Mes: diciembre 2020

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash., Dec. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Founded by world-renowned green architect, Jason F. McLennan, Living Deep is an online marketplace of ecologically and socially responsible home and lifestyle products, curated by design professionals and vetted by world-class sustainability experts for quality, beauty and environmental performance.

Living Deep’s visually rich and compelling portfolio aims to connect environmentally progressive craftspeople, manufacturers, artists and product designers with a discerning clientele who intentionally choose to buy fewer, better things. The eclectic curation of furniture, decor, products and materials feature one-of-a-kind handicrafts alongside mass produced items, the common denominator being a verifiable commitment to sustainability and transparency.

«We look for products that provide ingredient, sourcing and manufacturing transparency,» McLennan states. «While there’s no universal standard for sustainable manufacturing, we feel good knowing that every brand we carry is on a ‘deep green’ path, making progress towards positive environmental and social benefit.»

Living Deep’s global network of partnering vendors has been handpicked by McLennan and a small core team of knowledgeable green design leaders. While customers will enjoy browsing an expertly vetted offering of sustainably produced goods, commerce is not the only intention of the Living Deep marketplace. With a penchant for pushing the environmental envelope, McLennan and his team are guided by three unconventional values.

Buy Less Stuff
The antidote to excess, Living Deep encourages a more resourceful approach to sustainability. The reduce, reuse, recycle loop still leads to depleted resources. Living Deep urges its customers to consume less, because the easiest way to reduce waste is to stop creating it.

Invest for Life
When making a purchase, buy things worth keeping. Invest in ethically and expertly made products that are gentle on the earth, beautiful to behold and designed to last.

Be the Change
By consuming less and investing more in sustainably made, high quality items that are designed to last, we redirect our dollar to support systematic change. Living Deep supports the companies who support the environment and encourage its customers to do the same.

Living Deep is positioned to offer the greatest level of transparency in the industry. Leveraging criteria from Declare Label, Living Product Challenge (LPC) performance standards, Cradle to Cradle, Health Product Declaration (HDP) among others, Living Deep includes a sustainability profile for each product that answers three questions:
1. Where does the product come from?
2. What is it made of?
3. Where does it go at the end of its life?

In addition,

• Living Deep aims to reduce waste by ensuring all packaging is recyclable, compostable, and does not include single use plastic or styrofoam
• Living Deep offers drop shipping to reduce carbon footprint
• Living Deep selects products that contain minimal or no Red List chemicals, providing peace of mind to customers as a trusted resource for safe, sustainable products

Shop for the Home, from Home:
Ideal for designers and DIYers alike, Living Deep aims to be a comprehensive resource for residential design, ranging from everyday wares to collector’s items. Categories include furniture and decor, bath, kitchen, lighting, flooring and floor coverings, paints and finishes, living roofs and tiny structures.

Living Deep’s inviting, intuitive interface functions as a shoppable showroom. At a time when in-store visits may not be desired, Living Deep’s online marketplace offers efficiency, convenience and high touch customer service. The e-commerce offering is enhanced by engaging editorial features on the craftspeople, designers and artists behind the products, intended to deepen connections between maker and collector, product and nature. At checkout, Living Deep offers an easy solution to allow customers to offset the carbon created by their purchase.

Living Deep launches in Winter 2020 at http://www.livingdeep.com via a special Holiday Preview with a full premiere scheduled for Summer 2021.

About Jason F. McLennan
Living Deep was founded in 2020 by award-winning architect, author, thought leader, and designer Jason F. McLennan and serial social entrepreneur Scott James. McLennan is a renegade designer who has pushed the boundaries of architecture throughout his career, challenging his contemporaries to think beyond LEED and dig deeper into the fundamentals of sustainable design. The recipient of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Prize (the planet’s top prize for socially responsible design), McLennan’s hypothesis is that we can, and must, build environments that are not merely «non-toxic» but actually good for us and the planet. This vision led to the creation of The Living Building Challenge, the world’s most stringent green building standard. Using his proprietary process of site, climate and program analysis, McLennan has constructed living buildings across multiple sectors including higher education, corporate offices, hospitality, civic and institutional, residential and housing, proving that net zero, adaptable, self-regulating and sustaining regenerative environments are not only possible, but necessary.

McLennan is the creator of the Living Products Challenge and the Declare Label, a transparency platform and database that is referred to as a «nutritional label for products». He has collaborated on many product innovations with many recognizable brands that now bear this label. For more information about Jason McLennan and his body of work, please visit: http://mclennan-design.com.

«Every once in a while someone shows up with a way of seeing and acting in the world that is astonishing. Jason sees the world in a boundless yet grounded way.» Paul Hawken

Media Contact

Scott James, Living Deep, +1 (206) 780-5740, scott@livingdeep.com

Scott James, Living Deep, 206780-5740, scott@livingdeep.com

SOURCE Living Deep

MONTRÉAL, Dec. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – MONARCH GOLD CORPORATION («Monarch» or the «Corporation«) (TSX: MQR) (OTCQX: MRQRF) (FRANKFURT: MR7) announced today that its shareholders (the «Shareholders«) and optionholders (collectively with the Shareholders, the «Securityholders«) have approved the resolution (the «Arrangement Resolution«) authorizing the previously announced plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporation Act (the «Arrangement«). Pursuant to the Arrangement, Yamana Gold Corporation («Yamana«) will acquire the Wasamac property and the Camflo property and mill through the acquisition of all of the outstanding common shares of Monarch (other than the common shares already owned by Yamana) for total consideration of approximately C$200 million or C$0.63 per Monarch share on a fully-diluted basis. Under the Arrangement, Monarch will first complete a spin-out to its Shareholders through a newly-formed company, Monarch Mining Corporation («SpinCo«), which will hold the remaining mineral properties and certain other assets and liabilities of Monarch.  

The Arrangement Resolution was approved by 99.92% of the votes cast by the Securityholders, voting together as a single class, at the Annual and Special Meeting of Securityholders held earlier today. To be effective, the Arrangement Resolution required the approval of at least 66 2/3% of the votes cast by the Securityholders, voting as a single class, and a simple majority of the votes cast by the Shareholders after excluding any votes of «related parties» and «interested parties’ and other persons required to be excluded under Canadian Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions.

The implementation of the Arrangement remains subject to the final approval (the «Final Order«) of the Superior Court of Québec, Commercial Division, at a hearing scheduled for January 20, 2021; final acceptance by the respective stock exchanges on which Monarch and Yamana shares trade; and other closing conditions customary in transactions of this nature. It is currently anticipated that the Arrangement will be completed as soon as practicable after receipt of the Final Order, and that the common shares of SpinCo will commence trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (the «TSX«) a few days thereafter, under the symbol «GBAR».

Until completion of the Arrangement, Monarch’s common shares will continue to be listed for trading on the TSX. Further details regarding the Arrangement are set out in the management information circular of the Corporation dated November 30, 2020, which is available under the profile of Monarch at www.sedar.com.

Furthermore, the following resolutions were also approved by a majority of the Shareholders:

• the election of Michel Bouchard, Yohann Bouchard, Guylaine Daigle, Laurie Gaborit, Jean-Marc Lacoste and Christian Pichette as the directors of Monarch. The detailed results of the vote for the election of the directors are shown in the following table:

• the appointment of KPMG LLP as the external auditors of Monarch and authorizing the directors to set the auditors’ compensation;
• the adoption of a stock option plan for SpinCo and approving all unallocated stock option entitlements under the stock option plan; and
• the adoption of a restricted share unit plan for SpinCo and approving all unallocated restricted share unit entitlements under the restricted share unit plan.

Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release, including statements regarding the prospects of the industry and prospects, plans, financial position and business strategy of Monarch, may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation and regulations. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as «may», «will», «expect», «intend», «estimate», «anticipate», «plan», «foresee», «believe» or «continue», the negatives of these terms, variations of them and similar expressions. More particularly and without restriction, this press release contains forward-looking statements and information regarding: statements and implications about the completion of the Arrangement for Monarch, and the anticipated timing thereof.

In respect of the forward-looking statements and information concerning the anticipated timing of the completion of the Arrangement, Monarch has provided such statements and information in reliance on certain assumptions that it believes are reasonable at this time, including assumptions as to the ability of the parties to receive, in a timely manner and on satisfactory terms, the necessary regulatory and court approvals; the ability of the parties to satisfy, in a timely manner, the other conditions to the completion of the Arrangement; and other expectations and assumptions concerning the Arrangement. The anticipated dates indicated may change for a number of reasons, including the inability to receive, in a timely manner, the necessary regulatory or court approvals, the necessity to extend the time limits for satisfying the other conditions to the completion of the Arrangement. Although Monarch believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these expectations will prove to have been correct, that the Arrangement will be completed or that it will be completed on the terms and conditions contemplated in this press release. Accordingly, investors and others are cautioned that undue reliance should not be placed on any forward-looking statements.

Risks and uncertainties inherent in the nature of the proposed transaction include, without limitation, the failure of the parties to obtain the necessary regulatory and court approvals or to otherwise satisfy the conditions to the completion of the Arrangement; failure of the parties to obtain such approvals or satisfy such conditions in a timely manner; significant transaction costs or unknown liabilities; and general economic conditions. Failure to obtain the necessary regulatory and court approvals, or the failure of the parties to otherwise satisfy the conditions to the completion of the Arrangement, may result in the Arrangement  not being completed on the proposed terms, or at all. In addition, if the Arrangement is not completed, and Monarch continues as an independent entity, there are risks that the dedication of substantial resources of Monarch to the completion of the Arrangement could have an impact on its business and strategic relationships (including with future and prospective employees, customers, suppliers and partners), operating results and activities in general, and could have a material adverse effect on its current and future operations, financial condition and prospects. Furthermore, the failure of Monarch to comply with the terms of the arrangement agreement may, in certain circumstances, result in it being required to pay a fee to Yamana, the result of which could have a material adverse effect on its financial position and results of operations and its ability to fund growth prospects and current operations. Consequently, the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this press release.

The forward-looking statements in this document reflect the Monarch’s expectations on the date hereof and are subject to change after that date. Monarch expressly disclaims any obligation or intention to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless required by applicable securities laws.

No Offer or Solicitation
This announcement is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to purchase or a solicitation of an offer to sell Monarch common shares.

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SOURCE Monarch Gold Corporation