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10.
LONG
TERM DEBT
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November
30, 2011
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May
31, 2011
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At
November 30, 2011, long-term debt consists
of:
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KeHE
Loan,(a)
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$
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770,000
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$
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770,000
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Long-Term
Loan,(b)
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3,200,000
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3,000,000
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Debt
Discount, (c)
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(193,471
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(279,620
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Total
debt
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$
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3,776,529
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$
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3,490,380
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Less
current portion
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(250,000
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(202,256
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Long
term debt
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$
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3,526,529
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$
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3,288,124
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(a)
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On
or about February 11, 2011, the Company entered
into a three-year marketing and distribution
agreement granting KeHE Distributors LLC the
exclusive rights to distribute into retail outlets
all Artisanal products with primary focus on the
Company's 16-cheese CheeseClock
program. KeHE's exclusivity is dependent
upon KeHE meeting specific minimum annual
sales. Under the agreement, KeHE
earns a commission of five percent (5%) on all net
sales to accounts serviced by KeHE and may also
earn stock options upon meeting specified sales
thresholds over the term of the agreement (See
Notes to Financials, Note 10, Shareholders Equity
for details). The agreement further
provides that KeHE will loan up to $520,000 to the
Company to facilitate the purchase of inventory
required for the KeHE accounts and that KeHE will
advance up to an additional $100,000 of marketing
funds to be used for in-store demonstrations and
related marketing costs. The loan bears
interest at a rate of 3-Month LIBOR plus 5% to be
paid quarterly and is secured by the Company's
accounts receivable and inventory. For
so long as any amounts remain outstanding under the
loan or KeHE maintains its exclusive distributor
status and meets its annual minimum purchases, the
Company may not incur any debt or issue any
additional common stock without KeHE’s
consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld; except that the Company is permitted
under the agreement to sell or otherwise issue the
remaining 1,135,000 shares of its Series A
Preferred Stock. As of May 2011, the
Company had drawn down $520,000 of the total amount
permitted under the agreement. In May 2011, it
borrowed an additional $250,000 from KeHE to be
repaid within 60 days. For this reason,
$250,000 of the KeHE loan is reported under Notes
Payable. As an inducement for making this
additional loan, the Company modified the vesting
terms of KeHe’s 4,880,000 options, which were
to be earned based on certain product purchase
thresholds. Upon the execution on May 9, 2011, of
the amended Marketing and Distribution Agreement,
KeHe became fully vested on 440,000 three year
options exercisable at $.30 a share. The fair
market value of these options, utilizing the Black
Scholes model, was $75,386. These costs were
amortized over 60 days. The remaining 4,440,000 of
options to be earned for future purchases of
inventory were to become fully vested on August 22,
2011, if the $250,000 was not repaid. The
additional funds were not repaid and the remaining
options vested. The fair market value of these
options, utilizing the Black Scholes model, was
$976,628 all of which was expensed
immediately. The principal of $770,000
is now due in May 2014. As of November 30,
2011, the total amount due under the KeHE Agreement
including interest is $797,926.
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(b)
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On
or about February 22, 2010, the Company entered a
loan agreement with one of its preferred
shareholders and term loan participants (the
"Lender") for a loan of $2.5 million (the "Long
Term Loan"). On specified dates since then,
the Long Term Loan has been increased by a total of
$700,000. The original loan was
conditional upon the Lender obtaining a first
security position on all of the Company's
assets. The loan was also conditional
upon the Company's repurchase from Lender and its
affiliate of 500,000 shares of the redeemable
convertible preferred stock held by them
collectively, repayment to the Lender of amounts
Lender had previously advanced to Borrower under
the Term Loan agreement (discussed above), and
issuance to Lender of 9,275,000 shares of the
Company's $.001 par value common stock representing
twenty percent of the Company's outstanding common
stock on a fully-diluted basis. The maturity
date of this Long Term Loan is February 2013.
As of November 30, 2011, the total amount due under
the Long Term Loan including interest is
$3,329,261.
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(c)
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A
unamortized debt discount attributed to the
Long-Term Loan as of November 30, 2011 and May 31,
2011 was $193,471 and $279,620,
respectively.
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