Village Farms International Announces Completion of Pure Sunfarms' Expanded Credit Facility with Existing Lender for up to $59 Million
April 6, 2020
Source: Yahoo Finance
Village Farms International, Inc. ("Village Farms" or the "Company") (TSX: VFF; NASDAQ: VFF) today announced its majority-owned joint venture for large-scale, low-cost, high-quality cannabis production, Pure Sunfarms, has satisfied all pre-conditions and completed its previously announced expansion of its credit facility with its existing lender to $59 million , including accordion provisions of $22.5 million . (All figures are in Canadian dollars.)
As a pre-condition to completion of the debt facility, Village Farms has made an additional capital contribution of $8 million in Pure Sunfarms and, as a result has further increased its majority ownership of Pure Sunfarms to 58.7% from 57.4%.
About Village Farms International, Inc.
Village Farms is one of the largest and longest-operating vertically integrated greenhouse growers in North America and the only publicly traded greenhouse produce company in Canada . Village Farms produces and distributes fresh, premium-quality produce with consistency 365 days a year to national grocers in the U.S. and Canada from more than nine million square feet of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) greenhouses in British Columbia and Texas , as well as from its partner greenhouses in British Columbia , Ontario and Mexico. The Company is now leveraging its 30 years of experience as a vertically integrated grower for the rapidly emerging global cannabis opportunity through its majority ownership of British Columbia -based Pure Sunfarms Corp., one of the single largest cannabis growing operations in the world. The Company also intends to pursue opportunities to become a vertically integrated leader in the U.S. hemp-derived CBD market, subject to compliance with all applicable U.S. federal and state laws, Village Farms has established two joint ventures, Village Fields Hemp and Arkansas Valley Green and Gold Hemp, for outdoor hemp cultivation and CBD extraction and is pursuing controlled environment hemp production at a portion of its Texas greenhouse operations, which total 5.7 million square feet of production area.