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zenvesting wrote: There is nothing "material" that has been discussed or said, it's all inconsequential discussion of business philosophy and market dynamics that is available to anyone who takes the extra step to reach out to the CEO with the contact information given at the bottom of every press release and engage him in a civil conversation.


Now I am getting a little moved to comment on RomanClown copy and pasting you quoting the CEO in privte dialogue with him posted on another thread. Yes it is material. The CEO is communicating selectively that he is marketing with SICPA and travelling to Switzerland to undertake such activities ahead of a shareholder ratification vote and you provided verbatim his words related to the contract interest necessitating his travel for that purpose. No other shareholder has this information.-other than those you shared it with privately. You can trade on it. Not saying you have but you can.If Rowlands makes forward looking comments like that bullish in nature to a 3rd party for broad based public dissemination it has a positive effect on an entire group of shareholders vs a select one or two. If you do not see how lame the arguement can be otherwise it is akin to repeating a lie several times only makes it a bigger lie as in the big lie theory-it does change the fact and make it trurth. SS Likewise, because none of this information is material, it is not really newsworthy. I've seen several companies take many different approaches to dealing with this level of information, many deal with it the same way Eurocontrol does, making it equally available to anyone who reaches out to call the company Investor relations representative or CEO. Some others might throw together an investor PowerPoint presentation that discusses their business ambitions and market dynamic, while others go so far as to hire an outsourced PR firm as some here suggest. This is exactly what I am stating need to be done vs suggesting. And have ALL future communication funnelled thru them-no individual access to the principals-a co-ordinated and cohesive communication program vs this random BS. I think the appropriate course of action is highly dependant on the field the company is involved in. I had an interesting conversation about disclosure with a CEO of another R&D driven company I am invested in. Like some of you here, I believed that company should promote more of their nonmaterial information about their development plans and research partners, it's really exciting stuff!!! The company has a pipeline of half a dozen or more medical device products in the early stages of development in markets that mesure in the billions, they have early stage R&D relationships with the biggest companies in their industry, the stock would surely trade multiples higher if this information was more widely known to the public! So I ask the CEO why the company doesn't make this information more well known. The CEO said that none of this qualified as material information under Canadian disclosure rules and that he didn't think it was responsible to promote such speculative information, that it leads to investors jumping to conclusions, and that it causes stock prices to get ahead of where the company is in it's development timeline.....which causes unwarranted run ups in the stock price and hurts investors as well as the company's reputation with its partners in the long term. Yes, the larger partners on the other end of these agreements usually aren't very fond of their smaller partners letting the cat out of the bag, particularly if they're private companies who seek to keep their competitive information as secret as possible, weather it relate to development pipeline or marketing prospects. Large companies often spend tens of millions in information security specifically to prevent such disclosures by this own employees. This CEO said he actually had a hard time convincing one of their private partners that he needed to disclose a licensing agreement that involved a material up front payment of $3.5 million. So this CEO said he would prefer to allow the company lead with real material developments and let the stock price follow. I respect this position and I patiently await those real developments that are going to drive my investments forward. Good luck to all of us!

In speaking for the company in quotations and verbatim for communication that is not publcly available you are setting yourself up. To what extent and purpose does it serve? Are you a spokesman for the company or the company itself in an alias OR is it self serving? (These questions are rhetorical and for response but in the vein of thinking out loud). Unless you have authorization to do so? it is and should not be done.

It all the cordialness on a Sunday AM I can muster on a topic that really pizzes me off when i see people quote company officals verbatim and being given advanced information and for sure insightfull information it implicates both yourself if not the company itself and the company itself if not you (try to say tha three times very fast because if even said backwards still means the same thing).

And finally Re: "Goodluck to all of us".

Yes 0agreed-goodluck to all of us-even the rank and file-the "second in liners" to the informational flow-not available and  made public.

SS