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Note 2 - Sale of Manufacturing Operations' Assets
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements  
Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations, Disclosure [Text Block]
2.
Sale of Manufacturing Operations’ Assets
 
On
January 1, 2019,
we entered into a Purchase Agreement with Nutracom pursuant to which Nutracom purchased the following assets previously used by us in our manufacturing operations:
 
 
Inventories (sold at cost of
$1.56
million) and,
 
Machinery and other equipment with a net book value of
$565,000
(sold for
$1
million; gain on disposal of approximately
$435,000
).
 
Nutracom was formed by our manufacturing operations management which included former officers of the Company. Employees of our manufacturing operations were offered employment by Nutracom.
 
Prior to its approval of the transaction, our Board of Directors formed a special committee consisting of the Board’s independent directors to review the transaction. To assist in its review, the special committee engaged a qualified
third
-party expert to render a fairness opinion on the transaction.
 
Concurrently with the execution of the Purchase Agreement, we entered into several agreements with Nutracom including a product supply agreement for a term of
seven
years, a fulfillment agreement, and a facility lease agreement whereby Nutracom will lease manufacturing, warehouse, and certain office space of our headquarters building from us for a term of
seven
years, with a Nutracom option for an additional
five
-year term. Annual lease amounts range from
$193,000
to
$410,000
over the
seven
-year term.
 
Nutracom provided the following consideration to us for the manufacturing operations and related identified assets and agreements:
 
 
$1
million secured promissory note,
seven
year term, fixed interest rate of
5.5%,
principal and interest payable monthly. (See
June 1, 2019
note modification within this Note
2
).
 
$764,344
unsecured promissory note,
seven
year term, fixed interest rate of
7.0%,
interest only payable for the
first
two
years with monthly payment of principal and interest thereafter under a
ten
-year amortization schedule. The face value of the unsecured note includes the
first
year’s rent due under the facility lease agreement. (See
October 1, 2019
note modification within this Note
2
).
 
Nutracom management transferred to us its ownership of
99,200
shares of our common stock valued at
$540,144.
 
Nutracom issued to us a non-voting Class B
15%
equity membership interest in Nutracom, LLC. The Class B interest does
not
share in any profits or losses from operations of Nutracom. As defined within the Nutracom Operating Agreement, upon any merger, consolidation, disposition, or liquidation of Nutracom, the Class B equity membership interest converts to a Class A equity membership interest.
 
Commencing
January 1, 2020,
our Class B interest is entitled to receive a percentage, (ranging from
1.0%
to
1.25%
) of Nutracom’s annual revenues (excluding Nutracom’s revenues from sales to us).
 
Our non-voting Class B
15%
equity membership interest in Nutracom was valued by the aforementioned
third
-party expert at
$505,000.
As our non-voting membership interest does
not
participate in the management of Nutracom, nor do we share in any Nutracom operating profits or losses, we are accounting for our Nutracom equity investment under the cost method.
 
We accounted for the aforementioned Nutracom transactions in our
first
quarter
2019
financial results.
 
Promissory Note Modification –
June 1, 2019
 
On
June 1, 2019,
we entered into an Agreement with Nutracom to modify the Secured Promissory Note originally issued to us by Nutracom on
January 1, 2019,
as follows:
 
 
Effective
June 1, 2019,
the outstanding balance of the Secured Promissory Note was reduced by
$500,000
to
$460,583
with a corresponding reduction of
$500,000
to our outstanding vendor obligation due Nutracom under our ongoing product supply agreement.
 
The
$460,583
remaining Secured Promissory Note was exchanged with Nutracom for a newly issued
June 1, 2019
Nutracom unsecured promissory note for the same amount under the following terms: fixed interest rate of
6.0%
with interest only payable monthly through
December 2020.
Beginning
January 1, 2021,
principal and interest of
$8,904
will be payable monthly for
60
months.
 
Promissory Note Modification –
October 1, 2019
 
In
December 2019,
we entered into an Agreement with Nutracom to modify the Unsecured Promissory Note originally issued to us by Nutracom on
January 1, 2019,
as follows:
 
 
Effective
October 1, 2019,
the outstanding balance of the
January 1, 2019
Unsecured Promissory Note of
$764,344
was reduced to
$711,163.
The reduction of
$53,181
in the Note’s balance represents Nutracom’s return to us of now-expired inventories originally acquired by Nutracom from us on
January 1, 2019.
 
The
$711,163
remaining balance of the
January 1, 2019
Unsecured Promissory Note was exchanged with Nutracom for a newly issued
October 1, 2019
Nutracom Unsecured Promissory Note for the same amount under the following terms: fixed interest rate of
7.0%
with interest only payable monthly through
December 2020.
Beginning
January 1, 2021,
principal and interest of
$8,257,
under a
ten
-year amortization schedule, will be payable monthly for
60
months, with a balloon payment of all remaining principal and interest due
January 1, 2026.