Company: VREOF
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEFM14C
Source: 0001140361-25-009815
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Company: Vireo Growth Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEFM14C
Chunk 185
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 Canada, with its securities listed for trading on the CSE under the symbol “VREO” and on the OTCQX under the symbol “VREOF.” Vireo Growth is a cannabis company whose mission is to provide safe access, quality products and value to its customers while supporting its local communities through active participation and restorative justice programs. The Company is evolving with the industry and is in the midst of a transformation to being significantly more customer-centric across its operations, which include cultivation, manufacturing, wholesale and retail business lines. With our core operations strategically located in four limited-license medical and adult-use markets, Vireo Growth cultivates and manufactures cannabis products in environmentally friendly greenhouses and other facilities and distributes these products through our growing network of Green Goods™ and other Vireo Growth branded retail dispensaries, as well as third-party dispensaries in the markets in which our subsidiaries hold operating licenses. As of March 4, 2025, Vireo Growth, through its subsidiaries, has licenses and operates in three states, consisting of Maryland, Minnesota, and New York. Additionally, the Company has non-operating assets and liabilities in Nevada and Massachusetts. As of March 4, 2025, we retail cannabis products in 14 dispensaries located across Maryland (2), Minnesota (8), and New York (4) and wholesales cannabis products, through third-party companies, in Maryland, Minnesota, and New York.

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Our registered office is located at 1000 Cathedral Place, 925 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 3L2. Our head office is located at 207 South Ninth Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402. History of the Company Our business was established in 2014 as Minnesota Medical Solutions, LLC (“Minnesota Medical Solutions”), and we received our first license in December 2014. The Company was incorporated under the Business Corporations Act(Alberta) on November 23, 2004 under the name “Initial Capital Inc.” On May 8, 2007, the Company changed its name to “Digifonica International Inc.” following the completion of a qualifying transaction. On December 9, 2013, the Company continued into British Columbia under the name of “Dominion Energy Inc.”, subsequently changed its name to “Dynamic Oil & Gas Exploration Inc.” on June 30, 2014, and to “Darien Business Development Corp.” on March 13, 2017. On March 18,