Zing Zing CVA is passed by Creditors so Crowdcube investors are stuck.

Yet again Crowdcube investors are treated like door mats. Zing Zing raised £1.5m in 2016 and then another £1.2m in 2017. Now Creditors have agreed a 4 year CVA which leaves the Crowd holding onto worthless paper. Paper that Crowdcube promoted as being worth £7.2m in 2017. 

We wrote about this when the news broke - here . Predictably profits forecast on Crowdcube never materialised. The CVA documents go into a variety of reasons for this. We add them all up and make it one reason - piss poor management and planning. 

As investors are not considered to be creditors, they have no leg to stand on in these cases. Creditors are being told they will get all of the £523k debts back. No one gave a monkey's about the Crowd. Least of all Crowdcube, who have their commission. The administration for the CVA will cost £100k. Yup.

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Zing Zing Express orders up a CVA and Pivot to save the day. Was this on the menu?

Bizarrely and much to the irritation of some Crowdcube investors, Zing Zing have applied through Begbies for a CVA at the same time that they were trying to raise more money privately from their shareholders. We are not sure if the one knew about the other. One thing thing is clear - no Crowcube investors have a vote in the future of their company. Crazy stuff they are putting in these takeaways. 

Zing Zing is one of Crowdcube's larger and more recent successes. For those of you who can stomach Crowdcube's endless PR, this is their appraisal of how successful they are -  https://www.crowdcube.com/explore/investor/zing-zing-where-are-they-now

Zing Zing raised just over £1.5m in 2016. Everything appears to have been downhill since. They were projected to be in profit from 2017 onwards. Obviously that has not happened. Losses for YE Dec17 were £750,000. We have them marked way down on our Buzz rating.

We wrote about at the end of 2017 when they tried again on Crowdcube - worth a read of the comment from a serious investor. http://fantasyequitycrowdfunding.blogspot.com/2017/12/zing-zang-baby.html

Whether they manage to get support for the CVA will be one to watch. Vote on 22 May.

One fact we are sure of now - Crowdcube are consistent in their ability to lose investors their cash. Why? Well simply because they dont care what rubbish they publish on their FCA platform. Nor apparently does the FCA. We do. Join us to make a stand for investors at ECF.Buzz. Equity Crowdfunding can be so much better than this.

Zing Zang baby.

Ok so the picture is a joke - right - dont get all PC on me. The latest ECF news is that Zing Zing, the Chinese takeaway, have already, after only 2 days on Crowdcube, blasted their £500k target.

This is Zing Zing's second Cubism. They raised an astonishing £1.7m last year against a target of just £350k. 

Since then the rice has taken longer to steam than they thought - even with five times the capital base. But hell, come in well under budget and you can still hike your price on the Cube and no one will bother to question it. Apparently they hadnt allowed for the fall in the £ and subsequent price hikes in their COGS. Do they know that Brexit has only just begun and has a minimum of 2 years to go, without any idea what it will look like eventually?

4 units are up and running but two are new and the other two have not reached maturity yet - so some way to go to get the recipe right. 3 new openings planned in London for 2018, with whatever recipe is on hand. Units are certainly cheaper than most to get going so that is a plus. Reviews of existing outlets are generally good but they are not sensational. Shouldn't they be? 

Our guess - plenty of dilution heading the way of investors, eased by fictional growth in values. Just may get some real traction or enough to be a target for purchase. ROI, well that depends on the above - high risk but rewards are good if you like Chinese. 

Whoever made up investment rules needs to rewrite them.