Abattis Bioceuticals Corp.
(the “
Company” or “
Abattis“)
(CSE:ATT) (OTC:ATTBF) announces the following updates on recent
developments related to Abattis since the trading of the Company’s
common shares on the Canadian Stock Exchange (the
“
CSE”) was halted on February 4, 2019 (the
“
Halt”).
Regulatory
Update
Since the Halt, the Company filed its audited
annual financial statements and management discussion and analysis
on August 8, 2019. Following this, on August 16, 2019, the Company
filed its interim financial statements and management discussion
and analysis for the first quarter ended December 31, 2018 and
second quarter ended March 31, 2019. On August 28, 2019, the
Company then filed its interim financial statements and management
discussion and analysis for the third quarter ended June 30, 2019.
Since the filings in August, the Company has been and continues to
be current in all of its continuous disclosure filings.
The Company has also paid all of its outstanding
regulatory fees to the British Columbia Securities Commission (the
“BCSC”), the Alberta Securities Commission, the
Ontario Securities Commission, and the CSE.
After completing all of the necessary filings,
the Company filed an application for a revocation order with the
BCSC on August 26, 2019. The Company received a response to the
application on October 7, 2019 and provided a prompt and
comprehensive response on October 15, 2019. The Company has now
been advised that the BCSC is completing a comprehensive review,
which the Company anticipates may take several more months. The
Company is ready to respond to any comments and requests that the
BCSC may have.
Business Operations
The Company’s acquisition of Pro Natura BV has
been a great success as revenues have increased significantly since
the acquisition, and cost efficiency measures continue to be
implemented. In September of 2019, Pro Natura BV launched a new
line of products targeted to women, which was strategically done
and was extremely successful.
Following the Halt, the Company immediately
pursued changing its auditor and most of its management and board
of directors. With a new team and new auditors in place, the
Company was able to successfully complete its annual audit and
proceeded to complete on all of its continuous disclosure filings.
Further to news releases dated December 7, 2018, January 10, 2019,
and January 18, 2019, the Company intended to acquire 1157016 B.C
Ltd. dba NutriVida (“NutriVida”). This acquisition
combined with the successful acquisition of Pro Natura BV was
intended to make the Company to be cash flow positive by the end of
2019. The Company then intended to progress with its cannabis
initiatives whilst simultaneously growing its revenue generating
business lines. However, due to longer than expected delays from
the BCSC in the revocation of the February 4, 2019 cease trade
order (the “CTO”), the acquisition of NutriVida
will no longer be proceeding.
The costs associated with completing all of the
continuous disclosure filings, higher than expected professional
services bills and now the loss of the acquisition of NutriVida,
has put tremendous pressure on the Company’s financial position.
Without the ability to raise money due to the CTO, the Company has
been forced to cease all non-profitable business divisions until it
has the ability to conduct further financings and generate the
necessary working capital.
With the changes in the industry and the
increased scrutiny from banks and regulators, Abattis has made the
decision to dispose of all of its cannabis related businesses in
the coming months.
The Company continues to cooperate in any way
necessary with the BCSC so that it is able to resume trading as
soon as possible. At that time, the Company will look to raise
capital and grow shareholder value by looking to grow in its
revenue generating operations as well as seeking revenue and profit
generating businesses to acquire.
Change of Board of
Directors
The Company announces that on October 18, 2019,
Mr. Peter Gordon tendered his resignation as a Director. The
Company has replaced Mr. Gordon with Mr. Patrick Mitchell, Chief
Operating Officer, to the board of directors, and thanks Mr. Gordon
for his time and efforts during his time and wishes him all the
best in future endeavours.
Mr. Mitchell is a supply chain management
professional, following 15 years in the private sector,
specializing in food, beverage, nutraceutical, dietary supplement
and fertilizer industries. His expertise in project management and
corporate operations, both domestic and international, will be an
asset to the Company.
About Abattis Bioceuticals
Corp.
Abattis has been a life sciences and
biotechnology company which aggregated, integrated, and invested in
cannabis technologies and biotechnology services for the legal
cannabis industry developing in Canada. The Company has now ceased
its cannabis initiatives and will be focusing on a new direction to
be announced at a later date.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD,
ABATTIS BIOCEUTICALS CORP.
“Rob Abenante”
Robert Abenante, President & CEO
For more information, please visit the Company’s
website at: www.abattis.com.
For inquiries please contact (808) 650-3007 or
at investors@abattis.com. Abattis’ investor relations are managed
by Canada One Communications Inc.
FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION
This press release contains forward-looking
statements. The use of any of the words including but not exclusive
to “anticipate”, “continue”, “estimate”, “expect”, “may”, “will”,
“project”, “intends”, “should”, “believe” and similar expressions
are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are
not limited to, statements regarding: (i) the disposition of all
cannabis related businesses; (ii) the CTO and revocation thereof;
(iii) the trading of the Company’s common shares; and (iv) the
Company’s business plan following the resumed trading of the
Company’s common shares on the CSE. Although the Company believes
that the expectations and assumptions on which the forward-looking
statements are based are reasonable, undue reliance should not be
placed on the forward-looking statements because the Company can
give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Since
forward-looking statements address future events and conditions, by
their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties.
Additional risk factors are included in the Company’s Management’s
Discussion and Analysis, available under the Company’s profile on
www.sedar.com. The forward-looking statements are made as at the
date hereof and the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to
publicly update any forward-looking statements, where because of
new information, future events or results, or otherwise, except as
required by applicable securities laws.
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