Why Conscious Container?

Reuse business solutions are gaining momentum.

Corporations are setting aggressive ESG and carbon emissions targets. Coupled with a glass bottle supply chain crisis across all beverage categories, this is a moment in time to invest in this reuse infrastructure business.

Investor Value Propositions
Financial Performance:
• Revenue: $157M over 5 years
• Year 5 EBITDA: 39%
• Exit type: IPO or Acquisition
• Revenue multiples: 5.6x
• Earnings (based on EBITDA): 17.1x
• Timing of exit: 5-7 years

Industry Value Propositions & Trends

• Beverage producers are seeking solutions to achieve aggressive sustainability packaging targets. Refillable glass bottles deliver an 85% lower carbon footprint

• Recycling rates are not going to increase fast enough to meet recycled content targets. Recycling rates nationwide in 2021 hover around 32%

• A refillable glass bottle, in a mature marketplace, will cost the producer less than a virgin single-use bottle. We hear averages of 10% gross margin on refillable bottles

• Reuse Market Commitments: Coca-Cola’s Feb 10, 2022 press release: The Coca-Cola Company Announces Industry-Leading Target for Reusable Packaging

• Glass Bottle Supply Chain Crisis

We are refillable glass experts. In fact, our President, Bruce Stephens, launched Wine Bottle Renew in California in 2010—a refillable wine bottle washing system. He brings the critical knowledge, learning, and expertise of refillables.

Our depth of entrepreneurial & leadership experience combined with years of refillable glass research, development, and implementation of successful pilots has allowed us to craft the perfect launch at the perfect time.

Conscious Container has the traction and team to deliver!

• Awarded a $500K CalRecycle GHG Reuse Grant in 2021 for the purchase of bottle washing equipment for a refillable wine bottle program.

• Two large California wineries are working in collaboration with Conscious Container to launch multiple brand tasting room/Direct to Consumer refillable wine bottle programs in 2022

• Gaining Letters of Intent from California winery customers intent to purchase washed refillable bottles from Conscious Container

• Large local California wineries excess glass bottles raw material supply will exceed washing capacity for the first two years

• Established partnerships with strategic B2C Reuse technology apps incentivizing retailers and consumers in reuse collection

• Selected to join Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Global Sustainability Accelerator Cohort in 2020

• Invited Innovation Member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in 2020

• Catalytic author & driver of successful reusable beverage container legislation under California AB-962

Our financial model presents an economically profitable and scalable business.

With Seed Round funding, we create the reuse infrastructure framework, starting in the wine industry. We have the supply side volume of bottles and we have the beverage producer customer demand for bottles. Additionally, the cost of a case of wine bottles for producers has doubled over the past two years.

Our B2B wine industry launch delivers solid Monthly Recurring Revenue growth.

This business is built to scale. During our Seed Round we will build our business value framework. Our Series A round will include a mixed capital stack strategy to scale throughout California and across the U.S.

California is the best marketplace to launch this business for scaling.

U.S. Market Opportunity—Glass Bottle Sales (Annually):

TAM: U.S. Bottles = $146B

SAM: California Bottles = $63B

SOM: Conscious Container Revenue $85M