Truro News

THC completes private investor financing

- BY HARRY SULLIVAN

The Truro Herbal Company (THC) has partnered with IMP Group Limited on a funding investment that will enable it meet the 2018 legalizati­on dates.

“This relationsh­ip sets the foundation for an ambitious growth agenda in collaborat­ion with one of Canada’s bestmanage­d companies,” said THC president Evan Price.

“Our partnershi­p with an entity of IMP’S scale and internatio­nal track record will enable us to solidify a leading position in the Atlantic Canadian market and beyond,” he said.

THC is a medical marijuana production and research company that will be based in the Truro Industrial Park.

Its 20,000 sq. ft. production facility is currently under constructi­on and is expected to be completed in early 2018, with receipt of final cultivatio­n and sales licensing from Health Canada to follow shortly after.

This IMP investment completes THC’S latest round of financing.

“In the past 14 months we have been raising funds to pay for the building with and we’ve raised just over $12 million,” Price said.

Overall, since the project began about four years ago, THC has raised approximat­ely $13.5 million in capital investment­s.

“From the company’s standpoint, this gives us a very strong and experience­d partner who for the last number of years has been on the list of Canada’s bestmanage­d companies as well as one of Canada’s top employers,” Price said.

“We’re working with a number of partners on sourcing the resources and partnershi­ps that we would be able to meet the market with. But this guarantees that we will be in a position to do that.”

But Price added that the search for private investor funding is ongoing.

“We’re always on the lookout for conversati­ons around partnershi­ps and business ideas for growth,” he said.

“We are obviously starting to think about some additional opportunit­ies, ways that we can become a bigger, better, diversifie­d company and supply locations and customers in the Atlantic region with a variety of options.”

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