Tag: Greentec Holdings
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![Equity.Guru podcast: Andrea Dobbs – a Vancouver rec weed-seller spills the beans]()
Equity.Guru podcast: Andrea Dobbs – a Vancouver rec weed-seller spills the beans
In 2014, Andrea Dobbs walked into a Vancouver cannabis dispensary and tried to talk to a 21-year-old male “budtender” about treating her peri-menopausal symptoms. The conversation was not illuminating. She saw a business opportunity. A year later, Dobbs opened a retail cannabis store in Kitsilano, catering to people…like her. The Village Bloomery offered “a boutique…
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![How GTEC Holdings (GTEC.V) found itself down but not out]()
How GTEC Holdings (GTEC.V) found itself down but not out
GTEC Holdings (GTEC.V) is in a bind. In other words, it’s down. Its own management would, and did, say as much. An article posted last month by thedeepdive.ca titled “Is GTEC Holdings Essentially Bankrupt?” called into question the company’s cashflow issues and its declining share price. What was GTEC CEO Norton Singhavon’s response? “I thought the points they…
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![GTEC Holdings (GTEC.C) puts Tumbleweed grow-op into production]()
GTEC Holdings (GTEC.C) puts Tumbleweed grow-op into production
On August 19, 2019 GTEC Holdings (GTEC.C) announced that its 100% owned Tumbleweed Farms has been granted a “Standard Cultivation, Processing and Medical Sales Licences, pursuant to the Cannabis Act and Regulations by Health Canada.” Tumbleweed is a purpose-built cultivation facility located in Chase, British Columbia – named after an American, Whitfield Chase, who worked…
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![GTEC Holdings (GTEC.C) snares Canopy Growth (WEED.T) grow facility in BC for $13m]()
GTEC Holdings (GTEC.C) snares Canopy Growth (WEED.T) grow facility in BC for $13m
As Canopy Growth Corp (WEED.T) retools in the wake of CEO Bruce Linton’s firing earlier this month, buzz on Cannabis Street was that there’d be assets flipped to help get the weedzilla back to its core business. Today we saw the first volley as GTEC Holdings (GTEC.C) bought a Kelowna, B.C. expansion site from Canopy…
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It’s Weed Wednesday: Canadian cannabis is legal, but what does it all mean?
If you thought weed stocks were going to run when the new Canadian cannabis laws came in, guess again. Those had been baked into share price for over a year so, if anything, we at Equity.guru expected today to be the stock price yawner it has so far been. But that’s not always going to…
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![Brands, brands, brands: You want ’em, we got ’em, but some aren’t what you think]()
Brands, brands, brands: You want ’em, we got ’em, but some aren’t what you think
In 2014, I said before a crowd at one of the first cannabis company conferences, ‘forget growing weed – nobody invested hard in barley and hops after prohibition ended – they wanted to invest in brands, the Seagrams and Canadian Clubs and Budweisers, that got the maximum margin out of every ingredient.’ I’ve said similar…
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Cannabis is getting complicated: Greentec Holdings (GTEC) is geared for what’s next
I turn away a lot of weed deals these days, mostly because they’re doing my head in. To put it simply, I don’t want to be all in on one farming deal. I don’t want to be putting money into a high market cap agricultural play. I don’t want to be in an industry that…
