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The company reports a loss of $15.6 million for all of 2019, compared with $11.8 million net income in 2018 a 232% decrease from the year prior.
During a recent earnings call, CEO Deanie Elsner attributed the Q4 loss to a slowdown of growth in the food/drug/mass (FDM) retail channels because of regulatory uncertainty, as well as an oversaturation of products in the market.
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For the full year 2019, the company’s business-to-business (B2B) channel grew 33% and its direct-to-consumer (DTC) e-commerce business grew 39%.
In the B2B business, the natural channels grew sales by 13% versus a year ago and FDM sales grew 361%.