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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued)
certain special bids, the cost of products provided to replace defective
product returned by customers and other certain expenses as defined. Supplies
Distributors and its subsidiaries can return to IBM product rendered obsolete
by IBM engineering changes after customer demand ends. IBM determines when a
product is obsolete. IBM, Supplies Distributors and SDSA also have verbal
agreements under which IBM reimburses or collects from Supplies Distributors or
SDSA amounts calculated in certain inventory cost adjustments.
Supplies Distributors and its subsidiaries pass through to customers
marketing programs specified by IBM and administer, along with GMS, such
programs according to IBM guidelines.
6. Transactions with Daisytek
On May 25, 2001, PFSweb completed the sale of certain assets to Daisytek
pursuant to an Asset Purchase Agreement (the Purchase Agreement) (See Note
7). The Purchase Agreement included a termination by PFSweb and Daisytek of
certain transaction management services agreements previously entered into
between PFSweb and Daisytek and a Daisytek subsidiary. Concurrently with the
closing of the asset sale, PFSweb and Daisytek also entered into a six-month
transition services agreement under which PFSweb provided Daisytek with certain
transitional and information technology services that expired in November 2001.
Through September 2001, the consolidated financial statements include
service fee revenues and cost of service fee revenues for certain services
subcontracted to PFSweb by Daisytek under Daisyteks contractual agreements.
Service fee revenues charged to Daisytek under (i) certain IBM master
distributor agreements, (ii) terms of the transaction management services
agreement with Daisytek, (iii) for certain subcontracted services, and (iv) for
certain transaction and information technology services, were $9.6 million for
the nine months ended December 31, 2001.
As of December 31, 2001, the Company was no longer party to any agreement
to provide services for Daisytek, however, through its master distributor
relationships operated by Supplies Distributors, the Company continued to buy
and sell certain product from Daisytek. As of December 31, 2003, the Company
no longer buys or sells product from Daisytek or any Daisytek-owned subsidiary.
7. Disposition and Impairment of Assets and Leases
On May 25, 2001, PFSweb completed the sale of certain assets to Daisytek
pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. Under the Purchase Agreement, PFSweb
transferred and sold to Daisytek certain distribution and fulfillment assets,
including equipment and fixtures, that were previously used by PFSweb to
provide outsourcing services to Daisytek. Daisytek also assumed certain related
equipment leases and a warehouse lease and hired certain employees who were
associated with the warehouse facility. The consideration payable under the
Purchase Agreement of $11.0 million included a termination by PFSweb and
Daisytek of certain transaction management services agreements previously
entered into between PFSweb and Daisytek and a Daisytek subsidiary. Proceeds of
$10.9 million were received for assets with an approximately $4.5 million net
book value with a resulting $5.8 million gain, after closing costs of $0.6
million. Concurrently with the closing of the asset sale, PFSweb and Daisytek
also entered into a six-month transition services agreement under which PFSweb
provided Daisytek with certain transitional and information technology
services.
Unaudited pro forma revenues and pro forma loss from operations for the
nine months ended December 31, 2001, assuming the transaction had occurred in
April 2001, would have been $22.0 million and ($10.4) million, respectively.
The pro forma data do not give effect to any fees earned by PFSweb for services
provided to Daisytek under a six-month transition services agreement entered
into on May 25, 2001 or the effect of the $5.8 million gain on the sale of the
assets. Additionally, these pro forma adjustments do not consider certain
infrastructure costs, such as operating costs associated with the information
technology function, salaries of certain management and personnel, telephone
and lease costs, and depreciation expense which supported this business but
that will continue
in the future. Because these ongoing costs were not considered, the pro
forma adjustments to the loss from operations are not indicative of the overall
margin earned under these transaction management services agreements.
In September 2002, the Company changed the manner in which certain
warehouse and order management
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