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I’ve been working on some new code that delivers product placements from service providers directly onto my site and here it is. The great thing about this is that the service offerings are changing all the time keeping it fresh and new.
I recently purchased some stock in Pure Circle and thought I’d share some news.
PureCircle (LSE: PURE), the world’s leading producer of high purity stevia products, is pleased to announce that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a No Objection letter for the use of PureCircle’s SG95 product as a Food and Beverage ingredient in the USA. This will enable PureCircle to offer a wider and more flexible array of stevia solutions, helping to further accelerate stevia adoption in the important USA market.
PureCircle’s high purity SG95 product is a further example of the company’s leadership in innovation. Along with seven previously approved steviol glycosides, SG95 includes two new steviol gylcosides, Rebaudioside D and Rebaudioside F, both of which are receiving GRAS No Objection for the first time. The new high purity sweetener delivers great taste and consistency as well as pricing well below sugar. The product is ideally suited for applications formulated with both sugar and SG95 to achieve a low cost solution to partial sugar and calorie reduction and provide further incentive to application development. Together with PureCircle’s successful high purity Reb A 97, SG95 will provide customers with an expanded range of options to improve products across their portfolios. With GRAS affirmation, PureCircle is prepared for immediate commercialisation of SG95.
Magomet Malsagov, CEO and Managing Director of PureCircle, said: “The launch of SG95 is a very exciting development for PureCircle in the Un
Lending and borrowing is pretty simple when it comes down to it: somebody lends and somebody else borrows. Zopa have made a few small tweaks to this time-honoured method, to ensure everything is safe, secure and legal.
Social Lending is a smarter, fairer and more human way of doing money. It’s like borrowing and lending with your friends and family – except there are thousands of people you can lend and borrow with.
Both lenders and borrowers get better rates, because Social Lending is more efficient than the traditional banking model. Banks have massive overheads, with thousands of employees to pay and hundreds of branches to maintain. So they have to take large margins on the money that passes through them.
There’s no smoke and mirrors here. Banks use your money to make even more money for themselves. They lend some of it out, gamble some of it on the price of tin or the Yen depreciating, and invest the rest in any other money-making schemes they can think of.
Whereas at Zopa, people who have spare money lend it directly to people who want to borrow. There are no banks in the middle, no huge overheads and no unethical investments
Zopa was the world’s first lending and borrowing marketplace. By demonstrating that Social Lending works on a large scale, Zopa has changed the financial sector for good.
So hit the link (the big picture above) and see what you think. If you dont need a loan but have money you want to loan out you can do this as well and guess what – you’ll get better returns thatn leaving it your bank paying a paltry rate.
Thought I’d continue the publishing theme from my last post with a round up of where I am at the moment.
Firstly there is my new photo book called Images from my mind. It’s a collection of some of my art work in a photo book format. It gives a taste of what art I create and is really a fore runner to a complete set of themed art books I’m working on. Just click the Lulu icon to be taken to the book where you can preview its contents and of course buy a copy.
I’ve also created a new book along one of my favourite passtimes, that being maths. This book is a printing of Pi to 1,000,000 decimal places. I dare you to purchase and read it – it’s a very difficult book to read and take in as it consists entirely of numbers. It would make a crazy present so click the Lulu picture below and grab a copy now.
Finally I’ve taken some of my music creations and put them together on a CD for your listening pleasure. Instrumental guitar music is where I’m coming from with this release. Again the Lulu picture below will take you to the CD site. the release is called Disco noise with guitars. I hope you like it.
RSMTenon
RSM Tenon is regarded as one of the most progressive and entrepreneurial professional services firms in the UK today.
In a recent article in Accountancy Age by Kevin Reed we see how the recent integration of Bentley Jennison to the group is taking all of the companies focus for the near term future.
They’re three months into an 18 month process of bringing the two firms together and during the remaining time will focus their efforts on making sure the integration is a successful one.
They are predicting that the business recovery market will stay strong for a good two to three years so when you overlay the 18 month integration on this time line you can see why the high level of focus on making that integration successful is so important.
A good move I think, it should strengthen the group and therefore please investors. My advice – jump on board now, the price currently being traded is cheap so there are plenty of opportunities to see a serious return on your investment.
Financial review
It’s good to see a company promote itself and make statements for future development, especially during these lean times when so many businesses have gone to the wall or are struggling to survive. I recently invested in Evolution Group as you’ll know from a previous blog so it was good to find this press release from Evolution Group declaring their position for the future.
In summary:
- It aims to grow revenue and profit further in 2010, despite continuing market uncertainty.
- It has swung back to a full-year pretax profit on rising assets under management and a much better year for its investment banking arm.
- The company’s initial public offering pipeline was “fairly reasonable” and it “absolutely” expects to grow assets under management in 2010.
- It would continue to hire this year to support growth.
- It would also look at opportunities to bolster assets by bringing in new teams that could bring between GBP1 billion to GBP2 billion of assets with them.
So a positive outlook indeed – so jump on board now whilst the price is right.
Image from the free section in Fotolia – http://www.fotolia.com/id/6146042
Quick note to let you know I’ve sold my Avocet Mining shares. A tough decision to make because I still think there is more growth to see yet BUT I had my eye on some other stock and needed to get in quick. More about that one in a future posting.
So lets do a quick recap on how I’ve performed with my trade in Avocet Mining.
Purchased shares at £0.9974 and sold them 90 days later for £1.2175. Now where can you get that growth on the high street banking circuit?
Job done!
A recent news article further emphaisising my choice as a good one to back this company.
LONDON (Dow Jones)–Avocet Mining PLC (AVM.LN) Friday announces the first shipment of gold from its Inata mine in Burkina Faso. MAIN FACTS: -Inata poured first gold on Dec. 20, 2009 and this week exported 11,000 ounces of gold to Rand Refinery’s facility in South Africa. -The Company’s Burkina subsidiary, Societe des Mines de Belahouro, which owns Inata, signed a refining contract with Rand Refinery in February. -Proceeds from the sale of gold of $12 million are expected to be received next week. -The Inata mine is expected to reach a steady state production rate of over 10,000 ounces per month by July. -During the commissioning period to date, the plant recovery and gold produced have been ahead of schedule. -By Iain Packham, Dow Jones Newswires; +44-20-7842-9269; iain.packham@dowjones.com
Jump in quick and buy this stock before the price rockets further.
I really like Zazzle, they seem to have got a way of getting those sales sorted even when the world is suffering a great recession. When I first got into Zazzle things didn’t really happen at all but for some reason things have exploded recently. Today another sale of one of my products.
When sales are moving this fast Zazzle must be doing something right. they must be marketing the Zazzle corporation well and with my own campaign also running we’re becoming a force to be reckoned with.
Long my it continue!
When the financial markets are in turmoil around the world people fall back to what they see as a strong and safe position. They withdraw from the market and sink their cash into Gold or Silver.
Well this sounds a good option at first glance but is it really the best option to take?
When you buy gold or silver you pay the market price and you’re then the proud owner of your physical lump of metal. But how do you make money from it? The only way is to wait for the market to rise and then sell it on. There is no dividend payout every year so that’s your only option. when you come to sell you also run into the problem of where to sell your lump. Most gold and silver traders offer only a percentage of the current market value so the growth has to be significant if you;re going to see a meaningful return.
But there is another way of investing in Gold and Silver and that is buying stocks in a mining company. OK so you have to do your homework on the right company but once you’ve done that you’re working the metal market in a more efficient and effective way. As metal prices rise the mining company’s stock price rises, after all every rise in product price is a direct increase in mining profits.
Take Avocet Mining for example, a great company who is pulling gold out of the ground at a cost of about $600 per oz. They’re selling this at $900 per oz currently, a huge return on their investment. As the gold price increase their margin increases. Do some calculations on gold price rises and you’ll soon see just how lucrative this little investment can be.
So my advice is to buy into Avocet Mining, sit back, wait for the price of gold to rise further and watch your investment soar… oh and you’ll get your dividends along the way too.