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The Very Good Food Company Prices US$30 Million Registered Direct Offering
The Very Good Food Company Prices US$30 Million Registered Direct Offering.
About this update from The Very Good Food Co Inc
[{"type":"text","content":"\nThe Very Good Food Company Inc. (TSXV: VERY.V) (NASDAQ: VGFC) (FSE: 0SI) (\"VERY GOOD\" or the \"Company\"), a leading plant-based food technology company, is pleased to announce that it has entered into definitive agreements with institutional investors for the purchase and sale of approximately 15,000,000 units of the Company (the \"Units\") at a price of US$2.00 per Unit for gross proceeds to the Company of approximately US$30,000,000 pursuant to a registered direct offering (the \"Offering\").\n\nA.G.P./Alliance Global Partners is acting as lead placement agent for the Offering. Roth Capital Partners is acting as co-placement agent for the Offering.\n\nEach Unit consists of one common share of the Company (a \"Common Share\") and one-half of one Common Share purchase warrant (each whole Common Share purchase warrant, a \"Warrant\"). Each Warrant shall entitle the holder thereof to purchase one Common Share (a \"Warrant Share\") at an exercise price of US$2.35, subject to adjustment in certain circumstances. The Warrants will be exercisable for five years from the closing of the Offering.\n\nVERY GOOD intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering to scale its operations, to expand its geographical reach, for accretive acquisitions within the plant-based food sector, for research and development, for marketing initiatives and for general corporate and other working capital purposes.\n\nThe Offering is expected to close on or about October 19, 2021, subject to the satisfaction of closing conditions, including but not limited to, receipt of conditional approval to list the Common Shares and Warrant Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange (the \"TSXV\"). VERY GOOD has notified The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (the \"Nasdaq\") of the Offering in accordance with Nasdaq rules and regulations.\n\nThe Offering is being made in the United States only under the Company's amended and restated short form base shelf prospectus dated October 5, 2021 (the \"Base Shelf Prospectus\"), filed with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada, and included in the corresponding registration statement on Form F-10 (the \"Registration Statement\") filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (\"SEC\") under the U.S./Canada Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (\"MJDS\"). The Company will file a prospectus supplement (the \"S...