Maricann’s First Shipment of Product to Germany Opens Door to Market

TORONTO, Aug. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Maricann Group Inc. (CSE:MARI)(FRANKFURT: 75M)(OTCQB:MRRCF) (“Maricann” or the “Company) is pleased to announce that the Company has successfully exported dry cannabis flowers to Germany.  The recent shipment of dry cannabis flowers from its EU-GMP certified facility in Langton, ON Canada, was successfully exported from Canada and then imported to Germany.  The material then underwent further analytical testing and met all specifications and requirements. The Company will now move to export further product to the German medical market.

“As one of five companies with EU-GMP certified facilities for cannabis production globally, we are positioned perfectly to capture market share in the European medical market.  This step further validates the platform that we have built at Maricann, with EU-GMP certified cannabis flower exports from our facilities in Canada now a reality” stated Ben Ward, CEO of Maricann.

Maricann Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Maricann Group Inc., received an export permit from Health Canada on April 16, 2018 to ship dried cannabis flower to Germany. These results are the culmination of those efforts and represent yet another instance of external validation for the Company and its products.

About Maricann Group Inc.

Maricann is a vertically integrated producer and distributor of cannabis for medical purposes. The Company was founded in 2013 and is based in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and Munich, Germany, with production facilities in Langton, Ontario where it operates a medicinal cannabis cultivation, extraction, formulation and distribution business under federal licence from the Government of Canada. The Company also has production operations in Dresden, Saxony, Germany and Regensdorf, Switzerland. Maricann is currently undertaking an expansion of its cultivation and support facilities in Canada in a 942,000 sq. ft. (87,515 sq. m) and will continue to pursue new opportunities in Europe.

Forward Looking Statements

This news release includes forward-looking information and statements, which may include, but are not limited to, information and statements regarding or inferring the future business, operations, financial performance, prospects, and other plans, intentions, expectations, estimates, and beliefs of the Company. Forward-looking information and statements involve and are subject to assumptions and known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause actual events, results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future events, results, performance, and achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking information and statements herein. Such statements include references to the Company’s plans to export additional cannabis flowers to the German market. Although the Company believes that any forward-looking information and statements herein are reasonable, in light of the use of assumptions and the significant risks and uncertainties inherent in such information and statements, there can be no assurance that any such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, and accordingly readers are advised to rely on their own evaluation of such risks and uncertainties and should not place undue reliance upon such forward-looking information and statements. Any forward-looking information and statements herein are made as of the date hereof, and except as required by applicable laws, the Company assumes no obligation and disclaims any intention to update or revise any forward-looking information and statements herein or to update the reasons that actual events or results could or do differ from those projected in any forward looking information and statements herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or results, or otherwise, except as required by applicable laws.

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For more information about Maricann, please visit our website at www.maricann.com

CONTACT INFORMATION

Investor Relations
Graham Farrell
Director of Investor Relations
graham@maricann.com
647-643-7665

Corporate Headquarters (Canada)
Maricann Group Inc. (Toronto)
845 Harrington Court, Unit 3
Burlington Ontario L7N 3P3
Canada
289-288-6274

European Headquarters (Germany)
Maricann GmbH
Thierschstrasse 3, 80538 Munchen, Deutschland