Comvita - CVT

[bull....]

Good timing with your foray into Comvita....did u have inside info about this virus thing

unrelated im buying as a long term contrarian play

[Blue Skies]

comvita is up today people must be buying more for the potential manuka health benefits in combating corona virus?

Someone suggested on another thread it’s antibacterial properties would be good for combating Coronavirus. But just a reminder, coronavirus is a virus, not a bacterial infection, so it wouldn’t make the slightest difference.

[bull....]

I don’t believe there are any scientifically proven health benefits from ingesting Manuka honey, only proven medical benefits are for wound dressing applications. If you are eating it, it is just very expensive honey.

while there are no cure yet for corona virus and obviosly manuka honey is not a cure it has been proven to assist in respiratory problems and also help build your immune system up.

[Balance]

Not convinced about this. Not consistent with what a senior person within the Manuka honey industry advised me.

Has always been in the perception which the industry successfully exploited and capitalized on - and good on them!

Beekeeper contact of mine makes the same point about manuka honey - great as a dressing but when it enters the body, the anti-bacterial properties are neutralised anyway!

He is still making very good money from clover honey (farmers use his hives) and as he puts it, always will because he did not pay crazy prices like the 'gold-rush' mindset which saw players paid horrendous prices to get into the manuka honey industry.

The bubble has well and truly burst with Manuka honey - it's now a commodity with a higher price point than common honey.

Go to Pak n Save and you will find multi-floral manuka honey on special there all the time now.

All the monofloral manuka honey are heavily discounted.

The diagou trade has dropped off the cliff face for manuka honey (Comvita being one of the greatest beneficiaries) with diagou players moving into other health & beauty products carrying the NZ brand.

This CVT dog has fleas and it's unfortunate that CVT cannot use manuka honey to treat it!

[BlackPeter]

Someone suggested on another thread it’s antibacterial properties would be good for combating Coronavirus. But just a reminder, coronavirus is a virus, not a bacterial infection, so it wouldn’t make the slightest difference.

Never try to combat hype with reason ... it just doesn't work.

[bull....]

Not convinced about this. Not consistent with what a senior person within the Manuka honey industry advised me.

lol i could say someone senior in the industry advised me it was good for me

[Jerry]

Once a virus has infected an individual for a while, the resulting weakness and mucus (ewww!) provides a welcome mat for secondary bacterial infection. However, I don't think honey would be any good as it is broken down in the gut. Manuka honey - rub it in!

[Balance]

https://new.grabone.co.nz/grocery-fo...m_medium=email

High grade Manuka honey (UMF 15+) on special on Grabone - $72 for 250g jar vs CVT's $99.99 discounted at Chemist Warehouse. Plus Grabone takes up to 33% of any sales proceeds!

Real signs of the times of how this once super premium product is now needing to be heavily discounted to move sales.

[bottomfeeder]

Lets face it, manuka honey needs to discounted, who would buy it at those exorbitant prices. However that said, still profits to be made at those special prices, thats why CVT is not at $10 /share, and probably never will be again, but I am looking for $4.00 sometime soon.
It only honey, not the elixer of youth.

[Balance]

$100 for a small pot of honey with no proven medical benefit unless you rub it on a wound. Comedy gold! And to think my economics lecturer all those years ago tried to convince me that we should base all our theories on the notion that all human beings make rational decisions.

Comvita hit gold when the China market started embracing manuka honey as a cure all for a number of ailments - just as the Chinese believes that bird nest is great for virility & better skin, and eating wild bats and lizards warm the body and ward off winter colds and flu!

It's all about perception but one suspects the perception of manuka honey as a miracle cure amongst the Chinese is wearing thin as it becomes widely available, and the supposed health benefits are more robustly tested.