Lift & Co. Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2020 Results
November 29 2019 - 7:00AM
Lift & Co. Corp. ("Lift & Co." or the "Company")
(TSXV:LIFT) (OTCQB:LFCOF) is pleased to announce results for the
second quarter ended September 30, 2019. All amounts are in
Canadian dollars unless otherwise specified. Additional details may
be found in the Company’s financial statements and MD&A filed
on SEDAR.
MANAGEMENT COMMENTARY
The Company is pleased to report strong
financial results for the first half of fiscal 2020. Total revenue
increased by 52% to $3.7 million for the six-month period, compared
to the same period last year, and loss from operations decreased by
23% to $2.8 million. These improvements were driven by revenue
growth across all segments and a focus on improved operational
efficiency. During the quarter, the Company launched its new data
insights platform, Cohesion, which supports brands in
understanding, segmenting and targeting cannabis consumers. On
November 21, 2019 the Company announced a strategic relationship
with Nielsen, a leading global measurement and data analytics
company.
“With an emerging data insights product, we are
proud to announce fiscal 2020 is off to a strong start with year
over year growth, increased operational efficiencies, and the
launch of our flagship data-as-a-service platform, Cohesion,” said
Matei Olaru, CEO of Lift & Co. “As a leader in providing
information across the cannabis value chain, Cohesion and
specifically our strategic relationship with Nielsen signal our
capabilities to modernize consumer insights in the cannabis
industry. Cohesion Segmentation – powered by Nielsen is a
first-of-its-kind tool that combines transactional and behavioural
consumer data into prescriptive consumer insights.”
Cohesion Segmentation – powered by Nielsen
combines the transactional and behaviour data collected by the
Company through user profiles, reviews and purchase receipts on
Lift.co with Nielsen’s data which is widely adopted across both
brands and agencies for independent and trusted insights into the
media consumption and purchasing behavior of real people. Using
this tool, Cohesion clients will be able to accurately create
custom consumer segments, predict their likely purchases and
dollars spent, and digitally-activate these consumers with
advertising through cross-channel targeting. The Company estimates
that this tool can reduce digital customer acquisition costs by as
much as 30% and increase click-through-rates by over 20%.
“Unlike our competitors in data insights which
focus on point-of-sale data analytics, Cohesion and Segmentation –
powered by Nielsen is truly unique in the market for the ability to
predict person and segment specific product purchases and behaviour
across Canada,” continued Matei Olaru. “There is no other product
like this in the market today.”
With the launch of Cohesion and a strategic
relationship with Nielsen, the Company now has a differentiated and
trusted commercial insights platform powered by data collected from
its wholly-owned, trusted and established consumer (Lift.co) and
retailer (CannSell) platforms. Management believes that Cohesion
will become increasingly fundamental to the market and to incumbent
CPG companies looking to understand and enter the cannabis
industry.
SECOND QUARTER 2020 FINANCIAL
HIGHLIGHTS
- Total revenues increased 40% to
$331,848 for the three-month period ended September 30, 2019 and
increased 52% to $3.7 million for the six-month period, compared to
the same periods in the prior year.
- Trade Marketing revenue decreased
20% to $119,099 for the three-month period and increased 51% to
$224,591 for the six-month period.
- Data Insights revenue increased
141% to $212,749 for the three-month period and increased 150% to
$388,150 for the six-month period.
- Events Marketing revenue increased
44% to $3.1 million for the six-month period.
- Loss from operations decreased 15%
to $2.3 million for the three-month period and decreased 23% to
$2.8 million for the six-month period.
SECOND QUARTER 2020 OPERATIONAL
HIGHLIGHTS
- Cohesion, the Company's flagship
data‐as‐a‐service platform, launched September 10th, 2019 with
nationwide coverage for consumer insights to support brands in
understanding, segmenting and targeting cannabis consumers.
- Lift & Co. announced the
development of a new powerful consumer profiling and segmentation
tool with Nielsen, ‘Cohesion Segmentation ‐ powered by Nielsen’,
that promises to lower the cost of customer acquisition for
cannabis brands. The product is expected to launch early next year
on the Company’s Cohesion platform.
- The Company has experienced
continuous growth around the CannSell platform with over 700
licenses being sold this quarter and a total of 12 branded modules
being sold to date, including modules for Organigram Holdings Inc.
and The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd. which launched this
year.
- Lift & Co. has an exclusive
mandate from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario to
provide CannSell to the additional 68 stores that currently have
license applications in progress and are expected to open in
Ontario. This mandate will continue to be exclusive for several
years during which Ontario is expected to remove the cap on
cannabis retail stores.
About Lift & Co.
Lift & Co. is a publicly traded technology
company modernizing the cannabis industry.
Forward-looking statements
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materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and
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Although Lift & Co. has attempted to
identify important factors that could cause actual results,
performance or achievements to differ materially from those
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SOURCE Lift & Co. Corp.
For further information:
Lift & Co.Sara McMillenDirector of
Communications and Government
Relations416-220-9536smcmillen@lift.co
Investor Relations:Thesis CapitalPrit
Singh905-510-7636psingh@thesiscapital.ca
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