Company: GROVW
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-013839
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Company: Grove Collaborative Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 18
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 and benefits are designed to enable us to attract, motivate, and retain highly-qualified talent. We offer market-competitive compensation and benefits including life and health (medical, dental, and vision) insurance, health savings accounts, a 401(k) plan, voluntary supplemental benefits, paid time off, paid parental leave, a free Grove VIP membership and discounts for purchases made on our website. 

Team Member Safety. We continue to take proactive and precautionary steps to protect the health and safety of our employees. We provide several channels for all employees to speak up, ask for guidance, and report concerns related to ethics or safety violations, and offer certain webinars and subscriptions to support our employees’ health and well-being. Our Elizabethtown, PA fulfillment center recently won the PMA Risk Management Excellence Award. PMA is our workers' compensation insurance provider. To obtain this recognition a client must maintain a lost time frequency rate better than the target rate set by the underwriter for a period of 24 months. In the first two years as a PMA client, Grove exceeded this criteria. Less than 5% of PMA clients qualify for this award.

Facilities

We lease fulfillment center locations in Reno, Nevada and Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, which we use for inbound and receiving, packing and shipping, transportation, operations technology, warehouse IT, operations management, and human resources. During the year ended December 31, 2024 we ceased fulfillment operations in our St. Peters, Missouri facility. Our workforce outside of our fulfillment centers generally works remotely, and we have right-sized our office footprint accordingly.

Trademarks and Other Intellectual Property

We protect our intellectual property through a combination of trademarks, domain names, copyrights, trade secrets and patents, as well as contractual provisions and restrictions on access to our proprietary technology. Our principal 

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trademark assets include the trademarks “Grove,” “Grove Co.,” and “Grove Collaborative,” which are registered or pending registration in the U.S. and targeted foreign jurisdictions, as well as our logos, taglines and multiple product brand names. We have applied to register or registered many of our trademarks in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, and we will pursue additional trademark registrations to the extent we believe they would be beneficial and cost-effective.

Worldwide, we have 21 issued patents and five patent applications pending. Our issued patents will begin expiring in March 2034. We intend to pursue additional patent protection to the extent we believe it would be beneficial