SEC Comment Letter for SYNERGY BRANDS INC (CIK 0000870228) — Sep 28, 2005
SYNERGY BRANDS INC (CIK 0000870228)
Date: Sept. 28, 2005 · CIK: 0000870228 · Accession: 0000000000-05-050224
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File numbers found in text: 333-126539
Referenced dates: July 27, 2005, July 27, 2005
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Mail Stop 3561
September 28, 2005
Mair Faibish, CEO
Synergy Brands Inc.
1175 Walt Whitman Road
Melville, NY 11747
Re: Synergy Brands Inc.
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-3
Filed September 13, 2005
File No. 333-126539
Preliminary Information Statement on Schedule 14C
Filed September 8, 2005
File No. 0-19409
Dear Mr. Faibish:
We have limited our review of your filing to those issues
addressed in our comments. Where indicated, we think you should
revise your document in response to these comments. If you
disagree,
we will consider your explanation as to why our comment is
inapplicable or a revision is unnecessary. Please be as detailed
as
necessary in your explanation. In some of our comments, we may
ask
you to provide us with information so we may better understand
your
disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may raise
additional comments. Feel free to call us at the telephone
numbers
listed at the end of this letter.
Form S-3
Fee Table
1. Please advise us why you have indicated that the maximum number
of
shares to be registered is zero.
Selling Securityholders, page 21
2. Please refer to comment 5 in our letter dated July 27, 2005.
Identify in this section the persons controlling your securities
held
by Laurus Master Fund, Ltd.
Plan of Distribution, page 22
3. Please refer to comments 6 and 7 in our letter dated July 27,
2005. Represent in this section whether Laurus Master Fund, Ltd.
is
a broker-dealer or an affiliate of a broker-dealer.
Schedule 14C
General
4. Please note that we will not clear this preliminary information
statement until you have resolved outstanding comments on your
Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004 and on your Form
S-
3.
Schedule 14C
5. In your preliminary information statement, please disclose if
the
increase of your authorized stock that has been approved by the
holders of a majority of your stock is related in any manner to
your
existing agreement with Laurus Master Fund, Ltd. If so, discuss
in
reasonable detail the reasons why you are increasing the
authorized
stock and the number of newly authorized stock you have allocated
to
issue to Laurus Master Fund, Ltd. If not, please include a
representation to that effect in your response letter.
6. Whether or not you are increasing the authorized stock for the
purpose of issuance to Laurus Master Fund, Ltd., please disclose
the
following information in your preliminary information statement:
* the number of shares of common and preferred stock currently
authorized;
* the number of shares of common stock currently issued and
outstanding;
* the number of shares of common and preferred stock you intend to
issue after the increase of authorized stock;
* the purpose of increasing the limit of authorized stock; and
* any commitment, understanding, arrangement or agreement, written
or
oral, which you may have, to issue any additional stock of common
and
preferred shares, and if so, to whom you will issue stock, for
what
purpose and when, and the number of stock you will issue to each
party.
See Item 1 of Schedule 14C and Item 11 of Schedule 14A.
7. In your preliminary information statement, please provide
information related to the voting securities and their principal
holders, including, but not limited to, the beneficial ownership
table, as required by Item 403 of Regulation S-K. See Item 1 of
Schedule 14C and Item 6 of Schedule 14A.
* * * * *
As appropriate, please amend your registration statement in
response to these comments. You may wish to provide us with
marked
copies of the amendment to expedite our review. Please furnish a
cover letter with your amendment that keys your responses to our
comments and provides any requested supplemental information.
Detailed cover letters greatly facilitate our review. Please
understand that we may have additional comments after reviewing
your
amendment and responses to our comments.
You may contact Brian McAllister, Staff Accountant, at (202)
551-3341, or Donna Di Silvio, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3202,
if
you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements
and
related matters. Please contact Pradip Bhaumik, Attorney-Advisor,
at
(202) 551-3333, Ellie Quarles, Special Counsel, at (202) 551-3238,
or
me at (202) 551-3720 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
H. Christopher Owings
Assistant Director
cc. Randall J. Perry, Esq.
Fax: (201) 939-7348
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Mair Faibish
Synergy Brands Inc.
September 28, 2005
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