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Mississauga, ON Canada and Sacramento, CA USA (July 10, 2024) – TheNewswire – Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. (the “Company” or “BVT”) (CSE: BEE) (OTCQB: BEVVF) (CVE:BEE) announces that it has closed the previously announced debt settlement agreements (the “Settlement Agreements”) to fully settle outstanding debts owed to three creditors and one director (the “Creditors”) for M&A advisory services, expenses for reimbursement and directors fees. Pursuant to the Settlement Agreements, the Company has issued an aggregate of 7,409,715 common shares (“Shares”) at a deemed price of $0.015 per Share, based on a 20-day VWAP (the “Share Settlement”). The disinterested Directors of the Company approved the Settlement Agreement with the noted insider of the Company.
Pursuant to the Share Settlement, the Company has settled $111,145.74 in bona fide debts owed to the Creditors. The board of directors of the Company determined that it was in the best interests of the Company to settle the outstanding debts by the issuance of the Shares in order to preserve the Company's cash for working capital.
The Company relied on the “Employee, Executive Officer, Director and Consultant” exemption contained in section 2.24 (the “Exemption”) of National Instrument 45-106 - Prospectus Exemptions, to issue an aggregate of 3,766,666 Shares to two of the Creditors. The Canadian Securities Exchange waived the requirement to impose a 4 month and one day hold period on these Shares. The balance of the Shares are subject to a statutory hold period of 4 months plus a day from issuance in accordance with Canadian Securities laws which will expire on November 10, 2024.
The debt settlement with the insider of the Company is exempt from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 (“MI 61-101”) by virtue of the exemptions contained in sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101 in that the fair market value of the consideration for the securities of the Company to be issued to the Insider does not exceed 25% of its market capitalization.
The Company also announces that it will be issuing 4,467,771 Common shares at a price of $0.015 per Common share (the “Interest Payment Shares”), to settle a semi-annual interest payment due to Sorbie Bornholm LP pursuant to the issuance of 1,900 notes for gross proceeds of $1,900,000 from the private placement that closed on July 11, 2022 (the “Sorbie Private Placement”).
Pursuant to applicable Canadian securities laws, the Interest Payment Shares issued pursuant to the Sorbie Private Placement will be issued under prospectus exemptions and are not subject to any hold periods or resale restrictions.
About Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc.
BVT, an agriculture technology company, is a market disruptor with a significant global market opportunity in the $240 billion crop protection and fertilizer market. BVT has pioneered a natural precision agriculture system that replaces chemical pesticides and wasteful plant protection product spray applications by delivering biological pesticide alternatives to crops using commercially grown bees. BVT's award-winning technology, precision vectoring, is completely harmless to bees and allows minute amounts of naturally-derived pesticides (called biologicals) to be delivered directly to blooms, providing improved crop protection and yield results than traditional chemical pesticides - and improving the health of the soil, the microbiome and the environment. Currently, BVT has over 55 granted patents, many more patents pending in all major agricultural countries worldwide and has US EPA registration of its Vectorite™ with CR-7 (EPA Registration No. 90641-2) for sale as a registered biological fungicide for use on the labeled crops.
Additional information can be viewed at the Company’s website www.beevt.com. To receive regular news updates from the Company, subscribe at www.beevt.com/newsletter.
BVT Company Contact:
Ashish Malik, President & CEO, BVT
info@beevt.com
BVT Investor Contacts:
Babak Pedram
Virtus Advisory Group
Tel: 416-995-8651
bpedram@virtusadvisory.com
The CSE has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release. The CSE does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking information" as such term is defined in applicable Canadian securities legislation. The words "may", "would", "could", "should", "potential", "will", "seek", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" and similar expressions as they relate to the Company, “annual revenue potential”, are intended to identify forward-looking information. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking information. Such statements reflect the Company’s current views and intentions with respect to future events, and current information available to the Company, and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including: planted acres, selling price of competitive chemical pesticides and the US to Canadian dollar exchange rate. Material factors or assumptions were applied in providing forward-looking information. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking information to vary from those described herein should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize. These factors include changes in law, competition, litigation, the ability to implement business strategies and pursue business opportunities, state of the capital markets, the availability of funds and resources to pursue operations, new technologies, the ability to protect intellectual property rights, the ability to obtain patent protection for products, third-party intellectual property infringement claims, regulatory changes affecting products, failing research and development activities, the ability to reach and sustain profitability, dependence on business and technical experts, the ability to effectively manage business operations and growth, issuance of debt, dilution of existing securities, volatility of publicly traded securities, potential conflicts of interest, unlikelihood of dividend payments, the potential costs stemming from defending third-party intellectual property infringement claims, the ability to secure relationships with manufacturers and purchasers, as well as general economic, market and business conditions, as well as those risk factors discussed or referred to in the Company’s Filing Statement dated August 14,2020, filed with the CSE and securities regulatory authorities in certain provinces of Canada and available at www.sedar.com. Should any factor affect the Company in an unexpected manner, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, the actual results or events may differ materially from the results or events predicted. Any such forward-looking information is expressly qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement. Moreover, the Company does not assume responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of such forward-looking information. The forward-looking information included in this press release is made as of the date of this press release and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information, other than as required by applicable law. All figures are in Canadian dollars.
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