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iva cosworth

44,044 posts

163 months

Sunday 2nd August 2015
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Deborah's got the hump,it's not going well.

anonymous-user

54 months

Sunday 2nd August 2015
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She cones across as a bit of a bh, maybe nerves.

Jim the Sunderer

3,239 posts

182 months

Sunday 2nd August 2015
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£300,000 on seaweed? What are they harvesting it with, gold-plated Range Rovers?

Laurel Green

30,780 posts

232 months

Sunday 2nd August 2015
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Jim the Sunderer said:
£300,000 on seaweed? What are they harvesting it with, gold-plated Range Rovers?
'Tis harvested with nets made from virgin mermaid pubes. yes

Jasandjules

69,910 posts

229 months

Sunday 2nd August 2015
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Jim the Sunderer said:
£300,000 on seaweed? What are they harvesting it with, gold-plated Range Rovers?
Indeed, you can just pay some minimum wage kids to run along the beaches collecting surely?

DSLiverpool

14,749 posts

202 months

Sunday 2nd August 2015
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iva cosworth said:
Butter Face said:
So whys he gone from Seabrook??
He said he didn't see eye to eye with his superior.

He certainly knows his stuff.
http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Business-News/Crisp-boss-boosts-profits

JM

3,170 posts

206 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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Jasandjules said:
Jim the Sunderer said:
£300,000 on seaweed? What are they harvesting it with, gold-plated Range Rovers?
Indeed, you can just pay some minimum wage kids to run along the beaches collecting surely?
You need licenses fromm the Crown Estate to commercially harvest seaweed.


Plus I'd imagine there would be a fair amount of health and safety, risk assessments, etc involved.

hungry_hog

2,241 posts

188 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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The seaweed woman had all the warmth of a bucket of dry ice. How do people like that get any investment from anywhere?

Gargamel

14,993 posts

261 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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hungry_hog said:
The seaweed woman had all the warmth of a bucket of dry ice. How do people like that get any investment from anywhere?
She had no idea how to value the business or what numbers mean ? 3% for £100,000 investment - so a valuation of close to £3m

For a business that has £200k gross revenue, which cost them £350k to achieve, just in ingredients, never mind overheads !

A seriously deluded individual, albeit with an interesting and potentially lucrative product.


Jasandjules

69,910 posts

229 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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JM said:
You need licenses fromm the Crown Estate to commercially harvest seaweed.


Plus I'd imagine there would be a fair amount of health and safety, risk assessments, etc involved.
But 300k worth?

toohangry

416 posts

109 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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hungry_hog said:
The seaweed woman had all the warmth of a bucket of dry ice. How do people like that get any investment from anywhere?
She was utterly foul and I'm glad they ripped into her for her lack of insight/muddying of waters.

Patch1875

4,895 posts

132 months

Monday 3rd August 2015
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I would say the guy that done the harvesting is the winner in that deal.

jammy_basturd

29,778 posts

212 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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Gargamel said:
She had no idea how to value the business or what numbers mean ? 3% for £100,000 investment - so a valuation of close to £3m

For a business that has £200k gross revenue, which cost them £350k to achieve, just in ingredients, never mind overheads !

A seriously deluded individual, albeit with an interesting and potentially lucrative product.
I did wonder whether that was £350k for the seaweed, £200k turnover, but with £200k in stock still left?

Did anyone catch what the McPhee guy said on the way out? Something like "High risk.... we've been badly advised". I wonder whether if it's that woman who's been doing the advising...

airsafari87

2,583 posts

182 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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jammy_basturd said:
I did wonder whether that was £350k for the seaweed, £200k turnover, but with £200k in stock still left?

Did anyone catch what the McPhee guy said on the way out? Something like "High risk.... we've been badly advised". I wonder whether if it's that woman who's been doing the advising...
It appeared to be very frosty in that `lift' on the way out.
I got the impression that wool had finally been lifted from the seaweed harvester guys eyes.

She definitely gave him stink face as well after he came out with the `Badly Advised' comment.

Laurel Green

30,780 posts

232 months

Sunday 9th August 2015
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Motor related stuff on this evening:

A technology entrepreneur brings a sports car into the studio to demonstrate a security app.

2.5pi

1,066 posts

182 months

Sunday 9th August 2015
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Gluten free ..dragon free more like

Laurel Green

30,780 posts

232 months

Sunday 9th August 2015
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...and Deborah free.

Laurel Green

30,780 posts

232 months

Sunday 9th August 2015
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What happens with this app when one forgets to charge one's phone and finds the battery is dead.

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

163 months

Sunday 9th August 2015
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Who said "Sports car " ?.....LOL

Laurel Green

30,780 posts

232 months

Sunday 9th August 2015
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iva cosworth said:
Who said "Sports car " ?.....LOL
Quoted from my TV & Satellite mag, honest! biggrin