Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Notes to Financial Statements  
NOTE 1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

Organization

 

References in this document to “the Company”, “Terra Tech”, “we”, “us”, or “our” are intended to mean Terra Tech Corp., individually, or as the context requires, collectively with its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

 

Terra Tech is a holding company with the following subsidiaries:

 

  · 620 Dyer LLC, a California corporation (“Dyer”);
  · 1815 Carnegie LLC, a California limited liability company (“Carnegie”);
  · Black Oak Gallery, a California corporation (“Black Oak”);
  · Blüm San Leandro, a California corporation (“Blüm San Leandro”);
  · Edible Garden Corp., a Nevada corporation (“Edible Garden”);
  · EG Transportation, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“EG Transportation”);
  · GrowOp Technology Ltd., a Nevada corporation (“GrowOp Technology”);
  · IVXX, Inc., a California corporation (“IVXX Inc.”; together with IVXX LLC, “IVXX”);
  · IVXX, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“IVXX LLC”);
  · MediFarm, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“MediFarm”);
  · MediFarm I, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“MediFarm I”);
  · MediFarm I Real Estate, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“MediFarm I RE”);
  · MediFarm II, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company (“MediFarm II”); and
  · MediFarm So Cal, Inc., a California mutual benefit corporation (“MediFarm SoCal”)

 

The Company is a vertically integrated retail, production and cultivation company, with an emphasis on providing the highest quality of medical and adult use cannabis products. The Company also holds an exclusive patent on an organic antioxidant rich Superleaf rich lettuce and living herbs that are grown using classic Dutch hydroponic farming methods.

 

The Company has a presence in three states (California, Nevada and New Jersey), and currently has a concentrated cannabis interest in California and Nevada. All of the Company’s cannabis dispensaries operate under the name Blüm. The Company’s cannabis dispensaries in California operate as MediFarm SoCal in Santa Ana and Black Oak Gallery in Oakland and offer a broad selection of medical cannabis products including flowers, concentrates and edibles.

 

The Company is currently in various stages of construction in both states as the Company is rapidly expanding its commercial footprint focusing on building additional retail, cultivation and production locations for medical and adult use cannabis. The Hegenberger cultivation facility in Oakland under Black Oak is expected to be complete mid-2018, with additional medical and adult use locations under Dyer and Carnegie in which the Company owns the real property. The Company has received provisional permits to operate a dispensary and production facility in the city of San Leandro, California under Blüm San Leandro; and upon project completion and inspection, to receive final operating permits.

 

In Nevada, the Company has four dispensaries, three under MediFarm in Las Vegas and one under MediFarm I in Reno, which sell quality medical and adult use cannabis products. The Company owns real property in Reno under MediFarm I RE, on which MediFarm I operates its dispensary. Under MediFarm II, the Company is constructing a state of the art cultivation and production facility, which will produce the Company’s IVXX proprietary brand of cannabis flowers and cannabis extracted products available throughout Nevada.

 

The Company has access to wide consumer markets for cannabis in both Nevada and California for which the Company’s focus is on building a brand portfolio of a line of quality IVXX cannabis products. Within the Company’s highly advanced and custom designed extraction labs, the Company produces the purest concentrates and cannabis extracted products including cartridges and vape pens. The Company’s IVXX cannabis flowers are grown under meticulous standards ensuring exceptional quality and consistency.

  

Founded on the importance of providing consumers with healthy and natural products, Edible Garden is a wholesale seller of organic and locally grown hydroponic produce and herb products. EG Transportation supports the distribution of Edible Garden products to major grocery stores such as ShopRite, Walmart, Ahold, Aldi, Meijer, Kroger, and others throughout New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and the Midwest.

 

On April 1, 2016, the Company acquired Black Oak. Black Oak operates a medical marijuana dispensary and cultivation in Oakland, California under the name Blüm, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated December 23, 2015 (the “Merger Agreement”), with Generic Merger Sub, Inc., a California corporation and our wholly-owned subsidiary (the “Merger Sub”), and Black Oak. The Merger Agreement was amended by a First Amendment to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated February 29, 2016. Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the Merger Sub merged with and into Black Oak, with Black Oak as the surviving corporation, and became our wholly-owned subsidiary (the “Merger”). The Merger was intended to qualify for Federal income tax purposes as a tax-free reorganization under the provisions of Section 368(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, at the closing of the Merger, the outstanding shares of common stock of Black Oak were converted into the right to receive shares of the Company’s Series Z preferred stock, shares of our Series B preferred stock and shares of our Series Q preferred stock. Subsequent to the Merger, the Series Q Preferred Stock, were all converted to common stock, and all the series Z preferred stock were all converted to Series B Preferred Stock. The Series B Preferred Stock were ultimately converted to common stock during 2017.

 

Since the Merger was completed on April 1, 2016, Black Oak’s financial results are included in our consolidated financial statements subsequent to that date, see “Note 5 – Acquisitions” and “Note 12 – Contingent Consideration” for further information.

 

Due to changes in planned operations of the MediFarm dispensaries, the Company acquired an additional 38% ownership for no additional consideration during August 2017. Previously, the Company owned 60%. As of September 30, 2017, the Company has 98% ownership of MediFarm. In connection with the ownership change the Company recorded a $1,830,925 adjustment to additional paid in capital representing the change in non-controlling interest.

 

On August 17, 2017, the Company formed a wholly owned legal entity, MediFarm SoCal, to acquire all assets of Tech Center Drive Management, LLC (“Tech Center Drive”) and 55 OC Collective, Inc. (“55 OC”). 55 OC owns and holds a cannabis dispensary license in the city of Santa Ana, California. Tech Center Drive manages and operates a dispensary under the license of 55 OC. On September 13, 2017, MediFarm SoCal acquired all of the assets of Tech Center Drive and 55 OC. The acquisition was accounted for in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 805-10, “Business Combinations”; see“Note 5 – Acquisition” for further information. MediFarm SoCal’s sole purpose is to operate a medical marijuana retail dispensary.

 

On March 12, 2018, the Company implemented 1-for-15 reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”). The Reverse Stock Split became effective in the stock market upon commencement of trading on March 13, 2018. As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, every fifteen shares of the Company’s Pre-Reverse Stock Split common stock were combined and reclassified into one share of the Company’s common stock. No fractional shares were issued in connection with the Reverse Stock Split, and any fractional shares were rounded up to the nearest whole share. The number of shares of common stock subject to outstanding options, warrants and convertible securities were also reduced by a factor of fifteen as of March 13, 2018. All historical share and per share amounts reflected throughout consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect the Reverse Stock Split. The authorized number of shares and the par value per share of the Company’s common stock were not affected by the Reverse Stock Split.