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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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| 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.
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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.
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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.