Tilray Brands, Inc.
For the period ended May 31, 2025. Filed Jul 29, 2025.
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FY2025 · Filed Jul 29, 2025
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Tilray Brands, Inc.
Opinions on the Financial Statements and Internal Control over Financial Reporting
We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of financial position of Tilray Brands, Inc. and its subsidiaries (together, the Company) as of May 31, 2025 and 2024, and the related consolidated statements of loss and comprehensive loss, of changes in equity and of cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended May 31, 2025, including the related notes (collectively referred to as the consolidated financial statements). We also have audited the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of May 31, 2025, based on criteria established in*Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013)*issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of May 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended May 31, 2025 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of May 31, 2025, based on criteria established in* Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013)* issued by the COSO.
Basis for Opinions
The Company’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A. Our responsibility is to express opinions on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud, and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
As described in Management's Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting, management has excluded the acquired craft beer brands and breweries from Molson Coors Beverage Company which include Atwater Brewery, Hop Valley Brewing Company, Terrapin Beer Co., and Revolver Brewing (the Craft Acquisition II) from its assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of May 31, 2025, because they were acquired by the Company in purchase business combinations during the year ended May 31, 2025. The Craft Acquisition II are wholly-owned subsidiaries whose total assets and total revenues excluded from management’s assessment and our audit of internal control over financial reporting represent 0.9% of total assets and 3% of net revenues, respectively, of the related consolidated financial statement amounts as of and for the year ended May 31, 2025.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Critical Audit Matters
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the consolidated financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (i) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the consolidated financial statements and (ii) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
Impairment Assessments of Goodwill and Indefinite-lived Intangible Assets related to Cannabis and Beverage Reporting Units
As described in Notes 3, 8 and 10 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets balances were $752.4 million and $nil respectively as at May 31, 2025. Management conducts an impairment assessment annually in the fourth quarter, or more frequently if events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value of goodwill or indefinite-lived intangible assets may not be recoverable. Any impairment charges are determined by comparing the fair value of the assets or reporting units to its carrying value. Fair value amounts are estimated by management using discounted future cash flow models. During the third quarter, management recorded a goodwill impairment charge of $699.2 million including $570.0 million related to the cannabis reporting unit and $100.0 million related to the beverage reporting unit. As at May 31, 2025, management performed the annual impairment tests which resulted in an additional impairment charge of $549.0 million of goodwill and $186.6 million of indefinite-lived intangible assets. The goodwill impairments included $500.0 million related to the cannabis reporting unit and $20.8 million related to the beverage reporting unit. Management's discounted future cash flow models included significant judgments and assumptions relating to future cash flows, growth rates, probability of anticipated EU and U.S. cannabis regulatory changes and discount rates.
The principal considerations for our determination that performing procedures relating to the impairment assessments of goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets related to cannabis and beverage reporting units is a critical audit matter are (i) the significant judgment required by management when estimating the fair values of the assets or reporting units; and (ii) a high degree of auditor judgment, subjectivity and effort in performing procedures and to evaluate management’s significant assumptions, including future cash flows, growth rates, probability of anticipated EU and U.S. cannabis regulatory changes and discount rates.
Addressing the matter involved performing procedures and evaluating audit evidence in connection with forming our overall opinion on the consolidated financial statements. These procedures included testing the effectiveness of controls relating to management’s goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets impairment assessments, including controls over the determination of the fair values of the assets or reporting units. These procedures also included, among others, (i) testing management’s process for developing the fair value estimates of the assets or reporting units; (ii) evaluating the appropriateness of the discounted future cash flow models used by management; (iii) testing the completeness and accuracy of underlying data used in the discounted future cash flow models; (iv) evaluating the reasonableness of the significant assumptions used by management, related to the future cash flows, growth rates and discount rates; and (v) evaluating the reasonableness of the probability of anticipated EU and U.S. cannabis regulatory changes used within the cannabis reporting unit discounted future cash flow model. Evaluating management’s significant assumptions related to future cash flows, growth rates, probability of anticipated EU and U.S. cannabis regulatory changes and the discount rates involved evaluating whether the assumptions used by management were reasonable considering (i) the current and past performance of the assets or reporting units; (ii) the consistency with external market and industry data; and (iii) whether these assumptions were consistent with evidence obtained in other areas of the audit, as applicable. Professionals with specialized skill and knowledge were used to assist in evaluating (i) the appropriateness of the discounted future cash flow models and (ii) the reasonableness of the discount rate assumption.
/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Chartered Professional Accountants, Licensed Public Accountants
Toronto, Canada
July 28, 2025
We have served as the Company's auditor since 2017.
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