RE:As little jimmy's girlfriend moomoocow would say... Keeler wrote: if it's not one thing, it's the udder.
Hexo loses more and more market share in queerbec - where they used to milk every penny they could from the government teet.
Now it's Village Farms trying to horn in on Hexo's turf and corral some sales, put their own brand on quebec so to speak. Fellow Canadian operator Village Farms International Inc. (VFF) had a more pleasant start to the week, adding 25 cents to $11.36 on 1.18 million shares. It announced this morning that it has acquired a 70-per-cent interest in the Quebec-based Rose LifeScience. Rose is a private grower with a 55,000-square-foot growing facility in Huntingdon, Que. It is also a self-proclaimed "commercialization expert," which means that it has distribution agreements in Quebec with various other Canadian operators, including Tilray Inc. (TLRY: $16.28), Entourage Health Corp. (ENTG: $0.125) and Sundial Growers Inc. (U.SNDL: $0.83). Village Farms did not disclose Rose's earnings or revenue. It did inform investors that in order to acquire the 70-per-cent in Rose, it forked over $19.9-million cash, $26.8-million in shares and an unspecified amount to repay "any existing Rose material debt."
The deal represents Village Farms' entry into Quebec, Canada's second-largest province by population. By cannabis sales, Quebec is currently in fourth place just behind British Columbia, a province with about half the population but a far friendlier attitude to cannabis. Quebec is home to some of the tightest cannabis regulations in all of Canada. Despite myriad challenges (from a ban on vapes and recreational edibles to the highest age requirement and slowest store rollout of any major province), Quebec's sheer population size continues to attract operators to the province. Companies that have trumpeted their entry into Quebec over the last several months include The Flowr Corp. (FLOW: $0.09), Heritage Cannabis Holdings Corp. (CANN: $0.09), The Valens Company Inc. (VLNS: $2.02) and now Village Farms.
VFF only got $2,000,000 more than the previous quarter. I will wait for the next quarter result.
Another company with the revenue stalling. No wonder they make acquisitions.
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