Month: September 2026

Latest Award Builds on Two Previous Distribution Center Wins, Broadening the Company’s Burgeoning Regional Retail Reach and Advancing Its Zero-Waste Inspired® Mission and Farm-to-Formula® Platform

BELVIDERE, N.J., Sept. 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Edible Garden AG Incorporated (“Edible Garden” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: EDBL, EDBLW), a leader in controlled environment agriculture (CEA), organic and sustainable produce, and developer of the Zero-Waste Inspired^® mission and Farm-to-Formula^® platform, today announced that Walmart has awarded the Company a third distribution center for its fresh herb products. The latest award builds on two previously announced distribution center wins and is expected to broaden the availability of Edible Garden products across additional Walmart stores in the Eastern Midwest, further expand the Company’s regional retail reach and advance its transition toward a scalable, distribution model designed to improve product freshness, fulfillment efficiency and supply-chain economics.

The third distribution center award further expands Edible Garden’s Midwest footprint and is expected to provide the Company with access to additional Walmart stores and opportunities to increase fresh herb volume. Supported by Edible Garden Heartland in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Edible Garden Prairie Hills in Webster City, Iowa, the Company believes its growing distribution footprint can enable it to leverage its existing Midwest operations more effectively as volume increases, while providing a foundation to pursue additional stores, products and regional opportunities with Walmart and other major retailers.

“Securing another Walmart distribution center award represents meaningful continued progress in the expansion of our fresh herb business,” said Jim Kras, Chief Executive Officer of Edible Garden. “Each additional award broadens our reach and gives us the opportunity to serve more Walmart stores while leveraging our existing operations more effectively. We are especially encouraged by the pace at which our distribution footprint with Walmart is expanding. We believe this growing relationship demonstrates the strength of our fresh herb platform and provides us with additional opportunities to increase volume, improve operating leverage and support continued growth across our broader food and nutrition business.”

The latest award further strengthens Edible Garden’s retail distribution footprint as the Company continues to expand beyond its core fresh produce business into higher-margin food and nutrition categories. Edible Garden believes the continued growth of its relationships with major retailers can provide additional opportunities over time to introduce products developed through its Farm-to-Formula^® platform across an increasingly broad retail network.

ABOUT EDIBLE GARDEN^®

Edible Garden AG Incorporated is a leader in controlled environment agriculture (CEA), delivering organic, better-for-you, sustainable produce and products through its Zero-Waste Inspired^® next-generation farming model. Available in over 6,000 retail locations across the United States, Caribbean, and South America, Edible Garden is at the forefront of the CEA and sustainability technology movement, distinguished by its advanced safety-in-farming protocols, sustainable packaging, patented GreenThumb software, and innovative Self-Watering in-store displays. The Company operates state-of-the-art, vertically integrated greenhouses and processing facilities, including Edible Garden Heartland in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Edible Garden Prairie Hills in Webster City, Iowa; and its headquarters at Edible Garden Belvidere in New Jersey. It also partners with a network of contract growers strategically located near major U.S. markets to ensure freshness and reduce environmental impact. The Company is also expanding its Prairie Hills facility in Webster City, Iowa, into a dedicated ready-to-drink (RTD) clean nutrition manufacturing hub, supporting its Farm-to-Formula^® strategy and its transformation into higher-margin, shelf-stable nutrition categories.

Edible Garden’s proprietary GreenThumb 2.0 software—protected by U.S. Patents US 11,158,006 B1, US 11,410,249 B2, and US 11,830,088 B2—optimizes vertical and traditional greenhouse growing conditions while aiming to reduce food miles. Its patented Self-Watering display (U.S. Patent No. D1,010,365) is designed to extend plant shelf life and elevate in-store presentation. In addition to its core CEA operations, Edible Garden owns three patents in advanced aquaculture technologies: a closed-loop shrimp farming system (US 6,615,767 B1), a modular recirculating aquaculture setup with automated water treatment and feeding (US 10,163,199 B2), and a sensor-driven ammonia control method utilizing electrolytic chlorine generation (US 11,297,809 B1).

The Company has been recognized as a FoodTech 500 firm by Forward Fooding, is a multi-year participant in Walmart’s Project Gigaton and a Giga Guru designee and has received NRG’s Excellence in Energy Award for its commitment to measurable environmental performance and energy stewardship. Edible Garden also develops and markets a growing line of nutrition and specialty food products, including Vitamin Way^® and Vitamin Whey^®—plant and whey protein powders—and Kick. Sports Nutrition, a premium performance line for health-conscious athletes seeking cleaner, better-for-you options. The Company’s offerings further include fresh, sustainable condiments such as Pulp fermented gourmet and chili-based sauces, as well as Pickle Party, a collection of fermented fresh pickles and krauts.

Learn more at https://ediblegardenag.com.
For Pulp products, visit https://www.pulpflavors.com.
For Vitamin Whey^® products, visit https://vitaminwhey.com.
For Kick. Sports Nutrition products, visit https://kicksportsnutrition.net/.

Watch the Company’s latest corporate video here.

Investor Contacts:
Crescendo Communications, LLC
212-671-1020
EDBL@crescendo-ir.com

• Ocugen will provide its investigational modifier gene therapy OCU400 through an expanded access program (EAP), with the goal of enabling the first patient to be treated for retinitis pigmentosa (RP) within 90 days, following full approval by the Longevity and Regenerative Therapies Board (LARTA Board)
• In partnership with the LARTA Board, Ocugen intends to address global access and unmet need through commercial pricing evidenced with cost-effectiveness for a one-time broad treatment of RP
• A novel modifier gene therapy for RP, OCU400 is advancing through Phase 3, with topline data expected in 1Q 2027 and a Biologics License Application submission planned for 2Q 2027

MALVERN, Pa., Sept. 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ocugen, Inc. (“Ocugen” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: OCGN), a pioneering biotechnology leader in gene therapies for blindness diseases, today announced that OCU400 has been granted provisional approval and priority designation from the LARTA Board, the regulatory agency responsible for reviewing and approving longevity and regenerative therapy programs within the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. Ocugen will supply OCU400 through an EAP, with the goal of treating the first RP patient within 90 days, following full LARTA approval.

“Our partnership marks an important milestone for Ocugen – creating a unique opportunity to provide global access through the Bahamas to OCU400 for people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa,” said Dr. Shankar Musunuri, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Ocugen. “This landmark collaboration demonstrates the potential of our differentiated gene therapy platform and represents an exciting step toward expanding the reach of our innovative, one-time treatments for patients with serious retinal diseases.”

LARTA Priority Designation
LARTA Priority Designation recognizes the scientific and clinical promise of a program and its potential to address significant unmet medical need. When granted alongside Provisional LARTA Approval, it places the program on a structured pathway of enhanced regulatory engagement and expedited coordination, designed to advance it towards Full Approval, operational readiness and responsible patient access.

About OCU400
OCU400 is a modifier gene therapy candidate, currently in Phase 3, targeting a broad RP indication – from early-to late-stage disease; pediatric to adult patients – and is designed to treat mutations caused by more than 100 genes. It is based on a nuclear hormone receptor gene called NR2E3 which regulates diverse physiological functions within the retina, such as photoreceptor development and maintenance, metabolism, phototransduction, inflammation, and cell survival. Retinal cells in RP patients have a dysfunctional gene network, and OCU400 is designed to reset this network to reestablish a healthy cellular homeostasis. OCU400 has been granted Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) and Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Orphan Medicinal Product Designation (OMPD) by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

About Ocugen, Inc.
Ocugen, Inc. is a pioneering biotechnology company developing gene therapies for blindness diseases. The Company’s breakthrough modifier gene therapy platform has the potential to address significant unmet medical needs across large patient populations through a gene-agnostic approach. Unlike traditional gene therapies and gene-editing technologies that target a single gene mutation, Ocugen’s modifier gene therapies are designed to address the underlying disease biology by restoring balance across multiple gene networks. The Company is currently advancing programs for inherited retinal diseases and other causes of blindness that affect millions worldwide, including retinitis pigmentosa, Stargardt disease, and geographic atrophy, an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration. Discover more at www.ocugen.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements regarding strategy, business plans and objectives for Ocugen’s clinical programs, plans and timelines for the preclinical and clinical development of Ocugen’s product candidates, including the therapeutic potential, clinical benefits and safety thereof, expectations regarding timing, success and data announcements of current ongoing preclinical and clinical trials, including the timing of enrollment and data readouts, the ability to initiate new clinical programs, statements regarding the ability to treat the first patient 90 days after obtaining Provisional LARTA Approval and Priority Designation in The Bahamas, qualitative assessments of available data, potential benefits, expectations for ongoing clinical trials, anticipated regulatory filings and anticipated development timelines, statements regarding potential market size and commercial possibilities of Ocugen’s product candidates, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. We may, in some cases, use terms such as “predicts,” “believes,” “potential,” “proposed,” “continue,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “may,” “could,” “might,” “will,” “should,” or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to numerous important factors, risks, and uncertainties that may cause actual events or results to differ materially from our current expectations, including, but not limited to, the risks that receipt of Provisional LARTA Approval and Priority Designation may not lead to faster regulatory review and Full Approval; that preliminary, interim and top-line clinical trial results may not be indicative of, and may differ from, final clinical data; that unfavorable new clinical trial data may emerge in ongoing clinical trials or through further analyses of existing clinical trial data; that earlier non-clinical and clinical data and testing may not be predictive of the results or success of later clinical trials; and that clinical trial data are subject to differing interpretations and assessments, including by regulatory authorities. These and other risks and uncertainties are more fully described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the risk factors described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in the quarterly and annual reports that we file with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements that we make in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements contained in this press release whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, after the date of this press release.

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Investors:
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astr partners
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Media:
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