What is Botanic Wellness
Botanic Wellness intends to become a leading provider of CBD hemp, based products, initially in the USA, Europe and, in the future, in Australia as laws in relation to importing, growing and consumption are changed and regulations are further relaxed.
The Company has existing indoor and outdoor seed growing operations in Colorado, Arizona and Texas, USA and sells wholesale and retail products. The Company also has a seed import licence and a hemp growing licences to grow hemp in NSW in Australia and will be planting its first Australian CBD hemp in August 2020.
Going forward, the Company plans to diversify and expand the its investment portfolio and create additional revenue streams through investments in companies specialising in new and complimentary businesses including importing and exporting seeds, wholesale and retail products.
Investment Highlights
1. Vertically integrated business model
Presence across the value chain with expertise in seed production, planting and harvesting of CBD hemp. The Company also sells wholesale to producers of CBD products or manufactures into final products for retail sale in the USA, Europe and ultimately Australia.
2. Commercially focused and adaptive business model
Botanic Wellness has acquired assets and intends to continue to invest and develop capabilities in the hemp and related sectors that it considers will be most immediately valuable and strategic in the future
3. Global asset footprint
The Company currently has high quality CBD hemp seed growing operations in 3 states in the USA and plans to develop its Australian operations in NSW. It also proposes to expand further in Australia, the USA and Europe. This gives optimal exposure to global consumers of hemp product, including growth markets in Asia.
4. Strategic relationships
The Company has developed a wide range of commercial relationships with farmers, manufacturers and distributors and retailers intends to continue to make this a priority in the future.
5. Rapidly growing markets
Growing markets driven by new geographies opened by regulation, increasing global awareness of the health and wellness benefits of hemp products, and a demand for high quality product.
6. Experienced Board, Management and Executive team
The Team has international experience in the hemp industry as well as considerable experience in developing early stage companies in new and rapidly growing industries and operating companies listed on the ASX.
Innovative Operating Model
Botanic Wellness invests in and provides alternative financing options, industry expertise and professional networks to CBD hemp farmers and businesses in the USA and Australia.
The Company’s “streaming” financing model is a structure that provides early stage development capital and operational expertise to companies in exchange for a percentage of their equity and a “stream” of the future revenues or profits.
This enables Botanic Wellness to plant and cultivate significant sized crops at a lower price than if it entered into traditional farm ownership or leasing arrangements. Under JV agreements, the Company contributes its various strains of CBD hemp seeds, licenses and permits and hemp growing expertise and the farmer contributes their farmland, general farming expertise, machinery and labour to plant, maintain and harvest the crops. The costs of both parties are then reimbursed when the product is sold and the profits shared equally.
Benefits of CBD Hemp
In contrast to Cannabis, Hemp generally contains only small amounts of THC, and therefore does not have the psychoactive properties of cannabis. There are four usable parts of the hemp plant: the inner fibres (hurd), the outer fibres (bast), the seeds and the flower.
Hemp has a very broad range of uses (in the region of 25,000) including being turned into oils, used in food, nutraceuticals and in a wide range of industrial applications.
Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of its many benefits, and various governments around the world have responded by making CBD hemp products more accessible.
Medicinal CBD Hemp is now legal throughout the USA and Canada and most of Europe and expected to become available ‘over the counter’ in Australia in late 2020 / early 2021.
The US market alone for hemp derived CBD products is estimated to grow from USD $591m in 2018 to in excess of USD $22bn by 2022 (c.150% CAGR)
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Why crowdfunding?
Ahead of an intended listing on the ASX in late 2020, the Company is pre-funding to complete the harvesting and processing of its first group of crops and to continue the planting its second group of crops in the USA and Australia.
Botanic Wellness have clear plans for expanding existing operations in the US and Australia, and a vision to invest in further similar companies creating a global partner to the CBD Hemp industry.
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About the Author: Donald (The Don) Gritten Jr., is a Chief Executive Officer CEO, Director, Veteran, tax professional, and business consultant. Passionate about personal development and business advancement, his background in financial services includes tax structure and defense, real estate, financial development, asset protection, investor relations, and global business development.
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