RE: BOD shake up2 Nov 2025 10:44
The BOD would themselves have been far better off if they’d raised £15m when the mcap was above £30m and we’d had 50% dilution. All the running costs would have been ticked away in the bank for 3 yrs or so and we’d have had more like 200m shares in issue rather than 1bn. It was a well executed plan that could have benefitted Allenby clients and Directors massively if they’d succeeded. Run the sp down to the bone and dilute pis out of existence and make them irrelevant as a % of the share holding body and then take it private. In 2 years time company is generating £10ms per year and sold for over £50m or more. It would have represented a profit to Allenby clients of a multi bagger 25x or more. They so nearly got away with it. My broker, who was a qualified lawyer in his younger days, said when they used the term ‘unfounded’ in the recent presentation it was a classic legal term used for when what’s you really are saying is ‘you can’t prove it…’ and was a massive red flag and set alarm bells going. He has for the last 2 years encouraged me to not dabble with any AIM stocks but GDR in particular he said looked like it was being mismanaged but whether or not that was sheer incompetence or part of a long term plan to take GDR private he cdnt say. James Cheek being out on the spot in a Q & A to answer if there had been discussions at Board level to take the company private was excruciatingly embarrassing to watch and most likely a plant from an insider - probably a fellow Director. To outright deny it would have given them to cause to remove him as CEO. He sidestepped it, kind of, but clearly showed he wasn’t aligned with the plan imho. And that is why he was ousted soon afterwards, his rant about the NHS being too slow was on the money but that probably also contributed to his removal because it didn’t suit the plan to become successful with NHs sales that soon: they needed more time to run the company down and get the vast majority of shares under their control. Love a good conspiracy theory me.
Anyway, all of that is now mercifully over and the Directors are being forced to work with DN and to align themselves with the interests of ordinary shareholders holders. I agree that DN is likely to slowly continue to build his position and eventually have a veto % of voting rights and when the time comes, if needed, he will avail GDR of a further loan but with no dilution for existing share holders. The company is now safe. All it requires is some good news and some sales but the sales team are a waste of space and money.