Entourage Health Corp. (
(
TSX-V:ENTG)
(OTCQX:ETRGF)
(FSE:4WE) (“
Entourage” or the
“
Company”), a Canadian producer and distributor of
award-winning cannabis products and brands, is pleased to announce
it has amended and upsized its existing credit facility (the
“
Credit Facility”) with an affiliate of the LiUNA
Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada
(“
LPF”), providing an additional $30 million in
funding availability. The Credit Facility will be used by Entourage
for general working capital purposes as the Company continues to
execute its commercial goals to achieving sustainable profitable
growth.
“Over the past two years, our strategic investor
and affiliate partners of the LiUNA Pension Fund have supported and
championed our commercial expansion that included the introduction
of over 60 new innovative products, the addition of over 10 union
groups and five top-tier insurance providers to our medical
platform, a 75% increase in patient registrations, and over 500%
increase in retail sales – all contributing to an average 55%
revenue growth, year-over-year since 2019,” said George Scorsis,
CEO and Executive Chairman. “We have consistently demonstrated
sustainable topline growth and retained our market positioning,
even as market conditions continue to challenge many in the sector.
This $30 million in financing, which does not dilute our
shareholder base, provides favourable terms that continue to
support our disciplined drive for profitable growth and is a
testament to the confidence of our employees, customers, patients,
and shareholders that we are executing to plan.”
Credit Facility Terms
The $30 million in funding availability under
the Credit Facility will be made available to Entourage in two
equal tranches of $15 million each: the first tranche on October
31, 2022, and the second on January 31, 2023. The Credit Facility
continues to bear an interest rate of 15.25% with the option, at
the Company’s discretion, to capitalize interest in lieu of cash
payments of interest and is set to mature on December 31, 2024. 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.
Amended and Restated Credit Facility with Senior
Lender
The Company also confirmed it executed an
updated amended and restated credit facility agreement with its
senior lender, the Bank of Montreal (the “Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement”). The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
reflects all prior amendments made, including the extension of the
maturity date to June 30, 2024, and this new additional funding
availability under the Credit Facility.
A copy of the Credit Facility amendment and the
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement 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.
Visit Entourage’s website here to access the
latest Company updates.
About Entourage Health
Corp.
Entourage Health Corp. is the publicly traded
parent company of Entourage Brands Corp. (formerly 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 state-of-the-art hybrid
greenhouse and processing facility located on 158-acres in
Strathroy, ON; a fully licensed 26,000 sq. ft. Aylmer, ON
processing facility, specializing in cannabis extraction; and a
micropropagation, tissue culture and genetics centre-of-excellence
in Guelph, Ontario. With its Starseed Medicinal medical-centric
brand and marketplace, Entourage has an industry-first, exclusive
partnership with LiUNA, the largest construction union in Canada,
who together with employers and other union groups, facilitate
access for insured medical patients. With the launch of Syndicate,
the Company now hosts another unique medical marketplace that
offers patients a collective of Canadian micro-cultivators’
products, along with the Company’s family of brands. Entourage’s
elite adult-use product portfolio includes Color Cannabis, Saturday
Cannabis and Royal City Cannabis Co.– sold across eight provincial
distribution agencies. 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. Under a
collaboration with a The Boston Beer Company subsidiary, Entourage
is also the exclusive distributor of cannabis-infused beverages
‘TeaPot’ in Canada, which launched in select provinces summer
2022.
For more information, please visit us at
www.entouragehealthcorp.com
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For further information, investor or
media inquiries, please contact:
Marianella delaBarreraSVP, Communications &
Corporate
Affairs416-897-6644marianella@entouragecorp.cominvestor@entouragecorp.commedia@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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