−Removed: currency is rounded to the nearest thousands, except share and per share amounts.)
+Added: (All currency is rounded to the nearest
+Added: thousand, except share and per share amounts.)
Creative Realities, Inc.
−Removed: is a Minnesota corporation (the “Company”)
−Removed: that provides innovative digital marketing technology and solutions to retail companies, individual retail brands, enterprises
+Added: is a Minnesota
+Added: corporation that provides innovative digital marketing technology solutions to a broad range of companies, individual brands, enterprises,
and organizations throughout the United States and in certain international markets.
−Removed: The Company has expertise in a broad range
−Removed: of existing and emerging digital marketing technologies, as well as the related media management and distribution software platforms
−Removed: and networks, device management, product management, customized software service layers, systems, experiences, workflows, and integrated
+Added: We have expertise in a broad range of existing
+Added: and emerging digital marketing technologies across approximately 15 vertical markets, as well as the related media management and
+Added: distribution software platforms and networks, device and content management, product management, customized software service layers,
+Added: systems, experiences, workflows, and integrated solutions.
Our technology and solutions include:
−Removed: digital merchandising systems and omni-channel customer engagement systems, interactive
−Removed: digital shopping assistants, advisors and kiosks, and other interactive marketing technologies such as mobile, social media, point-of-sale
−Removed: transactions, beaconing and web-based media that enable our customers to transform how they engage with consumers.
−Removed: We have expertise
−Removed: in a broad range of existing and emerging digital marketing technologies, as well as the following related aspects of our business:
−Removed: content, network management, and connected device software and firmware platforms;
−Removed: customized software service layers;
−Removed: digital media workflows;
−Removed: and proprietary processes and automation tools.
−Removed: We believe we are one of the world’s
−Removed: leading interactive marketing technology companies that focuses on the retail shopper experience by helping retailers and brands
−Removed: use the latest technologies to create better shopping experiences.
−Removed: November 20, 2018, we closed on our acquisition of Allure Global Solutions, Inc.
−Removed: (the “Allure Acquisition”).
−Removed: the Allure Acquisition expanded our operations, geographical footprint and customer base and also enhanced our current product
−Removed: offerings, the core business of Allure is consistent with the operations of Creative Realties, Inc.
−Removed: main operations are conducted directly through Creative Realities, Inc., and under our wholly owned subsidiaries Allure Global
−Removed: Solutions, Inc., a Georgia corporation, Creative Realities Canada, Inc., a Canadian corporation, and ConeXus World Global, LLC,
−Removed: a Kentucky limited liability company.
−Removed: Our other wholly owned subsidiary Creative Realities, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
−Removed: company, has been effectively dormant since October 2015, the date of the merger with ConeXus World Global, LLC.
−Removed: generate revenue in this business by:
−Removed: with our customers to determine the technologies and solutions required to achieve their specific goals, strategies and objectives;
−Removed: our customers’
+Added: digital merchandising systems
+Added: and omni-channel customer engagement systems;
+Added: content creation, production and scheduling programs and systems;
+Added: a comprehensive
+Added: series of recurring maintenance, support, and field service offerings;
+Added: interactive digital shopping assistants, advisors and kiosks;
+Added: and, other interactive marketing technologies such as mobile, social media, point-of-sale transactions, beaconing and web-based
+Added: media that enable our customers to transform how they engage with consumers.
+Added: Our main operations are conducted directly
+Added: through Creative Realities, Inc.
+Added: and our wholly owned subsidiary Creative Realities Canada, Inc., a Canadian corporation.
+Added: wholly owned subsidiaries are effectively dormant:
+Added: Creative Realities, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, ConeXus World
+Added: Global, LLC, a Kentucky limited liability company, and Allure Global Solutions, Inc., a Georgia corporation.
+Added: We generate revenue by:
+Added: consulting with our customers to determine the technologies and solutions required to achieve their specific goals, strategies, and objectives;
+Added: designing our customers’
digital marketing experiences, content, and interfaces;
−Removed: the systems architecture delivering the digital marketing experiences we design –
+Added: engineering the systems architecture delivering the digital marketing experiences we design –
both software and hardware –
and integrating those systems into a customized, reliable, and effective digital marketing experience;
−Removed: the efficient, timely and cost-effective deployment of our digital marketing technology solutions for our customers;
−Removed: and updating the content of our digital marketing technology solutions using a suite of advanced media, content and network
−Removed: management software products;
−Removed: our customers’
+Added: managing the efficient, timely and cost-effective deployment of our digital marketing technology solutions for our customers;
+Added: delivering and updating the content of our digital marketing technology solutions using a suite of advanced media, content, and network management software products;
+Added: maintaining our customers’
digital marketing technology solutions by:
providing content production and related services;
−Removed: additional software-based features and functionality;
+Added: creating additional software-based features and functionality;
hosting the solutions;
monitoring solution service levels;
−Removed: and responding
−Removed: to and/or managing remote or onsite field service maintenance, troubleshooting and support calls.
−Removed: activities generate revenue through:
+Added: and responding to and/or managing remote or onsite field service maintenance, troubleshooting and support calls.
+Added: These activities generate revenue through
bundled-solution sales;
−Removed: consulting services, experience design, content development and production,
−Removed: software development, engineering, implementation, and field services;
−Removed: software license fees;
−Removed: and maintenance and support services
−Removed: related to our software, managed systems and solutions.
−Removed: currently market and sell our technology and solutions primarily through our sales and business development personnel, but we
−Removed: also utilize agents, strategic partners, and lead generators who provide us with access to additional sales, business development
−Removed: and licensing opportunities.
−Removed: digital marketing technology solutions have application in a wide variety of industries.
−Removed: The industries in which we sell
−Removed: our solutions are established and include automotive, apparel & accessories, banking, baby/children, beauty, CPG, department
−Removed: stores, digital out-of-home (“DOOH”), electronics, fashion, fitness, foodservice/quick service restaurant (“QSR”),
−Removed: financial services, gaming, luxury, mass merchants, mobile operators, and pharmacy retail;
−Removed: however, the planning, development,
−Removed: implementation and maintenance of technology-enabled experiences involving combinations of digital marketing technologies is relatively
−Removed: new and evolving.
−Removed: Moreover, a number of participants in these industries have only recently started considering or expanding
−Removed: the adoption of these types of technologies, solutions and experiences as part of their overall marketing strategies.
−Removed: a result, we remain without an established history of profitability.
−Removed: believe that the adoption and evolution of digital marketing technology solutions will increase substantially in years to come
−Removed: both in the industries in which we currently focus and in others.
−Removed: We also believe that adoption of our solutions depends not only
−Removed: upon the services and solutions that we provide but also upon the cost of hardware used to process and display content.
−Removed: the costs of hardware configurations and software media players have historically decreased and we believe they will continue
−Removed: to do so at an accelerating rate, flat panel displays and players typically constitute a large portion of the expenditure customers
−Removed: make relative to the entire cost of implementing a digital marketing system implementation and can be a barrier to customer deployment.
−Removed: As a result, we believe that the broader adoption of digital marketing technology solutions is likely to increase, although we
−Removed: cannot predict the rate at which such adoption will occur.
−Removed: key component of our business strategy, given the evolving dynamics of the industry in which we operate, is to acquire and integrate
−Removed: other operating companies in the industry in conjunction with pursuing our organic growth objectives.
−Removed: We believe that the selective
−Removed: acquisition and successful integration of certain companies will:
+Added: consulting services, experience design, content development and production, software development, engineering,
+Added: implementation, and field services;
+Added: software subscription license fees;
+Added: and maintenance and support services related to our software,
+Added: managed systems and solutions.
+Added: We currently market and sell our technology
+Added: and solutions primarily through our sales and business development personnel, but we also utilize agents, strategic partners, and
+Added: lead generators who provide us with access to additional sales, business development and licensing opportunities.
+Added: Our digital marketing technology solutions
+Added: have application in a wide variety of industries.
+Added: The industries in which we sell our solutions are established and include
+Added: automotive, apparel & accessories, banking, baby/children, beauty, CPG, department stores, digital out-of-home (“DOOH”),
+Added: electronics, fashion, fitness, foodservice/quick service restaurant (“QSR”), financial services, gaming, luxury, mass
+Added: merchants, mobile operators, and pharmacy retail;
+Added: however, the planning, development, implementation and maintenance of technology-enabled
+Added: experiences involving combinations of digital marketing technologies is relatively new and evolving.
+Added: Moreover, a number of
+Added: participants in these industries have only recently started considering or expanding the adoption of these types of technologies,
+Added: solutions and experiences as part of their overall marketing strategies.
+Added: As a result, we remain without an established history
+Added: of profitability.
+Added: We believe that the adoption and evolution
+Added: of digital marketing technology solutions will increase substantially in years to come in the industries in which we currently
+Added: focus and in others;
+Added: however, adoption has not yet accelerated to the extent we expected, in part due to delays in capital expenditures
+Added: from our current and potential customer base as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: We also believe that adoption of our solutions
+Added: depends not only upon the services and solutions that we provide but also upon the cost of hardware used to process and display
+Added: While the costs of hardware configurations and software media players have historically decreased and we believe they
+Added: will continue to do so at an accelerating rate, flat panel displays and players typically constitute a large portion of the expenditure
+Added: customers make relative to the entire cost of implementing a digital marketing system implementation and can be a barrier to customer
+Added: As a result, we believe that the broader adoption of digital marketing technology solutions is likely to increase,
+Added: although we cannot predict the rate at which such adoption will occur.
+Added: Another key component of our business strategy,
+Added: given the evolving dynamics of the industry in which we operate, is to acquire and integrate other operating companies in the industry
+Added: in conjunction with pursuing our organic growth objectives.
+Added: We believe that the selective acquisition and successful integration
+Added: of certain companies will:
accelerate our growth in targeted vertical and operating markets;
−Removed: enable us to cost-effectively aggregate multiple customer bases onto a single business and technology platform;
−Removed: provide us with
−Removed: greater operating scale on a consolidated basis;
−Removed: enable us to leverage a common set of processes and tools, and cost efficiencies
−Removed: company-wide;
−Removed: and ultimately result in higher operating profitability and cash flow from operations.
−Removed: Our management team evaluates
−Removed: acquisition opportunities on an ongoing basis.
−Removed: Our management team and Board of Directors have broad experience with the execution,
−Removed: integration and financing of acquisitions.
−Removed: We believe that, based on the foregoing, we can successfully serve as a consolidator
−Removed: of multiple business and technology platforms serving similar markets.
−Removed: may read and copy any materials we file with the SEC at the SEC’s public reference room at 100 F Street NE, Washington,
−Removed: The public may obtain information about the operation of the public reference room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330.
−Removed: The SEC also maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding
−Removed: issuers that file electronically with the SEC.
+Added: enable us to cost-effectively aggregate
+Added: multiple customer bases onto a single business and technology platform;
+Added: provide us with greater operating scale on a consolidated
+Added: enable us to leverage a common set of processes and tools, and cost efficiencies company-wide;
+Added: and ultimately result in
+Added: higher operating profitability and cash flow from operations.
+Added: Our management team evaluates acquisition opportunities on an ongoing
+Added: Our management team and Board of Directors have broad experience with the execution, integration, and financing of acquisitions.
+Added: We believe that the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected our smaller competitors, and as a result, there may exist acquisition
+Added: opportunities in the future.We also believe that, based on the foregoing, we can successfully serve as a consolidator of multiple
+Added: business and technology platforms serving similar markets.
+Added: In addition to our historical product offerings
+Added: and solutions, in April 2020, we announced the joint launch of an AI-integrated non-contact temperature inspection kiosk known
+Added: as the “Thermal Mirror”
+Added: with our partner, InReality, LLC for use by businesses as COVID-19 related workplace restrictions
+Added: are reduced or eliminated.
+Added: The Thermal Mirror involves the development, marketing and sale of a new product to new customers involving
+Added: a joint effort with InReality compared to our historical products and services.
+Added: The product also uses hardware and technologies
+Added: that have not been used with our other customers.
+Added: Throughout 2020, the Company and InReality continued to develop incremental use
+Added: cases and subsequently launched a suite of Safe Space Solutions products addressing this market, each of which operate consistently
+Added: with our primary business model in that they represent a sale of hardware and a SaaS-based subscription license services contract.
+Added: You may read and copy any materials we file
+Added: with the SEC at the SEC’s public reference room at 100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549.
+Added: The public may obtain information
+Added: about the operation of the public reference room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330.
+Added: The SEC also maintains an Internet site
+Added: that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with
The website of the SEC is www.sec.gov .
−Removed: Additional information about
−Removed: the Company and its public disclosures is available on our website at www.cri.com.
−Removed: principal offices are located at 13100 Magisterial Drive, Ste 100, Louisville, Kentucky 40223, and our telephone number at that
−Removed: office is (502) 791-8800.
−Removed: We originally incorporated and organized as a Minnesota corporation
−Removed: under the name Wireless Ronin Technologies, Inc.
+Added: Additional information about the Company and its public disclosures
+Added: is available on our website at www.cri.com.
+Added: Corporate Organization
+Added: Our principal offices are located at 13100
+Added: Magisterial Drive, Ste 100, Louisville, Kentucky 40223, and our telephone number at that office is (502) 791-8800.
+Added: We originally incorporated and organized
+Added: as a Minnesota corporation under the name “Wireless Ronin Technologies, Inc.”
in March 2003.
−Removed: Our business initially focused on the provision of expertise in
−Removed: digital media marketing solutions to customers, including digital signage, interactive kiosks, mobile, social media and web-based
−Removed: media solutions.
−Removed: We acquired the assets and business of Broadcast International, Inc., a Utah corporation and public registrant,
−Removed: through a merger transaction that was effective as of August 1, 2014.
−Removed: Then on August 20, 2014, we consummated a merger transaction
−Removed: with Creative Realities, LLC, a privately owned Delaware limited liability company, in which we issued a majority of our issued
−Removed: and outstanding shares of common stock.
−Removed: In that merger transaction, we acquired the interactive marketing technology business of
−Removed: Creative Realities that we currently operate.
−Removed: Shortly after that merger, we changed our corporate name from Wireless Ronin Technologies,
+Added: Our business initially
+Added: focused on the provision of expertise in digital media marketing solutions to customers, including digital signage, interactive
+Added: kiosks, mobile, social media and web-based media solutions.
+Added: We acquired the assets and business of Broadcast International, Inc.,
+Added: a Utah corporation and public registrant, through a merger transaction that was effective as of August 1, 2014.
+Added: Then on August
+Added: 20, 2014, we consummated a merger transaction with Creative Realities, LLC, a privately owned Delaware limited liability company,
+Added: in which we issued a majority of our issued and outstanding shares of common stock.
+Added: In that merger transaction, we acquired the
+Added: interactive marketing technology business of Creative Realities that we currently operate.
+Added: Shortly after that merger, we changed
+Added: our corporate name from “Wireless Ronin Technologies, Inc.”
to “Creative Realities, Inc.”
−Removed: On October 15, 2015, we acquired the assets and business of ConeXus World Global,
−Removed: LLC, a privately-owned Kentucky limited liability company for which we issued preferred and common stock.
−Removed: In that merger transaction,
−Removed: we acquired the systems integration and marketing technology business of ConeXus World that we currently operate.
−Removed: On May 23, 2016,
−Removed: we dissolved Broadcast International, Inc.
−Removed: On November 20, 2018, we acquired Allure Global Solutions, Inc.
−Removed: (“Allure”),
−Removed: an enterprise software development company (as further described below).
−Removed: corporate structure, including our principal operating subsidiaries, is as follows:
−Removed: fiscal year ends December 31.
−Removed: Neither we nor any of our predecessors have been in bankruptcy, receivership or any similar proceeding.
−Removed: believe that our existing business model is highly scalable and can be expanded successfully as we continue to grow organically
−Removed: and integrate our recent merger transactions, acquire and integrate other companies which operate directly in our target markets,
−Removed: strengthen our operational practices and procedures, further streamline our administrative office functions, and continue to capitalize
−Removed: on various marketing programs and activities.
−Removed: approximately the past 18-36 months, we believe certain digital marketing technology industry trends are creating the opportunity
−Removed: for retailers, brands, venue-operators, enterprises, non-profits and other organizations to create innovative shopping, marketing,
−Removed: and informational experiences for their customers and other stakeholders in various venues worldwide.
+Added: On October 15,
+Added: 2015, we acquired the assets and business of ConeXus World Global, LLC, a privately-owned Kentucky limited liability company for
+Added: which we issued preferred and common stock.
+Added: In that merger transaction, we acquired the systems integration and marketing technology
+Added: business of ConeXus World that we currently operate.
+Added: On May 23, 2016, we dissolved Broadcast International, Inc.
+Added: On November 20,
+Added: 2018, we acquired Allure Global Solutions, Inc.
+Added: (“Allure”), an enterprise software development company (as further
+Added: described below).
+Added: Business Strategy
+Added: We believe that our existing business model
+Added: is highly scalable and can be expanded successfully as we continue to grow organically and integrate our recent merger transactions,
+Added: acquire and integrate other companies which operate directly in our target markets, strengthen our operational practices and procedures,
+Added: further streamline our administrative office functions, and continue to capitalize on various marketing programs and activities.
+Added: Industry Background
+Added: We believe certain digital marketing technology
+Added: industry trends are creating the opportunity for retailers, brands, venue-operators, enterprises, non-profits and other organizations
+Added: to create innovative shopping, marketing, and informational experiences for their customers and other stakeholders in various venues
These trends include:
−Removed: the expectations of technology-savvy consumers;
−Removed: (ii) addressing on-line competitors by improving physical experiences;
−Removed: (iii) accelerating
−Removed: decline in the cost of hardware configurations (primarily flat panel displays) and software media players;
−Removed: (iv) the continued
−Removed: evolution of mobile, social, software and hardware technologies, applications and tools;
−Removed: (v) increasing sophistication of social
−Removed: networking platforms;
−Removed: (vi) increasingly complex customer requirements related to their specific digital marketing technology and
−Removed: solution objectives;
−Removed: and (vii) customers challenging service providers with the delivery of a satisfactory consumer experience
−Removed: with the traditional pressure on reducing installation and ongoing operating costs.
−Removed: a result, a growing number of retailers, brands, venue-operators and other organizations have identified the need and opportunity
−Removed: to implement increasingly cost-effective and “sales-lifting”
−Removed: digital marketing, and interactive experiences to market
−Removed: to their customers.
−Removed: These experiences include creating unique and customized experiences for targeted, timely offerings and relevant
−Removed: improving engagement resulting in increased sales;
+Added: (i) the expectations of technology-savvy consumers;
+Added: (ii) addressing on-line competitors by improving
+Added: physical experiences;
+Added: (iii) accelerating decline in the cost of hardware configurations (primarily flat panel displays) and software
+Added: media players;
+Added: (iv) the continued evolution of mobile, social, software and hardware technologies, applications and tools;
+Added: increasing sophistication of social networking platforms;
+Added: (vi) increasingly complex customer requirements related to their specific
+Added: digital marketing technology and solution objectives;
+Added: and (vii) customers challenging service providers with the delivery of a
+Added: satisfactory consumer experience with the traditional pressure on reducing installation and ongoing operating costs.
+Added: As a result, a growing number of retailers,
+Added: brands, venue-operators and other organizations have identified the need and opportunity to implement increasingly cost-effective
+Added: and “sales-lifting”
+Added: digital marketing, and interactive experiences to market to their customers.
+Added: These experiences
+Added: include creating unique and customized experiences for targeted, timely offerings and relevant promotions;
+Added: improving engagement
+Added: resulting in increased sales;
and increasing shopping basket size.
−Removed: We believe our clients consider
−Removed: capitalizing on these industry trends to be increasingly critical to any successful “store of the future”
−Removed: brand sales environment, especially where sales staff turnover is high, training outcomes are inconsistent and product knowledge
−Removed: are accomplishing their strategies by implementing various digital marketing technology solutions, which:
−Removed: are implemented in multiple
−Removed: forms and types of configurations and locations;
+Added: We believe our clients consider capitalizing on these industry
+Added: trends to be increasingly critical to any successful “store of the future”
+Added: retail and brand sales environment, especially
+Added: where sales staff turnover is high, training outcomes are inconsistent and product knowledge is low.
+Added: Companies are accomplishing their strategies
+Added: by implementing various digital marketing technology solutions, which:
+Added: are implemented in multiple forms and types of configurations
+Added: and locations;
attempt to achieve any of a broad range of individual or combination of objectives;
contain various levels of targeting;
−Removed: have the ability to instantly manage single or multiple locations remotely from a customer’s
−Removed: desktop or other connected device at each location;
−Removed: and are built to deliver or contain a standard or customized experience unique
−Removed: to and within the customer’s environment.
+Added: have the ability to instantly manage single or multiple locations remotely from a customer’s desktop or other connected device
+Added: at each location;
+Added: and are built to deliver or contain a standard or customized experience unique to and within the customer’s
Examples of such solutions include:
−Removed: Merchandising Systems, which aim to inform and interact with customers through various types of content in an integrated experience,
−Removed: improve in-store customer experiences and increase overall sales, upsells, and/or cross-sales;
−Removed: Sales Assistants, which aim to replace or augment existing sales resources and the level of interactive and informational
−Removed: sales assistance inside the store;
−Removed: Way-Finders, which aim to help customers navigate their way around individual retail stores and multi-store locations or venues,
−Removed: or within individual brand categories;
−Removed: Kiosks, which aim to provide data, specialized and customized broadcasts, promotional
−Removed: information and coupons, train, and other forms of information and interaction with customers
+Added: Digital Merchandising Systems, which aim to inform and interact with customers through various types of content in an integrated experience, improve in-store customer experiences and increase overall sales, upsells, and/or cross-sales;
+Added: Digital Sales Assistants, which aim to replace or augment existing sales resources and the level of interactive and informational sales assistance inside the store;
+Added: Digital Way-Finders, which aim to help customers navigate their way around individual retail stores and multi-store locations or venues, or within individual brand categories;
+Added: Digital Kiosks, which aim to provide data, specialized
+Added: and customized broadcasts, promotional information and coupons, train, and other forms of information and interaction with customers
in a variety of deployment forms, types, configurations and experiences;
−Removed: Menu-Board Systems, which aim to enable various types of restaurant operators the ability to remotely and on a scheduled basis,
−Removed: update and modify menu information, promotions, and other forms of content dynamically;
−Removed: Digital Signage which aims to deliver and manage in-store marketing and advertising campaigns, specialized and customized
−Removed: broadcasts, and various other forms of messaging targeting customers in a particular experience or environment.
−Removed: currently market and sell our marketing technology solutions through our direct sales force, inside sales team, and word-of-mouth
−Removed: referrals from existing customers.
−Removed: Select strategic partnerships and lead generation programs also drive business to the Company
−Removed: through targeted business development initiatives.
−Removed: We market to companies that seek digital marketing solutions across multiple
−Removed: connected devices and who specifically seek or could benefit from enhancements to the customer experience offered in their stores,
−Removed: venues, brands or organizations.
−Removed: digital marketing technology solutions have application in a wide variety of industries.
−Removed: The industries in which we sell
−Removed: our solutions are established and include automotive, apparel & accessories, banking, baby/children, beauty, CPG, department
−Removed: stores, digital out-of-home (“DOOH”), electronics, fashion, fitness, foodservice/quick service restaurant (“QSR”),
−Removed: financial services, gaming, luxury, mass merchants, mobile operators, and pharmacy retail;
−Removed: however, the planning, development,
−Removed: implementation and maintenance of technology-enabled experiences involving combinations of digital marketing technologies is relatively
−Removed: new and evolving.
−Removed: Moreover, a number of participants in these industries have only recently started considering or expanding
−Removed: the adoption of these types of technologies, solutions and experiences as part of their overall marketing strategies.
−Removed: portion of our customer activity is influenced by seasonal effects related to traditional end of calendar year peak retail sales
−Removed: periods and certain other factors that arise from our target customer base.
+Added: Digital Menu-Board Systems, which aim to enable various types of restaurant operators the ability to remotely and on a scheduled basis, update and modify menu information, promotions, and other forms of content dynamically;
+Added: Dynamic Digital Signage which aims to deliver and manage in-store marketing and advertising campaigns, specialized and customized broadcasts, and various other forms of messaging targeting customers in a particular experience or environment.
+Added: We currently market and sell our marketing
+Added: technology solutions through our direct sales force, inside sales team, and word-of-mouth referrals from existing customers.
+Added: strategic partnerships and lead generation programs also drive business to the Company through targeted business development initiatives.
+Added: We market to companies that seek digital marketing solutions across multiple connected devices and who specifically seek or could
+Added: benefit from enhancements to the customer experience offered in their stores, venues, brands or organizations.
+Added: In addition to our
+Added: direct sales force, we market our Safe Space Solutions suite of products through a network of distribution and reseller partners
+Added: through which we have expanded our market presence and reach.
+Added: Distributors operate on either a consignment or direct drop ship
+Added: approach and no revenue is recognized until a sale is made and product is delivered.
+Added: Our digital marketing technology solutions
+Added: have application in a wide variety of industries.
+Added: The industries in which we sell our solutions are established and include
+Added: automotive, apparel & accessories, banking, baby/children, beauty, CPG, department stores, digital out-of-home (“DOOH”),
+Added: electronics, fashion, fitness, foodservice/quick service restaurant (“QSR”), financial services, gaming, luxury, mass
+Added: merchants, mobile operators, and pharmacy retail;
+Added: however, the planning, development, implementation and maintenance of technology-enabled
+Added: experiences involving combinations of digital marketing technologies is relatively new and evolving.
+Added: Moreover, a number of
+Added: participants in these industries have only recently started considering or expanding the adoption of these types of technologies,
+Added: solutions and experiences as part of their overall marketing strategies.
+Added: A portion of our customer activity is influenced
+Added: by seasonal effects related to traditional end of calendar year peak retail sales periods, traditional spring stadium/venue opening
+Added: seasons, and certain other factors that arise from our target customer base.
Nevertheless, our revenues can be materially affected
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outweigh certain seasonal effects.
−Removed: of General Economic Conditions on our Business
−Removed: believe that demand for our services will increase in part as a result of new construction and remodeling activities of pre-existing
−Removed: retail, convenience store, stadium and event venues.
−Removed: While we do see reductions in retail footprints across the U.S., we see a
−Removed: continued focus on integration of digital into the retail marketplace and a focus on digital refreshes within the retail space
−Removed: to stay relevant in an evolving e-commerce marketplace.
−Removed: Recent general economic improvements generally make it easier for our
−Removed: customers to justify decisions to invest in digital marketing technology solutions.
−Removed: A change in the macroeconomic trend in the
+Added: Effect of General Economic Conditions
+Added: on our Business
+Added: We believe that demand for our services
+Added: will increase in part because of new construction and remodeling activities of pre-existing retail, convenience store, stadium
+Added: and event venues.
+Added: While we do see reductions in retail footprints across the U.S., we see a continued focus on integration of digital
+Added: into the retail marketplace and a focus on digital refreshes within the retail space to stay relevant in an evolving e-commerce
+Added: Recent general economic improvements generally make it easier for our customers to justify decisions to invest in
+Added: digital marketing technology solutions.
+Added: A change in the macroeconomic trend in the U.S.
could have a negative impact on our customers’
ability and/or willingness to advance their digital initiatives.
−Removed: are subject to regulation by various federal and state governmental agencies.
−Removed: Such regulation includes radio frequency emission
−Removed: regulatory activities of the U.S.
−Removed: Federal Communications Commission, the consumer protection laws of the U.S.
−Removed: Federal Trade Commission,
−Removed: product safety regulatory activities of the U.S.
−Removed: Consumer Product Safety Commission, and environmental regulation in areas in
−Removed: which we conduct business.
−Removed: Some of the hardware components that we supply to customers may contain hazardous or regulated substances,
−Removed: such as lead.
+Added: We are subject to regulation by various
+Added: federal and state governmental agencies.
+Added: Such regulation includes radio frequency emission regulatory activities of the U.S.
+Added: Communications Commission, the consumer protection laws of the U.S.
+Added: Federal Trade Commission, product safety regulatory activities
+Added: Consumer Product Safety Commission, and environmental regulation in areas in which we conduct business.
+Added: hardware components that we supply to customers may contain hazardous or regulated substances, such as lead.
A number of U.S.
−Removed: states have adopted or are considering “takeback”
−Removed: bills addressing the disposal of
−Removed: electronic waste, including CRT style and flat panel monitors and computers.
+Added: have adopted or are considering “takeback”
+Added: bills addressing the disposal of electronic waste, including CRT style and
+Added: flat panel monitors and computers.
Electronic waste legislation is developing.
−Removed: of the bills passed or under consideration may impose on us, or on our customers or suppliers, requirements for disposal of systems
−Removed: we sell and the payment of additional fees to pay costs of disposal and recycling.
−Removed: Presently, we do not believe that any such
−Removed: legislation or proposed legislation will have a materially adverse impact on our business.
−Removed: we believe there is presently no direct competitor with the comprehensive offering of technologies, solutions and services we
−Removed: provide to our customers, there are multiple individual competitors who offer pieces of our solutions.
−Removed: These include digital signage
−Removed: software companies such as Stratacache, Four Winds Interactive, and Reflect Systems;
−Removed: marketing services companies such as Sapient
−Removed: Nitro or digital signage systems integrators such as Convergent Media Systems.
−Removed: Some of these competitors may have significantly
−Removed: greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we do and may be able to respond more rapidly than we can to new or
−Removed: emerging technologies or changes in customer requirements.
−Removed: We believe that our sales and business development capabilities, network
−Removed: operations / field service management capabilities, our comprehensive offering of digital marketing technology and solutions,
−Removed: brand awareness, and proprietary processes are the primary factors affecting our competitive position.
−Removed: had one (1) and two (2) customers that accounted for 18.5% and 48.3% of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: by one or more of these key customers to not renew, terminate or substantially reduce their use of our products, technology, services,
−Removed: and platform could substantially slow our revenue growth and lead to a decline in revenue.
−Removed: Our business plan assumes continued
−Removed: growth in revenue, and it is unlikely that we will become profitable without a continued increase in revenue.
−Removed: the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we had sales of $1,103 (3.5% of consolidated sales) and $1,566 (6.9% of consolidated
−Removed: sales), respectively, with 33 Degrees Convenience Connect, Inc., a related party that is approximately 17.5% owned by a member
−Removed: of our senior management (“33 Degrees”).
−Removed: sell products and services primarily throughout North America.
−Removed: We have approximately 100 employees as of March 12, 2020.
−Removed: do not have any employees that operate under collective-bargaining agreements.
+Added: Some of the bills passed or under consideration
+Added: may impose on us, or on our customers or suppliers, requirements for disposal of systems we sell and the payment of additional
+Added: fees to pay costs of disposal and recycling.
+Added: Presently, we do not believe that any such legislation or proposed legislation will
+Added: have a materially adverse impact on our business.
+Added: Our Thermal Mirror and other Safe Space
+Added: Solutions products are utilized by employers, in part, to evaluate the temperature of their respective employees or guests to their
+Added: Consequently, regulations from the U.S.
+Added: Food and Drug Administration, as well as state regulations related to consumer
+Added: and employee privacy rights, may apply to the sale and use of such devices within the United States.
+Added: Similarly, because the devices
+Added: are sold in Canada, regulations related to consumer and employee privacy in provinces where such regulations exist may apply to
+Added: the sale and use of such devices in those provinces in Canada.
+Added: Presently, we do not believe that any such legislation or proposed
+Added: legislation will have a materially adverse impact on our business.
+Added: While we believe there is presently no direct
+Added: competitor with the comprehensive offering of technologies, solutions and services we provide to our customers, there are multiple
+Added: individual competitors who offer pieces of our solutions.
+Added: These include digital signage software companies such as Stratacache,
+Added: Four Winds Interactive, and Reflect Systems;
+Added: marketing services companies such as Sapient Nitro or digital signage systems integrators
+Added: such as SageNet.
+Added: Some of these competitors may have significantly greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we
+Added: do and may be able to respond more rapidly than we can to new or emerging technologies or changes in customer requirements.
+Added: believe that our sales and business development capabilities, network operations / field service management capabilities, our comprehensive
+Added: offering of digital marketing technology and solutions, brand awareness, and proprietary processes are the primary factors affecting
+Added: our competitive position.
+Added: Major Customers
+Added: We had two (2) and one (1) customer(s) that
+Added: accounted for 27.8% and 18.5% of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: Decisions by one or more of these key customers
+Added: to not renew, terminate or substantially reduce their use of our products, technology, services, and platform could substantially
+Added: slow our revenue growth and lead to a decline in revenue.
+Added: Our business plan assumes continued growth in revenue, and it is unlikely
+Added: that we will become profitable without a continued increase in revenue.
+Added: For the years ended December 31, 2020 and
+Added: 2019, we had sales of $1,058 (6.1% of consolidated sales) and $1,103 (3.5% of consolidated sales), respectively, with 33 Degrees
+Added: Convenience Connect, Inc., a related party that is approximately 17.5% owned by a member of our senior management (“33 Degrees”).
+Added: We sell products and services primarily
+Added: throughout North America.
+Added: We have approximately 75 employees as of
+Added: March 8, 2021.
+Added: We do not have any employees that operate under collective-bargaining agreements.
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