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Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal

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Re: Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal

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post #112

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I think you are mistaken. The pages are split -- see that closed quote and parenthesis. That quote is a continuation from pdf page 3, which has the opening parenthesis. Each of the cells for classes A, B, C overflow onto one page (each) that follows. So the C holders are entitled to a distribution on sale or repurchase, but not an annual distribution. > The Preferred 'C' Shares are entitled to receive dividends (and…

I didn't say it was an annual distribution. I was quantifying the 'plus any return owed' in the original article. In a sale, the C holders get the greater of: A) a % of proceeds as if all shares were ordinary shares, or B) what they paid the company for their shares PLUS 18% per annum accrued interest. So if the company were sold 9 years after they invested X, and the sale proceeds were less than 4X, the C shareholde…

> I didn't say it was an annual distribution.

You're quite right, I misread your post. Gonna learn to read one today, but clearly not today.

Re: Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal

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post #102

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OK, so what? Were any contracts violated?

Is it better to be screwed without contract violation?

Your question makes no sense. So far we haven't seen any evidence that @josefritzishere actually got screwed on this deal. Color me skeptical.

Re: Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal

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post #81

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Can you prove it's not? At this point if anyone wants to propose an alternative then the burden of proof is on them. So far everything else that we've tried has failed disastrously.

How could everything else have failed? You entrench yourself and don't want to move when you need to

Fortunately we don't need to move.

Re: Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal

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post #62

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What sort of evidence are you looking for? The current general system of free-market capitalism and multiparty democracy has created an unprecedented era of prosperity for those of us lucky enough to live in (relatively) civilized countries. There are lots of problems that we need to fix but on average by almost any objective metric the situation is better than ever.

China's system seems to be fairly rapidly delivering prosperity for their citizens too (from lots of accounts?). Neither free market nor democracy. Insane surveillance and indoctrination aside...but still prosperity?

The part of China's system that's delivering those gains is the capitalist part, though. It's not the SOEs and government that are creating good jobs.

Re: Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal

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post #122

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Is it better to be screwed without contract violation?

Your question makes no sense. So far we haven't seen any evidence that @josefritzishere actually got screwed on this deal. Color me skeptical.

What makes no sense about the question? If you're saying that it's impossible to be screwed without a contract violation, then I very strongly disagree.

(Not commenting on josefritzishere's situation specifically, as I know nothing about that.)

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