to the proposed target completion, although that date slipped almost 2 months over the period between those previous updates.
I would expect the shares to relist prior to completion once a formalised deal is agreed, but not expecting any change until 'late summer' as a vague RNS might word it.
I have a Spain trip planned for mid-August which usually means news will land when i am most likely to miss it.
It has been a long wait, but still hopeful of recouping some of my losses long written off here.
gla
Binbin,
Correct that TGR sold this product directly to a German buyer.
I believe TSG is effectively an intermediary used to sell to the India market only, and is necessary for for legal reasons for operating in India. This does not fit in with the narrative that some are keen to portray though.
The RNS was positive for me too
Same subwoofer. I had written mine off a long time ago and was just waiting for a bit of a rise on any news prior to the suspension to take the losses and write off against CGT. I am ok for this tax year now, so like everyone will just wait and see. Still looking at a big hit, but anything I can get back here will be seen as a bonus payment. Not expecting much, so expectations realistic. Good luck
Some good points there stevemc
A question. You have posted here telling us what you think management should do. Have you emailed the company with the same suggestion?
If not, it's a bit pointless unless you think they spend their time reading this board for advice on how to run the company.
Why not contact them and report back, if only to complain if they do not reply
I think people are knocking TGR for the sake of knocking them now.
Of course BP would not RNS the price of oil. TGR are not a billion dollar company with huge assets and a worldwide enterprise.
Let's at least have some perspective on this RNS
Those being vocal about the company being taken private will just pivot to a new theory, or continue to call the board liars.
The vat refund will make a big difference and will certainly help with ongoing funding. Let's see how soon 'imminent' is in this regard.
Nothing in this news release to change my gold stance here. The company has taken steps to make changes, enforced or not and some will be more happy than others, as is always the case.
Let's see what impact this news has, if any on the SP today. Volumes will be interesting.
gla
Dyor, etc
Oh dear, another 'I'm right, everyone listen to me' merchant.
A member for one month posting about buying Ferraris, Bugattis, Aston Martins, diamonds and becoming a stock billionaire.
Filtered
Positive news on North Fork has been a long time coming, much like everywhere else.
It could be a catalyst for some SP movement, but I would not be at all surprised at anything here at present. Certainly not expecting huge gains on news, but anything that can start to turn the tide of bad sentiment here and at least give the SP a positive nudge would be a start
Does there have to be a reason of note behind the 2 trades? One party might have been looking to either buy or sell and the broker managed to match it with someone wanting to do the opposite.
You see these things all of the time, but it only seems to become important when people start looking into absolutely everything that goes on with a company to try and make everything mean something more important than it is (good or bad, depending on how they are looking to interpret it and present it as 'proof' to validate their particular view).
For me, it is now the gas storage where the value is at here, and why I will remain a holder, but the question is how much will ANGS have to put towards any collaboration and where will the money come from for their share?
I don't think even any new sidetrack will add that much given the time and cost ANGS will no doubt take and Brockham will be no different. They will just be expensive and delay-filled exercises, perhaps only covering their costs if successful (if) and take valuable time and resources away from what is clearly the money-maker with the SFB site.
ANGS lucked out with the SFB site and location, and need to make the most from it by getting on with the storage solution.
Imo
BM,
I guess all this depends on how far you want to drill down into everything. For me, it is not important given the responses I have from TGR.
In the reply I received, it has been stated that larger consumers buy directly from source (e.g. TGR) while smaller consumers buy from intermediaries in their region. Pranagraf are noted as one intermediary source in India, so not even a monopoly in India although I do not know who else they may use, perhaps it is regional agents given the size of the Country.
Although India is stated as their largest market, it suggests to me that not all of India demand goes via Pranagraf, and neither does non-India demand (U.S.A. Europe, Japan, etc).
The company had advised that there are no preferential terms for Pranagraf and all deals are disclosed as related party transactions.
I do not know how much exactly goes via Pranagraf (I have not looked into this, tbh) but my takeaway is that it is not everything in India and certainly not everything worldwide as has been suggested.
Any and all details will be scrutinised in any case, although again, this will be open to interpretation.
I think too much is being made of the company structure and relationships with suppliers/connected parties, and it is a concerted effort by a disgruntled investor to look for things to knock TGR in any way possible to put doubts into others.
Not saying you shouldn't dyor and feel comfortable with the set up yourself, but for me, these aspects have been done to death now and I won't be commenting on them any more.
I would again direct anyone with specific questions to take them directly to the company. They may even offer you a site visit to Madagascar for your interest!
Thanks for that appraisal Starbright. It looks to be a balanced view to me.
I know a lot have moaned about how long the refinancing was taking, myself included, but just looking at the RNS, even as a non-expert on the matter any reasonable person can surely see how complicated the process must have been to get agreement with so many parties involved.
Glad it is now out of the way, although as I have posted many times over the past few years, Balcombe/Brockham, etc is of no interest to me.
I have some breathing space here now as I have mitigated any CGT requirements for this tax year from elsewhere, so my deadline for taking action has moved. I will see how this plays out over the coming weeks before making any investment decisions, although I will still likely sell half my position if I see a chance to do so and there is an opportunity elsewhere to make it worthwhile.
I wonder how many of those constantly attacking ANGS over recent months have jumped in for a quick trade today while continuing to tell everyone to avoid?
gla
BM,
Neither here nor there really given the size of the trade and recent volumes.
Trading volume has only broken 1% of shares in issue 5 times in the last 3 months. News needed to change this and for anything to happen with the SP.
Let's hope these meetings over the past couple of weeks result in something positive along with production figures which can't be too far off.
While the talk from the bod has put a lot of the silly rumours to bed for me, there is still market uncertainty and we need action to back up the talk in order to change the market view of TGR
Straight into the bin. Should have done so a long time ago.
Good to finally get this sorted and the MOU is a bonus, no doubt a bit of a sweetener as to the terms.
As maddog posted yesterday, how long until the details are picked to pieces and presented as a bad deal for Angus and shareholders as has been repeated for months.
Over to Oofy to tell us all the hidden (bad) extras and the nuances in the announced terms that mean Angus have been held over a barrel and shareholders duped.
It will be interesting to see the market reaction and any professional commentary on this news.
gla
Hi BM,
I didn't post the whole response as it would have run to 4 or 5 posts and I was trying to get it all into one post, just by cutting out a few comments that didn't really add anything to the reply. Unfortunately, it still needed 2 posts.
Also, a couple posted that they weren't interested in company replies and just wanted TGR to get on with things, so I did essentially cherry pick just to answer the question about connected companies, but it is all in context and nothing untoward.
If people choose not to believe that then that is up to them. Everyone can contact the company and ask the same things. I did because a poster was making continued false and misleading comments and claimed that no one was getting a reply, suggesting even more negative aspects, so their claims are, imo completely unsubstantiated.
I occasionally post on here and have done for a while now, always open and honest about my situation and reasons for investing. Again, people can make their own minds up on that
People will always look to put their own spin on something, so you cannot win on these boards with some.
I am not trying to ramp and I am not trying to influence anyone, unlike others clearly are. I just feel that there are more circumstances out of the company's control that are impacting the SP just now over and above some of the historical issues that have been discussed over the past year.
No company is perfect, but as I keep saying, I would rather be invested in a company that is producing than an explorer
Good luck
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"As we have advised time to time, our strategy is to evolve our markets ex China - obvious reasons - if we compete with Chinese sources in China we have a negative on logistics cost to the customer.
Accordingly our market development strategy is divided to serve 3 key geographical regions, Europe, the USA and rest of Asia.
Geographical split of our markets have been advised through our financial reporting. We have accordingly worked on developing our markets across the two broad segments and have the most renowned intermediaries and reprocessors as our customers in the US, Europe and India, Pranagraf being one of such in India. Additionally, we have a bunch of end users in all the geographical regions and it is important to note that the in roads that the founders and their entities have had with these end users has been the basis for us to be able to achieve them as our buyers, and for avoidance of doubt, no cost is incurred by TG towards introductions and inroads to these end buyers.
As we set up and ramp up production at our projects, there are obviously products that are out of specs at times and given the fact that there are different size distributions of customer requirements which leads to some size distributions produced more than we have markets for. In these circumstances we approach our intermediaries and I can say that Pranagraf along with some similar European intermediaries have helped us move these materials at workable prices whereas others expect a highly discounted price for such materials. This is another benefit we derive from our founders and their entities".
This is all just a part of the message I received.
Regarding any others issues, or further clarity, I suggest dropping TGR a line.
I would suggest that tomorrowtoday's claim that his and 'everyone he knows' who have been ignored by the company either did not happen, or his correspondence was not sent in a respectful manner, rather an incoherent rant like his posts here.
Good luck
BM,
Here is the extract from the email I received in relation to PranaGraf, etc (I have cut relevant parts, so not verbatim):
"Various agreements were put in place between TG, the founders and their entities so as to protect the interests of the parties and governing transactions between the parties and these are rather favourable towards TG, it being the public company. As an example the brand Tirupati Graphite and the logo is a registered trademark of an entity of the founders, this was globally recognised in the world of graphite when TG as created and TG received the rights to use this brand at no cost to it, and thus gave us the benefits that come from an established brand at our initial stages itself (we had orders even before production started at all stages, as you will see we have sold whatever we have produced).
All transactions between TG and the entities of the founders are conducted under the provisions of these agreements, and are obviously annually audited, reviewed under the scanner of transfer pricing regulations.
PranaGraf is one of the entities of the founders that is reprocessing and marketing flake graphite in western India, developing downstream flake graphite technologies and products and holding the R&D activities. We have heard a lot of talk on chat boards in relation to sales of our products to Pranagraf. India is one of the largest natural graphite importers today, and an important market for us. For being able to sell our products we have to go by the market structure which constitutes specialist flake graphite reporcessors and sellers catering to smaller customers in a region, and larger consumers who can buy directly from global sources. Thus across geographies we sell our products, USA, Europe, Asia (except China) we have both types of buyers. In India one of them is PranaGraf and there is no preferential pricing or terms offered to any and transactions with them are disclosed as related party transactions.
Graphite being a critical input material there are entry barriers and substantial gestation time to create markets for new sources. The markets can be categorised in two types broadly, first being larger consumers who have the ability to buy in larger quantities (in container loads) and prefer to buy from source (like TG) and second smaller consumers who buy from intermediaries in their region. Each region (USA, Europe, Japan India etc) has established entities in Graphite, PranaGraf is such one in India".
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