More on Goldsmiths' Company:

The Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company Michael Prideaux https://www.thegoldsmiths.co.uk/charity/general-charity/changing-lives-charity-report-2018/

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/15505293

Director: British American Tobacco 1998; World Investment Co Ltd; The Old Etonian Trust

Paul Thind: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/triggerspot111411-111115012451-phpapp02/95/triggerspot-client-presentation-10-728.jpg

I think we just found out why the BBC gave Ricky Dearman that interview...

Aseem Kawatra, director of Oko Ventures Ltd https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/10344393-oko-ventures-ltd

other directors: Ludo Brockway; Otto Marcus Brockway

Ludo Brockway is the founder of Broxstar Productions, a London-based production company that develops and produces commercial creative for global clients, from feature documentaries, to commercials, promos and branded content.

http://www.ludobrockway.com/clients

Clients include the BBC; Virgin; Saatchi

Looking further into the Kawatra family:

Vishal Kawatra, Director: LONDON SUMMER CAMPS (L.S.C.) LIMITED (1996-1998) https://www.flixens.com/director/vishal-kawatra

https://www.companiesdb.org/company-london-summer-camps-l-s-c-limited.html

Can anyone tell me why these Satanic death metal bands are out of Scandinavia? Why is that big there?

WOW..

Company directors from Three Bridges - RH10 1 http://www.cbetta.com/l/three-bridges-rh10-1/?page=71

VISHAL KAWATRA Born: 1973

YI FENG Born: 1978

ASEEM KAWATRA Born: 1977

Address: 36 CRABBET ROAD, CRAWLEY

That's a Ricky Dearman address ! https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/dvujYBRyh3pEAqL8qGeAUDIvU88/appointments

NATURAL VITALITY RESEARCH LIMITED

Address: 36 Crabbet Road, Crawley, West Sussex

Vishal Kawatra and family https://imgur.com/a/p8omBNO

https://companycheck.co.uk/director/908309761/MR-VISHAL-KAWATRA/companies

Mrs Deepti Kawatra https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/people/24610324-mrs-deepti-kawatra

The Tech Support People Limited, Arish Global Services Ltd and Troo Leads Ltd are mutual companies

http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/company/11789194/ARISH-GLOBAL-SERVICES-LTD

ARISH GLOBAL SERVICES LTD is a Private Limited Company from LUTON ENGLAND

http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/company/12238817/TROO-LEADS-LTD

TROO LEADS LTD is a Private Limited Company from LONDON ENGLAND

Address: 20-22 WENLOCK ROAD LONDON

High Court orders six more bogus multi-million pound companies into liquidation - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/high-court-orders-six-more-bogus-multi-million-pound-companies-into-liquidation

A network of phantom companies with reported combined assets of over £13 million have been ordered into liquidation by the High Court on grounds of public interest...The reported assets supposedly included over £1.6 million in cash, with the companies run solely as vehicles for fraud to obtain credit by filing false accounts and other false information.

The Court heard that all bar one of the companies were incorporated by the same formation agent, a Jade Evans (who has not been located), and her company, ABN Company Formations Ltd (now dissolved). The Court also heard that over 50 other companies had been formed by Jade Evans and utilised as part of an extensive network of companies engaged in systematic fraud...

Hydro Serv Ltd (company registration number 08408299) was incorporated on 18 February 2013. The registered office of the company is 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU (changed on 9 December 2014 from Unit 9B Office 6, Ellough Industrial Estate, Ellough, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 7TD). The present sole recorded director is a Lucy Mary Masters (described as a company director).

Cloud Centa Ltd https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/10045295-cloud-centa-ltd

Director: Mr Sunny Kawatra

https://www.cloudcenta.com/

https://www.technative.io/nowdiscover-launches-ai-powered-content-curation-for-retailers/

NowDiscover, a unique content recommendation engine built to bridge the gap between video content and e-commerce/retail, has formally launched.

NowDiscover is the only UK start-up to receive initial funding through the Investment Bank Berlin and the company is currently seeking additional funding for global expansion and further product development.

Based in Berlin, the company was founded by UK entrepreneurs Ashley Harris and Vishal Kawatra, veterans of the video content and martech space along with Co-founder and Professor of Computer Science, Sebastian Bab who has provided guidance around machine learning and AI potential to improve the customer shopping journey.

Vishal Kawatra: one of the main associates in Germany (Indian, from Edgware, London, lives in Berlin, filming, brings sweeties

https://www.adlershof.de/en/news/sugar-free-fruit-gum-out-of-adlershof-1/

Zveetz stands for zero sugar sweets. Zveetz are the brainchild of Christian Krause, an Adlershof-based business economist Christian Krause. They are the first fruit gums to use the natural sugar substitute erythritol as a sweetener. Krause and his co-founder produce the little, red hearts with cherry flavour using a new manufacturing procedure... Together with his business partner, Vishal Kawatra from London, he looked for support in the food industry.

https://www.zveetz.com/

What a creepy picture. https://imgur.com/a/gBaUcqu

https://www.zveetz.com/pages/our-story

DEATH IS JUST THE BEGINNING: NECROPOLIS RECORDS - http://bravewords.com/news/death-is-just-the-beginning-necropolis-records

NECROPOLIS RECORDS have a reputation in the underground for releasing some excellent black/death in the early-to-mid ‘90s, including some classic albums (BURZUM, DISSECTION, WITCHERY). They also have a reputation equally as notorious for allegations of rip-offs, to the point where rumours have flown that Paul Thind, the man behind the whole operation, is currently doing time for tax evasion.

“In many ways it’s hilarious because it actually infers that I made money,” says Thind, who, we can safely report, is currently not behind bars. “The truth is that I was lucky to escape financially bleeding everything. Underground metal—especially what I was signing—is a fast way to bankruptcy. No offense to the bands or the music, but we didn’t do this for the money; we did it for the music and the passion, and our beliefs.”

Thind, who is now the CEO of a new San Francisco-based company in online and mobile games, started Necropolis in 1992 after publishing a fanzine with the same name, with the first batch of releases coming out in ‘93. The label got started with DEMILICH’s debut, an LP from ARCHGOAT, and, most notably, a 7” by cult blacksters BEHERIT. The early days, says Thind, were financed by his own money and through Necropolis’ mailorder and wholesale business.

“It was the one of the sole homes for black metal at the time due to my personal interest and alliances with many of the early cult bands from Scandinavia, particularly all the bands I would write with,” he says.

Thind says that when he started Necropolis fanzine in 1990, being involved with the tape-trading scene was incredibly influential.

“I don’t think anything made as much of an impact as getting the latest killer demo from an upstart band halfway across the world,” he says. “It was a great time for the underground. Watching local bands like VON here in San Francisco open for death metal bands was eye-opening and in ‘91 and ‘92 I connected with several other tape traders. We were supporting many Scandinavian bands that were ultra satanic, and that scene just made the most impact on me at the time.”

By 1993 Thind had taken those connections and signed a batch of bands he loved because he was “tired of sending demos to other labels asking them to sign my favourite bands so I just decided to do it myself.”

“The point of taking that action and the years that followed were when the music and lifestyle were aligned,” he continues. “You could see it in everything we did back then from the way I was living to the mail order to the messaging to the releases. I had many alliances in Norway and Sweden at the time. That all died with Euronymous and others who were imprisoned, but the feeling was alive for a few years after. Jon from Dissection and It of ABRUPTUM were great allies, and the scene continued for a while.”

Throughout the rest of the ‘90s, the label quickly rose to prominence in the underground, releasing many classic and influential albums, as well as tons of cool under-the-radar discs. Bands like Witchery, WAR, USURPER, NIFELHEIM, DARK FUNERAL, INCANTATION, and ROTTEN SOUND all released albums on Necropolis. By 1999, Necropolis was one of metal’s big labels and had been heralded by Billboard magazine as a hot underground metal label.

..One way that Thind did things differently from the other metal labels at the time, and it no doubt affected sales, was he signed lots of overseas bands, or North American side projects. He points to a label like Relapse signing INCANTATION and GOREAPHOBIA from near the label’s HQ, then getting the bands out on the road to spread the good word. Necropolis, well, they had Swedish jokesters CRANIUM…

...But Thind’s not just blaming the bands for some of Necropolis’ woes. He admits that he made some business mistakes as a young man, citing larger recording budgets, touring budgets, and record-licensing deals that “didn’t compute, saleswise.” This, tied together with the rise of music piracy, and “a bad American distributor” started to make things pretty tough for the label.

“Then there were some of the bands who used their album budgets to buy IRON MAIDEN collectibles, or drugs. That’s why some bands’ albums sounded like crap or didn’t even get released,” he says, but he’s not naming names. “I'll spare them the embarrassment of naming the three I can think of, one of which has still not released their debut on any label.”

Ah, yes, the bands… over the years there has been a few bands who have spoken out very strongly against Thind and the label—most notably and spoken most vocally, Dark Funeral—but, as it turns out, some bands also find Thind years later to say good things.

..California gore-grinders IMPALED (pictured above) put out two full-lengths and two EPs on Necropolis (through the label’s Deathvomit imprint), and guitarist/vocalist Sean McGrath admits that he has “mixed feelings about it.”

Holy shit!

POOL'S CLOSED!