SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-22-012276 to NITCHES INC (NICH) (CIK 0000772263)
NITCHES INC (NICH) (CIK 0000772263)
Date: Nov. 10, 2022 · CIK: 0000772263 · Accession: 0000000000-22-012276
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United States securities and exchange commission logo
November 10, 2022
John Morgan
Chief Executive Officer
Nitches, Inc.
1333 N Buffalo Dr., Suite 210
Las Vegas, NV 89128
Re:Nitches, Inc.
Offering Statement on Form 1-A
Filed October 14, 2022
File No. 024-12029
Dear John Morgan:
We have reviewed your offering statement and have the following comments. In some
of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand
your disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by amending your offering statement and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response. After reviewing any amendment to your offering statement and the information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Offering Statement on Form 1-A
General
1.We note your press release on April 19, 2022 regarding your intent to create your own
metaverse for users to create 3D avatars and buy and sell NFTs. We have the following
comments:
•Please provide a materially complete description of the proposed metaverse,
including the timing of development and launch.
•Please provide a materially complete description of the NFTs, including their
purpose, terms, characteristics, minting, distribution, custody, and transferability, as
well as the availability of secondary markets. Please specifically address the
company’s role(s) and, to the extent applicable, the role(s) of third parties.
•Please provide us with the company’s legal analysis as to whether the NFTs are
securities under Section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933. Your analysis should
address not only the NFTs themselves but also the operation of the platform through
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which they are minted and the development and operation of the metaverse.
•To the extent that third parties will be able to mint the NFTs, please describe the
internal processes you will establish to determine whether such NFTs are securities as
defined in the Securities Act of 1933. Please also describe the internal processes you
will establish to ensure that you are not facilitating, or causing you to engage in,
transactions in unregistered securities.
•Please identify the blockchain network on which the NFTs will be minted. To the
extent it will be a third-party network, please describe the network and the risks and
challenges related to relying on a third-party network.
•Please describe any and all applicable laws and regulations relating to the minting
and distribution of the NFTs.
•Please describe the risks relating to holding the NFTs, including any risks and
challenges related to the storage or custody of the NFTs and the use of wallets.
2.We note that the company currently mints and distributes NFTs that represent QR codes.
We have the following comments:
•Please provide a materially complete description of the NFTs, including their
purpose, terms, characteristics, minting, distribution, custody, and transferability, as
well as the availability of secondary markets. Please specifically address the
company’s role(s) and, to the extent applicable, the role(s) of third parties.
•Please supplementally provide us with the company’s legal analysis as to whether the
NFTs are securities under Section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933.
•Please describe any and all applicable laws and regulations relating to the minting
and distribution of the NFTs.
•Please describe the risks relating to holding the NFTs, including any risks and
challenges related to the storage or custody of the NFTs and the use of wallets.
3.Please clarify whether you intend to accept crypto assets as payment or otherwise
acquire crypto assets. Please also clarify whether you intend to custody NFTs or other
crypto assets.
4.Please describe the terms of your Equity Incentive Plan and Equity Incentive Program.
We note your disclosure on pg. 6 that the Company plans to use their publicly traded
common stock for the Equity Incentive Plan for Social Media in Phase I of the business.
Please reconcile that disclosure with the disclosure on pg. 36 indicating that the Company
does not plan to create the Equity Incentive Plan until after completion of Phase III of the
business plan.
5.Please revise your filing throughout to remove improper "prospectus" and "registration
statement" references.
6.We note that the purchase price for your securities reflected in your subscription
agreement is different than the purchase price disclosed in your Offering Statement. We
also note that the subscription agreement does not include a minimum investment amount.
Please advise or revise.
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7.Please revise page ii to reflect the minimum purchase requirement.
Our Business, page 6
8.Please clarify whether Nitches has entered into any partnerships with any manufacturing
partners and where those partners are located.
9.We note your disclosure regarding your three phases of business development. Please
revise to clarify which phase of the business you are in.
10.We note your disclosure that you have a small sales and marketing organization. Please
disclose the number of full-time and part-time employees that you have.
Management's Discussion & Analysis of Financial Condition & Results of Operations, page 30
11.We note you references to the financial statements at December 31 in several disclosures
within your filing. Please remove and revise with appropriate accounting periods
throughout your filing.
Directors, Executive Officers & Corporate Governance, page 34
12.Please expand Mr. John Morgan's biographical information to include his specific
business experience during the past five years. Refer to Item 10(c) of Part II of Form 1-A.
13.Mr. John Morgan is identified as the CEO and sole Director of the Company. Please
reconcile with the disclosure found on Page 13 in the Risk Factor section discussing a Mr.
Richard Papaleo as being CEO. Please also revise this section to identify Mr. Papaleo's
and provide the information required by Item 10 of Part II of Form 1-A.
Executive Compensation, page 36
14.Please clarify whether the $100,000 in other compensation for John Morgan was due to
his conversion of his 2020 Series A Preferred Share or due to a separate grant of
100,000,000 shares of the Issuer.
Security Ownership of Management & Certain Securityholders, page 37
15.Please reconcile the disclosure in the table on pg. 37 that John Morgan owns one share of
2020 Series A Preferred Stock with the disclosure on pg. F-20 that Mr. Morgan converted
that share into 100,000,000 shares of Common Stock on November 4, 2021 and that as of
May 31, 2022 the Company had no shares of Preferred Stock Series A issued and
outstanding.
Description of Securities, page 38
16.Please reconcile the disclosure that there were 56,759,444 shares of common stock
outstanding as of October 11, 2022 with information on Page F-21 that there were
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44,839,644 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding as of May 31, 2022.
Preferred Stock, page 38
17.Please revise the table to clarify what the 25,200,000 amount represents.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Opinion on the Financial Statements, page F-1
18.We note in the first paragraph, your auditor references the related statements of
operations, changes in shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the two years in the
period ended August 31. 2021. Please have your auditors revise to specifically state "and
2020" to include both periods. Also, have your auditors revise the second paragraph to
also cover the period ended August 31, 2020.
Financial Statements, page F-3
19.Please revise the column headings labeled December 31, 2021 on pages F-3 and F-5 to the
appropriate period (i.e., August 31).
We will consider qualifying your offering statement at your request. In connection with
your request, please confirm in writing that at least one state has advised you that it is prepared
to qualify or register your offering. If a participant in your offering is required to clear its
compensation arrangements with FINRA, please have FINRA advise us that it has no objections
to the compensation arrangements prior to qualification.
We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of
action by the staff.
You may contact Melissa Gilmore at 202-551-3777 or Hugh West at 202-551-3872 if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact Alex King at 202-551-8631 or Asia Timmons-Pierce at 202-551-3754 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Manufacturing