To: bigbuk who wrote (1130 ) 5/7/1999 12:31:00 PM From: eugenic1 Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1522
This is a must read from the Raging Bull thread:: ShellGame Reply To: None Friday, 7 May 1999 at 10:59 AM EDT Post # of 548 TLWN in full swing, I visited TAL on Tuesday, I was in the area on business and decided to drop in. I was greeted by the President and given a tour of the production facility and this is what I witnessed, There were at least 3-4 thousand engines that had just arrived. They are producing 3-4 hundred machines a day. They had a pick up for 239 machines for Meiyers while I was there. I went into their storage area and they had at least 3,000 machines just sitting there, so I asked Dallas why they were sitting there and he explained to me that they were ready for Wal-Mart. I also visited their sales department and I acually saw real orders coming in on their new EDI system and over the phones for the Direct Orders. They explained that on May 15th their banner adds on the internet begin and it should drive alot of trafic to the site, we can expect a total of 250,000 impressions on 3 popular site, one of which is Home & Garden.com. I believe this will accomplish two things it will increase direct sales, and hopfully atract more investors. They are also very close to getting a loan with a large bank in NYC for increased production for next year for about $1,500,000. They are constantly making improvement to their products and hope to add at least 2 more products for next year. I also saw the prototype of the imfamous leaf blower and it is in the raw developement stage and could have great potential once perfected. It mostly showed me the vision the company has for futuristic machines for lawn care. Their electric machines were quite impressive, Dallas demonstated them for me and I feel that with additional capital these machines could be on the production line as early as next year. The last time I visited the company about two months earlier they were certainly not in the condition they are in now, I was quite impressed. Hopr my report was helpful. Happy Investing ShellGame