Sundial Announces Anticipated Closing Date of Alcanna Acquisition and Late Filing of Annual Financial Statements and MD&A under Canadian Law

CALGARY, AB, March 28, 2022 /CNW/ – Sundial Growers Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDL) (“Sundial” or the “Corporation“) nowadays declared that it expects the earlier declared plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement“) with Alcanna Inc. (“Alcanna“) to be completed on or about March 31, 2022. All regulatory necessities below applicable provincial liquor and hashish legislation have now been happy and completion of the Arrangement continues to be subject only to customary closing conditions as even more described in the Arrangement Arrangement. Sundial and Alcanna have mutually agreed to lengthen the outdoors date for closing the transaction by 1 working day to March 31, 2022.

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Economical Statement Submitting Delay

The Organization also announced a delay in submitting its audited consolidated economical statements for the yr ended December 31, 2021, yearly management’s discussion and analysis for the exact time period and administration certifications of once-a-year filings (collectively, the “Filings“) beyond the deadline of March 31, 2022 prescribed by Canadian securities legal guidelines. Sundial expects to file its Yearly Report on Sort 20-F within the applicable U.S. filing deadline. The Company now expects to report fourth quarter and total calendar year 2021 earnings on or in advance of April 14, 2022. Updated meeting get in touch with aspects will be offered in a subsequent announcement.

Based on unaudited financial statements geared up by the management of the Firm, Sundial expects to report report adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations for the complete yr 2021.

The principal explanation for the delay is the considerable amount of money of added perform and in-depth treatments demanded to be performed by the Firm and its external auditor as 2021 is the 1st yr that the Firm is needed to have an auditor attestation report on its internal controls more than monetary reporting under Portion 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX“). This requirement to be SOX compliant is a operate of the swift advancement in scale and degree of corporate action Sundial has reached more than the very last two many years. SOX compliance demands heightened levels of corporate controls and processes that will eventually benefit Sundial shareholders as a result of greatest procedures in danger management.

The Company’s auditor is completing its exterior audit and will be unable to situation an audit view right before the conclusion of March 2022 as formerly anticipated. The Business thinks that there will be no restatement of beforehand introduced economical statements of Sundial.

The Firm has educated the staff of the Alberta Securities Fee (the “ASC“) about its anticipated hold off of the Filings and has applied to the ASC pursuant to Part 4 of Countrywide Plan 12-203 – Management Cease Trade Orders (“NP 12-203“) for a Management Stop Trade Purchase (“MCTO“) pending the launch of the Filings. If an MCTO is issued, Sundial intends to fulfill the provisions of the “substitute information and facts suggestions” set out in NP 12-203, which includes the requirement to file bi-weekly position stories in the form of news releases that contains recommended updating data, till the Filings are created. An MCTO would not normally have an effect on the capacity of people who are not administrators, officers, or insiders of the Enterprise to trade in securities of the Business.

Sundial’s blackout coverage has limited investing by administrators, officers, and other insiders of the Corporation for the overall calendar year as a result much. The coverage has also restricted the Company’s capacity to execute the repurchase of Sundial shares underneath its previously announced share repurchase plan. The Organization expects the trading window to open up subsequent to the submitting of 1st quarter money success in May perhaps.

ABOUT SUNDIAL GROWERS INC.

Sundial is a public firm whose shares are traded on Nasdaq underneath the image “SNDL”. Its business enterprise is described and analyzed under three functioning segments: Hashish Operations, Cannabis Retail, and Expenditure Operations. Next completion of the Arrangement, Sundial expects to include a fourth segment, Liquor Retail.

As a licensed producer that crafts tiny-batch hashish applying point out-of-the-artwork indoor facilities, Sundial’s ‘craft-at-scale’ modular growing method, award-successful genetics, and experienced growers set us apart. Sundial’s brand name portfolio features Best Leaf, Sundial Cannabis, Palmetto, and Grasslands. Sundial also operates the Spiritleaf retail banner. Spiritleaf aims to be the most professional and dependable resource of leisure hashish by featuring a top quality shopper encounter and quality curated hashish products and solutions.

Sundial’s financial investment operations seek to deploy strategic money as a result of immediate and oblique investments and partnerships all through the world-wide cannabis industry.

Sundial is proudly Albertan, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, with operations in Olds and Rocky Check out County, Alberta, Canada. For more facts on Sundial, you should go to www.sndlgroup.com.

Ahead-Searching Statements

Specified statements in this push release represent “ahead-wanting” statements that require known and unfamiliar threats, uncertainties and other aspects which may lead to the precise benefits, efficiency, targets or achievements of Sundial or marketplace outcomes, to be materially diverse from any upcoming success, efficiency, objectives or achievements expressed or implied by this sort of ahead-hunting statements. When used in this press launch, phrases these types of as “could”, “would”, “could”, “will”, “assume”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “imagine”, “intend”, “program”, and other very similar expressions are supposed to establish ahead-wanting statements. Forward-searching data in this news launch involves, but is not confined to, statements about: Sundial’s expectation that it will file its Yearly Report on Sort 20-F in just the applicable U.S. submitting deadline and that it will report its fourth quarter and comprehensive year 2021 earnings on or ahead of April 14, 2022 Sundial’s expectation that it will report file Adjusted EBTIDA from continuing operations for the yr ended December 31, 2021 and the anticipated closing day of the Arrangement. These statements reflect Sundial’s present-day sights concerning long run activities and running effectiveness, are primarily based on info currently available to Sundial, and talk only as of the day of this press release. These ahead-on the lookout statements contain a variety of dangers, uncertainties and assumptions and need to not be read through as ensures that long term efficiency or results will be achieved. Many variables could cause the actual outcomes, efficiency, objectives or achievements of Sundial to be materially various from any long term effects, general performance, targets or achievements that may possibly be expressed or implied by such ahead-searching statements. The principal things, assumptions and threats that Sundial created or took into account in the preparation of these forward-wanting statements involve: Sundial’s belief that its exterior auditor will entire its audit and launch its audit impression in a timely way that will enable Sundial to file its Annual Report on Form 20-F in the applicable U.S. submitting deadline, that the unaudited fiscal statements geared up by management of the Company will not vary materially from audited money statements the moment out there, and that all situations to closing of the Arrangement will be satisfied prior to the predicted closing day. Further aspects that could effect Sundial’s benefits are talked over in Sundial’s other publicly out there disclosure files, as submitted by Sundial on EDGAR (www.sec.gov/edgar) and SEDAR (www.sedar.com). Ought to one particular or additional of these hazards or uncertainties materialize, or really should assumptions underlying the ahead-wanting statements verify incorrect, genuine benefits may change materially from those explained in this push release as supposed, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or envisioned. The forward-wanting information contained in this news launch is made as of the day hereof. Unless of course essential by applicable securities legislation, Sundial does not intend and does not believe any obligation to update these ahead-searching statements, no matter if as a outcome of new information, long run activities or if not.