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Related Parties Transactions
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2018
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Parties Transactions

7. RELATED PARTIES TRANSACTIONS

 

Net revenues and accounts receivable – related parties – The Company sells products to Brownie’s Southport Divers, Inc., Brownie’s Palm Beach Divers, and Brownie’s Yacht Toys, owned by the brother of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Terms of sale are no more favorable than those extended to any of the Company’s other customers with similar sales volume. Combined net revenues from these entities for three months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, was $220,586 and $220,363, respectively. Combined net revenues from these entities for nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, was $510,132 and $582,683, respectively. Accounts receivable from Brownie’s Southport Diver’s, Inc., Brownie’s Palm Beach Divers, and Brownie’s Yacht Toys totaled $52,864 at September 30, 2018 and $51,638 at December 31, 2017, respectively.

 

The Company sells products to Brownie’s Global Logistics, LLC. (“BGL”), 940 Associates, Inc. and 3D Buoy, LLC affiliated with the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Terms of sale are more favorable than those extended to BWMG’s regular customers, but these terms are no more favorable than those extended to Brownie’s strategic partners. Terms of sale to BGL approximate cost or include a nominal margin. These terms are consistent with those extended to Brownie’s strategic partners. Strategic partner terms on a per order basis include promotion of BWMG’s technologies and “Brownie’s” brand, offered only on product or services not offered for resale, and must provide for reciprocal terms or arrangements to BWMG on strategic partners’ product or services. BGL is fulfilling the strategic partner terms by providing exposure for BWMG’s technologies and “Brownie’s” brand in the yachting and exploration community world-wide through its operations. Combined net revenues from these entities for three month periods ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, were $0 and $223, respectively. Combined net revenues from these entities for nine month periods ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, were $0 and $3,289, respectively. Combined accounts receivable from BGL, 940 Associates and 3D Buoy totaled $5,106 and $4,043 at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.

 

Royalties expense – related parties – The Company has an Exclusive License Agreement with 940 Associates, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “940A”), an entity owned by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, to license the trademark “Brownies Third Lung”, “Tankfill”, “Brownies Public Safety” and various other related trademarks as listed in the agreement. This license agreement calls for the Company to pay 940A 2.5% of gross revenues per quarter. Total royalty expense for the above agreements for the three months and ended September 30, 2018 and 2017, totaled $19,137 and $12,761, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 totaled $42,532 and $42,247, respectively.

 

Stock options outstanding from patent purchase – Effective March 3, 2009, the Company entered into a Patent Purchase Agreement with Robert M. Carmichael, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. The Company purchased several patents it had previously been paying royalties on and several related unissued patents. In exchange for the Intellectual Property, the Company issued Mr. Carmichael 234 stock options at a $1,350 exercise price expiring ten years from the effective date of grant, or March 2, 2019. None of the options have been exercised to-date.