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BIOQUEST CORP.

US:BQSTUS:SELTUS:SELTD
US$0.067Close 6 Oct 2026 · delayed

Past year: ▼ 93%(6.60c – 1.00 USD)

Market cap
A$1.3m
Shares on issue
13.5m
Story beats
10 since 2006
Last event
26 Apr 2019

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.

Beat by beat

The events that changed the company's story, in plain English, each written against everything known about the company at the time. The dot shows whether it was good, bad or neutral for shareholders.

shares on issue market cap (log scale)

201913.5m shares · US$135k market cap

  1. 26 Apr

    The company, now named Café Serendipity Holdings (formerly BioQuest Corp.), amended its October 8, 2018 deal with former executive Thomas C. Hemingway, who was to receive 350,000,000 new shares for forgiving about $350,000 of notes and advances. The amendment says the amount actually owed was $187,186 (accrued unpaid wages), and a further $33,894 of loans and interest was transferred to another entity and is no longer a company obligation. Even so, the company's sole director decided to honor the 350,000,000 shares already issued to Hemingway, so the share count stays hugely diluted relative to the debt cleared.

    capital raising announcement

    13.5m shUS$135k

201413.5m shares · US$27.1m market cap

  1. 25 June

    Force Fuels filed an amended notice (dated June 23, 2014) ending its registration of common stock under Section 12(g), relying on Rule 12g-4(a)(1), and says there were about 245 holders of record. Under this rule the company stops its duty to file regular reports with the SEC. Shares are not cancelled by this filing, but shareholders will no longer get SEC-filed reports. The mark in the signature block, Mark V. Noffke as CEO, differs from Ken Berscht who signed days earlier.

    listing compliance notice

    13.5m shUS$27.1m
  2. 6 June

    Force Fuels agreed on May 6, 2014 to buy 100% of Café Serendipity, Inc., a development company offering franchise retail stores for recreational marijuana consumers, in exchange for 30,000,000 new shares. The filing states this is a change in control, and reports that Tom Hemingway, Bobby Orbach and Dennis O'Neill have left the board and Ken Berscht has joined and signed as CEO. The company's address moved to Henderson, Nevada. This is a complete change of business from the oil and gas leases and fuel plans described earlier.

    business combination

    13.5m shUS$27.1m

2011

  1. 31 Mar

    On March 30, 2011 Force Fuels and PEMCO cancelled the April 2010 asset purchase agreement, with no penalties. The company will give PEMCO a 50% interest in four of the 13 leases (Mann, Mann AB, Bayless, Doebrook) in exchange for all amounts owed under that purchase. PEMCO becomes operator of the other nine leases, and the two sign a joint venture covering these leases, with new-development revenue split 75% to the company and 25% to PEMCO. The company's press release describes this as cutting debt by $1,352,265. This partly reverses the 2010 acquisition.

    material agreement termination

  2. 14 Jan

    On January 10, 2011 Force Fuels signed an agreement with Kodiak Capital Group, LLC under which Kodiak may buy up to $1,000,000 of common stock over 24 months, at 90% of the lowest closing bid price in the pricing period. The company can only sell shares once a resale registration statement is effective, and the stock must also be listed on its principal market and not suspended from trading, which matters given the December 2010 move to the Pink Sheets. No money has been raised yet under this agreement.

    material agreement

2010

  1. 17 Dec

    On December 17, 2010 the stock was moved from the OTC Bulletin Board to the Pink Sheets because the annual report for the year ended July 31, 2010 was not filed within the grace period. The filing also says the original 10-K and the 10-K/A of December 16 lacked the auditor's report, so Sadler, Gibb said it does not agree with those unaudited statements. The company attributes the delay to the auditor change and the start of oil and gas operations, including the need for a proven reserves report. The company expects to file audited statements shortly and reapply to the OTCBB.

    listing compliance notice

  2. 26 Apr

    Force Fuels signed an agreement on April 20, 2010 to buy 13 oil and gas leases with equipment (about 2,600 acres in Kansas) from PEMCO, LLC for $1,500,000: $200,000 at the initial closing, $900,000 by promissory note paid in $100,000 monthly instalments, and $400,000 once it signs an agreement with Energy Recovery Systems. The company's own press release says the leases have 54 wells and calls this its first step toward becoming an energy company; the reserve figure of 13 million barrels is described there as a preliminary estimate. This is the company's first oil and gas asset in the filings seen, after the earlier hydrogen vehicle JV plans.

    material agreement

2008

  1. 27 May

    On May 19, 2008 the company signed a joint venture agreement (dated May 12) with ICE Conversions, Inc. to form Force Fuels CA LLC, which would develop and later make and sell hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; the company gets 80% of profit or loss. It must raise and contribute $5,000,000 in stages (at least $500,000 by August 10, 2008, $1,500,000 by November 8, 2008, and all by May 12, 2009) and plans to rename itself Force Fuels, Inc. It plans to issue 4,000,000 shares (2,500,000 under an employment arrangement, 1,500,000 to ICE Conversions), which it says is expected to change control of the company. This is a new business direction after the earlier Great American Coffee merger.

    material agreement

  2. 12 Feb

    Li & Company resigned as auditor on January 18, 2008, after the company filed its October 31, 2007 quarterly report without the required auditor review. The company filed an amended quarterly report noting the missing review and said it had not yet chosen a new auditor. Earlier Li reports carried a going-concern paragraph, and no disagreements are reported.

    auditor change

2006

  1. 15 May

    On May 9, 2006 the company completed a merger in which a new subsidiary merged into Great American Coffee Company, Inc., a California company, which became a wholly-owned subsidiary. Each Great American share was converted into one share of the company's common stock, and the company's officers were removed and replaced with new appointees under the agreement. The filing says Great American was formed April 4, 2005 and currently conducts no business, though it is in active negotiations to acquire or merge with an active business. Shareholders holding a majority of the company's shares have agreed to sell or cancel shares under escrow arrangements, and further details were promised within 60 days.

    material agreement