Company: GROVW
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001841761-25-000048
Chunk: 304

Company: Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-13
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 304
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 and supply chain, is subject to risks associated with outsourcing, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, infrastructure and logistics to third-party providers, and the loss of any of our key suppliers or logistical service providers could negatively impact our business.

•Shipping is a critical part of our business and any changes in our shipping arrangements or any interruptions in shipping could adversely affect our operating results.

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•Risks associated with the outsourcing of our fulfillment process and other technology-related functions could materially and adversely affect our business.

•We are subject to risks related to online payment methods, including third-party payment processing-related risks.

•We may be unable to adequately obtain, maintain, protect, defend and enforce our intellectual property rights.

•We may be subject to claims that our employees, consultants or independent contractors have wrongfully used or disclosed confidential information of third parties or that our employees have wrongfully used or disclosed alleged trade secrets of their former employers.

•Indemnity provisions in various agreements to which we are party potentially expose us to substantial liability for infringement, misappropriation or other violation of intellectual property rights.

•We must successfully maintain, scale and upgrade our information technology systems, and our failure to do so could have an adverse effect on our business.

•If we (or our vendors) are unable to protect against or adequately respond to mitigate the impacts of a service interruption, data corruption, or cybersecurity attack, our operations could be disrupted, our reputation may be harmed and we could face significant costs to remediate the incident and defend against claims by business partners, customers, or regulators.

•The actual or perceived failure by us or our vendors to comply with applicable privacy and data protection laws, regulations or industry standards could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

•Changes in existing laws or regulations or related official guidance, or the adoption of new laws or regulations or guidance, including the implementation of tariffs, may increase our costs and otherwise adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

•Failure by our network of ecommerce partners, suppliers or manufacturers to comply with laws and regulations, or with the specifications and requirements of our products, may adversely affect our business.

•Our status as a public benefit corporation and a Certified B Corporation may not result in anticipated benefits.

•As a public benefit corporation, our duty to balance a variety of interests may result in actions that do not maximize stockholder value.

•As a public benefit corporation, we may be subject to increased derivative litigation concerning our duty to balance stockholder and