Rurelec - noose tightens as shareholders again vote no

That AIM-listed Rurelec (RUR) is in a tight spot has already been admitted by its (new) Board of Directors in the RNS announcing a proposed Open Offer to shareholders. We have already pointed out that the Offer seemed to be doomed from the outset as the minimum funding level set looked impossible to achieve, given that the company's 54% major shareholder (Sterling Trust) was itself in administration. But we didn't have to wait for that to play out, for yesterday it was announced that shareholders had rejected all the resolutions put to an EGM called to approve measures needed to progress the attempted Open Offer. The Offer is a dead duck. 

Rurelec – open offer a doomed last throw of the dice?

AIM-listed and cash-strapped Rurelec (RUR) has proposed an Open Offer as the new management team fights to keep the lights on. But I fear that this potential fund-raising is already doomed to failure. The company admits that it faces a cash-crisis and the writing is on the wall. Here is why.

Rurelec (#RUR) - Proposed open offer to raise £3.5million

Rurelec – short term loan confirmed as the company mortgages itself to the hilt

Crisis ridden AIM-listed Rurelec confirmed on Friday that it had closed the short-term loan facility announced on 30 October, and that it had already drawn down the full amount of £600,000. The statement released says that the directors are pleased to announce this news. For “pleased” read “relieved”. But at what price?

Rurelec - massive insider dealing, or am I a banana?

Today trading in AIM-listed Rurelec (RUR) went bananas. Readers following the fortunes of this disaster story will know that cash has been something of an issue - see HERE and HERE. So any positive developments regarding funding would be very warmly welcomed as the company tried to avoid what appeared to be an inevitable train smash. Well, some good news arrived on that score this afternoon at 3.38pm as the company announced that it is at an advanced stage of negotiations over a short term finance deal. Great stuff, and top marks to the board of directors for making a fight of it. But by 3.38pm the shares had already gone through the roof. Who knew? Who bought before 3.38pm?

Rurelec (#RUR) huge insider dealing ahead of 3.30 RNS - it may have short term finance

Rurelec – woe upon woe as 54% shareholder goes into administration

I have been bearish on AIM-listed Rurelec (RUR) all the way down from 3.75p in May. With the shares now down 79% since then, at 0.775p, I sense a notch on the bed-post at Deputy Sheriff of AIM Towers. Rurelec’s 54% controlling shareholder, Sterling Trust, has gone into administration and so we now have (to add to the balance sheet issues) a monster of a stock overhang. Also in the fray is the already suspended AIM-listed IPSA (IPSA), which sees a 30% stock overhang created.

Rurelec (#RUR) - 53.989% holder Sterling Trust placed into administration. Massive overhang

Rurelec – boardroom departures. Rats, sinking ship, writing on the wall?

This morning two boardroom departures have been announced at AIM-listed Rurelec (RUR). The chairman was announced to have gone first thing this morning, and now he has been followed by a NED who is departing as of the end of the month. Is this a sign of further woes to come?

Rurelec (#RUR) - Chairman walks plank, before shoved off

Rurelec – train wreck Interims and a bizarre statement

That AIM-listed Rurelec (RUR) has been in a spot of bother was already well known (see HERE and HERE), and the full extent of the fiasco is clear from yesterday’s Interims. But it is the Chairman’s statement which most raises the eyebrows – here we are given an explanation as to what went on at the AGM when the board members up for re-election were unceremoniously rejected by the major shareholder…..whose head honcho is the company chairman! 

Rurelec – more bad news as it ‘discusses’ two debts with one in default

I have already pointed to some uncertainty over the control of Rurelec (RUR) HERE as well as some financing issues HERE, after bridging finance of $12million appeared to have fallen through last week, although a long-awaited sale brought in $6.4million. Monday saw RNSs which showed that Rurelec has not one, but two debts currently causing sleepless nights. It does not look good, and the appointment of two Exec Directors seemingly at the insistence of one of the creditors is ominous.

Rurelec finally sells plant 4 months after announcing it, but serious alarm bells ring over the AGM fiasco. Who is calling the shots?

First up, news Friday that Rurelec (RUR) has finally sold its Canchayllo hydro-electric plant in Peru for net proceeds of $6.4m. This announcement comes after the previously announced sale for $6.5m back in March, an update in April that the $6.6m cash had not arrived but was expected “shortly” and an update in May that a loan which had been expected to have been settled out of that cash had been extended, before the Annual Report and Accounts for FY14 revealed deep in the notes that the sale had failed.

Rurelec (#RUR) - in default on loan from Radix which forces appointment of two new Execs. Oh dear...

4 months after saying it had sold a Hydro plant for $6.4m, Rurelec (#RUR) actually sells it. Shoddy

Rurelec – ANOTHER disastrous RNS! Can it get any worse?

Yesterday morning, hot on the heels of a cataclysmic AGM (see HERE) which saw all resolutions (apart from the reappointment of the auditors) overwhelmingly defeated (with 90-odd % votes against), Rurelec (RUR) announced that a previously announced short-term loan of $12million has been suspended pending clarification with the lender on the security and repayment of the facility, if drawn. The company goes on to reassure that there are other alternative sources of finance on which a further announcement will be made in due course. In other words that deal is off.

Red Flags at Night with Neon Flashing lights: Rurelec in AGM disaster

Boy, oh boy - an after-hours RNS from Rurelec. Last time we had one the Red Flag count hit twelve (see HERE). But it got worse when Rurelec dished up five RNSs in a single day (see HERE) which included FY14 results, but buried deep in the notes to the accounts it emerged that a previously announced sale of assets intended to fund the repayment on loans had, in fact, not taken place. Yesterday, on the dot of the end of the day’s trading, the company released a stunning AGM result.

Rurelec (#RUR) - Again! 'fesses up over $12m loan

Rurelec (#RUR) - AGM result (after hours, natch), all motions bar one DEFEATED

Zak Mir's Bear Call Of The Day: Rurelec: Risk Of Further Losses Towards 2p

I was intrigued with the latest article on Shareprophets regarding Rurelec (RUR), from a fundamental perspective. The rationale behind the technical lowdown here is whether we can demystify the prospects for shares of this company.