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Stocks in play: The Yield Growth Corp.

Announced that on September 14, 2019, it entered into an agreement with Absolem Health Corp., to acquire a 30% interest in Absolem. Yield Growth also entered into a consultancy agreement with Absolem to provide corporate finance and other services to assist the company with a going public transaction. Absolem has entered into agreements to acquire all the shares of One Up Pure Energy Inc. One Up Pure Energy makes healthy, all natural plant based ready to eat snacks. It manufactures mushroom power pellets called "The Reishi Relax" and "Cordyceps Power Up," both of which have been approved for sale by Health Canada and the Vancouver Health Authority."My passion and goal is to improve access to healthy edible mushrooms by scaling up One Up Pure Energy into an international edible mushroom brand," says Ken Kuiper, CEO of One Up. "As these medicinal mushroom extracts gain popularity, they are mainly available as powdered extracts, capsules and drink mixes. We are providing a convenient, to-go, ready to eat snack product."The global edible mushrooms market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.95% to grow to US$62 billion by 2023, increasing from US$42 billion in 2018, according to a report by Research and Markets. Grand View Research reports that the global healthy snacks market size is expected to reach US$32 billion by 2025. The Yield Growth Corp. shares BOSS:CNX are trading up 5.66 percent at $0.28.