NASDAQ: MAMA

The United States Department of Agriculture (the “USDA”) defines “all-natural” as a product that contains no artificial ingredients, coloring ingredients or chemical preservatives and is minimally processed. Many of MamaMancini’s products were submitted to the USDA and approved as all-natural. The Food Safety and Inspection Service (“FSIS”) Food Standards and Labeling Policy Book (2003) requires meat and poultry labels to include a brief statement directly beneath or beside the “natural” label claim that “explains what is meant by the term natural, i.e., that the product is a natural food because it contains no artificial ingredients and is only minimally processed.” The term “natural” may be used on a meat label or poultry label if the product does not contain any artificial flavor or flavoring, coloring ingredient, chemical preservative, or any other artificial or synthetic ingredient. Additionally, the term “all-natural” can be used if the FSIS approves your product and label claims. The Company’s all-natural product and label claims have been approved by the FSIS to contain the all-natural label.

Our products are principally sold to supermarkets, club chains, mass-market retailers, and food distributors. We currently have more than 100 product offerings across our beef, chicken, salad and olive portfolios that are packaged in different sized retail and bulk packages. Our products are principally sold in the deli section of the supermarket, including hot bars, salad bars, prepared foods (meals), sandwich, as well as cold deli and foods-to-go sections.

Olive Branch, LLC (“OB” or “Olive Branch”) concentrates on selling olives, olive mixes, and savory products to a limited number of large retail customers, primarily in pre-packaged containers. Olive Branch products are manufactured at the same facility as T&L Creative Salads (“T&L” or “T&L Creative Salads”) in Farmingdale, NY.

Our History

MamaMancini's LLC commenced operations in 2010 and became our primary business pursuant to a merger transaction in 2013, at which time we adopted the name "MamaMancini's Holdings, Inc.," and our common stock began trading under the symbol "MMMB."

In 2021, the Company acquired T&L and Olive Branch, for a combined purchase price of $14 million, including $11 million in cash at closing and $3 million in a promissory note. The promissory note required annual principal payments of $750,000 payable on each anniversary of the closing, together with accrued interest at a rate of 3.5% per annum. We satisfied our final payment obligation under the note in January 31, 2026, and as of January 31, 2026, there was no outstanding balance under this note.

In 2022, the Company acquired a minority interest in Chef Inspirational Foods, LLC (“CIF”), a leading developer, innovator, marketer and sales company selling prepared foods, for an investment of $1.2 million. One year later, the Company acquired the remainder of CIF, for $3.7 million, including approximately $1.0 million in cash at closing and a $2.7 million promissory note. Pursuant to the note, we paid $1.2 million during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2025 and satisfied the remainder of our payment obligations by issuing 184,286 shares of common stock valued at approximately $1.5 million during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026. As of January 31, 2026, there was no outstanding balance under this note.

Reflecting the evolution of the Company from its origins as a home-style, old world Italian food company to a broader provider of products featuring all-natural specialty prepared refrigerated foods for sale in retailers around the country, in 2023, the Company adopted its current name “Mama’s Creations, Inc.,” and our common stock began trading under the ticker symbol "MAMA."

On September 2, 2025, Crown 1 Foods, Inc., a Nevada corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, acquired substantially all of the assets of Crown I Enterprises, Inc. for a cash payment of approximately $17.3 million (the "Crown 1 Business"). This business is a Safe Quality Food ("SQF") and USDA certified full-service food manufacturer of value-added proteins and premium ready-to-heat meals, focused on claims-driven protein solutions and distinctive cuts.

Industry Overview

Our products are considered specialty prepared foods, in that they taste great, are authentic and are made with high-quality ingredients. The market for specialty and prepared foods spans several sections of the supermarket, including deli-prepared foods and the specialty meat segment of the meat department.

Our Strengths

We believe that the following strengths differentiate our products and our brands:

•Authentic recipes and great taste. Our MamaMancini’s products are founded upon Anna “Mama” Mancini’s old-world Italian recipes. We believe the authenticity of our products has enabled us to build and maintain loyalty and trust among our current customers and will help us attract new customers. Additionally, we continuously receive positive customer testimonials regarding the great taste and quality of our products.

•Healthy and convenient. Our products are made only from high-quality natural ingredients and are simple to prepare. Virtually every product we offer is ready-to-serve within 10 minutes, thereby providing quick and easy meal solutions for our customers. By including the sauce and utilizing a tray with our packaging, our products can be prepared quickly and easily.

•Great value. We strive to provide our customers with great-tasting products using healthy ingredients at an affordable price, many of which are all-natural. Typical retail prices range from $7.99 to $9.99 per pound for freshly prepared products sold in delis or hot bars. We believe the sizes of our product offerings represent a great value for the price.

•New products and innovation. Since our inception, we have continued to introduce new and innovative products. While we pride ourselves on our traditional beef and turkey meatballs and grilled chicken offerings, we have continuously made efforts to grow and diversify our line of products while maintaining our high standards for healthy ingredients and great taste.

Customers/Management

•Strong consumer loyalty. Many of our consumers are loyal and enthusiastic brand advocates. Our consumers trust us to deliver great-tasting products made with healthy or all-natural ingredients. They have actively communicated with us through our website and/or social media channels. We believe that this interaction has generated interest in our products and has inspired enthusiasm for our brand. We also believe that enthusiasm for our products has led and will continue to lead to repeat purchases and new consumers trying our products.

•Agile customer support: We meet the needs of not just our end consumers but also our customers and retail partners. Having a strong track record of more than 15 years, our retail partners trust our quality and can rely on our service. Through T&L Creative Salads and Olive Branch, we now serve as a “one-stop-shop” deli solution for them. Tangibly, this means that retail buyers don’t need to manage dozens of regional, specialty suppliers on a daily basis, but rather call Mama’s Creations to deliver all of their proteins, salads, sandwiches and entertaining needs nationwide.

•Experienced leadership. We have a proven and experienced senior management team. Our leadership team includes Adam L. Michaels, Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Anthony Gruber, Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”).

Our Growth Strategy

We are actively executing a strategy to build our brand’s reputation, grow sales and improve our product and operating margins by pursuing the following growth initiatives:

•Build Breadth & Depth of Distribution: We believe our brands, MamaMancini’s, T&L Creative Salads and Olive Branch, are still under-penetrated in existing sales channels, under-Stock Keeping Units ("SKUs") in existing stores and have the potential to enter new channels. We will leverage our strong brand, superior quality and high-touch service to list more of our items in existing customers as well as enter new customers. In addition, we will be leveraging our existing customer relationships to cross-sell our newly acquired brands, thereby driving larger consumer baskets, expanding promotional opportunities, and driving down freight charges, as we are shipping more Mama’s items to the same locations.

•Launch Consumer-Driven Innovation: As we become even more consumer-focused, we seek to understand consumers’ unmet deli needs. We will passionately understand our consumers and develop incremental sales opportunities. We will seek to develop products that capture incremental occasions, consumer groups and sales channels. For example, our retail-pack paninis, provide (1) for a “new for us” snacking occasion incremental to our current meal offerings, (2) an attraction to a younger, on-the-go consumer audience, and (3) for an incremental sales channel with entry into the Convenience Store channel.

•Pursue Accretive, Complementary Acquisitions: We plan to identify and integrate major acquisitions in new deli categories when opportunities arise, capitalizing on the highly fragmented nature of the fresh prepared foods space. Ideal acquisition opportunities might bring incremental/accretive manufacturing capabilities and product capabilities within a new deli sub-category, strengthen our distribution capabilities, and/or enhance our management capabilities.

•Become the One-Stop-Shop Deli Solution: We believe the Company has the potential to achieve $1 billion in sales through a combination of accretive acquisitions of complementary companies and organic growth, spurred by cross-selling and new product innovation. As the Company builds national scale, expands its breadth of deli offerings and maintains exceptional quality and service, the Company believes it will realize this vision.

Pricing

Our pricing strategy focuses on being competitively priced with other premium brands. Since our products are positioned in the authentic premium prepared food category, we maintain prices competitive with those of similar products and prices slightly higher than those in the commodity prepared foods section. This pricing strategy also provides greater long-term flexibility as we grow our product line through the growth curve. Recent retail prices have ranged from $7.99 to $9.99 for prepared food products sold to delis or hot bars. Increases in commodity costs, among other factors, may lead us to consider price increases in the future.

Suppliers/Manufacturers

As of January 31, 2026, almost all of our products were internally produced in our facilities. None of our raw materials or ingredients are directly grown or produced by us. From time-to-time we negotiate with other manufacturers to supplement

the Company’s manufacturing capability. We currently purchase modest quantities from other manufacturers. Substantially all of the raw materials and ingredients in our products are domestically sourced and are readily available by our suppliers. We have not experienced any material shortages of ingredients or other products necessary to our operations and do not anticipate such shortages in the foreseeable future.

Sales/Brokers

Our products are sold primarily through a commission broker network. We sell to large retail chains who direct our products to their own warehouses or to large food distributors.

The Company increased its sales management efforts with the result that the Company is now actively soliciting business with almost every major retail supermarket chain in the country. The Company’s products are currently sold nationwide.

Marketing

The majority of our marketing activity has been generated through promotional discounts, consumer trials, consumer product tastings and demonstrations, in-store merchandising and signage, couponing, word of mouth, consumer public relations, social media, special merchandising events with retailers and consumer advertising.

Based on the Company’s metrics for determining brand awareness, which include market studies and analysis of consumer recognition of the MamaMancini’s brand, the Company believes that brand awareness for MamaMancini’s has grown in the past 12 months.

Competition

The deli-prepared food industry is highly competitive, with a wide range of local and national competitors. Some of these competitors pursue different strategic objectives or investment priorities, which results in different pricing and promotional practices. Our competitive position is driven by the quality of our products, the breadth of our product offerings, and the ability to serve customers to meet the needs of individual stores. We continue to invest in process improvements and product innovation to support long‑term growth, new product development, and differentiation.

Intellectual Property

Our current intellectual property consists of trade secret recipes and cooking processes for our products and five trademarks for “MamaMancini’s,” “The Meatball Lovers Meatball,” “The Original Meatball in a Cup,” "The Olive Branch," and “Mama's Creations.” The recipes and use of the trademarks have been assigned in perpetuity to the Company.

We rely on a combination of trademark, copyright and trade secret laws to establish and protect our proprietary rights. We will also use technical measures to protect our proprietary rights.

Human Capital

As of January 31, 2026, we had 581 full-time employees and one part-time employee, none of whom were covered by collective bargaining agreements. We believe that our relations with our employees are good. Our human capital resources objectives include, as applicable, identifying, recruiting, retaining, incentivizing and integrating our existing and additional employees. The principal purposes of our equity incentive plans are to attract, retain and reward personnel through grants of equity-based compensation awards in order to emphasize increasing stockholder value and our success by motivating such individuals to perform to the best of their abilities and achieve our objectives.

We recognize that a significant part of our success is the continued ability to execute our human capital strategy of attracting, developing and retaining talent. We also offer a robust set of benefits in order to recruit and retain employees, and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment designed to make employees and consultants feel comfortable and accepted. We continue to take action to help ensure our practices, policies, and processes are inclusive and equitable for all colleagues.

Royalty Agreement

In accordance with a Development and License Agreement (the "Development and License Agreement") entered into on January 1, 2009 with Dan Dougherty relating to the use of his grandmother’s recipes for the products to be created by Mama’s, Mr. Dougherty granted us a 50-year exclusive license (subject to certain minimum payments being made), with a 25-year extension option, to use and commercialize the licensed items. Under the terms of the Development and License

Agreement, Mr. Dougherty shall develop a line of beef meatballs with sauce, turkey meatballs with sauce and other similar meats and sauces for commercial manufacture, distribution and sale (each a “Licensor Product” and collectively the “Licensor Products”). Mr. Dougherty shall work with us to develop Licensor Products that are acceptable to the Company. Upon acceptance of a Licensor Product by us, Mr. Dougherty’s trade secret recipes, formulas, methods and ingredients for the preparation and production of such Licensor Products shall be subject to the Development and License Agreement.

USDA Approval/Regulations

Our food products, which are manufactured both in our own manufacturing facilities and in third-party facilities, are subject to various federal, state and local regulations and inspections regarding sanitation, quality, packaging and labeling. In order to distribute and sell our products outside the State of New Jersey and the State of New York, the third-party food processing facilities must meet the standards promulgated by the USDA. Our manufacturing processing facilities and products are subject to periodic inspection by federal, state, and local authorities. The facilities in which our products are manufactured are inspected regularly and comply with all the requirements of the Food and Drug Administration (the "FDA") and USDA.

We are subject to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and regulations promulgated thereunder by the FDA as well as related legislation, including the Food Safety Modernization Act. This comprehensive regulatory program governs, among other things, the manufacturing, composition, ingredients, packaging, and safety of food. Under this program, the FDA regulates manufacturing practices for foods through, among other things, its current “good manufacturing practices” regulations, or GMPs, and specifies the recipes for certain foods. Specifically, the USDA defines “all-natural” as a product that contains no artificial ingredients, coloring ingredients or chemical preservatives and is minimally processed. Many of our Mama Mancini’s products were submitted to the USDA and approved as “all-natural.” However, should the USDA change its definition of “all-natural” at some point in the future, or should Mama’s change these existing recipes to include ingredients that do not meet the USDA’s definition of “all-natural,” we may need to modify our labeling and our results of operations could be adversely affected.

The Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") and other authorities regulate how we market and advertise our products, and we are currently in compliance with all regulations related thereto, although we could be the target of claims relating to alleged false or deceptive advertising under federal and state laws and regulations. Changes in these laws or regulations or the introduction of new laws or regulations could increase the costs of doing business for us or our customers or suppliers or restrict our actions, causing our results of operations to be adversely affected.

Quality Assurance

We take precautions designed to ensure the quality and safety of our products. In addition to routine third-party inspections of our manufacturing facilities, we have instituted regular audits to address topics such as allergen control, ingredient, packaging, product specifications, and sanitation. Under the FDA Food Modernization Act, both our own manufacturing facilities and each of our contract manufacturers are required to have a hazard analysis critical control points plan that identifies critical pathways for contaminants and mandates control measures that must be used to prevent, eliminate or reduce relevant food-borne hazards.

Our manufacturing facilities are certified in the Safe Quality Food Program ("SQF") as level II facilities. These standards are integrated food safety and quality management protocols designed specifically for the food sector and offer a comprehensive methodology to manage food safety and quality simultaneously. Certification provides an independent and external validation that a product, process or service complies with applicable regulations and standards.

Where You Can Find More Information

Our website address is https://mamascreations.com, where we make available, free of charge, our reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, including any amendments to these reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC. Reports of beneficial ownership filed by our directors and executive officers pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act are also available on our website. We are not including the information contained on our website as part of, or incorporating it by reference into, this Annual Report on Form 10-K. These filings are also available to the public at www.sec.gov.