Better Plant Sciences Announces Website Launch and Strategic Plan to Grow Direct-to-Consumer Sales

Vancouver, BC – August 27, 2020: Better Plant Sciences Inc. (PLNT) (OTCQB:BOSQF) (FE:YG3) (“Better”) or (the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on the Company’s strategic plan to grow its direct-to-consumer eCommerce sales. This includes the re-launch of the company website, pending acquisition of all JUSU web properties, the launch of an extensive influencer marketing campaign, and a new addition to the team, Gabriel Villablanca, who will serve as the Company’s Director of Ecommerce and Digital Marketing.

The Company is also pleased to welcome Gabriel Villablanca as its new Director of Ecommerce and Digital Marketing. He has over 15 years of experience in digital marketing and has the distinction of having worked very successfully with multiple brands simultaneously under a single parent company. Most recently, he served for 6 years as the digital marketing director for O2E Brands, the umbrella company of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING and Shack Shine.

Gabriel has taken the lead on Urban Juve’s expanded influencer program, in which Urban Juve will partner with skincare and wellness influencers, with a focus on micro-influencers in North America, seeking out a large volume of partnerships. The influence of this group is increasing and tends to show higher conversion rates because these influencers actually act and live like their peers, which creates a more authentic connection than what is possible with those influencers that have followers in the millions. The program is well under development with a combination of affiliate/discount, contesting, and content-based partnerships. Further, following the successful acquisition of JUSU-branded online properties, the Company plans to apply these same strategies to all JUSU branded properties as well to bolster its sales.

“This is the next crucial step in our strategy to drive increased online purchases of our products. The launch of our optimized ecommerce store, urbanjuve.com, was the prerequisite needed to allow for traffic-generation efforts to be put in place, the first of which is a curated influencer program,” said Gabriel Villablanca, Director of Ecommerce at Better. “We plan to employ an ‘always on’ influencer strategy for Urban Juve that is executed continuously throughout the year.”

Authentic content generation by influencers and the sales they drive will complement a digital marketing program inclusive of retargeting and other forms of paid digital media to drive awareness for the brand. 

According to Forbes, just 1% of millennials trust classic advertisements; however, 33% of this same group trust blog reviews. Further, 40% of millennials reported that they had purchased a product online after seeing it used by an influencer on YouTube, Instagram or Twitter. 

Better develops and acquires intellectual property and other assets related to plant-based products and therapeutics, and develops, manufactures, markets, sells and distributes plant-based products that improve lives. It has 14 patent applications to protect its formulas and over 200 proprietary wellness formulas at various stages of commercialization, including over 20 products that are now for sale via e-commerce or brick and mortar retail stores. It has signed an agreement to acquire JUSU branded plant-based assets from JUSU Bar, JUSU Body and JUSU Cbd, and expects to complete the acquisition this fall. The acquisition includes all inventory, packaging, raw ingredients, and intellectual property related to 300 plant-based products as well as the e-commerce sites where those products are sold. Its majority-owned subsidiary NeonMind Biosciences Inc. is engaged in research into developing a psilocybin (psychedelic mushroom) based product for weight loss and is developing a line of coffees infused with health optimizing medicinal mushrooms including reishi, cordyceps, lion’s mane and turkey tail mushrooms.

Kevan Matheson, Investor Relations

invest@betterplantsciences.com 

1-833-514-2677

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