Day: January 21, 2020

Transaction Highlights:‘Pure-Play’ Producer and Supplier of Fresh-Cut Fruit Will Be Integrated into Company’s Renaissance Food Group (RFG) SegmentSimply Fresh Fruit’s Existing Relationships in Foodservice and Hospitality Industries Augment RFG’s Retail-Grocery StrengthCalavo Expects Deal to Be Accretive to Fiscal 2020 Operating ResultsSANTA PAULA, Calif., Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Calavo Growers, Inc. (Nasdaq-GS: CVGW), a global avocado-industry leader and expanding provider of value-added fresh food, today announced that its Renaissance Food Group (RFG) subsidiary has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SFFI Company, Inc. doing business as Simply Fresh Fruit (SFFI).About Calavo Growers, Inc.Calavo Growers, Inc. is a global avocado-industry leader and an expanding provider of value-added fresh...

NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Griffin Industrial Realty, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRIF) (“Griffin”) announced that it recently entered into two separate purchase and sale agreements with different sellers to acquire industrial/warehouse buildings of approximately 108,000 square feet and approximately 68,000 square feet, respectively, in Orlando, Florida. The larger of the two buildings is fully leased, whereas the smaller building is mostly vacant. Griffin recently entered the Orlando market when it acquired a fully leased approximately 100,000 square foot industrial/warehouse building in October 2019. Griffin intends to finance the purchase of these two buildings using its line of credit for acquisitions and cash on hand. Closings on these two purchases are each subject to the satisfactory completion of due diligence...

TORONTO, Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Shawcor Ltd. announced that its pipe coating division has entered into a detailed letter of intent with Europipe valued at approximately C$67 million to provide concrete weight coating services for the Baltic Pipe project, which will transport Norwegian gas to Poland. The definitive contract is expected to be signed by the end of January and is scheduled to be executed from Shawcor’s Leith, Scotland facility commencing in the second quarter of 2020 and continuing to the second quarter of 2021.Shawcor Ltd. is a global energy services company specializing in products and services for the pipeline and pipe services segment of the oil and gas industry and related products for the petrochemical and industrial market. The Company operates through a global network of fixed and mobile manufacturing...

IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Smart Cannabis Corp. (OTC PINKSHEETS: SCNA)Smart Cannabis Corp. is pleased to provide further details regarding its acquisition of Budding Botanicals’ CBD and hemp retail sales operations.Budding Botanicals grows, processes, makes, bottles & packages, and sells 100% organic CBD products.  It grows its products indoors organically, and it further uses an organic process to produce its isolate from hemp.  Its business mantra is that it never adds anything unnecessary or non-organic to its CBD and hemp products.  The Company welcomes everyone to visit Budding Botanicals’ website at https://www.buddingbotanicalsca.com/.Heading up Budding Botanicals is Dawn Norby, who founded and built it into a successful retail business striving for an organic niche. [Please...

HENDERSON, Nev., Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — US Lithium Corp. (OTC QB: LITH) (the ”Company”) is pleased to announce that, effective January 20, 2020, it has acquired four cannabinoid related contracts between Hemp Cloud 9 and four unrelated parties in exchange for 4.7M shares of LITH stock. As a result of these acquisitions the Company will change its primary business from minerals to cannabinoids. The Company also intends to change its name, stock symbol and website within the next 30 days to better reflect this new strategic direction.Through this acquisition the Company now has contractual relationships with well-known farmers for raw material acquisition, certified contract manufacturers for production, and distribution partners to sell exceptional products at the lowest possible cost to both the CBD and medical...

lienwaivers.io accelerates Built’s mission to improve the way money flows through the construction ecosystem from lender to vendorNASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Built Technologies, the leading provider of construction finance software, today announced the completion of its agreement to acquire lienwaivers.io, a leading provider of lien waiver management and payment solutions for commercial and residential construction. With the acquisition of lienwaivers.io, Built becomes the first full-stack construction finance platform to provide solutions for all key stakeholders involved in the construction finance process. Together, the companies will continue to expand and build software and services to improve the way money flows into and throughout the industry.With this acquisition, Built will create a new division,...