Operator

Good day, and welcome to the iAccess Alpha Virtual Best Ideas Summer Investment Conference 2026. Our next presenting company is GrowGeneration Corp. [Operator Instructions] I'd now like to turn the floor over to today's host, Darren Lampert, Chairman, Co-Founder and CEO of GrowGeneration Corp. Please go ahead.

Darren Lampert
Co-Founder, CEO & Chairperson of the Board

Thank you so much, and good morning, everybody. It's a jury day outside, a jury day on Wall Street. And certainly, I hope I can bring some light to your morning. I look forward to the presentation. And hopefully, I bring you guys another stock that you can invest in because I certainly believe the story is just resonating right now, and I think it's just a perfect time within the cannabis industry. So I'm going to get going and certainly, we would love to take some questions at the end of the presentation.

Our next slide, what you're going to see is our forward-looking statement, take 10 seconds and look through it. It's customary and just read through it quickly, and we're going to move on to the next slide.

Guys, the GrowGen story. What is it? Where are we right now? I think in order to really understand the story, we need to go back to 2014, where our mission statement back in 2014 was to become the largest retailer of hydroponic equipment in the world to service the cannabis industry that was pretty much just getting started in 2014.

You saw adult-use legalization in Colorado on 420 and that was kind of the mantra for us. What we saw