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DEBTS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
DEBTS

NOTE 5 DEBTS

 

The following table presents the details of the principal outstanding:

 

   March 31, 2024   December 31, 2023   APR at March 31, 2024    Maturity  Collateral
Convertible Notes (b,c)   14,642,909    11,525,000   6.0010.00%   September 2023-March 2026  Substantially all company assets
Notes payable to financial institutionsa)   6,233,624    6,348,104   7.93-8.5    August 2024-August 2026  Inventory, accounts receivable, cash
                      
Notes payable to Belami sellers   251,516    247,927   4.86%   April 2024 
                      
SBA-related loans   145,022    145,022   3.75%   April 2025-November 2052  Substantially all Company assets
Total  $21,273,071   $18,266,053            
Unamortized debt discount   (4,410,702)   (4,591,222)           
Debt, net of Unamortized debt Discount   16,862,369    13,674,831            

 

   For the three-month period ended 
   March 31,
2024
   March 31,
2023
 
Interest expense  $787,854   $730,621 

 

As of March 31, 2024, the expected future principal payments for the Company’s debt are due as follows:

 

      
Nine-months ended December 31, 2024  $6,334,514 
2025   4,086,855 
2026   10,582,955 
2027   3,040 
2028 and thereafter   134,392 
Total  $21,273,071 

 

 

  (a) The unpaid principal bears annual interest at the Wall Street Journal prime rate plus 1.75% per year.
  (b)

Included in Convertible Notes are loans provided to the Company from two directors and an officer. The notes each have the following terms: three-year subordinated convertible promissory note of principal face amounts. Subject to other customary terms, one of the convertible promissory note of $600,000 payable to a director matured in 2023, and the other remaining convertible promissory notes mature in May 2025, bear interest at an annual rate of 6% through December 2023 and 10% thereafter, which is payable annually in cash or common stock, at the holder’s discretion. At any time after issuance and prior to or on the maturity date, the notes are convertible at the option of the holder into shares of common stock at a conversion price ranging from $3 to $15 per share.

 

During 2023, the Company issued convertible promissory notes for $10.4 million. As an inducement to enter the financing transactions, the Company issued 1,391,667 warrants to the noteholders at an adjusted exercise price of $2.70 per warrant. The Company recorded a debt discount aggregating $5.6 million which was recognized as debt discount and additional paid-in capital in the accompanying balance sheet. The Company recognized $228,499 as amortized debt discount during the three months ended March 31, 2024, and it is reflected as interest expense in the accompanying unaudited consolidated statement of operations. Only the convertible promissory notes issued during fiscal 2023 are secured by substantially all of the assets of the Company.

  (c)

On March 29, 2024, the Company and the Belami sellers entered into a letter agreement modifying certain obligations under the stock purchase agreement. In connection with the letter agreement, the Company issued convertible promissory notes to each of the sellers (the “Seller Note(s)”) in substitution of an aggregate of $3,117,408 in cash due to the sellers on the first anniversary of the closing. Each seller received a Seller Note in an amount of $1,039,303 on the same date. In addition to other customary terms, the Seller Notes bear annual interest at 10%, with interest and principal becoming due on May 16, 2025, and can be converted by the sellers at any time at $3.00 per share of our common stock.