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10-Aug-2012
Quarterly Report
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the six months ended June 30, 2012 (this "Quarterly Report"), of SPAR Group, Inc. ("SGRP", and together with its subsidiaries, the "SPAR Group" or the "Company"), include "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act", and together with the Securities Act, the "Securities Laws"), including, in particular and without limitation, the discussions respecting net revenues from significant clients, significant chain work and international joint ventures, federal taxes and net operating loss carry forwards, commencement of operations and future funding of international joint ventures, credit facilities and covenant compliance, cost savings initiatives, liquidity and sources of cash availability in this "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition, Results of Operations, Liquidity and Capital Resources". Such forward looking statements also are included in SGRP's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on March 21, 2012 (its "Annual Report"), including (without limitation) the statements contained in the discussions under the headings "Business", "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations". You can identify forward-looking statements in such information by the Company's use of terms such as "may", "will", "expect", "intend", "believe", "estimate", "anticipate", "continue" or similar words or variations or negatives of those words. You should carefully consider all such information and the other risks and cautions noted in this Quarterly Report, the Company's Annual Report and the Company's other filings under applicable Securities Laws (including this Quarterly Report and the Company's Annual Report, each a "SEC Report") that could cause the Company's actual assets, business, capital, cash flow, credit, expenses, financial condition, income, liabilities, liquidity, locations, marketing, operations, prospects, sales, strategies, taxation or other achievement, results, risks or condition to differ materially from those anticipated by the Company and described in the information in the Company's forward-looking statements, whether express or implied, as the Company's anticipations are based upon the Company's plans, intentions and best estimates and (although the Company believe them to be reasonable) involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause them to fail to occur or be realized or to be materially and adversely different from those the Company anticipated.
Although the Company believes that its plans, intentions, expectations and
estimates reflected or implied in such forward-looking statements are
reasonable, the Company cannot assure you that such plans, intentions or
estimates will be achieved in whole or in part, that the Company has identified
all potential risks, or that the Company can successfully avoid or mitigate such
risks in whole or in part. You should carefully review the risk factors
described in this Quarterly Report and the Company's Annual Report (See Item 1A
- Risk Factors) and any other cautionary statements contained or incorporated by
reference in this Quarterly Report, the Company's Annual Report or other SEC
Report. All forward-looking and other statements attributable to the Company or
persons acting on its behalf are expressly subject to and qualified by all such
risk factors and other cautionary statements.
You should not place undue reliance on the Company's forward-looking statements because the matters they describe are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other unpredictable factors, many of which are beyond its control. The Company's forward-looking statements are based on the information currently available to it and speak only as of June 30, 2012 (in the case of this Quarterly Report), December 31, 2011 (in the case of the Company's Annual Report) or other referenced date or, in the case of forward-looking statements contained in or incorporated by reference from another SEC Report, as of the date of or other date referenced in the SEC Report that includes such statement. New risks and uncertainties arise from time to time, and it is impossible for the Company to predict these matters or how they may arise or affect the Company. Over time, the Company's actual assets, business, capital, cash flow, credit, expenses, financial condition, income, liabilities, liquidity, locations, marketing, operations, prospects, sales, strategies, taxation or other achievements, results, risks or condition will likely differ from those expressed or implied by the Company's forward-looking statements, and such difference could be significant and materially adverse to the Company and the value of your investment in the Company's Common Stock.
The Company does not intend or promise, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation, to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, risk factors or other cautionary statements (in whole or in part), whether as a result of new information, future events or recognition or otherwise, except as and to the extent required by applicable law.
GENERAL
SPAR Group, Inc., ("SGRP"), and its subsidiaries (together with SGRP, the "SPAR Group" or the "Company"), is a diversified international merchandising and marketing services company and provides a broad array of services worldwide to help companies improve their sales, operating efficiency and profits at retail locations. The Company provides its merchandising and other marketing services to manufacturers, distributors and retailers worldwide, primarily in mass merchandiser, office supply, grocery, drug, independent, convenience, electronics, toy and specialty stores. The Company also provides furniture and other product assembly services in stores, homes and offices. The Company has supplied these project and product services in the United States since certain of its predecessors were formed in 1979 and internationally since the Company acquired its first international subsidiary in Japan in May of 2001. Today the Company currently operates in 10 countries that encompass approximately 47% of the total world population through operations in the United States, Canada, Japan, South Africa, India, Romania, China, Australia, Mexico and Turkey.
Merchandising services primarily consist of regularly scheduled, special project and other product services provided at the store level, and the Company may be engaged by either the retailer or the manufacturer. Those services may include restocking and adding new products, removing spoiled or outdated products, resetting categories "on the shelf" in accordance with client or store schematics, confirming and replacing shelf tags, setting new sale or promotional product displays and advertising, replenishing kiosks, providing in-store event staffing, and providing assembly services in stores, homes and offices. Other merchandising services include whole store or departmental product sets or resets, including new store openings, new product launches and in-store demonstrations, special seasonal or promotional merchandising, focused product support and product recalls. The Company continues to seek to expand its merchandising, assembly and marketing services business throughout the world.
An Overview of the Merchandising and Marketing Services Industry
According to industry estimates over two billion dollars is spent annually in the United States alone on retail merchandising and marketing services. The merchandising and marketing services industry includes manufacturers, retailers, food brokers and professional service merchandising companies. The Company believes that merchandising and marketing services add value to retailers, manufacturers and other businesses and enhance sales by making a product more visible and more available to consumers. These services primarily involve placing orders, shelf maintenance, display placement, reconfiguring products on store shelves and replenishing product inventory.
Historically, retailers staffed their stores as needed to provide these services to ensure, that manufacturers' inventory levels, the advantageous display of new items on shelves, and the maintenance of shelf schematics and product placement were properly merchandised. However retailers, in an effort to improve their margins, decreased their own store personnel and increased their reliance on manufacturers to perform such services. Initially, manufacturers attempted to satisfy the need for merchandising and marketing services in retail stores by utilizing their own sales representatives. Additionally, retailers also used their own employees to merchandise their stores to satisfy their own merchandising needs. However, both the manufacturers and the retailers discovered that using their own sales representatives and employees for this purpose was expensive and inefficient.
Manufacturers and retailers have been, and SPAR Group believes they will continue outsourcing their merchandising and marketing service needs to third parties capable of operating at a lower cost by (among other things) serving multiple manufacturers simultaneously. The Company also believes that it is well positioned, as a domestic and international merchandising and marketing services company, to more effectively provide these services to retailers, manufacturers and other businesses around the world.
Another significant trend impacting the merchandising and marketing services business is the tendency of consumers to make product purchase decisions once inside the store. Accordingly, merchandising and marketing services and in-store product promotions have proliferated and diversified. Retailers are continually re-merchandising and re-modeling entire stores in an effort to respond to new product developments and changes in consumer preferences. We estimate that these activities have increased in frequency over the last five years. Both retailers and manufacturers are seeking third parties to help them meet the increased demand for these labor-intensive services.
In addition, the consolidation of many retailers has created opportunities for third party merchandisers when an acquired retailer's stores are converted to the look and format of the acquiring retailer. In many cases, stores are completely remodeled and re-merchandised after a consolidation.
SPAR Group believes the current trend in business toward globalization fits well with its expansion model. As companies expand into foreign markets they will need assistance in merchandising or marketing their products. As evidenced in the United States, retailer and manufacturer sponsored merchandising and marketing programs are both expensive and inefficient. The Company also believes that the difficulties encountered by these programs are only exacerbated by the logistics of operating in foreign markets. This environment has created an opportunity for the Company to exploit its internet, hand-held and smart phone-based technology and business model worldwide.
The Company's Domestic and International Geographic Divisions:
In order to cultivate foreign markets and expand the Company's merchandising and
marketing services business outside of the United States, modify the necessary
systems and implement its business model worldwide, and insure a consistent
approach to its merchandising and marketing efforts worldwide, and even though
it operates in a single business segment (merchandising and marketing services),
the Company has divided its world focus into two geographic areas, the United
States, which is the sales territory for its Domestic Merchandising Services
Division, and international (i.e., all locations outside the United States),
which are the sales territories for its International Merchandising Services
Division. To that end, the Company also (1) provides and requires all of its
locations to use its Internet-based operating, scheduling, tracking and
reporting systems (including language translations, ongoing client and financial
reports and ongoing IT support), (2) provides and requires all of its locations
to comply with the Company's financial reporting and disclosure controls and
procedures, (3) provides accounting and auditing support and tracks and reports
certain financial and other information separately for those two divisions, and
(4) has management teams in its corporate offices responsible for supporting and
monitoring the management, sales, marketing and operations of each of the
Company's international subsidiaries and maintaining consistency with the
Company's other subsidiaries worldwide.
Each of these divisions provides merchandising and other marketing services primarily on behalf of consumer product manufacturers and retailers at mass merchandiser, office supply, grocery, drug, independent, convenience, electronics, toy and specialty stores. in their respective territories. SPAR Group Inc.'s clients include the makers and distributors of home entertainment, general merchandise, health and beauty care, consumer goods, home entertainment and food products in their respective territories.
The Company's international business in each territory outside the United States is conducted through a foreign subsidiary incorporated in its primary territory. The primary territory establishment date (which may include predecessors), the percentage of the Company's equity ownership, and the principal office location for its US (domestic) subsidiaries and each of its foreign (international) subsidiaries is as follows:
SGRP
Percentage Principal Office
Primary Territory Date Established Ownership Location
United States of America 1979 100% Tarrytown, New
York, United
States of
America
Japan May 2001 100% Osaka, Japan
Canada June 2003 100% Toronto, Canada
South Africa April 2004 51% Durban, South
Africa
India April 2004 51%* New Delhi, India
Australia April 2006 51% Melbourne,
Australia
Romania July 2009 51%** Bucharest,
Romania
China March 2010 51%*** Shanghai, China
Mexico August 2010 51% Mexico City,
Mexico
Turkey August 2011 51%**** Istanbul, Turkey
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* In June 2011, the Company sold 49% of its interest to KROGNOS Integrated Marketing Services Private Limited. ** Currently the Company owns two subsidiaries in Romania. One subsidiary is 100% owned and is inactive, and the second subsidiary, acquired in May 2012, is 51% owned. Also in May of 2012, the Company sold its 51% ownership in one of its other Romania subsidiaries, SPAR City S.R.L, to its original local investor. *** Currently the Company owns two subsidiaries in China. One subsidiary is 100% owned and is inactive, and the second subsidiary, acquired in March 2010 and operational in August 2010, is 51% owned. **** In August 2011, the Company sold its 51% ownership in its original subsidiary in Turkey to its original local investor, and in November 2011 the Company started a new 51% owned subsidiary to compete in this important market.
One key to the Company's international expansion strategy is its internally developed capability to translate all of its current and future proprietary Internet-based logistical, communications, scheduling, tracking and reporting software applications into any language for any market in which it operates or would like to enter. Through the Company's IT operations currently located in the facilities in Auburn Hills, Michigan, it provides worldwide access to the Company's proprietary logistical, communications, scheduling, tracking and reporting software to its entire operations worldwide on a 24/7/365 basis.
Another key to the Company's international strategy is its policy of seeking a material investor in a new subsidiary in an international location who is an experienced person or company in the local country who is not otherwise affiliated with the Company (each a "Local Investor"). The Company generally seeks to own at least 51% of a foreign subsidiary. As of the date of this Quarterly Report, the Company owns 100% of the equity of its international subsidiaries in Canada and Japan. A Local Investor provides equity, credit support and certain services to each international subsidiary not wholly owned by the Company, as well as the useful local attention, perspective and relationships of an equity owner with a strong financial stake in such subsidiary's success. The Company provides executive management and support to each foreign subsidiary as well its operational backbone (and the Company's procedures and controls) through its proprietary Internet-based logistical, communications, scheduling, tracking, reporting and accounting programs. (See Item 1A in SGRP's Annual Report, Risks of Having Material Local Investors in International Subsidiaries.)
The Company operates in the same single business segment (e.g., merchandising and marketing services) in both its domestic and international divisions, and the Company tracks and reports certain financial information separately for each of those divisions, as described above. The Company measures the performance of its domestic and international divisions and subsidiaries using the same metrics. The primary measurement utilized by management is operating profit level, historically the key indicator of long-term growth and profitability, as the Company is focused on reinvesting the operating profits of each of its international subsidiaries back into its local markets in an effort to improve its market share and continued expansion efforts. Certain financial information regarding each of the Company's two geographic divisions, which includes their respective net revenues and operating income (loss) for each of the six months ended June 30, 2012, and June 30, 2011, and their respective long-lived assets at June 30, 2012, and December 31, 2011, are provided in Note 11, above.
Critical Accounting Policies
There were no material changes during the six months ended June 30, 2012, to the Company's critical accounting policies as reported in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, as filed with the SEC on March 21, 2012.
SPAR Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Results of Operations
Three months ended June 30, 2012, compared to three months ended June 30, 2011
The following table sets forth selected financial data and data as a percentage
of net revenues for the periods indicated (in thousands, except percent data).
Three Months Ended June 30,
2012 2011
$ % $ %
Net revenues $ 24,343 100.0 % $ 15,944 100.0 %
Cost of revenues 17,635 72.4 10,987 68.9
Selling, general & administrative
expense 5,634 23.1 4,137 25.9
Depreciation & amortization 293 1.2 265 1.7
Interest expense 12 0.1 24 0.2
Other expense (income) 75 0.3 (2 ) -
Income before income taxes 694 2.9 533 3.3
Provision for income taxes 58 0.2 29 0.2
Net income 636 2.7 504 3.1
Net loss attributable to
non-controlling interest 82 0.3 5 -
Net income attributable to Spar
Group, Inc. $ 718 3.0 % $ 509 3.1 %
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Net Revenues
Net revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2012, were $24.3 million, compared to $15.9 million for the three months ended June 30, 2011, an increase of $8.4 million or 53%.
Domestic net revenues totaled $10.9 million in the three months ended June 30, 2012, compared to $9.4 million for the same period in 2011. Domestic net revenues increased by approximately $1.5 million, or 16% which was primarily due to new client projects in addition to continued growth from the Company's syndicated services and assembly business and partially offset by lower project work in the second quarter of 2012 when compared to a year ago.
International net revenues totaled $13.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2012, compared to $6.6 million for the same period in 2011, an increase of $6.9 million or 105%. The increase in 2012 international net revenues was primarily due to incremental revenue from the new subsidiaries in Mexico of $3.9 million, Romania of a net change of $1.8 million and Turkey of $900,000, in addition to strong performances in South Africa of $1.2 million resulting from a new client in the general merchandising category and in Japan of $500,000, which was partially offset by lower revenue in Australia resulting from the loss of a key client.
Cost of Revenues
The Company's cost of revenues consists of its in-store labor and field management wages, related benefits, travel and other direct labor-related expenses and was 72.4% of its net revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 68.9% of its net revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2011.
Domestic cost of revenues was 65.6% of net revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2012, and 68.7% of net revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2011. The decrease in cost of revenues as a percentage of net revenues was 3.1% compared to last year, due primarily to a favorable mix of syndicated and project work. Approximately 90% and 85% of the Company's domestic cost of revenues in the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, resulted from in-store merchandiser specialist and field management services purchased from certain of the Company's affiliates, SPAR Marketing Services, Inc. ("SMS"), and SPAR Management Services, Inc. ("SMSI"), respectively (See - Note 6 - Related-Party Transactions).
Internationally, the cost of revenues increased to 78% of net revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2012, compared to 69.2% of net revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2011. The cost of revenue percentage increase of 8.8% was primarily due to higher cost margin business from the new subsidiaries in Mexico and Romania.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses of the Company include its corporate overhead, project management, information technology, executive compensation, human resources, legal and accounting expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses were approximately $5.6 million and $4.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011.
Domestic selling, general and administrative expenses totaled $2.5 million and $2.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011. The increase of approximately $400,000 was primarily related to payroll related expenses and legal expenses.
International selling, general and administrative expenses totaled $3.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2012, compared to $2.1 million for the same period in 2011. The increase of approximately $1 million was primarily attributable to the new subsidiaries in Mexico, Turkey and Romania.
Depreciation and Amortization
Depreciation and amortization charges totaled $293,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2012, and $265,000 for the same period in 2011.
Interest Expense
The Company's net interest expense was $12,000 and $24,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. The decrease in interest expense is directly attributable to reduced borrowings and lower rates.
Other Expense (Income)
Other expense totaled $75,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2012 and other income was $2,000 for the same period in 2011.
Income Taxes
The income tax provision totaled $58,000 and $29,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively. The tax provision resulted primarily from domestic state taxes and for tax provisions related to certain international profits. The Company recognizes minimum federal tax provisions as the Company has reversed valuation allowances offsetting deferred tax assets as it utilizes net operating loss carry forwards in 2012.
Non-controlling Interest
Net operating losses from the non-controlling interest, from the Company's 51% owned subsidiaries, resulted in an increase of net income of $82,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2012, compared to an increase of net income of $5,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2011.
Net Income Attributable to SPAR Group, Inc.
The Company reported a net income of $718,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2012, or $0.03 per diluted share, compared to a net income of $509,000, or $0.02 per diluted share, for the corresponding period last year.
SPAR Group, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Results of Operations
Six months ended June 30, 2012, compared to six months ended June 30, 2011
The following table sets forth selected financial data and data as a percentage
of net revenues for the periods indicated (in thousands, except percent data).
Six Months Ended June 30,
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