Entourage Health Corp. (formerly WeedMD Inc.)
(
TSX-V:ENTG)
(OTCQX:ETRGF)
(FSE:4WE) (“
Entourage” or the
“
Company”), a Canadian producer and distributor of
award-winning cannabis products and brands, announced today it has
amended its existing credit facility (“
Credit
Facility”) with an affiliate of the LiUNA Pension Fund of
Central and Eastern Canada (“
LPF”) to add an
additional $20 million in non-dilutive funding. The Credit Facility
will be used by Entourage for general working capital purposes as
the Company continues to focus on sustainable profitable growth,
part of which will be driven by upgrading and standardizing its
cultivation practices with recently acquired tissue culture
business, and by introducing new genetics for high-margin products
expected to drive commercial growth in 2022.
“With the recent integration of our renowned
tissue culture business and addition of new genetics, our
cultivation team is enhancing our Strathroy facility using the
latest science-based plant performance data, and executing on our
promise to meet evolving consumer and patient preferences with
premium products,” said George Scorsis, Interim CEO and Executive
Chairman, Entourage. “With our enhanced propagation techniques and
upgraded suite of products, we are setting a clear path to reaching
our profitability goals in late 2022. This added support from our
trusted partner and strategic investor, LiUNA Pension Fund,
provides us with significant non-dilutive financing which will
enhance our liquidity position and provide additional working
capital to drive sales and pursue targeted growth initiatives.”
Entourage recently outlined its cultivation and
commercial plans for expansion into the premium product market and
also announced new products to its direct-to-patient medical
marketplace, Starseed Medicinal, which now has over 40 SKUs
including cannabis-infused soft chews.
Credit Facility Terms
The Credit Facility continues to bear an
interest rate of 15% with the option, at the Company’s discretion,
to capitalize interest in lieu of cash payments of interest and is
set to mature in August, 2022. The Credit Facility is secured by
the assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, including the
Company’s production facilities, and contains customary financial
and other covenants, as well as typical conditions precedent for a
transaction of this nature. LPF’s security under the Credit
Facility is in second position to the Company’s senior
creditor.
In addition to the new funding provided under
the Credit Facility, the Company and LPF agreed to defer certain of
its financial covenants to the end of 2021, under the amended
Credit Agreement announced on November 1, 2021, which is now
further extended until March 28, 2022.
A copy of the amended Credit Facility will be
made available under the Company’s profile on SEDAR at
www.sedar.com.
Related Party Transaction
LPF is an insider of the Company as it owns
greater than 10% of the common shares of the Company. Accordingly,
the amending of the Credit Agreement represents a “related party
transaction” under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of
Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI
61-101”). The Company is relying on the exemption from
minority shareholder approval requirements under MI 61-101 as the
Credit Facility is considered a non-equity loan as described under
Section 5.7(f) of MI 61-101, and obtained by the Company on
reasonable terms that are no less advantageous to the Company than
if the Credit Facility was obtained from an arm’s length party. The
funds borrowed under the Credit Facility are not convertible into
or repayable by the issuance of equity or voting securities of the
Company. The material change report will not be filed more than 21
days prior to the entering into of the amended Credit Agreement due
to the timing of the announcement and closing thereof occurring in
less than 21 days.
Amendment to Senior Secured Credit
Facility
The Company also confirmed today it has signed
an additional amendment to its senior secured credit facility
entered into on March 29, 2019 (the “Senior Credit
Facility”) between the Company and Bank of Montreal. The
latest amendments to the Senior Credit Facility modify the terms
under which Entourage secured up to $39 million of debt financing
over a three-year term ending in 2022.
Under the terms of the amendment, the Company
secured a temporary bulge facility of $0.5 million available for a
limited period of time and only to be used for working capital
purposes. Additionally, the Company secured deferral of certain of
its financial covenants to March 28, 2022. A copy of the Senior
Credit Facility will be made available on the Company’s profile on
SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Visit Entourage Health’s newly launched website
here. To access our corporate video, visit us here and to access
our latest investor presentation and corporate deck here.
About Entourage Health
Corp.
Entourage Health Corp. (formerly WeedMD Inc.) is
the publicly traded parent company of WeedMD RX Inc. and CannTx
Life Sciences Inc., licence holders producing and distributing
cannabis products for both the medical and adult-use markets. The
Company owns and operates a 158-acre state-of-the-art greenhouse,
outdoor and processing facility located in Strathroy, ON as well as
a fully licensed 26,000 sq. ft. Aylmer, ON processing facility,
specializing in cannabis extraction. With the addition of Starseed
Medicinal, a medical-centric brand, Entourage has expanded its
multi-channeled distribution strategy. Starseed’s industry-first,
exclusive partnership with LiUNA, the largest construction union in
Canada, along with employers and union groups complements
Entourage’s direct sales to medical patients. In October 2021,
Entourage closed the acquisition of craft cultivator CannTx Life
Sciences Inc. which operates out of its state-of-the-art
micropropagation and specialty extraction facility in Guelph,
Ontario. Craft brand Royal City Cannabis was added to Entourage’s
elite product portfolio that includes adult-use brands Color
Cannabis and Saturday Cannabis – sold across eight provincial
distribution agencies. The Company also maintains strategic
relationships in the seniors’ market and supply agreements with
Shoppers Drug Mart. It is the exclusive Canadian producer and
distributor of award-winning U.S.-based wellness brand Mary’s
Medicinals sold in both medical and adult-use channels. Entourage
recently announced an exclusive collaboration with The Boston Beer
Company subsidiary to launch cannabis-infused beverages in
Canada.
For more information, please visit us at
www.entouragehealthcorp.com
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For further information, please
contact:
For Investor Enquiries:Valter
PintoManaging Director KCSA Strategic
Communications1-212-896-1254entourage@kcsa.com
For Media Enquiries:Marianella
delaBarreraSVP, Communications & Corporate
Affairs416-897-6644marianella@entouragecorp.com
Forward Looking Information
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within
the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation which are
based upon Entourage's current internal expectations, estimates,
projections, assumptions and beliefs and views of future events.
Forward-looking information can be identified by the use of
forward-looking terminology such as "expect", "likely", "may",
"will", "should", "intend", "anticipate", "potential", "proposed",
"estimate" and other similar words, including negative and
grammatical variations thereof, or statements that certain events
or conditions "may", "would" or "will" happen, or by discussions of
strategy.
The forward-looking information in this news
release is based upon the expectations, estimates, projections,
assumptions and views of future events which management believes to
be reasonable in the circumstances. Forward-looking information
includes estimates, plans, expectations, opinions, forecasts,
projections, targets, guidance or other statements that are not
statements of fact. Forward-looking information necessarily involve
known and unknown risks, including, without limitation, risks
associated with general economic conditions; adverse industry
events; loss of markets; future legislative and regulatory
developments; inability to access sufficient capital from internal
and external sources, and/or inability to access sufficient capital
on favourable terms; the cannabis industry
in Canada generally; the ability of Entourage to
implement its business strategies; the COVID-19 pandemic;
competition; crop failure; and other risks.
Any forward-looking information speaks only as
of the date on which it is made, and, except as required by law,
Entourage does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking information, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. New factors emerge from
time to time, and it is not possible for Entourage to predict all
such factors. When considering this forward-looking information,
readers should keep in mind the risk factors and other cautionary
statements in Entourage’s disclosure documents filed with the
applicable Canadian securities regulatory authorities on SEDAR at
www.sedar.com. The risk factors and other factors noted in the
disclosure documents could cause actual events or results to differ
materially from those described in any forward-looking
information.
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