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by the forward-looking statements contained in this report.
−Removed: If any of the following risks actually occur, our business, financial condition
−Removed: and results of operations could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Factors Relating to Our Business:
+Added: If any of the following risks occur, our business, financial condition and
+Added: results of operations could be adversely affected.
+Added: Factors Relating to Our Business and Industry:
beyond our control, including natural disasters or extreme weather, could damage our properties and could adversely impact attendance
at our parks and result in decreased revenues.
−Removed: disasters, public heath crises, epidemics, pandemics, such as the outbreak of COVID-19, terrorist activities, power outages or other
−Removed: events outside our control could disrupt our operations, impair critical systems, damage our properties or reduce attendance at our parks
−Removed: or require temporary park closures.
−Removed: Damage to our properties could take a long time to repair and there is no guarantee that we would
−Removed: have adequate insurance to cover the costs of repair or the expense of the interruption to our business.
−Removed: Furthermore, natural disasters
−Removed: such as fires, earthquakes, hurricanes or extreme weather events linked to climate change, may interrupt or impede access to our affected
−Removed: properties or require evacuations and may cause attendance at our affected properties to decrease for an indefinite period.
−Removed: during 2023, our Georgia park experienced extensive damage caused by a tornado.
−Removed: occurrence of such events could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: predict the frequency, duration or severity of these activities and the effect that they may have on our business, financial condition
+Added: disasters, public health crises, epidemics, pandemics, terrorist activities, power outages or other events outside our control could
+Added: disrupt our operations, impair critical systems, damage our properties or reduce attendance at our parks or require temporary park
+Added: Damage to our properties could take a long time to repair and there is no guarantee that we would have adequate insurance
+Added: to cover the repair costs or the expense of the interruption of our business.
+Added: Furthermore, natural disasters such as fires,
+Added: earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes or extreme weather events linked to climate change may interrupt or impede access to our
+Added: affected properties or require evacuations and may cause attendance at our affected properties to decrease for an indefinite period.
+Added: For example, during 2023, our Georgia park experienced extensive damage caused by a tornado.
+Added: The occurrence of such events could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: cannot predict the frequency, duration or severity of these events or the effects that they may have on our business, financial condition
or results of operations.
+Added: impact of economic conditions on consumer discretionary spending could adversely affect our financial performance.
+Added: cost of admissions and spending while visiting our parks are discretionary expenditures that historically have been influenced by domestic
+Added: economic conditions.
+Added: Higher prices for consumer goods may result in less discretionary spending by consumers.
+Added: Changes in consumer discretionary
+Added: spending may result in reduced attendance to our parks and spending while at our parks.
+Added: conditions that have an effect on consumer discretionary spending include but may not be limited to:
+Added: unemployment, general and
+Added: industry-specific inflation, consumer confidence, consumer purchasing and saving habits, credit conditions, stock market
+Added: performance, home values, population growth, household incomes and tax policies.
+Added: Material changes to governmental policies related
+Added: to domestic fiscal concerns, and/or changes in central bank policies with respect to monetary policy also could affect consumer
+Added: discretionary spending.
+Added: Any of these factors that affect consumer discretionary spending may further influence our
+Added: customers’ purchasing preferences, potentially having a further material impact on our financial performance.
economic conditions may have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
−Removed: business and operating results can be impacted by several macroeconomic factors, including but not limited to consumer confidence and
−Removed: spending levels, tax rates, unemployment, inflation, consumer credit availability, raw materials costs, pandemics (such as the COVID-19
−Removed: pandemic) and natural disasters, fuel and energy costs (including oil prices), and credit market conditions.
−Removed: A general economic slowdown
−Removed: or recession resulting in a decrease in discretionary spending could adversely affect the frequency with which guests choose to visit
−Removed: our parks and the amount that our guests spend when they visit.
−Removed: Our ability to source supplies, materials and services at reasonable
−Removed: costs and in a timely manner could be impacted by adverse economic conditions in the U.S.
+Added: Macroeconomic changes in the U.S.
+Added: including but not
+Added: limited to, interest rates, tariffs, material costs, fuel and energy costs (including oil prices), tax rates, unemployment, inflation,
+Added: consumer confidence and spending levels, consumer credit availability and credit market conditions may create a challenging economic environment.
+Added: A general economic slowdown, inflationary pressures or recession resulting in a decrease in consumer discretionary spending could adversely
+Added: affect the frequency with which guests choose to visit our parks and the amount they spend when they visit.
+Added: Our ability to
+Added: source supplies, materials and services at reasonable costs and in a timely manner could be impacted by adverse economic conditions in
theme park industry is highly competitive, and we may be unable to compete effectively.
−Removed: theme park industry is highly competitive, highly fragmented, rapidly evolving, and subject to technological change and intense marketing
−Removed: by providers with similar products.
−Removed: Callaway Gardens is located within five miles and a Great Wolf Resort is located within 10 miles
−Removed: of our Georgia Park.
−Removed: The Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium is located approximately within 20 miles from our Missouri
−Removed: Branson, Missouri is located just 45 minutes from our Missouri Park.
−Removed: Franklin Drive Thru Safari is located within 30 miles of our Texas Park.
−Removed: Santa’s Wonderland is located within 35 miles from our Texas Park.
−Removed: Many of our current competitors are significantly larger and
−Removed: have substantially greater market presence as well as greater financial, technical, operational, marketing and other resources and experience
−Removed: than we have.
−Removed: In the event a competitor expends significant sales and marketing resources in one or several markets we may not be able
−Removed: to compete successfully in such markets.
−Removed: If our competitors were to provide better and more cost effective products, our business could
−Removed: be materially and adversely affected.
−Removed: face strong competition from numerous entertainment alternatives.
+Added: We face strong competition from numerous
+Added: entertainment alternatives.
addition to competing with other themed and amusement parks, our venues compete with other types of recreational venues and entertainment
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offerings to be more appealing than those of our competitors.
−Removed: suspension or termination of any of our business licenses may have a negative impact on our business.
+Added: high fixed cost structure of theme park operations can result in significantly lower margins, profitability and cash flows if attendance
+Added: levels do not meet expectations.
+Added: large portion of our expenses is relatively fixed because the costs for employees, maintenance, animal care, utilities, property taxes
+Added: and insurance do not vary significantly with attendance.
+Added: These fixed costs may increase and may not be able to be reduced at a rate proportional
+Added: to ongoing attendance levels.
+Added: If cost-cutting efforts are insufficient or are impractical, the Company could experience a
+Added: material decline in margins, profitability and cash flows.
+Added: Such effects can be especially pronounced during periods of economic contraction
+Added: or slow economic growth.
+Added: Fluctuations and increases
+Added: in the cost and availability of supplies and materials could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
+Added: The prices of supplies and
+Added: materials may fluctuate based on a number of factors beyond our control, including commodity prices such as oil and fuel prices, changes
+Added: in supply and demand, labor costs, competition, tariffs and government regulation.
+Added: These fluctuations in the cost and availability of supplies and materials may result in an increase in our costs to purchase
+Added: products from our vendors and could have an adverse effect on our cost of sales.
+Added: Increases in our cost of supplies and materials may cause
+Added: us to increase our prices, which may not be acceptable to our customers.
+Added: or extreme weather conditions can adversely impact attendance at the parks, which in turn would reduce revenues.
+Added: most of the attractions at the parks are outdoors, attendance can be adversely affected by continuous and prolonged bad or extreme weather
+Added: and by forecasts of bad or mixed weather conditions, which would negatively affect revenues.
+Added: The ownership of our parks in different
+Added: geographic locations reduces, but does not eliminate, the effect that adverse weather can have on consolidated results.
+Added: risk could be magnified by the effects of climate change, including more extreme temperatures, excessive precipitation or wind.
+Added: operating results are subject to seasonal fluctuations.
+Added: historically have experienced and expect to continue to experience seasonal fluctuations in our annual theme park attendance and
+Added: revenue, which are typically higher in our third and fourth fiscal quarters.
+Added: As a result, approximately 60% of our attendance and
+Added: revenues have been historically generated in the third and fourth fiscal quarters.
+Added: In addition, the timing of school vacations may
+Added: cause fluctuations in our quarterly theme park attendance and revenue.
+Added: For example, revenues can shift between the second and third
+Added: quarters due to the timing of Spring Break holidays.
+Added: to the seasonal fluctuations, there is only a limited period of time during which the impact of those conditions or events can be mitigated.
+Added: Accordingly, such conditions or events may have a disproportionately adverse effect on our revenues and cash flow.
+Added: In addition, historically
+Added: most of our expenses for maintenance and costs of adding new attractions at our parks are incurred during the first fiscal quarter, which
+Added: may increase the need for borrowing to fund those expenses during such periods.
+Added: is a risk of accidents or other incidents occurring at our parks, which may reduce attendance and negatively impact revenues.
+Added: safety of guests and employees is one of the Company’s top priorities.
+Added: There are inherent risks involved with animals, and an accident
+Added: or a serious injury at any of the parks could result in negative publicity that could reduce attendance and result in decreased revenues.
+Added: In addition, accidents or injuries involving animals at other amusement parks could influence the general attitudes of customers and
+Added: adversely affect attendance at the parks.
+Added: Other types of incidents such as food borne illnesses, product recalls on items sold, and disruptive,
+Added: negative guest behavior which have either been alleged or proved to be attributable to the parks or competitors could adversely affect
+Added: attendance and revenues.
+Added: to the nature of the work we perform, we may be subject to significant liability claims and disputes.
+Added: engage in services that can result in substantial injury or damages that may expose us to legal proceedings, investigations and disputes.
+Added: For example, in the ordinary course of our business, we may be involved in legal disputes regarding personal injury and wrongful death
+Added: claims, employee or labor disputes, professional liability claims, and general commercial disputes, as well as other claims.
+Added: An unfavorable
+Added: legal ruling against us or our subsidiaries could result in substantial monetary damages.
+Added: Although we have adopted a range of insurance,
+Added: risk management, safety, and risk avoidance programs designed to reduce potential liabilities, there can be no assurance that such programs
+Added: will protect us fully from all risks and liabilities.
+Added: If we sustain liabilities that exceed our insurance coverage or for which we are
+Added: not insured, it could have a material adverse impact on our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: in our care are important to our parks, and they could be exposed to infectious diseases.
+Added: part of our operations, guests have opportunities to interact with certain animals.
+Added: Animals in our care play an essential role in our
+Added: parks and safeguarding their health is a top priority.
+Added: While all animals can encounter naturally occurring infectious agents, we implement
+Added: comprehensive monitoring and prevention strategies designed to reduce these risks.
+Added: Our animal care teams oversee rigorous health protocols
+Added: designed to support the well-being of the animals in our care.
+Added: These protocols are also structured to reduce the risk of guests coming
+Added: into contact with potential health concerns.
+Added: In addition, external veterinary professionals are engaged to provide specialized expertise
+Added: and further strengthen the safety and welfare measures in place throughout the park.
+Added: An outbreak of an infectious disease among any animals
+Added: in our parks or the public’s perception that a certain disease could be harmful to human health may materially adversely affect
+Added: our business, financial condition, and results of operations
+Added: with living animals naturally involves certain inherent and sometimes unpredictable health-related risks, and not all factors are
+Added: within full control of the parks or their staff.
+Added: In the event of an animal-related health concern affecting a specific animal or
+Added: group of animals, we follow established procedures to protect their well-being and maintain continuity of guest
+Added: When needed, specific animal experiences may be temporarily modified to support best-practice care.
+Added: developments related to animal health, including those that influence public perception, may periodically affect our operations or
+Added: financial outcomes.
+Added: Even so, our proactive approach helps us responsibly manage and respond to these risks, while upholding the standards
+Added: expected by our stakeholders.
+Added: are subject to scrutiny by activists and other third-party groups and/or media who can pressure governmental agencies, vendors, guests
+Added: and/or regulators, bring action in the courts or create negative publicity about us.
+Added: time to time, animal activists and other third-party groups may make claims before government agencies, bring lawsuits against us, attempt
+Added: to generate negative publicity associated with our business and/or attempt to influence guests to avoid our parks.
+Added: Such activities sometimes
+Added: are based on allegations that we do not properly care for some of our animals.
+Added: On other occasions, such activities are specifically designed
+Added: to change existing law or enact new law in order to impede our ability to retain, exhibit, acquire or breed animals.
+Added: While we seek to
+Added: structure our operations to comply with all applicable federal and state laws and vigorously defend ourselves when sued, there are no
+Added: assurances as to the outcome of claims and lawsuits that could be brought against us or new laws or changes to existing laws that could
+Added: negatively impact us.
+Added: Even if they are not successful, these lawsuits or proposed changes to laws, can require deployment of our resources
+Added: and can lead to negative publicity.
+Added: Negative publicity created by activists or in the media could adversely affect our reputation and
+Added: results of operations.
+Added: we lose licenses and permits required to exhibit animals and/or violate laws and regulations, our business will be adversely affected.
+Added: are required to hold government licenses and permits, some of which are subject to annual or periodic renewal, for possessing,
+Added: exhibiting, and maintaining animals.
+Added: Although our parks’ licenses and permits have always been renewed in the past, in the event
+Added: that any of our licenses or permits are not renewed or any of our licenses or permits are revoked, the impacted park(s) might not be able
+Added: to remain open to display or retain the animals covered by such license or permit.
+Added: Such an outcome could materially
+Added: adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: addition, we are subject to periodic inspections by federal and state agencies and the subsequent issuance of inspection reports.
+Added: we believe that we comply with, or exceed, requisite care and maintenance standards that apply to our animals, government inspectors
+Added: can cite us for alleged statutory or regulatory violations.
+Added: In unusual instances when we are cited for an alleged deficiency, we are
+Added: generally given the opportunity to correct any purported deficiencies without penalty.
+Added: It is possible, however, that in some cases a
+Added: federal or state regulator could seek to impose monetary fines on us.
+Added: In the past, when we have been subjected to governmental claims
+Added: for fines, the amounts involved were not material to our business, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: However, while unlikely,
+Added: we cannot predict whether any future fines that regulators might seek to impose would materially adversely affect our business, financial
+Added: condition or results of operations.
+Added: Moreover, many of the statutes under which we operate allow for the imposition of criminal sanctions.
+Added: While neither of the foregoing situations is likely to occur, either could negatively affect the business, financial condition, or results
+Added: of operations at our theme parks.
+Added: suspension or termination of any of our business licenses may have a negative impact on our
maintain a variety of business licenses issued by federal, state and local government agencies that are required to be renewed periodically.
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use reasonable commercial efforts to maintain policies of liability, fire and casualty insurance sufficient to provide reasonable coverage
−Removed: for risks arising from accidents, fire, weather, other acts of God, and other potential casualties.
+Added: for risks arising from accidents, fire, weather, acts of God, and other potential casualties.
There can be no assurance that we
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disasters that may occur in our parks.
−Removed: ownership of real property subjects us to environmental regulation, which creates uncertainty regarding future environmental expenditures
−Removed: and liabilities.
−Removed: may be required to incur costs to comply with environmental requirements, such as those relating to discharges to air, water and land;
−Removed: the handling and disposal of solid and hazardous waste;
−Removed: and the cleanup of properties affected by hazardous substances.
−Removed: Under these and
−Removed: other environmental requirements we may be required to investigate and clean up hazardous or toxic substances or chemical releases at
−Removed: one of our properties.
−Removed: As an owner or operator, we could also be held responsible to a governmental entity or third party for property
−Removed: damage, personal injury and investigation and cleanup costs incurred by them in connection with any contamination.
−Removed: Environmental laws
−Removed: typically impose cleanup responsibility and liability without regard to whether the owner or operator knew of or caused the presence
−Removed: of the contaminants.
−Removed: The liability under environmental laws has been interpreted to be joint and several unless the harm is divisible
−Removed: and there is a reasonable basis for allocation of the responsibility.
−Removed: The costs of investigation, remediation or removal of those substances
−Removed: may be substantial, and the presence of those substances, or the failure to remediate a property properly, may impair our ability to
−Removed: use our property.
−Removed: We are not currently aware of any material environmental risks regarding our properties.
−Removed: However, we may be required
−Removed: to incur costs to remediate potential environmental hazards or to mitigate environmental risks in the future.
+Added: We are subject to particular risks associated
+Added: with real estate ownership, which could result in unanticipated losses or expenses.
+Added: Our business is subject to many risks that
+Added: are associated with the ownership of real estate.
+Added: Risks that are associated with real estate acquisition and ownership include, without
+Added: limitation, the following:
+Added: liability, property and casualty losses, some of which may be uninsured;
+Added: inability to purchase or sell our assets rapidly due to the illiquid nature of real estate
+Added: and the real estate market;
+Added: relating to maintenance and repair of our facilities and the need to make expenditures due
+Added: to changes in governmental regulations, or remediation of unknown environmental hazards;
+Added: of God and acts of terrorism affecting our properties.
ownership of real property subjects us to environmental regulation, which creates uncertainty regarding future environmental expenditures
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one of our properties.
−Removed: As an owner or operator, we could also be held responsible to a governmental entity or third party for property
+Added: As an owner or operator, we could also be held responsible by a governmental entity or third party for property
damage, personal injury and investigation and cleanup costs incurred by them in connection with any contamination.
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to incur costs to remediate potential environmental hazards or to mitigate environmental risks in the future.
−Removed: labor and employee benefit costs may negatively impact our results of operations.
−Removed: We also depend on a seasonal workforce, many of whom
−Removed: are paid at or near minimum wage.
+Added: Focused Compounding Fund
+Added: LP and its affiliates may significantly influence our decisions, and their interests may conflict with those of the Company or its
+Added: stockholders in the future.
+Added: Focused Compounding Fund LP
+Added: (“Focused Compounding”) owned approximately 41.27% of our total outstanding shares of common stock as of September 28,
+Added: Focused Compounding is controlled by Geoffrey Gannon and Andrew Kuhn, who are each on the Company’s Board of Directors
+Added: Gannon serves as the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: For so long as Focused Compounding
+Added: designees remain on our Board, Focused Compounding will have influence with respect to our management, business plans and policies, including
+Added: the appointment and removal of our officers, and nominees for director.
+Added: In addition, for so long as Focused Compounding continues to own
+Added: a significant percentage of our stock, Focused Compounding will be able to influence the composition of our Board of Directors and the
+Added: approval of actions requiring stockholder approval.
+Added: For example, for so long as Focused Compounding continues to own a significant percentage
+Added: of our stock, Focused Compounding may be able to influence whether or not a change of control of our Company or a change in the composition
+Added: of our Board of Directors occurs.
+Added: The concentration of ownership could deprive you of an opportunity to receive a premium for your shares
+Added: of common stock as part of a sale of our Company and ultimately might affect the market price of our common stock.
+Added: may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service all of our indebtedness and fund our working capital and capital expenditures.
+Added: Company had $3.24 million outstanding indebtedness as of September 28, 2025 (before reduction of debt issuance costs).
+Added: We may be required
+Added: to dedicate a substantial portion of cash flows from operations to the payment of principal and interest under our indebtedness.
+Added: net cash from operating activities of $2.11 million in Fiscal 2025 and ended Fiscal 2025 with $3.88 million of cash and cash equivalents
+Added: on our balance sheet.
+Added: ability to make scheduled payments on our indebtedness depends upon our future operating performance and on our ability to generate cash
+Added: flows in the future, which is subject to general economic, financial, business,
+Added: competitive, legislative, regulatory, and
+Added: other factors that are beyond our control.
+Added: We cannot be certain that our business will generate sufficient cash flows from
+Added: operations or that future borrowings will be available to us in an amount sufficient to enable us to fund our debt service
+Added: obligations and other liquidity needs.
+Added: If our cash flows and capital
+Added: resources are insufficient to service indebtedness, we may be forced to reduce or delay capital expenditures, sell assets, seek additional
+Added: debt or equity financing, or restructure or refinance our indebtedness.
+Added: These alternative measures may not be successful and may not allow
+Added: us to meet our scheduled debt service obligations.
+Added: If we cannot make scheduled payments on our indebtedness, we will be in default and, as a result, our lenders could
+Added: declare all outstanding principal and interest to be due and payable, could terminate their commitments to loan money to us, and could
+Added: foreclose against any assets securing our indebtedness and we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation.
+Added: labor and employee benefit costs may negatively impact results of operations.
+Added: We also depend on a seasonal workforce, many of whom are
+Added: paid at or near minimum wage.
is a primary component in the cost of operating our business.
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could have an adverse impact on our results of operations.
+Added: Failure to retain and/or to
+Added: attract qualified new employees could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
+Added: Our success depends in part
+Added: upon a number of employees, including our general managers at each park, as well as our ability to attract, train, motivate and retain
+Added: qualified employees to keep pace with our needs, including employees with certain specialized skills in the field of animal training and
+Added: care and other areas of institutional knowledge.
+Added: We also employ a significant seasonal and part-time workforce which is critical to staffing
+Added: our parks during peak periods.
+Added: If we are unable to attract and retain adequate numbers of employees to staff our parks especially during
+Added: peak periods, this could adversely affect our business and negatively impact our results of operations and the guest experience.
+Added: Increased competition for employees
+Added: and labor market shortages may impact our ability to attract, recruit and retain employees for our parks.
+Added: Many competitors or other businesses
+Added: in the markets in which we operate have increased wages and/or offered enhanced benefit packages, which in some cases may be superior
+Added: We may be unable to retain employees or to attract other highly qualified employees, particularly
+Added: if we do not offer employment terms that are competitive with the current market and/or provide sufficient incentives to
+Added: retain our existing and future employees.
+Added: Also, if we fail to maintain a culture that makes our company an attractive place to work,
+Added: employee morale may be diminished, and we may have difficulty retaining our workforce and recruiting new employees.
+Added: Separately, minimum
+Added: wage legislation impacts some of our markets, which adds additional pressure to our starting wages and increases the possibility of compression
+Added: which may lead to the departure of experienced personnel.
privacy regulation and our ability to comply could harm our business.
−Removed: (or third parties on our behalf) collect, store and use personal information and other customer data we receive through online ticket
−Removed: sales, marketing, mailing lists, and guest reservations.
−Removed: There are multiple federal, state and local laws regarding privacy and protection
−Removed: of personal information and data, and these laws and regulations continue to evolve.
−Removed: For example, many states have passed laws requiring
−Removed: notification to customers when there is a security breach involving their personal data and multiple jurisdictions are considering legislation
−Removed: that may impose liability if a business fails to properly safeguard personal information of its customers.
−Removed: Maintaining compliance with
−Removed: applicable security and privacy regulations may increase our operating costs.
+Added: (or third parties on our behalf) collect, store and use personal identifiable information and other customer data we receive through
+Added: online ticket sales, marketing, mailing lists, and guest reservations.
+Added: We also maintain personally identifiable information about
+Added: our employees.
+Added: The integrity and protection of our customer and employee data is critical to our business.
+Added: Our guests and employees
+Added: have a high expectation that we will adequately protect their personal information.
+Added: There are multiple federal, state and local laws
+Added: regarding privacy and protection of personal information and data, and these laws and regulations continue to evolve.
+Added: The regulatory
+Added: environment related to information security and privacy is increasingly rigorous with new and rapidly changing requirements.
+Added: example, many states have passed laws requiring notification to customers when there is a security breach involving their personal
+Added: data and multiple jurisdictions are considering legislation that may impose liability if a business fails to properly safeguard
+Added: personal information of its customers.
+Added: Maintaining compliance with applicable security and privacy regulations may increase our
+Added: operating costs.
We believe our cybersecurity measures are adequate.
−Removed: if we were to experience a data breach, we could be subject to fines, penalties and/or costly litigation.
+Added: However, there can be no assurance that the procedures that we
+Added: or third-party providers have implemented to protect against unauthorized access to secure data are adequate to safeguard against
+Added: all data security breaches, and if we were to experience a data breach, we could be subject to fines, penalties and/or costly
+Added: litigation, as well as could face damage to our reputation which could adversely affect our business.
+Added: As a smaller reporting
+Added: company, we are subject to scaled disclosure requirements that may make it more challenging for investors to analyze and compare our results
+Added: of operations and financial prospects.
+Added: Currently, we are a “smaller reporting company,” as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
+Added: As a “smaller
+Added: reporting company,” we are able to provide simplified executive compensation disclosures in our filings and have certain other decreased
+Added: disclosure obligations in our filings with the SEC, including being required to provide only two years of audited financial statements
+Added: in annual reports.
+Added: Consequently, it may be more challenging for investors to analyze our results of operations and financial prospects.
Factors Relating to Our Common Stock:
−Removed: Common Stock is subject to the “penny stock” rules of the SEC and the trading market in our Common Stock is limited, which
−Removed: makes transactions in our Common Stock cumbersome and may reduce the value of an investment in our Common Stock.
−Removed: common stock is considered a “penny stock” and the sale of our stock by you will be subject to the “penny stock rules”
−Removed: The penny stock rules require broker-dealers to take steps before making any penny stock trades in customer accounts.
−Removed: a result, the market for our shares could be illiquid and there could be delays in the trading of our stock, which would negatively affect
−Removed: your ability to sell your shares and could negatively affect the trading price of your shares.
+Added: share price may be volatile.
+Added: market price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly due to several factors, some of which may be beyond our control , including:
+Added: or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results;
+Added: of operations that vary from those of our competitors;
+Added: operating and stock price performance of comparable companies;
+Added: to the regulatory and legal environment under which we operate;
+Added: and worldwide economic conditions.
+Added: when the market price of a company’s common stock drops significantly, stockholders often initiate securities class action lawsuits
+Added: against the company.
+Added: A lawsuit against us could cause us to incur substantial costs and could divert the time and attention of our senior
+Added: management and other resources.
have not historically paid dividends.
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from time to time, may also restrict the declaration of dividends on our common stock.
−Removed: rights plan may discourage potential acquirers of the Company.
−Removed: January 19, 2024, we adopted a rights plan (the “Rights Plan”), which provides, among other things, that when specified events
−Removed: occur, our stockholders will be entitled to purchase additional shares of our common stock.
−Removed: The Rights Plan will expire on January 18,
−Removed: 2025, unless earlier redeemed, exchanged or extended.
−Removed: The preferred stock purchase rights are triggered ten days after the date of a
−Removed: public announcement that a person or group has acquired, or obtained the right to acquire, beneficial ownership of 10% or more of our
−Removed: outstanding shares of common stock.
−Removed: The rights would cause significant dilution to a person or group that attempts to acquire the Company
−Removed: on terms that are not approved by the Board.
−Removed: These provisions, either alone or in combination with each other, give the Board an ability
−Removed: to influence the outcome of a proposed acquisition of the Company and could have the effect of discouraging, delaying or preventing a
−Removed: change in control over us.
+Added: The concentration of ownership of our
+Added: capital stock limits your ability to influence corporate matters.
+Added: Our executive officers, directors,
+Added: current 5% or greater stockholders and entities affiliated with them beneficially owned (as determined in accordance with the rules of
+Added: the SEC) approximately 42.36% of our common stock outstanding as of September 28, 2025.
+Added: This significant concentration of share ownership
+Added: may adversely affect the trading price for our common stock because investors often perceive disadvantages in owning stock in companies
+Added: with controlling stockholders.
+Added: Also, these stockholders, acting together, may be able to control our management and affairs and matters
+Added: requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and the approval of significant corporate transactions, such as mergers,
+Added: consolidations or the sale of substantially all of our assets.
+Added: Consequently, this concentration of ownership may have the effect of delaying
+Added: or preventing a change of control, including a merger, consolidation or other business combination involving us, or discouraging a potential
+Added: acquirer from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control, even if that change of control would benefit our other
+Added: stockholders.
+Added: Rights Plan expired pursuant to its terms.
+Added: January 19, 2024, we adopted a Rights Plan which provided, among other things, that if specified events occurred, our stockholders would
+Added: be entitled to purchase additional shares of our common stock.
+Added: On January 18, 2025, the Rights Plan expired pursuant to its terms, and
+Added: has not been reinstated or replaced;
+Added: however, the Board may, subject to its fiduciary duties under applicable law, choose to implement
+Added: a similar plan in the future.
+Added: ultimate effect of the Reverse/Forward Stock Split on the market price of our common stock cannot be predicted with any certainty.
+Added: the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders on March 7, 2025, the stockholders of the Company approved the filings of the Certificates
+Added: of Amendment to effect the Reverse/Forward Stock Split.
+Added: On April 1, 2025, the Board of Directors approved the execution of the Reverse/Forward
+Added: The Reverse/Forward Stock Split became effective on April 30, 2025.
+Added: ultimate effect of the Reverse/Forward Stock Split on the market price of our common stock cannot be predicted with any certainty, and
+Added: we cannot assure you that the Reverse/Forward Stock Split will result in any or all of the expected benefits.
+Added: While the reduction in
+Added: the number of outstanding shares of our common stock increased the market price of our common stock we cannot assure you that the Reverse/Forward
+Added: Stock Split will result in any permanent or sustained increase in the market price of our common stock.
+Added: The market price of our common
+Added: stock depends on multiple factors, many of which are unrelated to the number of shares outstanding, including our business and financial
+Added: performance, general market conditions, and prospects for future success, any of which could have a counteracting effect to the Reverse/Forward
+Added: Stock Split with respect to the per share price.
+Added: Reverse/Forward Stock Split may decrease the liquidity of our Common Stock.
+Added: our Board believes that the decrease in the number of shares of our Common Stock outstanding as a consequence of the Reverse/Forward
+Added: Stock Split and the subsequent increase in the market price of our Common Stock could encourage interest in our Common Stock and possibly
+Added: promote greater liquidity for our stockholders, such liquidity could also be adversely affected by the reduced number of shares outstanding
+Added: after the Reverse/Forward Stock Split.
+Added: The liquidity of our Common Stock may ultimately be harmed by the Reverse/Forward Stock Split
+Added: given the reduced number of shares of Common Stock outstanding after the Reverse/Forward Stock Split, particularly if the stock price
+Added: does not continue to increase.
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