GROOVE BOTANICALS INC.
12 story beats from 2003 to 2025
The story so far
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)
202559.6m shares · US$364k market cap
- 19 Aug
Filed its fiscal 2025 annual report without its auditor's required written consent, making the filing invalid; it corrected this with an amended 10-K weeks later once consent was obtained - a real compliance lapse, not a substantive accounting change.
financial restatement
59.6m shUS$364k
202459.6m shares · US$1.8m market cap
- 10 May
Dismissed BF Borgers after the SEC permanently barred the firm from auditing public companies over widespread audit-standards failures - part of an industry-wide fallout that forced hundreds of small companies to find new auditors.
auditor change
59.6m shUS$1.8m
202128.3m shares · US$651k market cap
- 2 Aug
GROOVE BOTANICALS INC. terminated the registration of a class of securities, ending its reporting obligation for them.
listing compliance notice
28.3m shUS$651k
2010
- 26 July
Restated its fiscal 2009 financial statements after a ceiling-test write-down calculation on its oil and gas reserves proved incorrect, telling investors not to rely on the previously filed numbers.
financial restatement
2007
- 4 May
Acquired a second technology company from UTEK Corporation - Leak Location Technologies, whose Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute-licensed sound-based leak detection technology finds leaks in underground pipes - pushing UTEK's combined stake in Avalon to 21.8%.
asset acquisition disposition
- 16 Jan
Acquired a 10% working interest, alongside operator KROG Partners and advisor Anderson Oil & Gas, in a 13-wellbore producing property in Upshur County, Texas, and began production-improvement work on other properties.
drilling progress report
2006
- 15 Dec
Diversified beyond oilfield assets into technology: acquired Ultrasonic Mitigation Technologies from UTEK Corporation in a stock-for-stock deal, gaining an exclusive University of Wyoming license for ultrasonic paraffin-wax removal from oil wells.
material agreement
- 13 Feb
A second oil and gas deal also unwound: Avalon returned Oklahoma properties to Sooner Trend Leasing and cancelled the 48 million shares it had issued for them - the same failure-of-consideration pattern as the Mid-Continent deal.
asset acquisition disposition
- 25 Jan
The Mid-Continent Investments deal fell apart: Mid-Continent never delivered the assignment of the Kansas leasehold it had promised, so Avalon cancelled the 85 million shares it had issued and abandoned the acquisition - the "completed" 2005 deal turns out never to have closed.
asset acquisition disposition
2005
- 27 May
Completed the Mid-Continent Investments acquisition on paper - 85 million shares issued for the Kansas oil and gas leasehold, handing Mid-Continent 51.7% control of the company - though the underlying assets were never actually transferred, as later filings would reveal.
business combination
- 18 Feb
Pivoted again, to a non-binding letter of intent with Mid-Continent Investments Corporation to acquire an 80% net revenue interest in a Kansas oil and gas leasehold in exchange for 80% of XDOGS' outstanding stock - its first move toward becoming an oil and gas company.
business combination
2003
- 13 Aug
As XDogs, Inc., signed a non-binding letter of intent to reverse-merge with Kathrine Baumann, LLC, a Beverly Hills designer of luxury handbags, under which Baumann's principal would end up with 75% of the combined company. The deal was never completed in the filings on record; a different merger target appeared weeks later.
business combination