BOD Australia Ltd Company Profile
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A global downstream medicinal cannabis opportunity

Bod Australia is a developer, distributor and marketer of health and skincare products with expertise in leveraging the health benefits associated with medicinal CBD.

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Bod Australia Limited (ASX:BDA, Bod) is a developer and distributor of natural, evidence-based health products with a focus on plant-based extracts and medicinal CBD. Bod is actively commercialising a range of over-the-counter and prescription products based on its unique, standardised, pharmaceutical-grade extracts.

The company has an extensive distribution footprint in Australia, selling a variety of prescription and OTC products to over 1,000 retail outlets, including pharmacies, retail stores and healthcare chains. Bod has also partnered with the innovation arm of the multi-billion-dollar Hong Kong listed H&H group, NewH2, to commercialise a range of OTC products using Bod's extracts. NewH2 is a recent strategic investor in Bod after investing $5.5m for a 17.64% stake in the company.

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Global growth potential in the downstream medicinal cannabis market.

Bod Australia is primed to accelerate sales within the new and growing $13.4bn CBD markets via its multiple strategic partnerships.
Triple-Digit Growth

Recently achieved over 860% growth in prescription volumes quarter-on-quarter, making Bod one of nation's top medicinal CBD providers.

Global Partner

Multi-billion-dollar health and wellness behemoth Health & Happiness (H&H) are a new strategic investor and partner to commercialise a range of Bod's medical products.

Research

Bod continues to collaborate with other thought leaders and is one of the five companies invited to participate in Europe’s largest medicinal cannabis project targeting 20,000 patients.

Breaking News

Bod has launched 9 hemp-based products with Swisse to enter 2,000 stores, including at Priceline, Chemist Warehouse and Coles

Introducing Medicablis

Through its partnership with Swiss Botanicals extracts manufacturer Linnea SA, Bod supplies its pharmaceutical-grade extract, MediCabilis™ 5% CBD ECs315 (MediCabilis™) via prescription. Phase 1 trials have demonstrated that Bod's oil extract and sublingual wafer have been deemed safe for human consumption showing excellent tolerability characteristics. MediCabilis™ is currently available via the Special Access Scheme (SAS-B) in the domestic market.

Latest presentation

Click here to download Bod Australia's latest presentation

Growing Sales

Prescriptions of Bod's MediCabilis™ have continued to increase as it has continued to gain wider acceptance within the medical community. Strong uptake continues through its distribution partner "Burleigh Heads Cannabis" and its partner company, "Cannabis Doctors Australia". In April 2020, repeat rpescriptions accounted for 60% of the month's total volume, with continued growth anticipated to continue.

Prescription Growth

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Distribution Partners & Expansion

Bod will expand MediCabilis™ sales into the U.K. through a distribution agreement with PCCA Ltd. PCCA are an MHRA licensed medicines manufacturer with a 4,000 strong network of hospitals, physicians, clinics and medical specialists.

Learn more about PCCA

Click here to learn more about Bod Australia's exciting PCCA partnership.

Major Global Strategic Investor & Partner

NewH2, the innovation arm of multi-billion dollar Health & Happiness Group Ltd (H&H Group/HKSE:112), invested $5.5m to acquire 17.64% of Bod. H&H Group is a global leader in premium-quality adult and baby nutrition and care products listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The Group will leverage its global footprint to market and distribute H&H labelled products supplied by Bod with a near term focus on the UK, USA, France, Italy and the Netherlands. $3.9m of binding purchase orders have been received by H&H Group since October 2019. A record $1.43m purchase order was received in May 2020, the majority of going towards the company's new CBII product in partnership with H&H in the UK market.

Fully funded for aggressive growth

In addition to its $5.5m investment in Bod, $1.5m was also paid by H&H Group for the exclusive global licence to commercialise Bod’s CBD products. This arrangement has strengthened Bod's balance sheet while also allowing it to pursue an aggressive global growth agenda without significant capital outlay. Furthermore, over $1.2m was raised from the exercise of board and management options, which further strengthened Bod's balance sheet.

Read the H&H Announcement

Click here to view the H&H partnership announcement

Research Ongoing

Bod continues to collaborate with thought leaders in the CBD space. Bod Australia is 1 of 5 companies globally invited to participate in Project Twenty21, Europe’s largest medicinal cannabis project and will study the effects on patients with chronic conditions. Other research includes a landmark 12-month trial facilitated by "Cannabis Access Clinics" for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and a collaboration with UTS to uncover a novel delivery system that can combat the skin aging process. First sales for Project21 have been achieved as of May 2020.

Project Twenty21

Click here to learn more about Europe's Project Twenty21 and Bod's involvement.

Strong board and management

Bod's leadership team have extensive experience working at top tier international brands. Bod also recently further strengthened its team with the appointment of Mr. Mark Masterson as its non-executive chairman. Mr Masterson held several global leadership positions across the USA, Europe, Asia and Australia during his time at global pharmaceutical behemoth Abbott Laboratories. In addition, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Australia's largest private diagnostic imaging network, I-MED, and was previously appointed as Chairman of Medicines Australia.
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