Biome Grow (BIO.C) has made its first shipment of finished product to Newfoundland and Labrador.
The first shipment fulfills the first part of a Nov. 2, 2018, agreement Biome and its Back Home Medical Cannabis made with the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. The agreement is one of the top five largest deals of its kind in the Canadian cannabis market by quantity, and the biggest in Atlantic Canada.
As part of the three year deal, Biome will supply the province with 24,000 kilograms of cannabis, divided into 4,000 kilograms for the first year and 10,000 kilograms for the remaining two.
The deal also includes a provision for Biome to recover as much as $52 million through reduced remittances to the Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corporation.
The products are expected to be available for consumers next week, and the second shipment will follow shortly after with an emphasis on retail locations.
Biome anticipates that the agreement will bring home close to $100 million in revenue per-year starting in 2020.
Supply Shortage
These shipments produce an answer to the supply shortage in the domestic cannabis market in recent months.
Read: How Canada found itself in a recreational cannabis shortage just days after legalization
To put this in perspective, sales figures released by Cannabis NL indicated that residents of Newfoundland and Labrador collectively spend in excess of $1 million dollars on pot each week.
The grand total, at least up until the closing weeks of November, was $6,061,300.44 in retail sales from LPs.
That’s 698.44 kilograms of cannabis. The population of Newfoundland and Labrador is about 550K, translating to roughly five joints a week for everyone.
Here’s a chart displaying where Newfoundland and Labrador’s two-year cannabis consumption sits in relation to the rest of Canada.
This comes as a boon for the people of Newfoundland and Labrador, who have suffered their fair share of economic woes lately with the downtown in the fossil fuel sector.
“Biome Grow has focused its business investment strategy primarily on Atlantic Canada because we believe in creating local ecosystems, or biomes, that offer employment, business, and research and development opportunities,” said Khurram Malik, CEO of Biome Grow.
Biome intends to produce local cannabis from a new production facility presently under construction in Barachois Brook by the second half of 2019. The company says this will bring approximately $6.5 million in annual salaries, and 120 jobs to the region.
Back Home and Biome are working on finalizing the site selection for five retail locations, which will add 80 new jobs when they open in spring of 2019.
Biome is also spending $500,000 over five years for research and development in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The investment in the provincial cannabis ecosystem supports Biome’s commitment to filling out the Newfoundland and Labrador cannabis supply chain.
–Joseph Morton
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So, EG is not owning stock any longer ? Whats the reason ?
We’ve changed our internal policy to now disclose if the writer of the article owns the stock. In my case, I don’t. I think some of us do own Biome Grow stock, but I can’t say for certain.
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