CORRECTING and REPLACING BevCanna Provides Corporate and Operational Update
Significant progress charted across all objectives for the emerging health and wellness leader
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BEVCANNA PROVIDES CORPORATE AND OPERATIONAL UPDATE
Significant progress charted across all objectives for the emerging health and wellness leader
Dear Shareholders,
Over the past year,
One of BevCanna’s primary focuses in 2022 has been to significantly expand its total addressable market, leveraging the Company’s industry-leading international brands and extensive distribution system across its cannabis and CPG categories.
1. Corporate Highlights:
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BevCanna closed the acquisition ofEmbark Health Inc. , significantly expanding the Company’s solventless extract product capabilities. Embark is a leader in solventless cannabis extraction, with a focus on the development and production of advanced 2.0 products for the B2B, medical, and adult-use markets. -
This acquisition also brought renowned industry pioneer and creator of Bubble
Hash Marcus “Bubbleman”Richardson , and Founder of Entourage Health, (formally known as “WeedMD”),Bruce Dawson-Scully , to the team. -
The Company completed a corporate re-organization to transfer its Health Canada Standard Processing License from
BevCanna Enterprises Inc. toBevCanna Operating Corp.
2. Operational Highlights
- Driving development and distribution of the Keef brand
- Strategic white-label client portfolio management
- Increasing production output and supply chain economics and
- Targeted business development, delivering strategic business expansion
- Overhauled Quality Management System, including Standard Operating Procedures and Preventive Control Plans
- Installed and initiated production on new glass bottling line
- Increased capacity by more than 70 per cent, through the implementation of twinned canning line
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Successful completion of first
Health Canada audit - Successful launch of five brands and 11 SKUs
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Listing and active sales of product in four key provinces –
Ontario ,Alberta ,British Columbia andSaskatchewan -
Developed strong portfolio of house brands including:
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Keef Brands , which reached #3 share position in April ’22 in theOntario Cannabis Store (OCS) and sold out within three days of launch in all provinces that it was listed in. Keef is projected to hold the #1 share by early 2023. - Anarchist Mountain’s 10mg THC Lemonade Iced Tea, with a low opening price point and a projected launch of Q1 2023.
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Keef Brands Highlights:
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Keef has strong presence in key markets. With
62.1% penetration ofOntario , Canada’s top market, as well as29% inAlberta and66.3% inBritish Columbia , Keef is in35.5% of all Canadian retail locations. 1 -
Keef currently holds the #3 position in sales, with a
7.8% market share, and achieved the highest share growth of the top 20 beverage brands. InOntario ,Keef Bubba Kush andKeef Orange Kush hold the #2 and #3 share positions. -
Keef is projected to take over the #1 spot, at
22% market share, by early 2023. -
Keef’s
Bubba Kush product won the Favorite Infused-Beverage of the Year at the 2022 O’Cannabiz Awards. -
BevCanna also successfully launched the Keef Cola product, which took top beverage spot in the OCS spring launch, with the highest volume of sales (both dollars and units) among any new SKU launched.
Naturo Group’s TRACE brand achieved sustained growth of its CPG retail distribution network, building on its more than 3,000 points of retail distribution across
Naturo Group Private Label Highlights:
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Signed private label contracts with
7-Eleven Canada to provide four 1L sparkling water SKUs under the 7Select brand, for 650 locations and three 500ml sparkling water SKUs - Signed a private label contract with London Drugs to provide three 1L sparkling water SKUs under the Today’s Sparkling brand, for 75 locations
Naturo Group TRACE Highlights:
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TRACE achieved more than
380% sales dollar growth year over year, through a centralization of distribution withUNFI Canada , most notably with national and regional multi-chain retailers including:- Whole Foods Market Canada National Distribution
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Healthy Planet Canada with +35 locations in the
Greater Toronto Area (GTA) -
More than 1,000 natural independent retailers across
Canada -
Mike & Mike’s Organics, with over 500 retail points of distribution in
Ontario
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As of
April 2022 , Affinity Sales is providing TRACE national access to food service, mainstream grocery, and gas & convenience channels - TRACE was named the official sponsor of 2021 Canadian Country Music Awards
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Formalized a partnership with the
BC Ministry of Forests to supply BC firefighters with TRACE alkaline water. -
TRACE was a Brand Sponsor at the
Canadian Health Food Association tradeshow -
TRACE also successfully rebranded its Alkaline77 500ml and 1L spring water in
April 2022 , with Alkaline87 500ml mineralized spring water planned for launch in Q4-22. - New TRACE 1L product now in 200 U.S. retail locations, with significant expansion underway for 2023
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Final testing for
Japan market planned for Q4-22, with full launch planned for Q1-23.
The integration of
Highlights:
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Successfully launched proprietary Embark Hash Hits in BC, ON,
SK, AB , MB -
Successfully delivered first shipments of Bubbleman Bubble Hash and Live Rosin to BC, ON,
SK, AB and MB - Fully automating Hash Stick and Hash Hit processes, eliminating a significant manual labour component and generating higher margins, while also significantly increasing ability to meet surging market demand.
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Actively negotiating IP deal in the US to brand the market-leading proprietary Hash Stick and Hash Hits in
Washington ,Nevada , andCalifornia .
Pure Therapy
- Solidified partnership with primary natural health manufacturer, including the ability to deliver various cannabinoid, delta 8, and delta 9 infused products in the future.
- Continued build out of the supply chain with the future goal of pivoting a wide variety of SKU’s, such as CBD gummies and non-CBD gummies, to on-demand fulfillment.
- Due to the ongoing natural health ingredient shortage, added a secondary manufacturer with a range of capabilities to ensure future demand is satisfied.
- Formulated and sampled 6 new plant-based natural health product SKU’s, including but not limited to collagen protein and daily greens powder.
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Developed and currently integrating new in-house wholesale natural health products program portal for
U.S. based products. - Added and prepared for launch 16 new natural health product SKU’s, ranging from gummies to shots to powders, to prepare for a potential surge in demand for eCommerce brands leading into Q4 2022.
- Bolstering primary customer acquisition strategies, assets, and promotions
In conclusion, we’re very pleased with the significant progress achieved across each of our subsidiaries and look forward to continuing to expand across our focus categories in 2023.
Sincerely,
About
Based in
On behalf of the Board of Directors:
Director,
Disclaimer for Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical fact that address activities, events or developments that the Company believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements reflect management’s current expectations based on information currently available and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements made in this news release include, but are not limited, to: the Company’s expectation that the Annual Filings will be made by
Although the Company believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and, accordingly, undue reliance should not be put on such statements due to their inherent uncertainty. Factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things: that the Company may not be able to complete the steps required to make the Annual Filings by
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