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“As I look<br />

back at fiscal<br />

<strong>2016</strong> and look<br />

forward to the<br />

future, two<br />

words, growth<br />

and opportunity,<br />

come to mind.”<br />

- Bruce Linton<br />

Chairman & CEO,<br />

<strong>Canopy</strong> Growth Corporation


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Table of<br />

Contents<br />

01.<br />

MESSAGE<br />

FROM THE CEO<br />

02.<br />

PATH TO<br />

LEGALIZATION<br />

03.<br />

WORLD-CLASS<br />

PRODUCTION<br />

PAGE 04<br />

PAGE 10<br />

PAGE 12<br />

04.<br />

BRAND & MARKET<br />

SEGMENTATION<br />

05.<br />

PRODUCTS<br />

06.<br />

MARKET SHARE<br />

PAGE 24<br />

PAGE 28<br />

PAGE 32<br />

07.<br />

INTERNATIONAL<br />

PAGE 34


04 |<br />

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01.<br />

Message<br />

from the CEO<br />

GROWTH BY THE NUMBERS<br />

Investments across our operations, including in our<br />

production capacity and in our award winning customer<br />

service generated significant growth in our business. By<br />

the numbers, the growth our business delivered in fiscal<br />

<strong>2016</strong> was impressive: revenues and grams of marijuana sold<br />

increased greater than four-fold over 2015, to $12.7 million<br />

and 1.7 million grams, respectively. Our registered patient<br />

count rose 300 percent to over 11,600 at the end of the <strong>2016</strong><br />

fiscal year.<br />

GROWING OUR PRODUCTION<br />

CAPACITY AND PRODUCT OFFERING<br />

Investments made over the fiscal year resulted in the<br />

more than doubling of our licensed production capacity,<br />

to 595, 000 square feet, in three world-class production<br />

facilities. In the second half of the year, our research and<br />

development, production, marketing and regulatory teams<br />

worked hard and smart to begin licensed production and<br />

sale of targeted cannabis oil extract products for the market.<br />

With the growth in our revenue, grams sold, number of<br />

registered patients, licensed production space and product<br />

offering over the past year, we have built what is arguably the<br />

dominant medical marijuana platform in Canada. That said,<br />

in my opinion, what we are doing to position our company for<br />

the future and the extent of the opportunities that lie ahead<br />

for our business, are the real stories.


06 |<br />

Message from the CEO<br />

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323,891<br />

GRAMS AND GRAM<br />

EQUIVALENTS SOLD<br />

2,894<br />

PATIENTS<br />

BY YEAR<br />

STRONGER THROUGH ACQUISITION<br />

The acquisition, in the second quarter of fiscal <strong>2016</strong>,<br />

of Bedrocan Canada, a company with a strong medical<br />

marijuana brand and over 20 years of medicinal marijuana<br />

research and indoor growing experience, strengthened our<br />

ability to meet the needs of the marijuana market, today<br />

and in the future.<br />

EVOLUTION IN CORPORATE<br />

NAME AND STRUCTURE<br />

FY 2015 FY <strong>2016</strong><br />

The acquisition of Bedrocan precipitated a change in our<br />

corporate structure and in the name of the publicly traded<br />

entity. Changing the corporate structure, to a multi-brand<br />

holding company, sets the stage for expanding our business.<br />

To better leverage our distinct customer-facing brands,<br />

Bedrocan and Tweed, to build upon our dominant position in<br />

the marijuana market in Canada, we changed the name of the<br />

publicly- traded entity, to <strong>Canopy</strong> Growth Corporation.<br />

1,696,440<br />

GRAMS AND GRAM<br />

EQUIVALENTS SOLD<br />

11,630<br />

PATIENTS<br />

BY YEAR<br />

STRENGTHENED BRANDS<br />

AND MARKET SEGMENTATION<br />

During the fiscal year we undertook various activities to<br />

strengthen our brands and their market focus. Bedrocan,<br />

which is and will remain 100% focused on the medical<br />

market, initiated a number of programs to help advance<br />

the understanding and affordability of treating medical<br />

symptoms using cannabis. Very active engagement with<br />

online and traditional media communities, further<br />

strengthened the already strong Tweed brand. Like the<br />

launch of our Tweed Main Street community engagement<br />

centres and the partnership with Snoop Dogg, a renowned<br />

cannabis connoisseur, both of which were launched towards<br />

the end of the fiscal year, the Tweed team is determined to<br />

use creative marketing strategies to further increase public<br />

awareness of the Tweed brand. Our objective is to make the<br />

Tweed brand top-of-mind as consumers consider making<br />

their first legal marijuana purchase.<br />

THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY IN CANADA –<br />

ADULT RECREATIONAL ACCESS<br />

As I believe you all know, the Canadian Federal government<br />

has promised to introduce legislation to “legalize, regulate<br />

and restrict access to marijuana” in the spring of 2017. It goes<br />

without saying that legalizing recreational use will greatly<br />

increase the size of the marijuana market in Canada. A quick<br />

Google search reveals size forecasts for the recreational<br />

marijuana market in Canada that range from $7b to $10b per<br />

year. To put this market opportunity into context, according<br />

to Statistics Canada, Canadians spent $8.7b on beer in 2014.<br />

With a strong and growing medical marijuana market and the<br />

prospect of a very large recreational market on the horizon,<br />

the opportunity to grow our business in Canada is significant.<br />

BRINGING ADDITIONAL CANADIAN<br />

CAPACITY UNDER THE CANOPY<br />

Several years ago, I read a newspaper article that alerted me<br />

to pending disruption in the medical marijuana market. In<br />

the years since, our business strategies and execution have<br />

provided us with a very strong start. Now consider that, today,<br />

it can take at least three years and an investment of many<br />

hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars before the<br />

many applicants awaiting Health Canada approval, can sell<br />

their first gram.<br />

The challenges faced by late market entrants and aspiring<br />

applicants are significant. This will drive consolidation in<br />

the market. We have received multiple inbound inquiries<br />

from other Licensed Producers and license applicants with<br />

built-out capacity, seeking to be acquired. Leveraging our<br />

strong balance sheet, financial performance and presence in<br />

the capital markets, we are interested in acquiring complementary<br />

Canadian assets though, rest assured, we will be very<br />

selective in the assets that we acquire.<br />

EXTENDING THE CANOPY<br />

BEYOND CANADA<br />

Governments, entrepreneurs and researchers around<br />

the world have recognized the effectiveness of Canada’s<br />

medicinal marijuana regime and the growing strength of<br />

our business. This recognition has literally pulled our<br />

business, and further opportunities for its growth, beyond<br />

the Canadian border. Our recently announced partnership<br />

in Australia, with AusCann Holdings, the Bedrocan Brazil<br />

joint venture and our partnership with MedCann GmbH,<br />

Pharma and Nutraceuticals to export medical cannabis to<br />

Germany, demonstrate the opportunities that exist. With<br />

significant interest from multiple third-parties, we are currently<br />

pursuing a number of very exciting projects ranging<br />

from the export of medical cannabis to the ownership of<br />

cannabis cultivation and sales operations in countries around<br />

the world. I am hopeful that we will be able to close on at least<br />

a couple exciting international business ventures over the<br />

next number of months.<br />

VERTICALLY INTEGRATING UP<br />

THE VALUE CHAIN<br />

We believe a significant potential future opportunity<br />

exists, within an appropriate regulatory framework, to<br />

drive up our margins by vertically integrating up the value<br />

chain. In a future recreational market, this could mean<br />

the commercialization of edible and drinkable consumer<br />

products infused with cannabis elements, most notably<br />

THC. Think of the market disruption that could be caused<br />

by the introduction of THC-infused beverages that bring<br />

the same personal enjoyment as traditional beer, spirits and<br />

wine but without the negative post-consumption effects<br />

including weight gain. In the medical market, think of<br />

marijuana based therapies for the treatment of a wide-range<br />

of medical symptoms.<br />

In closing, I would like to thank our employees and their<br />

families and our board of directors for their hard work and<br />

continuing dedication. I would also like thank you, our<br />

s hareholders, for your support — we would not be where<br />

we are today without you.<br />

Sincerely,<br />

Bruce Linton,<br />

Chairman & CEO


08 |<br />

Meet the Team<br />

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MARK<br />

ZEKULIN<br />

President<br />

TIM<br />

SAUNDERS<br />

Senior Vice President,<br />

Chief Financial Officer<br />

OLIVIER<br />

DUFOURMANTELLE<br />

Chief Operations Officer<br />

PHIL<br />

SHAER<br />

Vice President,<br />

General Counsel, HR<br />

TOM<br />

SHIPLEY<br />

Vice President, Quality<br />

Assurance & Lab Services<br />

AMANDA<br />

DALEY<br />

Vice President, Medical<br />

RADE<br />

KOVACEVIC<br />

Vice President, Sales<br />

& Customer Experience<br />

MARTIN<br />

STRAZOVEC<br />

Chief Creative Officer


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02.<br />

Path to<br />

Legalization<br />

In 1923, without a great deal of debate<br />

or fanfare, marijuana was prohibited in<br />

Canada. For almost eighty years, public<br />

opinion generally supported a crime and<br />

punishment approach to cannabis laws.<br />

However, over the past ten years we have seen a change in<br />

attitude towards marijuana, both in Canada and around<br />

the world. In fact, more Canadians now prefer softer<br />

marijuana laws. Many, 68% according to a recent Globe<br />

and Mail poll, now consider recreational legalization to be<br />

a sensible approach.<br />

Prior to Justin Trudeau’s election as Prime Minister last<br />

October, the Supreme Court of Canada ostensibly drove all<br />

MMPR policy reform. Patients around the country earned<br />

concessions like non-inhaled delivery options by challenging<br />

the framework of the day in the courts but rarely, if ever, saw<br />

improvements to the medical marijuana system.<br />

In addition to the change in approach to medical laws,<br />

Justin Trudeau and the federal government are moving to<br />

legalize, restrict and regulate marijuana for recreational use.<br />

This decision is driven by a desire to remove revenue sources<br />

flowing into criminal organizations, reduce access for young<br />

Canadians, and to reduce the amount of taxpayer money<br />

spent on enforcing marijuana laws. These policy objectives<br />

will help define Canada’s emerging cannabis industry, which<br />

will be regulated at the federal level aside from distribution<br />

channels, which will likely differ from province to province,<br />

similar to liquor distribution across the country today.<br />

With medical marijuana already legal in Canada and<br />

producers like Tweed and Bedrocan Canada having<br />

production and distribution experience in the medical<br />

sphere, there has never been a greater opportunity for<br />

growth in the cannabis space.<br />

Some of Canada’s most recognizable businesses and entrepreneurs<br />

have taken note of Canada’s shifting political<br />

climate and public opinion. Shopper’s Drug Mart, London<br />

Drugs, and the Pharmacist’s Association of Canada have<br />

openly indicated their interest in medical cannabis. And<br />

Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne has openly indicated that<br />

the provincially-run LCBO would be the ideal place to sell<br />

recreational cannabis products. In short, the stigma that has<br />

surrounded cannabis for many years is quickly eroding.<br />

<strong>Canopy</strong> Growth is in an ideal position to capitalize on the<br />

opportunities at hand. Through our existing brands we can<br />

simultaneously strengthen our position in the Canadian<br />

medical marijuana market and transition seamlessly into a<br />

recreational market.


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03.<br />

World-Class<br />

Production


14<br />

| World-Class Production<br />

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Refined<br />

Standardized<br />

Harvests<br />

BEDROCAN CANADA -<br />

TORONTO, ONTARIO<br />

Bedrocan Canada cultivates and processes marijuana using<br />

the refined and unwavering processes developed over more<br />

than two decades by Bedrocan International (formerly<br />

Bedrocan BV) of the Netherlands. With 50,000 square feet<br />

of licensed production space, no variable is left unchecked to<br />

ensure the stabilized genetics produce standardized harvests<br />

time and time again. The production of standardized strains<br />

using highly-repeatable processes and minimal labour drives<br />

down the per gram production costs to levels that are competitive<br />

with greenhouse production.


16<br />

| World-Class Production<br />

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Data Driven<br />

Indoor<br />

Production<br />

TWEED -<br />

SMITHS FALLS, ONTARIO<br />

Tweed is housed in the famous former Hershey Chocolate<br />

factory in Smiths Falls, Ontario. The Tweed facility has<br />

168,000 square feet of licensed space with 12 of an eventual<br />

30 growing rooms completed. It is a data- driven, automated<br />

and lean operation, housing an R&D facility, oil extraction<br />

infrastructure, and in-house lab. Precise climate controlled<br />

spaces for each stage of cannabis production, from clone to<br />

cured bud, allows for the highest quality and widest variety of<br />

product in the sector.<br />

The Tweed campus comprises 40 acres of land, much of<br />

which is underdeveloped, and a main building with a total<br />

footprint exceeding 460,000 square feet, providing significant<br />

opportunity to increase licensed production within the<br />

existing building or by erecting new growing space as<br />

demand increases.


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<strong>Canopy</strong> Growth, through its whollyowned<br />

subsidiaries, Bedrocan<br />

Canada, Tweed and Tweed Farms,<br />

currently operates three world-class<br />

marijuana cultivation and processing<br />

facilities. Investments made during<br />

fiscal <strong>2016</strong> more than double the<br />

combined licensed space to 595,000<br />

square feet.


20<br />

| World-Class Production<br />

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True<br />

Greenhouse<br />

Grown<br />

TWEED FARMS -<br />

NIAGARA ON THE LAKE<br />

Tweed Farms sits on approximately 9 acres of land and<br />

features 375,000 square feet of licensed space comprising<br />

greenhouse production and storage/shipping facilities.<br />

Investments made during fiscal <strong>2016</strong> more than doubled the<br />

licensed greenhouse production space, to 350,000 square<br />

feet, and added a 25,000 square foot secure storage and<br />

shipping centre. Scale and passive growing processes allow<br />

the Farm to produce environmentally-friendly cannabis at<br />

extremely competitive per gram costs. The Farm combines<br />

traditional and state-of-the art agricultural techniques, using<br />

the natural power of the sun, natural ventilation and recycled<br />

rainwater. The Farm will be able to nurture genetically<br />

identical plants produced in an on-site tissue culture<br />

propagation lab.


22 | World-Class Opportunity Production<br />

to Add Production Capacity<br />

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We are<br />

positioning our<br />

company for<br />

the future. The<br />

opportunities<br />

168,000<br />

SQ. FT. LICENSED<br />

52,000<br />

SQ. FT. LICENSED<br />

375,000<br />

SQ. FT. LICENSED<br />

that lie ahead for<br />

our business are<br />

the real story.<br />

With Tweed and Bedrocan being among the very first<br />

Licensed Producers in Canada, we have developed,<br />

within <strong>Canopy</strong> Growth, an unparalle d understanding of<br />

the regulatory environment. This understanding, in part,<br />

guided the acquisition of Tweed Farms and drove this<br />

facility to achieve its first license approval in a short eight<br />

weeks post-acquisition.<br />

Understanding the challenges facing many pre-license as well<br />

as Licensed Producers and capitalizing on our knowledge and<br />

expertise, our strong balance sheet and financial performance<br />

and our presence in the capital markets, we see opportunities<br />

to make select and prudent investments to bring a dditional<br />

pre-license or licensed production capacity under the canopy.


24 |<br />

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04.<br />

Brand & Market<br />

Segmentation<br />

The growing marijuana market presents<br />

a unique business opportunity at home<br />

and abroad. Here in Canada the medical<br />

market continues to grow at an exciting<br />

rate as doctors and the public become<br />

more comfortable with cannabis as a<br />

medical option.<br />

With an aging population, more medical treatments and<br />

medications are bound to be sought out and medical marijuana<br />

aligns with prevailing societal values of choosing<br />

simplicity over complicated synthetic pharmaceuticals<br />

with long side- effect disclaimers in the fine print. With<br />

proposed legislation expected Spring 2017, another much<br />

more lucrative opportunity is emerging in Canada. With<br />

segmented approaches and value propositions, <strong>Canopy</strong><br />

Growth can expand internationally using either of the<br />

consumer facing brands, depending on the right fit for the<br />

local market.<br />

In Tweed and Bedrocan Canada, <strong>Canopy</strong> Growth has positioned<br />

two distinct brands to maximize market opportunities<br />

in the medical and recreational market segments. Presently,<br />

both brands are vertically integrated producers and<br />

e-commerce distributors that serve medically authorized<br />

individuals. As laws and market dynamics evolve and recreational<br />

consumers likely gain access to products on store<br />

shelves, the two brands will diverge.<br />

Bedrocan Canada will remain a focused medical cannabis<br />

company, true to Bedrocan International’s values. In Canada,<br />

this means a continued focus on clinical research through<br />

initiatives like the EQUAL Study, the largest clinical study of<br />

its kind in the world, and additional research initiatives that<br />

will serve as the basis for greater medical understanding of<br />

cannabis as a therapy.<br />

Medical outreach efforts at Bedrocan Canada have thrived<br />

under the <strong>Canopy</strong> Growth banner with physician interactions<br />

numbering 16,000 since the inception of the program.<br />

Quantitatively, the team continues to engage with family<br />

physicians, pain specialists and primary care professionals<br />

on a daily basis and will continue to do so as these interactions<br />

are key to the <strong>Canopy</strong> Growth story. A client that<br />

chooses Bedrocan Canada based on their family doctor’s<br />

recommendation rather than a cannabis-focused clinic is<br />

very valuable to our business, it is a sign that our outreach<br />

efforts are working.


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For cannabis<br />

companies, medical<br />

focus means more<br />

than clinical research<br />

and physician<br />

education, it means<br />

that you have to be a<br />

patient advocate on<br />

a number of fronts.<br />

At Bedrocan Canada we have focused our advocacy efforts<br />

on measures related to clients out-of-pocket costs.<br />

Bedrocan Canada, working with NGOs, industry partners,<br />

and federal lawmakers, created a petition to coalesce support<br />

around removing sales tax from medical cannabis. Today,<br />

cannabis is the only physician-authorized medicine that isn’t<br />

“zero-rated” by the Canada Revenue Agency, a designation<br />

that would exempt it from taxation at the point of sale. Over<br />

10,000 signatories’ voices will be heard when the petition is<br />

presented to the House of Commons in the fall of <strong>2016</strong>.<br />

By partnering with Canadians for Fair Access to Medical<br />

Marijuana, Bedrocan Canada is also working with its clients<br />

to identify individuals who may be eligible for insurance<br />

coverage. This work is designed to help individual clients,<br />

but over the long-term, the goal is to create awareness<br />

and precedents in the insurance industry that can lead to<br />

structural changes to the way cannabis is covered by insurers.<br />

Thanks to the low cost production methods developed over<br />

the course of two decades by Bedrocan International and<br />

used at Bedrocan Canada’s facility, the lowest full product line<br />

in the industry still provides healthy margins to investors.<br />

These efforts, in addition to the cutting edge clinical work and<br />

industry leading physician education, set Bedrocan Canada<br />

apart as the leading medical marijuana brand in the country.<br />

Tweed’s brand, by contrast, will focus on creating an affinity<br />

for the Tweed story through interesting product lines and<br />

high profile, high impact collaborations. In many regards this<br />

work is underway, with many acknowledging that Tweed is<br />

the most recognizable cannabis brand in the world.<br />

Active media engagement, through social media channels and<br />

mainstream media has allowed Tweed to drive brand recognition<br />

and thought leadership at a pivotal time for the industry.<br />

Tweed will continue to serve its medical patients once a<br />

recreational market is defined but its primary focus will shift<br />

closer to recreational customers looking for a wide variety of<br />

products and formats.<br />

The transition to recreational focus will take place subtly.<br />

An existing market presence will serve as an early-mover<br />

advantage when new opportunities open up, but until that<br />

time the Tweed team will remain solely focused on the needs<br />

of our medical customers.<br />

An established partnership with DNA Genetics plays well in<br />

an evolving market. As a product-focused arrangement, it<br />

benefits every category of consumer by improving the quality<br />

of Tweed’s entire product line.<br />

Along the same lines, aligning with Snoop Dogg also makes<br />

sense in both markets. As a long-time medical patient in<br />

California and the most visible cannabis icon in the world,<br />

working with Tweed has resonance now and in a legal recreational<br />

context. We are thrilled to be partnered with Snoop.<br />

He has the ability to raise Tweed’s visibility in Canada and<br />

around the world. His interests in the cannabis space include<br />

his own brand of flowers, Leafs by Snoop, as well as many<br />

other peripheral businesses. Tweed will play a key role in<br />

introducing Snoop’s cannabis businesses to the Canadian<br />

market with exclusive branding and content rights.


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05.<br />

Products<br />

Many producers have diverse seed<br />

banks but no other company in Canada<br />

is capable of producing the same volume<br />

as Tweed, an advantage we’re proud to<br />

pass on to customers.<br />

<strong>Canopy</strong> Growth’s two consumer facing cannabis brands are<br />

very different and the production methods and product<br />

lines offered by each company reflect distinct values.<br />

Bedrocan Canada’s product line includes six strains of whole<br />

flower dried cannabis, granulated product and extracts. All<br />

products sold by Bedrocan Canada have been standardized to<br />

ensure they are genetically identical at every harvest. Physicians<br />

and patients, many of whom require medical cannabis<br />

to treat symptoms over the long-term, place a great deal of<br />

value in Bedrocan’s standardized varieties.<br />

In time, additional delivery methods will be added to<br />

satisfy the growing market demand for non-smoked<br />

forms of cannabis therapy like capsules, sprays, and<br />

topical treatments.<br />

Tweed’s product lines, by contrast, reflect a desire to appeal to<br />

broad segments of the market through variety and diversity.<br />

Supported by the largest indoor & greenhouse grows in the<br />

MMPR, Tweed customers are able to consistently access a<br />

wide variety of cannabis strains, blends, and extracts.<br />

Regulatory change in the summer of 2015 allowed Tweed and<br />

Bedrocan to legally produce and distribute cannabis extracts<br />

oils to authorized patients. Both company’s extract lines<br />

are produced in Smiths Falls to reduce the capital costs and<br />

physical space required to run a commercial extraction lab.<br />

Demand for these products was evident prior to the<br />

R v Smith decision and subsequent regulatory changes.<br />

In fact, since extracts hit the market in <strong>2016</strong>, equipment<br />

doubled, production efficiency tripled, and a custom built<br />

industrial extractor is being purpose-built by a Canadian<br />

company called Advanced Extraction Systems (ABS) to<br />

prepare for the legal recreational market.<br />

Management decided the best approach was to be the<br />

first company to do it well rather than the first company<br />

to do it, period. Both Tweed and Bedrocan have developed<br />

reputations for quality and consistency, reputations the<br />

companies wanted to carry with them into oils. Planning<br />

to produce at an industrial scale allowed us to plan a<br />

competitive pricing structure.<br />

Using common infrastructure, the initial offering from<br />

Tweed and Bedrocan were similar. Each offer extracted<br />

cannabis oil in 100ml bottles, equivalent to 10g of a<br />

customer’s monthly allotment. Each company uses<br />

sunflower oil to reach allowable potency levels. The subtle<br />

differences allow us to separate the brands and occupy<br />

various positions in the market.<br />

Tweed’s 10:1 Cannabis Oils are supported by a line of<br />

baking kits and other culinary resources branded as the<br />

Tweed P antry. These value-adds speak to the typical Tweed<br />

customer’s needs. They are the sort of customer who isn’t<br />

just looking for a producer, they’re looking for an experience.<br />

Bedrocan bedro-oils 10:1 Cannabis Oil extracts are medically<br />

focused, produced using whole-flower standardized cannabis.<br />

They form the basis of a product line that appeals to the<br />

medical community.


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“Navigating<br />

ahead based<br />

on having the<br />

best view.”<br />

- Bruce Linton<br />

CHAIRMAN & CEO,<br />

CANOPY GROWTH CORPORATION


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06.<br />

Market Share<br />

Quarterly Revenue<br />

($000’s)<br />

$14,000<br />

$12,000<br />

$10,000<br />

$8,000<br />

$6,000<br />

Our primary focus is strengthening our<br />

market share across all legal Canadian<br />

marijuana markets. We’ve begun establishing<br />

strong positions in new geographical<br />

markets and will increase our international<br />

focus where opportunities exist.<br />

$4,000<br />

$2,000<br />

0<br />

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 FY<br />

2015 (CRA Approved a one-time five-quarter fiscal year for FY 2015 due to a change in year-end)<br />

<strong>2016</strong><br />

Looking at the scope of the opportunity, we want to make<br />

sure we’re making investments with an eye to the future and<br />

how successful we can be if we start big. These investments,<br />

whether via acquisition or by expanding existing facilities,<br />

are likely to delay when our business becomes cash flow<br />

positive. However, we strongly believe this focus will drive<br />

significantly higher cash earnings and shareholder returns<br />

over the long-term.<br />

Attracting market share can be achieved through a variety<br />

of strategies. Pricing, for example, allows us to position the<br />

two consumer-facing brands differently. Bedrocan, with its<br />

standardized product line and low cost of production allows<br />

us to position it as the lowest cost product offering in Canada<br />

with the True Compassionate Pricing promise, regardless of<br />

income. Positioning Tweed, at slightly higher price points of<br />

$6 –$12 per gram attracts a unique clientele and avoids having<br />

the brands competing against one another for the customers<br />

who are driven by cost alone.<br />

Tweed’s prices are a reflection of slightly higher production<br />

costs and hands-on production techniques, akin to craft<br />

brewing in the beer market.<br />

Marketing very different value propositions remains the<br />

principle differentiator between the two brands. At this<br />

crucial time of market divergence between medical and<br />

recreational, <strong>Canopy</strong> Growth investors get the best of both<br />

worlds with a leading medical company and a leading,<br />

lifestyle driven recreational company. Attracting customers<br />

is a key consideration. Retaining them is equally important<br />

to maintain the momentum we experienced throughout<br />

<strong>2016</strong>. In the upcoming year we will launch a comprehensive<br />

customer loyalty program to promote retention and reward<br />

long term loyalty to the business. Layered with award-winning<br />

customer service, we are confident that we can create<br />

informal referral networks and customer ambassadors across<br />

the country.<br />

The results speak for themselves—22,000 customers at end of<br />

August <strong>2016</strong>, up from less than 500 at end of June 2014.


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07.<br />

International<br />

In recent years, the actions of many<br />

governments around the world have<br />

signaled a significant change in attitudes<br />

towards the legalization of marijuana.<br />

At the recent UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs<br />

(UNGASS), the Government of Canada took centre stage<br />

by announcing its intention to introduce, by the spring of<br />

2017, legislation legalizing recreational marijuana use. Many<br />

countries are pushing for drug consumption to be seen in a<br />

different light, one that moves beyond prohibition to one that<br />

emphasizes public health and education and defunding criminal<br />

organizations around the world.<br />

With changing global attitudes towards marijuana, many<br />

countries are looking to Canada, and its regulatory framework<br />

that is driving the commercialization of medical<br />

marijuana, with much respect. As jurisdictions move towards<br />

establishing new or improved medical marijuana systems,<br />

they are looking to companies acting within the Canadian<br />

framework for expertise, knowledge, financial strength and<br />

potentially product to share. Having established and now<br />

expanding our dominant position in the Canadian medical<br />

marijuana market, third parties in countries around the<br />

world want to work with <strong>Canopy</strong> Growth and its subsidiaries.<br />

We believe a significant opportunity exists currently and<br />

will develop further in the future, to leverage our expertise,<br />

financial strength and business model in developing legal<br />

marijuana markets around the world. To date <strong>Canopy</strong> Growth<br />

has established three international partnerships including an<br />

ownership position in AusCann Holdings of Australia, a joint<br />

venture, Bedrocan Brazil, and an export arrangement in place<br />

with a partner in Germany. Other exciting opportunities<br />

exist and, in time, we will expand <strong>Canopy</strong> into other markets.<br />

The international business opportunities being pursued by<br />

<strong>Canopy</strong> Growth include providing advisory services to third<br />

parties, exporting medical cannabis and, of most interest, the<br />

ownership of cannabis cultivation and sales operations in<br />

countries outside of Canada.


There has never<br />

been a greater<br />

opportunity for<br />

growth in the<br />

cannabis space.

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