Skip to main content

AI assistant

Sign in to chat with this filing

The assistant answers questions, extracts KPIs, and summarises risk factors directly from the filing text.

Vireo Growth Inc. Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2025

May 9, 2025

45561_rns_2025-05-09_4695c012-8967-4b8e-9ea9-3792cd12136f.pdf

Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

Open in viewer

Opens in your device viewer

Vireo

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS OF
VIREO GROWTH INC.
AND MANAGEMENT INFORMATION CIRCULAR
TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2025
AT 10:00 A.M. (CENTRAL TIME)

May 9, 2025

This proxy statement is dated May 9, 2025, and is first being made available to shareholders on May 9, 2025


VIREO

VIREO GROWTH INC.

207 South 9th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, an annual general meeting (the "Meeting") of holders ("Shareholders") of the subordinate voting shares (the "Subordinate Voting Shares") and multiple voting shares (the "Multiple Voting Shares"), each without par value (collectively, the "Vireo Shares") of Vireo Growth Inc. ("Vireo") will be held on Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10 a.m. Central Time via live webcast at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/VREOF2025. You will not be able to attend the Meeting in person. Information for accessing and participating at the Meeting is available at https://materials.proxyvote.com/Approved/EPLST1/20241125/OTHER_591125.PDF. Online check-in will begin at 9:30 a.m. Central Time, and we encourage you to allow ample time for the online check-in procedures. The accompanying proxy statement and management information circular (the "Circular") contains defined terms.

The Meeting is being called for the following purposes:

  1. to elect the five nominees proposed by management of Vireo as directors of Vireo for the ensuing year;
  2. to appoint Davidson & Company LLP as the auditors of Vireo for the ensuing year and to authorize the board of directors of Vireo (the "Board") to fix their remuneration; and
  3. to transact such further or other business as may properly come before the Meeting or any other adjournments or postponements thereof.

At the Meeting, Shareholders will also receive the audited consolidated financial statements of Vireo for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and the reports of the auditors thereon. No shareholder vote is required in connection with this item.

As permitted by the rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), we are mailing to most of our shareholders a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials ("Notice of Internet Availability") instead of a printed copy of our proxy materials (i.e., the Notice of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, the Circular, and our 2024 Annual Report to Shareholders, and a form of proxy card or voting instruction form). The Notice of Internet Availability contains instructions on how to access those documents via the Internet and how to submit your proxy. The Notice of Internet Availability also contains instructions on how to request a printed copy of our proxy materials. Shareholders who do not receive a Notice of Internet Availability will receive a printed copy of the proxy materials by mail. You may also access the audited annual consolidated financial statements of Vireo for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and the reports of the auditors thereon. No vote is required in connection with this matter.

We are relying on certain exemptions from Canadian securities legislation for compliance with SEC notice and access rules, which permit a reporting issuer to use a delivery method permitted under U.S. federal securities law under certain circumstances.

Specific details of the matters proposed to be put before the Meeting are set forth in the Circular which accompanies this Notice of Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the "Notice of Meeting"). The Board is not aware of any other business to be presented for a vote at the Meeting.

The record date for determining the Shareholders entitled to receive notice of and vote at the Meeting is the close of business on May 6, 2025 (the "Record Date"). Only Shareholders whose names have been entered in the register of Shareholders as of the close of business on the Record Date are entitled to receive notice of and to vote at the Meeting. As of the Record Date, (i) the number of Subordinate Voting Shares outstanding and entitled to vote at the Meeting is 339,475,288, each of which is entitled to one vote; and (ii) the number of Multiple Voting Shares outstanding and entitled to vote at the Meeting is 278,100, each of which is entitled to 100 votes.

Whether or not you are able to virtually attend the Meeting, you are encouraged to provide voting instructions as soon as possible by (1) dating, signing and promptly returning the proxy card in the envelope provided to you, if you receive a printed


copy of the proxy materials, or (2) using the methods of voting described on your proxy card, voting instruction form or Notice of Internet Availability. To be counted at the Meeting, a Shareholder's proxy or voting instructions must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on June 18, 2025, or if the Meeting is postponed or adjourned, at least 48 hours (excluding non-business days) prior to the date of the postponed or adjourned Meeting. Please note, if you received a voting instruction form and you hold your Vireo Shares through a broker or other intermediary, you must provide your instructions to your broker, investment dealer or other intermediary as specified in the voting instruction form and by the deadline set out therein (which may be an earlier time than set out above). Vireo reserves the right to accept late proxies and to waive the proxy cut-off, with or without notice, but is under no obligation to accept or reject any particular late proxy.

The Board unanimously recommends that Shareholders vote "FOR" the election of the five nominees to the Board in Proposal 1 and "FOR" the appointment and remuneration of auditors in Proposal 2.

Shareholders who are planning to provide voting instructions in accordance with the Notice of Internet Availability or voting instruction form are encouraged to review the Circular carefully before submitting such form.

DATED as of May 9, 2025

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

/s/ John Mazarakis

Name: John Mazarakis

Title: Chief Executive Officer and Co-Executive Chairman of the Board

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Shareholders Meeting to Be Held on Friday, June 20, 2025

The Notice of Meeting, the Circular, form of proxy and Annual Report to Shareholders are available on the internet at the following website: www.proxyvote.com And under Vireo's profiles on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov