FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
−Removed: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
+Added: Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firms
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2020 and 2019
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
−Removed: the Board of Directors and
−Removed: of GrowGeneration Corp
−Removed: on the Financial Statements
−Removed: have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of GrowGeneration Corp and Subsidiaries (the Company) as of
−Removed: December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholder s’
−Removed: equity, and cash
−Removed: flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2019, and the related notes (collectively referred to
−Removed: as the financial statements).
+Added: Report of Independent Registered Public
+Added: Accounting Firm
+Added: To the Stockholders and Board of Directors of GrowGeneration
+Added: Opinion on the Financial Statements
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated
+Added: balance sheets of GrowGeneration Corp.
+Added: (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2020, the related consolidated statements
+Added: of operations, stockholders' equity, and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2020, and the related notes (collectively referred
+Added: to as the “financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all
+Added: material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2020, and the results of its operations and its cash
+Added: flows for the year ended December 31, 2020, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of
+Added: Basis for Opinion
+Added: The Company's management is responsible
+Added: for these financial statements.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”)
+Added: and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable
+Added: rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audit in accordance with
+Added: the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether
+Added: the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required to have,
+Added: nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audit we are required
+Added: to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the
+Added: effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
+Added: Our audit included performing procedures
+Added: to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures
+Added: that respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures
+Added: in the financial statements.
+Added: Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
+Added: management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audit provides a reasonable
+Added: basis for our opinion.
+Added: /s/ Plante & Moran, PLLC
+Added: We have served as the Company’s auditor
+Added: Denver, Colorado
+Added: March 28, 2021
+Added: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC
+Added: ACCOUNTING FIRM
+Added: To the Board of Directors and
+Added: Stockholders of GrowGeneration Corp and Subsidiaries
+Added: Opinion on the Financial Statements
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated
+Added: balance sheets of GrowGeneration Corp and Subsidiaries (the Company) as of December 31, 2019, and the related consolidated statements
+Added: of operations, changes in stockholders’
+Added: equity, and cash flows for the year then ended and the related notes (collectively
+Added: referred to as the financial statements).
In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the
−Removed: financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for
−Removed: each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2019, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted
−Removed: in the United States of America.
−Removed: financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s
−Removed: financial statements based on our audits.
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight
−Removed: Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements
−Removed: are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to
−Removed: perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding
−Removed: of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s
−Removed: internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2019, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then
+Added: ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Basis for Opinion
+Added: These financial statements are the responsibility
+Added: of the Company’s management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based
+Added: on our audits.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB)
+Added: and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: federal securities laws and the applicable
+Added: rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: We conducted our audits in accordance with
+Added: the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether
+Added: the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: The Company is not required
+Added: to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits, we are
+Added: required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
+Added: on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: included performing procedures to assess the risks of
−Removed: material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to
−Removed: error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining,
−Removed: on a tes t basis ,
−Removed: evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting
−Removed: principles used and significant estimates made by management , as
−Removed: well as evaluating the overall
−Removed: presentation of the financial statement s.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis
−Removed: for our opinion.
+Added: Our audits included performing procedures
+Added: to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures
+Added: that respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures
+Added: in the consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates
+Added: made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audits provide
+Added: a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ Connolly Grady & Cha, P.C
−Removed: Public Accountants
−Removed: We have served
−Removed: as the Company's aud it o r
+Added: Certified Public Accountants
Springfield, Pennsylvania
−Removed: GrowGeneration
+Added: March 27, 2020
+Added: We have served as the Company's auditor since 2014
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: BALANCE SHEETS
+Added: CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
Current assets:
+Added: Cash and cash equivalents
+Added: $ 177,911,511
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $192,193 and $291,372 at December 31, 2020 and 2019
−Removed: Prepaids and other current
+Added: Notes receivable, current, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $292,050 and $0 at December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: Income tax receivable
+Added: Prepaids and other current assets
Total current assets
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Operating leases right-of-use assets, net
+Added: Notes receivables, net of current portion
Intangible assets, net
+Added: $ 354,733,695
LIABILITIES & STOCKHOLDERS’
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Sales tax payable
−Removed: Current maturities of right-of-use assets
+Added: Current maturities of lease liability
Current portion of long-term debt
Total current liabilities
−Removed: Long-term convertible debt, net of debt discount and debt issuance costs
−Removed: Operating leases right-of-use assets, net of current maturities
+Added: Deferred tax liability
+Added: Operating lease liability, net of current maturities
Long-term debt, net of current portion
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TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’
−Removed: accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: GrowGeneration
+Added: $ 354,733,695
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral
+Added: part of these audited consolidated financial statements.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
For the Years Ended
+Added: $ 193,365,479
Cost of sales
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Total operating expenses
−Removed: Net income (loss) from operations
+Added: Net income from operations
Other income (expense):
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Interest expense
−Removed: Amortization of debt discount
Total non-operating income (expense), net
−Removed: Net income (loss)
−Removed: $ (5,073,755 )
−Removed: Net income (loss) per share, basic
−Removed: Net income (loss) per share, diluted
+Added: Net income before taxes
+Added: Provision for income taxes
+Added: Net income per share, basic
+Added: Net income per share, diluted
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic
Weighted average shares outstanding, diluted
−Removed: accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: GrowGeneration
+Added: The accompanying
+Added: notes are an integral part of these audited consolidated financial statements.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
Stockholders’
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Sale of Common stock and warrants, net of fees
−Removed: Warrants issued for services
−Removed: Stock option expense
+Added: Share based compensation
Common stock issued upon warrant exercise
Common stock issued upon exercise of options
+Added: Common stock issued upon cashless exercise of options
Common stock issued in connection with business combinations
Common stock issued upon conversion of convertible debt
−Removed: Warrants issued with convertible debt
Common stock issued for services
Common stock issued for accrued share-based compensation
+Added: Net income, As restated
Balances, December 31, 2019
$ (7,969,936 )
−Removed: Sale of Common stock and warrants, net of fees
−Removed: Share based compensation
+Added: Sale of common stock, net of fees
Common stock issued upon warrant exercise
+Added: Common stock issued upon cashless exercise of warrants
Common stock issued upon exercise of options
1 unchanged sentence
Common stock issued in connection with business combinations
−Removed: Common stock issued upon conversion of convertible debt
+Added: Common stock issued for assets
Common stock issued for services
+Added: Common stock issued for accrued payroll
Common stock issued for accrued share-based compensation
+Added: Common stock redemption
+Added: Share based compensation
Balances, December 31, 2020
$ 319,581,657
−Removed: accompanying notes are an integral part of theses audited consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: GrowGeneration
+Added: $ (2,641,558 )
+Added: $ 316,997,251
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of theses audited consolidated financial statements.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Years Ended December 31,
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
−Removed: Net income (loss)
−Removed: $ (5,073,755 )
−Removed: Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash used in operating activities:
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash used in operating Activities:
Depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Provision for doubtful accounts receivable
+Added: Provision for doubtful accounts and notes receivable
Inventory valuation reserve
1 unchanged sentence
Stock based compensation
−Removed: Noncash operating lease expense
+Added: Deferred income taxes
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
(Increase) decrease in:
−Removed: Accounts receivable
+Added: Accounts and notes receivable
(19,192,401 )
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Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
+Added: Operating leases
Customer deposits
1 unchanged sentence
Sales taxes payable
−Removed: Net Cash (Used In) Operating Activities
+Added: Net Cash and Cash Equivalents (Used In) Operating Activities
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
Assets acquired in business combinations
+Added: (41,400,900 )
Purchase of property and equipment
−Removed: Purchase of goodwill and other intangibles
−Removed: Net Cash (Used In) Investing Activities
+Added: Purchase of intangibles
+Added: Net Cash and Cash Equivalents (Used In) Investing Activities
(45,830,203 )
+Added: (11,810,680 )
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
Principal payments on long term debt
−Removed: Proceeds from issuance of convertible debt, net of expenses
+Added: Stock redemptions
Proceeds from the sales of common stock and exercise of warrants and options, net of expenses
−Removed: Net Cash Provided by Financing Activities
+Added: Net Cash and Cash Equivalents Provided by Financing Activities
Net Increase (decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents
1 unchanged sentence
Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of year
+Added: $ 177,911,511
Supplemental Information:
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Assets acquired by issuance of stock
−Removed: Warrants issued for debt discount
−Removed: Acquisition of vehicles with debt financing
−Removed: Interest paid during the period
−Removed: Acquisition of assets with seller financing
−Removed: accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: Cash paid for interest
+Added: Right to use assets acquired under new operating leases
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part
+Added: of these audited consolidated financial statements.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
OF OPERATIONS
−Removed: GrowGeneration
−Removed: Corp (the “Company”) was incorporated on March 6, 2014 in Colorado under the name of Easylife Corp and changed its
−Removed: name to GrowGeneration Corp.
−Removed: It maintains its principal office in Denver, Colorado.
−Removed: GrowGeneration
−Removed: is the largest chain of hydroponic garden centers in North America and is a leading marketer and distributor of nutrients, growing
−Removed: media, advanced indoor and greenhouse lighting, ventilation systems and accessories for hydroponic gardening.
−Removed: As of March 27,
−Removed: 2020, the Company owns and operates a chain of twenty seven (27) retail hydroponic/gardening stores, with five (5) located in
−Removed: the state of Colorado, four (4) in the state of California, four (4) in the state of Michigan, two (2) in the state of Nevada,
−Removed: one (1) in the state of Washington, one (1) in the state of Oregon, four (4) in the State of Oklahoma, one (1) in the state of
−Removed: Rhode Island, three (3) in Maine, (1) in Florida, one (1) distribution center in California and an online e-commerce store, GrowGen.Pro.
−Removed: In addition, we operate a warehouse out of Sacramento, CA.
−Removed: Our plan is to acquire, open and operate hydroponic/gardening stores
−Removed: and related businesses throughout the United States and Canada.
−Removed: Company engages in its business through its wholly owned subsidiaries, GrowGeneration Pueblo Corp, GrowGeneration California Corp,
−Removed: Grow Generation Nevada Corp, GrowGeneration Washington Corp, GrowGeneration Rhode Island Corp, GrowGeneration Oklahoma Corp, GrowGeneration
−Removed: Canada, GrowGeneration HG Corp, GrowGeneration Hemp Corp, GGen Distribution Corp, GrowGeneration Michigan Corp, GrowGeneration
−Removed: New England Corp, GrowGeneration Florida Corp and GrowGeneration Management Corp.
+Added: GrowGeneration Corp (the “Company”)
+Added: was incorporated on March 6, 2014 in Colorado under the name of Easylife Corp and changed its name to GrowGeneration Corp.
+Added: its principal office in Denver, Colorado.
+Added: GrowGeneration is the largest chain of hydroponic garden centers
+Added: in North America and is a leading marketer and distributor of nutrients, growing media, advanced indoor and greenhouse lighting,
+Added: ventilation systems and accessories for hydroponic gardening.
+Added: Currently, the Company owns and operates a chain of fifty two (52)
+Added: retail hydroponic/gardening stores across 12 states, with eighteen (18) in the state of California, six (6) in the state of Michigan,
+Added: eight (8) located in the state of Colorado, five (5) in the State of Oklahoma, five (5) in Maine, two (2) in the state of Nevada,
+Added: two (2) in the state of Washington, two (2) in the state of Oregon, one (1) in the state of Rhode Island, one (1) in the state
+Added: of Florida, one (1) in the state of Massachusetts, one (1) in the state of Arizona, an online e-commerce store, GrowGeneration.com
+Added: and a commercial e-commerce platform, Agron.io The Company’s plan is to continue to acquire, open and operate hydroponic/gardening
+Added: stores and related businesses throughout the United States and Canada.
+Added: The Company engages in its business
+Added: through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, GrowGeneration Pueblo Corp, GrowGeneration California Corp, GrowGeneration Nevada Corp,
+Added: GrowGeneration Washington Corp, GrowGeneration Rhode Island Corp, GrowGeneration Oklahoma Corp, GrowGeneration Canada, GrowGeneration
+Added: HG Corp, GrowGeneration Hemp Corp, GGen Distribution Corp, GrowGeneration Michigan Corp, GrowGeneration New England Corp, GrowGeneration
+Added: Florida Corp and GrowGeneration Management Corp.
OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
−Removed: of Presentation and Consolidation
−Removed: financial statements are prepared under the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification
−Removed: (“ASC”) Topic 105-10, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles , in accordance with accounting principles generally
−Removed: accepted in the U.S.
+Added: Basis of Presentation and
+Added: Consolidation
+Added: The financial statements are
+Added: prepared under the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”)
+Added: Topic 105-10, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles , in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the
(“GAAP”).
−Removed: consolidated financial statements include the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries.
−Removed: All intercompany balances and transactions
−Removed: are eliminated in consolidation.
+Added: The consolidated financial statements
+Added: include the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries.
+Added: All intercompany balances and transactions are eliminated in consolidation.
Reclassifications
−Removed: amounts in the prior period financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.
−Removed: These reclassifications
−Removed: had no effect on reported consolidated net income (loss).
−Removed: uses estimates and assumptions in preparing these consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting
−Removed: These estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent
−Removed: assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements, and the reported revenues and expenses during the
−Removed: reporting period.
−Removed: Actual results could vary from the estimates that were used.
−Removed: makes significant operating decisions based upon the analysis of the entire Company and financial performance is evaluated on
−Removed: a company-wide basis.
−Removed: Accordingly, the various products sold are aggregated into one reportable operating segment as under guidance
−Removed: in the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC or codification”)
−Removed: Topic 280 for segment reporting.
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: Certain amounts in the prior
+Added: period financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.
+Added: These reclassifications had no
+Added: effect on reported consolidated net income.
+Added: Use of Estimates
+Added: Management uses estimates and
+Added: assumptions in preparing these consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
+Added: estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities
+Added: at the date of the consolidated financial statements, and the reported revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
+Added: results could vary from the estimates that were used.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES, Continued
−Removed: Company recognizes revenue, net of estimated returns and sales tax, at the time the customer takes possession of merchandise or
−Removed: receives services.
−Removed: When the Company receives payment from customers before the customer has taken possession of the merchandise
−Removed: or the service has been performed, the amount received is recorded as Deferred Revenue in the accompanying Consolidated Balance
−Removed: Sheets until the sale or service is complete.
−Removed: allowances primarily consist of volume rebates that are earned as a result of attaining certain purchase levels.
−Removed: allowances are accrued as earned, with those allowances received as a result of attaining certain purchase levels accrued over
−Removed: the incentive period based on estimates of purchases.
−Removed: Volume rebates, when earned, are
−Removed: recorded as a reduction in Cost of Sales.
−Removed: Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
−Removed: The Company’s cash equivalents are carried at fair market value and consist primarily of money market funds.
−Removed: receivable are stated at the amount the Company expects to collect from balances outstanding at year-end, based on the Company’s
−Removed: assessment of the credit history with customers having outstanding balances and current relationships with them.
−Removed: A reserve for
−Removed: uncollectable receivables is established when collection of amounts due is deemed improbable.
−Removed: Indicators of improbable collection
−Removed: include client bankruptcy, client litigation, client cash flow difficulties or ongoing service or billing disputes.
−Removed: generally extended on a short-term basis thus receivables do not bear interest.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company established
−Removed: an allowance for doubtful accounts of $291,372 and $133,288, respectively.
−Removed: consists primarily of gardening supplies and materials and is recorded at the lower of cost (first-in, first-out method) or market.
−Removed: The company periodically reviews the value of items in inventory and provides write-downs or write-offs of inventory based on
−Removed: its assessment of market conditions.
+Added: Use of Estimates, continued
+Added: Additionally, the full impact
+Added: of COVID-19 is unknown and cannot be reasonably estimated.
+Added: However, we have made appropriate accounting estimates based on the
+Added: facts and circumstances available as of the reporting date.
+Added: To the extent there are differences between these estimates and actual
+Added: results, our consolidated financial statements may be materially affected.
+Added: As we continue to monitor the
+Added: COVID-19 situation, the Company is considered an “essential”
+Added: supplier to the agricultural industry, suppling the nutrients
+Added: and nourishment required to feed their plants.
+Added: The Company has remained open during this difficult time.
+Added: We have plans and procedures
+Added: in place to ensure our customers and employees stay safe during this time of uncertainty.
+Added: As a result of COVID-19 we reduced some
+Added: hours of operations at the store level and some stores were closed on the weekends, primarily in the later part of the first quarter
+Added: There have been some minor delays in vendor shipments as their warehouses and supply chain were affected by staffing shortages.
+Added: The Company successfully implemented a will call and curb side pick-up process that is working well.
+Added: Other than what has been disclosed
+Added: above, we have not experienced adverse effects from COVID-19.
+Added: Segment Reporting
+Added: Management makes significant
+Added: operating decisions based upon the analysis of the entire Company and financial performance is evaluated on a company-wide basis.
+Added: Accordingly, the various products sold are aggregated into one reportable operating segment as under guidance in the Financial
+Added: Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC or codification”) Topic
+Added: 280 for segment reporting.
+Added: Revenue Recognition
+Added: The Company recognizes
+Added: revenue, net of estimated returns and sales tax, at the time the customer takes possession of merchandise or receives
+Added: services at which point, the performance obligation is satisfied.
+Added: Sales and other taxes collected concurrent with revenue
+Added: producing activities are excluded from revenue.
+Added: In the normal course of business, the Company does not accept product returns
+Added: unless the item is defective as manufactured.
+Added: The Company monitors provisions for estimated returns.
+Added: Payment for goods and
+Added: services sold by the Company is typically due upon satisfaction of the performance obligations.
+Added: Under certain circumstances,
+Added: the Company does provide goods and services to customers on a credit basis (see Accounts Receivable, Notes Receivable and
+Added: Concentration of Credit Risk below).
+Added: The Company accounts for shipping and handling activities as a fulfillment costs
+Added: rather than as a separate performance obligation.
+Added: When the Company receives payment from customers before the customer has
+Added: taken possession of the merchandise or the service has been performed, the amount received is recorded as customer deposit in
+Added: the accompanying consolidated balance sheets until the sale or service is complete.
+Added: Vendor Allowances
+Added: Vendor allowances primarily
+Added: consist of volume rebates that are earned as a result of attaining certain purchase levels.
+Added: These vendor allowances are accrued
+Added: as earned, with those allowances received as a result of attaining certain purchase levels accrued over the incentive period based
+Added: on estimates of purchases.
+Added: Volume rebates, when earned, are recorded as a reduction in
+Added: cost of sales or cost of inventory.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT
+Added: ACCOUNTING POLICIES, Continued
+Added: Cash Equivalents
+Added: The Company considers all highly
+Added: liquid investments purchased with original maturities of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
+Added: The Company’s cash
+Added: equivalents are carried at fair market value and consist primarily of money market funds.
+Added: Financial instruments that potentially
+Added: expose us to concentrations of risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable, which are generally
+Added: not collateralized.
+Added: Our policy is to place our cash and cash equivalents with high quality financial institutions, in order to
+Added: limit the amount of credit exposure.
+Added: Accounts at each institution are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC),
+Added: up to $250,000.
+Added: At December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company had approximately $174 million and $11 million, respectively, in excess
+Added: of the FDIC insurance limit.
+Added: Accounts Receivable, Notes
+Added: Receivable and Concentration of Credit Risk
+Added: Accounts receivable are stated at the amount the Company expects
+Added: to collect from balances outstanding at period-end, based on the Company’s assessment of the credit history with customers
+Added: having outstanding balances and current relationships with them.
+Added: A reserve for uncollectable receivables is established when collection
+Added: of amounts due is deemed improbable.
+Added: Indicators of improbable collection include client bankruptcy, client litigation, client cash
+Added: flow difficulties or ongoing service or billing disputes.
+Added: Credit is generally extended on a short-term basis thus receivables do
+Added: not bear interest.
+Added: Interest on past due balances are subject to an interest charge of 1.5% per month.
+Added: At December 31, 2020 and
+Added: 2019, the Company established an allowance for doubtful accounts of $192,193 and $291,372, respectively.
+Added: Notes receivable are stated
+Added: at the amount the Company expects to collect from balances outstanding at period-end, based on the Company’s assessment of
+Added: the credit history with customers having outstanding balances and current relationships with them.
+Added: A reserve for uncollectable
+Added: receivables is established when collection of amounts due is deemed improbable.
+Added: Indicators of improbable collection include client
+Added: bankruptcy, client litigation, client cash flow difficulties or ongoing service or billing disputes.
+Added: note is placed on non-accrual status when management determines, after considering economic and business conditions and collection
+Added: efforts, that the note is impaired or collection of interest is doubtful.
+Added: The accrual of interest on the instrument ceases when
+Added: there is concern that principal or interest due according to the note agreement will not be collected.
+Added: Any payment received on
+Added: such non-accrual notes are recorded as interest income when the payment is received.
+Added: The note is reclassified as accrual-basis
+Added: once interest and principal payments become current.
+Added: The Company periodically reviews the value of the underlying collateral for
+Added: the note receivable and evaluates whether the value of the collateral continues to provide adequate security for the note.
+Added: the value of the underlying collateral become less than the outstanding principal and interest, the Company will determine whether
+Added: an allowance is necessary.
+Added: Any uncollectible interest previously accrued is also charged off.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020,
+Added: the Company believes the value of the underlying collateral for each of the notes to be sufficient and in excess of the respective
+Added: outstanding principal and accrued interest, net of recognized allowance.
+Added: Notes receivable, generally
+Added: have terms of 12-18 months and bear interest from 9-12% per annum.
+Added: Generally, product sales that are the basis for the note receivable
+Added: are collateral on the note receivable until the note is paid off.
+Added: At December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company established an allowance
+Added: for doubtful accounts of $292,050 and $0, respectively.
+Added: We are exposed to credit
+Added: risk in the normal course of business, primarily related to accounts and notes receivable.
+Added: We are affected by general
+Added: economic conditions in the United States.
+Added: To limit credit risk, management periodically reviews and evaluates the financial
+Added: condition of its customers and maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, we do not
+Added: believe that we have significant credit risk.
+Added: Inventory consists primarily
+Added: of gardening supplies and materials and is recorded at the lower of cost (weighted average cost method) or net realizable value.
+Added: The Company periodically reviews the value of items in inventory and provides write-downs or write-offs of inventory based on its
+Added: assessment of market conditions.
Write-downs and write-offs are charged to cost of goods sold.
−Removed: and Equipment
−Removed: and equipment are carried at cost.
−Removed: Leasehold Improvements are amortized using the straight-line method over the original term
−Removed: of the lease or the useful life of the improvement, whichever is shorter.
−Removed: Renewals and betterment that materially extend the life
−Removed: of the asset are capitalized.
+Added: Property and Equipment
+Added: Property and equipment are carried
+Added: Leasehold improvements are amortized using the straight-line method over the original term of the lease or the useful
+Added: life of the improvement, whichever is shorter.
+Added: Renewals and betterment that materially extend the life of the asset are capitalized.
Expenditures for maintenance and repairs are charged against operations.
−Removed: Depreciation of property
−Removed: and equipment is provided on the straight-line method for financial reporting purposes at rates based on the following estimated
−Removed: useful lives:
+Added: Depreciation of property and equipment is provided on
+Added: the straight-line method for financial reporting purposes at rates based on the following estimated useful lives:
Estimated Lives
3 unchanged sentences
10 years not to exceed lease term
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES,
+Added: Software and Website Development Costs
+Added: Company accounts for the costs of computer software obtained or developed for internal use in accordance with FASB ASC 350, Intangibles —
+Added: Goodwill and Other .
+Added: Computer software development costs and website development costs are expensed as incurred, except for
+Added: internal use software or website development costs that qualify for capitalization as described below, and include certain employee
+Added: related expenses, including salaries, bonuses, benefits and stock-based compensation expenses;
+Added: costs of computer hardware and software;
+Added: and costs incurred in developing features and functionality.
+Added: These capitalized costs are included in intangible assets on the consolidated
+Added: balance sheets.
+Added: ● The Company expenses
+Added: costs incurred in the preliminary project and post-implementation stages of software development and capitalizes costs incurred
+Added: in the application development stage and costs associated with significant enhancements to existing internal use software applications.
+Added: ● Software costs
+Added: are amortized using the straight-line method over an estimated useful life of three years commencing when the software
+Added: project is ready for its intended use.
+Added: ● Costs incurred related to less significant
+Added: modifications and enhancements as well as maintenance are expensed as incurred.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020 and
+Added: 2019, capitalized software cost were $1,162,603 and $138,280, respectively, before accumulated amortization of $221,885 and $5,000,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: Intangible Assets Acquired
+Added: in Business Combinations
+Added: Company values assets acquired and liabilities assumed on each acquisition accounted for as a business combination, and allocates
+Added: the purchase price to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on its best estimate of fair value.
+Added: Acquired intangible assets include, trade names, customer relationships, non-compete agreements.
+Added: determines the appropriate useful life of intangible assets by performing an analysis of cash flows based on historical experience
+Added: of the acquired businesses.
+Added: Intangible assets are amortized over their estimated useful lives based on the pattern in which the
+Added: economic benefits associated with the asset are expected to be consumed, which to date has approximated the straight-line method
+Added: of amortization.
+Added: The estimated useful lives for trade names, customer relationships, non-compete agreements are
+Added: generally, five to six years.
+Added: Goodwill represents the excess
+Added: of purchase price over the fair value of net assets.
+Added: Goodwill is not amortized but is reviewed for potential impairment on an annual
+Added: basis, or if events or circumstances indicate a potential impairment, at the reporting unit level.
+Added: The Company’s review for
+Added: impairment includes an assessment of qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of
+Added: a reporting unit is less than its carrying value, including goodwill.
+Added: If it is determined that it is more likely than not that
+Added: the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value, including goodwill, the first step of the two-step quantitative
+Added: goodwill impairment test is performed, which compares the fair value of the reporting unit with its carrying amounts, including
+Added: If the fair value of the reporting unit exceeds its carrying amount, goodwill of the reporting unit is considered not
+Added: However, if the carrying amount of the reporting unit exceeds its fair value, additional procedures must be performed.
+Added: That additional procedure compares the implied fair value of the reporting unit’s goodwill with the carrying amount of that
+Added: An impairment loss is recorded to the extent that the carrying amount of goodwill exceeds its implied fair value.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Continued)
−Removed: assess whether an arrangement is a lease at inception.
−Removed: Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the
−Removed: balance sheet.
−Removed: We have elected the practical expedient to not separate lease and non-lease components for all assets.
−Removed: lease assets and operating lease liabilities are calculated based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over
−Removed: the lease term at the lease start date.
−Removed: As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use our incremental borrowing
−Removed: rate based on the information available at the lease start date in determining the present value of future payments.
−Removed: The operating
−Removed: lease asset is increased by any lease payments made at or before the lease start date and reduced by lease incentives and initial
−Removed: direct costs incurred.
−Removed: The lease term includes options to renew or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will
−Removed: exercise that option.
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES,
+Added: We account for leases in accordance
+Added: with the FASB ASC 842, Leases.
+Added: We assess whether an arrangement is a lease at inception.
+Added: Leases with an initial term of 12 months
+Added: or less are not recorded on the balance sheet.
+Added: We have elected the practical expedient to not separate lease and non-lease components
+Added: for all assets.
+Added: Operating lease assets and operating lease liabilities are calculated based on the present value of the future
+Added: minimum lease payments over the lease term at the lease start date.
+Added: As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use
+Added: our incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the lease start date in determining the present value of future
+Added: The operating lease asset is increased by any lease payments made at or before the lease start date and reduced by lease
+Added: incentives and initial direct costs incurred.
+Added: The lease term includes options to renew or terminate the lease when it is reasonably
+Added: certain that we will exercise that option.
The exercise of lease renewal options is at our sole discretion.
−Removed: The depreciable life of lease assets and
−Removed: leasehold improvements are limited by the lease term.
−Removed: Lease expense for operating leases is recognized on a straight-line basis
−Removed: over the lease term.
−Removed: Value of Financial Instruments
−Removed: fair value of certain of our financial instruments including cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, prepaid assets, employee
−Removed: advances, accounts payable, customer deposits, payroll and payroll tax liabilities, sales tax payable and notes payable approximate
−Removed: their carrying amounts because of the short-term maturity of these instruments.
−Removed: Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with FASB ASC 740, Income Taxes, which requires the recognition of deferred income
−Removed: taxes for differences between the basis of assets and liabilities for financial statement and income tax purposes.
−Removed: The differences
−Removed: relate principally to depreciation of property and equipment, reserve for obsolete inventory and bad debt.
−Removed: Deferred tax assets
−Removed: and liabilities represent the future tax consequence for those differences, which will either be deductible or taxable when the
−Removed: assets and liabilities are recovered or settled.
−Removed: Deferred taxes are also recognized for operating losses that are available to
−Removed: offset future taxable income.
−Removed: Valuation allowances are established to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be
+Added: The depreciable life
+Added: of lease assets and leasehold improvements are limited by the lease term.
+Added: Lease expense for operating leases is recognized on a
+Added: straight-line basis over the lease term.
+Added: Fair value is defined as the
+Added: exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous
+Added: market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date.
+Added: Valuation techniques
+Added: used to measure fair value must maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.
+Added: Financial assets
+Added: and liabilities carried at fair value are to be classified and disclosed in one of the following three levels of the fair value
+Added: hierarchy, of which the first two are considered observable and the last is considered unobservable:
+Added: ● Level 1—Quoted
+Added: prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
+Added: ● Level 2—Observable
+Added: inputs (other than Level 1 quoted prices), such as quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities, quoted
+Added: prices in markets that are not active for identical or similar assets or liabilities, or other inputs that are observable or can
+Added: be corroborated by observable market data.
+Added: ● Level 3—Unobservable
+Added: inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to determining the fair value of the assets
+Added: or liabilities, including pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies and similar techniques.
+Added: the extent that the valuation is based on models or inputs that are less observable or unobservable in the market, the determination
+Added: of fair value requires more judgment.
+Added: Accordingly, the degree of judgment exercised by the Company in determining fair value is
+Added: greatest for instruments categorized in Level 3.
+Added: A financial instrument’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based
+Added: on the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
+Added: The carrying amounts of cash
+Added: and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and all other current liabilities approximate fair values due to their
+Added: short-term nature.
+Added: The fair value of notes receivable approximates the outstanding balance and are reviewed for impairment at least
+Added: The fair value of impaired notes receivable are determined based on estimated future payments discounted back to present
+Added: value using the notes effective interest rate.
+Added: December 31, 2020
+Added: December 31, 2019
+Added: Cash equivalents
+Added: $ 163,418,055
+Added: Notes receivable
+Added: Notes receivable impaired
+Added: Accounts receivable
+Added: For the Level 3 assets measured
+Added: at fair value on a non-recurring base at December 31, 2020, the significant unobservable inputs include the notes receivable effective
+Added: interest rate of 10%.
+Added: The Company accounts for income
+Added: taxes in accordance with FASB ASC 740, Income Taxes, which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for
+Added: future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities
+Added: and their respective tax bases and tax credit carry forwards.
+Added: Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax
+Added: rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled.
+Added: The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in operations in the period that includes
+Added: the enactment date.
+Added: In 2019 and as of September 30, 2020, a valuation allowance was provided for the amount of deferred tax assets
+Added: that would otherwise be recorded for income tax benefits primarily relating to operating loss carryforwards as realization could
+Added: not be determined to be more likely than not.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES,
The Company adopted the provisions
−Removed: of FASB ASC 740-10-25, which prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the recognition and measurement
−Removed: of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in income tax returns.
−Removed: FASB ASC 740-10-25 also provides guidance on de-recognition
−Removed: of income tax assets and liabilities, classification of current and deferred income tax assets and liabilities, and accounting
−Removed: for interest and penalties associated with tax positions.
+Added: of FASB ASC 740-10-25, which prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the recognition and measurement of
+Added: tax positions taken or expected to be taken in income tax returns.
+Added: FASB ASC 740-10-25 also provides guidance on recognition of
+Added: income tax assets and liabilities, classification of current and deferred income tax assets and liabilities, and accounting for
+Added: interest and penalties associated with tax positions.
The Company’s tax returns are subject to tax examinations by U.S.
−Removed: federal and state authorities until respective statute of limitation.
−Removed: Currently, the 2018, 2017, and 2016 tax years are open and
−Removed: subject to examination by taxing authorities.
−Removed: However, the Company is not currently under audit nor has the Company been contacted
−Removed: by any of the taxing authorities.
−Removed: The Company does not have any accruals for uncertain tax positions as of December 31, 2019.
−Removed: It is not anticipated that unrecognized tax benefits would significantly increase or decrease within 12 months of the reporting
−Removed: Concentration
−Removed: instruments that potentially expose us to concentrations of risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable,
−Removed: which are generally not collateralized.
−Removed: Our policy is to place our cash and cash equivalents with high quality financial institutions,
−Removed: in order to limit the amount of credit exposure.
−Removed: Accounts at each institution are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
−Removed: (FDIC), up to $250,000.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company had $11,229,444 and $12,962,958, respectively, in excess of
−Removed: the FDIC insurance limit.
−Removed: The Company generally does not require collateral from its customers, but its credit extension and collection
−Removed: policies include analyzing the financial condition of potential customers, establishing credit limits, monitoring payments, and
−Removed: aggressively pursuing delinquent accounts.
−Removed: The Company maintains allowance for potential credit losses.
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Continued)
−Removed: Company expenses advertising and promotional costs when incurred.
−Removed: Advertising and promotional expenses for the years ended December
−Removed: 31, 2019 and 2018 amounted to $736,656 and $269,550, respectively.
−Removed: represents the excess of purchase price over the fair value of net assets.
−Removed: The Company accounts for goodwill in accordance with
−Removed: the provisions of FASB Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2014-02, Intangibles –
−Removed: Goodwill and Other (Topic 350) Accounting
−Removed: for Goodwill.
−Removed: In accordance with FASB ASC Topic 350 for Intangibles –
−Removed: Goodwill and Other, goodwill is not amortized but
−Removed: is reviewed for potential impairment on an annual basis, or if events or circumstances indicate a potential impairment, at the
−Removed: reporting unit level.
−Removed: The Company’s review for impairment includes an assessment of qualitative factors to determine whether
−Removed: it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its´
−Removed: carrying value, including goodwill.
−Removed: If it is determined that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its´
−Removed: carrying value,
−Removed: including goodwill, the first step of the two-step quantitative goodwill impairment test is performed, which compares the fair
−Removed: value of the reporting unit with its´
−Removed: carrying amounts, including goodwill.
−Removed: If the fair value of the reporting unit exceeds
−Removed: carrying amount, goodwill of the reporting unit is considered not impaired.
−Removed: However, if the carrying amount of the
−Removed: reporting unit exceeds its fair value, additional procedures must be performed.
−Removed: That additional procedure compares the implied
−Removed: fair value of the reporting unit’s goodwill with the carrying amount of that goodwill.
−Removed: An impairment loss is recorded to
−Removed: the extent that the carrying amount of goodwill exceeds its implied fair value.
−Removed: (Loss) Per Share
−Removed: Company computes net earnings (loss) per share under Accounting Standards Codification subtopic 260-10, “Earnings Per Share”
−Removed: (“ASC 260-10”).
−Removed: Basic earnings or loss per share (“EPS”) is computed by dividing net income (loss) available
−Removed: to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period.
−Removed: Diluted EPS is computed by
−Removed: dividing net income (loss) by the weighted-average of all potentially dilutive shares of common stock that were outstanding during
−Removed: the periods presented.
−Removed: treasury stock method is used in calculating diluted EPS for potentially dilutive stock options and share purchase warrants, which
−Removed: assumes that any proceeds received from the exercise of in-the-money stock options and share purchase warrants, would be used
−Removed: to purchase common shares at the average market price for the period.
−Removed: Based Compensation
−Removed: Company records stock-based compensation in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation (“ASC
−Removed: The Company estimates the fair value of stock options using the Black-Scholes option pricing model.
−Removed: value of stock options granted is recognized as an expense over the requisite service period.
−Removed: Stock-based compensation expense
−Removed: for all share-based payment awards are recognized using the straight-line single-option method.
−Removed: Black-Scholes option pricing model requires subjective assumptions, including future stock price volatility and expected time
−Removed: to exercise, which greatly affect the calculated values.
−Removed: The expected term of options granted is derived from historical data
−Removed: on employee exercises and post-vesting employment termination behavior.
−Removed: The risk-free rate selected to value any particular grant
−Removed: is based on the U.S.
−Removed: Treasury rate that corresponds to the expected life of the grant effective as of the date of the grant.
−Removed: expected volatility is based on the historical volatility of the Company’s stock price.
−Removed: These factors could change in the
−Removed: future, affecting the determination of stock-based compensation expense in future periods.
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: and state authorities until their respective statute of limitation.
+Added: Currently, the 2019, 2018 and 2017 tax years are open and subject
+Added: to examination by taxing authorities.
+Added: However, the Company is not currently under audit nor has the Company been contacted by any
+Added: of the taxing authorities.
+Added: The Company does not have any accrual for uncertain tax positions as of December 31, 2020.
+Added: The Company expenses advertising
+Added: and promotional costs when incurred.
+Added: Advertising and promotional expenses for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 amounted
+Added: to $996,420 and $736,656, respectively.
+Added: Earnings Per Share
+Added: The Company computes net earnings
+Added: per share under Accounting Standards Codification subtopic 260-10, Earnings Per Share (“ASC 260-10”).
+Added: earnings or loss per share (“EPS”) is computed by dividing net income (loss) available to common stockholders by the
+Added: weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period.
+Added: Diluted EPS is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average
+Added: of all potentially dilutive shares of common stock that were outstanding during the periods presented.
+Added: The treasury stock method is
+Added: used in calculating diluted EPS for potentially dilutive stock options, restricted stock and share purchase warrants, which assumes
+Added: that any proceeds received from the exercise of in-the-money stock options, restricted stock and share purchase warrants, would
+Added: be used to purchase common shares at the average market price for the period.
+Added: Stock Based Compensation
+Added: The Company records stock-based
+Added: compensation in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation (“ASC 718”).
+Added: estimates the fair value of stock options and warrants using the Black-Scholes option pricing model.
+Added: The fair value of stock
+Added: options and warrants granted is recognized as an expense over the requisite service period.
+Added: Stock-based compensation expense for
+Added: all share-based payment awards is recognized using the straight-line single-option method.
+Added: The Black-Scholes option pricing
+Added: model requires subjective assumptions, including future stock price volatility and expected time to exercise, which greatly affect
+Added: the calculated values.
+Added: The expected term of options granted is derived from historical data on employee exercises and post-vesting
+Added: employment termination behavior.
+Added: The risk-free rate selected to value any particular grant is based on the U.S.
+Added: Treasury rate that
+Added: corresponds to the expected life of the grant effective as of the date of the grant.
+Added: The expected volatility is based on the historical
+Added: volatility of the Company’s stock price.
+Added: These factors could change in the future, affecting the determination of stock-based
+Added: compensation expense in future periods.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
−Removed: time to time, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) or other standard setting bodies issue new accounting
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
+Added: From time to time, the Financial
+Added: Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) or other standard setting bodies issue new accounting pronouncements.
+Added: the FASB Accounting Standards Codification are communicated through issuance of an Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”).
+Added: We have implemented all new accounting pronouncements that are in effect and that may impact our financial statements.
+Added: evaluated recently issued accounting pronouncements and determined that there is no material impact on our financial position or
+Added: results of operations.
+Added: As an emerging growth company,
+Added: the Company is permitted to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply
+Added: to private companies.
+Added: The Company has chosen to take advantage of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised
+Added: accounting standards.
+Added: Recently Adopted Accounting
Pronouncements
−Removed: Updates to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification are communicated through issuance of an Accounting Standards
−Removed: Update (“ASU”).
−Removed: We have implemented all new accounting pronouncements that are in effect and that may impact our financial
−Removed: We have evaluated recently issued accounting pronouncements and determined that there is no material impact on our
−Removed: financial position or results of operations.
−Removed: Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: the first quarter of 2019, the Company adopted the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-02,
−Removed: Leases (ASC 842), which introduces the balance sheet recognition of lease assets and lease liabilities by lessees for those
−Removed: leases classified as operating leases under previous guidance.
−Removed: The Company has adopted the new lease standard using the new transition
−Removed: option issued under the amendments in ASU 2018-11, Leases , which allowed the Company to continue to apply the legacy guidance
−Removed: in Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 840, Leases , in the comparative periods presented in the year of adoption.
−Removed: Company elected the package of practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance within the new standard, which among
−Removed: other things, allowed the Company to carry forward the historical lease classification.
−Removed: The Company made an accounting policy
−Removed: election to keep leases with an initial term of 12 months or less off the balance sheet.
−Removed: The Company will recognize those lease
−Removed: payments on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
−Removed: The impact of the adoption was an increase to the Company’s operating
−Removed: lease assets and liabilities on January 1, 2019 of $3.2 million.
−Removed: January 1, 2019, the Company also adopted ASU 2018-07, “Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting.”
−Removed: ASU 2018-07 more closely aligns the accounting for employee and nonemployee share-based payments.
−Removed: The amendment is effective
−Removed: commencing in 2019 with early adoption permitted.
−Removed: The adoption of this new guidance did not have a material impact on our Financial
−Removed: August 2018, the SEC adopted amendments to certain disclosure requirements in Securities Act Release No.
−Removed: 33-10532, Disclosure
−Removed: Update and Simplification.
−Removed: These amendments eliminate, modify, or integrate into other SEC requirements certain disclosure rules.
−Removed: Among the amendments is the requirement to present an analysis of changes in stockholders’
−Removed: equity in the interim financial
−Removed: statements included in Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
−Removed: The analysis, which can be presented as a footnote or separate statement,
−Removed: is required for the current and comparative quarter and year-to-date interim periods.
−Removed: The amendments are effective for all filings
−Removed: made on or after November 5, 2018.
−Removed: The Company adopted these amendments in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
−Removed: September 30, 2019.
−Removed: January 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-01, Financial Instruments-Overall:
−Removed: Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and
−Removed: Financial Liabilities , which requires that (i) all equity investments, other than equity-method investments, in unconsolidated
−Removed: entities generally be measured at fair value through earnings and (ii) when the fair value option has been elected for financial
−Removed: liabilities, changes in fair value due to instrument-specific credit risk will be recognized separately in other comprehensive
−Removed: Additionally, the ASU 2016-01 changes the disclosure requirements for financial instruments.
−Removed: The new standard was effective
−Removed: for the Company starting in the first quarter of fiscal 2019.
−Removed: The adoption of this standard on January 1, 2019 did not have any
−Removed: effect on the consolidated financial statements and footnote disclosure.
−Removed: August 28, 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-12, “Derivatives and Hedging,”
−Removed: which better aligns risk management
−Removed: activities and financial reporting for hedging relationships through changes to both the designation and measurement guidance
−Removed: for qualifying hedging relationships and the presentation of hedge results.
−Removed: The amendments expand and refine hedge accounting
−Removed: for both nonfinancial and financial risk components and in some situations better align the recognition and presentation of the
−Removed: effects of the hedging instrument and the hedged item in the financial statements.
−Removed: The new standard was effective for the Company
−Removed: as of January 1, 2019.
−Removed: The adoption of this new standard on January 1, 2019 did not have any impact on our consolidated financial
−Removed: statements and footnote disclosures.
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: As of January 1, 2019, the Company
+Added: adopted the FASB ASU 2016-02, Leases (ASC 842), which introduces the balance sheet recognition of lease assets and
+Added: lease liabilities by lessees for those leases classified as operating leases under previous guidance.
+Added: The Company has adopted the
+Added: new lease standard using the new transition option issued under the amendments in ASU 2018-11, Leases , which allowed the
+Added: Company to continue to apply the legacy guidance in ASC 840, Leases , in the comparative periods presented in the year of
+Added: The Company elected the package of practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance within the new standard,
+Added: which among other things, allowed the Company to carry forward the historical lease classification.
+Added: The Company made an accounting
+Added: policy election to keep leases with an initial term of 12 months or less off the balance sheet.
+Added: The Company will recognize those
+Added: lease payments on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
+Added: The impact of the adoption was an increase to the Company’s
+Added: operating lease assets and liabilities on January 1, 2019 of $3.2 million.
+Added: On January 1, 2019, the Company
+Added: also adopted ASU 2018-07, “Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting.”
+Added: ASU 2018-07 more closely aligns
+Added: the accounting for employee and nonemployee share-based payments.
+Added: The amendment is effective commencing in 2019 with early
+Added: adoption permitted.
+Added: The adoption of this new guidance did not have a material impact on our Financial Statements.
+Added: In August 2018, the SEC adopted
+Added: amendments to certain disclosure requirements in Securities Act Release No.
+Added: 33-10532, Disclosure Update and Simplification.
+Added: amendments eliminate, modify, or integrate into other SEC requirements certain disclosure rules.
+Added: Among the amendments is the requirement
+Added: to present an analysis of changes in stockholders’
+Added: equity in the interim financial statements included in Quarterly Reports
+Added: on Form 10-Q.
+Added: The analysis, which can be presented as a footnote or separate statement, is required for the current and comparative
+Added: quarter and year-to-date interim periods.
+Added: The amendments are effective for all filings made on or after November 5, 2018.
+Added: adopted these amendments in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2019.
+Added: In August 2018, the FASB issued
+Added: ASU 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820):
+Added: Disclosure Framework - Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value
+Added: Measurement .
+Added: The new guidance modifies the disclosure requirements on fair value measurements in Topic 820.
+Added: The amendments
+Added: in ASU 2018-13 are effective for all entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after
+Added: December 15, 2019.
+Added: The adoption of this new guidance, effective January 1, 2020, did not have a material impact on our Financial
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS, Continued
−Removed: Issued Accounting Pronouncements –
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS, Continued
+Added: Recently Issued Accounting
+Added: Pronouncements –
Pending Adoption
−Removed: June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses:
−Removed: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments ,
−Removed: which changes the impairment model for most financial assets and certain other instruments.
−Removed: For trade receivables and other instruments,
−Removed: entities will be required to use a new forward-looking expected loss model that generally will result in the earlier recognition
−Removed: of allowances for losses.
−Removed: For available-for-sale debt securities with unrealized losses, the losses will be recognized as allowances
−Removed: rather than as reductions in the amortized cost of the securities.
−Removed: This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning
−Removed: after December 15, 2019, including interim periods within those years, with early adoption permitted only as of annual reporting
−Removed: periods beginning after December 15, 2018.
−Removed: The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the adoption of this guidance on
−Removed: the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820):
−Removed: Disclosure Framework - Changes to the Disclosure
−Removed: Requirements for Fair Value Measurement .
−Removed: The new guidance modifies the disclosure requirements on fair value measurements
−Removed: in Topic 820.
−Removed: The amendments in ASU 2018-13 are effective for all entities for fiscal years, and interim periods within those
−Removed: fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019.
−Removed: The Company does not anticipate that the adoption of ASU 2018-13 will have a
−Removed: material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements or related financial statement disclosures.
−Removed: AND EQUIPMENT
−Removed: and equipment at December 31, 2019 and 2018 consists of the following:
+Added: In October 2020, the Financial
+Added: Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued new guidance that updates various codification topics by clarifying or improving
+Added: disclosure requirements.
+Added: The standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2020.
+Added: The Company does not expect
+Added: the adoption of this new guidance to have a material impact on the Company’s financial conditions, results or operations,
+Added: cash flows or disclosures.
+Added: In June 2016, the FASB issued
+Added: 2016-13, “Financial Instruments —
+Added: Credit Losses (Topic 326),”
+Added: changing the impairment model for most
+Added: financial instruments by requiring companies to recognize an allowance for expected losses, rather than incurred losses as required
+Added: currently by the other-than-temporary impairment model.
+Added: The ASU will apply to most financial assets measured at amortized cost
+Added: and certain other instruments, including trade and other receivables, loans, available-for-sale and held-to-maturity debt securities,
+Added: net investments in leases, and off-balance-sheet credit exposures.
+Added: In November 2019, the FASB issued ASU No.
+Added: 2019-10, changing
+Added: effective dates for the new standards to give implementation relief to certain types of entities.
+Added: The Company is required to adopt
+Added: the new standards no later than January 1, 2023 according to ASU 2019-10, with early adoption allowed.
+Added: We are currently evaluating
+Added: the impact of adopting this new accounting guidance on our consolidated financial statements.
+Added: In January 2017, the FASB issued
+Added: ASU 2017-04, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other (Topic 350):
+Added: Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment.
+Added: The guidance in ASU 2017-04
+Added: eliminates the requirement to determine the fair value of individual assets and liabilities of a reporting unit to measure goodwill
+Added: Under the amendments in the new ASU, goodwill impairment testing will be performed by comparing the fair value of the
+Added: reporting unit with its carrying amount and recognizing an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds
+Added: the reporting unit’s fair value.
+Added: ASU 2017-04 is effective for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years
+Added: beginning after December 15, 2022 and should be applied on a prospective basis.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the impact
+Added: of adopting this guidance on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: In December 2019, the FASB issued
+Added: ASU 2019-02, Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes, to simplify the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions
+Added: to the general principles and also simplification of areas such as franchise taxes, step-up in tax basis goodwill, separate entity
+Added: financial statements and interim recognition of enactment of tax laws or rate changes.
+Added: The standard will be effective for annual
+Added: reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2020, including interim reporting periods within those periods.
+Added: We are currently
+Added: evaluating the impact of adopting this new accounting guidance on our condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: In August 2020, the FASB issued
+Added: ASU 2020-06, Debt with Conversion and Other Options:
+Added: Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s
+Added: Own Equity, which simplifies the accounting for certain instruments with characteristics of liabilities and equity, including convertible
+Added: instruments and contracts on an entity’s own equity.
+Added: ASU 2020-06 removes from U.S.
+Added: GAAP the separation models for (1) convertible
+Added: debt with a cash conversion feature and (2) convertible instruments with a beneficial conversion feature.
+Added: ASU 2020-06 requires
+Added: entities to provide expanded disclosures about “the terms and features of convertible instruments,”
+Added: how the instruments
+Added: have been reported in the entity’s financial statements, and “information about events, conditions, and circumstances
+Added: that can affect how to assess the amount or timing of an entity’s future cash flows related to those instruments.”
+Added: GROWGENERATION
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS, Continued
+Added: ASU 2020-06 is effective for
+Added: public business entities that are not smaller reporting companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021 and interim
+Added: periods within those fiscal years.
+Added: For all other entities, ASU 2020-06 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15,
+Added: 2023 and interim periods within those fiscal years.
+Added: We are currently evaluating the impact of adopting this new accounting guidance
+Added: on our condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: REVENUE RECOGNITION
+Added: Disaggregation of Revenues
+Added: The following table disaggregates
+Added: revenue by source:
+Added: Sales at company owned stores
+Added: $ 182,736,434
+Added: E-commerce sales
+Added: Total Revenues
+Added: $ 193,365,479
+Added: Contract Balances
+Added: Depending on the timing of when
+Added: a customer takes possession of product and when a customer makes payments for such product, the Company recognizes a customer trade
+Added: receivable (asset) or a customer deposit (liability).
+Added: The difference between the opening and closing balances of the Company’s
+Added: customer trade receivables and the customer deposit liability results from timing differences between the Company’s performance
+Added: and the customer’s payment and due to the acquisitions for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
+Added: The opening and closing balances
+Added: of the Company’s customer trade receivables and customer deposit liability are as follows:
+Added: Customer Deposit Liability
+Added: Opening balance, 1/1/2020
+Added: Closing balance, 12/31/2020
+Added: Increase (decrease)
+Added: Opening balance, 1/1/2019
+Added: Closing balance, 12/31/2019
+Added: Increase (decrease)
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: REVENUE RECOGNITION,
+Added: The Company also has customer
+Added: trade receivables under longer term financing arrangements at interest rates ranging from 9% to 12% with repayment terms ranging
+Added: for 12 to 18 months.
+Added: Long term trade receivables at December 31, 2020 and 2019 are as follows:
+Added: December 31, 2020
+Added: December 31, 2019
+Added: Note receivable
+Added: Allowance for losses
+Added: Notes receivable, net
+Added: The following table summarizes
+Added: changes in notes receivable balances that have been deemed impaired.
+Added: Note receivable
+Added: Allowance for loses
+Added: Notes receivable, net
+Added: PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
+Added: Property and equipment at December
+Added: 31, 2020 and 2019 consists of the following:
Leasehold improvements
2 unchanged sentences
Property and equipment, net
−Removed: expense was $1,046,328 and $350,415 for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
−Removed: On December 22, 2017, the U.S.
−Removed: President signed into law H.R.1, formerly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Legislation”).
−Removed: The Tax Legislation
−Removed: significantly revised the U.S.
−Removed: tax code by, (i) lowering the U.S federal statutory income tax rate from 35% to 21%,
−Removed: (ii) implementing a territorial tax system, (iii) imposing a one-time transition tax on deemed repatriated earnings of foreign
−Removed: subsidiaries (“Transition Tax”), (iv) requiring a current inclusion of global intangible low taxed income (“GILTI”)
−Removed: of certain earnings of controlled foreign corporations in U.S.
−Removed: federal taxable income, (v) creating the base erosion anti-abuse
−Removed: tax (“BEAT”) regime, (vi) implementing bonus depreciation that will allow for full expensing of qualified property,
−Removed: and (vii) limiting deductibility of interest and executive compensation expense, among other changes.
−Removed: The Company has computed
−Removed: its 2018 current tax benefit using the U.S.
−Removed: federal statutory rates of 21% while it has computed its deferred tax expense
−Removed: using the new statutory rate effective on January 1, 2018 of 21%.
−Removed: Other provisions of the new legislation
−Removed: that were not applicable to the Company until the year ended December 31, 2018 include, but are not limited to, limiting deductibility
−Removed: of interest and executive compensation expense.
−Removed: These additional items have been considered in our income tax provision for the
−Removed: year ended December 31, 2019 and the impact was not material to the overall financial statements.
−Removed: The provision (benefit) for income
−Removed: taxes for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 consisted of the following:
+Added: Depreciation expense was $1,646,907
+Added: and $1,046,328 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS
+Added: The changes in goodwill
+Added: are as follows:
+Added: Balance, beginning of period
+Added: Goodwill additions
+Added: Balance, end of period
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS, Continued
+Added: Intangible assets on the Company’s consolidated
+Added: balance sheets consist of the following:
+Added: December 31, 2020
+Added: December 31, 2019
+Added: Patents, trademarks
+Added: Customer relationships
+Added: Capitalized software
+Added: Amortization expense for the
+Added: years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 was $789,058 and $5,000, respectively.
+Added: Future amortization expense is as follows:
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: The provision (benefit) for
+Added: income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 consisted of the following:
Income Tax Expense (benefit)
1 unchanged sentence
Deferred tax (benefit)
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: TAXES, Continued
−Removed: summary of deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2019 and 2018 is as follows:
+Added: Valuation allowance
+Added: A summary of deferred tax assets
+Added: and liabilities as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 is as follows:
Deferred tax assets:
2 unchanged sentences
Stock based compensation
−Removed: Amortization of debt discount
−Removed: Accruals, reserves and other
+Added: Inventory reserves
+Added: Warranty reserves
+Added: Accruals and other
Deferred tax liabilities:
−Removed: Deferred right to use lease
+Added: Deferred right to use lease assets
Accumulated depreciation and amortization
−Removed: Gross deferred tax asset
+Added: $ (2,171,391 )
+Added: Gross deferred tax asset (liability)
Valuation Allowance
−Removed: asset (liability), net
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, the Company
−Removed: had approximately $4.7 million of operating loss carryforwards, which results in a Federal and State deferred tax asset of approximately
−Removed: $1.03 million, expiring in 2037 through 2038.
+Added: Deferred tax asset (liability), net
We recorded a valuation allowance
−Removed: against all of our deferred tax assets as of both December 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018.
−Removed: We intend to continue maintaining a
−Removed: full valuation allowance on our deferred tax assets until there is sufficient evidence to support the reversal of all or some portion
−Removed: of these allowances.
−Removed: However, given our current earnings and anticipated future earnings, we believe that there is a reasonable
−Removed: possibility that within the next 12 months, sufficient positive evidence may become available to allow us to reach a conclusion
−Removed: that a significant portion of the valuation allowance will no longer be needed.
−Removed: Release of the valuation allowance would result
−Removed: in the recognition of certain deferred tax assets and a decrease to income tax expense for the period the release is recorded.
−Removed: However, the exact timing and amount of the valuation allowance release are subject to change on the basis of the level of profitability
−Removed: that we are able to actually achieve
−Removed: The differences between the U.S.
−Removed: Federal statutory
−Removed: income tax rate and the Company’s effective tax rate were as follows for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:
+Added: against all of our deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2019.
+Added: Given our current earnings and anticipated future earnings, we
+Added: believe that there was sufficient positive evidence available that allowed us to reach the conclusion that the valuation allowance
+Added: will no longer be needed as of December 31, 2020.
+Added: Release of the valuation allowance in 2020 resulted in the recognition of certain
+Added: deferred tax assets and a decrease to income tax expense for the period the release is recorded.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: INCOME TAXES, Continued
+Added: The differences between the
+Added: Federal statutory income tax rate and the Company’s effective tax rate were as follows for the years ended December 31,
+Added: 2020 and 2019:
Years Ended December 31,
1 unchanged sentence
State and local income taxes (net of federal tax benefit)
+Added: Non-deductible compensation
+Added: Incentive stock options
+Added: Basis adjustments
Valuation allowance
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
+Added: LONG-TERM DEBT
Long term debt is as follows:
−Removed: Hitachi Capital, interest at 8.0% per annum, payable in monthly installments of $631.13 beginning September 2015 through August 2019, secured by delivery equipment with a book value of $24,910
Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, interest at 3.5% per annum, payable in monthly installments of $518.96 beginning April 2016 through March 2021, secured by warehouse equipment with a book value of $25,437
−Removed: Notes payable issued in connection with seller financing of assets acquired, interest at 1%, payable in 24 installments of $24,996, due February 2020
−Removed: Notes payable issued in connection with seller financing of assets acquired, interest at 1%, payable in 12 installments of $6,003, due September 2019
+Added: Notes payable issued in connection with seller financing of assets acquired, interest at 1%, payable in 24 installments of $24,996, due and paid in full in February 2020
Notes payable issued in connection with seller financing of assets acquired, interest at 8.125%, payable in 60 installments of $8,440, due August 2023
2 unchanged sentences
Debt maturities as of December 31, 2020 are as follows:
−Removed: expense for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 was $45,191 and $23,565, respectively.
−Removed: determine if a contract contains a lease at inception.
−Removed: Our material operating leases consist of retail and warehouse locations
−Removed: as well as office space.
−Removed: Our leases generally have remaining terms of 1- 5 years, most of which include options to extend the
−Removed: leases for additional 3 to 5 year periods.
−Removed: Generally, the lease term is the minimum of the noncancelable period of the lease or
−Removed: the lease term inclusive of reasonably certain renewal periods.
−Removed: lease assets and liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date.
−Removed: Operating lease liabilities represent the present
−Removed: value of lease payments not yet paid.
−Removed: Operating lease assets represent our right to use an underlying asset and are based upon
−Removed: the operating lease liabilities adjusted for prepayments or accrued lease payments, initial direct costs, lease incentives, and
−Removed: impairment of operating lease assets.
−Removed: To determine the present value of lease payments not yet paid, we estimate incremental secured
−Removed: borrowing rates corresponding to the maturities of the leases.
−Removed: Our leases typically contain rent escalations over the lease term.
−Removed: We recognize expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
−Removed: elected this expedient to account for lease and non-lease components as a single component for our entire population of operating
−Removed: lease assets.
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: Interest expense for the years
+Added: ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 was $14,053 and $45,191, respectively.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: have elected the short-term lease recognition exemption for all applicable classes of underlying assets.
−Removed: Short-term disclosures
−Removed: include only those leases with a term greater than one month and 12 months or less, and expense is recognized on a straight-line
−Removed: basis over the lease term.
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: We determine if a contract contains
+Added: a lease at inception.
+Added: Our material operating leases consist of retail and warehouse locations as well as office space.
+Added: generally have remaining terms of 1-10 years, most of which include options to extend the leases for additional 3 to 5-year periods.
+Added: Generally, the lease term is the minimum of the noncancelable period of the lease or the lease term inclusive of reasonably certain
+Added: renewal periods.
+Added: Operating lease assets and liabilities
+Added: are recognized at the lease commencement date.
+Added: Operating lease liabilities represent the present value of lease payments not yet
+Added: Operating lease assets represent our right to use an underlying asset and are based upon the operating lease liabilities
+Added: adjusted for prepayments or accrued lease payments, initial direct costs, lease incentives, and impairment of operating lease assets.
+Added: To determine the present value of lease payments not yet paid, we estimate incremental secured borrowing rates corresponding to
+Added: the maturities of the leases.
+Added: Our leases typically contain rent escalations over the lease term.
+Added: We recognize expense for these
+Added: leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
+Added: We have elected the practical
+Added: expedient to account for lease and non-lease components as a single component for our entire population of leases.
+Added: Short-term disclosures include
+Added: only those leases with a term greater than one month and 12 months or less, and expense is recognized on a straight-line basis
+Added: over the lease term.
Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less, that do not include an option to purchase the underlying
asset that we are reasonably certain to exercise, are not recorded on the balance sheet.
+Added: expense is recorded within our consolidated statements of operations based upon the nature of the assets.
+Added: Where assets are used
+Added: to directly serve our customers, such as facilities dedicated to customer contracts, lease costs are recorded in “store operating
+Added: costs.”
+Added: Facilities and assets which serve management and support functions are expensed through general and administrative
Right to use assets, operating lease assets
3 unchanged sentences
Weighted average discount rate
−Removed: Operating lease assets obtained for operating lease liabilities
−Removed: Maturities of lease liabilities
+Added: Year Ended December 31,
+Added: Operating lease costs
+Added: Variable lease costs
+Added: Short-term lease costs
+Added: Total operating lease costs
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: LEASES, Continued
+Added: The following table presents the maturity of the Company’s operating lease liabilities as of December 31, 2020:
Total lease payments
1 unchanged sentence
Lease Liability at December 31, 2020
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: January 12, 2018, the Company completed a private placement of a total of 36 units of the Company’s securities at the price
−Removed: of $250,000 per unit pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”)
−Removed: and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder.
−Removed: Each unit consisted of (i) a .1% unsecured convertible promissory note of
−Removed: the principal amount of $250,000, and (ii) a 3-year warrant entitling the holder to purchase 37,500 shares of the Company’s
−Removed: common stock, par value $.001 per share, at a price of $.01 per share or through cashless exercise.
−Removed: convertible debt has a maturity date of January 12, 2021 and the principal balance and any accrued interest is convertible by
−Removed: the holder at any time into Common Stock of the Company at conversion price of $3.00 a share.
−Removed: Principal due and interest
−Removed: accrued on the notes will automatically convert into shares of Common Stock, at the conversion price, if at any time during the
−Removed: term of the notes, commencing twelve (12) months from the date of issuance, the Common Stock trades minimum daily volume of at
−Removed: least 50,000 shares for twenty (20) consecutive days with a volume weighted average price of at least $4.00 per share.
−Removed: relation to this transaction, the Company recorded a debt discount of $4,239,000 related to the fair market value of warrants
−Removed: issued as noted above.
−Removed: The debt discount, which was based on an imputed interest rate, is being amortized on a straight-line basis
−Removed: over the life of the convertible debt.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2019, convertible debt and accrued interest of $2,405,269, net of unamortized debt discount of $674,581,
−Removed: was converted into 1,258,608 shares of common stock at the conversion rate of $3.00 per share.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2018, convertible debt and accrued interest of $5,927,677, net of unamortized debt discount of $2,305,746,
−Removed: was converted into 2,013,294 shares of common stock at the conversion rate of $3.00 per share.
CONVERTIBLE DEBT
−Removed: Remaining unamortized debt discount and debt issue costs
−Removed: Convertible debt, net of debt discount and debt issue costs
−Removed: of debt discount for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 was $356,306 and $998,601, respectively.
−Removed: December 31, 2019 and 2018 there were 131,250 and 536,250 warrants outstanding, respectively, related to the issuance of convertible
−Removed: BASED PAYMENTS AND STOCK OPTIONS
−Removed: March 6, 2014, the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) approved the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (“2014
−Removed: Plan) pursuant to which the Company may grant incentive, non-statutory options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted
−Removed: stock units, performance shares, performance units and other stock or cash awards to employees, nonemployee members of our Board,
−Removed: consultants and other independent advisors who provide services to the Company.
−Removed: The maximum shares of common stock which may be
−Removed: issued over the term of the plan shall not exceed 2,500,000 shares.
−Removed: Awards under this plan are made by the Board or a committee
−Removed: designated by the Board.
−Removed: Options under the plan are to be issued at the market price of the stock on the day of the grant except
−Removed: to those issued to holders of 10% or more of the Company’s common stock which is required to be issued at a price not less
−Removed: than 110% of the fair market value on the day of the grant.
−Removed: Each option is exercisable at such time or times, during such period
−Removed: and for such numbers of shares shall be determined by the plan administrator.
−Removed: No option may be exercisable for more than ten years
−Removed: (five years in the case of an incentive stock option granted to a 10% stockholder) from the date of grant.
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: On January 12, 2018, the Company
+Added: completed a private placement of a total of 36 units of the Company’s securities at the price of $250,000 per unit pursuant
+Added: to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated
+Added: Each unit consisted of (i) a .1% unsecured convertible promissory note of the principal amount of $250,000, and (ii)
+Added: a 3-year warrant entitling the holder to purchase 37,500 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $.001 per share,
+Added: at a price of $.01 per share or through cashless exercise.
+Added: The convertible debt had a maturity
+Added: date of January 12, 2021 and the principal balance and any accrued interest is convertible by the holder at any time into Common
+Added: Stock of the Company at conversion price of $3.00 a share.
+Added: Principal due and interest accrued on the notes will automatically
+Added: convert into shares of Common Stock, at the conversion price, if at any time during the term of the notes, commencing twelve (12)
+Added: months from the date of issuance, the Common Stock trades minimum daily volume of at least 50,000 shares for twenty (20) consecutive
+Added: days with a volume weighted average price of at least $4.00 per share.
+Added: During the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2019, convertible debt and accrued interest of $2,405,269, net of unamortized debt discount of $674,581, was converted into
+Added: 1,258,608 shares of common stock at the conversion rate of $3.00 per share.
+Added: As of December 31, 2019, there was no convertible debt
+Added: Amortization of debt discount
+Added: for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 was $0 and $356,306, respectively.
+Added: At December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: there were 93,750 and 131,250 warrants outstanding, respectively, related to the issuance of convertible debt.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: BASED PAYMENTS AND STOCK OPTIONS, Continued
−Removed: January 7, 2018, the Board adopted the 2018 Equity Compensation Plan (the “2018 Plan”) and on April 20, 2018, the
−Removed: shareholders approved the 2018 Plan.
−Removed: On February 7, 2020, the Board approved the amendment and restatement of the 2018 Plan to
−Removed: increase the number of shares issuable thereunder from 2,500,000 to 5,000,000, which amendment is pending shareholder approval.
−Removed: The 2018 Plan will be administered by the Board.
−Removed: The Board may grant options to purchase shares of Common Stock, stock appreciation
−Removed: rights, restricted stock units, restricted or unrestricted shares of Common Stock, performance shares, performance units, other
−Removed: cash-based awards and other stock-based awards.
−Removed: The Board also has broad authority to determine the terms and conditions of each
−Removed: option or other kind of equity award, adopt, amend and rescind rules and regulations for the administration of the 2018 Plan and
−Removed: amend or modify outstanding options, grants and awards.
−Removed: options, stock purchase rights or awards may be made under the 2018 Plan on or after the ten-year anniversary of the adoption
−Removed: of the 2018 Plan by the Board, but the 2018 Plan will continue thereafter while previously granted options, stock appreciation
−Removed: rights or awards remain subject to the 2018 Plan.
−Removed: The maximum shares of Common Stock which may be issued over the term of the
−Removed: plan, as amended shall not exceed 5,000,000 shares.
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: SHARE BASED PAYMENTS
+Added: Company maintains long-term incentive plans for employee, non-employee members of our Board of Directors and consultants.
+Added: allows us to grant equity-based compensation awards, including stock options, stock appreciation rights, performance share units,
+Added: restricted stock units, restricted stock awards, or a combination of awards (collectively, share-based awards).
+Added: March 6, 2014, the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) approved the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (“2014
+Added: Plan”) pursuant to which the Company may grant incentive, non-statutory options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock,
+Added: restricted stock units, performance shares, performance units and other stock or cash awards to employees, nonemployee members
+Added: of our Board, consultants and other independent advisors who provide services to the Company.
+Added: The maximum shares of common stock
+Added: which may be issued over the term of the 2014 Plan shall not exceed 2,500,000 shares.
+Added: Awards under the 2014 Plan are made by the
+Added: Board or a committee designated by the Board.
+Added: Options under the 2014 Plan are to be issued at the market price of the stock on
+Added: the day of the grant except to those issued to holders of 10% or more of the Company’s common stock which is required to
+Added: be issued at a price not less than 110% of the fair market value on the day of the grant.
+Added: Each option is exercisable at such time
+Added: or times, during such period and for such numbers of shares shall be determined by the plan administrator.
+Added: No option may be exercisable
+Added: for more than ten years (five years in the case of an incentive stock option granted to a 10% stockholder) from the date of grant.
+Added: On January 7, 2018, the Board
+Added: adopted the 2018 Equity Compensation Plan (the “2018 Plan”) and on April 20, 2018, the shareholders approved the 2018
+Added: On February 7, 2020, the Board approved the amendment and restatement of the 2018 Plan to increase the number of shares issuable
+Added: thereunder from 2,500,000 to 5,000,000, which amendment was approved by shareholders on May 11, 2020.
+Added: The 2018 Plan will be administered
+Added: by the Board.
+Added: The Board may grant options to purchase shares of common stock, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock units,
+Added: restricted or unrestricted shares of common stock, performance shares, performance units, other cash-based awards and other stock-based
+Added: The Board also has broad authority to determine the terms and conditions of each option or other kind of equity award,
+Added: adopt, amend and rescind rules and regulations for the administration of the 2018 Plan and amend or modify outstanding options,
+Added: grants and awards.
+Added: No options, stock purchase rights
+Added: or awards may be made under the 2018 Plan on or after the ten-year anniversary of the adoption of the 2018 Plan by the Board, but
+Added: the 2018 Plan will continue thereafter while previously granted options, stock appreciation rights or awards remain subject to
+Added: the 2018 Plan.
Options granted under the 2018 Plan may be either “incentive stock options”
−Removed: that are intended to meet the requirements of Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)
−Removed: or “nonstatutory stock options”
+Added: that are intended to meet
+Added: the requirements of Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) or “nonstatutory
+Added: stock options”
that do not meet the requirements of Section 422 of the Code.
−Removed: The Board will determine
−Removed: the exercise price of options granted under the 2018 Plan.
−Removed: The exercise price of stock options may not be less than the fair market
−Removed: value, on the date of grant, per share of our Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the option (or 110% of fair market value
−Removed: in the case of incentive options granted to a ten-percent stockholder).
−Removed: No option may be exercisable for more than ten years (five
−Removed: years in the case of an incentive stock option granted to a 10% stockholder) from the date of grant.
+Added: The Board will determine the exercise price
+Added: of options granted under the 2018 Plan.
+Added: The exercise price of stock options may not be less than the fair market value, on the
+Added: date of grant, per share of our Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the option (or 110% of fair market value in the case of
+Added: incentive options granted to a 10% stockholder).
+Added: No option may be exercisable for more than ten years (five years in the case of
+Added: an incentive stock option granted to a 10% stockholder) from the date of grant.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: SHARE BASED PAYMENTS, Continued
+Added: The Company accounts for share-based
+Added: payments through the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for share-based payment awards made to employees and directors
+Added: of the Company, including stock options and restricted shares.
+Added: The Company also issues share based payments in the form of common
+Added: stock warrants to non-employees.
+Added: The following table presents
+Added: share-based payment expense for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
+Added: Restricted stock
+Added: Stock options
+Added: of December 31, 2020, the Company had approximately $3.7 million of unamortized share-based compensation for option awards
+Added: and restricted stock awards, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of two years.
+Added: As of December
+Added: 31, 2020, the Company also had approximately $4 million of unamortized share-based compensation for common stock warrants
+Added: issued to consultants, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 3 years.
+Added: Restricted Stock
+Added: The Company issues shares of
+Added: restricted stock to eligible employees, which are subject to forfeiture until the end of an applicable vesting period.
+Added: generally vest on the second or third anniversary of the date of grant, subject to the employee’s continuing employment as
+Added: of that date.
+Added: Restricted stock activity for the years ended December
+Added: 31, 2020 and 2019 is presented in the following table:
+Added: Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
+Added: Nonvested, January 1, 2019
+Added: Nonvested, December 31, 2019
+Added: Nonvested, December 31, 2020
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: SHARE BASED PAYMENTS, Continued
Awards issued under the 2014 Plan as of December 31, 2020 are summarized below:
4 unchanged sentences
Awards available for issuance under the 2014 Plan, December 31, 2020
−Removed: issued under the 2018 Plan as of December 31, 2019 are summarized below:
−Removed: Total Shares available for issuance pursuant to the 2018 Plan, prior to amendment
+Added: Total Shares available for issuance pursuant to the 2018 Plan, as amended
Options outstanding, December 31 2020
2 unchanged sentences
Awards available for issuance under the 2018 Plan, December 31, 2020
+Added: The fair value of each stock
+Added: option and warrant granted is estimated on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option valuation model.
+Added: The assumptions used
+Added: to calculate the fair value of options and warrants granted are evaluated and revised, as necessary, to reflect market conditions
+Added: and the Company’s experience.
+Added: Stock options and warrants are expensed on a straight-line basis over the vesting period, which
+Added: is considered to be the requisite service period.
Expected volatility
−Removed: 72.91%-90.81 %
Expected dividends
1 unchanged sentence
Risk-free rate
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: Options outstanding pursuant to 2014 Plan
+Added: Options outstanding pursuant to 2018 Plan
+Added: Options issued outside of 2014 and 2018 Plans
+Added: Total options outstanding December 31, 2020
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: BASED PAYMENTS AND STOCK OPTIONS, Continued
−Removed: table below summarizes all the options granted by the Company during years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: SHARE BASED PAYMENTS, Continued
+Added: The table below summarizes all
+Added: the options granted by the Company during years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019:
Average Exercise
9 unchanged sentences
Vested and exercisable at December 31, 2020
−Removed: payment expense to officers, directors and employees and the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 was approximately $2,223,100
−Removed: and $901,900, respectively.
−Removed: related to issuance of shares, options and warrants to consultants for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 was approximately
−Removed: $267,400 and $501,800, respectively.
−Removed: PURCHASE WARRANTS
−Removed: summary of the status of the Company’s outstanding stock warrants as of December 31, 2019 is as follows:
+Added: STOCK PURCHASE WARRANTS
+Added: A summary of the status of the
+Added: Company’s outstanding stock warrants as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 is as follows:
Weighted Average
4 unchanged sentences
Outstanding December 31, 2020
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
−Removed: AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 and 2017
−Removed: STOCKHOLDERS’
−Removed: Company’s current Certificate of Incorporation authorizes it to issue 100,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, and 2018, there were 36,876,305 and 27,948,609 shares of common stock issued and outstanding,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company sold 4,123,254 shares of common stock for net proceeds of $12,643,634.
−Removed: During the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2019, the Company issued 1,757,913 shares of common stock upon exercise of warrants resulting in proceeds to the Company of
−Removed: During the year ended December 31,
−Removed: 2019, the Company issued 515,868 shares of common stock upon exercise of 667,500 options resulting in proceeds to the Company of
−Removed: Of the total options exercised, 657,500 options we exercised in a cashless option exercise.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31,
−Removed: 2019, the Company issued 1,258,608 shares of common stock upon conversion of convertible debt and accrued interest.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31,
−Removed: 2019, the Company issued 969,553 shares of common stock in connection with business combinations.
−Removed: (See Note 14)
−Removed: During the year ended December 31,
−Removed: 2019, the Company issued 152,500 shares of common stock to employees valued at $452,766, issued 100,000 shares of common stock
−Removed: to employees for accrued employee awards valued at $210,200 and 50,000 shares of common stock to consultants valued at $96,000.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company sold 3,333,333 shares of common stock for net proceeds of $9,959,877.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company issued 3,076,461 shares of common stock upon exercise of 3,056,478 warrants resulting
−Removed: in proceeds to the Company of $2,593,694.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company issued 995,186 shares of common stock upon exercise of 1,068,333 options resulting
−Removed: in proceeds to the Company of $321,701.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company issued 2,013,294 shares of common stock upon conversion of convertible debt and
−Removed: accrued interest.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company issued 1,550,000 shares of common stock in connection with business combinations.
−Removed: (See Note 14)
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company issued 123,500 shares of common stock to employees valued at $463,922 and issued
−Removed: 10,000 shares of common stock to consultants valued at $45,001.
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: EARNINGS PER SHARE
+Added: The following table sets forth
+Added: the composition of the weighted average shares (denominator) used in the basic and dilutive earnings per share computation for
the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: Basic net income (loss) per share
−Removed: is computed by dividing net income (loss) attributable to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares
−Removed: Diluted net income (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) attributable to common shareholders
−Removed: by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding plus the number of common shares that would be issued assuming exercise
−Removed: or conversion of all potentially dilutive common shares.
−Removed: Potentially dilutive securities are excluded from the calculation when
−Removed: their effect would be antidilutive.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2018 all potentially dilutive securities have been excluded
−Removed: from the diluted share calculations as they were anti-dilutive as a result of the net loss incurred.
−Removed: Accordingly, basic shares
−Removed: equal diluted shares for the year ended December 31, 2018.
−Removed: dilutive securities were comprised of the following:
−Removed: Convertible debt warrants
−Removed: following table sets forth the composition of the weighted average shares (denominator) used in the basic and dilutive earnings
−Removed: per share computation for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.
−Removed: Net income (loss)
−Removed: $ (5,073,755 )
+Added: Year Ended December 31,
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic
−Removed: Effect of dilutive common stock equivalents
+Added: Effect of dilutive outstanding warrants and stock options
Adjusted weighted average shares outstanding, dilutive
−Removed: Basic net income (loss) per share
−Removed: Dilutive net income (loss) per share
−Removed: CONCENTRATIONS
−Removed: of December 31, 2019, and 2018, two suppliers represent 51% and 56% of our purchases, respectively.
−Removed: Although the Company expects
−Removed: to maintain relationships with these vendors, the loss of either supplier would not have a material adverse impact on our business,
−Removed: because both suppliers provide the same products.
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: Basic income per shares
+Added: Dilutive income per share
+Added: EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN
+Added: Company has a 401(k) Savings Retirement Plan that covers substantially all full-time employees who meet the plan’s eligibility
+Added: requirements and provides for an employee elective contribution.
+Added: The Company made matching contributions to the plan of $169,327
+Added: and $83,158 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: VENDOR CONCENTRATIONS
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, and
+Added: 2019, two suppliers represent 41% and 51% of our total vendor purchases, respectively.
+Added: Although the Company expects to maintain
+Added: relationships with these vendors, the loss of either supplier would not have a material adverse impact on our business, because
+Added: both suppliers provide the same products.
+Added: Our acquisition strategy is
+Added: to acquire well established profitable hydroponic garden centers in markets where the Company does not have a market presence
+Added: or in markets where it is increasing its market presence.
+Added: The Company accounts for acquisitions in accordance with ASC 805 “Business
+Added: Combinations.”
+Added: Assets acquired and liabilities assumed are recorded in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at their
+Added: estimated fair values, as of the acquisition date.
+Added: For all acquisitions, the preliminary allocation of the purchase price was
+Added: based upon a preliminary valuation, and the Company’s estimates and assumptions are subject to change within the measurement
+Added: period as valuations are finalized.
+Added: Any changes to these estimates may have a material impact on the Company’s operating
+Added: results or financial position.
+Added: All acquisition costs are expensed as incurred and recorded in general and administrative expenses
+Added: in the consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: Transaction cost were approximately $227,000 for all acquisitions in 2020.
+Added: all goodwill recorded as a result of business combinations is deductible for income tax purposes.
+Added: The Company issued 23,892 shares
+Added: of common stock valued at $100,829 to settle as contingent consideration related to the Heavy Gardens 2018 business combination.
+Added: On February 26, 2020 we acquired
+Added: certain assets of Health & Harvest LLC in a transaction valued at approximately $2.85 million.
+Added: Acquired goodwill of approximately
+Added: $1.1 million represents the value expected to rise from organic growth and an opportunity to expand into a well-established market
+Added: for the Company.
+Added: Cash consideration was funded from the Company’s existing working capital.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: ACQUISITIONS, Continued
+Added: On June 16, 2020 we acquired
+Added: certain assets of H2O Hydroponics, LLC (“H2O Hydro”) in a transaction valued at approximately $1.99 million.
+Added: goodwill of approximately $1 million represents the value expected to rise from organic growth and an opportunity to expand into
+Added: a well-established market for the Company.
+Added: Cash consideration was funded from the Company’s existing working capital.
+Added: On August 10, 2020 we acquired
+Added: certain assets of Benzakry Family Corp, d/b/a Emerald City Garden (“Emerald City”), in a transaction valued at $1 million.
+Added: Acquired goodwill of approximately $620,000 represents the value expected to rise from organic growth and an opportunity to expand
+Added: into a well-established market for the Company.
+Added: Cash consideration was funded from the Company’s existing working capital.
+Added: On October 12, 2020, the Company
+Added: acquired the assets of Hydroponics Depot, LLC (“Hydro Depot”), a single store located in Phoenix Arizona for $987,500
+Added: in cash and shares of the Company’s common stock valued at approximately $548,000.
+Added: Acquired goodwill of approximately $798,000 represents the value expected to rise from organic growth
+Added: and an opportunity to expand into a well-established market for the Company.
+Added: On October 20, 2020 the Company
+Added: acquired the assets of Big Green Tomato (“BGT”), a two-store chain in Battle
+Added: Creek and Taylor, Michigan for approximately $6.0 in cash and shares of common stock valued at approximately $3.1 million.
+Added: Acquired goodwill of approximately $4 million represents the value expected to rise from organic growth and an opportunity
+Added: to expand into a well-established market for the Company.
+Added: On November 17, 2020, the Company
+Added: acquired the assets of The GrowBiz (“GrowBiz”), a five-store chain with four stores in California and one store in
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase of GrowBiz was approximately $44.7 million, $17.4 million in cash and common stock
+Added: valued at approximately $27.3 million.
+Added: Acquired goodwill of approximately $28.3 million represents the value expected to rise from
+Added: organic growth and an opportunity to expand into a well-established market for the Company.
+Added: On December 14, 2020, the Company
+Added: acquired the assets of Grassroots, a three-store chain in California.
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase of Grassroots was
+Added: approximately $10 million, $7.5 million in cash and common stock valued at approximately $2.5 million.
+Added: Acquired goodwill of approximately
+Added: $4.5 million represents the value expected to rise from organic growth and an opportunity to expand into a well-established market
+Added: for the Company.
+Added: On December 23, 2020, the Company
+Added: acquired the assets of Canopy Crop Management (“Canopy”) and its complete portfolio of products including the Power
+Added: SI brand of silicic acid-enriched fertilizers.
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase of Canopy Crop was approximately $9.2 million,
+Added: $5.4 million in cash and common stock valued at approximately $3.8 million.
+Added: Acquired goodwill of approximately $4.9 million represents
+Added: the value expected to rise from organic growth and an opportunity to expand into a well-established product distribution market
+Added: for the Company.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: ACQUISITIONS, Continued
+Added: The table below represents the
+Added: allocation of the purchase price to the acquired net assets during the year ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: Prepaids and other current assets
+Added: Furniture and equipment
+Added: Operating lease right to use asset
+Added: Operating lease liability
+Added: Customer relationships
+Added: The table below represents the
+Added: consideration paid for the net assets acquired in business combinations.
+Added: The following table discloses
+Added: the date of the acquisitions noted above and the revenue and earnings included in the consolidated income statement from the date
+Added: of acquisition to the period ended December 31, 2020.
+Added: Acquisition date
+Added: The following represents the
+Added: pro forma consolidated income statement as if the acquisitions had been included in the consolidated results of the Company for
+Added: the entire period for the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
+Added: $ 116,120,116
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: Company accounts for acquisitions in accordance with ASC 805 “Business Combinations.”
−Removed: Assets acquired and liabilities
−Removed: assumed are recorded in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at their estimated fair values, as of the acquisition date.
−Removed: For all acquisitions, the preliminary allocation of the purchase price was based upon a preliminary valuation, and the Company’s
−Removed: estimates and assumptions are subject to change within the measurement period as valuations are finalized.
−Removed: The Company has not
−Removed: made any adjustments to the preliminary valuations.
−Removed: The table below represents the allocation of the preliminary purchase price
−Removed: to the acquired net assets during the year ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: ACQUISITIONS, Continued
+Added: The table below represents the
+Added: allocation of the purchase price to the acquired net assets during the year ended December 31, 2019.
Prepaids and other current assets
Furniture and equipment
−Removed: table below represents the consideration paid for the net assets acquired in business combinations.
−Removed: following table discloses the date of the acquisitions noted above and the revenue and earnings included in the consolidated income
−Removed: statement from the date of acquisition to the period ended December 31, 2019.
+Added: The table below represents the
+Added: consideration paid for the net assets acquired in business combinations.
+Added: The following table discloses
+Added: the date of the acquisitions noted above and the revenue and earnings included in the consolidated income statement from the date
+Added: of acquisition to the period ended December 31, 2019.
Acquisition date
−Removed: following represents the unaudited pro forma consolidated income statement as if the acquisitions had been included in the consolidated
−Removed: results of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2018.
−Removed: These unaudited pro forma results are presented for information purposes
−Removed: only and are not necessarily indicative of what the actual results of operations of the combined company would have been if the
−Removed: acquisition had occurred at the beginning of the earliest period presented, nor are they indicative of future results of operations.
+Added: The following represents the pro forma
+Added: consolidated income statement as if the acquisitions had been included in the consolidated results of the Company for the entire
+Added: period for the years ended December 31,2019 and 2018.
+Added: 2019 (Unaudited)
+Added: 2018 (Unaudited)
$ (2,087,900 )
−Removed: GROWGENERATION
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
AND SUBSIDIARIES
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019 and 2018
−Removed: February 26, 2020 the Company purchased the assets of Healthy Harvest LLC for $1,750,000 and 250,000 shares of the Company’s
−Removed: common stock valued at $1,102,500.
−Removed: Healthy Harvest has been in business since 2011 and is the largest hydroponic operation in
−Removed: the Southeast region.
−Removed: February 7, 2020, the Board approved the amendment and restatement of the 2018 Plan to increase the number of shares issuable
−Removed: thereunder from 2,500,000 to 5,000,000, which amendment is pending shareholder approval.
−Removed: CHANGES AND DISAGREEMENT WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: STOCKHOLDERS EQUITY
+Added: On December 11, 2020, the Company
+Added: consummated an underwritten public offering of 5,750,000 shares of its common stock (the “Shares”), which included
+Added: the exercise in full of the underwriters’
+Added: option to purchase an additional 750,000
+Added: shares of common stock to cover over-allotments.
+Added: The Shares were sold at a public offering price of $30 per share, generating
+Added: gross proceeds of $172.5 Million, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions
+Added: and other offering expenses .
+Added: Net proceeds from the sales of common stock, net of all offering costs and expenses was approximately
+Added: $162.5 Million.
+Added: On July 2, 2020, the Company
+Added: consummated an underwritten public offering of 8,625,000 shares of its common stock (the “Shares”), which included
+Added: the exercise in full of the underwriters’
+Added: option to purchase an additional 1,125,000
+Added: shares of common stock to cover over-allotments.
+Added: The Shares were sold at a public offering price of $5.60 per share, generating
+Added: gross proceeds of $48.3 Million, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions
+Added: and other offering expenses .
+Added: Net proceeds from the sales of common stock, net of all offering costs and expenses was approximately
+Added: $44.6 Million.
+Added: On June 26, 2019, the
+Added: Company completed a private placement of a total of 4,123,257 units of the Company’s securities at the price of $3.10 per
+Added: unit pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act.
+Added: unit consisted of (i) one share of Common Stock and (ii) one 3-year warrant, each entitling the holder to purchase one half share
+Added: of Common Stock, at a price of $3.50 per share.
+Added: The Company raised a total of $12,782,099 from 19 accredited investors.
+Added: CORRECTION OF ERROR IN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: the fourth quarter of 2020, we identified amounts presented in our inventory and costs of sales reported in prior years that required
+Added: The revised amounts resulted from an accumulation of errors related to rebates issued from vendors.
+Added: determined these errors accumulated in 2019 and prior years.
+Added: Retained earnings as of January 1, 2019, was also revised to reflect
+Added: the impact of the error on prior periods.
+Added: The impact of the error for periods prior 2019 was $525,786.
+Added: Pursuant to the guidance of
+Added: Staff Accounting Bulletin No.
+Added: 99, Materiality, we concluded that the errors were not material to any of our prior year consolidated
+Added: financial statements.
+Added: The accompanying consolidated balance sheet and income statement as of December 31, 2019 includes a cumulative
+Added: revision relating to this error.
+Added: This revision did not have any material effect on income from
+Added: operations, net income, or cash flows.
+Added: This revision had no effect on our cash balances.
+Added: The following table compares
+Added: previously reported balances, adjustments, and revised balances as of December 31, 2019.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: CORRECTION OF ERROR IN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, Continued
+Added: The revised consolidated financial statements for the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2019 with the adjustment is detailed below.
+Added: December 31, 2019
+Added: As Previously Reported
+Added: Current assets:
+Added: Cash and cash equivalents
+Added: Accounts receivable, net
+Added: Notes receivable, net
+Added: Prepaids and other current assets
+Added: Total current assets
+Added: Property and equipment, net
+Added: Operating leases right-of-use assets, net
+Added: Notes receivable
+Added: Intangible assets, net
+Added: LIABILITIES & STOCKHOLDERS’
+Added: Current liabilities:
+Added: Accounts payable
+Added: Payroll and payroll tax liabilities
+Added: Customer deposits
+Added: Sales tax payable
+Added: Current maturities of right-of-use assets
+Added: Current portion of long-term debt
+Added: Total current liabilities
+Added: Operating leases right-of-use assets, net of current maturities
+Added: Long-term debt, net of current portion
+Added: Total liabilities
+Added: Stockholders’
+Added: Common stock;
+Added: $.001 par value;
+Added: 100,000,000 shares 36,876,305 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2019
+Added: Additional paid-in capital
+Added: Accumulated deficit
+Added: Total stockholders’
+Added: TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: CORRECTION OF ERROR IN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, Continued
+Added: Year Ended December 31, 2019
+Added: As Previously Reported
+Added: Cost of sales
+Added: Operating expenses:
+Added: Store operations
+Added: General and administrative
+Added: Share based compensation
+Added: Depreciation and amortization
+Added: Salaries and related expenses
+Added: Total operating expenses
+Added: Net income from operations
+Added: Other income (expense):
+Added: Miscellaneous income (expense)
+Added: Interest income
+Added: Interest expense
+Added: Total non-operating income (expense), net
+Added: Net income before taxes
+Added: Provision for income taxes
+Added: Net income per share, basic
+Added: Net income per share, diluted
+Added: Weighted average shares outstanding, basic
+Added: Weighted average shares outstanding, diluted
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: CORRECTION OF ERROR IN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, Continued
+Added: For The Year Ended December 31, 2019
+Added: Cash Flows from Operating
+Added: As Previously Reported
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash used in operating Activities:
+Added: Depreciation and amortization
+Added: Provision for doubtful accounts receivable
+Added: Inventory valuation reserve
+Added: Amortization of debt discount
+Added: Stock based compensation
+Added: Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
+Added: (Increase) decrease in:
+Added: Accounts receivable
+Added: (10,482,014 )
+Added: Prepaid expenses and other assets
+Added: Increase (decrease) in:
+Added: Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
+Added: Operating leases
+Added: Customer deposits
+Added: Payroll and payroll tax liabilities
+Added: Sales taxes payable
+Added: Net Cash and Cash Equivalents (Used In) Operating Activities
+Added: Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
+Added: Assets acquired in business combinations
+Added: Purchase of property and equipment
+Added: Purchase of goodwill and other intangibles
+Added: Net Cash and Cash Equivalents (Used In) Investing Activities
+Added: (11,810,680 )
+Added: (11,810,680 )
+Added: Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
+Added: Principal payments on long term debt
+Added: Stock redemptions
+Added: Proceeds from the sales of common stock and exercise of warrants and options, net of expenses
+Added: Net Cash and Cash Equivalents Provided by Financing Activities
+Added: Net Increase(decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents
+Added: Cash and Cash Equivalents at Beginning of year
+Added: Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of year
+Added: SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
+Added: The Company has evaluated events
+Added: and transaction occurring subsequent to December 31, 2020 up to the date of this filing of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: These statements contain all necessary adjustments and disclosures resulting from that evaluation.
+Added: For all acquisitions subsequent
+Added: to year end the Company’s initial accounting for the business combination has not been completed because the valuations
+Added: have not yet been received from the Company’s independent valuation firm.
+Added: On January 25, 2021 the Company
+Added: purchased the assets of Indoor Garden & Lighting, Inc, a two-store chain of hydroponic and equipment
+Added: and indoor gardening supply stores serving the Seattle and Tacoma, Washington area.
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase
+Added: of Garden & Lighting was approximately $1.63 million, including $1.1 million in cash and common stock valued at approximately
+Added: On February 1, 2021 the Company
+Added: purchased the assets of J.A.R.B., Inc d/b/a Grow Depot Maine, a two-store chain in Auburn
+Added: and Augusta, Maine.
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase of Grow Depot Maine was approximately $2.1 million, including
+Added: $1.7 million in cash and common stock valued at approximately $411,000.
+Added: GROWGENERATION CORP.
+Added: AND SUBSIDIARIES
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
+Added: FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2020
+Added: SUBSEQUENT EVENTS, Continued
+Added: On February 15, 2021 the Company
+Added: purchased the assets of Grow Warehouse LLC, a four-store chain of hydroponic and organic
+Added: garden stores in Colorado (3) and Oklahoma (1).
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase of Grow Warehouse LLC was approximately
+Added: $17.8 million, including $8.1 million in cash and common stock valued at approximately $9.7 million.
+Added: On February 22, 2021 the Company
+Added: purchased the assets of San Diego Hydroponics & Organics, a four-store chain of hydroponic
+Added: and organic garden stores in San Diego, CA.
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase of San Diego Hydroponics was approximately
+Added: $9.3 million, including $4.8 million in cash and common stock valued at approximately $4.5 million.
+Added: On March 12, 2021 the Company
+Added: purchased the assets of Charcoir Corporation, who sells an RHP-certified growing medium made
+Added: from the highest-grade coconut fiber.
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase of Charcoir was approximately $16.3 million,
+Added: including $9.8 million in cash and common stock valued at approximately $6.5 million.
+Added: On March 15, 2021 the Company
+Added: purchased the assets of 55 Hydroponics, a hydroponic and organic superstore located in Santa
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase of 55 Hydroponics was approximately $6.1 million, including $5 million
+Added: in cash and common stock valued at approximately $1.1 million.
+Added: On March 15, 2021 the Company
+Added: purchased the assets of Aquarius, a hydroponic and organic garden store in Springfield, MA.
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase of Aquarius was approximately $3.6 million, including $2.4 million in cash and common
+Added: stock valued at approximately $1.2 million.
+Added: On March 19, 2021 the Company
+Added: purchased the assets of Agron, LLC, an online seller of growing equipment.
+Added: The total consideration for the purchase of Agron was
+Added: approximately $11.3 million, including $6 million in cash and common stock valued at approximately $5.3 million.
+Added: CHANGES AND DISAGREEMENT WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING
+Added: AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
+Added: See report on Form 8-K filed on March 27,
+Added: 2020 regarding change in Accountants.
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