At Amazon, recently selected GoodWheat Three Cheese Mac & Cheese as an Amazon's Choice, new arrival pick. This designation is solely driven by Amazon's criteria, which includes being highly rated, well priced, and available to ship immediately. This is one more example from an independent source that proves that we already know that our proprietary wheat is commercially viable to create great tasting products, while taking in more fiber and protein. To reiterate, our business model includes expanding the use of our wheat technology into food products beyond GoodWheat. There are thousands of products across the grocery store and in food service that can offer these same viable benefits. So we see a long-term path to generate recurring royalty revenue.

We have been actively pursuing two key steps to monetizing this technology. One, partner with a wheat supply chain in order to produce a scalable, cost-effective identity preserved wheat supply. We need our wheat technology integrated into all customer preferred wheat varieties and then efficiently move from seed to farm to mill to deliver flour. We are currently in final discussions with potential partners and hope to update you soon. In parallel, the second step is to work with large food manufacturers to create a demand for our wheat. This can create a long-term pull-through partnership to ensure we have enough volume through our supply chain system. Conversations are underway across several categories, and it will take some time to develop products with their R&D groups.

Now let's move to Zola Coconut Water. The coconut water category continued to perform well in Q1 2024, with unit sales and dollar sales, both increasing 10% versus one year ago, according to Nielsen data for the 13 weeks ending March 30, 2024. Zola momentum is continuing. In the latest four weeks ending March 30, 2024, showed Zola growing 15% in dollar sales and 14% in unit sales. Zola is back to growing share in the category and we are optimistic that this double-digit growth will continue in 2024 for a couple of reasons. One, our flavor innovation will begin shipping in Q2 adding more variety to Zola's naturally hydrating lineup. Original lime and pineapple flavors and the new 16.9-ounce resealable Tetra Pak container have been well received by retailers as pineapple is the number one coconut water flavor and lime is the number one flavor in sparkling water.

Two, we have confirmed several new accounts that will be adding Zola to their single-serve beverage set in the produce section. The store count for this new distribution is nearly 1,300 stores, bringing our total store count for Zola to over 3,300 by the end of Q2. Our focus will be to ensure these new stores can quickly achieve the same velocity and dollar sales as our current retailers enjoy. So we expect Zola to be a key growth driver for us in the future for both revenue and gross profit and we will continue to explore the next wave of consumer-preferred innovation. The last initiative to discuss today is the strategic review announced last year which stated that Arcadia would explore a range of strategic options, which could include an asset sale, acquisition, merger sale or other strategic transaction.

Since that time, we along with our bankers have engaged with a significant number of potential transaction partners to find the best outcome for Arcadia and our shareholders. And while we aren't ready to provide a detailed update today, we continue to have discussions and perform the due diligence work necessary to accelerate our ability to monetize our IP and deliver cash flow positive results. We will keep you updated as material events occur and we must point out that there can be no assurance that this exploration of strategic alternatives will result in the company entering or completing any transaction and no timetable has been set for the conclusion of the strategic review. As discussed in our last call, we anticipated our 2024 net operating loss to be under $10 million for the first time in the company's history.

Our Q1 performance and trend has met our expectation in order to deliver that objective and we plan to grow revenue optimize margins and reduce operating expenses for the remainder of 2024 in order to achieve this goal. With that, I'll turn the call over to T.J. to discuss our Q1 financial results. T.J.?

T.J. Schaefer: Thank you, Stan and good afternoon to everyone joining us on the call today. Before I begin, I would like to remind everyone that all comparisons to our prior year results exclude the impact of our Body Care brands which were discontinued in September 2023. With that, let me walk through our results for the first quarter of 2024. Revenues of approximately $1.3 million increased 7% sequentially and 2% compared to the same period last year. The quarter-over-quarter improvement was attributable to a 28% increase in Zola, as Q4 is seasonally the softest quarter for coconut water. Our year-over-year growth was primarily driven by GoodWheat and Zola sales, partially offset by higher costs associated with new distribution.

Gross profit of $435000 was slightly below the prior quarter and prior year due to product mix, but still resulted in a very healthy gross margin of 35%. And as Stan mentioned earlier, this is our fifth consecutive quarter delivering gross margins in excess of 30%, which is a testament to the progress we have made in delivering high-quality revenue. Research and development expenses of $272000 declined 18% quarter-over-quarter and 24% year-over-year due to the timing of innovation work following the launch of new GoodWheat categories, as well as new Zola flavors. Selling, general and administrative expenses of approximately $3.2 million decreased 7% versus Q4 2023 and 22% compared to the same period last year, as we rightsized the organization and our marketing investment.

Total operating expenses of $3.5 million improved 9% sequentially and 21% year-over-year, resulting in a loss from continuing operations of approximately $3.1 million, which is the lowest level in the past six years. From a balance sheet perspective, we ended the quarter with $8.5 million in cash and short-term investments which is $3.1 million below our Q4 2023 ending balance. As we stated on our last earnings call, we believe our use of cash will be in the single digits, and we continue to hold to that guidance. However, our use of cash will be more heavily weighted towards the first half of the year driven by larger cash payments related to employee bonuses and insurance. Our inventory balance stood at $5 million at the end of Q1 2024, of which 84% was GoodWheat.

We will continue to work down these balances as we focus on driving velocities in existing stores versus new distribution. In summary, Q1 continued the positive momentum we've achieved over the past few quarters. Our revenue grew quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. We have achieved gross margins in excess of 30% for five straight quarters. At the same time, we have reduced our operating expenses by 21% or nearly $1 million, which has resulted in our loss from continuing operations being at the lowest level in six years, and we estimate our use of cash to be in the single digits for the first time since Arcadia went public in 2015. So, while we still have plenty of work to do in order to achieve positive cash flow results and deliver value to our shareholders, we are very pleased with the progress we made in Q1.

I will now turn the call over to the operator for questions.

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