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VIA EDGAR AND OVERNIGHT DELIVERY
Thomas Jones
Office of Manufacturing
Division of Corporation Finance
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: The Vita Coco Company, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-1
Filed September 27, 2021
File No. 333-259825
CIK No. 0001482981
Dear Mr. Jones:
On behalf of The Vita Coco Company, Inc. (f/k/a All Market Inc.), a Delaware public benefit corporation (the Company), we are transmitting this letter in response to comments received from the staff (the Staff) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by letter dated October 13, 2021 (the Comment Letter) with respect to the Companys Registration Statement on Form S-1 as filed on September 27, 2021 (the Registration Statement). This letter is being submitted together with the Companys Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on October 15, 2021 (Amendment No. 2). The bold and numbered paragraph below correspond to the numbered paragraph in the Staffs Comment Letter and is followed by the Companys response. Unless otherwise indicated, capitalized terms used herein have the meanings assigned to them in Amendment No. 2 and all references to page numbers in such responses are to page numbers in Amendment No. 2. Any use of the words we or our herein refer to the Company.
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Staffs Letter to the Company, dated October 13, 2021
Recent Developments, page 27
1. We note your presentation of Recent Developments, including your disclosure of ranges for Net sales and Gross profit for the quarter ended September 30, 2021. It appears to us you should balance these disclosures by also presenting a range for a net profitability measure such as Net income or, at a minimum, Income from operations. Also, if a range for Net income can not be provided, you should explain the reasons why.
Response: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staffs comment and has revised the disclosure on page 27 of Amendment No. 2 to present a range for Income from operations, and to note that the Company has not included preliminary results for the three months ended September 30, 2021 because the recognition and measurement of income taxes, and the measurement of foreign currency gain (loss) is not yet available as of the date of Amendment No. 2.
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We hope that the foregoing has been responsive to the Staffs comments and look forward to resolving any outstanding issues as quickly as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact me by email at Ian.Schuman@lw.com or by telephone at (212) 906-1894 with any questions or further comments you may have regarding this filing or if you wish to discuss the above.
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Sincerely,
/s/ Ian D. Schuman
Ian D. Schuman, Esq.
of LATHAM & WATKINS LLP
Enclosures
cc:
Asia Timmons-Pierce, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Jeff Gordon, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Anne McConnell, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Michael Kirban, The Vita Coco Company, Inc.
Martin Roper, The Vita Coco Company, Inc.
Kevin Benmoussa, The Vita Coco Company, Inc.
Stelios G. Saffos, Esq., Latham & Watkins LLP
Salvatore Vanchieri, Esq., Latham & Watkins LLP