22nd CENTURY GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
September 30, 2020
(Unaudited)
Amounts in thousands, except for share
and per-share data
NOTE 1. - NATURE OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF
SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Basis of
Presentation - The
accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been
prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information and with the
instructions to Form 10-Q. Accordingly, they do not include
all the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete
financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments
consisting of normal recurring accruals considered necessary for a
fair and non-misleading presentation of the financial statements
have been included.
Operating results for the nine months ended
September 30, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of the
results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2020.
The balance sheet as of December 31, 2019 has been derived from the
audited consolidated financial statements at that date but does not
include all the information and footnotes required by GAAP for
complete financial statements.
These interim consolidated financial statements should be read in
conjunction with the December 31, 2019 audited consolidated
financial statements and the notes thereto contained in our Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2019, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
March 11, 2020.
Principles of
Consolidation - The
accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts
of 22nd Century Group, Inc. (“22nd Century Group”), its three
wholly-owned subsidiaries, 22nd Century Limited, LLC (“22nd Century
Ltd”), NASCO Products, LLC (“NASCO”), and Botanical Genetics, LLC
(“Botanical Genetics”), and two wholly-owned subsidiaries of 22nd
Century Ltd, Goodrich Tobacco Company, LLC (“Goodrich Tobacco”) and
Heracles Pharmaceuticals, LLC (“Heracles Pharma”) (collectively,
“the Company”). All intercompany accounts and transactions have
been eliminated.
Nature of
Business - 22nd
Century Group is a leading biotechnology company developing
disruptive plant-based solutions for the life science, consumer
product, and pharmaceutical markets. The Company is focused on
technology that allows it to alter the level of nicotine and other
nicotinic alkaloids in tobacco plants and the levels of
cannabinoids and terpenes in hemp/cannabis plants through genetic
engineering and modern plant breeding techniques. Goodrich Tobacco
and Heracles Pharma are business units for the Company’s potential
modified risk tobacco products. NASCO is a federally licensed
tobacco products manufacturer, a subsequent participating member
under the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (“MSA”) between the
tobacco industry and the settling states under the MSA and operates
the Company’s tobacco products manufacturing business in North
Carolina. Botanical Genetics is a wholly-owned subsidiary of 22nd
Century Group that performs research and development related to the
Company’s hemp business.
Reclassifications -
Certain items in the 2019 financial statements have been
reclassified to conform to the 2020 classification. During 2020,
the Company expanded its research and development expense line item
into two line items in the operating expense section of the
Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive
Loss: (i) Research and development and (ii) Research and
development—MRTP. The comparative classifications for 2019 have
been reclassified to conform to the new presentation.
COVID-19
Pandemic – The COVID-19 pandemic has caused some disruption
to our business and poses a risk to our future business, including
delays by third party providers of goods or services to our
business, interruptions to our sales, research and development, and
administrative activities, and disruptions to our manufacturing
operations. Similarly, state or federal authorities may also be
affected in their capacity or capability to operate as normal and
may impact the timeline of product authorizations which may disrupt
our business plans.