Smart for Life Announces Reverse Stock Split
Smart for Life (Nasdaq: SMFL) announced a 1-for-50 reverse stock split effective April 24, 2023. This move aims to comply with NASDAQ's minimum bid price requirement and enhance the attractiveness of its shares to investors. The reverse split is part of a broader strategic plan supporting future acquisitions, as the company anticipates multiple accretive deals in its pipeline. CEO Darren Minton highlighted the necessity of this restructuring in light of the overall reduction in market values over the past year. The company aims to grow annual revenues to over $100 million within the next year, targeting $300 million by 2026. Smart for Life operates several subsidiaries and is engaged in the health and wellness sector.
- 1-for-50 reverse stock split to comply with NASDAQ listing requirements.
- Strategic plan to support future accretive acquisitions.
- Projected revenue growth to over $100 million in the next year.
- Long-term target of $300 million in revenues by 2026.
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Stock Split is a Key Element of Company’s Strategic Initiatives as It Prepares for Next Generation of Its Acquisition Financings
MIAMI, April 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Smart for Life, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMFL) (“Smart for Life” or the “Company”), a global leader in the Health & Wellness sector marketing and manufacturing nutritional supplements and foods worldwide, announced that it will effect a 1-for-50 reverse stock split (“reverse split”) of its common stock, par value
Among other considerations, the reverse split is intended to bring the Company into compliance with the minimum bid price requirement for maintaining the listing of its common stock on the NASDAQ Capital Market and to make the bid price more attractive to investors. In addition, the split is part of a larger strategic plan to support future acquisition financings, including multiple accretive acquisitions currently and prospectively in the Company’s pipeline.
“Across the tumultuous conditions in the global markets, it is no secret that public companies of all sizes have seen significant diminution of their market values over the last year,” stated Darren Minton, Smart for Life’s Chief Executive Officer. “As we have previously mentioned since first announcing our plans to regain Nasdaq compliance late last year, this strategic restructuring as part of the Company’s capitalization acknowledges that reality and better positions the Company for our serial accretive acquisitions going forward.”
Mr. Minton concluded, “We want to reaffirm our publicly stated plans of growing to over
About Smart for Life, Inc.
Smart for Life, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMFL) is engaged in the development, marketing, manufacturing, acquisition, operation and sale of a broad spectrum of nutritional and related products with an emphasis on health and wellness. Structured as a publicly held global holding company, the Company is executing a Buy-and-Build strategy with serial accretive acquisitions creating a vertically integrated company with an objective of aggregating companies generating a minimum of
The company’s previously issued letter to shareholders is available at:
www.smartforlifecorp.com/2023/01/12/smart-for-life-ceo-issues-year-end-letter-to-shareholders/.
The Company recently released a video report from A.J. Cervantes, Jr., the Company’s Chairman. That report can be accessed here:
https://smartforlifecorp.com/2023/04/02/chairmans-video-report/.
Investor material and a Fact Sheet with additional information about Smart for Life is available at:
www.smartforlifecorp.com/investor-center.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain information about our views of future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are based on management’s beliefs, assumptions and expectations of Smart for Life’s future economic performance, taking into account the information currently available to it. These statements are not statements of historical fact. Although Smart for Life believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be attained. Smart for Life does not undertake any duty to update any statements contained herein (including any forward-looking statements), except as required by law. No assurances can be made that Smart for Life will successfully acquire its acquisition targets. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of factors, risks and uncertainties, some of which are not currently known to us, that may cause Smart for Life’s actual results, performance or financial condition to be materially different from the expectations of future results, performance or financial position. Actual results may differ materially from the expectations discussed in forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations include general industry considerations, regulatory changes, changes in local or national economic conditions and other risks set forth in “Risk Factors” included in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Disclaimer
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