Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Sylvie and I will be your conference operator today.
Welcome to the Green Organic Dutchman's Second Quarter (sic) 2021 Results Conference Call. To ensure an enjoyable experience for all participants, all lines have been placed on mute.
Following the presentation, we will open the call for questions. .
Know that this call is being recorded on Thursday, November 25, 2021. And I would like to turn the conference over to Shane Dungey, Vice President, Investor Relations.
Please go ahead, sir.
Shane Dungey
Thank you, Sylvie. Good morning and thank you all for joining us for our Q3 conference call.
Today we'll provide comments on our performance, as well as an update on our operations and how we're executing our plans. This call is being recorded and the audio recording will be available on the company website at tgod.ca.
Joining me on the call this morning are Sean Bovingdon, Chief Executive Officer and Interim CFO, and Angus Footman, Chair of the Board of Directors at the Green Organic Dutchman. Today's discussion includes forward-looking statements.
We caution that such statements are based on management's assumptions and beliefs and are subject to uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. I refer you to our news release and MD&A for more information on these assumptions and factors.
With that, I'll now turn the call over to Sean.
Sean Bovingdon
Thanks, Shane. And good morning, everyone.
And Happy Thanksgiving to our US investors. Thank you all for joining us today.
As you know, we recently closed the acquisition of Galaxie Brands and are embarking on an exciting path as we close out 2021 and enter 2022. Next year will be a transitional year where we expect the fundamental value we have been building through 2021 to be recognized by the market.
Joining me on the call, we have our new board chair, Angus Footman, and he will expand on this and discuss our outlook. So, while we remain in a highly competitive and dynamic environment, we have been able to navigate the market and have continued to grow our Canadian adult recreational and medical revenues again this quarter.
We have two of the top six selling flower SKUs and two of the top five hash SKUs in the Quebec market for example. We've been able to remain a top seller there through providing consistent quality and adhering to the TGOD promise, guaranteeing quality, consistency and transparency.
Our hash and flower SKUs continue to perform well and we are creating repeat buying. As we roll these products out across other provinces, particularly Ontario and Alberta, we have seen the same positive consumer feedback and demand.
Q3 Also in Q3, we recorded our first international revenue and completed our first commercial shipment of flower and other extracts destined for the South African medical cannabis market. These will be the first to be distributed legally in the country at a commercial scale.
In addition, subsequent to the quarter, the company completed his first commercial shipment of oils for the Australian medical cannabis market through its partner, LeafCann. Following the launch of our well-received sativa strain, we launched our Organic Highly Dutch Amsterdam Sativa 28g pack in the Province of Ontario.
This top selling product in the other provinces, the sativa product joins Rotterdam Indica as the second 1 ounce option for consumers under the Highly Dutch brand. As with TGOD dried flower, Highly Dutch dried flower products are organically grown in living soil and offer guaranteed THC percentages above 20%.
Amsterdam sativa is now available in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland. In response to the strong demand we were experiencing for our sativa strains, we're expanding our growth plan, which includes beginning cultivation in Valleyfield by the end of this year, to be able to meet the market demand in the coming months.
We expect sales momentum to continue with a steeper acceleration into 2022. I'd also note in the quarter, we were successful in securing an extension to our credit facility.
The renewed credit facility now matures on June 30, 2023, and supports the company with the liquidity and some savings on fees. The total facility was reduced from CAD 30 million to CAD 25 million, while the term loan portion within that increased to CAD 17 million.
This provides a significant improvement on the company's working capital position, which enables us to continue to grow our business as we move towards profitability. Additionally, a key objective was to move from the TSX to the CSE, which we completed on September 13, 2021, to allow us additional investment capability into the US as we continue to explore opportunities.
To support these plans and in conjunction with the Galaxie acquisition, Olivier Dufourmantelle joined the management team as president of our US operations. His and Angus' experience in the cannabis industry, along with our seasoned team of executives, will be vital to enabling our expansion strategy in 2022.
As we continue to integrate TGOD and Galaxie, we will look to leverage the innovation expertise that Galaxie brings to the table, particularly in the pre rolls, vapes and edibles categories as we accelerate portfolio development in the coming quarters. With recent share purchases by key members of the executive team and the share transaction of Galaxie, we now have a significant insider ownership of approximately 20%, firmly illustrating the team's commitment in the success of TGOD.
There continues to be many opportunities to accelerate our growth. Our product portfolio is well rounded and innovative, our geographic footprint continues to expand, and we've made the required adjustments to our distribution to continue to grow on our success.
On the latter point, recently, we announced the move to a dedicated sales force with Acosta Canada in key markets to build on our momentum and continue to increase sales and distribution. In conclusion, we are pleased with our progress and we remain focused on execution and financial discipline, while continuing to transform TGOD into a profitable, sustainable and agile cannabis company poised to take advantage of the growth in Canada and internationally.
For now, I'll turn the call over to Shane to discuss how we're delivering results through this continued dynamic environment.
Shane Dungey
Thank you, Sean. Today, I'll go over the third quarter results and highlight the progress we've made in the quarter.
With HemPoland being reclassified as an asset held for sale, we are no longer reporting consolidated revenue to include revenue from HemPoland. As such, our revenue from recreational adult use cannabis products and medical cannabis products increased to CAD 9.24 million during Q3 2021, an increase of CAD 0.16 million in comparison to Q2 2021.
Canadian growth was driven by continuing to fill the TGOD promise, delivering high quality, high THC flower across our premium and Highly Dutch brands. Double-digit quarter-over-quarter growth is expected to return in Q4 as we've rolled out our sativa strain's Cruuzy SKUs and edibles across the country.
We registered a net loss from continuing operations of CAD 13.94 million for the quarter compared to CAD 75.4 million for the same period during the prior year. This also represents an improvement of CAD18.58 million of losses from continuing operations since Q2 2021 where the company recorded a loss from continuing operations of CAD 32.53 million.
The company expects to achieve positive monthly EBITDA by spring 2022. A key component of our plan has been cost containment and our efforts have continued to be successful with respect to G&A.
We incurred a quarterly G&A expense of CAD 6.37 million for Q3 2021. Excluding a non-cash loss of CAD 1.56 million, G&A expenses were CAD 4.8 million, which is slightly down from the same period in the prior year and down 11% from CAD 5.34 million in Q2 2021.
We continue to build on the quarterly momentum and have strengthened our balance sheet with the aforementioned credit facility extension. We continue to look to further strengthen our financial position through the sale of HemPoland.
We expect to be in realizing cost synergies from the Galaxie acquisition in Q1 2022 and are forecasting an annual savings of at least CAD 2 million in 2022 from the business combination. We remain confident that the progress we've made will enable us to continue growing through the end of the year and into 2022.
With that, I'll now pass the call over to Angus.
Angus Footman
Thank you, Shane. I'm happy to be here with you this morning as the new chair of the Board of Directors.
In a short period of time, Galaxie created a cannabis company focused on developing fun and innovative products that consumers demand. Galaxie now has over 45 SKUs across Canada that include vapes, flower, prerolls and edibles.
And over the last few months, we actually started to notice that the huge strides the TGOD team had made in improving their flower quality, and more remarkable for us was they managed to do this while keeping costs under control and maintaining their commitment to organic and sustainable practices. We also discovered that we shared many core values and collectively believed that a combined entity would accelerate a vision of bringing high quality cannabis products to all of Canada.
The Galaxie acquisition is expected to achieve cost synergies through combining activities in supply chain, distribution, product R&D, as well as cost reductions in SG&A and general overhead. The Galaxie strategic US connections and existing industry relationships should accelerate the company's entry into the US market, with the growing TGOD brand platform being positioned for future expansion across the border.
The domestic market for recreational use, cannabis continues to be our priority and we believe it still represents a significant growth opportunity. The combined entity will benefit from improved regional distribution across Canada, providing product expansion capabilities into British Columbia for TGOD and Highly Dutch brands and into Quebec for Galaxie Cruuzy brands.
Our recent change to a dedicated salesforce in key markets is expected to increase product distribution and a corresponding improvement in sales. I'm very grateful to Sean and the TGOD team for the warm welcome that we all received.
And finally, myself and the Galaxie team are all excited about the future of TGOD and looking forward to continue to build a profitable and sustainable cannabis company selling quality products that consumers demand. And with that, we're back to Sean.
Sean Bovingdon
Thanks, Angus. In closing this section, I am extremely pleased with the company's recent progress and the team continues to work hard to bring the company to profitability with major strategic initiatives on the horizon.
I want to thank our employees and thank our shareholders for the continued support. With that, operator, we are ready to take questions.
Operator
. And your first question will be from Tamy Chen at BMO.
Tamy Chen
I want to go back to the positive monthly EBITDA by spring. So, I believe your financial covenant requires you to get to that by then.
I'm calculating this quarter your EBITDA loss was just under CAD 5 million. So you talked a little bit about it during your prepared remarks.
But can you elaborate a bit more on your confidence to hit that target? What are the biggest drivers that get you there?
Sean Bovingdon
With regards to that EBITDA, yeah, you're correct in terms of that calculation, though noting that also includes a non-recurring, non-cash CAD 1.5 million loss on the settlement of an old deposit that we had. So, the actual recurring EBITDA loss is more like CAD 3.6 million for the quarter and that is continuing to decrease.
The big driver for that, obviously, is the revenue. We've seen the revenue starting to increase even more so and then accelerated with the addition of the Galaxie SKUs that are going on.
So, as we look at the end of Q1, with the additions of new SKUs, and I think if you look at in the press release there, we talk about some of the SKUs that are coming online in January from Sugar Bush, Rockstar Tuna prerolls, cherry mints, plus the Tangerine Sunrise Sativa, Supercharged Duubyz from Galaxie and additional Afghan Black Hash, for example. Those kind of things that are coming online, including, for example, a nice six month aged hash coming on in Quebec as well, those type of products will really accelerate that revenue up to the kind of CAD 5.5 million level target that we need to have that breakeven EBITDA on a monthly basis.
Tamy Chen
The CAD 5.5 million, that's monthly target?
Sean Bovingdon
Yes, that's right.
Tamy Chen
To confirm my understanding, when I take out the – I think it was about CAD 1.7 million of tolling revenues last quarter. It looks like your recreational revenues were kind of flat sequentially.
So, am I understanding this correctly that your view of this performance is more due to less retail penetration, and so you expect sales to really accelerate now that you have this dedicated sales force? Like, was that what kept you from growing your rec sales this quarter?
Sean Bovingdon
Yeah, that's two things. We've seen not only with the dedicated salesforce coming on, which we were on a syndicated salesforce before which really wasn't giving us the traction or the penetration, the velocity or the representation, particularly in Ontario's stores, this dedicated salesforce, 17 people, will help with that.
In addition, it's now being listed in this quarter starting in October in a lot of the retail chains. We weren't in Honey Pot, for example, stores, we weren't in Sessions stores.
We are now in those stores. So that's really almost looking to double the number of stores in Ontario, for example, that our products are listed
Tamy Chen
If I could just squeeze in one more there. Can you elaborate a little on expanding the grow in Valleyfield?
Like, what's the magnitude? And so, are you basically at full capacity now at Ancaster?
Sean Bovingdon
We are at full capacity. The yield has been increasing.
And particularly, we've been turning over our growth plans for sativa because every Sugar Bush plant we grow is going out the door as soon as it's harvested. And so, with Valleyfield, if you recall, when we sold Valleyfield back in June, we retained a leaseback on just under 80,000 square feet, of which the initial 25,000 square feet of that is for cultivation.
Given the demand for sativa and now the increasing number of stores that we're being in and it's now being listed in Ontario, we can see that demand increasing dramatically. There's been refill orders already in Ontario.
And with that, we do need that initial 25,000 square feet of cultivation in Valleyfield to be up and running. And so, the plants are expected to go in here in December.
And we'll get the first harvest in kind of March timeframe.
Operator
Your next question will be from Ven V at Research Capital.
Venkata Velagapudi
You guys have provided the net revenue guidance of CAD 40 million for the year 2021. This was before you decided to sell off this HemPoland.
So, what do you think about this guidance now?
Sean Bovingdon
I didn't catch the first bit of that, Ven.
Venkata Velagapudi
The net revenue guidance of CAD 40 million was provided for the full year of 2021 last time.
Sean Bovingdon
So, part of the – as you know, Ven, we haven't given the exact guidance on revenue, usually. And going forward and now with the Galaxie acquisition, we have to absorb that.
It's just taken off, particularly on the edible size and the prerolls going out. So, we're still assessing what that number is likely to be for December.
But on a total basis, on a combined consolidated basis, even with the HemPoland being taken out, there's no change at this point in time because the Galaxie amounts will look to offset any losses from Q4 from HemPoland.
Venkata Velagapudi
Can you provide more color on geographic mix because, until Q2, TGOD was generating most of the revenue from Quebec. Did you see any change in that trend in Q3?
Sean Bovingdon
Yeah, yeah, yes. And then into Q4, even more so.
We're about 45% of our sales this current month are in Quebec. And then we're about 25% Ontario, 20% Alberta, and the balance across the other provinces.
Venkata Velagapudi
Finally, when can we see a meaningful impact of Galaxie brands on your financial statements? Will it be Q4 or Q1 next year?
Sean Bovingdon
There's only a month and a half here in Q4 from when the close was of the Galaxie acquisitions, and their initial load up and then start off on their edibles and prerolls. Q1 will be the biggest impact you'll see of a full quarter of Galaxie and the products that are coming from them, particularly, as I mentioned, the Supercharged Duubyz being listed in January in Ontario and into BC.
Those kind of items, you will really then start to see that. Well, also, it's going to take, as normal with any integration, the month of – through here, the next 30 days, 60 days still working through on having both processes going until we get the synergies and the processes sorted out.
So, those real savings will start to become – show on an integration basis later in Q1.
Operator
Your next question will be from Mark Tetrault at Richardson Wealth.
Mark Tetrault
Two questions. One, with regards to profitability, breakeven, cash flow positive, that ball has been kicked down the road for a long time now.
Could you comment on as to why your numbers have not materialized? I remember, yes, yes, by 2020, we would be cashflow positive, then mid-2021, then end of 2021.
Now, first quarter 2022. So, that ball keeps going down the road.
And so, where do we have the confidence that this next number is going to materialize versus the other numbers have not?
Sean Bovingdon
Yeah, that's a fair question, Mark. And as I said in 2020, we had to make a transitional change in terms of grow and the product and the quality for flower because the quality of the flower that was coming out in early 2020 was not good.
So we were not getting the traction, the sales that the team had originally forecast. We made all that change with our new COO, Michel Gagné, and the master grower in Ancaster.
The products turned. We're only doing 0.5 million a month back in there in mid-2020.
Now, as I said, we're where we are today and on track for getting to CAD 5.5 million in revenues by the end of Q1. So, it's really about first off having good product.
And we now have that and you've seen that acceleration through this year and over the last year, hopefully. 2020 also had the COVID.
So, the Ontario stores and all the store access were completely shut, which affected the industry as a whole in terms of meeting their sales forecast that they expected on the retail side. Just wasn't there.
As we get through 2021 and the expectations of getting there by the end of this year, absolutely, we're getting towards it, we're not going as fast as we expected. We have cut our SG&A in half year-over-year, which is a big part of it in controlling our costs, and getting the mix right of products and adding in Galaxie with a higher margin 2.0 products that they have, particularly on the edibles, and then their hash and the success that the hash is doing with a higher margin, you start to see our gross margins have increased from where they were in Q1 of this year and we need to be in that 30% to 40% range.
This quarter, I think because of the tolling element, which is a small part of it, is about 29%, 30% as a gross margin. But that's looking to increasing in Q4 as we've added more sales on the flower and on the hash side into Q4.
And so, if you look at our EBITDA this quarter on a recurring basis being about CAD 3.6 million, the run rate instead of burning CAD 2.5 million a month like we were at the beginning of the year, we're down to CAD 1 million a month to CAD 1.5 million most this quarter per month. I can tell you for January, that's going to be below CAD 1 million a month and rapidly because of the sales and the revenue is moving in the right direction to get to end of March.
If we're guilty of anything, it's of pushing our target and setting a target that we're pushing for. And I would hope you trust that we're moving towards – moving in the right direction.
It's just taking a little longer than expected due to the challenges of COVID and getting things listed. The changing in the listing regulations, for example, is another issue.
When we had done our forecasts earlier in this year, we were expecting all these new products to come on month by month as they were ready. But in Quebec and Ontario and in BC, the listing regulations changed, so that all these products that are coming on in January, we had predicted we would have and they have been ready to go on at the start of October.
But the listing windows changed, and so they can only come on in January. And then, after that, they can only come on in April and June.
So, that's been a challenge that the industry is faced. And we're being as agile as we can to continue to be disciplined and move towards profitability and moving there in the right direction.
Mark Tetrault
The second question is, you guys have been super busy with a lot of activity, going in the right direction, doing your best to push us forward, and you've made an acquisition. And yet, with all of that, Canaccord comes out with a negative comment on the acquisition.
And it's like, well, we'll see what happens. But it's interesting that they sold Quebec, and yet now they're buying Galaxie.
And I just thought it was an interesting comment from them. Any thoughts on that?
Sean Bovingdon
It's two different issues, right, in my mind. The Valleyfield was 800,000 square feet of cultivation capacity that we didn't need.
Galaxie is innovation 2.0 products, additional cannabis knowledge, frankly, a landmark edible brand and venture that really will accelerate our positioning in stores across the country and our product offering across the country. When we talk about a strategy of what we've been looking to do with focus, execution and discipline, and when looking at the areas for strategic initiatives, it's been to expand our geographical footprint or expand our product offering capabilities.
And Galaxie fits absolutely into both of those. They've got a presence with Cruuzy flower in BC, which is stronger than our presence in BC, and they have that product capability and innovative 2.0 product capability, innovative team and R&D capability that we didn't have.
That's completely different than was an issue in Quebec. Quebec was all about reducing the debt load and reducing the extremely excessive cultivation capacity that we didn't need.
Operator
Next question will be from Justin Dietrich at Westcourt Inc. Please go ahead.
Unidentified Participant
I only have one question. I'm just curious, is there any update on exporting commercially to Mexico and Germany?
Sean Bovingdon
We are required to have the EU GMP on – full EU GMP. As you know, we got the GMP C at the end of last year.
There have been challenges in getting the inspector in Germany to come and do his visit due to the COVID restrictions of travel, to be honest. It's fully in order and being reviewed and all that.
Last thing he has to do is basically do a full inspection and come back and sign off on that. He is scheduled to do that now.
Because of the challenges Germany is having at the moment with their fourth or I don't know if they call it the fourth or fifth wave, but increasing numbers. He's scheduled to be here in Q2 of next year.
We've submitted all the forms and done everything that he's asked in terms of the SOPs. He just needs to tick that box.
With that, that allows us then – we have wholesale agreements now in place – or being put in place with two different companies in Germany to immediately launch our products into the wholesale market there, on the wholesale metric cannabis market and that is all ready to go as soon as that gets signed off. Mexico, the oil products we have, which is what is primarily in Mexico with that joint venture with LLACA, who has access to 7,600 pharmacies in Mexico, those products are with the COFEPRIS in Mexico.
The Mexican government is taking its time to review and release regulations as they go and had changes in commissioners and officials there. But again, the last thing to tick the box there, again, is having that EU GMP and then they're clear to go.
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this is all the time we have today.
I would like to turn the call back over to Mr. Bovingdon.
Sean Bovingdon
Great. Thank you, everybody for attending.
As I said, it's an exciting time for the company. 2022 offers a lot of promise for us.
As I was mentioning to the question from Mark there, you can see that we're moving in the right direction. We are on target for getting to cash flow positive on a monthly basis, which is key both for our lenders, but also for validation of the growth potential and expanding the opportunities we have as a company not only in terms of different products in Canada, but into the US and the experience.
And we're very happy to have the experience and the connections of Angus and Olivier alongside us as our strong team and execution adds cannabis experience and cannabis knowledge and connections to really build on those opportunities and expand the company in many, many ways, not just the increasing growth in flower and the recreational adult use market that we're seeing organically ourselves. So, it's an exciting 2022 ahead, and I appreciate everybody's time today and their continued support.
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this does indeed conclude your conference call for today.
Once again, thank you for attending. And at this time, we do ask that you please disconnect your lines.