Net Service Fee Revenue (including service fee revenue, affiliate). Net
service fee revenue was $33.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2003 as
compared to $35.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2001, a decrease of
$2.6 million or 7.4%. The change in net service fee revenue is shown below ($
millions):
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Year ended December 31, 2002 |
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$ |
35.8 |
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New service contract relationships |
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0.2 |
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Increase in existing client service fees from organic
growth and certain incremental projects |
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3.1 |
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Elimination of service fees earned from our affiliate,
Supplies Distributors |
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(4.7 |
) |
Terminated clients not included in 2003 revenue |
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(1.2 |
) |
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|
|
Year ended December 31, 2003 |
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$ |
33.2 |
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Net service fee revenue for the year ended December 31, 2003 included
approximately $0.9 of fees earned from client contracts terminated during 2003.
Cost of Product Revenue. Cost of product revenue was $235.3 million for
the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to $54.3 million for the year
ended December 31, 2002, which reflects cost of product sales for Supplies
Distributors subsequent to its consolidation effective October 1, 2002. Cost of
product revenue as a percent of product revenue was 94.4% during the year ended
December 31, 2003 and 94.5% during the year ended December 31, 2002. Supplies
Distributors had $154.3 million of cost of product revenue, prior to
consolidation, or a total of $208.6 million of cost of product revenue for the
year ended December 31, 2002. Annual cost of product revenue increased from the
prior year from the impact of exchange rates on our European and Canadian
operations, increased volumes of many existing products. The addition of
certain new product and additional reserves for inventory impairment for the
year ended December 31, 2003. The impact of these increases and additional
reserves were partially offset by other inventory cost reductions from a
vendor. The resulting gross profit margin was 5.6% and 5.5% for the year ended
December 31, 2003 and the three months ended December 31, 2002, respectively.
Cost of Net Service Fee Revenue. Cost of net service fee revenue was $22.8
million for the year ended December 31, 2003, as compared to $22.7 million
during the year ended December 31, 2002, an increase of $0.1 million or 0.8%.
The resulting service fee gross profit was $10.3 million or 31.1% of net
service fee revenue, during the year ended December 31, 2003 as compared to
$13.2 million, or 36.7% of net service fee revenue for the year ended December
31, 2002. Our gross profit as a percent of net service fee revenue decreased in
the current period primarily as a result of the elimination of the service fee
revenue affiliate and resulting gross profit from services provided under our
arrangements with Supplies Distributors due to our consolidation in October
2002. As we add new service fee revenue in the future, we currently intend to
target the underlying contracts to earn an average gross profit percentage of
30-40%.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. SG&A expenses were $25.2
million for the year ended December 31, 2003 or 8.9% of total net revenues, as
compared to $27.0 million, or 28.9% of total revenues, for the year ended
December 31, 2002. SG&A expenses decreased from the prior year primarily due to
certain restructuring actions, including personnel reductions, which occurred
in September 2002. In addition, the prior year SG&A expense included certain
incremental sales and marketing costs. These items were partially offset as
due to the consolidation of Supplies Distributors, we now reclassify certain
costs previously characterized as cost of service fee revenue to SG&A. SG&A
expenses as a percentage of total net revenues decreased from the prior year
due to the increase in total net revenues, resulting from the inclusion of
product sales subsequent to the consolidation of Supplies Distributors
effective October 1, 2002. We expect SG&A expense to increase in calendar year
2004 due primarily to additional sales and marketing expenses and incremental
professional fees primarily related to compliance with the requirements of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Asset and Lease Impairments. In December 2003, we relocated our Canadian
operations within Toronto. In conjunction with this relocation, we recorded an
impairment expense for an operating lease and the write-down of certain assets.
For the year ended December 31, 2002, we recorded $0.9 million of expense for
asset impairment and abandonment charges. This charge relates to an older
warehouse management system that was upgraded to a new system, as well as the
disposition of certain other assets no longer used in the business. While we do
not anticipate
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