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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, Dave, you're up. H Hi, my name is
- 0:04Speaker 1: Dave Justic. What do you think you're doing. We're going
- 0:09Speaker 1: for the pricedown Wilson, Dave, Dave, Mr Wilson. That's amazing
- 0:16Speaker 1: what buying a vinegar producer can do for a company
- 0:19Speaker 1: for the right one. Sure, I mean we're talking about
- 0:22Speaker 1: green Planes here as the buyer. They're an ethanol producer
- 0:26Speaker 1: ticker g p r E and RDY stands for renewable energy,
- 0:30Speaker 1: which was formerly part of its name. Shares of green
- 0:34Speaker 1: Planes began began trading publicly in two thousand and six
- 0:37Speaker 1: when the ethanol industry was booming. Now that boom later
- 0:40Speaker 1: faded and the shares never topped the record. On the
- 0:42Speaker 1: first day of trading, they dropped as low as a
- 0:45Speaker 1: dollar twelve. In March two thousand nine. With the current
- 0:47Speaker 1: bullmarket in US stocks began, green Planes then stored as
- 0:50Speaker 1: much as forty one fold through September. Later pulled back
- 0:55Speaker 1: gave way to our rebound this year and yes, the
- 0:58Speaker 1: recovery gain momentum after a two hundred and fifty million
- 1:01Speaker 1: dollar deal to buy an industrial vinegar maker. The company's
- 1:06Speaker 1: buying Fleischman's Vinegar, which uses ethanol in its production process,
- 1:11Speaker 1: hence the connection with green Planes business. What's more, green
- 1:15Speaker 1: Planes chief executive Todd Becker said he sees lower grain costs,
- 1:19Speaker 1: aiding the company and its US rivals when it comes
- 1:22Speaker 1: to exports, US producers make ethanol from corn. Compare that
- 1:27Speaker 1: with Brazil, where producers use sugarcane and said Becker said
- 1:32Speaker 1: those companies are facing higher cane costs. Green Planes after
- 1:36Speaker 1: all this up five closing in its highest price in
- 1:40Speaker 1: more than fifteen months. Well, Dave Wilson, Bloomberg Stocks Commas,
- 1:45Speaker 1: thank you very much. You can follow him on Twitter
- 1:48Speaker 1: at the one Dave and send him an email at
- 1:51Speaker 1: d Wilson at Bloomberg dot net. You're listening to taking Stock.
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