Vital Farms, Inc.
For the period ended Mar 30, 2025. Filed May 8, 2025.
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Mar 30, 2025 · Filed May 8, 2025
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Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is (1) recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms and (2) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 30, 2025. Based upon the evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at a reasonable assurance level due to the material weakness identified by management in connection with its evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 29, 2024, as described in Part II, Item 9A, “Controls and Procedures—Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting” in our latest Annual Report, which has not been fully remediated as of March 30, 2025.
Notwithstanding such material weakness in internal control over financial reporting, our management concluded that our consolidated financial statements in this Quarterly Report present fairly, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows as of the dates, and for the period presented, in conformity with GAAP.
Management’s Plan to Remediate the Material Weakness and Status
In the 13-week period ended March 30, 2025, we continued to implement a remediation plan to improve certain process-level control activities related to the revenue process, as previously described in our Annual Report. These remediation actions are ongoing and included or are expected to include:
(i)
Continuing to evaluate skillset gaps and hire additional personnel, as needed, with an appropriate level of knowledge, training, and experience to appropriately analyze, record and disclose accounting matters timely and accurately;
(ii)
Continuing to enhance risk assessment, specifically related to the revenue process; and
(iii)
Continuing to design and implement controls to ensure the accuracy of the inputs in the sales order entry and invoicing processes, including the design of systematic checks and new reports to review inputs.
Management believes that the outlined plans will effectively address the deficiency constituting the material weakness, with the remediation efforts, including necessary testing, anticipated to conclude by the end of fiscal 2025. However, the exact timing of completion cannot be guaranteed. We will monitor the effectiveness of our remediation plan and refine our remediation plan as appropriate.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Other than as discussed above under “Management’s Plan to Remediate the Material Weakness and Status,” there were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rules 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the period covered by this Quarterly Report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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