The Week In Cannabis: Tilray-Aphria Merge, Aurora Continues Layoffs, Financings, Earnings, M&A Benzinga 12/18/2020
Aphria (NASDAQ: APHA) and
Tilray (NASDAQ: TLRY). Benzinga spoke with Aphria CEO and chairman
Irwin D. Simon, who will maintain those two positions in the new company, and Tilray CEO
Brendan Kennedy, who will serve in the new corporation’s board of directors. The executives shared details on how the deal came to be, and their expectations for the future, which, they say, doesn’t include massive layoffs.
Cantor Fitzgerald’s analyst Pablo Zuanic praised the merger. The Canadian cannabis sector is in need of consolidation due to the oversupply problems and “historically low ï¬ower retail prices,” he explained.