History24 Feb 2015 12:37
20,000,000 shares sold. Anything to do with Singapore I wonder?
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LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Alternative Energy Ltd said it has agreed to acquire Singapore-based research company Renewable Power Pte Ltd for 400,000 usd, or 0.0425 usd a share.
On completion of the acquisition, Alternative Energy said it will invest another 199,999 Singapore dollars to subscribe for 199,999 new shares increasing the capital to 200,000 Singapore dollars comprising 200,000 shares.
Alternative Energy said the acquisition will make available an in-house research team to quickly analyse the viability of investment proposals, and also ensuring confidentiality about technologies and proposals under review.
Alternative Energy said its directors plan to make an inter-company loan to Renewable Power of about 1.22 mln Singapore dollars over the next year.
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LONDON (Alliance News) - Alternative Energy Ltd Tuesday said its loss narrowed in the six months ended June 30, 2013, despite revenues dropping by more than half, and it will resume trading Tuesday after being suspended for the past six months.
The clean energy technology company's shares have been suspended since October 1, 2013, pending the release of its half-year results.
The company had said back in December last year that it was undertaking negotiations which may result in further operational transactions and raising of additional capital.
It said at the time that it expected to make a further announcement following the holiday period, and said that its shares will being trading shortly after the release of its interim results.
Alternative Energy finally released its interim results Tuesday, which included a significant decline in revenues to USD5,661 for the half-year ended June 30, 2013, compared with revenues of USD11,290 the prior year.
It reported a pretax loss of USD1.1 million for the period, compared with a pretax loss of USD1.3 million the prior year, and as of that date, the group's current liabilities exceeded its current assets by USD5.2 million. Its loss narrowed as it cut costs and expenditure.
"The majority of 2013, was spent securing, finalising and pursuing the company's arrangements with PT Mega Urip Pesona. Since that time the company has been engaged in a number of projects and competitive bids in Indonesia and has also entered into distributorship arrangements with both PT Graha Rajawali Pratama and the Jembo Cable Group in respect of its lighting products," the company said in a statement.
"These arrangements are intended to ensure that the group finally starts to develop a revenue producing pipeline both in lighting, next generation solar technology and consulting engineering," it added.
The group also said that there is a pipeline of new technologies and patents being filed.