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Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
−Removed: Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31,
−Removed: 2020 to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit under the
−Removed: Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms,
−Removed: and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial
−Removed: Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
+Added: Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief
+Added: Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of December 31, 2021 to provide
+Added: reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded,
+Added: processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is
+Added: accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to
+Added: allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules
−Removed: 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act).
−Removed: Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief
−Removed: Financial Officer and the oversight of our audit committee, has evaluated the effectiveness of our internal control over financial
−Removed: reporting as of December 31, 2020.
−Removed: In assessing the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, our management
−Removed: used the framework established in Internal Control Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
−Removed: of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
−Removed: Based on that evaluation, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial
−Removed: reporting was effective as of December 31, 2020.
−Removed: Annual Report does not contain an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm related to internal
−Removed: control over financial reporting because the rules for smaller reporting companies provide an exemption from the attestation requirement.
−Removed: of Previously Identified Material Weaknesses
−Removed: As disclosed in Part II, Item 9A., “Controls
−Removed: and Procedures,” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, management identified the following
−Removed: control deficiencies during fiscal 2019 that constituted material weaknesses:
−Removed: (1) we did not have controls designed to assess
−Removed: the design and operation of internal controls pertaining to these outsourced information technology service providers over the
−Removed: period of reliance and (2) we did not maintain effective policies to ensure adequate segregation of duties within its accounting
−Removed: remediate these previously identified material weaknesses, our management, with oversight from our audit committee, implemented
−Removed: a remediation plan, we designed and implemented controls related to the periodic monitoring and review of outsourced information
−Removed: technology service providers, and we implemented procedures and independent reconciliations of significant accounts to mitigate
−Removed: the lack of segregation of duties.
−Removed: on the actions taken, management determined that our newly designed and enhanced controls were in place and operated effectively
−Removed: for a sufficient period of time to enable us to conclude that the material weaknesses were remediated as of December 31, 2020.
+Added: management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f)
+Added: and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act).
+Added: Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
+Added: and the oversight of our audit committee, has evaluated the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December
+Added: In assessing the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, our management used the framework established
+Added: in Internal Control Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
+Added: Based on that evaluation, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of
+Added: December 31, 2021.
+Added: Annual Report does not contain an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm related to internal control
+Added: over financial reporting because the rules for smaller reporting companies provide an exemption from the attestation requirement.
in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
−Removed: than as described above in the section “Remediation Efforts on Previously Identified Material Weakness,” there were
−Removed: no other changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended December 31, 2020, that have materially
−Removed: affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the three-month period ended December 31, 2021, that have
+Added: materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
−Removed: effective internal control system, no matter how well designed, has inherent limitations, including the possibility of human error
−Removed: or overriding of controls, and, therefore, can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to reliable financial reporting.
−Removed: Because of its inherent limitations, our internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect all misstatements,
−Removed: including the possibility of human error, the circumvention or overriding of controls, or fraud.
−Removed: Effective internal controls can
−Removed: provide only reasonable assurance with respect to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements.
+Added: effective internal control system, no matter how well designed, has inherent limitations, including the possibility of human error or
+Added: overriding of controls, and, therefore, can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to reliable financial reporting.
+Added: its inherent limitations, our internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect all misstatements, including the possibility
+Added: of human error, the circumvention or overriding of controls, or fraud.
+Added: Effective internal controls can provide only reasonable assurance
+Added: with respect to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements.
Other Information
+Added: On March 28, 2022, the
+Added: Company entered into a financing agreement with Alterna Capital Solutions (“ACS”), for a line of credit to replace its existing
+Added: credit facility with Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc.
+Added: The ACS line of credit is for a term of 3 years and provides for borrowings of up
+Added: Borrowings are based upon eligible accounts receivable and inventory.
+Added: The line of credit is secured by eligible accounts receivable and inventory
+Added: of the Company.
+Added: Inventory collateral is set to a maximum of 100% of
+Added: eligible accounts receivable.
+Added: An overadvance rider is in place which provides for up to $400 of additional borrowing beyond those amounts
+Added: (the “Over Advance”).
+Added: Borrowings under the ACS
+Added: financing agreement bear interest of prime plus 4.75% but not less than 8.0% on receivables.
+Added: Borrowings based on inventory bear an interest
+Added: of prime plus 5.25% but not less than 8.5%.
+Added: The additional overadvance rider bears a rate of prime plus 12.75%, but not less than 16.00%.
+Added: Additionally, the line of credit is subject to monthly monitoring fee of $1 with a minimum usage requirement on the credit facility.
+Added: A loan balance of less than $1,500 will bear interest at a rate in line with account receivables advances plus the monthly monitoring
+Added: The Company incurred $503
+Added: of direct costs of the transaction, consisting primarily of broker, bank and legal fees.
+Added: These costs have been capitalized and are being
+Added: amortized over the 3-year life of the ACS agreement.
+Added: On March 30, 2022, the Company paid in full its outstanding
+Added: balance on its credit facility with Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc.
+Added: Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions
+Added: that Prevent Inspections
+Added: Not applicable,
Directors, Executive Officers , and Corporate Governance.
−Removed: current directors have terms which will end at the next annual meeting of the stockholders or until their successors are elected
−Removed: and qualify, subject to their death, resignation or removal.
−Removed: The following table sets forth certain information with respect to
−Removed: our current directors and executive officers as of December 31, 2020:
+Added: current directors have terms which will end at the next annual meeting of the stockholders and until each of their successors is elected
+Added: and qualified.
+Added: The following table sets forth certain information with respect to our current directors and executive officers as
+Added: of date of this Annual Report:
Executive Officer, Director
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Sales Officer
−Removed: President, Operations
−Removed: Innovation Officer
−Removed: Chairman of Governance Committee, member of Audit, Operations and Compensation Committees
+Added: Chairman of Governance and Compensations Committee, member of Audit and Operations Committee
Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of Compensation Committee
−Removed: Chairman of the Compensation Committee and member of Audit and Governance Committees
+Added: member of the Compensation and Governance Committees
Imbrogno, Jr.
+Added: member of the Audit Committee
Experience of Directors and Executive Officers
was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and director of Reed’s effective March 1, 2020.
−Removed: his promotion, Mr.
+Added: Prior to his promotion,
Snyder served as Chief Operating Officer of Reed’s from September 2019 through February 29, 2020.
−Removed: to joining Reed’s, Mr.
−Removed: Snyder served as President and Chief Executive Office for Avitae USA, LLC, an emerging premium new
−Removed: age beverage company that markets and sells a line of ready-to-drink caffeinated waters.
−Removed: Prior to Avitae, he served as the President
−Removed: and Chief Operating Officer for Adina For Life, Inc., President and Chief Executive Officer of High Falls Brewing Company, and
−Removed: Chief Financial Officer, and later Chief Operating Officer of South Beach Beverage Company, known as SoBe.
−Removed: In prior experience,
−Removed: Snyder served as Controller for National Football League Properties, Inc., and in various roles at PriceWaterhouseCoopers
−Removed: during an eight-year tenure.
+Added: Prior to joining Reed’s,
+Added: Snyder served as President and Chief Executive Office for Avitae USA, LLC, an emerging premium new age beverage company that markets
+Added: and sells a line of ready-to-drink caffeinated waters.
+Added: Prior to Avitae, he served as the President and Chief Operating Officer for Adina
+Added: For Life, Inc., President and Chief Executive Officer of High Falls Brewing Company, and Chief Financial Officer, and later Chief Operating
+Added: Officer of South Beach Beverage Company, known as SoBe.
+Added: In prior experience, Mr.
+Added: Snyder served as Controller for National Football League
+Added: Properties, Inc., and in various roles at PriceWaterhouseCoopers during an eight-year tenure.
Snyder earned a B.S.
−Removed: in Accounting from the State University of New York at Albany.
+Added: in Accounting
+Added: from the State University of New York at Albany.
Spisak has served as Chief Financial Officer of Reed’s since December 2019.
Prior to joining Reed’s, Mr.
−Removed: Spisak provided financial leadership, including extensive expertise over a broad range of finance functions during his 26 year
−Removed: tenure in the North America region of Diageo, a multinational alcoholic beverage company with net sales over UK £12.9 billion
+Added: provided financial leadership, including extensive expertise over a broad range of finance functions during his 26 year tenure in the
+Added: North America region of Diageo, a multinational alcoholic beverage company with net sales over UK £12.9 billion (U.S.
$16 billion).
−Removed: Spisak held numerous positions in multiple divisions of Diageo, most recently serving as Vice President
−Removed: of Finance and Controller of North America.
−Removed: Previously, he held positions of Vice President of Commercial Finance, Director of
−Removed: Business Performance and Senior Finance Director of Marketing and Innovation Decision Support, as well as other roles in finance.
+Added: Spisak held numerous positions in multiple divisions of Diageo, most recently serving as Vice President of Finance and Controller
+Added: of North America.
+Added: Previously, he held positions of Vice President of Commercial Finance, Director of Business Performance and Senior
+Added: Finance Director of Marketing and Innovation Decision Support, as well as other roles in finance.
Prior to Diageo, Mr.
−Removed: Spisak served at International Masters Publishers, Inc., a private company with publishing activities in
−Removed: 35 countries.
−Removed: Spisak holds an MBA in International Business from Fairfield University and a Bachelor of Science in Finance
−Removed: from the University of Rhode Island.
−Removed: Cohane has served as Reed’s Chief Sales Officer since March of 2008 and previously as Vice President of Sales since
+Added: Spisak served
+Added: at International Masters Publishers, Inc., a private company with publishing activities in 35 countries.
+Added: Spisak holds an MBA in International
+Added: Business from Fairfield University and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Rhode Island.
+Added: Cohane has served as Reed’s Chief Sales Officer since March of 2008 and previously as Vice President of Sales since August
From March 2001 until August 2007, Mr.
−Removed: Cohane served in various senior-level sales and executive positions for PepsiCo,
−Removed: most recently as Senior National Accounts Manager, Eastern Division.
+Added: Cohane served in various senior-level sales and executive positions for PepsiCo, most recently
+Added: as Senior National Accounts Manager, Eastern Division.
In this capacity, Mr.
−Removed: Cohane was responsible for all business
−Removed: development and sales activities within the Eastern Division.
+Added: Cohane was responsible for all business development and
+Added: sales activities within the Eastern Division.
From March 2001 until November 2002, Mr.
−Removed: Cohane served as Business
−Removed: Development Manager, Non-Carbonated Division within PepsiCo where he was responsible for leading the non-carbonated category build-out
−Removed: across the Northeast Territory.
+Added: Cohane served as Business Development Manager,
+Added: Non-Carbonated Division within PepsiCo where he was responsible for leading the non-carbonated category build-out across the Northeast
From 1998 to March 2001, Mr.
−Removed: Cohane spent three years at South Beach Beverage Company, most recently
−Removed: as Vice President of Sales, Eastern Region.
−Removed: From 1986 to 1998, Mr.
−Removed: Cohane spent approximately twelve years at Coca-Cola of New
−Removed: York where he held various senior-level sales and managerial positions, most recently as General Manager New York.
−Removed: degree in Business Administration from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.
−Removed: Hubli was appointed Vice President of Operations effective September 28, 2020.
−Removed: Hubli has nearly four decades of
−Removed: diversified experience in supply chain and operations management.
−Removed: From January 2015 to the present, he owned and operated Rockhouse
−Removed: Services, LLC, a consultancy focused on operations & supply chain improvement.
−Removed: From July 2014 to January 2015, he served as
−Removed: SVP of Operations for Harvest Hill Beverage Company.
−Removed: Prior, from August 2012 to July 2014, he served as VP of Operations for High
−Removed: Ridge Brands with end-to-end operations accountability of a copacker based supply chain plus new product delivery & quality.
−Removed: From March 2009 to July 2012, he served as VP of Operations of Kozy Shack Enterprises.
−Removed: From March 2008 to March 2009, Mr.
−Removed: was the VP of Operations for Fuze Beverages leading, directing S&OP;
−Removed: managing all operations/supply chain activities while
−Removed: integrating the business unit into Coca-Cola.
−Removed: From 2000 to 2007, he served as a VP of Operations Strategy Development at Cadbury
−Removed: Schweppes Americas Beverages where he created the long-term operations strategy.
+Added: Cohane spent three years at South Beach Beverage Company, most recently as Vice President of
+Added: Sales, Eastern Region.
From 1986 to 1998, Mr.
−Removed: Hubli worked for the North
−Removed: American division of Colgate Palmolive initially as Director of Technology and later as Director of Supply Chain Development.
−Removed: In these roles he ran new product delivery across all business categories and spearheaded supply chain re-engineering initiatives.
−Removed: At Nestle Foods, where he worked from 1987 to 1991, he held the positions of Manager Coffee/Tea Industrial Engineering and Marketing
−Removed: Manager for the Nescafe brand.
−Removed: Hubli began his five-year tenure with PepsiCo R&D in 1982 as Program Manager and subsequently
−Removed: became Manager, Concentrate Operations leading copack production of aseptic juices for the Slice brand.
−Removed: He began his career as
−Removed: Logistics Analyst for Maxwell House Coffee, then a division of General Foods, in 1980.
−Removed: Hubli earned a BS in Industrial Engineering
−Removed: and an MBA, both in 1979 from the University of Rhode Island.
−Removed: Reed founded our company in 1987.
−Removed: Since inception, Mr.
−Removed: Reed has served in the roles of Chairman, President, and Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer, and is currently the company’s Chief Innovation Officer.
−Removed: Reed has been a non-independent Director
−Removed: since our incorporation in 1991.
−Removed: Reed also served as Chief Financial Officer during fiscal year 2007 until October 1, 2007
−Removed: and again from April 17, 2008 to January 19, 2010.
−Removed: Reed remains a Director of the company with the election of John Bello
−Removed: as Chairman of the Board by fellow Board members.
−Removed: Reed has been responsible for our design and products, including the original
−Removed: product recipes, the proprietary brewing process and the packaging and marketing strategies.
−Removed: Reed received a B.S.
−Removed: Engineering in 1980 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
+Added: Cohane spent approximately twelve years at Coca-Cola of New York where he held various
+Added: senior-level sales and managerial positions, most recently as General Manager New York.
+Added: Cohane holds a B.S.
+Added: degree in Business Administration
+Added: from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.
Bello is Reed’s Chairman and sales and marketing expert.
Since 2001, Mr.
−Removed: Bello has been the Managing Director
−Removed: of JoNa Ventures, a family venture fund.
+Added: Bello has been the Managing Director of JoNa
+Added: Ventures, a family venture fund.
From 2004 to 2012 Mr.
−Removed: Bello also served as Principal and General Partner at Sherbrooke
−Removed: Capital, a venture capital group dedicated to investing in leading, early stage health and wellness companies.
−Removed: founder and former CEO of South Beach Beverage Company, the maker of nutritionally enhanced teas and juices marketed under the
−Removed: brand name SoBe.
−Removed: The company was sold to PepsiCo in 2001 for $370 million and in the same year Ernst and Young named Mr.
−Removed: National Entrepreneur of the Year in the consumer products category for his work with SoBe.
+Added: Bello also served as Principal and General Partner at Sherbrooke Capital, a venture
+Added: capital group dedicated to investing in leading, early stage health and wellness companies.
+Added: Bello is the founder and former CEO of
+Added: South Beach Beverage Company, the maker of nutritionally enhanced teas and juices marketed under the brand name SoBe.
+Added: The company was
+Added: sold to PepsiCo in 2001 for $370 million and in the same year Ernst and Young named Mr.
+Added: Bello National Entrepreneur of the Year in the
+Added: consumer products category for his work with SoBe.
Before founding SoBe, Mr.
−Removed: fourteen years at National Football League Properties, the marketing arm of the NFL and served as its President from 1986 to 1993.
+Added: Bello spent fourteen years at National Football League Properties,
+Added: the marketing arm of the NFL and served as its President from 1986 to 1993.
As the President, Mr.
−Removed: Bello has been credited for building NFL Properties into a sports marketing leader and creating the model
−Removed: by which every major sports league now operates.
−Removed: Prior to working for the NFL, Mr.
−Removed: Bello served in marketing and strategic planning
−Removed: capacities at the Pepsi Cola Division of PepsiCo Inc.
−Removed: and in product management roles for General Foods Corporation on the Sanka
−Removed: and Maxwell House brands.
+Added: Bello has been credited for building
+Added: NFL Properties into a sports marketing leader and creating the model by which every major sports league now operates.
+Added: Prior to working
+Added: for the NFL, Mr.
+Added: Bello served in marketing and strategic planning capacities at the Pepsi Cola Division of PepsiCo Inc.
+Added: and in product
+Added: management roles for General Foods Corporation on the Sanka and Maxwell House brands.
As a board chair, Mr.
−Removed: Bello has also worked with IZZE in brand building, marketing and strategic planning
+Added: Bello has also worked with
+Added: IZZE in brand building, marketing and strategic planning capacities.
That brand was also sold to PepsiCo.
−Removed: Bello earned his BA from Tufts University, cum laude, and received his MBA from the Tuck School of business at Dartmouth College
−Removed: as an Edward Tuck Scholar.
−Removed: Bello is extensively involved in non-profit work and currently serves as a Tufts University Trustee
−Removed: and advisory board member (athletics) and the Veteran Heritage Project in Scottsdale, Arizona.
−Removed: Bello also serves on the board
−Removed: of Rockford Fosgate, a seller of OEM audio equipment, and is executive director of Eye Therapies which has licensed its technology
−Removed: to Bausch and Lomb, who markets a redness reduction eye drop under the Lumify brand name.
+Added: Bello earned his BA from Tufts University, cum laude, and received his MBA from the Tuck School of business at Dartmouth College as an
+Added: Edward Tuck Scholar.
+Added: Bello is extensively involved in non-profit work and currently serves as a Tufts University Trustee and advisory
+Added: board member (athletics) and the Veteran Heritage Project in Scottsdale, Arizona.
+Added: Bello also serves on the board of Rockford Fosgate,
+Added: a seller of OEM audio equipment, and is executive director of Eye Therapies which has licensed its technology to Bausch and Lomb, who
+Added: markets a redness reduction eye drop under the Lumify brand name.
Bass has served as a director since September 29, 2017, is Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation
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America LLC, commonly referred to as the PlayStation business of Sony where he joined in 1995 as Vice President of Finance.
−Removed: Bass has more than thirty-five years of financial and international management experience and was responsible for all of Sony’s
−Removed: financial operations and controls including general accounting and financial reporting, planning, analysis and systems, treasury
−Removed: and risk management, internal audit, and federal, state and local income taxes.
−Removed: Prior experience includes holding several senior
−Removed: management positions encompassing fourteen years with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, gaining international experience running operations
−Removed: in parts of Asia and Europe.
+Added: has more than thirty-five years of financial and international management experience and was responsible for all of Sony’s financial
+Added: operations and controls including general accounting and financial reporting, planning, analysis and systems, treasury and risk management,
+Added: internal audit, and federal, state and local income taxes.
+Added: Prior experience includes holding several senior management positions encompassing
+Added: fourteen years with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, gaining international experience running operations in parts of Asia and Europe.
Bass also spent two years at Wang Laboratories as a Divisional Controller.
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firm, Haskins and Sells, now Deloitte & Touche.
−Removed: Bass received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting
−Removed: and finance from Pace University, New York City.
−Removed: He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of
−Removed: Certified Public Accountants.
−Removed: Jaffe has served as a director since October 19, 2016, is Chairman of the Governance Committee and a member of the Audit
−Removed: and Compensation Committees.
+Added: Bass received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting and
+Added: finance from Pace University, New York City.
+Added: He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified
+Added: Public Accountants.
+Added: Jaffe has served as a director since October 19, 2016, is Chairman of the Governance Committee and a member of the Audit and
+Added: Compensation Committees.
Since August 2014, Mr.
−Removed: Jaffe is an Executive-in-Residence and Clinical Faculty at the Fred Kiesner
−Removed: Center for Entrepreneurship, Loyola Marymount University.
+Added: Jaffe is an Executive-in-Residence and Clinical Faculty at the Fred Kiesner Center for
+Added: Entrepreneurship, Loyola Marymount University.
He is also a technology futurist, Executive Coach and Public Speaker.
−Removed: Since January 2010 Mr.
+Added: Since January 2010,
Jaffe has served on the board of FitLife Brands Inc.
−Removed: (FTLF:OTCBB) and serves on its audit, compensation
−Removed: and governance committees.
−Removed: Since 2006 he has served on the board of directors of York Telecom, a private company, and serves on
−Removed: its compensation and governance committees.
+Added: (FTLF:OTCBB) and serves on its audit, compensation and governance committees.
+Added: Since 2006 he has served on the board of directors of York Telecom, a private company, and serves on its compensation and governance
From 2006 to 2008 Mr.
−Removed: Jaffe was Interim Chief Executive Officer and President of Oxford
−Removed: Jaffe has also served in executive management positions with Verso Technologies, Inc., Wireone Technologies, Inc.,
−Removed: Picturetel Corporation, and he was also previously a Managing Director of Arthur Andersen.
−Removed: Jaffe was the co-founder of MovieMe
−Removed: Jaffe also served on the Board of Directors of Benihana, Inc.
+Added: Jaffe was Interim Chief Executive Officer and President of Oxford Media, Inc.
+Added: Jaffe has also served
+Added: in executive management positions with Verso Technologies, Inc., Wireone Technologies, Inc., Picturetel Corporation, and he was also
+Added: previously a Managing Director of Arthur Andersen.
+Added: Jaffe was the co-founder of MovieMe Network.
+Added: Jaffe also served on the Board
+Added: of Directors of Benihana, Inc.
as its lead independent director from 2004 to 2012.
−Removed: Jaffe is a graduate of the Stanford Business School Executive Program, holds a Bachelor of Science from LaSalle University and
−Removed: holds a Masters Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors, a public company director
−Removed: education and credentialing program.
−Removed: Grossman has served as a director since September 29, 2017, serves as Chairman of the Compensation Committee and is
−Removed: also a member of the Audit and Governance Committees.
−Removed: Grossman has nearly two decades of investing and advisory experience
−Removed: in both public and private companies undergoing significant change.
−Removed: Grossman is the founder and CEO of Vindico Capital LLC,
−Removed: a value-oriented investment firm that invests in public company transformations in partnership with management.
−Removed: Prior to Vindico,
−Removed: Grossman was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Magnetar Capital, a $13 billion multi-strategy alternative asset manager, which
−Removed: he first joined in 2006.
−Removed: Prior to Magnetar, Mr.
−Removed: Grossman worked at Soros Fund Management in its Private Equity division and Merrill
−Removed: Lynch in its investment banking group.
−Removed: In addition, Mr.
−Removed: Grossman is a non-operating partner and current Board Member at Zeitguide.
−Removed: Grossman received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Columbia University where he majored
−Removed: in economics.
+Added: Jaffe is a graduate of the Stanford Business School Executive Program, holds a Bachelor of Science from LaSalle University and holds
+Added: a Masters Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors, a public company director education and
+Added: credentialing program.
Imbrogno, Jr.
has served as a director since August 7, 2019.
−Removed: He served a 40-year tenure at PepsiCo, bringing extensive expertise
−Removed: in beverage supply chain and management.
+Added: He served a 40-year tenure at PepsiCo, bringing extensive
+Added: expertise in beverage supply chain and management.
At PepsiCo he served in a variety of field operating assignments and staff positions
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In this role he was responsible for Pepsi-Cola’s
−Removed: worldwide beverage quality, concentrate operations, research & development and contract manufacturing, reporting directly
−Removed: to the heads of Pepsi-Cola North America and PepsiCo Beverages International.
−Removed: Since Imbrogno’s retirement from PepsiCo,
−Removed: he has consulted for multiple companies including PepsiCo.
−Removed: In 2014, Louis Imbrogno Jr.
−Removed: served as Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer of Constar International, Inc.
−Removed: for a six-month period during a bankruptcy proceeding and subsequent sale in
−Removed: a court administered public auction.
−Removed: He was not an executive officer of the company prior to the initiation of the bankruptcy
−Removed: Except as described above, to the best
−Removed: of our knowledge, none of our executive officers or directors are parties to any material proceedings adverse to Reed’s,
−Removed: have any material interest adverse to Reed’s or have, during the past ten years been subject to legal or regulatory proceedings
−Removed: required to be disclosed hereunder.
−Removed: Family Relationships
−Removed: There are no family relationships between
−Removed: any of our executive officers and directors.
−Removed: Audit Committee of the Board
−Removed: The Audit Committee was formed in January
−Removed: The board has determined that each member of our Audit Committee is an “independent director” as defined by
−Removed: Rule 5605(a)(2) of The NASDAQ Stock Market Rules and that members of the Audit Committee are independent under the additional
−Removed: requirements of Rule 10A-3(b)(1) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”).
−Removed: The board has determined
−Removed: Bass meets SEC requirements of an “audit committee financial expert” within the meaning of the Sarbanes Oxley
−Removed: Act of 2002, Section 407(b).
+Added: worldwide beverage quality, concentrate operations, research & development and contract manufacturing, reporting directly to the
+Added: heads of Pepsi-Cola North America and PepsiCo Beverages International.
+Added: Imbrogno’s retirement from PepsiCo, he
+Added: has consulted for multiple companies including PepsiCo.
+Added: Kallman has served as a director since December 30, 2021.
+Added: Kallman is the founder of Boston Harbor Distillery, LLC,
+Added: makers of craft whiskey, gin, rum, liqueurs, and other inventive spirits, and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since 2012.
+Added: 1984 she co-founded The Boston Beer Company (NYSE:
+Added: SAM) and served as EVP, overseeing sales & marketing as well as the company’s
+Added: human capital.
+Added: Kallman was instrumental in paving the way for craft beer acceptance by making it available throughout the US while educating
+Added: consumers on American craft beer superiority.
+Added: In addition, as the pioneering woman in the beer industry, she was able to lead the way
+Added: for other women to earn the respect and credibility they deserve.
+Added: Zaltzman has served as a director since March 21, 2022.
+Added: Zaltzman is the founder and managing member of Union Square Park
+Added: Capital Management, LLC (“USPCM”), an SEC Registered Investment Adviser firm and is also the managing member of Union Square
+Added: Park GP (“USPGP”).
+Added: USPCM and USPGP serve as the investment manager and general partner to Union Square Park Partners, LP
+Added: (“USPP Fund”), respectively.
+Added: Foregoing entities hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Union Square Entities”.
+Added: Prior to founding USPCM and USPGP in April 2015, Mr.
+Added: Zaltzman worked at various major banks and investment firms for over twenty years.
+Added: Zaltzman received an M.B.A.
+Added: degree from Columbia Business School in 1997 and a B.S.B.A.
+Added: degree from the University of Denver in 1992.
+Added: 2014, Louis Imbrogno Jr.
+Added: served as Chief Executive Officer of Constar International, Inc.
+Added: for a six-month period during a bankruptcy
+Added: proceeding and subsequent sale in a court administered public auction.
+Added: He was not an executive officer of the company prior to the initiation
+Added: of the bankruptcy proceedings.
+Added: as described above, to the best of our knowledge, none of our executive officers or directors are parties to any material proceedings
+Added: adverse to Reed’s, have any material interest adverse to Reed’s or have, during the past ten years been subject to legal
+Added: or regulatory proceedings required to be disclosed hereunder.
+Added: Relationships
+Added: are no family relationships between any of our executive officers and directors.
+Added: Committee of the Board
+Added: Audit Committee was formed in January 2007.
+Added: The board has determined that each member of our Audit Committee is an “independent
+Added: director” as defined by Rule 5605(a)(2) of The NASDAQ Stock Market Rules and that members of the Audit Committee are independent
+Added: under the additional requirements of Rule 10A-3(b)(1) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”).
+Added: board has determined James C.
+Added: Bass meets SEC requirements of an “audit committee financial expert” within the meaning of
+Added: the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, Section 407(b).
In addition, the board determined that (i) none of the Audit Committee members have participated
−Removed: in the preparation of the financial statements of the company at any time during the past three years and (2) Audit Committee
−Removed: members are able to read and understand fundamental financial statements.
−Removed: Additionally, we intend to continue to have at least
−Removed: one member of the Audit Committee whose experience or background results in the individual’s financial sophistication.
−Removed: Audit Committee charter is posted on our website at www.reedsinc.com.
−Removed: Chief Executive Officer and all senior financial officers, including the Chief Financial Officer, are bound by a Code of Ethics
−Removed: that complies with Item 406 of Regulation S-B of the Exchange Act.
+Added: in the preparation of the financial statements of the company at any time during the past three years and (2) Audit Committee members
+Added: are able to read and understand fundamental financial statements.
+Added: Additionally, we intend to continue to have at least one member of
+Added: the Audit Committee whose experience or background results in the individual’s financial sophistication.
+Added: The Audit Committee charter
+Added: is posted on our website at www.reedsinc.com.
+Added: Chief Executive Officer and all senior financial officers, including the Chief Financial Officer, are bound by a Code of Ethics that
+Added: complies with Item 406 of Regulation S-B of the Exchange Act.
Our Code of Ethics is posted on our website at http://investor.reedsinc.com .
−Removed: Compliance with Section 16(a)
−Removed: of the Exchange Act
−Removed: 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) requires our directors and executive
−Removed: officers and beneficial holders of more than 10% of our common stock to file with the SEC initial reports of ownership and reports
−Removed: of changes in ownership of our equity securities.
−Removed: To our knowledge, based solely upon a review
−Removed: of Forms 3 and 4 and amendments thereto furnished to Reed’s under 17 CFR 240.16a-3(e) during our fiscal year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2020 the following individuals each filed one late Form 4 representing one transaction (unless otherwise noted):
−Removed: Spisak, Norman E.
−Removed: Snyder, Jr., John Bello, Neal Cohane.
+Added: with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act
+Added: 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) requires our directors and executive officers
+Added: and beneficial holders of more than 10% of our common stock to file with the SEC initial reports of ownership and reports of changes
+Added: in ownership of our equity securities.
+Added: our knowledge, based solely upon a review of Forms 3 and 4 and amendments thereto furnished to Reed’s under 17 CFR 240.16a-3(e)
+Added: during our fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 the following individuals each filed one late Form 4 representing one transaction (unless
+Added: otherwise noted):
+Added: John Bello(2).
None of our officers or directors filed Form 5.
−Removed: Stockholder Director Nomination Procedures
−Removed: There have not been any material changes
−Removed: to the procedures by which stockholders may recommend nominees to the our board of directors.
+Added: Director Nomination Procedures
+Added: have not been any material changes to the procedures by which stockholders may recommend nominees to our board of directors.
Executive Compensation
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during the reported periods:
−Removed: and Principal Position
−Removed: Executive Officer (Former Chief Operating Officer)
−Removed: Interim Chief Executive Officer, Chairman) (3)
−Removed: Financial Officer
−Removed: Sales Officer
+Added: Name and Principal Position
+Added: Chief Executive Officer (Former Chief Operating Officer)
+Added: Chief Financial Officer
+Added: Chief Sales Officer
The amounts represent the fair value for share-based payment awards issued during the year.
−Removed: The award is calculated on the date
−Removed: of grant in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards.
+Added: The award is calculated on the date of grant
+Added: in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards.
Other compensation includes both cash payments and the estimated value of the use of company assets.
−Removed: Bello served as Interim Chief Executive Officer from September 30, 2019 through February 29, 2020.
−Removed: His director compensation
−Removed: was suspended during the period as his service as Interim Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: Director compensation of $37,500 and consulting
−Removed: fees of $66,667.
−Removed: Bello was issued 200,000 RSAs as compensation for his services as Interim Chief Executive Officer on February
−Removed: 25, 2020 for his service from September 30, 2019 through February 29, 2020.
−Removed: Pro-rata portion of this award earned during 2019
−Removed: is included in this table.
−Removed: Bello’s 2020 Director fees and compensation are also reported under the Director Compensation
board appointed Mr.
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Snyder succeeded John J.
−Removed: who served as Interim Chief Executive Officer from September 30, 2019 through February 29, 2020.
+Added: served as Interim Chief Executive Officer from September 30, 2019 through February 29, 2020.
The board granted Mr.
−Removed: a one-time bonus of 150,000 RSAs vesting March 1, 2020, subject to the conditions and limitations of Reed’s Second Amended
−Removed: and Restated 2017 Incentive Compensation Plan, in conjunction with his promotion.
−Removed: Pursuant his employment agreement, on February
−Removed: 25, 2020, he received an equity award of 446,000 stock options, one-half scheduled to vest in equal increments on an annual basis
−Removed: for four years and remainder to vest based on performance criteria to be determined by the board of directors (or compensation
−Removed: committee of the board).
−Removed: Snyder’s performance-based cash bonus was set at a target amount of 30% of base salary for
−Removed: the term of his service as Chief Operating Officer.
−Removed: The agreement provided for acceleration of equity grants triggered by a “change
−Removed: of control”, as defined in the agreement and contains confidentiality, invention assignment and non-solicitation covenants.
−Removed: Snyder is also eligible to participate in the company’s benefit plans available to its executive officers.
+Added: Snyder a one-time
+Added: bonus of 150,000 RSAs vesting March 1, 2020, subject to the conditions and limitations of Reed’s Second Amended and Restated 2017
+Added: Incentive Compensation Plan, in conjunction with his promotion.
+Added: Pursuant his employment agreement, on February 25, 2020, he received
+Added: an equity award of 446,000 stock options, one-half scheduled to vest in equal increments on an annual basis for four years and remainder
+Added: to vest based on performance criteria to be determined by the board of directors (or compensation committee of the board).
+Added: performance-based cash bonus was set at a target amount of 30% of base salary for the term of his service as Chief Operating Officer.
+Added: The agreement provided for acceleration of equity grants triggered by a “change of control”, as defined in the agreement
+Added: and contains confidentiality, invention assignment and non-solicitation covenants.
+Added: Snyder is also eligible to participate in the
+Added: company’s benefit plans available to its executive officers.
June 24, 2020, we entered into an amended and restated employment agreement with Norman E.
−Removed: reflecting his promotion
−Removed: to Chief Executive Officer on March 1, 2020.
−Removed: The term of the agreement continues through March 1, 2023 and will automatically
−Removed: renew for an additional one-year term, unless earlier terminated or unless notice of non-renewal is submitted by either party
−Removed: 90 days in advance.
−Removed: Pursuant to the agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Snyder’s base salary of $300,000 per year increased to $350,000 on September
−Removed: 30, 2020 based on satisfaction of certain objectives and to $360,500 on March 1, 2021.
−Removed: Snyder is also eligible to receive
−Removed: a performance-based cash bonus at a target amount of 50% of his base salary in effect.
−Removed: He is also eligible to participate in Reed’s
−Removed: other benefit plans available to its executive officers.
−Removed: The agreement provides for acceleration of equity grants triggered by
−Removed: a “change of control”, as defined in the agreement and contains customary, non-competition, confidentiality, invention
−Removed: assignment and non-solicitation covenants.
−Removed: Snyder is also entitled to six months’ severance benefits in the event of
−Removed: termination without cause by Reed’s or for good reason by Mr.
+Added: reflecting his promotion to Chief
+Added: Executive Officer on March 1, 2020.
+Added: The term of the agreement continues through March 1, 2023 and will automatically renew for an additional
+Added: one-year term, unless earlier terminated or unless notice of non-renewal is submitted by either party 90 days in advance.
+Added: the agreement, Mr.
+Added: Snyder’s base salary of $300,000 per year increased to $350,000 on September 30, 2020 based on satisfaction
+Added: of certain objectives and to $360,500 on March 1, 2021.
+Added: Snyder is also eligible to receive a performance-based cash bonus at a target
+Added: amount of 50% of his base salary in effect.
+Added: He is also eligible to participate in Reed’s other benefit plans available to its executive
+Added: The agreement provides for acceleration of equity grants triggered by a “change of control”, as defined in the
+Added: agreement and contains customary, non-competition, confidentiality, invention assignment and non-solicitation covenants.
+Added: also entitled to six months’ severance benefits in the event of termination without cause by Reed’s or for good reason by
Snyder, subject to execution of a release.
−Removed: February 19, 2020 the board of directors granted John Bello 200,000 RSAs, vesting March 1, 2020, as compensation for his services
−Removed: as Interim Chief Executive from September 30, 2019 through February 29, 2020.
entered into an at-will employment agreement with Thomas J.
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The agreement may be terminated by the Company or Mr.
−Removed: Spisak, with or without notice and with or without cause,
−Removed: pursuant to the terms of the agreement.
−Removed: Spisak’s base annual base salary was increased to $257,500 from $250,000 effective
−Removed: March 1, 2020.
+Added: Spisak, with or without notice and with or without cause, pursuant
+Added: to the terms of the agreement.
+Added: Spisak’s base annual base salary was increased to $257,500 from $250,000 effective March 1,
Spisak is also eligible to receive performance-based cash bonus at a target amount of 30% of his base salary.
−Removed: Pursuant to his employment agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Spisak received an initial equity award of 150,000 incentive stock options and 150,000
−Removed: restricted stock awards on March 3, 2020, one-half of the award (75,000 options and 75,000 restricted stock awards) vesting in
−Removed: equal increments on an annual basis for four years and the remainder (75,000 options and 75,000 restricted stock awards) vesting
−Removed: based on performance criteria to be determined by the board of directors or compensation committee.
−Removed: Spisak is also eligible
−Removed: to participate in Reed’s other benefit plans available to its executive officers.
−Removed: The agreement contains customary confidentiality,
−Removed: non-competition and invention assignment covenants.
−Removed: Salary Arrangements of Other Executive Officers
−Removed: Cohane receives an annual salary which increased from $210,000 to $250,000 on March 1, 2021 with a 30% bonus target, and he is
−Removed: eligible to participate in benefits offered by the company to its executive officers.
−Removed: Hubli receives an annual salary of $200,000 with a 30% bonus target, and he is eligible to participate in benefits offered
−Removed: by the company to its executive officers.
−Removed: Reed receives an annual salary of $113,500.
+Added: Pursuant to his
+Added: employment agreement, Mr.
+Added: Spisak received an initial equity award of 150,000 incentive stock options and 150,000 restricted stock awards
+Added: on March 3, 2020, one-half of the award (75,000 options and 75,000 restricted stock awards) vesting in equal increments on an annual
+Added: basis for four years and the remainder (75,000 options and 75,000 restricted stock awards) vesting based on performance criteria to be
+Added: determined by the board of directors or compensation committee.
+Added: Spisak is also eligible to participate in Reed’s other benefit
+Added: plans available to its executive officers.
+Added: The agreement contains customary confidentiality, non-competition and invention assignment
+Added: Salary Arrangements of Other Named Executive Officers
+Added: Cohane receives an annual salary which increased from $210,000 to $250,000 on March 1, 2021 with a 30% bonus target, and he is eligible
+Added: to participate in benefits offered by the company to its executive officers.
Change-in-Control
+Added: General Policy
is our general policy that awards that vest over a term greater one-year include provisions for acceleration upon a change-in-control.
+Added: Equity Compensation Plans
2017 Plan provides the consequences of a change-in-control provisions may be set forth in individual award agreements.
−Removed: of the 2020 Plan, a “change in control” generally includes (a) the acquisition of more than 50% of the company’s
+Added: For purposes of
+Added: the 2020 Plan, a “change in control” generally includes (a) the acquisition of more than 50% of the company’s common
+Added: stock, (b) the acquisition within a twelve-month period of 30% or more of the Company’s common stock, (c) the replacement of a
+Added: majority of the board of directors, within a twelve-month period, by directors whose election was not endorsed by the incumbent board,
+Added: or (d) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets.
+Added: 2020 Plan, as amended, provides that the Compensation Committee of the board retains discretion under the 2020 Plan to determine the
+Added: treatment of outstanding awards in connection with a change in control of the Company, subject to the terms of contractual agreements
+Added: of executive officers.
+Added: For example, the Compensation Committee may cause awards granted under the 2020 Plan to vest upon a change in
+Added: control, may cancel awards in exchange for a payment of cash (or without a payment, in the case of stock options or SARs with an exercise
+Added: price that exceeds fair market value), or may cause awards to be continued or substituted in connection with a change in control.
+Added: purposes of the 2020 Plan, a “change in control” generally includes (a) the acquisition of more than 50% of the company’s
common stock, (b) the acquisition within a twelve-month period of 30% or more of the company’s common stock, (c) the replacement
−Removed: of a majority of the board of directors, within a twelve-month period, by directors whose election was not endorsed by the incumbent
−Removed: board, or (d) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets.
+Added: of a majority of the board of directors, within a twelve-month period, by directors whose election was not endorsed by the incumbent board
+Added: of directors, or (d) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the company’s assets.
+Added: The full definition of “change
+Added: in control” is set out in the 2020 Plan.
+Added: General provisions of the 2017 Plan and 2020 Plan are subject to contractual
+Added: modifications that may be set forth in executive employment agreements and award agreements.
Equity Awards at Year-End
−Removed: following table sets forth information regarding unexercised options and equity incentive plan awards for each Named Executive
−Removed: Officer outstanding as of December 31, 2020:
+Added: following table sets forth information regarding unexercised options and equity incentive plan awards for each Named Executive Officer
+Added: outstanding as of December 31, 2021:
Options (#) Exercisable
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Market or Payout Value of Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have Not Vested ($)
−Removed: (Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer, Former Chief Operating Officer)
−Removed: Former Interim Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer, Chairman
+Added: Executive Officer, Former Chief Operating Officer)
Financial Officer)
−Removed: (Chief Sales Officer)
−Removed: options will vest in 2021.
−Removed: options vest 25% per year beginning in 2021.
−Removed: options vest in accordance with performance criteria established by the board of directors.
following table summarizes the compensation paid to our non-employee directors for the year ended December 31, 2021:
+Added: Fees Earned or
+Added: Stock Awards (1)
Incentive Plan
−Removed: Doherty, III (3)
−Removed: Imbrogno, Jr.
+Added: Louis Imbrogno, Jr.
+Added: Rhonda Kallman (4)
amounts represent the fair value of restricted stock awards granted during the year.
−Removed: The award is calculated on the date of
−Removed: grant in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards, excluding any impact of assumed forfeiture rates.
−Removed: Bello’s 2020 director fees and awards are also reported under the Executive Compensation Table.
−Removed: Doherty, III resigned from his position as director effective December 31, 2020.
+Added: The award is calculated on the date of grant
+Added: in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards, excluding any impact of assumed forfeiture rates.
+Added: Grossman resigned from his position as director
+Added: effective December 30, 2021.
+Added: Rhonda Kallman was elected to the board on December
+Added: 30, 2021 at the Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: 2021 Annual Stockholders Meeting.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners, Management and Related Stockholder Matters
−Removed: following table sets forth certain information regarding our shares of common stock beneficially owned as of March 22,
−Removed: 2021 for (i) each Named Executive Officer and director, and (ii) all Named Executive officers and directors as a group and (iii)
−Removed: each stockholder known to be the beneficial owner of 5% or more of our outstanding shares of common stock.
−Removed: A person is considered
−Removed: to beneficially own any shares (i) over which such person, directly or indirectly, exercises sole or shared voting or investment
−Removed: power or (ii) of which such person has the right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time within 60 days through an exercise
−Removed: of stock options or warrants or otherwise.
−Removed: Unless otherwise indicated, voting and investment power relating to the shares shown
−Removed: in the table for our directors and executive officers is exercised solely by the beneficial owner or shared by the owner and the
−Removed: owner’s spouse or children.
−Removed: purposes of this table, a person or group of persons is deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of any shares of common
−Removed: stock that such person has the right to acquire within 60 days of March 22, 2021.
−Removed: For purposes of computing the percentage
−Removed: of outstanding shares of our common stock held by each person or group of persons named above, any shares that such person or
−Removed: persons has the right to acquire within 60 days of March 22, 2021 is deemed to be outstanding but is not deemed to be outstanding
−Removed: for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person.
−Removed: The inclusion herein of any shares listed as beneficially
−Removed: owned does not constitute an admission of beneficial ownership.
−Removed: Except as otherwise indicated below, the persons named in the
−Removed: table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock held by them.
−Removed: Unless otherwise indicated,
−Removed: the principal address of each listed executive officer and director is 201 Merritt 7 Corporate Park, Norwalk, Connecticut 06851.
−Removed: Beneficial Owner
−Removed: and Named Executive Officers
+Added: following table sets forth certain information regarding our shares of common stock beneficially owned as of March 22, 2022 for (i) each
+Added: Named Executive Officer and director, and (ii) all Named Executive officers and directors as a group and (iii) each stockholder known
+Added: to be the beneficial owner of 5% or more of our outstanding shares of common stock.
+Added: A person is considered to beneficially own any shares
+Added: (i) over which such person, directly or indirectly, exercises sole or shared voting or investment power or (ii) of which such person
+Added: has the right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time within 60 days through an exercise of stock options or warrants or otherwise.
+Added: Unless otherwise indicated, voting and investment power relating to the shares shown in the table for our directors and executive officers
+Added: is exercised solely by the beneficial owner or shared by the owner and the owner’s spouse or children.
+Added: purposes of this table, a person or group of persons is deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of any shares of common stock
+Added: that such person has the right to acquire within 60 days of March 22, 2022.
+Added: For purposes of computing the percentage of outstanding shares
+Added: of our common stock held by each person or group of persons named above, any shares that such person or persons has the right to acquire
+Added: within 60 days of March 22, 2022 is deemed to be outstanding but is not deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage
+Added: ownership of any other person.
+Added: The inclusion herein of any shares listed as beneficially owned does not constitute an admission of beneficial
+Added: Except as otherwise indicated below, the persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to
+Added: all shares of common stock held by them.
+Added: Unless otherwise indicated, the principal address of each listed executive officer and director
+Added: is 201 Merritt 7 Corporate Park, Norwalk, Connecticut 06851.
+Added: Named Beneficial Owner
+Added: Directors and Named Executive Officers
+Added: Number of Shares
Beneficially Owned
+Added: Percentage of
Shares Beneficially
−Removed: and Named Executive Officers as a group (8 persons)
+Added: Neal Cohane (4)
+Added: Louis Imbrogno (7)
+Added: Lewis Jaffe (8)
+Added: Rhonda Kallman (10)
+Added: Directors and Named Executive Officers as a group (9 persons)
5% or greater stockholders
−Removed: Harbor Reed SPV LLC (10)
−Removed: Square Park Partners
−Removed: Asset Management Partners Inc
−Removed: Based on 86,317,096 shares outstanding as of December 31, 2020.
−Removed: Includes 100,000 shares issuable upon exercise of currently-exercisable options, 24, 590 RSAs from 2021 Board Compensation, 400,000
−Removed: shares of restricted common stock, and warrants of 133,201.
+Added: Union Square Entities (11)
+Added: Based on 112,842,146 shares outstanding as of March 22, 2022.
+Added: Includes 50,000 shares issuable upon exercise of currently-exercisable options, 80,344 RSAs from 2022 Board Compensation, and
+Added: warrants of 1,500,000.
Includes 656,438 shares issuable upon exercise of currently-exercisable options.
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Includes 80,000 shares issuable upon exercise of currently-exercisable options and 80,344 RSAs from 2022 Board Compensation.
−Removed: Includes 80,000 shares issuable upon exercise of currently-exercisable
−Removed: options and 24,590 RSAs from 2021 Board Compensation.
−Removed: Includes 167,917 shares issuable upon exercise of currently-exercisable
+Added: Includes 243,466 shares issuable upon exercise of currently-exercisable options.
Includes 80,000 shares issuable upon exercise of currently-exercisable options and 80,344 RSAs from 2022 Board Compensation
Includes 80,000 shares issuable upon exercise of currently-exercisable options and 80,344 RSAs from 2022 Board Compensation.
−Removed: Principal address is 280 Congress Street, 12th Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02210.
−Removed: Includes 2,810,000 shares of common stock issuable
−Removed: upon exercise of currently-exercisable warrants.
−Removed: Securities Authorized for Issuance under
−Removed: Equity Compensation Plans
−Removed: On September 29, 2017, the 2017 Incentive
−Removed: Compensation Plan for 3,000,000 shares was approved by our shareholders.
−Removed: On December 13, 2018 the Amended and Restated 2017 Incentive
−Removed: Compensation Plan was approved by our shareholders increasing the number of shares issuable by 3,500,000 to 6,500,000.
−Removed: 16, 2019, the Second Amended and Restated 2017 Incentive Compensation Plan (“2017 Plan”) was approved by our shareholders,
−Removed: increasing the number of shares issuable by 1,000,000 to 7,500,000.
−Removed: On December 21, 2020, the 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (“2020
−Removed: Plan”) for 8,500,000 shares was approved by our shareholders.
−Removed: The 2020 Plan replaced the 2017 Plan, which will expire by
−Removed: its terms on September 30, 2027.
−Removed: We have discontinued the 2017 Plan and all plans that preceded the 2017 Plan and will not issue
−Removed: any new awards under these prior plans, although awards granted under these plans will remain in effect.
−Removed: The following table provides information,
−Removed: as of December 31, 2020, with respect to equity securities authorized for issuance under compensation plans:
−Removed: Number of Securities to be Issued Upon Exercise of Outstanding Options, Warrants
−Removed: Weighted-Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights
−Removed: Number of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation
−Removed: Plans (excluding securities
+Added: On March 21, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Company, upon recommendation from its governance committee, expanded the board from
+Added: six to seven members and appointed Leon M.
+Added: Zaltzman to serve as director.
+Added: Zaltzman is voting and dispositive control over shares
+Added: held by the Union Square Entities.
+Added: Includes 80,344 RSAs from 2022 Board Compensation
+Added: Principal address is 1120 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 1512, New York, NY 10036.
+Added: Zaltzman is the founder and managing member
+Added: of Union Square Park Capital Management, LLC (“USPCM”), an SEC Registered Investment Adviser firm and is also the managing
+Added: member of Union Square Park GP (“USPGP”).
+Added: USPCM and USPGP serve as the investment manager and general partner to Union Square
+Added: Park Partners, LP (“USPP Fund”), respectively.
+Added: Foregoing entities hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Union
+Added: Square Entities Mr.
+Added: Zaltzman has voting and dispositive control over shares held by the Union Square Entities.
+Added: Does not include 5,357,143
+Added: shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of certain warrants, which may not be exercised until September 27, 2022 and are subject
+Added: to a 19.99% beneficial ownership blocker.
+Added: Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
+Added: September 29, 2017, the 2017 Incentive Compensation Plan for 3,000,000 shares was approved by our shareholders.
+Added: On December 13, 2018
+Added: the Amended and Restated 2017 Incentive Compensation Plan was approved by our shareholders increasing the number of shares issuable by
+Added: 3,500,000 to 6,500,000.
+Added: On December 16, 2019, the Second Amended and Restated 2017 Incentive Compensation Plan (“2017 Plan”)
+Added: was approved by our shareholders, increasing the number of shares issuable by 1,000,000 to 7,500,000.
+Added: December 21, 2020, the 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (“2020 Plan”) for 8,500,000 shares was approved by our shareholders.
+Added: 2020 Plan replaced the 2017 Plan, which would have expired by its terms on September 30, 2027.
+Added: On December 30, 2021, the Amended and
+Added: Restated 2020 Plan was adopted by our shareholders, increasing the 2020 Plan to 15,000,000 shares.
+Added: We have discontinued the 2017 Plan and all plans that preceded the 2017 Plan
+Added: and will not issue any new awards under these prior plans, although awards granted under these plans will remain in effect.
+Added: following table provides information, as of December 31, 2021, with respect to equity securities authorized for issuance under compensation
+Added: Number of Securities to be Issued Upon Exercise of Outstanding Options,
+Added: Warrants and Rights
+Added: Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options,
+Added: Warrants and Rights
+Added: Number of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans (excluding securities
Plan Category
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Relationships and Related Transactions
−Removed: board of directors has adopted written policies and procedures for the review of any transaction, arrangement or relationship
−Removed: between Reed’s and one of our executive officers, directors, director nominees or 5% or greater stockholders (or their immediate
−Removed: family members), each of whom we refer to as a “related person,” in which such related person has a direct or indirect
−Removed: material interest.
+Added: board of directors has adopted written policies and procedures for the review of any transaction, arrangement or relationship between
+Added: Reed’s and one of our executive officers, directors, director nominees or 5% or greater stockholders (or their immediate family
+Added: members), each of whom we refer to as a “related person,” in which such related person has a direct or indirect material
a related person proposes to enter into such a transaction, arrangement or relationship, defined as a “related party transaction,”
the related party must report the proposed related party transaction to our Chief Financial Officer.
−Removed: The policy calls for the
−Removed: proposed related party transaction to be reviewed and, if deemed appropriate, approved by the Governance Committee.
−Removed: Our Governance
−Removed: Committee is comprised of John Bello, Lewis Jaffe and Scott R.
+Added: The policy calls for the proposed
+Added: related party transaction to be reviewed and, if deemed appropriate, approved by the Governance Committee.
+Added: Our Governance Committee is
+Added: comprised of Lewis Jaffe and Rhonda Kallman.
Jaffe serves as Chairman.
−Removed: The board of directors
−Removed: has determined all of the members of the Governance Committee are independent under the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC.
−Removed: If practicable, the reporting, review and approval will occur prior to entry into the transaction.
−Removed: If advance review and approval
−Removed: is not practicable, the Governance Committee will review, and, in its discretion, may ratify the related party transaction.
−Removed: related party transactions that are ongoing in nature will be reviewed annually at a minimum.
−Removed: The related party transactions listed
−Removed: below were reviewed by the full board of directors.
−Removed: Prior to August 2005, we did not have independent directors on our board to
−Removed: review and approve related party transactions.
−Removed: The Governance Committee shall review future related party transactions.
+Added: The board of directors has determined both of
+Added: the members of the Governance Committee are independent under the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC.
+Added: If practicable, the reporting,
+Added: review and approval will occur prior to entry into the transaction.
+Added: If advance review and approval is not practicable, the Governance
+Added: Committee will review, and, in its discretion, may ratify the related party transaction.
+Added: Any related party transactions that are ongoing
+Added: in nature will be reviewed annually at a minimum.
+Added: The related party transactions listed below were reviewed by the full board of directors.
+Added: Prior to August 2005, we did not have independent directors on our board to review and approve related party transactions.
+Added: The Governance
+Added: Committee shall review future related party transactions.
following includes a summary of transactions since the beginning of fiscal 2021 or any currently proposed transaction, in which
−Removed: we were or are to be a participant and the amount involved exceeded or exceeds the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average
−Removed: of our total assets at year-end for the last two completed fiscal years and in which any related person had or will have a direct
−Removed: or indirect material interest (other than compensation described under “Executive Compensation”).
−Removed: We believe the terms
−Removed: obtained or consideration that we paid or received, as applicable, in connection with the transactions described below were comparable
−Removed: to or better than terms available or the amounts that would be paid or received, as applicable, in arm’s-length transactions.
+Added: we were or are to be a participant and the amount involved exceeded or exceeds the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of
+Added: our total assets at year-end for the last two completed fiscal years and in which any related person had or will have a direct or indirect
+Added: material interest (other than compensation described under “Executive Compensation”).
+Added: We believe the terms obtained or consideration
+Added: that we paid or received, as applicable, in connection with the transactions described below were comparable to or better than terms
+Added: available or the amounts that would be paid or received, as applicable, in arm’s-length transactions.
with California Custom Beverage, LLC (“CCB”)
−Removed: December 31, 2018, after completion of bidding process, Reed’s sold its beverage manufacturing equipment and private label
−Removed: beverage business for a purchase price of $1.25 million pursuant to an asset purchase agreement of the same date with California
−Removed: Custom Beverage, LLC (“CCB”), an entity owned by Christopher J.
−Removed: Reed, founder, Chief Innovation Officer and director
−Removed: Reed obtained debt financing from a commercial bank, PMC Financial Services, LLC, in the amount of $1,050,000.
−Removed: In addition, in support of the transaction, a group of current Reed’s stockholders, including Chairman John J.
−Removed: certain institutional investors, purchased 350,000 shares of common stock of REED from Christopher J.
−Removed: Reed at $2.00 per share,
−Removed: in a private transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933.
−Removed: The pricing was based on the
−Removed: higher of $2.00 per share or a 10% discount to the 5-day volume weighted average price ending December 28, 2018.
−Removed: part of the transaction, CCB assumed the monthly payments on our lease obligation for the Los Angeles manufacturing plant.
−Removed: release from the obligation by the lessor, however, is dependent upon CCB’s deposit of $1.2 million of security with the
+Added: part of the sale of our beverage manufacturing equipment and private label business to California Custom Beverage, LLC (“CCB”),
+Added: and entity owned by Christopher J.
+Added: Reed, our founder and former Chairman, director and most recently, Chief Innovation Officer, CCB assumed
+Added: the monthly payments on our lease obligation for the Los Angeles manufacturing plant.
+Added: Our release from the obligation by the lessor,
+Added: however, was dependent upon CCB’s deposit of $1.2 million of security with the lessor.
The deposit is secured by Mr.
−Removed: Reed’s pledge of common stock to the lessor and guaranteed personally by Mr.
−Removed: and his wife.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2020, $800 has been deposited with the lessor and Mr.
−Removed: Reed has placed approximately 363,000 pledged
−Removed: shares valued at $338 that remain pledged in in escrow in favor of lessor.
−Removed: plant equipment was sold to CCB on an “as-is, where is” basis.
−Removed: In addition, the parties entered into a 3-year co-packing
−Removed: contract for the production of Reed’s beverages in glass bottles at prevailing West Coast market rates.
−Removed: Certain transitional
−Removed: services were provided by Reed’s to CCB for 30 days.
−Removed: The transaction documents also contain customary protections for intellectual
−Removed: property, indemnification and non-competition provisions.
−Removed: in 2019, we began receiving a 5% royalty on CCB’s private label sales to existing customers for three years and a 5% referral
−Removed: fee on CCB’s private label sales to referred customers for three years.
+Added: pledge of common stock to the lessor and guaranteed personally by Mr.
+Added: Reed and his wife.
+Added: As of December 31, 2021, $800 has been deposited
+Added: with the lessor and Mr.
+Added: Reed has placed approximately 363,000 pledged shares valued at $131 that remain pledged in in escrow in favor
+Added: addition, we also entered into a 3-year co-packing contract for the production of Reed’s beverages in glass bottles at prevailing
+Added: West Coast market rates.
+Added: We are in the process of extending this agreement through the end of the year.
+Added: for a period of three years terminating December 31, 2021, we received a 5% royalty on CCB’s private label sales to
+Added: existing customers and a 5% referral fee on CCB’s private label sales to referred customers.
+Added: During the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded royalty revenue from CCB of $72 and $98, respectively.
+Added: December 31, 2020, the Company had an aggregate receivable balance from CCB of $682.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company
−Removed: recorded royalty revenue from CCB of $98.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded royalty revenue from CCB
−Removed: December 31, 2019, the Company had royalty revenue receivable from CCB of $128.
−Removed: In addition, at December 31, 2019, the Company
−Removed: has outstanding receivable from CCB of $228 consisting of inventory advances to CCB.
−Removed: The aggregate receivable from CCB at December
−Removed: 31, 2019 was $356.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company recorded royalty revenue receivable of $98, advanced inventory
−Removed: and equipment of $381, and reduced CCB receivable by $153 and reducing CCB payable of $153, leaving an aggregate receivable balance
−Removed: of $682 at December 31, 2020.
+Added: recorded royalty revenue receivable of $72, and advanced expenses of $179, leaving an aggregate receivable balance of $933 at December
December 31, 2021, and December 31, 2020, the Company had accounts payable due to CCB of $614 and $856, respectively.
−Removed: of Secured Convertible Subordinated Non-redeemable Note with Raptor/ Harbor Reeds SPV, LLC
−Removed: December 11, 2020, we entered into a Satisfaction, Settlement and Release Agreement (“Satisfaction Agreement”) with
−Removed: Raptor/ Harbor Reeds SPV, LLC (“Raptor”) satisfying all of our obligations to Raptor as our junior secured lender.
−Removed: Raptor is a related party.
−Removed: Doherty III, a former director of Reed’s, is a principal and member of Raptor.
−Removed: transaction was completed on December 15, 2020.
−Removed: to this transaction, our obligation under that certain Senior Secured Amended and Restated Subordinated Convertible Non-Redeemable
−Removed: Secured Note (“Subordinated Note”) dated October 4, 2018 in favor of Raptor, including accrued and unpaid interest
−Removed: through maturity on April 21, 2021, was approximately $5.5 million.
−Removed: full satisfaction of the Subordinated Note, including release of collateral, and termination of related junior lender documentation,
−Removed: we (a) paid Raptor $4,250,000 in cash, (b) issued to Raptor a 5-year warrant to purchase 1,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.0001
−Removed: par value, of Reed’s (“Common Stock”) with an exercise price of $0.644 (“Satisfaction Warrant”),
−Removed: and (c) issued to Raptor 1,339,286 shares of Common Stock upon conversion of $750,000.00 of the Subordinated Note at the reduced
−Removed: per share conversion price of $0.56.
−Removed: Satisfaction Agreement includes a mutual release of liability.
−Removed: The Satisfaction Warrant contains customary protection for stock
−Removed: splits, dividends and reclassifications and provides certain rights in the event of a “Fundamental Transaction” as
−Removed: therein defined.
−Removed: Pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement (“RRA”) dated December 11, 2020, the company also agreed
−Removed: to file a registration statement registering shares of Common Stock underlying the warrant for resale, provided however, sales
−Removed: under the registration statement may not commence until the 6th trading day after Reed’s files its Annual Report on Form
−Removed: 10-K for the period ending December 31, 2020 with the Securities Exchange Commission.
−Removed: senior lender, Rosenthal & Rosenthal Inc.
−Removed: (“Rosenthal”), a New York corporation consented to the settlement transaction
−Removed: subject to pay-down by Reed’s of senior credit line obligation to zero, in compliance with terms of existing financing documents,
−Removed: release of collateral securing the Subordinated Note and other customary requirements.
−Removed: to Financing Agreement
−Removed: March 11, 2021, we entered into an amendment (“Amendment”) to that certain Financing Agreement dated October 4, 2018,
−Removed: as amended or supplemented with our senior secured lender, Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc.
−Removed: (“Rosenthal”) releasing
−Removed: that irrevocable standby letter of credit by Daniel J.
+Added: Support Received from John J.
+Added: March 11, 2021, we entered into an amendment to that certain Financing Agreement dated October 4, 2018, as amended or supplemented with
+Added: our senior secured lender, Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc.
+Added: (“Rosenthal”) releasing and replacing that irrevocable
+Added: standby letter of credit by Daniel J.
Doherty, III and Daniel J.
−Removed: Doherty, III 2002 Family Trust in the amount
−Removed: of $1.5 million (“LC”), which served as financial collateral for certain obligations of Reed’s under the Rosenthal
−Removed: credit facility, with a two million dollar ($2,000,000) pledge of securities to Rosenthal by John J.
+Added: Doherty, III 2002 Family Trust in the amount of $1.5 million, which
+Added: served as financial collateral for certain obligations of Reed’s under the Rosenthal credit facility, with a two million dollar
+Added: ($2,000,000) pledge of securities to Rosenthal by John J.
Bello and Nancy E.
−Removed: as Co-Trustees of THE JOHN AND NANCY BELLO REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST, under trust agreement dated December 3, 2012, evidenced by
−Removed: that certain Pledge Agreement to Rosenthal, and as to which Rosenthal has a first and only perfected security interest by the
−Removed: Securities Account Control Agreement held by securities broker (“Bello Pledge”).
−Removed: Bello, current Chairman and former Interim Chief Executive Officer of Reed’s, is a related party.
−Removed: He is also a greater
−Removed: than 5% beneficial owner of Reed’s common stock.
−Removed: As consideration for the collateral support, Mr.
−Removed: Bello received 400,000
−Removed: shares of Reed’s restricted stock.
−Removed: Martin, daughter of a director of the Company, was employed as Vice President of Marketing during the years ended December 31,
−Removed: 2020 and 2019.
−Removed: Martin was paid approximately $215 and $161, respectively, for her services during the years ended December
−Removed: 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
−Removed: Director Independence
−Removed: As of the date of this Annual Report, our
−Removed: board has seven directors and the following four standing committees:
−Removed: an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee, a Governance
−Removed: Committee and an Operations Committee.
−Removed: The board, upon recommendation from the Compensation Committee, determined through 2020,
−Removed: each of John J.
−Removed: Bello, Lewis Jaffe, James C.
−Removed: Bass, Scott R.
−Removed: Grossman and Louis Imbrogno is an “independent director”
−Removed: as defined by Rule 5605(a)(2) of The NASDAQ Stock Market Rules (the “NASDAQ Rules”).
−Removed: Independence of board members
−Removed: is re-evaluated by the board annually.
−Removed: The board determined affirmatively that John J.
−Removed: Bello’s service as Interim Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer and the compensation received for such service would not interfere with his ability to exercise independent
−Removed: judgment as a director.
−Removed: Subsequently, in March of 2021, the board, upon recommendation from the Compensation Committee, determined
−Removed: Bello is no longer an “independent director” due to collateral support he now provides on behalf of the
−Removed: Company to the Company’s senior secured lender, Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc.
−Removed: We intend to maintain at least a majority
−Removed: of independent directors on our board in the future.
+Added: Bello, as Co-Trustees of THE JOHN AND NANCY BELLO REVOCABLE
+Added: LIVING TRUST, under trust agreement dated December 3, 2012 (the “Bello Trust”), evidenced by that certain Pledge Agreement
+Added: to Rosenthal, and as to which Rosenthal has a first and only perfected security interest by the Securities Account Control Agreement
+Added: held by securities broker).
+Added: November 24, 2021, the Bello trust provided additional collateral support securing a $2,500,000 over-advance under the Financing
+Added: Agreement, and John J.
+Added: Bello also provided a personal guarantee.
+Added: The additional collateral was released on March
+Added: 17, 2022 along with the personal guarantee.
+Added: The initial pledged collateral was released March 30, 2022 with the pay-off of the Rosenthal facility.
+Added: Bello is the current
+Added: Chairman, significant stockholder and former Interim Chief Executive Officer of Reed’s.
+Added: As consideration for the collateral support,
+Added: Bello received 400,000 shares of Reed’s restricted stock and a warrant to purchase up to 1,500,000 shares of common stock at
+Added: an exercise price of $0.46 per share.
+Added: Zaltzman and Union Square Entities.
+Added: March 21, 2022, the Board of Directors of Reed’s, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Reed’s), upon recommendation from
+Added: its governance committee, expanded the board from six to seven members and appointed Leon M.
+Added: Zaltzman (“Mr.
+Added: Zaltzman”) to
+Added: serve as director.
+Added: Zaltzman is the founder and managing member of Union Square Park Capital Management, LLC (“USPCM”), an SEC Registered
+Added: Investment Adviser firm and is also the managing member of Union Square Park GP (“USPGP”).
+Added: USPCM and USPGP serve as the investment
+Added: manager and general partner to Union Square Park Partners, LP (“USPP Fund”), respectively.
+Added: Foregoing entities hereinafter
+Added: collectively referred to as the “Union Square Entities”.
+Added: Fund participated in Reed’s recent private placement (the “private placement”) of common stock, $0.0001 par value
+Added: (“common stock”), and warrants, which closed on March 11, 2022, in the aggregate principal amount of $3,000,000.
+Added: 10,714,286 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 5,357,143 shares of common stock in the private placement.
+Added: Prior to the private
+Added: placement, Mr.
+Added: Zaltzman and the Union Square Entities beneficially owned approximately 7.79% of Reed’s common stock.
+Added: private placement, Mr.
+Added: Zaltzman and the Union Square Entities beneficially owned approximately 14.6% of Reed’s common stock.
+Added: common stock and shares of common stock underlying the warrants have the same registration rights granted to all investors in the private
+Added: issued to USPP Fund are not exercisable until September 27, 2022 and carry a 19.99% beneficial ownership blocker.
+Added: In conjunction
+Added: with the private placement and USPP Fund’s role as lead investor, Reed’s and USPCM had an oral understanding pursuant to
+Added: which Reed’s agreed to support the nomination of USPCM’s nominee, Leon M.
+Added: Zaltzman, to the Reed’s board, upon
+Added: qualification and recommendation from Reed’s governance committee.
+Added: Except as set forth above, USPP Fund invested in the
+Added: private placement pursuant to the same terms and conditions of the other purchasers in the private placement.
+Added: Martin, daughter of a director of the Company, was employed as Vice President of Marketing during the years ended December 31, 2021 and
+Added: Martin was paid approximately $233 and $215, respectively, for her services during the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: of the date of this Annual Report, our board has seven directors and the following four standing committees:
+Added: an Audit Committee, a
+Added: Compensation Committee, a Governance Committee and an Operations Committee.
+Added: The board, upon recommendation from the Compensation
+Added: Committee, determined each of Lewis Jaffe, James C.
+Added: Bass, Rhonda Kallman and Louis Imbrogno is an “independent
+Added: director” as defined by Rule 5605(a)(2) of The NASDAQ Stock Market Rules (the “NASDAQ Rules”).
+Added: Independence of
+Added: board members is re-evaluated by the board annually.
+Added: We intend to maintain at least a majority of independent directors on our board
+Added: in the future.
Principal Accounting Fees and Services
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(“Weinberg”) was our independent registered public accounting firm for the years ended December 31, 2021
+Added: following table shows the fees paid or accrued by us for the audit and other services provided by Weinberg for the years ended December
31, 2021 and 2020:
−Removed: following table shows the fees paid or accrued by us for the audit and other services provided by Weinberg for the years ended
−Removed: December 31, 2020 and 2019:
−Removed: Audit-Related
−Removed: defined by the SEC, (i) “audit fees” are fees for professional services rendered by our principal accountant for the
−Removed: audit of our annual financial statements and review of financial statements included in our Form 10-K, or for services that are
−Removed: normally provided by the accountant in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements for those fiscal years;
−Removed: (ii) “audit-related fees” are fees for assurance and related services by our principal accountant that are reasonably
−Removed: related to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and are not reported under “audit fees;”
−Removed: (iii) “tax fees” are fees for professional services rendered by our principal accountant for tax compliance, tax advice,
−Removed: and tax planning;
−Removed: and (iv) “all other fees” are fees for products and services provided by our principal accountant,
−Removed: other than the services reported under “audit fees,” “audit-related fees,” and “tax fees.”
−Removed: provided services for the audits of our financial statements included in Annual Reports on Form 10-K and limited reviews of the
−Removed: financial statements included in Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
+Added: Audit-Related Fees
+Added: All Other Fees
+Added: defined by the SEC, (i) “audit fees” are fees for professional services rendered by our principal accountant for the audit
+Added: of our annual financial statements and review of financial statements included in our Form 10-K, or for services that are normally provided
+Added: by the accountant in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements for those fiscal years;
+Added: (ii) “audit-related
+Added: fees” are fees for assurance and related services by our principal accountant that are reasonably related to the performance of
+Added: the audit or review of our financial statements and are not reported under “audit fees;” (iii) “tax fees” are
+Added: fees for professional services rendered by our principal accountant for tax compliance, tax advice, and tax planning;
+Added: and (iv) “all
+Added: other fees” are fees for products and services provided by our principal accountant, other than the services reported under “audit
+Added: fees,” “audit-related fees,” and “tax fees.”
+Added: provided services for the audits of our financial statements included in Annual Reports on Form 10-K and limited reviews of the financial
+Added: statements included in Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
did not provide any professional services which would be considered “audit related fees.”
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Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures
−Removed: the SEC’s rules, the Audit Committee is required to pre-approve the audit and non-audit services performed by the independent
−Removed: registered public accounting firm in order to ensure that they do not impair the auditors’ independence.
−Removed: rules specify the types of non-audit services that an independent auditor may not provide to its audit client and establish the
−Removed: Audit Committee’s responsibility for administration of the engagement of the independent registered public accounting firm.
−Removed: with the SEC’s rules, the Audit Committee Charter requires that the Audit Committee review and pre-approve all audit services
−Removed: and permitted non-audit services provided by the independent registered public accounting firm to us or any of our subsidiaries.
−Removed: The Audit Committee may delegate pre-approval authority to a member of the Audit Committee and if it does, the decisions of that
−Removed: member must be presented to the full Audit Committee at its next scheduled meeting.
−Removed: Accordingly, 100% of audit services and non-audit
−Removed: services described in this Item 14 were pre-approved by the Audit Committee.
−Removed: were no hours expended on the principal accountant’s engagement to audit the registrant’s financial statements for
−Removed: the most recent fiscal year that were attributed to work performed by persons other than the principal accountant’s full-time,
−Removed: permanent employees.
+Added: the SEC’s rules, the Audit Committee is required to pre-approve the audit and non-audit services performed by the independent registered
+Added: public accounting firm in order to ensure that they do not impair the auditors’ independence.
+Added: The SEC’s rules specify the
+Added: types of non-audit services that an independent auditor may not provide to its audit client and establish the Audit Committee’s
+Added: responsibility for administration of the engagement of the independent registered public accounting firm.
+Added: with the SEC’s rules, the Audit Committee Charter requires that the Audit Committee review and pre-approve all audit services and
+Added: permitted non-audit services provided by the independent registered public accounting firm to us or any of our subsidiaries.
+Added: Committee may delegate pre-approval authority to a member of the Audit Committee and if it does, the decisions of that member must be
+Added: presented to the full Audit Committee at its next scheduled meeting.
+Added: Accordingly, 100% of audit services and non-audit services described
+Added: in this Item 14 were pre-approved by the Audit Committee.
+Added: were no hours expended on the principal accountant’s engagement to audit the registrant’s financial statements for the most
+Added: recent fiscal year that were attributed to work performed by persons other than the principal accountant’s full-time, permanent
Exhibits and Financial Statements
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Financial Statement Schedules
−Removed: other financial statement schedules have been omitted because they are either not applicable or the required information is shown
−Removed: in the financial statements or notes thereto.
+Added: other financial statement schedules have been omitted because they are either not applicable or the required information is shown in
+Added: the financial statements or notes thereto.
the Exhibit Index, which follows the signature page of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which is incorporated herein by reference.
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thereunto duly authorized.
−Removed: March 30, 2021
+Added: April 15, 2022
Delaware corporation
Executive Officer
−Removed: accordance with the Exchange Act, this Report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in
−Removed: the capacities and on the dates indicated.
+Added: accordance with the Exchange Act, this Report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities
+Added: and on the dates indicated.
Executive Officer,
2 unchanged sentences
Financial Officer)
−Removed: Christopher J.
−Removed: Innovation Officer, Director
+Added: Leon Michael Zaltzman
+Added: Michael Zaltzman
+Added: Rhonda Kallman
Louis Imbrogno, Jr.
Imbrogno, Jr.
−Removed: Certificate of Incorporation of Reed’s Inc., as amended
−Removed: Amended and Restated Bylaws of Reed’s, Inc.
−Removed: Form of common stock certificate
−Removed: Form of series A preferred stock certificate
−Removed: Form of common stock purchase warrant issued to investors on June 2, 2016
−Removed: Form of common stock purchase warrant issued to Maxim Group LLC on June 2, 2016
−Removed: Form of common stock purchase warrant issued to PMC Financial Services Group, LLC on November 9, 2015
−Removed: Form of 2017-1 common stock purchase warrant
−Removed: Form of 2017-2 common stock purchase warrant
−Removed: Form of 2017-3 common stock purchase warrant
−Removed: Form of 2017-4 common stock purchase warrant
+Added: of Incorporation of Reed’s, Inc., as amended
+Added: and Restated Bylaws of Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: of common stock certificate
+Added: of series A preferred stock certificate
+Added: of common stock purchase warrant issued to investors on June 2, 2016
+Added: of common stock purchase warrant issued to Maxim Group LLC on June 2, 2016
+Added: of common stock purchase warrant issued to PMC Financial Services Group, LLC on November 9, 2015
+Added: of 2017-1 common stock purchase warrant
+Added: of 2017-2 common stock purchase warrant
+Added: of 2017-3 common stock purchase warrant
+Added: of 2017-4 common stock purchase warrant
Form of common stock purchase Warrant issued to Raptor/ Harbor Reed’s SPV on December 11, 2020
−Removed: Description of registrant’s common stock
+Added: Form of Warrant (Union Square Park Partners, LP)
+Added: Form of Warrant 2022 PIPE
+Added: of registrant’s common stock
Satisfaction Settlement and Release Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
and Raptor/ Harbor Reeds SPV, dated December 11, 2020
−Removed: Rights Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
−Removed: and Raptor/ Harbor Reeds SPV, dated December 11, 2020
−Removed: dated March 11, 2021 to Financing Agreement dated October 4, 2018 by and between Reed’s Inc.
−Removed: and Rosenthal & Rosenthal,
Registration Rights Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
−Removed: and purchasers signatory thereto dated May 26, 2016
−Removed: Form of Registration Rights Agreement by and between Reed’s Inc.
+Added: and Raptor/ Harbor Reeds SPV, dated December 11, 2020
+Added: Amendment dated March 11, 2021 to Financing Agreement dated October 4, 2018 by and between Reed’s, Inc, and Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc.
+Added: Rights Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc., and purchasers signatory thereto dated May 26, 2016
+Added: of Registration Rights Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
and Raptor/Harbor Reeds SPV LLC dated April 21, 2017
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and Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc .
−Removed: Inventory Security Agreement by and between Reed’s Inc.
+Added: Security Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
and Rosenthal & Rosenthal Inc.
dated October 4, 2018
−Removed: Intellectual Property Security Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: Property Security Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
and Rosenthal & Rosenthal Inc.
dated October 4, 2018
−Removed: Security Interest (short form) by Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: Interest (short form) by Reed’s, Inc.
in favor of Rosenthal & Rosenthal Inc.
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and Raptor/Harbor Reeds SPV LLC dated October 4, 2018
−Removed: Sublease Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc., Merritt 7 Venture L.L.C., and GE Capital US Holdings, Inc., dated September 1, 2018
−Removed: Asset Purchase Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
−Removed: and California Custom Beverage LLC dated December 31, 2018
−Removed: Assignment and Assumption of Lease and Consent of Lessor by and between Reed’s, Inc.
−Removed: and California Custom Beverage LLC dated December 31, 2018
−Removed: Transition Services Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc., Merritt 7 Venture L.L.C., and GE Capital US Holdings, Inc., dated September 1, 2018
+Added: Purchase Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
and California Custom Beverage LLC dated December 31, 2018
−Removed: Referral Agreement by and between Reed’s Inc.
+Added: and Assumption of Lease and Consent of Lessor by and between Reed’s, Inc.
and California Custom Beverage LLC dated December
−Removed: Form of Indemnification Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: of Indemnification Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
and officers and directors
−Removed: Executive Employment Agreement by and between Reed’s Inc.
+Added: Employment Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
and Thomas J.
Spisak dated December 2, 2019
−Removed: Form of Non-Employee Director Nonstatutory Stock Option Agreement
−Removed: Form of Executive Incentive Stock Option Agreement
−Removed: Amended and Restated Employment Agreement by and between Reed’s Inc.
+Added: of Non-Employee Director Nonstatutory Stock Option Agreement
+Added: of Executive Incentive Stock Option Agreement
+Added: and Restated Employment Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
and Norman E.
dated June 24, 2020
−Removed: Form of Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: of Reed’s, Inc.
Promissory Note, in the principal amount of $769,816 in favor of City National Bank, dated April 20, 2020.
−Removed: Manufacturing and Distribution Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
−Removed: and B C Marketing Concepts Inc., dba Full Sail Brewing Company dated October 11, 2019
−Removed: Recipe Development Agreement Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: Manufacturing
+Added: and Distribution Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: and B C Marketing Concepts Inc., dba Full Sail Brewing Company dated
+Added: October 11, 2019
+Added: Development Agreement Reed’s, Inc.
and B C Marketing Concepts Inc., dba Full Sail Brewing Company dated October 11, 2019
−Removed: Financing Agreement by and between Reed’s Inc.
+Added: Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
and Rosenthal & Rosenthal Inc.
dated October 4, 2018
−Removed: Code of Ethics
−Removed: Subsidiaries of Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: Form of Securities Purchase Agreement by and among Reed’s, Inc, and certain investors dated March 10, 2022
+Added: Form of Registration Rights Agreement by and among Reed’s, Inc, and certain investors dated March 10, 2022
+Added: Amendment dated December 23, 2020 to Financing Agreement dated October 4,
+Added: 2018 between Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: and Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc.
+Added: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc.
+Added: Partial Release of Pledge Agreement dated
+Added: March 17, 2022
+Added: Ledgered ABL Agreement by and between Reed’s, Inc.
+Added: and Alterna Capital
+Added: Solutions, LLC dated March 28, 2022
+Added: of Reed’s, Inc.
Affiliate Guarantor
6 unchanged sentences
Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 filed herewith.
−Removed: Instance Document
−Removed: Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
−Removed: Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
−Removed: Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
−Removed: Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
−Removed: Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
+Added: XBRL Instance Document
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
+Added: XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
+Added: Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)
Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.