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ORGANIZATION
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
ORGANIZATION

NOTE 1 - ORGANIZATION


GrowLife is a holding company with multiple operating businesses that manufacture and supply branded equipment and expendables in the USA for urban gardening, inclusive of equipment and expendables for growing of medical marijuana. Wholly owned GrowLife companies include SGT, GrowLife Hydroponics, Urban Garden, Phototron, and Greners. In addition to promotion and sales of GrowLife owned brands, GrowLife companies distribute and sell over 3,000 products (including the Stealth Grow line of LED lighting products and SG Sensors automated lighting and growing equipment) through on-line distribution channels, Greners, our on-line superstore, and through retail sales of the Company’s initial retail storefront business, Urban Garden. GrowLife’s website, www.cannabis.org is expected to provide GrowLife with another widely recognized and authoritative channel for branded product promotion and sales. GrowLife and its business units are organized and directed to operate strictly in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.


GrowLife is actively engaged in improving and expanding its line of branded products through organic development, business alliances and acquisition. Consistent with this strategy, GrowLife is actively engaged in developing other business alliances and evaluating branded products for acquisition. GrowLife is also actively engaged in building upon its direct to customers sales business by expansion and promotion of Greners.com, StealthGrow.com, Phototron.com and other unique online channels of distribution. Finally, GrowLife is actively engaged in pursuing acquisitions that will allow its GrowLife Hydroponics retail sales division business to expand regionally in the United States.


 

On February 14, 2011, GrowLife, Inc. (formerly Phototron Holdings, Inc.) (“GrowLife”, the “Company”, “we,” “us,” “our”, “our company”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (“PHI Merger Agreement”) with PHI Merger Corporation, a California corporation and our wholly-owned subsidiary (“PHI MergerCo”), and Phototron, Inc., a California corporation (“Phototron”).  The closing (the “PHI Closing”) of the transactions contemplated by the PHI Merger Agreement (the “PHI Merger”) occurred on March 9, 2011. At the PHI Closing, (a) PHI MergerCo was merged with and into Phototron; (b) Phototron became our wholly-owned subsidiary; (c) all of Phototron’s shares and options outstanding prior to the PHI Merger were exchanged (or assumed, in the case of options) for comparable securities of our company; and (d) 95% of our fully-diluted shares were owned by Phototron’s former shareholders and option holders. At the PHI Closing, we issued a total of 130,621,421 shares of our common stock to Phototron’s former shareholders, in exchange for the 1,666,666 shares of Phototron’s common stock outstanding prior to the PHI Merger. Upon the effectiveness of the PHI Merger, 8,662,262 shares of our common stock were retained by our existing stockholders. In connection with the PHI Merger, we changed our name from Catalyst Lighting Group, Inc. to Phototron Holdings, Inc., on March 9, 2011.


Since former holders of Phototron’s common stock and options to purchase common stock owned, after the PHI Merger, approximately 95% of our fully-diluted shares of common stock, and as a result of certain other factors, including that all members of our executive management were members of Phototron’s management, Phototron was deemed to be the acquiring company and we were deemed to be the legal acquirer for accounting purposes, and the PHI Merger was accounted for as a reverse merger and a recapitalization in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”).


On March 21, 2012, we entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with SGT Merger Corporation, a Nevada corporation and our wholly-owned subsidiary (“MergerCo”), SG Technologies Corp, a Nevada corporation (“SGT”), Sterling C. Scott (the “SGT Representative”), and W-Net Fund I, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership and current holder of our common stock (the “Investor Representative”). The closing (the “Closing”) of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement (the “Merger”) occurred on April 5, 2012. At the Closing, (a) MergerCo was merged with and into SGT; (b) SGT became our wholly-owned subsidiary; and (c) all SGT shares of common stock were exchanged for shares of our common stock and shares of a new series of our preferred stock, which was designated Series A Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), and has the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions set forth in the Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series A Preferred Stock, which was filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on April 5, 2012. At the Closing, we issued to SGT’s former stockholders, in exchange for the 200 shares of SGT’s common stock outstanding immediately prior to the Merger, 157,000,000 shares of our common stock and 3,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock. 

 

Since after the Merger former holders of SGT’s common stock owned in excess of 50% of our fully-diluted shares of common stock, and as a result of certain other factors, including that all members of our executive management are members of SGT’s management, SGT is deemed to be the acquiring company and we are deemed to be the legal acquirer for accounting purposes, and the Merger was accounted for as a reverse merger and a recapitalization in accordance with GAAP. The accompanying consolidated financial statements of GrowLife and its subsidiaries reflect the historical activity of SGT, and the historical stockholders’ equity of SGT has been retroactively restated for the equivalent number of shares received in the exchange after giving effect to the differences in par value offset to additional paid-in capital. In connection with the Merger Agreement, we are deemed to have issued an additional 152,343,383 shares of common stock to our stockholders existing prior to the Merger. Net liabilities of $542,716 have been assumed as part of the purchase price.


On July 23, 2012, we completed the purchase of substantially all of the assets (the “Assets”) of Donna Klauenburch and Tao Klauenburch, general partners doing business as Greners.com (collectively, “Greners”), related to the online retail business currently operated by Greners, pursuant to the terms of an Asset Purchase Agreement entered into by the parties on July 23, 2012 (the “Asset Purchase Agreement”). The Assets included equipment, finished goods, materials and supplies, contract rights, domain names and implemented and operational components of software. In addition, the Company assumed certain of Greners’ liabilities which included Greners’ liabilities and obligations under its contracts and all express and implied warranties related to any materials supplied by Greners prior to the closing date.


In consideration for the Assets, the Company agreed to pay to Greners an aggregate of $450,000. Of the purchase price, $250,000 was paid in cash on the closing date and the remaining portion of the purchase price was paid in the form of a Secured Promissory Note (the “Note”) issued by the Company to Greners in the original principal amount of $200,000.


On August 6, 2012, GrowLife, Inc., a Delaware corporation and our wholly-owned subsidiary, merged with and into our company pursuant to the Certificate of Ownership and Merger filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on July 25, 2012 and effective August 6, 2012. As a result of the merger, on August 6, 2012, our corporate named changed from Phototron Holdings, Inc. to GrowLife, Inc.


On October 22, 2012, our wholly owned subsidiary GrowLife Hydroponics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“GH”), completed the purchase of all of the shares (the “UG Shares”) of Soja, Inc. dba Urban Garden Supplies (the “Urban Garden”) from Richard Melograno, Michael Cook, and Scott Glass (collectively the “UG Sellers”). The effective date of the Stock Purchase Agreement was October 24, 2012 (“UG Agreement”). The UG Agreement included all of the assets and liabilities of Urban Garden which includes the inventory of the store located at 22516 Ventura Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91364 and various other assets. GH also assumed the liabilities of Urban Garden which were valued at $70,370. GrowLife’s CEO Sterling Scott personally guaranteed this liability. In consideration for the UG Shares, GrowLife agreed to pay to the UG Sellers an aggregate of 3,906,252 shares of the Company’s common stock valued at $156,250.


 

On June 7, 2013, GH completed the purchase of Rocky Mountain Hydroponics, LLC., a Colorado limited liability company (“RMC”), and Evergreen Garden Center, LLC, a Maine limited liability company (“EGC”). The effective date of the RMH/EGC Agreement was June 7, 2013. The RMH/EGC Agreement included all of the assets and liabilities of the RMH Companies, and their 4 retail hydroponics stores, which are located in Vail and Boulder, Colorado, Peabody, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine. Per the terms of the RMH/EGC Agreement, GrowLife, Inc. paid the former owners of the RMH Companies $550,000 in cash, $800,000 in 12% Secured Convertible Notes, and $275,000 (7,857,141 shares at $0.035/share) in shares of GrowLife, Inc.’s common stock.


 

On November 19, 2013, GrowLife, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Joint Venture Agreement (the “Agreement”) with CANX USA LLC (“CANX”), a Nevada limited liability company.  Under the terms of the Agreement, the Company and CANX will form Organic Growth International, LLC (“OGI”), a Nevada limited liability company, for the purpose of expanding the Company’s operations in its current retail hydroponic businesses and in other synergistic business verticals and facilitating additional funding for commercially financeable transactions of up to $40,000,000.  In connection with closing of the Agreement, CANX will provide funding under in the amount of $1,300,000 for a GrowLife Infrastructure Funding Technology program transaction and will provide additional funding under a 7% Convertible Note instrument. The Company will initially own a non-dilutive forty five percent (45%) share of OGI and the Company may acquire a controlling share of OGI as provided in the Agreement.

 

In accordance with the Agreement, the Company and CANX entered into a Warrant Agreement whereby the Company delivered CANX 140,000,000 freely transferable, unrestricted warrants to purchase 140,000,000 shares of the Company common stock, at a maximum strike price of $0.033 per share, par value $0.0001 share.

 

Subject to the terms of the Agreement, the Company may issue an additional 100,000,000 freely transferable, unrestricted warrants to purchase 100,000,000 shares of the Company common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, at a maximum strike price of $0.033 per share and twenty (20) blocks of warrants in the Company, with each block consisting of 10,000,000 freely transferable, unrestricted warrants to purchase 10,000,000 shares of the Company common stock, at a maximum strike price of $0.033 per share, par value $0.0001.

 

In accordance with the Agreement, the Company also issued a 7% Note to CANX (the “Note”) in exchange for the principal amount of $1,000,000. Per the terms of the Note, the maturity date is September 30, 2015, and the annual rate of interest is seven percent (7%), which increases to twenty-four percent (24%) per annum, or the maximum rate permitted under any applicable law, in the event of default. Subject to certain limitations, CANX can, at its sole discretion, convert the outstanding and unpaid principal and interest into fully paid and nonassessable shares of the Company’s common stock. The conversion price for the period of time from the date of the Note through and including September 30, 2014 is the lesser of (a) $0.025 per share and (b) seventy percent (70%) of the average of the three (3) lowest daily volume weighted average price occurring during the twenty (20) consecutive trading days immediately preceding the applicable conversion date on which CANX elects to convert all or part of the Note, subject to adjustment as provided in the Note. The conversion price is $0.025 per share for the period of October 1, 2014 through the maturity date of September 30, 2015, subject to adjustment as provided in the Note. The Company is required to reserve, at all times, the full number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of all outstanding amounts under this Note. At any time after the 12-month period immediately following the date of the Note, the Company has the option to pre-pay the entire outstanding principal amount of the Note by paying to CANX an amount equal to one hundred and fifty percent (150%) of the principal and interest then outstanding.  The Company’s obligations under the Note will accelerate upon a bankruptcy event with respect to the Company or any subsidiary, any default in the Company’s payment obligations under the Note, the Company’s failure to issue shares of its common stock in connection with a conversion of any of the Note, the Company’s or any subsidiary’s breach of any provision of any agreement providing for indebtedness of the Company or such subsidiary in an amount exceeding $100,000, the common stock of the Company being suspended or delisted from trading on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board (the “Primary Market”) market and the OTCQB, the Company losing its status as “DTC Eligible” or the Company becoming late or delinquent in its filing requirements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Upon any such acceleration of the Note, the Company shall be obligated to pay an amount equal to the greater of (i) one hundred and twenty percent (120%) of the outstanding principal of the Note (plus all accrued but unpaid interest) and (ii) the product of (a) the highest closing price for the Company’s common stock for the five (5) days on which the Primary Market is open for business immediately preceding such acceleration and (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is the outstanding principal of the Note, and the denominator of which is the applicable conversion price as of the date of determination.

 


 

In accordance with the Agreement, the Company also entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with CANX whereby CANX has the right to demand that the Company prepare and file a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (or, if Form S-1 is not then available to the Company, on such form of registration statement as is then available to effect a registration for resale of securities) covering the resale of warrants issued pursuant to the Warrant Agreement.


 

From time to time, the Company may make modest investments in public or even privately held companies in our industry segment in order to facilitate business opportunities of the Company.  The first such investment by the Company occurred in May 2013, when the Company made an investment in the amount of $1,160 in Vape Holdings, Inc. (“Vape”), a Nevada corporation.  Following a series of transactions that are detailed in the “NOTE 9 – INVESTMENT IN A RELATED PARTY”, VAPE Holding, Inc. became a public company.  Through its investment, GrowLife received and still owns as of the time of this filing 200,428 shares in VAPE Holdings, Inc (OTCQB:  VAPE).

 

Sterling Scott, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, has a personal investment in Vape as well. As of the time of this filing, Mr. Scott holds 269,541 shares of Vape’s common stock. As a result of Mr. Scott’s ownership of Vape common stock, the Company has deemed Vape to be a related party and therefore has recorded its investment in Vape as an “Investment in a related party” on its balance sheet. It should also be noted that the current Chief Executive Officer of Vape is the former President of GrowLife, Inc.