Pervasip Announces Positive 1st Quarter EBITDA of $124,221 and 178% Growth in Gross Margin

SEATTLE, April 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pervasip Corp. (OTCPK: PVSP) (“Pervasip” or the “Company”), a developer of companies and technologies in high value emerging markets, today announced the filing of its unaudited financial statements for its 1^st Quarter ended February 28, 2022.

As outlined in the 2022 shareholder letter, Pervasip launched a system wide restructuring after hiring new CEO & President German Burtscher and CFO George Jordan in Q4 2021. Adjusted for a onetime expense recognition of $176,246 in annualized severance payments, and $270,571 in depreciation EBITDA for Q1 equals $124,221 with 39% in Gross Margins. This marks a material improvement compared to the period ended February 28, 2021, which equaled ($649,831) in EBITDA and 23% in gross margins.

Net loss attributable to Pervasip Corp. for the period ended February 28, 2022 decreased to $(103,788) from $(582,882) for the period ended February 28, 2021, and includes onetime termination expense charges of $176,246 or an adjusted positive net income of $72,458.

While December through February are traditionally the slowest quarter of the year in Cannabis, and on the heels of an industry wide post pandemic contraction, Pervasip is reporting 2.4% growth in revenue over last year’s comparative First Quarter, markedly improved gross margins and positive EBITDA.

“Our team has executed the first half of our restructuring plans flawlessly over the past few months. Improved gross margins, achieving positive EBITDA and quarter over quarter revenue growth even in the traditionally slowest quarter in our industry and compared to a pandemic high Q1 2021 is a testament to our strength, the direction of the Company and the power of the Artizen brand,” says CEO German Burtscher. “Our infrastructure is on track to achieve per square foot target objectives for harvest yields by Q4 this year, which will yield a 50% increase in output from all gardens. Together with the buildout of our new state of the art cultivation facility, this will continue to improve the company’s revenue and profitability.”

Key Highlights

• The Company partnered with a national cultivation group in its effort to upgrade all facilities and grow SOPs with an objective to increase per square foot output by 50%
• Washington’s largest public utility agreed to provide energy rebates to upgrade grow lighting to state of the art LED equipment with close to one million dollars ($1 million) in rebates over the next 12 months
• Quarter over quarter EBITDA has increased from ($649,831) to $124,221
• Revenue increased by 2.4% in a post pandemic market that saw revenues decrease by 12% in Washington State
• Inventories have increased to $4,321,512 and provide the power to support revenue growth for Q2, while allowing gardens to continue to increase per square foot yields in anticipation of continuing strong growth in Q3 and Q4
• A six-month upgrade to the Port Townsend greenhouse cluster was completed end of February and positive yield and quality improvement results will start to be recognized in the second quarter
• The company wide restructuring that started in October 2021 was completed by end of February resulting in over a million dollars in operating expenses saved with positive cashflow impacts to be realized in the third and fourth quarter this year
  

“While focused on structuring our business for success and improved efficiencies, our team has also done incredible work advancing our plans with KRTL Biotech for brand expansion into adjacent wellness markets, developing a new cannabis brand, and expanding the Artizen brand’s network of retail customers. We have moved the entire organization off proprietary software systems and moved to off-the-shelf, third party supported applications, launched system-wide upgrades to our facilities, which are already yielding results in the form of increased flower quality and yield, and all this in less than 5 months.”

Burtscher continued: “Based on requests from many of our shareholders we are also going to make virtual visits available for all the gardens and operations growing Artizen branded flower. It is sometimes difficult to understand the size of operation required to sustain a business like ours and difficult to visualize what we are doing. Look for an announcement on our website in the coming days. We also will gladly host anyone visiting us in Washington for a tour!”

Pervasip Corporation
Pervasip Corp., a developer of companies and technologies in high value emerging markets, owns Artizen Corporation and its subsidiary, Zen Asset Management LLC, a diversified asset management company founded to acquire, develop, and support companies and technologies in the cannabis industry. ZAM’s existing clients operate four licensed cannabis cultivation and one processing facility in Washington. Most of the biomass produced by these independent cultivators has been sold historically under the Artizen™ brand, including all-time top selling products in flower in Washington state. Additional information on Artizen-branded products is available online at www.artizencannabis.com. Pervasip additionally owns 5% of KRTL Biotech, Inc., a developer of biotechnologies with a focus on pharmaceutical applications of cannabinol and psilocybin. Additional information on KRTL is available online at www.krtlbiotech.com. Additional information on Pervasip can be found at www.pervasip.net.

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