History
A small shell company that moved from coffee to hydrogen vehicles, Kansas oil leases and marijuana retail, ending 2019 with a heavily diluting share issue to a former executive.
2006-2009: From coffee shell to hydrogen plans
In May 2006 the company merged with Great American Coffee Company, Inc., a California company formed in April 2005 that conducted no business and was negotiating to acquire or merge with an active one. The company's officers were replaced under the deal. In January 2008 its auditor, Li & Company, resigned after the company filed a quarterly report without the required auditor review; earlier Li reports had carried a going-concern warning, meaning doubt that the company could keep operating.
In May 2008 it signed a joint venture with ICE Conversions, Inc. to form Force Fuels CA LLC, aimed at hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The company was to take 80% of profit or loss and raise $5,000,000 in stages, and planned to rename itself Force Fuels, Inc. It also planned to issue 4,000,000 shares, which it expected to change control of the company.
2010-2011: Kansas oil leases
In April 2010 Force Fuels agreed to buy 13 oil and gas leases in Kansas, about 2,600 acres, from PEMCO, LLC for $1,500,000. This was its first oil and gas asset. In December 2010 its stock was moved from the OTC Bulletin Board to the Pink Sheets because the annual report for the year to July 31, 2010 was filed late and without an auditor's report. The company blamed the auditor change and the start of oil operations.
In January 2011 it signed an agreement allowing Kodiak Capital Group to buy up to $1,000,000 of stock over 24 months, but nothing had been raised under it, and the Pink Sheets move complicated its use. In March 2011 the PEMCO purchase was cancelled without penalty. PEMCO received a 50% interest in four leases in return for all amounts owed, took over operating the other nine, and a joint venture was set up. The company described this as cutting debt by $1,352,265. Shares on issue at the end of 2011 were 13,544,375.
2014-2019: Marijuana retail and a debt swap
In May 2014 the company agreed to buy Café Serendipity, Inc., a developer of franchise retail stores for recreational marijuana consumers, for 30,000,000 new shares. This was a change in control: the previous directors left and Ken Berscht became CEO. In June 2014 the company filed to end its registration under Section 12(g), stopping its duty to file regular SEC reports. It reported about 245 holders of record.
The record then goes quiet until April 2019. By then the company was named Café Serendipity Holdings (formerly BioQuest Corp.). It amended an October 2018 deal under which former executive Thomas C. Hemingway received 350,000,000 new shares for forgiving about $350,000 of notes and advances. The amendment found the amount owed was $187,186 in unpaid wages, and a further $33,894 of loans and interest was moved to another entity. The company's sole director nonetheless honored the full 350,000,000 shares. The filings do not state the total shares outstanding afterwards.
Written from the 10 story beats below (2006 to 26 Apr 2019), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.