RE: WSBN25 Aug 2025 01:44
Hi Flightman,
I've had a look into all this "fund raising" talk that some posters are pushing here as part of their agenda's.
The company raised £1.75M in June at 0.13p a share, which has increased the total number of shares in issue to 2,594,894,153 .
The company website show's the various shareholdings at 20th June when there were 2,364,124,923 shares in issue ! (this is because the directors couldn't take up there share of the placing until WSBN's closed period was over. They had subscribed for £300,000 in that placing).
Richard Poulden (1) 27,799,471 1.18%
Jonathan Harrison (2) 1,974,782 0.08%
Michael Mainelli (3) 1,855,101 0.08%
Richard Poulden is deemed to be interested in 7,712,890 Ordinary Shares held in his own name and in trusts for the benefit of his family. He is also deemed to be interested in 20,086,581 shares held by the Black Swan Group of which he is Chairman.
Jonathan Harrison is deemed to be interested in 1,974,782 Ordinary Shares referred to above as follows:
a) 50,928 Ordinary Shares held in his own name; and
b) 1,923,854 Ordinary Shares held by Easy Business Consulting Ltd, a company controlled by Jonathan Harrison and owned by Jonathan Harrison and his wife.
1,855,101 Ordinary Shares are held for The Z/ Yen Employee Benefits Trust. Michael Mainelli is a director of Z/Yen Group Limited and a potential beneficiary of The Z/Yen Group Employee Benefits Trust.
Major Shareholders
The Company is aware of the following shareholders who hold, directly or indirectly, voting rights representing 3% or more of the issued share capital of the Company:
Name Number of Shares Held % of enlarged issued share capital
Global Investment Strategy UK Limited 693,846,154 29.35%
All the other big holdings are basically nominee's for small shareholders like, HL & ii (there clients both owned just over 10% of the company each).
On 3rd July the directors were allocated their shares 230,769,230.
Richard Poulden = 104,722,547 = 4.04%
Jack Sun = 76,923,077 = 2.96%
Edward Mead = 76,923,077 = 2.96%
Richard Poulden is deemed to be interested in 84,635,966 Ordinary Shares held in his own name and in trusts for the benefit of his family. He is also deemed to be interested in 20,086,581 shares held by the Black Swan Group of which he is Chairman.
In other words the Directors now have a lot of skin in the game (@10% compared to 1.34% previously), so they are not going to dilute themselves needlessly & thus their interests are now totally aligned with those of retail investors.
LOTM