Correspondence 0001213900-24-021068 from CleanCore Solutions, Inc. (ZONE)
CleanCore Solutions, Inc.
Date: March 8, 2024 · CIK: 0001956741 · Accession: 0001213900-24-021068
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File numbers found in text: 333-274928
Referenced dates: March 6, 2024
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E: Mmendel@bevilacquapllc.com
T: 202.869.0888
W: bevilacquapllc.com
March 8, 2024
Via EDGAR
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Industrial Applications and Services
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, DC. 20549
Attn: Jeanne Bennett
Michael Fay
Juan Grana
Lauren Nguyen
Re: CleanCore Solutions, Inc.
Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement
on Form S-1
Filed February 23, 2023
File No. 333-274928
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We hereby submit the responses of CleanCore Solutions,
Inc. (the “Company”) to the comments of the staff (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”) set forth in the Staff’s letter, dated March 6, 2024, providing the Staff’s comments
with respect to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (as amended, the “Registration Statement”).
For the convenience of the Staff, each of the
Staff’s comments is included and is followed by the corresponding response of the Company. Unless the context indicates
otherwise, references in this letter to “we,” “us” and “our” refer to the Company on a consolidated
basis.
Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed February
23, 2023
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Comparison of Six Months Ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, page
35
1. We note your decrease in revenue of 56.79% was
primarily due to decreases in the volume of products sold to your largest customers, due
to external factors that impacted their number of purchases, offset by increases in product
prices. We also note this decrease was larger than the 35.2% first quarter decline in revenues.
Please revise your disclosure to fully describe in further detail the external factors that
impacted the number of purchases made by your largest customers. Please separately discuss
your largest customers. In this regard, for example, we note in your discussion of full year
2023 compared to full year 2022 a reference to the insolvency of a distributor that accounted
for 10% of total revenue.
Response: We have revised the
Registration Statement in accordance with the Staff’s comment.
1050 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
PG. 2
March 8, 2024
2. We note increases in product prices had a significant
impact on gross margin, increasing from 27.30% to 51.32%. Please revise your disclosure to
discuss in further detail the increase in prices given the significant impact. For example,
identify the specific products that experienced a price increase, the timing of the price
increases, and the approximate percentage of the price increases. In addition, please revise
your disclosure to separately quantify the impact to revenue from the decrease in volume
versus the increase in prices.
Response: We have revised the
Registration Statement in accordance with the Staff’s comment.
3. You disclose, in part, for the six months
ended December 31, 2023, our net loss of $782,093 and a decrease in inventory of $91,874
[...] were the primary drivers of net cash used in operating activities. We note, however,
that inventory increased during that period. Please correct your reference and also describe
the reason for the increase in inventory. In addition, we note inventory is almost 50% of
total current assets and there is greater than one year's worth of inventory based upon the
amount of cost of sales for the most recent interim period. Please discuss the approximate
duration it will take you to use the $506,248 in parts and $250,698 in finished goods as
of December 31, 2023.
Response: We have revised the
Registration Statement in accordance with the Staff’s comment.
Principal Stockholders, page 63
4. We note your disclosure that Mr. Clayton
Adams has the right to acquire 2,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock within 60 days through
the exercise of vested stock options, which would result in Mr. Adams owning 93.02% of the
Class A Common Stock and 55.34% of total voting power in the company prior to the offering.
Please revise your disclosure throughout the registration statement to note that while Mr.
Atkinson currently owns 100% of the Class A Common Stock outstanding and will control approximately
64% of the total voting power of the company post-offering, Mr. Adams would control approximately
63% of the company's Class A Common Stock and 54% of the voting control of the company post-offering
if he were to exercise his vested stock options.
Response: We have revised the
Registration Statement in accordance with the Staff’s comment.
PG. 3
March 8, 2024
If you would like to discuss any of our responses to the Staff’s
comments or if you would like to discuss any other matters, please contact Mariya Mendel of Bevilacqua PLLC at (202) 571-4785, or Douglas
Moore, at (804) 317-5898.
Sincerely,
By:
/s/ Mariya Mendel
Mariya Mendel
Bevilacqua PLLC
cc: Douglas T. Moore, CleanCore Solutions, Inc.
Louis A. Bevilacqua, Esq.