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ACQUISITION OF MOTHER EARTH'S STOREHOUSE, INC.
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2022
ACQUISITION OF MOTHER EARTH'S STOREHOUSE, INC. [Abstract]  
ACQUISITION OF MOTHER EARTH'S STOREHOUSE, INC.
Note 7. ACQUISITION OF MOTHER EARTH’S STOREHOUSE, INC.

On February 9, 2022, the Company through its wholly owned subsidiary, Healthy Choice Markets 3, LLC, entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Mother Earth’s Storehouse Inc. (“HCM3”) and its shareholders. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, HCM3 acquired certain assets and assumed certain liabilities related to Mother Earth’s grocery stores in Kingston and Saugerties, New York. The Company intends to continue to operate the grocery stores under their existing name. The cash purchase price under the Asset Purchase Agreement was $4,472,500, with an additional $677,500 paid for inventory at closing. In addition, the Company assumed a lease obligation for the Kingston, NY store and entered into an employment agreement with the store manager.

The purchase method of accounting in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations, was applied for the Mother Earth's Storehouse acquisition.  This requires the total cost of an acquisition to be allocated to the tangible and identifiable intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their respective fair values at the date of acquisition with the excess cost accounted for as goodwill. Goodwill arising from the acquisition is attributable to expected operational synergies from combining the operations of the acquired business with those of the Company.

The purchase price allocation is final as of September 30, 2022. The following table summarizes the purchase price allocation based on fair values of the net assets acquired at the acquisition date:

Purchase Consideration
     
Cash Consideration paid
 
$
5,150,000
 
         
Purchase price allocation
       
   Inventory
   
805,000
 
   Property and equipment
   
1,278,000
 
   Intangible assets
   
1,609,000
 
   Right of use asset - operating lease
   
1,797,667
 
   Other liabilities
   
(283,000
)
   Operating lease liability
   
(1,797,667
)
   Goodwill
   
1,741,000
 
Net assets acquired
 
$
5,150,000
 
         
Finite-lived intangible assets
       
   Trade Names/Trademarks
 
$
513,000
 
   Customer Relationships
   
683,000
 
   Non-Compete Agreement
   
413,000
 
Total intangible assets
 
$
1,609,000
 


Revenue and Earnings

Revenue and net income for three months ended September 30, 2022 were $3.2 million and $0.01 million, respectively. Revenue and net income were $8.5 million and $0.4 million, respectively, from the date of acquisition through September 30, 2022. Acquisition-related expenses are expensed as incurred. They were recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses and were $0 and $78,000, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, respectively. They primarily related to legal and other professional fees.

Unaudited Supplemental Pro Forma Information

The following unaudited pro forma summary presents consolidated information of the Company, including Mother Earth's Storehouse, as if the business combination had occurred on January 1, 2021, the earliest period presented herein:

   
Three Months Ended
   
Nine Months Ended
 
   
September 30,
   
September 30,
 
   
2022
   
2021
   
2022
   
2021
 
Sales
 
$
5,776,730
   
$
6,842,549
   
$
18,380,486
   
$
20,840,277
 
Net (loss)
   
(2,074,985
)
   
(665,288
)
   
(4,581,680
)
   
(412,696
)

The pro forma financial information includes adjustments that are directly attributable to the business combinations and are factually supportable. The pro forma adjustments include incremental amortization of intangible and remove non-recurring transaction costs directly associated with the acquisitions, such as legal and other professional service fees. Cost savings or operating synergies expected to result from the acquisitions are not included in the pro forma results. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2022, the pro forma financial information excludes $0 and $78,000, respectively, of non-recurring acquisition-related expenses. These pro forma results are illustrative only and not indicative of the actual results of operations that would have been achieved nor are they indicative of future results of operations.