Company: NGVC
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-037556
Chunk: 589

Company: Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7A
Chunk 589
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See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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NATURAL GROCERS BY VITAMIN COTTAGE, INC.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

September 30, 2025 and 2024

1. Organization

Nature of Business

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (Natural Grocers or the holding company) and its consolidated subsidiaries (collectively, the Company) operate retail stores that specialize in natural and organic groceries, dietary supplements and body care products. The Company operated 169 retail stores as of September 30, 2025, including 45 stores in Colorado, 25 in Texas, 14 in Oregon, 11 in Arizona, eight in each of Kansas and Utah, seven in Missouri, six in each of Idaho, Iowa, New Mexico and Oklahoma, five in Washington, four in each of Montana and Nevada, three in each of Arkansas, Nebraska and North Dakota, two in Wyoming, and one in each of Louisiana, Minnesota, and South Dakota. The Company also has a bulk food repackaging facility and distribution center in Golden, Colorado. The Company had 169 stores as of September 30, 2024.

2. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include all the accounts of the holding company’s wholly owned subsidiaries, Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc. (the operating company) and Vitamin Cottage Two Ltd. Liability Company (VC2). All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Management reviews its estimates on an ongoing basis, including those related to valuation of inventories, useful lives of long-lived assets for depreciation and amortization, impairment of goodwill, indefinite-lived intangible assets, and long-lived assets, lease assumptions, allowances for self-insurance reserves, deferred tax assets and liabilities, and litigation based on currently available information. Changes in facts and circumstances may result in revised estimates and actual results could differ from those estimates.

Segment Information

The Company has a single reportable segment: natural and organic retail stores.

Other Comprehensive Income

The Company has no other comprehensive income.

Cash and Cash Equivalents