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Acquisitions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2022
Business Combination and Asset Acquisition [Abstract]  
Acquisitions

5. Acquisitions

 

Sharing Services Global Corp. (“SHRG”)

 

As of and through June 30, 2020, the Company classified its investment in Sharing Services Global Corp. (“SHRG”), a publicly traded company, as marketable equity security and measured it at fair value with gains and losses recognized in other income. In July 2020, through continued acquisition of common stock, as detailed below, the Company obtained greater than 20% ownership of SHRG, and thus has the ability to exercise significant influence over it. During the quarter ended September 30, 2020, the Company began to account for its investment in SHRG using the equity method in accordance with ASC Topic 323, Investments—Equity Method and Joint Ventures recognizing our share of SHRG’s earnings and losses within our consolidated statement of operations. Through a series of transactions, DSS increased its ownership of voting shares in SHRG to approximately 58% on December 23, 2021. The 58% ownership of SHRG meets the definition of a business with inputs, processes, and outputs, and therefore, the Company has concluded to account for this transaction in accordance with the acquisition method of accounting under Topic 805 and began consolidating the financial results of SHRG as of December 31, 2021. As of December 31, 2021, SHRG had total current assets of $28,494,000 and total assets of $45,660,000. Also as of December 31, 2021 SHRG had total current liabilities of $10,418,000 and total liabilities of $22,463,000.

 

On January 24, 2022, the Company exercised 50,000,000 warrants received as part of a consulting agreement with SHRG at the exercise price of $0.0001, bring its ownership percentage of voting shares to approximately 65%. The acquisition of SHRG meets the definition of a business with inputs, processes, and outputs, and therefore, the Company has concluded to account for this transaction in accordance with the acquisition method of accounting under Topic 805. During the six months ended June 30, 2022, SHRG incurred $1,632,000 of losses of which, $702,000 is attributed to non-controlling interest.

 

We are currently in the process of completing the purchase price accounting and related allocations associated with the acquisition of SHRG. The Company is in the process of completing valuations and useful lives for certain assets acquired in the transaction. We expect the preliminary purchase price accounting to be completed during the year ending December 31, 2022.