History
A shell company called SUJA Minerals became a Michigan fuel cell business in 2013, raised debt-based funding, then went quiet and was suspended by the SEC in 2017 for missing filings.
2013-2014: From mining shell to fuel cells
The company was incorporated in Nevada in April 2010 as SUJA Minerals, Corp. Its record shows a tiny shell until August 2013, when it bought 100% of Global Energy Innovations, Inc. (GEI), a Michigan fuel cell maker. The price was $250,000 in cash, 15,000,000 existing shares delivered by certain shareholders, 2,500 Series A super-voting preferred shares and a 10-year royalty to founder Dr. K. Joel Berry: 2.5% of sales up to $100 million a year, 1.5% above that. The preferred shares gave Dr. Berry 50.00% of the voting power, so control passed to him. To ease the change, 10,000,000 shares held by Hemisphere West Co, Ltd were cancelled, and $119,929.51 of notes were approved for conversion into 19,987,142 shares. A reverse split also took place, which is why the share count fell to 30,000 at the end of 2012 on the later figures and stood at 126,970 at the end of 2013.
In April 2014 the company agreed a possible $10,000,000 funding line with Kodiak Capital Group, usable only once a registration statement became effective, with shares sold at 75% of the lowest recent bid. Kodiak received 1,500,000 restricted shares as a fee, and authorized common shares were raised to 1,400,000,000. In July 2014 it signed a revolving credit facility of up to $5,000,000 with TCA Global Credit Master Fund, LP, drawing $200,000 at the outset to fund fuel cell commercialisation. Shares on issue reached 1,227,497,954 by the end of 2014.
2015-2017: Zarvic and the suspension
In September 2015 the company created Series B Convertible Non-Voting Preferred Stock, convertible 10-to-1 into common, and engaged Zarvic Brothers of Rochester, NY for advice on mergers, debt restructuring and strategy. In December 2015 the board approved buying Zarvic Brothers, LLC, a commercial real estate and merger advisory firm, for 500,000 restricted shares.
The record then goes quiet. In August 2017 the company disclosed that the Zarvic deal was never legally executed because final terms were not concluded. It also reported an SEC trading suspension from August 3 to August 16, 2017, because it had filed no periodic reports since the quarterly report for the period ended September 30, 2014. A recovery plan was due by August 12, 2017. As of August 11, 2017, the company was also offering hybrid power consulting services, and the filings did not report that fuel cell commercial operations had been achieved.
Written from the 6 story beats below (2013 to 11 Aug 2017), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.