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First Quarter 2022

• Internet income of $25 million in Q1 2022 elevated by $12.4 million from Q1 2021. The rise year-over-year was primarily pushed by a rise in web income within the Remainder of World (“ROW”) phase pushed by progress within the Israeli medical market and the Canadian adult-use market.
• Gross revenue of $6.9 million in Q1 2022 improved by $9.9 million from Q1 2021. The advance year-over-year was primarily pushed by elevated hashish flower income within the ROW phase, the introduction of extra hashish extract merchandise within the ROW phase that carry the next gross revenue and gross margin than different product classes, decrease stock valuation changes, decrease depreciation expense because of the decrease honest worth of the Peace Naturals Campus in reference to the impairment taken in This autumn 2021, and decrease hashish biomass prices as we started to additional leverage our three way partnership with Cronos Rising Firm Inc. (“Cronos GrowCo”).
• Adjusted EBITDA of $(18.9) million in Q1 2022 improved by $17.7 million from Q1 2021. The advance year-over-year was primarily pushed by the enchancment in gross revenue and a lower in gross sales and advertising and marketing and analysis and improvement (“R&D”) bills.
• Capital expenditures of $0.7 million in Q1 2022 decreased by $6.3 million from Q1 2021. The lower year-over-year was primarily pushed by decreased spending on property, plant and gear within the ROW phase.

Enterprise Updates

Strategic and Organizational Replace

Within the first quarter of 2022, the corporate initiated a strategic plan to realign the enterprise round its manufacturers, centralize features and consider the corporate’s provide chain (the “realignment”). The organizational and value discount initiatives undertaken are meant to higher place Cronos Group to drive worthwhile and sustainable progress over time. This system consists of the next:

1. Centralizing features below widespread management to extend environment friendly distribution of sources, enhance strategic alignment and get rid of duplicative roles and prices;
2. Evaluating the corporate’s world provide chain and lowering complexity and stuck bills, which resulted within the announcement of the deliberate exit of the Peace Naturals Campus in Stayner, Ontario, and the corporate’s ongoing assessment of product, pricing and distribution optimization; and
3. Implementing an working expense goal to optimize money deployment for actions akin to margin accretive innovation and U.S. adult-use market entry. The total strategic realignment initiative is predicted to ship $20 to $25 million in initially recognized financial savings throughout working expense classes in 2022, primarily pushed by financial savings in gross sales and advertising and marketing, normal and administrative, and analysis and improvement.

Model and Product Portfolio

In April 2022, the corporate expanded its SOURZ by Spinach gummy portfolio with a brand new taste, Cherry Lime, in a 5 piece per pack format with 2 milligrams of THC per piece. The corporate now has 5 SKUs within the gummy class throughout its SOURZ by Spinac and Spinach FEELZ sub-brands.

Spinach continues to organically develop market share throughout Canada, most notably, Spinach held an approximate 13% market share within the edibles class, which expands to roughly 17% inside the gummy class throughout Q1 2022, in accordance with Hifyre information.

Moreover, three out of the 4 SOURZ by Spinach gummies ranked within the top-10 for market share in Canada in Q1 2022, in accordance with Hifyre information. Having launched its first gummy product in July 2021, the patron adoption of Spinach gummies speaks to the robust innovation Cronos Group is bringing to market.

Moreover, in April 2022, the Spinach vape portfolio entered Ontario’s top-10 in market share. The corporate will proceed to launch new vape merchandise in Might, together with Cosmic Inexperienced Apple and Polar Mint Vortex, throughout numerous provinces in an effort to proceed to increase market share inside the class.

International Provide Chain

Within the first quarter of 2022, the corporate started to leverage Cronos GrowCo’s capabilities as a part of the realignment. These actions embrace, amongst others, the switch of sure manufacturing gear to Cronos GrowCo from the Peace Naturals Campus. In April 2022, the corporate started constructing devoted area inside Cronos GrowCo for numerous manufacturing and R&D actions.

Within the first quarter of 2022, Cronos GrowCo reported preliminary unaudited web income of roughly $7 million to licensed producers excluding gross sales to the corporate.

Appointments

In March 2022, the Board of Administrators appointed Cronos Group’s founder, Mike Gorenstein, as chairman, president and CEO, in reference to Kurt Schmidt’s retirement. Gorenstein beforehand served as chairman, president and CEO of Cronos Group till September 2020, when he transitioned to the chief chairman position.

In April 2022, the corporate appointed Terry Doucet as Senior Vice President, Authorized, Regulatory Affairs and Company Secretary, after serving in an interim capability since December 2021. Doucet has been with Cronos Group since 2018 and has guided Cronos Group by important progress over the previous couple of years, together with the build-out of the corporate’s Authorized and Regulatory Affairs groups, its strategic funding from Altria Group Inc., its R&D partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings Inc. (the “Ginkgo strategic partnership”), the PharmaCann Possibility (as outlined under) and numerous product commercialization initiatives.

Remainder of World Outcomes

Cronos Group’s ROW reporting phase contains outcomes of the Firm’s operations for all markets exterior of the U.S.

Detailed outcomes could be discovered here.

First Quarter 2022

• Internet income of $22.7 million in Q1 2022 elevated by $12.5 million from Q1 2021. The rise year-over-year was primarily pushed by a rise in web income within the Israeli medical market largely attributable to the hashish flower class and the Canadian adult-use market pushed primarily by hashish extracts utilized in edibles and vaporizers.
• Gross revenue of $6.7 million in Q1 2022 improved by $10.8 million from Q1 2021. The advance year-over-year was primarily pushed by elevated hashish flower income, the introduction of extra hashish extract merchandise that carry the next gross revenue and gross margin than different product classes, decrease stock valuation changes, decrease depreciation expense because of the decrease honest worth of the Peace Naturals Campus in reference to the impairment taken in This autumn 2021, and decrease hashish biomass prices as we started to additional leverage our three way partnership with Cronos GrowCo.

United States Outcomes

Cronos Group’s U.S. reporting phase contains outcomes of the corporate’s operations for all manufacturers and merchandise within the U.S.

Detailed outcomes could be discovered here.

First Quarter 2022

• Internet income of $2.3 million in Q1 2022 decreased by $0.1 million from Q1 2021. The lower year-over-year was primarily pushed by a discount in quantity because of a lower in promotional spend as the corporate works by its assessment of the U.S. enterprise as a part of the realignment.
• Gross revenue of $0.2 million in Q1 2022 decreased by $1 million from Q1 2021. The lower year-over-year was primarily because of elevated stock valuation changes, larger transport prices and unfavorable gross sales combine.