INNOVATIVE DESIGNS INC [IVDN] Filings

U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K

Commission file number: 000-51791

Innovative Designs, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(412) 799-0350

(Registrant’s telephone number including area code)

Securities to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:

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Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act:

(Title of Class)

Common Stock, $.0001 par value per share

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

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Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to section 13 or Section 15 (d) of the Act.

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Check whether the issuer (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 during the past 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x☐ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes ☒ No ☐

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (sec. 229.405) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. (Check One)

Emerging reporting Company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

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The issuer’s revenues for its most recent fiscal year were $ 347,763.

The aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was sold, or the average bid and asked price of such common equity, as of the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter was $ 6,706,230. This calculation does not reflect a determination that certain persons are affiliates of the registrant for any other purposes.

The number of shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding on February 13, 2024, was 37,924,003.

Transitional Small Business Disclosure Format: Yes ☐ No ☒

The Company was incorporated in the State of Delaware on June 25, 2002. We operate in two separate business segments: a house wrap for the building construction industry and cold weather clothing. Both of our segment lines use products made from Insultex, which is a low-density polyethylene semi-crystalline, closed cell foam in which the cells are totally evacuated. with buoyancy, scent block, and thermal resistant properties. We have a license agreement directly with the owner of the Insultex technology. In December 2015, we took delivery of equipment capable of producing Insultex. Given the time and cost of bringing the equipment into production mode and our current financial condition until we are able to begin manufacturing Insultex, we will continue to operate under the license agreement for the manufacture of Insultex used in our products.

Other companies are free to purchase Insultex from us assuming that it is a company within the distribution jurisdiction that we have, which is worldwide with the exception of Korea and Japan. Other than Korea and Japan, we are the sole worldwide supplier/distributor of the Insultex material.

We offer the following products containing Insultex:

We also offer a product that helps restore the waterproof character of the outer side of our Arctic Armor clothing. In addition, we offer cold weather headgear and base insulation clothing product.

We no longer manufacture our apparel products containing Insultex. We only sell from our existing inventory. Our Inultex House Wrap product is manufactured in the United States through third-party manufacturers.

For financial information regarding each segment, please see Note 10 of the Notes to Financial Statements appearing elsewhere in this Report.

The Insultex License and Manufacturing Agreement

Under the terms of the agreement between us and the Ketut Group, Ketut Group agrees to promptly deliver to Innovative Designs, Inc. within twenty-eight (28) days of receiving an order, all Insultex ordered by us. Under the terms of the agreement, we are required to pay a fixed amount per meter of Insultex. This fixed amount will not change under the agreement for a period of ten (10) years after the date of the agreement was signed, which was April 1, 2006. The agreement provides that after the ten (10) year period, the price of the Insultex shall be adjusted for a subsequent ten (10) year term, no more than twelve percent (12%) for the subsequent ten (10) year period. We order Insultex from time to time as needed and are not required to purchase any minimum amount of Insultex during the term of the agreement, and we are not required to make any minimum annual payment. However, should we place an order; any quantity ordered must be a minimum of 100,000 yards of Insultex. We are not required to pay any part of any sublicense fee that we receive from third party sub-licensees, and we are not required to pay any fees to the Ketut Group. This agreement will be in full legal force and effect for an initial term of ten (10) years from the date of its execution. We have the option to renew this agreement for up to three (3) successive terms of ten (10) years each by giving notice of our intention to so renew not less than ninety (90) days prior to the expiration of the then-current term. The Company has exercised the first ten-year renewal option. We purchased the equipment capable of producing Insultex from the Ketut Group.

COLD WEATHER CLOTHING PRODUCTS

Arctic Armor Line

Our Arctic Armor line products are intended for use by the following consumer groups that are in the Company’s target market for these products: We are currently only selling these products form our existing inventory.

Website and Retailers

We sell both wholesale and retail products on our web site. Our web site, located at www.idigear.com, contains information on our products, technical information on Insultex insulation, e-commerce capabilities with “shopping cart”, wholesaler information and order forms, company contact information, and links to retailers that carry our products. We have obtained the services of BA Web Productions who assists us in designing and continually developing our website. Our web site features a “wholesaler only” area, allowing our wholesalers access to information, ordering, and reordering. Our products are offered and sold by retailers, distributors and through our web site in all states and Canada. Except for products sold through our web site, others who purchase our products do so at wholesale prices which they plan to sell at their retail prices or use within their industry.

Sales

We sell our products online, to distributors and through independent sales agents and agencies. Once we have made contact with a potential sales agency or solo agent, we evaluate their existing accounts, the capacity and potential for them to effectively push our products. We also look at their current product lines through the sales channel. Our primary market area is the outdoor industry which includes all activity done in cold weather. These activities include recreational such as hunting, ice fishing, snowmobiling, and industries such as oil and gas, utilities and construction. Once we agree to bring on an independent sales agent or agency, we enter into a standard agreement.

A typical sales representative agreement will have a term of one year with the right of either party to terminate upon thirty days written notice. We do not provide any free samples of our products and all sales expenses are the sole obligation of the sales agent.

Certain retailers buy directly from us. We have no verbal or written agreements with them. These retailers purchase our products strictly on a purchase order basis. During our last fiscal year, we sold our products to such retailers as Canadian Tire Corporation Limited. Some of our distributors during the last fiscal year were Pro Fishing Supplies and Fleece Corner. We distribute our products to the following:

Swimeez Products

We distribute our Swimeez products through our web site.

Hunting Apparel Line

We distribute our hunting apparel through our web site.

Arctic Armor Line

We distribute the Arctic Armor Line through our web site, to retailers and to distributors across the United States and Canada. These products are also marketed to utility companies, oil/gas pipeline workers, railroad workers, police and first responders, and to construction workers.

HOUSE WRAP

House Wrap

In early January 2008, we announced that we had completed our research and development effort on a new use for Insultex as a house wrap for the home building construction industry. This house wrap provides barrier protection plus moisture vapor transmission and the feature of approximately R-3 and R-6 value insulation. The Insultex House Wrap was designed to specifically add enhanced insulating characteristics. In addition, the House Wrap is priced competitively with existing house wraps that do not provide any insulation. The development efforts were conducted by our own personnel and an outside consultant. In December 2016, we temporarily suspended any advertising for our House Wrap product line as we were in litigation with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”). The litigation has concluded as to the matters set forth in the FTC complaint and in March 2021, we resumed advertising for our House Wrap products.

Insultex House Wrap

During our last fiscal year, the following customers each accounted for more than ten percent of our total sales of our House Wrap product, A-Team Building Supplies, LLC (30.9%), NorthStar Systembuilt (19.1%) and Compound Construction (10.2%).

Competition

Many companies offer a type of house wrap, some with insulating properties. These companies have large operations and are well financed. Some of the larger companies are DuPont, and Kimberly Clark. The Company expects to face intense competition with others who have much greater resources in the building construction supply industry.

Our marketing program consists of the following:

MARKETING COMPONENT

Website Development and Internet Marketing

We contract with marketing consultants to:

(a) increase visitation to our website.

(b) link with other established websites.

(c) issue press releases to on-line publications.

(d) conduct banner advertising.

(e) develop arrangements with online retailers that purchase our products on a wholesale basis.

Sales Representatives

Our Vice President of sales and marketing works to:

(a) sell our merchandise to retail chain stores.

(b) initiate relationships with local and national recreational organizations; and

(c) provide support to our distributor representatives

Contract with Manufacturer

We utilize the services of sales agencies to represent our products in the United States and Canada.

Design and Develop

We presently use our own staff for services related to literature, displays, develop brochures, point-of-sale displays, mailers, media materials, and literature and sales tools for our sales representatives and manufacturer representatives. At such time as we have sufficient funding, we intend to contract out some of these services. We no longer manufacture the R-3 House Wrap.

Establish Wholesale

We are and continue to develop relationships or distribution relationships with retail points for our products to retail chain outlets and mass merchandisers to sell our products. We currently have five domestic distributors and one international. Each distributor has a certain territory. Our domestic distributors collectively cover the following jurisdictions: Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia. Our international distributor territory covers the UK, EU the Commonwealth countries except for Canada and Africa.

We ship wholesale product orders by United Parcel Service or trucking companies. Retail orders from our website are shipped United Parcel Ground Service or Federal Express overnight. The costs of shipping our finished goods are paid by our customers. We have not instituted any formal arrangements or agreements with United Parcel Service, Federal Express or trucking companies, and we do not intend to do so.

Insultex is used in all our Arctic Armor finished goods, except for our headwear.

Any apparel inventory we maintain is stored at our warehousing facility. Our warehouse facility has the capacity to hold 250,000 units of finished products in inventory. Our House Wrap inventory is stored in our facility and in the facility that manufactures it.

In 2004, we were granted a trademark for our name “idigear” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

In 2007, we were granted the mark “Insultex” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

In 2011, we were granted a trademark for “Insultex House Wrap” by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

The Company has rights under a U.S Patent titled “Composite Fabric Material and Apparel Made Therefrom” which issued April 30, 2013.

The Company has rights under a U.S. Paten titled “Composite Materials” which issued February 21, 2017, published on September 5, 2013.

The Company caused to have filed a utility patent application on December 18, 2009, titled “Composite House Wrap” which claimed priority to provisional patent application titled “Composite House Wrap” on December 18, 2008. A patent application was published on June 24, 2010. Although no patent issued from this original disclosure, this publication prevents third parties from patenting concepts obvious over these original teaching of the Company.

The Company caused to have filed a utility patent application on May 31, 2017, titled “Process for Forming Closed Cell Expanded Low density Polyethylene Foam and Products Formed Thereby”, published January 24, 2018. The Company then caused to have filed a utility patent application on July 31, 2020, which application was published February 11, 2021. In January 2023, the U.S Patent and Trademark Office issue a Notice of Allowance and a patent shall issue in due course.

Additional patent application on other property concepts are also being planned.

Our production costs are limited to the invoices we receive for Insultex from Ketut Group and our House Wrap product from the manufacturer.

Although we are not aware of the need for any government approval of our principal products, we may be subject to such approvals in the future.

United States and foreign regulations may subject us to increased regulation costs, and possibly fines or restrictions on conducting our business. We are subject, directly or indirectly, to governmental regulations pertaining to the following government agencies:

United States Customs Service

We are required to pay a 6.5% importation duty to the United States Customs Service on all imported products. We import Insultex from Indonesia from the Ketut Group, in accordance with our agreement with the Ketut Group.

United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Because our sub-manufacturers manufacture our completed products, we and our sub-manufacturers will be subject to the regulations of the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

We are not aware of any governmental regulations that will affect the Internet aspects of our business. However, due to increasing usage of the Internet, a number of laws and regulations may be adopted relating to the Internet covering user privacy, pricing, and characteristics and quality of products and services. Furthermore, the growth and development of Internet commerce may prompt more stringent consumer protection laws imposing additional burdens on those companies’ conducting business over the Internet. The adoption of any additional laws or regulations may decrease the growth of the Internet, which, in turn, could decrease the demand for Internet services and increase the cost of doing business on the Internet. These factors may have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

Moreover, the interpretation of sales tax, libel, and personal privacy laws applied to Internet commerce is uncertain and unresolved. We may be required to qualify to do business as a foreign corporation in each such state or foreign country. Our failure to qualify as a foreign corporation in a jurisdiction where we are required to do so could subject us to taxes and penalties. Any such existing or new legislation or regulation, including state sales tax, or the application of laws or regulations from jurisdictions whose laws do not currently apply to our business, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We currently have no costs associated with compliance with environmental regulations. Because we do not manufacture our products, but rather they are manufactured by our sub-manufacturers, we do not anticipate any costs associated with environmental compliance. Moreover, the delivery and distribution of our products will not involve substantial discharge of environmental pollutants. However, there can be no assurance that we will not incur such costs in the future.

We estimate that all of our revenues will be from the sale of our products. We will sell our products at prices above our original cost to produce our products. We expect our product prices to be lower than network marketing companies, but higher compared with retail establishments that directly manufacture their own products.

Products that are sold directly by our website will be priced according to our Manufacturer Suggested Retail Prices. Our wholesale clients will purchase our products at our wholesale prices. We recommend that our retailer clients sell our products at the Manufacturer Suggested Retail Prices that we provide to them which are the same prices for products on our website; however, they are not required to do so and may price our products for retail sale at their discretion. We have established M.A.P. (minimum advertised pricing) on our Arctic Armor™ suit in an attempt to allow all retailers and distributors carrying the line to obtain reasonable gross margin dollars.

We currently have a total of two full time employees. We hire part-time personnel as needed.

We have no collective bargaining or employment agreements.

Reports and Other Information to Shareholders

We are subject to the informational requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Accordingly, we file annual, quarterly and other reports and information with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You may read and copy these reports and other information we file at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s public reference rooms in Washington, D.C., New York, New York, and Chicago, Illinois. Our filings are also available to the public from commercial document retrieval services and the Internet worldwide website maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.

Lack of Sufficient Operating Funds-Going Concern

Our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023, has included an explanatory paragraph in their opinion that accompanies our audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023, indicating that as a result of the Company having had net losses and negative cash flows and an accumulated deficit there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Because we are not able to generate sufficient funds from sales and because we are unable to access commercial sources of credit, we are consistently underfunded. As a result, our growth is very limited, and we have difficulty in sustaining our current level of operations. We are not able to initiate adequate marketing programs, hire additional staff, develop new products or have flexibility in ordering Insultex from our manufacturer. Additionally, we must replace our quality control testing equipment for our House Wrap product line which we estimate may cost $100,000. In the past, we have depended on borrowings from our CEO and other private parties, primarily stockholders in the private sale of our common stock or debt. Should we not be able to continue to rely on these sources of funding and increase our revenue stream to at least meet our current level of operations and to purchase new testing equipment the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern will be adversely affected.

Competition

The markets served by the Company are highly competitive. Competitive pricing pressure could result in loss of customers or decreased profit margins. Competition by product type includes the following:

The markets for our products are increasingly competitive. Our competitors have substantially longer operating histories, greater brand name and company name recognition, larger customer bases and greater financial, operating, and technical resources than us. Because we are financially and operationally smaller than our competitors, we will encounter difficulties in capturing market share. Our competitors are able to conduct extensive marketing campaigns and create more attractive pricing of their target markets than we are.

Some of our biggest competitors for our House Wrap product line are;

Some of our biggest competitors in the Arctic Armor™ line are:

We compete in the following ways:

Arctic Armor Line

We emphasize the following characteristics and advantages of our Arctic Armor line products:

Insultex provides a scent barrier which we had a permeation test performed on at the Texas Research Institute Austin, Inc. The product was subjected to gas stimulant for an eight-hour period. The product was tested for permeation of the gas every three minutes for the duration of the test with almost no detection of the gas throughout the test. The testing was based upon accepted industry practices as well as the test method used.

HOUSE WRAP

Our House Wrap product

Our products have the following disadvantages in comparison to the products of our competitors:

There can be no assurance that we will be able to compete in the sale of our products, which could have a negative impact upon our business.

We do not expect our business to be dependent on one or a few customers or retailers; however, there is no assurance that we will not become so dependent.

Cyclicality

The Company’s Arctic Armor apparel sales fluctuate based on temperature and weather conditions. Our products are suitable primarily for cold weather conditions. This will have a cyclical effect on sales. It also makes our revenues totally dependent on cold weather for this product line. For the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023, our cold weather products accounted for approximately 10% of our total revenue.

Material Acquisition

The Company has only one supplier of Insultex, the special material which is manufactured within the apparel of our cold weather products and our House Wrap product. Additionally, we have one manufacturer that produces the apparel on behalf of the Company, located in Indonesia. Currently, we are only selling apparel from our inventory. Any delays in getting Insultex will adversely affect our revenue stream. Once we have our own equipment operating, we will be able to produce Insultex. We intend to use such Insultex for our House Wrap product.at the present time.

Geographic Concentration

Most of the Company’s sales for its cold weather clothing products to retailers are concentrated in colder climates of the United States and Canada.

Management

The Company is dependent on the management of Joseph Riccelli, our Chief Executive Officer. The loss of Mr. Riccelli’s services could have a negative effect on the performance and growth of the Company for some period of time.

Penny Stock Considerations

Our shares are “penny stocks” as that term is generally defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as equity securities with a price of less than $5.00. Our shares may be subject to rules that impose sales practice and disclosure requirements on broker-dealers who engage in certain transactions involving a penny stock.

Under the penny stock regulations, a broker-dealer selling a penny stock to anyone other than an established customer or “accredited investor” must make a special suitability determination regarding the purchaser and must receive the purchaser’s written consent to the transaction prior to the sale, unless the broker-dealer is otherwise exempt. Generally, an individual with a net worth, exclusive of one’s residence, in excess of $1,000,000 or annual income exceeding $200,000 individually or $300,000 together with his or her spouse is considered an accredited investor. In addition, under the penny stock regulations the broker-dealer is required to:

Because of these regulations, broker-dealers may encounter difficulties in their attempt to sell shares of our stock, which may affect the ability of shareholders or other holders to sell their shares in the secondary market and have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in the secondary market. These additional sales practice and disclosure requirements could impede the sale of our securities if our securities become publicly traded. In addition, the liquidity of our securities may be adversely affected, with a corresponding decrease in the price of our securities.

None.

We do not maintain any information systems that would be subject to a cybersecurity threat. Our credit card processing is outsourced to a third party that uses a double authentication protocol. 

We lease warehouse space for our inventory and raw materials at 124 Cherry Street, Etna, Pennsylvania. We also use this space as our principal executive offices. This facility encompasses 13,000 square feet of storage space on the first floor and 2,000 square feet for our sales department offices located on the second floor. We have entered into a verbal agreement with the owner of the building, and we pay $3,500 per month for the space. This facility is composed of: (a) warehouse and storage areas including four (4) shipping bays and a distribution area consisting of square footage to store upward of 250,000 finished goods products; and (b) four (4) offices, one (1) conference room, with presentation area and sample display and (2) bathrooms totaling approximately 2,000 square feet located on the second floor. Mr. Frank Riccelli is the brother to our Chief Executive Officer and the owner of the property. The condition of our leased property is good and suitable for our needs.

PART II

Our Common Stock is traded on the OTCQB tier under the symbol IVDN. As of February 12, 2024, we had 249 holders of record of our common stock (not including beneficial holders of stock held in street names).

We have one class of stock outstanding. We have no shares of our preferred stock outstanding.

Dividends

We have not declared any cash dividends on our stock since our inception and do not anticipate paying such dividends in the foreseeable future. We plan to retain any future earnings for use in our business. Any decisions as to future payment of dividends will depend on our earnings and financial position and such other factors as the Board of Directors deems relevant.

As a smaller reporting company, under SEC regulations, we are not required to furnish selected financial data.

General

The following information should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes thereto appearing elsewhere in this report.

Disclosure Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements made in this report, and other written or oral statements made by or on behalf of the Company, may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the federal securities laws. When used in this report, the words “believes,” “expects,” “estimates,” “intends,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Statements regarding future events and developments and our future performance, as well as our expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions, estimates, or projections relating to the future, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of these laws. Examples of such statements in this report include descriptions of our plans and strategies with respect to developing certain market opportunities, and our overall business plan. All forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events to differ materially from those projected we believe that these forward-looking statements are reasonable; however, you should not place undue reliance on such statements. These statements are based on current expectations and speak only as of the date of such statements. We undertake no obligations to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of future events, new information or otherwise.

Background

Innovative Designs, Inc. (hereafter referred to as the “Company”, “we” or “our”) produces and sells a house wrap product using Insultex a material with thermal resistance and buoyancy properties. We also offer a cold weather product line called “Artic Armor” which also uses Insultex. We no longer produce any Artic Armor products. We are only selling from our existing inventory. We obtain Insultex through a license agreement with the owner and manufacturer of the material. In December 2015, we took delivery of equipment capable of producing our own Insultex. At such time as we have sufficient funding, we intend to put the equipment into production and use the Insultex from this equipment in the production of our House Wrap product and for the sale of Insultex to others.

Results of Operations

Comparison of the fiscal year ended October 31, 2022, with the fiscal year ended October 31, 2021.

The following table shows a comparison of the results of operations between the fiscal years ended October 31, 2023, and October 31, 2022:

Results of Operations

Revenues for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023, were $ 347,763 compared to revenues of $258,734 for the comparable period ending October 31, 2022. House Wrap product revenue totaled $312,983 for the period compared to $193,302 for fiscal year ended October 31, 2022. All of the remaining revenues were derived from our Arctic Armor and related product lines which totaled $34,780 for the period compared to revenues of $65.432 for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2022. Revenues are net of returns and discounts. We continue to work on rebuilding our House Wrap product line brand after doing no advertising during the time of the FTC litigation, November 2016 to July 2021, and the effect of the litigation on our House Wrap products acceptance, and the use of Insultex in other applications in the marketplace.

However, until we are able to have Insultex ICC-ES certified we do not believe we will be able to significantly increase our revenue from our House Wrap product.

Selling, general and administrative expenses decreased from $666,339 in fiscal year 2022, to $464,065 in the fiscal year ending October 31, 2023. This decrease reflects, in part, a decrease in stock-based compensation of $200,000, professional fees decreased by $,9,000, payroll decreased by $18,000 and office supplies decreased by $8,000. Some of the increases were travel expenses increased by $17,000, shipping costs increased by $8,000, product testing increased by $8,000 and sales commission increased by $5,000.

Our cost of sales increased from $146,912 as of October 31, 2022, to $16,00 as of October 31, 2023, as a result of more sales.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023, we funded our operations from revenues and the private sales of our common stock and the exercise of certain common stock purchase warrants. We received a total of $355,000 from the sale of stock and warrant exercise. During the period we repaid advances from stockholders totaling $107,630. Subsequent to the period, we receive proceeds totaling $ 218,831 from the sale of our common stock. We will continue to fund our operations from revenues, private borrowings and the sale of our common stock until we are able to produce sales sufficient to cover our cost structure or to secure commercial lending arrangements.

On July 12, 2015, the Company reached an agreement with Ketut Jaya to purchase machinery and equipment utilized to produce the INSULTEX material. The purchase price is $700,000 and to be made in four installments. The first installment of $300,000 is to be made at the execution of the agreement. The second installment of $200,000 is to be made when the machinery and equipment is ready to be shipped to the United States. The third installment of $100,000 is to be made once the machinery and equipment is producing INSULTEX, and the fourth and final installment of $100,000 is to be made after the first commercial production run of INSULTEX is completed. As of October 31, 2016, the Company has made payments of $600,000. In addition to the final payments, the Company will have to have the equipment and machines installed and ensure that the machine can be operated in compliance with environmental regulations. The Company has not made an estimate of the costs required for bringing the machine into compliance, but it is considered to be substantial. Given the expected time and cost of bringing the equipment into production mode and our current financial condition we are unable to estimate when we will be able to do so.

We also must purchase new quality control testing equipment for use in testing Insultex. The testing equipment is finished, and we are in discussions with the vendor regarding certain charges. Once we take delivery of the equipment it will have to go through a certification process. Once the testing equipment is certified, we intend to begin the process of having Insultex certified by ICC Evaluation Services, LLC (“ICC-ES”). ICC-ES certifies, among other items, building materials and products of which our House Wrap falls under. The reason we need to have ICC-ES certification is that we believe in order to get large orders for House Wrap ICC-ES certification will be required. The other component part of the House Wrap produced by a third party is ICC-Es certified. Getting ICC-ES certification is costly and time consuming.

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Short Term: We funded our operations with revenues from sales, private sales of our common stock and from a legal settlement. We could not access commercial lines of credit during our last fiscal year.

The Company intends to repay these debt obligations with funds it generates from revenues, from the possible sale of its securities, either debt or equity, from advances from our stockholders or others. Because we cannot currently access commercial lending facilities, should we not be able to continue to obtain funding from these sources should our revenues decrease, our operations would be severely affected as we would not be able to fund our purchase orders to our suppliers for finished goods. The Company continues to pay its creditors when payments are due.

Long Term: The Company will continue to fund operations from revenues, borrowings and the possible sale of its securities. Should we not be able to continue to rely on these sources our operations would be severely affected as we would not be able to fund our purchase orders to our suppliers for finished goods.

As a smaller reporting company under SEC Regulation, we are not required to provide this information.

INNOVATIVE DESIGNS, INC.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE FISCAL YEARS ENDED

OCTOBER 31, 2023 AND 2022

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and the
Board of Directors of Innovative Designs, Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Innovative Designs, Inc. (the Company) as of October 31, 2023 and 2022, the related statements of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows, for each of the years in the two year period ended October 31, 2023, and the related notes (collectively, the financial statements). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as October 31, 2023 and 2022, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended October 31, 2023, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Substantial Doubt About the Company’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that that Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, the Company had net losses and negative cash flows from operations for the years ended October 31, 2023 and 2022 and an accumulated deficit at October 31, 2023 and 2022. These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for one year from the issuance date of these financial statements. Management’s plans are described in Note 2. Our procedures included an evaluation of management’s plans to continue as a going concern and a conclusion as to whether management’s plans appear reasonable and achievable. The financial statements do not include adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Revenue Recognition

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Company’s recognition of revenue involves the evaluation against five criteria described by generally accepted accounting principles. With regards to the Company’s transaction classes the primary criteria is the satisfaction of their performance obligations.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our procedures related to the Company meeting their performance obligations included evaluation of initial sale transaction documentation, shipping records, and invoices.

Substantial Doubt About the Company’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern

Critical Audit Matter Description

Due to the financial position and results of cumulative losses the Company evaluates it ability to continue as a going concern and has a plan in place to be able to conclude that it will be able to continue as a going concern for one year from the issuance date of the financial statements.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our procedures included an evaluation of management’s plans to continue as a going concern and a conclusion as to whether management’s plans appear reasonable and achievable.

RW Group, LLC

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2021.

Kennett Square, PA

February 22, 2024

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INNOVATIVE DESIGNS, INC.

BALANCE SHEETS

OCTOBER 31, 2023 AND OCTOBER 31, 2022

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements. 

INNOVATIVE DESIGNS, INC.

STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

FOR THE YEARS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2023 AND 2022

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

INNOVATIVE DESIGNS, INC.

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

FOR THE YEARS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2023 AND 2022

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

INNOVATIVE DESIGNS, INC. 

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED OCTOBER 31, 2023 AND 2022 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

INNOVATIVE DESIGNS, INC.

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Management of Innovative Designs, Inc. is responsible for maintaining disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that the Company files or submits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms. In addition, the disclosure controls and procedures must ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its Chief Executive Officer/Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required financial and other required disclosures.

At the end of the period covered by this report, an evaluation of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13(a)-15(e) and 15(d)-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”)) was carried out under the supervision and with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer/Chief Financial Officer. Based on his evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures and in connection with the audit of our financial statement, he concluded that during the period covered by this report, such disclosure controls and procedures were not effective. This conclusion is based on the identification of the deficiency in internal controls over financial reporting described below. Notwithstanding the deficiency that existed as of October 31, 2023, our Chief Executive Officer/Chief Financial Officer has concluded that the financial statements included in this Annual report on Form 10-K present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company in conformity with accounting generally accepted in the United States of America.

Our Chief Executive Officer is also our Chief Financial Officer.

Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over our financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance to our management and board of directors regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Our internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect our transactions; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary for preparation of our financial statements; (iii) provide reasonable assurance that receipts and expenditures of company assets are made in accordance with management authorization; and (iv) provide reasonable assurance that unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of company assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements would be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because changes in conditions may occur or the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

Our management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of October 31, 2021. This evaluation was based on criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, or COSO, Internal Control-Integrated Framework. Based upon such assessment, our Chief Executive Officer/Chief Financial Officer concluded that our internal controls over financial reporting were not effective as of October 31, 2023. In particular, our controls over financial reporting were not effective in the specific areas described in the paragraphs below.

As of October 31, 2023, our Chief Executive Officer/Chief Financial Officer identified the following specific material weaknesses in the Company’s internal controls over its financial reporting processes:

This was due to our limited resources, including the absence of an internal financial staff member with accounting and financial expertise and deficiencies in the design or operation of our internal control over financial reporting that adversely affected our disclosure controls.

Management plans to address these matters by among actions, meeting more with its external accountant to ensure that issues such as described above are correct going forward. The Company will also look at hiring an external bookkeeper in order to have a single accounting system.

However, the material weakness will not be considered remediated until the applicable remedial controls operate for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively.

There have been no significant changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023, and 2022, or subsequent to October 31, 2022, that has materially affected or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting, except as discussed above.

PART III

Directors and Executive Officers

Our executive officers are elected annually by our board of directors. A majority vote of the directors who are in office is required to fill vacancies on the board. Each director shall be elected for the term of one (1) year and until his successor is elected and qualified, or until his earlier resignation or removal. The directors named below will serve until the next annual meeting of our shareholders or until a successor is elected and has accepted the position.

Our directors and executive officers are as follows:

Mr. Riccelli has been our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since our inception in June 2002. Mr. Riccelli was the owner of Pittsburgh Foreign and Domestic, a sole proprietor car dealership located in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania. He attended Point Park College located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1972.

Mr. Kolocouris has been one of our directors since our inception in June 2002. From December 1996 to December, Mr. Kolocouris was a Loan Officer and Assistant Vice President at Eastern Savings Bank located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since that time, he has been in private lending. In June 1993, Mr. Kolocouris received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Duquesne University located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Kolcouris was in banking for over fifteen years and his knowledge of finance and business experience is helpful to the Company.

Mr. Rains has been a director since March 2007. Mr. Rains is currently Vice President of business development at McCarl’s, Inc., a mechanical contracting firm. He has held this position for over fifteen years. From 1981 through 1987, Mr. Rains was a professional football player for the Chicago Bears. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Rains has been in professional sports and in business for over twenty years. His experience and knowledge of these fields are helpful to the Company. As the Company enters the building construction market with its House Wrap product, Mr. Rains’ experience in that industry will be especially helpful.

Dr. Garlotta has been a director since February 2022. He is currently the Technical Director at Airex Rubber Products Corporation as well as a technical advisor for the Company. Prior to his role at Airex Rubber Products Corporation, he worked at Lowe’s Home Improvement. He earned a Ph.D. in Polymer Science / Plastics Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He also holds a Master of Science Degree in Polymer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and a Baccalaureate Degree in Polymer Science from Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Garlotta is an author or co-author of several peer-reviewed publications and patents related to biopolymers. He also has experience developing elastomers, water-soluble polymers, syntactic polymer foams and hands-on experience with extrusion and injection molding of plastics.

Mr. Adams has been a director since November 2022. He has worked for the Department of Defense for over thirty years. He graduated from Texas A&I University with a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports.

Dr. Donald Garlotta filed a Form 4 late.

Audit Committee

We do not have a separate standing Audit Committee. Therefore, our entire Board of Directors acts as the Audit Committee. The Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Kolocouris is its financial expert. Mr. Kolocouris is a former loan officer for a bank and has a degree in Finance.

Nominating and Compensation Committees

We do not have either a nominating committee or a compensation committee. The basis for the Board of Directors to not have a nominating committee is the fact that our principal stockholder who is also our CEO and Chairman of the Board controls approximately thirty-four percent of the voting stock. And the Company has never held an Annual Meeting of stockholders. New board members are recommended to the Board by the Chairman of the Board.

Board of Directors Meetings

During the last full fiscal year, there were no meetings of the Board of Directors.

Code of Ethics

We have not, as yet adopted a code of ethics. We have only one full time executive officer/ chief financial officer who also acts as our principal accounting officer. To date, our operations have been so minimal and our staff so small that we have not considered a formal standard relating to the conduct of our personnel.

The following Executive Compensation Chart highlights the terms of compensation for our Executives.

There are no employment agreements between us and our executive officer Joseph Riccelli. There are no change of control arrangements, either by means of a compensatory plan, agreement, or otherwise, involving our current or former executive officers. There are no automobile lease agreements or key man life insurance policies that are to the benefit of our executive officers, in which we would make such payments. There are no standard or other arrangements in which our directors are compensated for any services as a director, including any additional amounts payable for committee participation or special assignments. There are no other arrangements in which any of our directors were compensated during our last fiscal year for any service provided as a director.

Other than Mr. Riccelli, who is our CEO, and Dr. Garlotta who serves as a consultant to the Company we consider the remaining Directors to be independent.

Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans.

Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities

Not Applicable

The following table sets forth the ownership as of February 9, 2024, (a) by each person known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than five percent (5%) of our outstanding common stock, and/or (b) by each of our directors, by all executive officers and our directors and executive officers as a group.

To the best of our knowledge, all persons named have sole voting and investment power with respect to such shares, except as otherwise noted. There are not any pending or anticipated arrangements that may cause a change in our control.

By virtue of his stock ownership or control over our stock, Mr. Riccelli may be deemed to “control” the Company.

Our officers and directors may encounter conflicts of interest between our business objectives and their own interests. We have not formulated a policy for the resolution of such conflicts. Future transactions or arrangements between or among our officers, directors and shareholders, and businesses they control, may result in conflicts of interest, and the conflicts may be resolved in favor of businesses that our officers or directors are affiliated, which may have an adverse effect on our revenues.

Our officers and directors have the following conflicts of interests:

Independence of Board Members

The Company has adopted the NASDAQ Listing Rules; Rule 5605 and 5605 (a) (20, for determining the independence of its directors. Directors are deemed independent only if the Board affirmatively determines that the director has no material relationship with the Company directly or as an officer, share owner or partner of an entity that has a relationship with the Company or any other relationship which, in the opinion of the Board, would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director.

Our independent principal account for part of fiscal year 2022 was Isdaner and Company, LLC (“Isdaner”). As previously reported RW Group, LLC demerged from Isdaner in fiscal 2022, and was our principal account for fiscal year 2023.

Audit Related Fees

Fiscal year 2022. Fees paid to Isdaner were $$7,125. Fees paid to RW Group; LLC were $11,500.

Fiscal year 2023, RW Group, LLC $29,250.

Tax Fees

None.

All Other Fees

None.

 SIGNATURES

In accordance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.