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• Hollister leverages California’s largest dispensary network and Nabis’ rapid order fulfillment for its brand portfolio

VANCOUVER, BC, April 5, 2021 /CNW/ – Hollister Biosciences Inc. (CSE: HOLL) (OTC: HSTRF) (FRANKFURT: HOB) (the “Company“, “Hollister Cannabis Co.” or “Hollister“) has partnered with one of California’s leading distributors, Nabis, as demand for Hollister products continues to build. The new exclusive partnership will help streamline sales, grow retail opportunities and reduce wholesale delivery times on all orders. 

Nabis supports California’s cannabis market with its wholesale distribution services. Supplying more than 99% of California’s dispensaries with a diverse selection of innovative products, Nabis works directly with brands to ensure timely fulfillment, and provides actionable sales data and insights to help brands scale and grow.

The partnership comes at a time when Hollister’s portfolio of products continues to gain brand awareness. HashBone, a hash-infused pre-roll, is one of the company’s signature products in California, and Hollister recently acquired one of Arizona’s leading concentrate brands, Venom Extracts, which is coming soon to the California market. This month, Hollister will introduce Easyriders pre-rolls in a collectible tin as the first products from its collaboration with the iconic motorcycle lifestyle magazine. Hollister also has product collaborations with Tommy Chong and the veterans-aligned medicinal brand Tactical Relief. 

“We are excited to be partnered with Nabis for our last mile fulfillment. Nabis has built a best-in-class last-mile fulfillment business that will help Hollister’s brands reach more California dispensaries with reduced lead times,” says Carl Saling, the Co-Founder, CEO and Director of Hollister Biosciences.

“While Nabis works with a wide range of cannabis brands, we always have our eye on companies with well established and diverse brand portfolios as potential partners,” said Jun S. Lee, President of Nabis. “Hollister Cannabis Co. joining our family of Nabis-distributed brands is a great partnership for all parties. We look forward to distributing Hollister’s high-profile, top-quality products to dispensaries across California.”

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CLIENT FEATURE: Hollister Biosciences Inc. (HOLL: CSE) – Acquiring, developing and powering class-leading cannabis consumer products.

WHY HOLLISTER?

• Vertically integrated, high-margin cannabis company with high-quality cannabis and hemp products in over 280 dispensaries throughout California and over 90 dispensaries throughout Arizona, plus joint ventures, licensing agreements, and partnerships with global brands.
• Hollister controls the whole process from manufacturing to sales, to distribution. From seed to shelf. 
• Fully licensed and compliant and have established a statewide distribution within California for medical and recreational cannabis.
• The U.S. market for cannabis-infused drinks is expected to grow to $1.4 billion by 2024. Zenith Global.
• The market for hemp-derived CBD products was USD $591 Million in 2018, expected to reach USD $22 Billion by 2022.

Recent Highlights:

Q4 2020 Financial Highlights:

Q4 2020 Performance Includes CDN $14.93 Million in Revenue With an Estimated CDN $2.53 Million in EBITDA a YoY Revenue Increase of 3215% from Q4 2019

March:

• Hollister’s direct-to-consumer delivery platform, Dreamy Delivery, will be the official delivery platform of the 2021 Emerald Cup Awards.
  • The Emerald Cup Awards have been the premier Cannabis Cup in California for 17 years.
• Hollister Biosciences Inc. Announces Closing of $7.9M Private Placement of Special Warrants, Including Full Exercise of Agents’ Option

February:

• Stock Hits ALL-TIME High

January

• Hollister $HOLL.ca $HSTRF Reported Record Q4 Revenues of CAD $14.93M From 370 Dispensaries In California and Arizona
• INDUSTRY BULLETIN: Cannabis In California Will Boom Into A Powerhouse Opportunity
• Announces $6.5m Private Placement

December:

• Hollister Biosciences 100% Owned Subsidiary Venom Extracts Achieves Final $40 Million Revenue Milestone

Market Analysis/Overview:

What is Hollister?

1. Hollister Biosciences Inc. is a multi-state company with a portfolio of innovative, high-quality cannabis & hemp branded consumer products and white-labelling manufacturing. Products are sold in 370 dispensaries across Arizona and California.
2. Hollister Biosciences owns 100% of Venom Extracts, a category-leading brand that sold over 4 million grams in 2020, accounting for up to 30 percent of category sales in Arizona.
3. Products from Hollister Biosciences Inc. include HashBone, the brand’s premier artisanal hash-infused pre-roll, along with concentrates (shatter, budder, crumble), distillates, solvent-free bubble hash, pre-packaged flower, pre-rolls, tinctures, vape products, and full-spectrum high CBD pet tinctures. 
4. The wholly-owned California subsidiary Hollister Cannabis Co is the 1st state and locally licensed cannabis company in the city of Hollister, CA birthplace of the “American Biker”.

What Brands Does Hollister Own?

Hollister $HOLL.ca $HSTRF 

$CRON $GTBIF $INDS $META.ca $FAF.ca $WEED.ca

Hollister Biosciences Inc. is traded on the CSE as HOLL.

For more information, visit: https://hollisterbiosciences.co/investors/

FULL DISCLOSURE: Hollister Biosciences Inc. is an advertising client of AGORA Internet Relations Corp.

• Hollister’s direct-to-consumer delivery platform, Dreamy Delivery, will be the official delivery platform of the 2021 Emerald Cup Awards
• “The Emerald Cup Awards have been the premier Cannabis Cup in California for 17 years. It is a huge part of the fabric of cannabis in Northern California. We are excited and honored to be the official delivery platform of The Emerald Cup Awards,” Carl Saling, Co-Founder, CEO and Director of Hollister Biosciences, said.

VANCOUVER, BC, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Hollister Biosciences Inc. (CSE: HOLL) (OTC: HSTRF) (FRANKFURT: HOB) (the “Company“, “Hollister Cannabis Co.” or “Hollister“) is pleased to announce that its direct-to-consumer delivery platform, Dreamy Delivery, will be the official delivery platform of the 2021 Emerald Cup Awards.  Dreamy Delivery will feature prominently in all Emerald Cup promotions and coverage, and it will help connect Bay Area, Sacramento, Hollister and Central Coast consumers with the brands participating in the virtual awards this April.

“The Emerald Cup Awards have been the premier Cannabis Cup in California for 17 years. It is a huge part of the fabric of cannabis in Northern California. We are excited and honored to be the official delivery platform of The Emerald Cup Awards,” says Carl Saling, the Co-Founder, CEO and Director of Hollister Biosciences.

“We’re excited to have Dreamy Delivery as our sponsor for this year’s Emerald Cup. We share the same values of vetting only the best cannabis products, best business practices, supporting social equity and offering a 5-Star experience. We are honored collaborating together this year.” ~Tim Blake, Founder of The Emerald Cup

For the first time in Emerald Cup history, the awards will be a virtual global event streaming on the Social Club TV network. Whether NoCal consumers want to sample the brands taking home the top trophies or try past winners, Dreamy Delivery brings these best-in-class products directly to their front doors utilizing all of the recommended safety protocols. This means virtual participants can experience the 17th-annual event with actual winning products delivered directly and safely to their homes. 

As the official delivery platform for the awards, Dreamy Delivery will feature prominently in a six-month promotion that includes social media posts, newsletters, PR statements and brand placement in the title card and afterparty.

The Emerald Cup Awards (described as the “Academy Awards of Cannabis” by Rolling Stone) celebrate the best emerging and established brands, and a slate of hand-picked judges selects winners that are announced daily during Take Over Week ahead of the official awards celebration. The coverage will culminate in the Social Club TV-broadcasted ceremony on Sunday, April 11, 2021 with the top honors given out in the prestigious cannabis flower categories.

About The Emerald Cup

The Emerald Cup is Northern California’s premier cannabis destination. While advancing the concept of sustainable, outdoor farming, its reputation is firmly solidified as the largest, most respected, outdoor cannabis competition in the world. As a group, The Emerald Cup prides itself in bringing together experts and educators in the cannabis industry to our fellow farmers, patients, and patrons each year.

It is a community celebration that has grown to become a global movement honoring the year’s finest, organic, sun-grown, cannabis harvest.

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• The Company has now closed the brokered private placement of 21,635,094  Special Warrants and raised gross proceeds of $7,896,809.31

VANCOUVER, BC – March 2, 2021 – Hollister Biosciences Inc. (CSE:HOLL, OTC:HSTRF, FRANKFURT:HOB) (“Hollister” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce, further to its news releases of January 21, 2021, and January 20, 2021, that the Company has now closed the brokered private placement of 21,635,094  Special  Warrants of the  Company  (the  “Special  Warrants”)  at a  price of  $0.365  per  Special  Warrant and raised gross proceeds of $7,896,809.31 (the “Offering”), including 3,825,094 Special Warrants sold pursuant to the exercise in full of the agents’ option granted to the Agents (as defined herein).

Eight Capital acted as sole bookrunner and lead agent on behalf of a syndicate of agents including Haywood Securities Inc. and Paradigm Capital Inc. (together with Eight Capital, the “Agents”) under the Offering.

Each Special Warrant will be automatically exercisable into units of the Company (the “Units”), as described below. Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company (a “Share”) and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each full warrant, a “Warrant”). Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one Share at a price of $0.50 per Share on or before January 2, 2025, being 46 months following the date of closing of the Offering (the “Closing Date”).

Each Special Warrant will be automatically exercisable, for no additional consideration, into Units on the date (the “Automatic Exercise Date”) that is the earlier of: (i) the date that is three business days following the date on which the Company either (A) obtains a receipt from the applicable securities regulatory authorities (the “Securities Commissions”) for a (final) short form prospectus qualifying distribution of the Units underlying the Special Warrants (the “Qualifying Prospectus”); or (B) files a supplement to a (final) short form base shelf prospectus qualifying the distribution of the Units underlying the Special Warrants (the “Qualifying Supplement”), and (ii) July 3, 2021, being the date that is four months and one day after the closing of the Offering.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event the Company has not received a receipt from the Securities Commissions for the Qualifying Prospectus or filed a Qualifying Supplement on or before March 12, 2021, each holder of Special Warrants shall thereafter be entitled to acquire an additional one-half of one (0.5) Warrant for each Unit to be issued to such holder upon the automatic exercise of the Special Warrants, such that each Unit shall be comprised of one Share and one whole Warrant (collectively, the “Penalty Warrants”), without further payment or action on the part of the holder.

In connection with the Offering, the Company paid the Agents $651,084.20 in commissions and advisory fees and issued 1,441,580 special broker warrants (the “Special Broker Warrants”) to the Agents. Each Special Broker Warrant is automatically exercisable into one broker warrant (a “Broker Warrant”) for no additional payment on the Automatic Exercise Date. Each Broker Warrant will be exercisable into one Unit, subject to adjustment, at $0.365 per Unit for a period of 24 months from the closing of the Offering. Each Unit is comprised of one Share and one-half of one Warrant.

All securities issued in connection with the Offering are subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day in accordance with applicable securities legislation ending on July 3, 2021. The net proceeds received from the Offering will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes.

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