Company: ORBS
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-004802
Chunk: 151

Company: Eightco Holdings Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 151
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margins and achieve profitability. Additionally, competitors operating in regions with less inflationary pressure may be able to compete
more effectively, which could further impact our ability to increases prices and/or result in lost sales.

Recessionary
economic conditions could lower discretionary spending of our consumers, which could result in a loss of sales. Recessionary economic
conditions may cause difficulty in collecting accounts receivable and reduce the availability of credit and spending power for our customers,
both of which may negatively impact our business.

Geopolitical
risks, such as those associated with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, could result in a decline in the outlook for the U.S. and global
economies.

The
uncertain nature, magnitude, and duration of hostilities stemming from Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, and the ongoing
conflict between Israel and Hamas, including the potential effects of sanctions and retaliatory cyber-attacks on the world economy and
markets, have contributed to increased market volatility and uncertainty, and such geopolitical risks could have an adverse impact on
macroeconomic factors which affect our businesses, as well as our access to capital.

Cyber
security risks and the failure to maintain the integrity of internal, partner, and consumer data could result in damages to our reputation,
the disruption of operations and/or subject us to costs, fines or lawsuits.

We
have and will continue to collect and retain large volumes of internal, partner and consumer data, including credit card numbers and
other personally identifiable information, for business purposes, including for transactional or target marketing and promotional purposes,
and our various information technology systems enter, process, summarize and report such data. We also maintain personally identifiable
information about our employees. The integrity and protection of our customer, employee, and company data is critical to our business
and our customers and employees are likely to have a high expectation that we will adequately protect their personal information. The
regulatory environment, as well as the requirements imposed on us by the credit card industry, governing information, security and privacy
laws is increasingly demanding and continues to evolve. Maintaining compliance with applicable security and privacy regulations may increase
our operating costs and/or adversely impact our ability to market our products and services.

We
also rely on accounting, financial and operational management information technology systems to conduct our operations. If these information
technology systems suffer severe damage, disruption or shutdown and our business continuity plans do not effectively resolve the issues
in a timely manner, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.