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Observation

Last week my car was in for a service in our local town, so I had a few hours to pass.

I walked along the main street and within 100 metres on the same side of the road there were three Vape shops. These were well known companies which you now find in most shopping malls.

Two of these Vape shops were next door to each other and three doors down was the third Vape shop. Just along the road there was a News Agent shop which also had advertising in their window for Vapes.

On the opposite side of the road was an Electronics shop which also had advertising in their window for Vapes. One street away there was a phone repair shop that had Vapes displayed in their window.

I observed a constant stream of people going into the three main Vape shops and exiting with their Vapes and immediately starting to puff on them.

I checked the official size of the local population and area which was 22,000 people and 6.475 km²

There is a large Top 5 Supermarket in the small shopping mall and another Top 5 Supermarket about 2km away which also sell Vapes.

From my observations, I was surprised that a small town with only one main street and one small shopping mall could sustain the number of Vapes shops that it has. I spoke to the staff / owners of all three Vape shops (none had any nicotine free Vapes) and they said business was booming and they were looking at opening more shops locally.

If you do your own research and check-out your own area then you may find that the current trend in Vaping is growing fast and Chill Brands Nicotine Free Vapes has a place in this market.

RKB

Openheimer hypocrite

You posted on 22 December 2023 @ 8:23am

“This will be the stock for 2024. This will do a FITB style rise. Only a matter of time.”

You are a hypocrite and if you want to post positive or negative then check which nom-de-plume you are using.

RKB

InvestingGenius? You don’t get it and you have Level 2 and 18,457 Posts!

Sausages83 I don’t trust you, why would I? I did not highlight a Trade at 10:14am.

Ornamental I believe you have made a wise decision.

The reason why I highlighted the larger “Buy” Trades from Tuesday was to have a record of “possible” Trades that Market Makers are cancelling or reversing. Obviously, most of today’s larger Buys will be genuine purchases but I believe there is evidence of Market Manipulation of the Chill Trades and that is why I made a formal complaint. Now will any Financial Journalist be interested?

RKB

PS If you had a record of each Trade for the past two years then you may conclude that the large number of Cancelled Trades over the past two months is not “normal” You may also not be bothered that there could be manipulation. All I am aiming to achieve is an orderly Market in our shares.

Formal Complaint

I have made a formal complaint to LSE about possible Market Manipulation with Chill Brand Shares.

To have 26 Trades Reversed and 20 of these Trades are 100,000 or more and of these 20 Trades 80% are 200,000 or more.

Will we be informed over the coming days that the trades from today will be cancelled / reversed?

8:28am 100,000 will be reversed?

10:13am 400,000 will be reversed?

10:22am 100,000 will be reversed?

10:23am 500,000 will be reversed?

10:26am 100,000 will be reversed?

10:45am 200,000 will be reversed?

12:47 200,000 will be reversed?

RKB

No, they were not Bed & ISA, I have excluded them from my data.

The Volume for the first 9 days in December 2023 was about 26 million (I have excluded the “Cancelled Trades”

The Volume in November 2023 (22 Business Days) was about 16.2 million.

MM are short of shares and do what they do to make a Market in our Shares.

RKB

Cancelled Trades

Today we have another cancelled trade. There have been about 3.6 million cancelled trades in December (so far)

01/12/23 15:10 3.4p -150,000

04/12/23 16:49 3.215p -300,000

30/11/23 15:01 3.3p -250,000 Communicated on 06/12/23

30/11/23 15:32 2.7p -250,000 Communicated on 06/12/23

01/12/23 15:10 3.4p -150,000 Communicated on 06/12/23

07/12/23 08:48 3.3p -10,000

07/12/23 15:58 3p -212,393

11/12/23 08:31 3.4p -100,000

11/12/23 09:05 3.4p -30,000

11/12/23 11:28 4p -100,000

12/12/23 10:44 3.6p -30,000

12/12/23 10:45 3.6p -30,000

11/12/23 16:21 4p -250,000 Communicated on 12/12/23

13/12/23 08:40 3.5p -200,000

13/12/23 13:33 4.2p -250,000

13/12/23 13:53 4.2p -250,000

08/12/23 16:29 3.3p -300,000 Communicated on 13/12/23

08/12/23 16:29 3.3p -400,000 Communicated on 13/12/23

08/12/23 16:29 3.3p -300,000 Communicated on 13/12/23

And then this morning we have

13/12/23 13:53 4.2p -250,000 Communicated today.

Of the 20 above trades reversed / cancelled / never bought, 75% of them were listed as “Unknown” or we don’t want to say if they were buys or sells as we just wanted to alter the price as we are short of shares and need to hoodwink shareholders (buyers or sellers)

How long will LSE permit manipulation like the above?

RKB

Interim Results

Today’s Interim Results confirm the continuing improvement of Voyager Life’s Business Model.

Our Revenue increased by 22% to £165,000.

Inventory £101,000

Gross Margin continues to be 39%

Cash Balance at 30th September 2023 £551,000

No Debt.

Our Business has four revenue streams:

Online Sales

Sales through our three own stores in St Andrews, Dundee and Edinburgh

Sales through third party stores

White label and private label manufacturing for third parties (VoyagerCann)

Going Forward:

The Company's primary focus is on revenue generation and objectives in the coming months for our business lines are:

A) Online sales. We have seen an increase of our own brand sales online of more than three times since the summer of 2023 and we expect to build on this by increasing our focus on social media-led marketing strategies.

B) Own stores. It has been widely reported that high street sales in the UK have been under pressure and, to an extent, we have experienced this. However, a combination of attainable pricing strategies, new initiatives and attendance at local markets and fairs has kept revenue in this division broadly flat for the first four months of the period before August and September 2023 saw some shortfall. We have reduced staffing in this division to maintain margins.

C) Trade sales. As noted above, our successes with Pets at Home and Jollyes underpin our operations here and importantly demonstrate to counterparties that we are capable of servicing large contracts across multiple locations.

D) Contract manufacturing. VoyagerCann's website generates a steady flow of enquiries but we have recently updated it to showcase our widening capabilities. Larger contracts and repeat contracts endorse our commitment to quality and customer service and our push for more accreditations and food manufacturing approval, we believe, will add to appeal to both new and existing customers.

RKB

It appears there are many shares currently "Trading Halted"

RKB

Correction

With ARB in October Mining 2% more with 7% increase in difficulty and then in November they Mine 5% more despite increase in difficulty of 9% in makes you wonder if they are utilising Method A.

Now what would happen when Method B is utilized?

RKB

Is Method A in Live Operation

With ARB in October Mining 2% more with 7% increase in difficulty and then in October they Mine 5% more despite increase in difficulty of 9% in makes you wonder if they are utilising Method A.

Now what would happen when Method B is utilized?

RKB

Going Forward

“Going forward, the Board has identified what it believes to be a sizeable opportunity in the development of an online sales platform for natural alternative third party products such as those already developed, marketed and sold under its own brands.

The Company expects to continue to expand the number of third party brands and external products sold via its Chill.com e-commerce marketplace website.

The Company is also focussed on the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of its range of nicotine-free vape products which launched during 2023. The Board believes that these products have very strong commercial potential and continues to expand its distribution of these products online and via retail stores in the US and UK.”

RKB

Winner of the Scottish Enterprise Awards

Voyager Life received an award for “Natural Pet Products Supplier of the Year 2023”.

Congratulations to Voyager Life on their award for their Pet Products. A well-deserved award for a dedicated team in Perth, Scotland for their hard work and dedication.

With the recent announcement of our Pet Products being listed on-line at Pets at Home, this award will hopefully expediate our products being listed in Pet at Home 450+ stores soon.

RKB

https://www.sme-news.co.uk/winners/voyager-2/

CEO Interview

Nick Tulloch talks about our Products being on-line with Pets at Home.

Some interesting information for shareholders and potential shareholders (DYOR)

Pets at Home after trialling 4 of our Pet Range Products online, they may decide to stock some of our Pet Range in their 450+ stores.

RKB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_28rt3uZIs

https://www.petsathome.com/shop/en/pets/searchterm?searchTerm=hemp&pageSize=24&resultType=1

Now stocked in Pets at Home

Four products from the Company's award-winning pet range are available to purchase from Pets at Home's website (www.petsathome.com) making Voyager the brand with the widest range of hemp seed oil based products on that site. If initial sales progress satisfactorily, it is Voyager's expectation that its products will also be stocked in store.

Pets at Home is the UK's leading pet care business with 457 pet care centres, 339 grooming salons and 444 veterinary practices.

RKB

Board Members

I think we are shortly going to understand why FG appointed Mark Trafeli as non-executive director exactly one year ago.

“Mark is a lawyer qualified in England and Wales, California and New York. Based in London, he has extensive expertise in regulation, compliance and corporate governance. He is currently General Counsel for the Broadway Gaming Group, an enterprise in the online gaming sector with operations in multiple countries and licences from the Gambling Commission of Great Britain. He also maintains a private law practice that he established in 2008 advising on UK and USA-related financial services, stock exchange regulation, commercial contracts, M&A, corporate governance, compliance, and litigation.”

“Francesco Gardin, CEO and Executive Chairman commented: "I am pleased that Mark has joined our board, as a NED, bringing his extensive UK and US corporate experience. Moreover, having lived and worked in Italy, Mark is fluent in Italian, which is a great positive when working with the R&D team, part of which is based in the Milan area, and our Italian lawyers who are pursuing our current Italian litigation claims. As a lawyer, Mark has the perfect background to deal particularly with corporate governance, legal and regulatory matters. I look forward to an excellent working relationship."

Also why in September 2022 FG appointed Peter Fuhrman as non-executive director.

Peter has extensive experience in high-technology, semiconductors, finance and investment industries. Currently, Peter is chairman and chief executive of China First Capital which advises on and invests in the technology sector with expertise, inter alia, in China’s semiconductor industry.

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Sale of Vapes to Leading UK Distributor

Chill Brands Group, the consumer packaged-goods distribution company, is pleased to announce that it has received an initial order for its Chill ZERO nicotine-free vapour products from the UK's largest category-specific distributor.

The Company has reached agreement for its products to be marketed and sold by Flawless, the leading distributor to category specialist vape stores in the UK. Flawless supplies over 5,000 wholesale accounts and has more than 50,000 active customers.

The arrangement is expected to significantly increase visibility of the Chill brand as its products become available to the thousands of business and retail customers that use the Flawless distribution platform.

Callum Sommerton, Chief Executive Officer of Chill Brands, said: "We are thrilled that our Chill ZERO range of nicotine-free vapes will be carried by Flawless, who are a dominant force in the UK vaping industry. This is another vote of confidence in our product range and we look forward to demonstrating that Chill ZERO is a serious challenger in the buoyant vape market."

RKB

Chill Zero Journey from Birth to 1 year old.

The journey of Chill Zero has really been one that’s occurred much faster and progressed much faster than we ever expected.

We began developing them during 2022 and we then delivered on that at the end of calendar quarter of 2023 when our products first went into the US market and since then we have been working with pilot retailers in that highly fragmented very large product market to develop data that we can use to go out to large retailers and say look this has legs. Customers will buy it.

What we’ve gleaned from those pilot schemes is there’s real popularity in the Zero nicotine market. A lot of people who are either heavy users of nicotine vapes already and want to reduce their intake or people who enjoy the sensation and don’t want to get addicted are looking for alternatives. So a lot of those people are either regularly ordering on www.chill.com now or are clearing the shelves of the pilot stores that we’ve activated in the US.

Fast forward a little bit to the summer of this year when we have launched in the UK, within two months of launch we have been able to sign a major retailer with WH Smith and others that are yet to come. Each shows that the popularity is there. It shows that we have product market fit that is why so many doors are opening for us, figuratively and literally.

RKB

Patience will be rewarded.

DSFLAT

I believe you know nothing, not even how anything of note on B.B.’s is communicated to the Company.

I have not read our B.B. for a few days now and only read it last night as a friend wanted me to comment on something you said.

I believe you think the Earth is flat.

If anyone who is invested in QBT or who is thinking of investing in QBT were to meet you in a pub and overheard you spouting utter tosh about the Earth being flat, would they invite you to join them?

To all genuine QBT shareholders, patience will be rewarded.

RKB

PS LtdAxis, have you spoken to Vladimir (Vlad) Kusznirczuk our Marketing and Business Development Manager? If you had you would not be posting the drivel you did yesterday. Do you want his contact details?

The above is not the complete list of our expansion, and I have not mentioned our Website that sells third party consumables. What we have is a business that is expanding rapidly and in a few years I believe our revenue will be comparable to Imperial Brands Plc Vape business.

RKB

PS We will be the next Fever-Tree.

Our Industry. Yesterday Imperial Brands Plc published their Annual Results. I know that Chill Brands Plc are not a tobacco company, but as our current focus is on Vapes, we should be aware of what “Our Industry” are up to.

Imperial Brands Plc have their main tobacco business and their “Next Generation Product” (NGP) which are vape, heated tobacco and oral nicotine.

Fortunately, within the Accounts they split out the Tobacco & NGP.

Within NGP there is their Vapes, but we do not have the figures for Vapes only NGP and for 2023 they had revenue of £220 million and this was an increase of 40.4% from the previous year’s £156 million. (This is for Europe)

When Callum publishes our Interim Results, we will only have 7 weeks of UK Vape sales. We will not be able to accurately extrapolate sales for the next 6 months because we are expanding so fast with sales of our Vape Products going into:

June 2023 “The Company has now secured relationships with specialist carriers and fulfilment providers that will facilitate the home delivery of its products to customers in all 50 US states.”

June 2023 “Commenced USA Pilot Stores in Colorado, Arizona, Florida and Texas.”

August 2023 “120 UK Retail Outlets from the initial launch.”

7th September 2023 “Further to the US launch of Chill Zero nicotine-free vapour products earlier in 2023, the Company has been working with pilot stores to establish product market fit and sales data. This pilot programme has resulted in the activation of select stores within the Colorado, Arizona, Florida and Texas markets.”

9th October 2023 “The Company will now see its Chill ZERO products enter an initial 150 of WHSmith's 1,700 stores. These first outlets are WHSmith UK travel stores located in airports, train stations and other high traffic hubs including Heathrow, Gatwick and Kings Cross Station. These areas benefit from an estimated combined daily footfall of more than 500,000 passengers per day.”

12th October 2023 “Chill Brands Group, the consumer packaged-goods distribution company, is pleased to announce that its Chill ZERO nicotine-free vapour products will launch on Amazon.co.uk this month.”

9th November 2023 “Chill Brands Group, the consumer packaged-goods distribution company, is pleased to announce that its Chill ZERO nicotine-free vapour products will launch on Vape Local (https://vapelocal.co.uk/)) this month.”

“Vape Local is one of the UK's leading wholesale websites for vaping products, serving a rapidly growing network of over 4,000 retail store accounts. In joining the site, Chill ZERO nicotine-free products will gain exposure to thousands of potential stockists spread across the entirety of the country.”

The above is not the complete list of our expansion, and I have not mentioned our Website that sells third party consumables. What we have is a business that is expanding rapidly and in a few years I believe our revenue will be compara