VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eat Well Investment Group Inc., (the “Company” or “Eat Well Group” or “EWG”) (CN:EWG) (US:EWGFF) (FRA:6BC0) today announced that its Board of Directors has engaged Roth Capital Partners (“Roth”) as its Investment Banker to explore US listing alternatives.
“Eat Well Group’s plant-based food investments have created one of the only vertically integrated platforms in the plant-based food industry, and we want to capitalize on the momentum and opportunity we have in our business,” commented Marc Aneed, the Company’s President. “We have always been focused on enhancing shareholder value and believe a listing on a major US exchange will help broaden our institutional investor shareholder base. We expect both Roth’s experience in the health and wellness sector and their institutional investor relationships in the US and abroad to help us accelerate our timing.”
Reaffirmation of Full Year 2021 and 2022 Guidance
Eat Well Group reaffirms its plant-based food investments (Belle Pulses, Sapientia Technology, and Amara Organic Foods) are expected to achieve more than CAD$60 million of revenue in 2021, and the Company is pleased to report it is targeting 2022 revenues of between CAD$90-$110 million for these entities.
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ABOUT EAT WELL GROUP
Eat Well Group is a publicly-traded investment Company primarily focused on high-growth companies in the agribusiness, food tech, plant-based and ESG (environmental, social and governance) sectors. Eat Well Group’s management team has an extensive record of sourcing, financing and building successful companies across a broad range of industries and maintains a current investment mandate on the health/wellness industry. The team has financed and invested in early-stage venture companies for greater than 25 years, resulting in unparalleled access to deal flow and the ability to construct a portfolio of opportunistic investments intended to generate superior risk-adjusted returns.
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Financial Outlook.
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