Eve & Co Begins Court Approved Sales and Investment Solicitation Process

STRATHROY, ON, April 8, 2022 /CNW/ - Eve & Co Incorporated ("Eve & Co" or the "Company") (NEX: EVE.H) (OTCQX: EEVVF) and its subsidiaries, Natural MedCo Ltd. ("NMC") and Eve & Co International Holdings Ltd. ("Eve International" and together with Eve & Co and NMC, the "Eve Group") announce an update on their proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (the "CCAA").   

On March 25, 2022, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) (the "Court") granted an initial order (the "Initial Order") pursuant to the CCAA to the Eve Group. BDO Canada Limited was appointed monitor of the Eve Group (in such capacity, the "Monitor"). On April 1, 2022, the Initial Order was amended and restated by the Court and an order was granted authorizing the Eve Group to undertake a sale and investment solicitation process ("SISP") for the sale of, or investment in, all or part of the assets, shares or business operations of the Eve Group (collectively, the "Property").

The Monitor, in consultation with the Eve Group, is soliciting offers that may include one or more of a recapitalization, arrangement or other form of investment in, or reorganization of, the business and affairs of the Eve Group as a going concern, or a purchase of all or part of the Property.

Information regarding the SISP can be obtained by visiting the Monitor's website: https://www.bdo.ca/en-ca/extranets/eve-co-incorporated-and-natural-medco-ltd/, or by contacting the Monitor's office at [phone] or [email protected]. Non-binding letters of interest are due by no later 5:00 p.m. EST on July 29, 2022.

ABOUT EVE & CO

Eve & Co, through its wholly-owned subsidiary NMC, holds cultivation and processing licences under the Cannabis Act (Canada) for the production and sale of various cannabis products, including dried cannabis, cannabis plants and extraction of cannabis oil and has received its European Union certificate of Good Manufacturing Practice. NMC was Canada's first female-founded licensed producer of medicinal marijuana and received its cultivation licence from Health Canada in 2016. Eve & Co is led by a team of agricultural experts and has a licensed 1,000,000 square foot greenhouse located in Strathroy, Ontario.

The Company's website can be visited at www.evecannabis.ca.

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SOURCE Eve & Co Incorporated

Melinda Rombouts, President and Chief Executive Officer, Eve & Co Incorporated, Telephone: [phone]