BLT - Blis Technologies

[simla]

It is a joint venture between Blis and NZ Milk Ltd so it is hard to judge the costs/revenue possibilities]

That's a mighty fine product, Emearg. Healthy and delicious AND with all the goodness of a cup of NZ milk AND with the goodness of Blis.

I sure wish I knew what they know in Blis headquarters. Yes, there is no knowing what the Chinese are going to do. Here's a Southland business that has had no feedback on exactly that for three months and so laid off workers as there is still no visible time line.http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/1018...na-rule-change

But what Blis know, and I sure wish I knew, is what they will do if they hear nothing in say another month or another two months. There's the product, it looks hugely sellable. But is it stuck waiting for Chinese factory approval, or can they roll it out anyway elsewhere? In which case, are they actually rolling it out anyway? Is this the product that is going into China and Europe and the Middle East? Or is there another?

If I thought a food product of this quality would be for sale this year regardless of whether we hear back from China, I'd be feeling pretty upbeat about where things are going. (Naturally that assumes this product sells at a profit, which wasn't the case for the ice cream. But we (or I) assume they aren't going down that road again now. And presumably a joint venture involves the other party taking on some of the risk?) The catch with that idea is that the last report said, "provided outstanding market access issues are resolved", which doesn't suggest they are ready to roll much presently otherwise?

I sure wish I knew what they know in Blis headquarters. We "know" one possible outcome, but we know nothing of the other possible outcomes. They surely have ideas on that.

[simla]

I note, though, that that Alibaba link you gave said, "We are looking for importers / Distruibtors / Partners in South east Asia" No mention of Europe, Middle East or America. So maybe this is the product we expect to roll out in many places?? Great product if so - or so I think anyway.

[GR8DAY]

...another good (BIG?) step forward in my opinion. I suspect only a matter of time and effort now before a specialist distributor picks up on this new (world first!) product. I always believed this was going to happen, Alibaba is massive and I understand it is now considered the first port of call for importers/distributors looking for new product.........a "world first" should send it straight to the top........I hope they're going to really push this for all its worth. The other thing to remember here also is that NZ Milk is an entirely separate entity to Blis (maybe partnered somehow?) so they will have there own separate marketing plan and they've possibly spent a few years and many thousands of dollars to get it this far.......GREAT NEWS FOR BLIS!!

[simla]

Actually, looking more at Alibaba also shows the following pages:

Dr Milk Yoghurt. "Dr milk Yoghurt powder." "options from 25 gram to 200 gram" "Certification: HACCP, HALAL" http://nz1004666618.fm.alibaba.com/p...k_Yoghurt.html

"DR Milk growing up milk powder base " http://nz1004666618.fm.alibaba.com/p...wder_base.html

[emearg]

...another good (BIG?) step forward in my opinion. I suspect only a matter of time and effort now before a specialist distributor picks up on this new (world first!) product. I always believed this was going to happen, Alibaba is massive and I understand it is now considered the first port of call for importers/distributors looking for new product.........a "world first" should send it straight to the top........I hope they're going to really push this for all its worth. The other thing to remember here also is that NZ Milk is an entirely separate entity to Blis (maybe partnered somehow?) so they will have there own separate marketing plan and they've possibly spent a few years and many thousands of dollars to get it this far.......GREAT NEWS FOR BLIS!!

I think it is like everything else with Blis...best not to get to excited or optimistic about what could be...wait for sales figures and get excited if they are good...we have all been waiting too long to get worked up about new products and their potential! There have been so many with great potential but revenue has stayed pathetically low.

[simla]

Definitely so, Emearg. But I think you would not be back here if you did not also scent the whiff of victory here! Actual solid good sales from this sort of thing would seem at least a year away however, unless there's some pretty advanced plans ready to roll. Could be though. Very frustrating not knowing if this is finally the solid ground that has eluded us so far ... or not.

[Nigel]

I really like the Dr Milk product, and also got an eDM direct from Blis about the HoneyBlis product. Both of these excite me, but - like emearg - I'm not going to get too carried away until we see revenues lifting. When we finally reach cashflow positive operations I think we can start to celebrate as that has been an elusive goal for quite some time now. Almost there, surely

[simla]

Hi, Nig, Gr8Day. We've been lonely voices here for a little bit. But the news has been getting better each time for about a year and a half now. And the Dr Milk company was registered in 2012, as Emearg points out, so this "new future" has been in the works for a bit now. Time to be getting some momentum together we hope.

[milt1968]

Hopefully the people who have stuck with the company will be rewarded in due time.

[simla]

For myself, that has been my quite confident assumption for some years now. Not everybody seems to have agreed, not helped by the considerable setback in revenue a couple of years ago amongst other things. But I have seen little sign at any stage that this company had lost it's way. Met lots of obstacles, sure. But lost it's way, no. However, the current share price might imply this is not a universal view!