History
A Texas holding company that bought and sold fuel, well-service, med spa and pharmacy businesses, funded by heavily dilutive financing, ended in oil and gas before deregistering in December 2023.
2005-2009: The Hammonds years
The company, then named International American Technologies, began in April 2005 by buying 51% of Hammonds Technical Services, a Texas maker of fuel additives, fuel-handling equipment and water-treatment products. It paid $1,000,000 cash, gave a $2,000,000 secured credit line, and issued 145,000 shares of parent American International Industries against a $1,450,000 note. In August 2006 it agreed to sell up to 833,333 Series A convertible preferred shares at $1.80 each to Vision Opportunity Master Fund (VOMF), and to buy out Carl Hammonds' remaining 49% for 16,000,000 restricted common shares, making Hammonds wholly owned.
The accounting proved troublesome. In October 2006 the company said its June and September 2005 quarterly results should not be relied on: the June quarter moved from a $125,806 profit to a $244,094 loss, and the September quarter loss grew from $125,644 to $741,294. In March 2008, after SEC comments, it restated again, adding a $1,290,898 deemed dividend on the VOMF preferred stock.
VOMF kept funding the business. It lent $1,000,000 in August 2007, then in September 2007 the warrants were repriced from $0.18 to $0.10 and exercised, raising net proceeds of $981,162 and cancelling that loan. It was not enough. On April 16, 2009, the board, citing failed capital raising and about $7.3 million of liabilities at the end of 2008, sold all assets and the four operating subsidiaries to a FabCorp subsidiary, which took on bank debt, a $250,000 bridge note and payables. The company was left a shell.
2010-2012: Delta Seaboard
On February 3, 2010 the company completed a reverse merger with Delta Seaboard Well Service, a Texas well-servicing business 51% owned by American International Industries. After a 1-for-10 reverse split, about 68 million shares were outstanding, with American holding 48.2% and Delta's other owners 45.4%. Existing holders were left with 6.4%. The company was to be renamed Delta Seaboard International.
In June 2011 VOMF agreed to convert all 3,769,626 preferred shares into common and waive accrued dividends, in return for a payment of $225,000 or $250,000, ending the preferred stock. In April 2012 the company sold the well-service assets back to Delta's former owners for $1,600,000 cash plus a $1,400,000, five-year note. They resigned and handed their 31,925,832 shares to American International Industries. The company described itself as a non-operating shell again. Year-end share counts show a large fall in 2011, but the records here do not explain it.
2013-2020: A new shell and a string of small businesses
The record is quiet for several years. In April 2019 the company bought Novopelle Diamond, a McKinney, Texas medical spa, for 18,000,000 new shares, ending its shell status. Cohen, Alexander and Hernandez, holding 6,000,000 shares each, became chief executive, chief operating officer and chief marketing officer, and the filing reported a change of control. A Novopelle brand license followed in June 2019, and in October 2019 the subsidiary Legend Nutrition bought a McKinney vitamin store.
Funding turned to small convertible notes that convert to shares at a discount to the market price, with warnings of dilution: $157,500 to Adar Alef in February 2020, then $88,000 and $105,000 in April 2020. In May 2020 the company bought 51% of Life Guru, Inc. for 500,000 Series B preferred shares, and issued one Series A preferred share to each of the three directors, together carrying 60% of votes.
2021-2022: Convertible debt and pharmacy focus
In 2021 the borrowing grew larger. The company sold $1,450,000 of 6% senior secured convertible notes in January and March, with warrants, followed by $537,916 more in June. In November and December it sold $2,000,000 of 10% notes with 13,333,332 warrants, raising $1,800,000 gross. Failing to uplist to a senior exchange such as Nasdaq within 220 days would be a default.
A 1-for-60 reverse split on May 12, 2022 cut about 97.3 million shares to about 1.6 million, aimed at meeting Nasdaq's price minimum. Chief executive Jacob Cohen's Series A preferred was reworked to convert into 60% of the common stock. To focus on pharmacy through Epiq Scripts, the company sold Mangoceuticals to Cohen's company for $90,000 in June 2022 and Epiq MD for $300,000 plus a royalty in July. More small notes followed, from 1800 Diagonal and Mast Hill, as the share count rose to 75,601,875 by year end.
2023: Cycle Energy and deregistration
On February 15, 2023 the company bought Cycle Energy Corp., a Texas energy company producing about 25 barrels of oil a day from 16 leases, from Marble Trital Inc., owned by new chief executive Michael McLaren, for 1,000,000 new Series A preferred shares convertible into 60% of the common stock. As a condition, Cohen exchanged his Series A for the company's 51% of Epiq Scripts, the Epiq MD royalty, ZipDoctor sale proceeds and about $850,000 of Epiq Scripts debt. Turner, Stone & Company replaced M&K CPAs as auditor, whose earlier reports had carried going-concern doubt.
On July 13, 2023 the company signed a $20,000,000 equity line with Pacific Lion, usable only after a resale registration is filed, plus a convertible note of up to $400,000, of which $100,000 was funded. On December 13, 2023 the company deregistered its securities, ending its obligation to file reports with the SEC.
Written from the 28 story beats below (2005 to 13 Dec 2023), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.