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North Bud Farms Signs Binding Letter of Intent to Acquire California Licensed Extraction Company Tanforan Ventures
North Bud Farms Signs Binding Letter of Intent to Acquire California Licensed Extraction Company Tanforan Ventures.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nTORONTO, June 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- North Bud Farms Inc. (CSE: NBUD) (OTCQB: NOBDF) (\"NORTHBUD\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that effective June 15, 2019 it has entered into a binding letter of intent (“LOI”) to acquire all of the issued and outstanding securities of Tanforan Ventures LLC (“Tanforan”), a California-based licensed operator holding Category 7 extraction and distribution licenses, in a transaction valued at CAD$8.6 million.  \n Tanforan holds manufacturing and distribution licenses in the state of California and is in the final stages of completing its new Category 7 licensed extraction facility in Woodland, California. “We are very excited to have the opportunity to secure additional infrastructure and talent as we continue to execute on our U.S. expansion plans,” said Ryan Brown, CEO of North Bud Farms. “This strategically located extraction facility will facilitate the transportation of crude extract derived from bio-mass grown at contract farms located in Northern California. Assuming the successful closing of the proposed transaction with Tanforan and our previously announced transaction with Eureka Vapor, we intend to further process the crude extract into a finished consumer product at Eureka Vapor’s manufacturing and distribution facility located in Los Angeles to service the Southern California market.”                                     Transaction TermsThe proposed transaction (the “Transaction”) is currently structured as a share purchase agreement whereby in exchange for the purchase of all of the securities of Tanforan, NORTHBUD will issue CAD$5 million in common shares (“Common Shares”) to the shareholders of Tanforan (the “Tanforan Shareholders”) with the price per Common Share to be determined based on a formula of the higher of (a) CAD$0.35 per Common Share and (b) the 30-day volume weighted average price (“VWAP”) calculated on the closing date (the “Closing Date”) of a definitive agreement in respect of the Transaction (the “Definitive Agreement”).  N...