Halo Collective Reports Highest Selling Quarter for Budega Retail Locations and Plans to Continue Expansion
Halo Collective Inc. (HCANF) announced its highest-selling quarter and plans to expand its Budega retail locations. The company secured three sites in California, including Hollywood, and aims for up to seven additional stores by late 2023. The NoHo location has seen steady revenue growth, while Westwood continues to double its income monthly. Projected revenues for Budega Hollywood are expected to reach $15M in 2023. Innovative changes have been made to enhance net revenue, reinforcing Halo's presence in the cannabis market.
- Achieved highest-selling quarter for Budega retail locations.
- Secured three retail locations in California, including Hollywood.
- Plans to open up to seven additional stores by end of 2023.
- NoHo location has shown consistent revenue growth since March.
- Westwood location nearly doubled revenues month-over-month, with significant projections for Q4.
- Projected revenues of up to $15M for Budega Hollywood in 2023.
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TORONTO, Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Halo Collective Inc. ("Halo" or the "Company") (NEO: HALO) (OTCQB: HCANF) (Germany: A9KN) reports highest selling quarter and continues planned expansion for the Budega retail locations after successful opening of the first two locations and significant progress in opening of the third superstore location. The Company is actively looking to secure additional retail space and licenses for up to 7 locations within the US by end of 2023 after review of the current operations. The retail stores act as a valuable data resource for sales and consumer habits as they are vertically integrated with the Company offering edibles, pre-rolls, vapes, flower, tinctures, creams, and various other cannabis related products.
The company has successfully secured three locations within the California area, including Westwood, NoHo, and now Hollywood, with plans to open 7 additional stores within the following year. The NoHo location has seen continued growth with a steady increase in revenues since opening in March earlier this year, offering unique promotions to drive consumer traffic while maintaining a loyal and consistent customer base. This past October, the Company implemented innovative changes to increase the net revenue for the store. All retail locations promote the in-house products, including the Budega and Hush flower brands, which have consistently been among the top-selling SKUs.
Westwood has seen quick growth opening just over 6 months ago and nearly doubling its revenues each month, with its highest sales this past October. Q3 sales increased
The Budega stores have now proven as an established name in retail cannabis within California. After assessing the initial launches, the Company moves forward with its plans to continue expansion in the California area into this upcoming year. The Company has been making significant progress with Budega Hollywood, which will the largest of the three, having expected revenues of up to
Halo is focused on the United States West Coast, where it has vertically integrated operations covering the entire value chain from seed to sale. Halo cultivates, extracts, manufactures, and distributes quality cannabis flower, pre-rolls, vape carts, edibles, and concentrates. Halo sells these products under a portfolio of brands, including Hush™, Winberry Farms™, its retail brand Budega™, and license agreements with FlowerShop*. In addition, Halo has opened two dispensaries in Los Angeles under the Budega™ brand in North Hollywood and Hollywood, with plans to open one more in Hollywood in 2022.
In the non-THC sector, Halo is expanding into health and wellness categories, including CBD and functional supplements such as nootropic nutraceuticals and nonpsychotropic mushrooms. Halo, through a series of acquisitions, has product offerings in the form of beverages (H2C Beverages), dissolvable strips (Dissolve Medical), capsules (Hushrooms™), and topical supplements (Hatshe) with proposed national distribution via a strategic agreement with SWAY Energy Corporation.
Halo has successfully acquired and integrated a variety of companies which were subsequently reorganized to create Akanda Corp. (NASDAQ: AKAN), an international medical cannabis and wellness company, of which Halo is the largest shareholder. Halo has also acquired a range of software development assets, including CannPOS, Cannalift, CannaFeels, and a discrete sublingual dosing technology, Accudab. Halo intends to reorganize these entities (including their intellectual property and patent applications) into a subsidiary called Halo Tek Inc. and to complete the distribution of the shares of Halo Tek Inc. to shareholders on record at a date to be determined.
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This press release contains certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation and may also contain statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking information and forward-looking statements are not representative of historical facts or information or current condition, but instead represent only Halo's beliefs regarding future events, plans or objectives, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of Halo's control. Generally, such forward-looking information or forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or may contain statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "will continue", "will occur" or "will be achieved". Forward-looking information may relate to anticipated events or results including, but not limited to expectations regarding improved performance, management's plans regarding Pistil Point and the California market, plans regarding streamlining of business segments, management's plans regarding its portfolio of cannabis businesses and intention to expand into health and wellness, the proposed distribution agreement with SWAY Energy Corporation, the expected opening date of the Company's California dispensaries and the proposed spin-off by Halo Tek Inc.
By identifying such information and statements in this manner, Halo is alerting the reader that such information and statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such information and statements. In addition, in connection with the forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained in this press release, Halo has made certain assumptions. Although Halo believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing, and the expectations contained in, the forward-looking information and statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information and statements, and no assurance or guarantee can be given that such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information and statements. Among others, the key factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information and statements are the following: inability of management to successfully integrate the operations of acquired businesses, changes in the consumer market for cannabis products, changes in the expected outcomes of the proposed changes to Halo's operations, delays in obtaining required licenses or approvals necessary for the build-out of Oregon operations, dispensaries or Canadian operations, the proposed spin-out with Halo Tek Inc., delays or unforeseen costs incurred in connection with construction, the ability of competitors to scale operations in Northern California, delays or unforeseen difficulties in connection with the cultivation and harvest of Halo's raw material, changes in general economic, business and political conditions, including changes in the financial markets; and the other risks disclosed in the Company's annual information form dated March 31, 2022 and other disclosure documents available on the Company's profile at www.sedar.com. Should one or more of these risks, uncertainties or other factors materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking information or statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.
The forward-looking information and forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and Halo does not undertake to update any forward-looking information and/or forward-looking statements that are contained or referenced herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking information and statements attributable to Halo or persons acting on its behalf is expressly qualified in its entirety by this notice.
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