Healthcare Enterprise Group

T43 ...

Alpha Trading don't have a website ... they are distributors; as shrek said, they are a subsidiary of Ngamdee Cotton. They don't need a website because the individual product manufacturers they distribute for have their own webistes to promote their products.

shrek has addressed the matter of sales ... they are better than initially expected in Thailand.

You say, "is this normal strategy for decontamination product manufacturers/ healthcare enterprise groups...to majority own their world-wide distributors?"

You really need to do some more research on HCEG Plc. They already own a large international distribution operation in the UK. To quote the Safa-IPS website ...

"Our dedicated export team supplies a full range of pharmaceuticals, medical sundries, decontamination products, hospital equipment, first aid products and surgical dressings worldwide. Orders for any variety or quantity of product can be effectively consolidated into a single consignment for destinations worldwide. We specialise in delivering ‘total packages’ in single consignments."

The Export Division is located at Hornchurch in Essex (England) but they also own Distrimatch GmbH who have offices in Germany, the USA, Israel, China, Hong Kong and India.

The Distrimatch website tells us ...

"Distrimatch, Inc. is an international distributor of pharmaceutical chemicals and nutritional supplements. Our specialty is helping pharmaceutical supply companies reduce their procurement costs by custom sourcing otherwise expensive or previously patented ingredients on their behalf.

We procure premium ingredients from certified factories around the world on both a commodity and specialty basis for delivering product at the best possible price. We can source bulk commodities as well as contract manufacture complex active ingredients per detailed specifications."

Taking control of their distribution chain in SE Asia and the Far East is wholly consistent with what HCEG Plc have done in the past.

Furthermore, you say ...

"My worry is that if you buy your distributor with no sales reporting to date, what non-performance might you be hiding? And if you are buying to hide then you probably have major problems."

You are looking for trouble where it doesn't exist. I also find the logic you employ confusing ... maybe it's a cultural difference.

"If HCEG is spending it's UKBP200K wisely why is there no record of an Alpha Trading Website that one would assume would exist as a reflection of a functioning company" ... again I find your logic fuzzy.

The ownership of a website and the existance of a "functioning company" are simply not related. Surely you can't be suggesting that Alpha Trading don't exist and that HCEG's money is disappearing down a black hole ???

"What other leading edge health related products did/do Alpha carry?"

As previously explained, ATA were a subsidiary of Ngamdee Cotton before being taken over by HCEG Plc.

Ngamdee have been trading since 1970, when they were a textile company. Since then they have expanded and are now manufacturers, importers and exporter of Medical cotton and absorbent gauze.

They specialize in the export of "cotton sliver" (a high grade medical product) for cotton buds and medical products including surgical dressings, cotton balls, cotton rolls, cosmetic pads and disposable medical items.

When the head man at Ngamdee got together with HCEG CEO, Gordon Wood, Safasia was formed (in 2000.)

As has been explained earlier, they have use of CE (European Union) and FDA (USA) approved clean rooms in Thailand and Malaysia ... the former "Gammaster" site at Chonburi and the recently built Isotron unit at Kuala Ketil in northern Malaysia.

"What is the turnover today?"

I can't answer that question because I do not have access to Ngamdee's accounts, however; if you feel so inclined, you can ask them yourself ...

by e-mail to teerawat@ngamdeecotton.com

or by visiting them at 239 moo 9 Tabyao Ladkrabang Bangkok 10520.

That's the Ngamdee Cotton address ... they have a seperate Ngamdee medical division in the same neighbourhood. Sorry but I don't have the address at hand.