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in previous reports, the Company adds the following additional risk factor:
−Removed: could be substantially affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
−Removed: December 2019, an outbreak of a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) originated in Wuhan, China, and has since spread to a number of
−Removed: other countries, including the United States.
−Removed: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic.
−Removed: In addition, as of the time of the filing of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, several states in the United States have declared states
−Removed: of emergency, and several countries around the world, including the United States, have taken steps to restrict travel.
−Removed: our operations are located in the United States, we participate in a national supply chain, and the existence of a worldwide pandemic,
−Removed: the fear associated with COVID-19, or any, pandemic, and the reactions of governments around the world in response to COVID-19, or any,
−Removed: pandemic, to regulate the flow of labor and products and impede the travel of personnel, may impact our ability to conduct normal business
−Removed: operations, which could adversely affect our results of operations and liquidity.
−Removed: Disruptions to our supply chain and business operations,
−Removed: or to our suppliers’ or customers’ supply chains and business operations, could include disruptions from the closure of supplier
−Removed: and manufacturer facilities, interruptions in the supply of raw materials and components, personnel absences, or restrictions on the
−Removed: shipment of our or our suppliers’ or customers’ products, any of which could have adverse ripple effects on our manufacturing
−Removed: output and delivery schedule.
−Removed: If we need to close any of our facilities or a critical number of our employees become too ill to work,
−Removed: our production ability could be materially adversely affected in a rapid manner.
−Removed: Similarly, if our customers experience adverse business
−Removed: consequences due to COVID-19, or any other, pandemic, demand for our products could also be materially adversely affected in a rapid
−Removed: Global health concerns, such as COVID-19, could also result in social, economic, and labor instability in the countries and localities
−Removed: in which we or our suppliers and customers operate.
−Removed: Any of these uncertainties could have a material adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: loss of our largest customers would significantly reduce our revenue and adversely affect our results of operations.
+Added: the year ended January 31, 2023 two customers represented approximately 37% or our gross revenues and during the year ended January 31,
+Added: 2022 three customers represented approximately 58% of our gross revenue.
+Added: The loss of our largest customers would significantly reduce
+Added: our revenue, which would have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.
+Added: We can provide no assurance that these customers
+Added: will continue to place orders in the future.
+Added: depend on the services of key personnel, and may not be able to operate and grow our business effectively if we lose their services or
+Added: are unable to attract qualified personnel in the future.
+Added: rely heavily on our senior management team, due to their broad experience with consumer focused companies, to identify internal expansion
+Added: and external growth companies.
+Added: Our ability to retain senior management and other key personnel is therefore very important to our future
+Added: We have employment agreements with our senior management, but these employment agreements do not ensure that they will not voluntarily
+Added: terminate their employment with us.
+Added: In addition, our key personnel are subject to non-solicitation and confidential information restrictions.
+Added: We do not have key man insurance for any of our current management or other key personnel.
+Added: The loss of any key personnel would require
+Added: the remaining key personnel to divert immediate attention to seeking a replacement.
+Added: Competition for senior management personnel is intense,
+Added: and fit is important to us.
+Added: Our inability to find a suitable replacement for any departing executive officer or key employee on a timely
+Added: basis could adversely affect our ability to operate and grow our business.
+Added: developments affecting the financial services industry, such as actual events or concerns involving liquidity, defaults or non-performance
+Added: by financial institutions or transactional counterparties, could adversely affect our current and projected business operations and its
+Added: financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: events involving limited liquidity, defaults, non-performance or other adverse developments that affect financial institutions, transactional
+Added: counterparties or other companies in the financial services industry or the financial services industry generally, or concerns or rumors
+Added: about any events of these kinds or other similar risks, have in the past and may in the future lead to market-wide liquidity problems.
+Added: For example, on March 10, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”), was closed by the California Department of Financial Protection
+Added: and Innovation, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), as receiver.
+Added: Similarly, on March 12,
+Added: 2023, Signature Bank and Silvergate Capital Corp.
+Added: were each swept into receivership.
+Added: Although a statement by the Department of the Treasury,
+Added: the Federal Reserve and the FDIC stated that all depositors of SVB would have access to all of their money after only one business day
+Added: of closure, including funds held in uninsured deposit accounts, borrowers under credit agreements, letters of credit and certain other
+Added: financial instruments with SVB, Signature Bank or any other financial institution that is placed into receivership by the FDIC may be
+Added: unable to access undrawn amounts thereunder.
+Added: If any of our counterparties to any such instruments were to be placed into receivership,
+Added: we may be unable to access such funds.
+Added: In addition, if any parties with whom we conduct business are unable to access funds pursuant
+Added: to such instruments or lending arrangements with such a financial institution, such parties’ ability to pay their obligations to
+Added: us or to enter into new commercial arrangements requiring additional payments to us could be adversely affected.
+Added: In this regard, counterparties
+Added: to SVB credit agreements and arrangements, and third parties such as beneficiaries of letters of credit (among others), may experience
+Added: direct impacts from the closure of SVB and uncertainty remains over liquidity concerns in the broader financial services industry.
+Added: impacts have occurred in the past, such as during the 2008-2010 financial crisis.
+Added: and rapid increases in interest rates have led to a decline in the trading value of previously issued government securities with interest
+Added: rates below current market interest rates.
+Added: Although the U.S.
+Added: Department of Treasury, FDIC and Federal Reserve Board have announced a
+Added: program to provide up to $25 billion of loans to financial institutions secured by certain of such government securities held by financial
+Added: institutions to mitigate the risk of potential losses on the sale of such instruments, widespread demands for customer withdrawals or
+Added: other liquidity needs of financial institutions for immediate liquidity may exceed the capacity of such program.
+Added: There is no guarantee
+Added: that the U.S.
+Added: Department of Treasury, FDIC and Federal Reserve Board will provide access to uninsured funds in the future in the event
+Added: of the closure of other banks or financial institutions, or that they would do so in a timely fashion.
+Added: we assess our banking relationships as we believe necessary or appropriate, our access to funding sources and other credit arrangements
+Added: in amounts adequate to finance or capitalize our current and projected future business operations could be significantly impaired by
+Added: factors that affect us, the financial institutions with which we have arrangements directly, or the financial services industry or economy
+Added: These factors could include, among others, events such as liquidity constraints or failures, the ability to perform obligations
+Added: under various types of financial, credit or liquidity agreements or arrangements, disruptions or instability in the financial services
+Added: industry or financial markets, or concerns or negative expectations about the prospects for companies in the financial services industry.
+Added: These factors could involve financial institutions or financial services industry companies with which we have financial or business
+Added: relationships, but could also include factors involving financial markets or the financial services industry generally.
+Added: results of events or concerns that involve one or more of these factors could include a variety of material and adverse impacts on our
+Added: current and projected business operations and our financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: These could include, but may not be
+Added: limited to, the following:
+Added: access to deposits or other financial assets or the uninsured loss of deposits or other financial assets;
+Added: of access to revolving existing credit facilities or other working capital sources and/or the inability to refund, roll over or extend
+Added: the maturity of, or enter into new credit facilities or other working capital resources;
+Added: or actual breach of contractual obligations that require us to maintain letters or credit or other credit support arrangements;
+Added: addition, any further deterioration in the macroeconomic economy or financial services industry could lead to losses or defaults by parties
+Added: with whom we conduct business, which in turn, could have a material adverse effect on our current and/or projected business operations
+Added: and results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: For example, a party with whom we conduct business may fail to make payments when
+Added: due, default under their agreements with us, become insolvent or declare bankruptcy.
+Added: Any bankruptcy or insolvency, or the failure to
+Added: make payments when due, of any counterparty of ours, or the loss of any significant relationships, could result in material losses to
+Added: us and may material adverse impacts on our business.
Unresolved Staff Comments.
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