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Cord Blood America Retires $2.53M Obligation
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cord Blood America, Inc. (OTC:CBAI) (BULLETIN BOARD: CBAI) , the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company (http://www.cordblood-america.com/) focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internationally, said today it has retired $2.53M of long-term debt.
"The two notes signed in February and March of 2007 respectively, between CBAI and the Shelter Island Opportunity Fund (SIOF), have been retired as of August 3, 2009. With this debt retirement, CBAI has only the put option agreement obligation with SIOF remaining on its balance sheet. Cord Blood America regards this as a key milestone on its path to being able to operate debt free," said Matthew Schissler, Cord Blood America Founder and CEO. "Shelter Island provided us with the capital to purchase CorCell, which is the first licensed family cord blood banking company in the United States. Using their financing allowed us to establish CBAI as one of the largest domestic stem cell storage companies. Our obligation was to pay the notes in full before the February 28, 2010 maturity date. We are happy to have met the obligation and have saved a significant amount of interest payments because of early payoff."
"We have repeatedly said that decreasing debt would be one of our significant items to focus on in 2009," said Mr. Schissler. "Eliminating debt makes our financial balance sheet stronger and makes Cord Blood America a better investment. We are very pleased with this development."
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Cord Blood America New Las Vegas Stem Cell Laboratory Scheduled for Opening in 4th Quarter 2009
SANTA MONICA, Calif. and LAS VEGAS, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cord Blood America, Inc. (OTC:CBAI) (BULLETIN BOARD: CBAI) , one of the largest umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation companies (http://www.cordblood-america.com/ ) focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internationally, announced today that work has begun at its new, 17,000 square foot facility in Las Vegas for conversion into a state-of-the-art laboratory for the storage of stem cells and for research and development.
"Our target for having a cord blood processing lab in operation, a testing lab, and a cryogenic storage area is the fourth quarter of 2009. This will complete Phase One of the construction. Currently architectural plans are completed and needed demolition of parts of the interior building is underway," said Matthew Schissler, CEO and founder of Cord Blood America.
"Phase Two will involve building out of the largest cryogenic facilities in the country, as well as a research laboratory, additional processing labs and a clean room," Mr. Schissler said. "Completion is expected in 2010."
Cord Blood America recently announced it is opening a state-of-the-art laboratory for the storage of multiple stem cell products, including umbilical cord blood stem cells, in Las Vegas. The lab will be used to process and store umbilical cord blood stem cells, to store other forms of stem cells such as stem cells from the peripheral blood stream and adipose tissues, and for research and product development.
Dr. Geoffrey John O'Neill, author or co-author of more than 75 publications about stem cells, and former Laboratory and Scientific/Medical Director for Cryo-Cell International Inc. in Florida, will serve as Laboratory Director. Brian Pockett, with more than 30 years professional experience in operations, business development, marketing, sales and financial and grant development, including serving as a consultant on global distribution, product development, commercialization, investment and intellectual properties for some of the largest companies in the U.S., is Vice President of Laboratory Operations.
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Cord Blood America Says Balance Sheet Significantly Strengthened in 2009
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cord Blood America, Inc. (OTC:CBAI) (BULLETIN BOARD: CBAI) , the umbilical cord blood stem cell preservation company (http://www.cordblood-america.com/) focused on bringing the life saving potential of stem cells to families nationwide and internationally, said today that its 10Q filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission for the second quarter of 2009 shows a significantly improved balance sheet.
At June 30, 2009, Cord Blood America's working capital had increased by almost $4 million compared to year-end 2008. This is a 90 percent improvement in only six months.
The Company also had a balance of $324,549 in cash, an important increase as Cord Blood America moves forward with organic growth and possible acquisitions.
Further the 10Q has a schedule detailing the repayment of $5 million in debt in the first half of the year, one of the pillars needed for the Company to succeed.
"While revenues were down, due to very difficult economic conditions, and a significant de-emphasis on our advertising business, we are confident we have built the strong foundation necessary for the growth our shareholders want," said Matthew Schissler, founder and CEO.
"In addition, we anticipated being cash flow positive this year. However one time charges in Q2 including the cost of capital for the $7.5M raised, and significant testing and auditing of our SOP's, coupled with the excellent opportunity to build one of the largest stem cell storage facilities in the country, delayed this in the short term. There were significant sunk costs in Q2 that couldn't be avoided. All measures were taken to strengthen CBAI for the long term."
Mr. Schissler concluded: "Once the stem cell storage and research and development lab in Las Vegas is completed, CBAI will immediately increase our gross margins, bringing us closer to cash flow positive."
bid is getting stronger and thicker and ask is thinning
takes alot to move this stock, but with pennies moving nicely these days you never know this may be able to move big...but its would take a hell of alot lol
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wow it toook alot of buys to break .0036 so resistance may be coming back and stock may be harder to move but i am still holding all, thinking this will breakout here nicely soon...took about 40 mil shares break .0036!
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yes pretty sure we break .005 today...we may even see .01s by tomorrow had alot of volume last few days but never ran up, and i thikn that is the mms loading up
so this one can go biggly( i know thats not a word but i like it )
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