Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc (CASK) to Raise $8 Million in IPO

Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc (CASK) expects to raise $8 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, November 1st, IPO Scoop reports. The company will be issuing 1,500,000 shares at $4.50-$5.50 per share.

In the last year, Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc generated $8.1 million in revenue and had a net loss of $31.8 million. Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc has a market-cap of $40.6 million.

Newbridge Securities served as the underwriter for the IPO.

Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc provided the following description of their company for its IPO: “We are a craft distiller producing, marketing and selling a diverse line of award-winning craft spirits, including whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rums, and “ready-to-drink” canned cocktails. (Incorporated in Delaware) We recognize that taste and innovation are key criteria for consumer choices in spirits and innovate new products for trial in our company-owned distilleries and tasting rooms. We have developed differentiated products that are responsive to consumer desires for rewarding and novel taste experiences. We compete in the craft spirits segment, which is the most rapidly growing segment of the overall $288 billion spirits market. According to the American Craft Spirits Association, a craft distillery is defined generally as a distillery that produces fewer than 750,000 gallons annually and holds an ownership interest of 51% or more of a distilled spirits plant that is licensed by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. According to the Craft Spirits Global Market Report 2022 of Research and Markets, the craft spirits segment had revenues of more than $17.7 billion in 2021 and is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (“CAGR”) of 30.6% to $66.0 billion in 2026. We believe we are well positioned to grow in excess of the growth rate of the market by increasing our marketing efforts, increasing the size of our sales teams and broadening our wholesale distribution. Out of the more than 2,600 craft producers in North America, we have been recognized with more awards for our products from the American Distilling Institute, the leading independent spirits association in the U.S., than any other North American craft distiller for each of the last ten years, plus numerous other Best of Class, Double Gold and Gold medals from multiple national and international spirits competitions. We are one of the largest craft spirits producers on the West Coast based on revenues and are developing a national reach in the U.S. through traditional sales channels (wholesale, on-premises and e-commerce) and our unique and recently-developed Tribal Beverage Network (“TBN”) sales channel. Based upon our revenues and our continued track record of winning industry awards in an increasingly competitive environment, we believe we are one of the leading craft spirits producers in the United States. We sell our products through wholesale distribution, directly to consumers through our five owned and operated distilleries and tasting rooms located in Washington and Oregon and by shipping directly to consumers online where legal. Currently, we sell products primarily in the Pacific Northwest with limited distribution in other states throughout the U.S. In addition, in collaboration with Native American tribes, we have recently developed a new sales, manufacturing and distribution channel on tribal lands that we expect will increase and broaden the recognition of our brand as that network expands nationally. Our growth strategy is based on three primary areas. First, we are focused on growing our direct-to-consumer (“DtC”) sales by shipping to legal purchasers to their homes where allowed. We currently use a three-tier compliant, third-party platform to conduct these sales and deliveries in 46 states in which approximately 96.8% of the U.S. population reside. This allows us to develop a relationship directly with the consumer through higher-margin sales while collecting valuable data about our best performing products. We can then use this data to target the consumer based on location, age, key demographics and product types. With the data collected, we can also retarget and resell to these customers, thereby generating more revenue. Our DtC sales also support our plans to grow our wholesale volume with our distributors through key national accounts both on-premises and off-premises. By building brand recognition for key products in selected regions or states through DtC sales, we can better support the wholesale launch, marketing and product pull-through of those products in partnership with wholesalers in those targeted states. While DtC sales result in singular high-margin sales, growing volume through wholesale distribution is the most efficient way to drive large-scale growth across retail chains. Third, we are focused on expanded growth of our collaboration with Native American tribes through the TBN model we created. In concert with tribal partners, this sales channel includes Heritage-branded micro production hubs, Heritage-branded stores and tasting rooms and the sale of our products and new tribally-branded products. In the typical TBN collaboration, the tribes will own these businesses and we will receive a royalty on gross sales through licenses we grant to use our brands, products, recipes, programs, IP, new product development, on-going compliance support and the other support we provide. The TBN is expected to form a network of regional production hubs that will support product trials and sampling, and will generate sales of finished, intermediate and bulk spirits depending on location, equipment and market. Importantly, because these premium spirits will be produced locally, we believe the TBN will promote the positioning of our brands as local and regional. We expect that, as the brands grow and the TBN footprint expands, there will be an important synergy with increased adoption and growth through our wholesale channels in the regions where the TBN locations are driving trial and awareness. Similarly, as demand for our products grows through our wholesale channels, there should be a positive effect on the demand for our products through the tribal distilleries. Note: Net loss and revenue are for the 12 months that ended March 31, 2024.   (Note: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc. disclosed in an S-1/A filing dated Aug. 28, 2024, that it has applied to the NASDAQ to list its stock under the proposed symbol “CASK” – the amended prospectus says.) (Note: Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc. cut its micro-cap IPO’s size to 1.5 million shares – down from 2.0 million shares initially – and kept the price range at $4.50 to $5.50 to raise $7.5 million, according to an S-1/A filing dated July 5, 2024. The company has applied to list its stock on the CBOE Bsx Exchange. Background: Heritage Distilling Holding Company Inc. filed its S-1 on May 13, 2024, and disclosed terms for its micro-cap IPO: 2.0 million shares at $4.50 to $5.50 to raise $10.0 million.) “.

Heritage Distilling Holding Company, Inc was founded in 2011 and has 108 employees. The company is located at 9668 Bujacich Road Gig Harbor, Washington 98332 (253) 509-0008 and can be reached via phone at (253) 509-0008 or on the web at https://www.HeritageDistilling.com/.