Company: ORBS
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-004802
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Company: Eightco Holdings Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 be especially pronounced during periods of economic contraction or slow economic growth.

We
operate in highly competitive industries and our revenues, profits or market share could be harmed if we are unable to compete effectively.

Each
of the Eightco businesses will face competition from existing competitors. Our competitors in the Inventory Management Solutions
business include Clearco and Payoneer. With respect to the Corrugated Packaging Business, our competitors include Sutherland
Packaging, Acme Corrugated Box Company, and Trenton Corrugated Products, Inc.

Competition
in each of these areas may increase as a result of technological developments, changes in consumer preferences, economic conditions,
changes in market structure, and other factors. Increased competition may divert consumers from our products, which could reduce our
revenue or increase our marketing costs. Our competitors may have substantially greater financial resources than we do, and they may
be able to adapt more quickly to changes in consumer preferences or devote greater resources to promotion of their offerings and services
or to development or acquisition of offerings and services that are perceived to be of a higher quality or value than our offerings and
services. As a result, we may not be able to compete successfully against such competitors.

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We
may not be able to fund capital expenditures and investment in projects and offerings.

A
principal competitive factor for a large portion of the Eightco businesses is the originality and perceived quality of our products and
offerings. We will need to make continued capital investments to adapt to constantly changing consumer preferences. Our ability to fund
capital expenditures will depend on our ability to generate sufficient cash flow from operations and to raise capital from third parties.
We cannot assure you that our operations will be able to generate sufficient cash flow to fund such costs, or that we will be able to
obtain sufficient financing on adequate terms, or at all, which could cause us to delay or abandon certain projects or plans.

A
deterioration in the domestic and international economic environment, whether by way of current inflationary conditions or potential
recessionary conditions, could adversely affect our operating results, cash flow and financial condition.

Current
inflationary conditions in the United States and other parts of the world have increased some of our costs, including our cost of materials
and labor. While we thus far have been largely successful in mitigating the impact of current inflationary conditions, we may need to
increase our own prices on goods and services sufficiently to offset cost increases, we may not be able to maintain acceptable operating