Company: NGVC
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-037556
Chunk: 642

Company: Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-11
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 642
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, 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

Cash and cash equivalents include currency on hand, demand deposits with banks, money market funds, and credit and debit card transactions that typically settle within three business days. The Company considers all highly liquid investments with a remaining maturity of 90 days or less when acquired to be cash equivalents.

Accounts Receivable, Net

Accounts receivable consists primarily of receivables from vendors for certain promotional programs, magazine advertising and other miscellaneous receivables and are presented net of any allowances for credit losses. Accounts receivable also includes receivables from landlords for tenant improvement allowances. Vendor receivable balances are generally presented on a gross basis separate from any related payable due. Allowance for credit losses is calculated based on historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts about the future. Allowance for credit losses totaled $0.