RE:RE:RE:Good news NU ships rush order to Japan Yeah well it's just a small order of several thousand sticks. It's a small order, but a huge step. Whatever the number is it is now actual revenues that will be on the books. The product will be on shelves increasing brand awareness , while maybe even help gauge demand /customer feedback to increase the second follow up order to initial. It also begins to give us some legitimacy.
As small as the order may be, one can no longer say they are always talking about future things while never executing any of it. I was pretty sure they hadn't started the initial order yet (whether the hold up having been ingredients or packaging or testing queue etc?), but today NR mentioned "continuing"(?) the initial order . The first anything always takes the most effort and time. Things tend to run more smoothly as repeated. Will the order get out by the end of June? I don't know. They certainly have the manufacture time even if not started yet . At 144k a day (old capacity at 8 hrs day) it would be 10 days for approx 300,000 3 tap sticks and 73,000 7 tab sticks (and half that number of tabs again in 5 more days). The new states capacity of 540k tabs a day is almost 4x more capacity . What we don't know (besides lots haha) are variables like testing times (and can they keep producing while test is out), change out time between flavours (I'd imagine pretty quick but also that there has to be some kind of process to avaoid cross contamination of flavours), etc. Or if they have already started initial order . We also know that the capacity for the bottling line indicated 3 shifts daily (round the clock). If ever doing same for tabs , that could also double/triple our capacity (as now stated per 8 hour shift). I also remeber an answer to a question once about capacity that they had "third party manufacturing" in mind if they ever needed it to meet demand. Now that's a ton of words for saying I'm not sure if order will get out by end of June (even if they're "anticipating " that there's no guarantee they'd make it lol), but I could see it going out in next 4 weeks. I also expect other news in the meantime . A second big order? Online US? Washington thc? Neuenergy? Beverage?
Again no matter which way one slices it , today's shipping news is a huge first step in legitimizing our company and its products . I was pissed yesterday. I still have a ton of questions I feel we all need answered, but I'm also feeling lots better today . GLTUA!