Farmer
Business Developments.com
Historic
2021 FBDplc.com Shareholder Survey run by SurveyMonkey
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WHY DO I HAVE THIS SITE?
This is one of 2 websites registered by Brian Marshall, with the aim of bringing
openness and transparency to a company which, in my opinion as a shareholder,
has been allowed to develop far too much secrecy in what it does and how it
operates.
I want to change things, and have done so for 8 years. At last, under the
new leadership of Pat Murphy, things are changing for the better. Actions
have been taken that got rid of an overhang of foreign owned shares for which
there was no market, and also to facilitate a raft of small fractional shareholders
who wanted out. A change to the Constitution has allowed a woman be elected.
The shareprice is now reflecting the true yield potential of the Company.
I am and have been using this website
as a 'traffic-catcher' for the main website on FBDplc I am developing. It
can be found by clicking here - FBDplc.com
Padraig Walshe first announced [June'15th 2016] that the Company is going
to have a website at www.farmerbusinessdevelopments.ie, live from 1st July
- but then he said, in June 2017, that the Company website was weeks away!
This, the Company's dot com, hadn't even been registered, so I have saved
the Company the embarrassment of having to try to pay off a cyber squatter,
or worse - maybe someone who would have used the site for pornography or extremist
views and dragged the Company's good name into the muck.
Brian Marshall age 65 ( amateur webmaster )
Happily married, to Diane, and we have 2 adult children, Kathryn and Susanne.
As well as running websites I am an equities investor. I was a 140 acre
sheep and cattle farmer until a wrist injury forced my retirement from
farming.
Brief C.V.:- Former Chairman East Donegal Co-operative Agricultural
Society.
Member of Irish
Farmers Association
Former member Irish
Cattle & Sheep Farmers Association
Member MENSA
Former member Macra,
where I held several committee posts, travelled as an ambassador, and won
Regional communication competitions. I have also won District level competitions
in Toastmasters
My LinkedIn profile
is HERE
How did a farmer get into websites ? - In 2000, seeing the rapidly deteriorating
financial situation in Irish beef and sheep farming, I started to register
domains with an initial aim of selling them on. Having sold few, with
support from Diane, I bought some software in 2001, read the manual
and started to develop websites for myself. I now have approx. 40 simple
affiliate marketing and Amazon Store type websites, having sold the
Clothing.ie. website to Zatori in 2012.
I enjoy travel and experiencing different cultures, and have been to every
major country in Europe, Nepal, Russia, India, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Thailand,
Japan and the Spanish and Portuguese holiday islands.