Related Party Transactions/Activity

6 Months Ended

Nov. 30, 2018

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transactions/Activity

Note 5. Related Party Transactions/Activity

Yorktown Management & Financial Services, LLC

Yorktown Management & Financial Services, LLC (“Yorktown”), an entity wholly-owned by Greystone’s CEO and President, owns and rents to Greystone (1) grinding equipment used to grind raw materials for Greystone’s pallet production and (2) extruders for pelletizing recycled plastic into pellets for resale and for use as raw material in the manufacture of pallets. GSM pays weekly rental fees to Yorktown of $22,500 for use of Yorktown’s grinding equipment and $5,000 for the use of Yorktown’s pelletizing equipment for which GSM paid Yorktown rental fees of $715,000 for each of the six months ended November 30, 2018 and 2017.

Effective January 1, 2017, Greystone and Yorktown entered into a five-year lease for office space at a monthly rental of $4,000 per month. Total rent expense was $24,000 for each of fiscal year 2019 and 2018. At November 30, 2018, future minimum payments under the non-cancelable operating lease are $48,000 for fiscal years 2019, 2020 and 2021 and $4,000 for fiscal year 2022

TriEnda Holdings, L.L.C.

TriEnda Holdings, L.L.C. (“TriEnda”) is a manufacturer of plastic pallets, protective packing and dunnage utilizing thermoform processing for which Warren F. Kruger, Greystone’s President and CEO, serves TriEnda as the non-executive Chairman of the Board and is a partner in a partnership which has a majority ownership interest in TriEnda. Greystone periodically purchases material and pallets from TriEnda. Purchases for the six months ended November 30, 2018 and 2017 totaled $42,349 and $45,467, respectively.

Green Plastic Pallets

Greystone sells plastic pallets to Green Plastic Pallets (“Green”), an entity that is owned by James Kruger, brother to Warren Kruger, Greystone’s President and CEO. Greystone had sales to Green of $167,400 and $256,819 for the six months ended November 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively. The account receivable due from Green at November 30, 2018 was $93,960.