2. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Principles of Consolidation
The holding company was incorporated in Delaware on April 9, 2012. The accompanying consolidated financial statements include all the accounts of the holding company’s wholly owned subsidiaries, Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc. (the operating company), Vitamin Cottage Two Ltd. Liability Company (VC2), Natural Systems, LLC and Boulder Vitamin Cottage Group, LLC (BVC). The operating company formed the holding company in order to facilitate the purchase of the remaining noncontrolling interest in BVC and consummation of the Company’s initial public offering (IPO) during fiscal year 2012. Prior to the Company’s IPO on July 25, 2012, the Company had a majority 55% ownership of BVC. Prior to the settlement of the IPO, the Company issued 670,056 shares of stock in the holding company and paid approximately $10.1 million in cash to purchase the remaining 45% noncontrolling interest in BVC. Prior to the merger, BVC owned five Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
retail stores, which were managed by the operating company. Effective October 31, 2012, BVC merged with and into the operating company and ceased to exist. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Initial Public Offering
The holding company was incorporated in anticipation of the Company’s IPO. Prior to the IPO, the holding company was a wholly owned subsidiary of the operating company. In connection with the Company’s IPO during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012, the Company completed a reorganization in which a) the existing shareholders of the operating company exchanged capital stock of the operating company for shares of common stock of the holding company and b) the operating company purchased the remaining 45% noncontrolling interest in BVC for a combination of cash and common stock of the holding company, as described above. The holding company’s only material asset is its direct 100% ownership in the operating company. On July 25, 2012, the Company issued 4,167,367 shares to the public in the IPO. Simultaneously with the IPO, certain selling shareholders sold 4,046,918 shares to the public, resulting in no additional proceeds to the Company. The total number of shares issued in the IPO was 8,214,285.
Based on the public offering price of $15.00, the Company received gross proceeds from the issuance of 4,167,367 shares issued to the public in the IPO of approximately $62.5 million, and paid underwriting costs of 7%, or approximately $4.4 million, for net proceeds of approximately $58.1 million. The Company also incurred issuance costs of approximately $2.7 million.
The Company accounted for the acquisition of the BVC noncontrolling interest, as described above, as an equity transaction. Since the transaction was treated as an equity transaction, the transaction costs were also reflected as a reduction of equity and a financing activity in the statement of cash flows for the year ended September 30, 2012. The Company recorded the issuance of the 670,056 shares in common stock at par value, reduced cash and cash equivalents by approximately $10.1 million, eliminated approximately $1.5 million in noncontrolling interest on the balance sheet as of September 30, 2012, and recorded the remaining amount as additional paid in capital. As a result of the acquisition of the remaining noncontrolling interest, the Company was entitled to tax deductions to the extent of any step up in tax basis on the assets of BVC, limited to the cash consideration paid. Accordingly, the tax basis in excess of book basis at the date of purchase resulted in deferred tax assets of approximately $3.6 million as of September 30, 2012.
As of September 30, 2012, the Company used approximately $39.2 million of the net proceeds from the IPO to pay down all outstanding amounts under its then-existing credit facility of approximately $26
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