ANDOVER, Mass., July 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Byrna Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: BYRN)(CSE: BYRN)  (the "Company") announced it has signed a lease for approximately 14, 000 square feet in Ft Wayne, Indiana to expand its manufacturing and distribution capabilities. "We are looking forward to expanding our footprint in Ft. Wayne and adding to the region's rich history as a manufacturing center for air guns," stated Bryan Ganz, the Company's Chief Executive Officer. The Company also announced that it has granted  a total of  425,000 incentive stock options  to  5 recent hires involved in marketing, sales and customer service, 4 of whom are based in Las Vegas.  The incentive stock options have an exercise price of $1.38 (US), an expiry date of  July 24, 2025, and will vest over a three year period with the first third vesting on the first anniversary date of each employee's hire. 

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The material factors or assumptions that the Company identified and were applied by the Company in drawing conclusions or making forecasts or projections set out in the forward-looking  information  include, but are not limited to, the Company's ability hire and train qualified workers, risks related to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic including risks to continued operations in Fort Wayne and risks to the supply chain which includes third parties outside of the Company's control,  including the Company's ability to obtain products for any reason including interruptions due to parts availability, illness or quarantines, or delays in deliveries or new or expanded shutdowns related to the current civil unrest or to the Coronavirus (including reclassification of or extension of shutdowns to stores selling essential goods) or extended trade halts or embargos that disrupt the production or shipment of parts or finished goods, parts or finished goods product recalls, legal developments that could impact the sale of or market for the Company's products or prevent or threaten to prevent the Company's sales, the company's reliance on new and untested vendors, unanticipated production issues, reduced demand due to competition, inability to fill orders promptly, insufficient cash to meet increased production costs or increased costs of sales and one time transaction costs whether related to the pandemic or otherwise, negative market response to the Company's products, negative events or events and political and civil movements  that could potentially reduce demand for the Company's product or cause cancellations, and a possible decline in market price of the Company's stock or market wide events that disincentivize anticipated warrant exercises or resulting in order cancelations. Should one or more risk, uncertainty, contingency, or other factor materialize, or should any factor or assumption prove incorrect, actual results could vary materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking  information. Accordingly, the reader should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information after the date of this news release or to explain any material difference between subsequent actual events and any forward-looking information, except as required by applicable law.

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