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I posted the full article here BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff
Seems pretty scathing for a FT article. And as you say, the comments are interesting:
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Seems pretty scathing for a FT article. And as you say, the comments are interesting:
Gramsci
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Kind of interesting. Leaving aside BrewDog. The Bitcoin type money is now being presented as being "Punk".
This is the "anarchical" Capitalism. That is undermining what exactly is my question.
Its almost back to the Ayn Rand view of the so called Free market. Like companies like Brew Dog are subverting the Capitalist order through use of internet currencies.
This is rubbish.
Gramsci
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Must say I gave up on that thread when there were whole load of posts why Brew Dog were doing everyone a favour for selling non alcoholic beer.
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hiraethified
BrewDog are scum and in a normal world they'd be forbidden and shunned for trying to associate punk with their shit capitalist, profit-raking, self interested venture .
But then I see the Brixton Brewery as being part of the same kind of deceit, claiming 'independent' credentials when they're virtually half owned by the second biggest brewery on the planet. It's like me letting Murdoch buy up 49% of urban75 and then claiming we're independent and some kind of counter-cultural entity.
It's all pocket-lining bullshit.
I suspect there are very few small businesses who wouldn’t take millions of pounds for a minority stake from a mega corporation.
But yes it is quite hypocritical.
Alex
Favelado
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
You are quite right there. If you watched Max Keiser on Russia Today three times a week it's virtually constant brainwashing about Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is liberated money free from government control - it is the Brexit of money apparently. Keiser and his Bitcoin fanciers constantly rail against central banks and so-called fiat money. As well as constantly saying the dollar will collapse.
Actually one wonders what Marx would have made of Bitcoin. Clearly it is currently pure speculation, but if it truly caught on it would be international money outside the control of the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England.
There is a Green objection. There are reports that Bitcoin processing already consumes as much power as Switzerland. What a waste on energy for a few fat cat speculators. Bitcoin consumes more energy than Switzerland, according to new estimate
discobastard
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In no way whatsoever was it suggested that Brewdog are doing people a favour by selling non-alcoholic beer.
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hiraethified
I don't understand that, sorry. What's a Disney Editor?
gaijingirl
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I think he means "It's Disney to whom Editor sold 49% of the boards..."
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hiraethified
I love the way that they used the phrase 'minority stake' to describe a fat 49% slice.
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hiraethified
I haven't been sleeping much so perhaps I'm missing the obvious, but what has Disney got to do with my original comment about Murdoch?
gaijingirl
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no idea
Gramsci
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I was being sarcastic.
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
Not so much, but it wasn't a nasty or personal comment so don't worry.
It is technically a minority, but I bet they are also the largest single shareholder.
Alex
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A footnote on majority/minority shareholdings
Although technically a 49% stake in a small company leaves the previous owner still in control, in the case of a publicly listed company this type of stake would precipitate a full bid under takeover rules - thus enabling other shareholders to cash in/get out on an equitable basis.
Even so such a bid might not be accepted by shareholders, and the largest shareholder might remain like that for decades - or not if an "activist" shareholder wanted to change it.
An example which springs to my mind is Plantation and General Investments of 45 Ludgate Hill EC4. This company does various agricultural business in Malawi and Kenya probably the most notable being growing the tea used in Yorkshire Tea and Sainsbury's Red Label tea.
PGI is about 90% owned by Nick Roditi - a former fund manager for George Soros.
For whatever reason he bought a substantial stake around 1997 when PGI was a stock market listed company and built his stake to the point where he was able to force other shareholders to sell out (one way he used was to de-list the company from the stock market).
Don't ask me why he did all this - but it does show however that a wily operator even without having a controlling stake at the outset can ultimately run a company how they want it run.
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Although technically a 49% stake in a small company leaves the previous owner still in control, in the case of a publicly listed company this type of stake would precipitate a full bid under takeover rules - thus enabling other shareholders to cash in/get out on an equitable basis.
Even so such a bid might not be accepted by shareholders, and the largest shareholder might remain like that for decades - or not if an "activist" shareholder wanted to change it.
An example which springs to my mind is Plantation and General Investments of 45 Ludgate Hill EC4. This company does various agricultural business in Malawi and Kenya probably the most notable being growing the tea used in Yorkshire Tea and Sainsbury's Red Label tea.
PGI is about 90% owned by Nick Roditi - a former fund manager for George Soros.
For whatever reason he bought a substantial stake around 1997 when PGI was a stock market listed company and built his stake to the point where he was able to force other shareholders to sell out (one way he used was to de-list the company from the stock market).
Don't ask me why he did all this - but it does show however that a wily operator even without having a controlling stake at the outset can ultimately run a company how they want it run.
Home | PGI Group Ltd
CH1
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I happened upon this old Land Registry map from 2010.
The Domino Club building at that time is LBL, the clone building next door, and behind is separately registered - possibly leased from LBL, but actually Metropolitan new-build on an old bomb site.
The interesting thing is all the registry numbers are given from Moorland Road to Shakespeare Road on CHL southside.
The Domino Club building at that time is LBL, the clone building next door, and behind is separately registered - possibly leased from LBL, but actually Metropolitan new-build on an old bomb site.
The interesting thing is all the registry numbers are given from Moorland Road to Shakespeare Road on CHL southside.
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hiraethified
They've moved to the space by the car park of the Barrier Block.
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hiraethified
Odd scenes in Morleys. There's four cops pinning a guy on the floor who keeps shouting out for help and asking people to call the cops, while customers step over him to place their orders. Two more cops are standing around and an ambulance has arrived. Given the cops record in these kind of things, I'm keeping an eye out and will video anything that looks dodgy.
It's quite harrowing: the guy has now been strapped down into a stretcher and is shouting that 'they want to kill me' as he's been put in the ambulance.
It's quite harrowing: the guy has now been strapped down into a stretcher and is shouting that 'they want to kill me' as he's been put in the ambulance.
CH1
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How come you're posting this at 12.20 am? Are Morely's doing an all-nighter?
Actually I could imagine such a scene happening to me at my doctor's surgery (which as 4 stars for Mental Health from the CQC (Care Quality Commission) because twpo of the "doctors" have certificates in Mental Heath, so clearly know how to deal with such people.
The best people to deal with paranoia in Brixton are the Beehive, The send out a flotilla of barmen from behind the bar and surround the person, gently walking them out the door.
Paranoia is difficult and embarrassing for people. But in this nocturnal vision you had in Morleys, the paranoid person was being taken off by ambulance. Ergo I suggest they would be likely to be spending six months in Luther King Ward at the Lambeth Hospital - unless they've got good lawyers.
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hiraethified
Not a vocoder!
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The guys finished off their night with lots of shouting a fight around 2.30am, btw.
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hiraethified
Remember that fantastic new
Their earlier guff said:
Brixton - 1 Bed Flat, Coal Lane, SW9 - To Rent Now for £1,750.00 p/m
Fast forward eight months and that promised new public thoroughfare behind The Edge is still looking very, very private, with secure gates keeping out the oiks.
Their earlier guff said:
It looks like one greedy investor has taken them up and looks to have made a killing with a one bedroom flat going for £1,750 a month plus £2k deposit (no DSS or bills covered, natch).
Brixton - 1 Bed Flat, Coal Lane, SW9 - To Rent Now for £1,750.00 p/m
