Aimia Inc T.AIM

Alternate Symbol(s): AIMFF | T.AIM.PR.A | T.AIM.PR.C | T.AIM.PR.D

Chemicals Specialty Chemicals

Aimia Inc. is a diversified company. The Company operates through three segments: Bozzetto, Cortland International and Holdings. The Bozzetto segment is a provider of specialty sustainable chemicals, offering sustainable textile, water and dispersion chemical solutions with applications in several end-markets including the textile, home and personal care, plasterboard and agrochemical markets. The Cortland International segment consists of Tufropes and Cortland Industrial LLC (Cortland). Tufropes is a manufacturer of synthetic fiber ropes and netting solutions for maritime and other different industrial customers. Cortland is a designer, manufacturer, and supplier of technology advanced synthetic ropes, slings, and tethers to the aerospace & defense, marine, renewables, and other diversified industrial end markets. The Holdings segment includes investments in Clear Media Limited, Kognitiv, as well as minority investments in various public company securities and limited partnerships.

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Post by TheForceson May 22, 2017 12:06am

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AirMiles to take over Aeroplan in hostile take-over?

It's very interesting the attack on this income fund stock originated from the US hedge/institutional fund money who are now buying the stock at the crashed price!

As some have clearly demonstrated, using Stockwatch information, well known institutional only brokerage Pershing are the top buyers of this stock this week. We need to focus on facts.

The money behind the Pershing buying knows something we don't. And Canadian small time short sellers appear to have been caught by surprise here? And an investor, I'm frankly happy to see them scramble like fish out of water. Enjoy the pain short sellers, I'm going to try to buy before you do! Tuesday should be interesting. Very interesting.

There has been some conversation about AirMiles which is in fact owned by ADS, a publically traded company on the NYSE, possibly making an attempt to take over Aeroplan in a hostile way? I can't find any information on this anywhere except here. Since all information needs to be verified, we can only view this as purely speculative.

From a business perspective, a hostile US takeover would make absolutely sense. It would give AirMiles instant access to Canadian credit card branded markets. This would give US-based AirMiles a dominant position both in the US and in Canada. AirMiles dominates in the US. Aeroplan dominates in Canada because it's a much better program.

A quick search shows a lots of credit cards having some current serious promotions currently on Aeroplan branded cards. The two below are active Google Adwords campaigns. Amex and TD both pay top dollars for the top position ads on Google Search results (dollars per click).

A good site is available for Canadians to compare all these Aeroplan Credit Cards. The link to it is available HERE

Aeroplan is not going away, and the only thing different is Air Canada's "public forum" negotiation tactics with Aimia to bring Aeroplan back in-house and/or force Aimia to their terms. This is not how partners should treat each other since investors are normally never privy to these type of corporate negociations. I have a very low opinion of Air Canada. It's deplorable.

If Air Canada does follow through for 2020, that means that Aeroplan can partner with any other airlines. Isn't that a plus for Aeroplan?

Air Canada has put Aimia on the chopping block at these ridiculously low stock price. I fear the US take over is happening as we can see by which brokerage house is buying. But it would be nice to get some real analysis on this. Where is the press on this?

And for the bashers and "penny stock experts", I may have you on ignore. I can't stand the bashing and attacks on people who post valuable information.