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Will the takeover be complete by this summer?  

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Whitley mag

Whitley mag

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What even is that 2nd point, man.

 

It means if it does happen you know about it when you wake up in the morning without any speculation.

 

This is exactly what will happen, the lack of publicity in weeks coming will allow this to be thrashed out behind closed doors as it should have been all along.

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Whitley mag

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I’m all in for RedBall taking over.

 

They’re certainly in the market for a purchase, if they don’t make one by a set time looks like they have to refund investors. Whether we’re that purchase remains to be seen, the involvement of Scudamore would add credence to them looking at a PL or English club.

 

My major concern now is that Leeds would be a cheaper and just as appealing option since they’ve been promoted (though anyone who knows their stuff realises we’ll always be a bigger club potentially).

 

I still believe Staveley seals the deal by December, however the one thing this takeover has done is increase our exposure worldwide. When the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia wants to buy you, it will certainly have perked the interest of a lot of wealthy investors.

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Singaporean cousins Terence and Nelson Loh behind Newcastle United bid linked to over 30 companies

Their newest, Bellagraph Nova, is in the spotlight after reported bid for Newcastle United

Tham Yuen-C

 

Singaporean cousins Nelson Loh and Terence Loh have been involved in more than 30 companies between them, as shareholders or directors.

 

One of the newest, the Bellagraph Nova Group (BN Group), is now in the news for its reported bid for Newcastle United Football Club.

 

On its website, BN Group is described as an "established consortium with diverse investment holdings across multiple industries such as healthcare, financial holdings, consumer technology and luxury lifestyle".

 

It says it has "31 entities" and a "combined US$12 billion revenue" and is "headquartered in the glitzy no. 10 Place Vendome, Paris, France". The sum is equivalent to S$16.5 billion.

 

Its registered address, though, is in the decidedly more humble Novena Gardens in Singapore's Thomson Road. The four-storey condominum houses shops, apartments and offices.

 

The group - incorporated as Bellagraph Nova Pte Ltd in Singapore - occupies a nondescript fourth-storey unit with opaque glass doors and a dark blue facade.

 

When The Sunday Times visited yesterday, the office was closed. A wooden crate and cardboard carton sitting outside its doors had labels listing among its contents a "titanium rice intelligent disinfection robot TMiRob".

 

The company is listed in the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority database as a holding company.

 

On its own website, it is described as "the only group in the world to boast an international presence in all major commercial sectors" ranging from healthcare to financial services, technology and media.

 

Little else is known of the BN Group consortium that claims to employ 23,000 people worldwide.

 

Set up on July 20, it was born of a merger between the DORR Group - another company founded by the Loh cousins - and the Bellagraph Group, a company founded by Chinese national Evangeline Shen, 32.

 

Mr Nelson Loh, 40, Mr Terence Loh, 42, and Ms Shen are the only shareholders of Bellagraph Nova Pte Ltd, which was set up with a paid up capital of S$20 million.

 

The Loh cousins, who have often said in interviews that they are as close as brothers, are former bankers with JPMorgan.

 

The company, described on its website as an "established consortium" with "31 entities" and a "combined US$12 billion revenue" is said to be "headquartered in the glitzy no. 10 Place Vendome, Paris, France". Its registered address, though, is in the decidedly more humble Novena Gardens in Singapore's Thomson Road.

 

It has been reported that Mr Terence Loh had studied in the United States, while Mr Nelson Loh had attended Cambridge University.

 

In an interview with The Peak magazine in 2018, they said they had set up DORR Group in 2008 after letting a game of roulette at a Las Vegas casino decide if they should stay with their jobs or strike out on their own.

 

The cousins, said to have grown up in the same family home in Bukit Timah, had revealed at the interview that the name DORR comes from the initials of two characters in their favourite movie, Ocean's 11, about an elaborate heist.

 

And it was at an education benefit fund-raising dinner organised by Novena Global that the cousins were photographed with former American president Barack Obama, whose doctored pictures are said to have been used in marketing material and social media channels of the Bellagraph Nova Group.

 

Mr Obama was invited to speak at the event held on Dec 14 last year at the Ritz Carlton. Guests included tycoons, philanthropists and Malaysian royalty.

 

The cousins have been involved in other investment and holding companies as well as consultancies and real estate companies.

 

One of the companies, the DORR Global Healthcare International Pte Ltd, registered in 2016, has a paid up capital of $50 million.

 

Besides Bellagraph Nova Group, the cousins are linked to Ms Shen, also known as Shen Che, through the company Rock Star Advisors Pte Ltd and Kona Investment Pte Ltd.

 

Ms Shen, who said she is a graduate of Fudan University in Shanghai, was a lawyer from Jinmao LLP in China, which has offices in Beijing and Shanghai, and then an investment banker. Now the chairman of BN Group, she is described on the website as having led multiple ventures across industries.

 

One of them, Bellagraph Jewelry, is described as "an ultra-high luxury Parisian-designed jewelry house renowned for its bespoke investment-grade jewelry".

 

A July 5 press release on the BN Group site claims Bellagraph Jewelry pioneered the "unique strategy" of selling high-end jewelry pieces online.

 

It said it had sold a piece of red diamond jewellery for "a staggering price of US$102 million", and also garnered "over 20 million weekly views online across various social media platforms... which is on par with online views for Apple".

 

https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/cousins-linked-to-over-30-companies?xtor=CS3-18&utm_source=STiPhone&utm_medium=share&utm_term=2020-08-23%2013%3A08%3A28

 

 

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Singaporean cousins Terence and Nelson Loh behind Newcastle United bid linked to over 30 companies

Their newest, Bellagraph Nova, is in the spotlight after reported bid for Newcastle United

Tham Yuen-C

 

Singaporean cousins Nelson Loh and Terence Loh have been involved in more than 30 companies between them, as shareholders or directors.

 

One of the newest, the Bellagraph Nova Group (BN Group), is now in the news for its reported bid for Newcastle United Football Club.

 

On its website, BN Group is described as an "established consortium with diverse investment holdings across multiple industries such as healthcare, financial holdings, consumer technology and luxury lifestyle".

 

It says it has "31 entities" and a "combined US$12 billion revenue" and is "headquartered in the glitzy no. 10 Place Vendome, Paris, France". The sum is equivalent to S$16.5 billion.

 

Its registered address, though, is in the decidedly more humble Novena Gardens in Singapore's Thomson Road. The four-storey condominum houses shops, apartments and offices.

 

The group - incorporated as Bellagraph Nova Pte Ltd in Singapore - occupies a nondescript fourth-storey unit with opaque glass doors and a dark blue facade.

 

When The Sunday Times visited yesterday, the office was closed. A wooden crate and cardboard carton sitting outside its doors had labels listing among its contents a "titanium rice intelligent disinfection robot TMiRob".

 

The company is listed in the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority database as a holding company.

 

On its own website, it is described as "the only group in the world to boast an international presence in all major commercial sectors" ranging from healthcare to financial services, technology and media.

 

Little else is known of the BN Group consortium that claims to employ 23,000 people worldwide.

 

Set up on July 20, it was born of a merger between the DORR Group - another company founded by the Loh cousins - and the Bellagraph Group, a company founded by Chinese national Evangeline Shen, 32.

 

Mr Nelson Loh, 40, Mr Terence Loh, 42, and Ms Shen are the only shareholders of Bellagraph Nova Pte Ltd, which was set up with a paid up capital of S$20 million.

 

The Loh cousins, who have often said in interviews that they are as close as brothers, are former bankers with JPMorgan.

 

The company, described on its website as an "established consortium" with "31 entities" and a "combined US$12 billion revenue" is said to be "headquartered in the glitzy no. 10 Place Vendome, Paris, France". Its registered address, though, is in the decidedly more humble Novena Gardens in Singapore's Thomson Road.

 

It has been reported that Mr Terence Loh had studied in the United States, while Mr Nelson Loh had attended Cambridge University.

 

In an interview with The Peak magazine in 2018, they said they had set up DORR Group in 2008 after letting a game of roulette at a Las Vegas casino decide if they should stay with their jobs or strike out on their own.

 

The cousins, said to have grown up in the same family home in Bukit Timah, had revealed at the interview that the name DORR comes from the initials of two characters in their favourite movie, Ocean's 11, about an elaborate heist.

 

And it was at an education benefit fund-raising dinner organised by Novena Global that the cousins were photographed with former American president Barack Obama, whose doctored pictures are said to have been used in marketing material and social media channels of the Bellagraph Nova Group.

 

Mr Obama was invited to speak at the event held on Dec 14 last year at the Ritz Carlton. Guests included tycoons, philanthropists and Malaysian royalty.

 

The cousins have been involved in other investment and holding companies as well as consultancies and real estate companies.

 

One of the companies, the DORR Global Healthcare International Pte Ltd, registered in 2016, has a paid up capital of $50 million.

 

Besides Bellagraph Nova Group, the cousins are linked to Ms Shen, also known as Shen Che, through the company Rock Star Advisors Pte Ltd and Kona Investment Pte Ltd.

 

Ms Shen, who said she is a graduate of Fudan University in Shanghai, was a lawyer from Jinmao LLP in China, which has offices in Beijing and Shanghai, and then an investment banker. Now the chairman of BN Group, she is described on the website as having led multiple ventures across industries.

 

One of them, Bellagraph Jewelry, is described as "an ultra-high luxury Parisian-designed jewelry house renowned for its bespoke investment-grade jewelry".

 

A July 5 press release on the BN Group site claims Bellagraph Jewelry pioneered the "unique strategy" of selling high-end jewelry pieces online.

 

It said it had sold a piece of red diamond jewellery for "a staggering price of US$102 million", and also garnered "over 20 million weekly views online across various social media platforms... which is on par with online views for Apple".

 

https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/cousins-linked-to-over-30-companies?xtor=CS3-18&utm_source=STiPhone&utm_medium=share&utm_term=2020-08-23%2013%3A08%3A28

 

 

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Their registered address in Singapore

 

And they managed to do this with no one in the world actually noticing.

 

 

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wormy

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:lol: 20 million weekly views online across various social media platforms. Must have a hell of a Tik Tok considering they've got about 1000 followers across Twitter, IG and FB.

 

Bothered to read their website for the first time and fucking hell. It's just as many buzzwords as you can fit in to a sentence. Not a single thing of substance. Not stating anything new here I know; I just can't believe this bollocks was allowed to gain any traction at all. But I guess that's just the media in general these days; nothing gets checked. If you can get a few webpage hits and Twitter likes then regurgitate it all you want.

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:lol: 20 million weekly views online across various social media platforms. Must have a hell of a Tik Tok considering they've got about 1000 followers across Twitter, IG and FB.

 

Bothered to read their website for the first time and fucking hell. It's just as many buzzwords as you can fit in to a sentence. Not a single thing of substance. Not stating anything new here I know; I just can't believe this bollocks was allowed to gain any traction at all. But I guess that's just the media in general these days; nothing gets checked. If you can get a few webpage hits and Twitter likes then regurgitate it all you want.

 

As big an online presence as Apple.  Apple, as in iPhone Apple :lol:

 

You have to give them credit for the audacity anyway, they're not making do with any half measures in their bullshitting.

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:lol: 20 million weekly views online across various social media platforms. Must have a hell of a Tik Tok considering they've got about 1000 followers across Twitter, IG and FB.

Bothered to read their website for the first time and fucking hell. It's just as many buzzwords as you can fit in to a sentence. Not a single thing of substance. Not stating anything new here I know; I just can't believe this bollocks was allowed to gain any traction at all. But I guess that's just the media in general these days; nothing gets checked. If you can get a few webpage hits and Twitter likes then regurgitate it all you want.

As big an online presence as Apple.  Apple, as in iPhone Apple :lol:

You have to give them credit for the audacity anyway, they're not making do with any half measures in their bullshitting.

I think someone else has said similar previously but I don't understand how this can be good PR for them. Surely any potential business partners are going to be put off by the amount of bullshit they are putting out.

How could you ever trust a word they said ?

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They make the BZG crowd look like Warren Buffet.

 

Anyone going public with an intent to purchase the club better have the coin to back up a bid as our fanbase are so cynical now they’ll have their whole business history torn to shreds within hours.

 

It couldn’t have backfired on them any worse.

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:lol: 20 million weekly views online across various social media platforms. Must have a hell of a Tik Tok considering they've got about 1000 followers across Twitter, IG and FB.

Bothered to read their website for the first time and fucking hell. It's just as many buzzwords as you can fit in to a sentence. Not a single thing of substance. Not stating anything new here I know; I just can't believe this bollocks was allowed to gain any traction at all. But I guess that's just the media in general these days; nothing gets checked. If you can get a few webpage hits and Twitter likes then regurgitate it all you want.

As big an online presence as Apple.  Apple, as in iPhone Apple :lol:

You have to give them credit for the audacity anyway, they're not making do with any half measures in their bullshitting.

I think someone else has said similar previously but I don't understand how this can be good PR for them. Surely any potential business partners are going to be put off by the amount of bullshit they are putting out.

How could you ever trust a word they said ?

 

I'm not normally one for James's conspiracy theories but I'm wondering if he might be partly on to something with the idea that they're not genuine business people per se and more well-presented grifters. As evidenced by the fact not a single thing they claim is true. It's not like we're looking at a generally transparent business who have said/done some stupid things in the name of publicity. Not a single thing about them appears to be legitimate. :lol: So in that sense, any publicity is good publicity in the way email scams go out to millions but it's a success if even just one naive pensioner falls for it.

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They make the BZG crowd look like Warren Buffet.

 

Anyone going public with an intent to purchase the club better have the coin to back up a bid as our fanbase are so cynical now they’ll have their whole business history torn to shreds within hours.

 

It couldn’t have backfired on them any worse.

 

It hardly matters in the grander scheme of things. As the saying goes, there's no such thing as bad publicity, if you want to get your name in the papers, just put it out there that you putting in a bid to buy Newcastle.

 

Meanwhile Steve Bruce and the other two Steves will tuck into a full English today and reflect on leading the club into another proud season in the Premier.

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Maybe if they buy us we can just adopt this formula?  Just go around telling people that since winning the Premier League in 1996 with Keegan we've won more domestic trophies than Real Madrid and Barcelona combined.  We can photoshop JFK awarding us the Champions League medals.

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