Segment Information | 19. SEGMENT INFORMATION Segment Information The Company’s nine businesses lines are organized, managed, and internally reported as five operating segments. One of these operating segments, Product Packaging, is the Company’s packaging and printing group. Product Packaging operates in the paper board folding carton, smart packaging, and document security printing markets. It markets, manufactures, and sells mailers, photo sleeves, sophisticated custom folding cartons, and complex 3-dimensional direct mail solutions. These products are designed to provide functionality and marketability while also providing counterfeit protection. A second, Biotechnology, invests in, or acquires companies in the biohealth and biomedical fields, including businesses focused on the advancement of drug discovery and prevention, inhibition, and treatment of neurological, oncological, and immune related diseases. This division is also developing open-air defense initiatives, which curb transmission of air-borne infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and influenza. Biotechnology is also targeting unmet, urgent medical needs. A third operating segment, Securities and Investment Management (“Securities”) was established to develop and/or acquire assets and investments in the securities trading and/or funds management arena. Further, Securities, in partnership with recognized global leaders in alternative trading systems, intends to own and operate in the US a single or multiple vertical digital asset exchanges for securities, tokenized assets, utility tokens, stable coins and cryptocurrency via a digital asset trading platform using blockchain technology. The scope of services within this section is planned to include asset issuance and allocation (securities and cryptocurrency), FPO, IPO, ITO, PPO, STO and UTO listings on a primary market(s), asset digitization/tokenization (securities, currency, and cryptocurrency), and the listing and trading of digital assets (securities and cryptocurrency) on a secondary market(s). Also in this segment is the Company’s real estate investment trust (“REIT”), organized for the purposes of acquiring hospitals and other acute or post-acute care centers from leading clinical operators with dominant market share in secondary and tertiary markets, and leasing each property to a single operator under a triple-net lease. the REIT was formed to originate, acquire, and lease a credit-centric portfolio of licensed medical real estate. The fourth segment, Direct, provides services to assist companies in the emerging growth gig business model of peer-to-peer decentralized sharing marketplaces. It specializes in marketing and distributing its products and services through its subsidiary and partner network, using the popular gig economic marketing strategy as a form of direct marketing. Direct marketing products include, among other things, nutritional and personal care products sold throughout North America, Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe. The fifth business line, Commercial Banking, is organized for the purposes of being a financial network holding company, focused providing commercial loans and on acquiring equity positions in (i) undervalued commercial bank(s), bank holding companies and nonbanking licensed financial companies operating in the United States, South East Asia, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, and (ii) companies engaged in—nonbanking activities closely related to banking, including loan syndication services, mortgage banking, trust and escrow services, banking technology, loan servicing, equipment leasing, problem asset management, SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) consulting, and advisory capital raising services. From this financial platform, the Company shall provide an integrated suite of financial services for businesses that shall include commercial business lines of credit, land development financing, inventory financing, third party loan servicing, and services that address the financial needs of the world Gig Economy. Our segment structure presented below represents a change from the prior year for the inclusion of our Biotechnology, Securities, and Commercial Lending segments and the removal of our Plastics segment, Digital Group and IP Technology Management segment as the Plastics segment was discontinued in 2020, DSS Digital was sold and discontinued in May 2021 and activities surrounding our IP Technology Management segment have significantly decreased. The amounts for these segments have been included in the Corporate reporting segment for the year ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, as necessary, below for reconciliation purposes. Approximate information concerning the Company’s operations by reportable segment for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 is as follows. The Company relies on intersegment cooperation and management does not represent that these segments, if operated independently, would report the results contained herein: Schedule of Operations by Reportable Segment Year Ended December 31, 2023 Product Packaging Commercial Lending Direct Marketing Biotechnology Securities Corporate Total Revenue $ 18,497,000 $ 385,000 $ 6,088,000 $ - $ 5,288,000 $ - $ 30,258,000 Assets held for sale - - - - 51,595,000 - 51,595,000 Depreciation and amortization 761,000 - 157,000 1,163,000 3,047,000 78,000 5,206,000 Cost of revenue 15,282,000 1,139,000 2,075,000 77,000 8,003,000 71,000 26,647,000 Interest expense 185,000 - (5,000 ) - 4,632,000 - 4,812,000 Interest Income - - 986,000 155,000 148,000 - 1,289,000 Stock based compensation - - - - - - - Net income (loss) from continuing operations 327,000 (31,497,000 ) (32,860,000 ) (7,168,000 ) (19,792,000 ) (6,513,000 ) (97,503,000 ) Capital expenditures 689,000 - 4,000 17,000 104,000 4,000 818,000 Identifiable assets 21,508,000 12,285,000 6,303,000 49,305,000 59,345,000 4,446,000 153,192,000 Year Ended December 31,2022 Product Packaging Commercial Lending Direct Biotechnology Securities Corporate Total Revenue $ 17,973,000 $ 764,000 $ 21,989,000 $ - $ 6,581,000 $ - $ 47,307,000 Depreciation and amortization 715,000 - 413,000 1,113,000 9,093,000 129,000 11,463,000 Cost of revenue 16,960,000 1,041,000 9,828,000 - 11,784,000 634,000 40,247,000 Interest expense 140,000 - 1,000 - (15,000 ) - 126,000 Stock based compensation 1,000 - - - - 3,000 4,000 Net income (loss) from continuing operations (1,234,000 ) (459,000 ) (40,182,000 ) (7,462,000 ) (8,238,000 ) (12,084,000 ) (69,662,000 ) Capital expenditures 1,612,000 - 384,000 276,000 18,000 4,000 2,294,000 Identifiable assets 24,641,000 48,240,000 27,526,000 53,069,000 83,873,000 11,566,000 248,915,000 International revenue, which consists of sales to customers with operations in Canada, Western Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia comprised 7.0 11.0 The following tables disaggregate our business segment revenues by major source: Printed Products Revenue Information: Schedule of Disaggregation of Revenue Twelve months ended December 31, 2023 Packaging Printing and Fabrication $ 18,036,000 Commercial and Security Printing 461,000 Total Printed Products $ 18,497,000 Twelve months ended December 31, 2022 Packaging Printing and Fabrication $ 17,499,000 Commercial and Security Printing 474,000 Total Printed Products $ 17,973,000 Direct Marketing Twelve months ended December 31, 2023 Direct Marketing Internet Sales $ 6,088,000 Total Direct Marketing $ 6,088,000 Twelve months ended December 31, 2022 Direct Marketing Internet Sales $ 21,989,000 Total Direct Marketing $ 21,989,000 Rental Income Twelve months ended December 31, 2023 Rental income $ 3,647,000 Total Rental Income $ 3,647,000 Twelve months ended December 31, 2022 Rental income $ 6,287,000 Total Rental Income $ 6,287,000 Commission Income Twelve months ended December 31, 2023 Commission income $ 1,641,000 Total commission income $ 1,641,000 Twelve months ended December 31, 2022 Commission income $ 294,000 Total commission income $ 294,000 Management Fee Income Twelve months ended December 31, 2023 Management fee income $ - Total Management fee income $ - Twelve months ended December 31, 2022 Management fee income $ 134,000 Total Management fee income $ 134,000 Net Investment Income Twelve months ended December 31, 2023 Net investment income $ 385,000 Total Net Investment Income $ 385,000 Twelve months ended December 31, 2022 Net investment income $ 630,000 Total Net Investment Income $ 630,000 |