GrowGeneration Corporation Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

LEASES

LEASES

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

We determine if a contract contains a lease at inception. Our material operating leases consist of retail and warehouse locations as well as office space. Our leases generally have remaining terms of 1-9 years, most of which include options to extend the leases for additional 3 to 5-year periods. Generally, the lease term is the minimum of the non-cancelable period of the lease or the lease term inclusive of reasonably certain renewal periods.

Operating lease assets and liabilities are recognized at the lease commencement date. Operating lease liabilities represent the present value of remaining lease payments over the lease term. Operating lease assets represent our right to use an underlying asset and are based upon the operating lease liabilities adjusted for prepayments or accrued lease payments, initial direct costs, lease incentives, and impairment of operating lease assets. As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use our incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at the lease start date in determining the present value of future payments. Our leases typically contain rent escalations over the lease term. We recognize expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

We have elected the practical expedient to account for lease and non-lease components as a single component for our entire population of leases.

Short-term expenses include only those leases with a term greater than one month and 12 months or less, and expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less, that do not include an option to purchase the underlying asset that we are reasonably certain to exercise, are not recorded on the balance sheet.

Lease expense is recorded within our consolidated statements of operations based upon the nature of the assets. Where assets are used to directly serve our customers, such as facilities dedicated to customer contracts, lease costs are recorded in “Store operations and other operating expenses.” Facilities and assets which serve management and support functions are

expensed through "Selling, general, and administrative" expenses. Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities for operating leases were $10.3 million and $7.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021.


	December 31, 2022		December 31, 2021
Right to use assets, operating lease assets	$	46,433	$	43,730

Current lease liability	$	8,131	$	6,858
Non-current lease liability	40,659		38,546
	$	48,790	$	45,404


	December 31, 2022		December 31, 2021
Weighted average remaining lease term	6.5 years		7.1 years
Weighted average discount rate	5.8	%	6.5	%


	Year Ended December 31,
	2022		2021		2020
Operating lease costs	$	10,936	$	8,205	$	2,801
Variable lease costs	2,428		2,130		1,071
Short-term lease costs	451		205		95
Total operating lease costs	$	13,815	$	10,540	$	3,967

The following table presents the maturity of the Company’s operating lease liabilities as of December 31, 2022:


2023	$	10,689
2024	9,805
2025	8,932
2026	7,429
2027	5,722
Thereafter	16,478
Total lease payments	59,055
Less: Imputed interest	(10,265)
Lease Liability at December 31, 2022	$	48,790