Organic Flower Investments Group Inc. (CSE: SOW)(FWB:
2K6)(OTC: QILFF) ("Organic Flower" or
“OFIG” or the
“Company”)
announces that it has set May 28, 2020 as the record date (the
“
Record Date”) for the final distribution (the
"
Final Distribution") of common shares in the
capital of AgraFlora Organics International Inc.
(“
AgraFlora”). As previously announced, the
Company sold its cannabis industry focused downstream and product
formulation portfolio to AgraFlora in Q2 2019. As consideration for
the sale of the portfolio, the Company was issued an aggregate of
348,109,251 common shares of AgraFlora.
On June 12, 2020 (the “Distribution
Date”) an aggregate of 282,072,834 common shares will be
distributed to the shareholders of the Company as of the Record
Date, on a pro-rata basis. Canadian shareholders as at the Record
Date will be eligible to receive the Final Distribution.
Non-resident shareholders will be entitled to receive the Final
Distribution, net of any applicable withholding taxes.
Organic Flower Shareholders with questions regarding the tax
treatment of the Final Distribution should consult with their own
tax advisors.
The Company announces that its Board of
Directors has authorized the implementation of a consolidation (the
“Consolidation”) of the Company’s common shares
(“Shares”) on the basis of one (1)
post-Consolidation Share for every seven (7) pre-Consolidation
Shares, effective May 29, 2020 (the “Effective
Date”).
The Company currently has 312,379,370 Shares
issued and outstanding. Following the Consolidation, there will be
approximately 56,481,746 Shares issued and outstanding. No
fractional Shares will be issued and any fractions of a Share will
be rounded down to the nearest whole number of Shares. The exercise
or conversion price and the number of Shares issuable under any of
the Company’s outstanding convertible securities will be
proportionately adjusted upon Consolidation.
The Shares will start to be traded on the
Canadian Securities Exchange (“CSE”) on a
post-Consolidation basis, under the new CUSIP number 68622A201. The
Company’s Shares are expected to begin trading on a
post-Consolidation basis on the CSE when the markets open on May
29, 2020.
Shareholders of record as at the Effective Date
will receive a letter of transmittal providing instructions for the
exchange of their Shares as soon as practicable following the
Effective Date.
Other matters
The Company will withhold common shares of
AgraFlora equal to 25% of the fair market value of the common
shares of AgraFlora on the Distribution Date to satisfy the
Non-Canadian Resident Shareholders’ Canadian tax withholding
obligation. In order to have the withholding tax rate
reduced pursuant to one of Canada’s bilateral tax treaties, the
non-Canadian resident shareholder must complete and mail back to
the Company a form NR301. Failure to do so will result in the
Company withholding at the statutory 25% withholding tax rate. The
form may be downloaded at
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publications/forms/nr301.html.
Non-Canadian resident shareholders who hold their shares through a
broker should contact their broker directly. They do no need
to return a form to the Company. All non-Canadian Resident
shareholders are urged to consult their own tax advisors with
respect to this matter.
Furthermore, the Company announces that it
entered into a definitive agreement on May 24, 2020, (the
“Agreement”) to acquire all of the issued and
outstanding shares of privately-held Bendu Capital Limited
(“Bendu”) a non-arm’s length party to the Company,
to be effected by way of a three-cornered amalgamation between
Organic Flower, Bendu and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Organic
Flower (the “Transaction”). The Transaction is
valued at 75,850,000 pre-Consolidation Shares of Organic Flower,
giving the Transaction an approximate dollar value of $3,034,000 as
of the Company’s closing price on May 22, 2020.
Bendu is a financial services company that
manages a portfolio of financial instruments and marketable
securities with a focus on cannabis and wellness industries. The
Transaction was unanimously approved by the Board of Directors for
Organic Flower and the Board of Directors of Bendu. The shareholder
of Bendu has also unanimously approved the terms of the
Transaction. A copy of the Agreement will be filed by Organic
Flower with the Canadian securities regulators and will be
available for viewing on the Company’s profile on the System for
Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval
(“SEDAR”) at www.sedar.com. A description of the
Agreement will also be set forth in Organic Flower’s material
change report to be filed on SEDAR.
Organic Flower has also granted stock options to
acquire a total of 39,537,222 pre-Consolidated Shares of the
Company to certain Officers, Directors and Consultants of the
Company. The options are exercisable at a price of $0.05 per Share
and expire five years from the date of grant.
The Company has also entered into debt
settlement agreements (“Settlement Agreements”) to
settle outstanding cash payments owed to three creditors for
$500,000, for a loan payable and past management consulting
services. A total of $159,325 of the debt is owed to two insiders
of the Company for management fees (the “Insider
Debt”). The disinterested directors of the Company have
approved the Settlement Agreements with each of the insiders.
Pursuant to the Settlement Agreements, the Company will be issue an
aggregate of 7,142,857 pre-Consolidation Shares to the creditors at
a deemed price of $0.07 per Share.
All securities issued pursuant to the Settlement
Agreements will be subject to a statutory hold period of four
months plus a day from issuance in accordance with applicable
securities laws.
The Insider Debt settlement is exempt from the
valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of
Multilateral Instrument 61-101 ("MI 61-101") by virtue of the
exemptions contained in sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101
in that the fair market value of the consideration for the
securities of the Company to be issued to the Insiders does not
exceed 25% of its market capitalization.
ABOUT ORGANIC FLOWER INVESTMENTS
Organic Flower is an investment company, that
specializes in investing into private and public companies engaged
in a variety of industries, with a focus in the bio-medical,
pharmaceutical, and naturopathic sectors, which may include medical
or recreational cannabis. In particular, the investment mandate is
focused on high return investment opportunities, the ability to
achieve a reasonable rate of capital appreciation and to seek
liquidity in our investments
ON BEHALF OF THE ORGANIC FLOWER INVESTMENTS GROUP INC.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
“Joel Dumaresq”
Joel Dumaresq CEO, Director +1 (604)
687-2038info@sowcannabis.ca
Learn more about Organic Flower by visiting our website
at: https://sowcannabis.ca/
THE CSE HAS NOT REVIEWED AND DOES NOT ACCEPT
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY OR ADEQUACY OF THIS RELEASE.
Notice Regarding Forward Looking
Information:
This news release contains certain
"forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable
Canadian securities law. Forward-looking information is frequently
characterized by words such as "plan", "continue", "expect",
"project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "may",
"will", "potential", "proposed" and other similar words, or
information that certain events or conditions "may" or "will"
occur. This information is only a prediction. Various assumptions
were used in drawing the conclusions or making the projections
contained in the forward-looking information throughout this news
release. Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited
to: political changes in Canada and internationally, future
legislative and regulatory developments involving cannabis in
Canada and internationally, AgraFlora’s ability to secure
distribution channels in international jurisdictions, competition
and other risks affecting AgraFlora in particular and the cannabis
industry generally. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the forward-looking statements herein include, among
other things, AgraFlora’s ability to develop the Delta Greenhouse
Complex and the successful integration of Organic Flower’s unique
domestic downstream asset portfolio under the AgraFlora banner.
The forward-looking information contained in
this release is expressly qualified by the foregoing cautionary
statements and is made as of the date of this release. Except as
may be required by applicable securities laws, the Company does not
undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-
looking information to reflect events or circumstances after the
date of this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
events, whether as a result of new information, future events or
results, or otherwise.
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