Investboy
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Post by Investboy on Jul 18, 2016 11:44:50 GMT
Wouldn't it be wiser instead to light 100 bulbs in this supermarket to donate this "waste" food (probably 1 day after expiration) and feed hundreds/thousands of people?
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Post by duck on Jul 19, 2016 4:10:58 GMT
Wouldn't it be wiser instead to light 100 bulbs in this supermarket to donate this "waste" food (probably 1 day after expiration) and feed hundreds/thousands of people? You are not taking into account the drive of the 'Respect for the Environment' agenda in most big business nowadays. For PR purposes Environment first, human kindness somewhere lower down the list. When I worked on stuff that is/was designed to destroy a large part of the world one item of the compulsory reading list was the Environmental Policy (big document and written test) which you had to pass before you could start work. Oh the irony of it ............
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Post by registerme on Jul 19, 2016 9:47:42 GMT
To be fair it did specifically state "inedible food waste". Now I don't know whether they simply don't give out unsold food that isn't past its sell by date, but I hope they do. On a slight tangent, I went to Sainsburys yesterday. It was gloriously cool and well air-conditioned. The amount of power required to achieve that must be phenomenal (and the converse during the winter). I really don't think there's any excuse for supermarkets / hotels / hospitals etc not to have one of these things installed.
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Post by guff on Jul 19, 2016 12:50:13 GMT
Was reading yesterday that M&S were trialling a scheme to freeze food before midnight of the sell-by date and donating it. They can't risk just giving it away after the sell-by date.
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Post by Investboy on Jul 19, 2016 14:31:55 GMT
Was reading yesterday that M&S were trialling a scheme to freeze food before midnight of the sell-by date and donating it. They can't risk just giving it away after the sell-by date. ... because all the germs and pathogens wait patiently and do nothing for a week on the shelf and once that magical expiry date is crossed , just one second after the food instantly rots. If you beat it by one minute till midnight you're saved! I'm not attacking any posters here, just venting my frustration on stupidity of policies and regulations.
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Post by guff on Jul 19, 2016 14:42:29 GMT
Having just ejected my first semi-formed log in over a week since contracting food poisoning, just before going on a short holiday admiring the porcelain architecture of Spain, I think the policies and regulations are anything but.
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Post by wildlife2 on Jul 19, 2016 15:32:28 GMT
Rocket ?
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Post by guff on Jul 19, 2016 18:52:36 GMT
Rocket powered…
We've narrowed it down to a baked Alaska (which is the only thing I had different to everyone else) from a pub we hadn't been to for years. They used to do excellent home cooked stuff but then went weird but we heard the menu was good again. It was, but after asking around, we found out it's all bought in frozen.
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Post by elliotn on Jan 14, 2017 15:34:01 GMT
With the figures limited to end Dec 14, which are just terrible, this is more like an equity offering than a loan. Sales were budgeted to be 2M+ and actually was just one unit 50K and. In fact the only element that was to budget was the 600K R&D which, it seems, hadn't produced a saleable product and was easily a year behind. The whole thing looks to me like a company more interesting in inventing than selling. And yes the boss is the inventor* The physical security is prototypes! We are promised cross heart and hope to die they can afford it PG but not a charge. A number of people here can show their bruises from similar offerings on other platforms. Unless we get 2015 figures which show a dramatic change of fortune (yes I have read the proposal document so maybe there are such figures, but their absence makes me doubt it), I'm outer than an outy thing on an outy day (and/or Elton John). It gives me big doubts about the platform if this is the best we can get. What has happened to the aeroplanes? * I'm allowed to say this I was an "inventor" of sorts and also the boss. 2015 accounts were filed on 26/6/16 showing a material net liabilities for the company. Please update Documents with more up to date management accounts ablrate ablrateandy .
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Post by stevio on Jan 14, 2017 15:53:08 GMT
With the figures limited to end Dec 14, which are just terrible, this is more like an equity offering than a loan. Sales were budgeted to be 2M+ and actually was just one unit 50K and. In fact the only element that was to budget was the 600K R&D which, it seems, hadn't produced a saleable product and was easily a year behind. The whole thing looks to me like a company more interesting in inventing than selling. And yes the boss is the inventor* The physical security is prototypes! We are promised cross heart and hope to die they can afford it PG but not a charge. A number of people here can show their bruises from similar offerings on other platforms. Unless we get 2015 figures which show a dramatic change of fortune (yes I have read the proposal document so maybe there are such figures, but their absence makes me doubt it), I'm outer than an outy thing on an outy day (and/or Elton John). It gives me big doubts about the platform if this is the best we can get. What has happened to the aeroplanes? * I'm allowed to say this I was an "inventor" of sorts and also the boss. 2015 accounts were filed on 26/6/16 showing a material net liabilities for the company. Please update Documents with more up to date management accounts ablrate ablrateandy . Have you reviewed them? Our they any better than 2014?
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Post by ilmoro on Jan 14, 2017 18:20:47 GMT
2015 accounts were filed on 26/6/16 showing a material net liabilities for the company. Please update Documents with more up to date management accounts ablrate ablrateandy . Have you reviewed them? Our they any better than 2014? Amended 2015 accounts were filed in Nov Assets increased 10 fold (stock, debtors, cash) ST Creditors doubled but still net current assets of £500k Long term creditors up by £1m Result net liabilities/p&L 24k worse than last year
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Post by james on Jan 16, 2017 12:54:42 GMT
That seems to be the sort of thing that would be expected in a growing company. More stock, more buyers/debtors due to pay for their purchases. Reports of sales have shown up in the press occasionally so they seem to be getting some market acceptance.
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Post by elliotn on Jan 19, 2017 7:23:06 GMT
Abbreviated accounts for 2015 now online, thank you.
An admin note on 2016 would be welcome, did they turn expected profit in Q1?
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Post by dan1 on Dec 31, 2017 22:31:15 GMT
A new thread has been created on DD Central for loan 1000021. I've included a couple of links to the Gazette. They record the petition by this borrower, as a creditor, to wind-up a company registered in NI - search the Gazette with the borrower name, the petition is dated 7 Apr 2017.
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Post by registerme on Jan 2, 2018 13:49:40 GMT
Payment just came through.
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