RISK FACTORS.
+Added: Risks Due to COVID-19
The outbreak of
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addition, the COVID-19 pandemic could disrupt or otherwise negatively impact global credit markets, our operations and our efforts
−Removed: to identify, review and explore alternatives for the Company, including a merger, acquisition, or a business combination.
+Added: to identify, review and explore opportunities for the Company.
The significant outbreak
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More broadly, the outbreak could potentially reduce the value of the AESE Shares
−Removed: that we own and impact the shares of the Company that we may be required to issue to Sellers under the S-FDF Asset Purchase Agreement.
+Added: that we own and impact the shares of the Company that we may be required to issue to Sellers under the Asset Purchase Agreement.
The COVID-19 outbreak
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including equity or debt financing or other means.
−Removed: A pandemic typically
−Removed: results in social distancing, travel bans and quarantines, and this may limit access to our management, support staff, professional
−Removed: advisors and our independent auditors.
−Removed: These factors, in turn, may not only impact our operations, financial condition and our
−Removed: overall ability to react timely to mitigate the impact of this event.
−Removed: Also, it may hamper our efforts to comply with our filing
−Removed: obligations with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
−Removed: In addition, it could impact the ability to complete construction and
−Removed: commence operations of the S-FDF business following the anticipated closing.
+Added: Social distancing,
+Added: travel bans and quarantines have limited access in certain respects to our management, support staff, professional advisors and
+Added: our independent auditors.
+Added: These factors, in turn, may not only impact our operations, financial condition and our overall ability
+Added: to react timely to mitigate the impact of this event.
+Added: Also, it may hamper our efforts to comply with our filing obligations with
+Added: the Securities and Exchange Commission.
+Added: In addition, it could impact the ability to complete construction and commence operations
+Added: of the S-FDF business.
The extent and potential
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of operations.
+Added: Risks Related to Our Business
+Added: Our freeze-dried
+Added: foods business is essentially a start-up, and does not have any meaningful history of operations.
+Added: The assets we purchased
+Added: under the Asset Purchase Agreement were of a development stage business without any major customers or history of operations upon
+Added: which to forecast future business trends.
+Added: We cannot guarantee that we will become profitable.
+Added: As a developing company, we will
+Added: need to adopt and implement a plan to increase awareness of our products, secure distribution channels, and foster and strengthen
+Added: our supply, manufacturing and distribution relationships.
+Added: It is likely our strategic priorities will need to evolve over time and
+Added: our business would be materially and adversely effected if we do not properly adapt our strategies to our changing needs and changes
+Added: in the market.
+Added: As our operations develop
+Added: and grow, we expect to experience significant increases in our working capital requirements.
+Added: These conditions raise doubt over
+Added: our ability to meet all of our obligations over the next twelve months if we are unable to obtain additional capital.
+Added: obtain additional capital and achieve profitability, given the competitive and evolving nature of the industry in which we operate,
+Added: we may be unable to sustain or increase profitability and our failure to do so would adversely affect the Company’s business,
+Added: including our ability to raise additional funds.
+Added: We have very limited
+Added: internal distribution and marketing capabilities and are only in the early stages of building our distribution network.
+Added: We have not yet launched
+Added: our freeze-dried food products commercially.
+Added: In order to be successful, we will need to establish a direct to consumer platform
+Added: and/or relationships with numerous retail outlets through which our products can be sold.
+Added: While our products have been introduced
+Added: into a limited number of potential consumers and customers on a trial basis, to date, we have not entered into any relationships
+Added: with distributors and retail outlets for the sale of our products and have not yet generated revenues through sales.
+Added: We have extremely
+Added: limited internal marketing and distribution capabilities and resources.
+Added: There can be no assurance that we will be successful in
+Added: establishing a meaningful distribution network or direct to consumer platform or that if the same is established that such network
+Added: or platform will result in profitable sales of our products.
+Added: We may need additional
+Added: financing in the future, which may not be available when needed or may be costly and dilutive.
+Added: We may require additional
+Added: financing to support our working capital needs in the future.
+Added: The amount of additional capital we may require, the timing of our
+Added: capital needs and the availability of financing to fund those needs will depend on a number of factors, including our strategic
+Added: initiatives and operating plans, the performance of our business and the market conditions for debt or equity financing.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: the amount of capital required will depend on our ability to meet our sales goals and otherwise successfully execute our operating
+Added: Although we believe various debt and equity financing alternatives will be available to us to support our working capital
+Added: needs, financing arrangements on acceptable terms may not be available to us when needed.
+Added: Additionally, these alternatives may
+Added: require significant cash payments for interest and other costs or could be highly dilutive to our existing shareholders.
+Added: financing alternatives may not provide us with sufficient funds to meet our long-term capital requirements.
+Added: A worsening of economic
+Added: conditions or a decrease in consumer spending may adversely impact our ability to implement our business strategy.
+Added: Our success depends
+Added: to a significant extent on discretionary consumer spending, which is influenced by general economic conditions and the availability
+Added: of discretionary income.
+Added: There is no certainty regarding economic conditions in the United States, and credit and financial markets
+Added: and confidence in economic conditions could deteriorate at any time.
+Added: Accordingly, we may experience declines in revenue during
+Added: economic turmoil or during periods of uncertainty.
+Added: Any material decline in the amount of discretionary spending, leading cost-conscious
+Added: consumers to be more selective in food products purchased, could have a material adverse effect on our revenue, results of operations,
+Added: business and financial condition.
+Added: Fluctuations in
+Added: various food and supply costs, particularly related to fruit, could adversely affect our operating results.
+Added: Supplies and prices
+Added: of the ingredients that we are going to use to can be affected by a variety of factors, such as weather, seasonal fluctuations,
+Added: demand, politics and economics in the producing countries.
+Added: These factors subject
+Added: us to shortages or interruptions in product supplies, which could adversely affect our revenue and profits.
+Added: In addition, the price
+Added: of fruit, which is currently our main ingredient in our products, can be highly volatile.
+Added: The fruit of the quality we seek tends
+Added: to trade on a negotiated basis, depending on supply and demand at the time of the purchase.
+Added: An increase in pricing of any fruit
+Added: that we are going to use in our products could have a significant adverse effect on our profitability.
+Added: We cannot assure you that
+Added: we will be able to secure our fruit supply.
+Added: Our success depends
+Added: on our ability to correctly predict, identify, and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand, to offer new products
+Added: to meet those changes, and to respond to competitive innovation.
+Added: Consumer preferences
+Added: for food and beverage products change continually and rapidly.
+Added: Our success depends on our ability to predict, identify, and interpret
+Added: the tastes and dietary habits of consumers and to offer products that appeal to consumer preferences, including with respect to
+Added: health and wellness.
+Added: If we do not offer products that appeal to consumers, our sales and market share will decrease, which could
+Added: materially and adversely affect our product sales, financial condition, and operating results.
+Added: We must distinguish
+Added: between short-term trends and long-term changes in consumer preferences.
+Added: If we do not accurately predict which shifts in consumer
+Added: preferences will be long-term, or if we fail to introduce new and improved products to satisfy those preferences, our sales could
+Added: Our business depends
+Added: substantially on the continuing efforts of our senior management and other key personnel, and our business may be severely disrupted
+Added: if we lose their services.
+Added: Our future success
+Added: heavily depends on the continued service of our senior management and other key employees.
+Added: If one or more of our senior executives
+Added: is unable or unwilling to continue to work for us in his or her present position, we may have to spend a considerable amount of
+Added: time and resources searching, recruiting, and integrating a replacement into our operations, which would substantially divert management’s
+Added: attention from our business and severely disrupt our business.
+Added: This may also adversely affect our ability to execute our business
+Added: Our senior management’s
+Added: limited experience managing a publicly traded company may divert management’s attention from operations and harm our business.
+Added: Our senior management
+Added: team has relatively limited experience managing a publicly traded company and complying with federal securities laws, including
+Added: compliance with recently adopted disclosure requirements on a timely basis.
+Added: Our management will be required to design and implement
+Added: appropriate programs and policies in responding to increased legal, regulatory compliance and reporting requirements, and any failure
+Added: to do so could lead to the imposition of fines and penalties and harm our business.
+Added: We may be unable
+Added: to attract and retain qualified, experienced, highly skilled personnel, which could adversely affect the implementation of our
+Added: business plan.
+Added: Our success depends
+Added: to a significant degree upon our ability to attract, retain and motivate skilled and qualified personnel.
+Added: As we become a more mature
+Added: company in the future, we may find recruiting and retention efforts more challenging.
+Added: If we do not succeed in attracting, hiring
+Added: and integrating excellent personnel, we may be unable to grow effectively.
+Added: The loss of any key employee, including members of our
+Added: senior management team, and our inability to attract highly skilled personnel with sufficient experience in our industries could
+Added: harm our business.
+Added: Our ability to maintain
+Added: and expand our distribution network and attract consumers, distributors, retailers and brokers will depend on a number of factors,
+Added: some of which are outside our control.
+Added: Some of these factors
+Added: the level of demand for our brands and products types;
+Added: our ability to price our products at levels competitive with those of competing products;
+Added: our ability to deliver products in the quantity and at the time ordered by consumers, distributors,
+Added: retailers and brokers.
+Added: We may not be able
+Added: to successfully manage all or any of these factors in any of our current or prospective geographic areas of distribution.
+Added: Our inability
+Added: to achieve success with regards to any of these factors in a geographic distribution area will have a material adverse effect on
+Added: our relationships in that particular geographic area, thus limiting our ability to maintain or expand our market, which will likely
+Added: adversely affect our revenues and financial results.
+Added: If we do not adequately
+Added: manage our inventory levels, our operating results could be adversely affected.
+Added: We will need to maintain
+Added: adequate inventory levels to be able to deliver products on a timely basis.
+Added: Our inventory supply depends on our ability to correctly
+Added: estimate demand for our products.
+Added: Our ability to estimate demand for our products is imprecise, particularly for new products.
+Added: If we materially underestimate demand for our products or are unable to maintain sufficient inventory of raw materials, we might
+Added: not be able to satisfy demand on a short-term basis.
+Added: If we overestimate demand for our products, we may end up with too much inventory,
+Added: resulting in higher storage costs and increased trade spend.
+Added: If we fail to manage our inventory to meet demand, we could damage
+Added: our relationships with our customers and retailers and could delay or lose sales opportunities, which would unfavorably impact
+Added: our future sales and adversely affect our operating results.
+Added: Risks Related to Our Industry
+Added: The challenges of
+Added: competing with other freeze-dried fruit businesses may result in reductions in our revenue and operating margins.
+Added: We will compete with
+Added: many companies on the basis of taste, quality and price of product offered, and customer service.
+Added: Our success depends, in part,
+Added: upon the popularity of our products and our ability to develop new items that appeal to a broad range of consumers.
+Added: Shifts in consumer
+Added: preferences away from products like ours, our inability to develop new items that appeal to a broad range of consumers, or changes
+Added: in our offerings that eliminate products popular with some consumers could harm our business.
+Added: We compete with other manufacturers
+Added: of freeze-dried fruit, frozen fruits, convenience foods, health foods and packaged goods.
+Added: Many of our competitors or potential
+Added: competitors have substantially greater financial and other resources than we do, which may allow them to react to changes in the
+Added: market quicker than we can.
+Added: In addition, aggressive pricing by our competitors or the entrance of new competitors into our markets,
+Added: could reduce our revenue and operating margins.
+Added: We also compete with other employers in our markets for workers and may become
+Added: subject to higher labor costs as a result of such competition.
+Added: Concerns over food
+Added: safety and public health may affect our operations by increasing our costs and negatively impacting demand for our products.
+Added: We could be adversely
+Added: affected by diminishing confidence in the safety and quality of certain food products or ingredients.
+Added: As a result, we may elect
+Added: or be required to incur additional costs aimed at increasing consumer confidence in the safety of our products.
+Added: Our success depends
+Added: on our ability to maintain the quality of our existing and new products.
+Added: Product quality issues, real or imagined, or allegations
+Added: of product contamination, even if false or unfounded, could tarnish the image of our brands and may cause consumers to choose other
+Added: Product liability
+Added: exposure may expose us to significant liability.
+Added: We may face an inherent
+Added: business risk of exposure to product liability and other claims and lawsuits in the event that the development or use of our technology
+Added: or prospective products is alleged to have resulted in adverse effects.
+Added: We may not be able to avoid significant liability exposure.
+Added: Although we believe our insurance coverage to be adequate, we may not have sufficient insurance coverage, and we may not be able
+Added: to obtain sufficient coverage at a reasonable cost.
+Added: An inability to obtain product liability insurance at acceptable cost or to
+Added: otherwise protect against potential product liability claims could prevent or inhibit the commercialization of our products.
+Added: product liability claim could hurt our financial performance.
+Added: Even if we ultimately avoid financial liability for this type of
+Added: exposure, we may incur significant costs in defending ourselves that could hurt our financial performance and condition.
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