August
13, 2003
SERVOTRONICS, INC. (AMEX– SVT) ANNOUNCES
SECOND QUARTER RESULTS
Elma, NY -- Servotronics, Inc. (Amex – SVT)
reported second quarter revenues of $3,945,000 and a net loss of
$22,000 (or $(0.01) per share – Basic and Diluted) as compared
to revenues of $4,300,000 and a net income of $133,000 (or $0.07
per share – Basic and Diluted) for the comparable period ended
June 30, 2002. The six month period ended June 30, 2003 provided
for revenues of $7,774,000 and a net loss of $93,000 (or $(0.05)
per share – Basic and Diluted) as compared to revenues of
$8,134,000 and a net income of $239,000 (or $0.13 per share –
Basic and $0.12 per share – Diluted) for the same period in
2002. The Company’s positive cash flow from operations, liquidity
ratios and backlogs continue to be strong.
The real and perceived threats of further terrorist
attacks have added to the challenges of an already troubled commercial
aerospace industry that has yet to rebound from the events of September
11, 2001. Increased government shipments are continuing to partially
offset the reduction and stretch-outs in the depressed commercial
aerospace industry. As previously reported, the Company’s
Consumer Products Group, as the result of an intensive 2 year competition,
was selected as the designer and manufacturer of the U.S. Marine
Corps’ new combination combat knife and bayonet. Production
shipments of this approximately 4 million dollar procurement of
bayonet systems have commenced during the third quarter of this
year and are scheduled through 2004 and into 2005. During the first
and second quarters of 2003, the Company has been incurring significant
front-end costs associated with prototype, preproduction and start-up
activities for new programs and applications. These costs are expensed
as they occur and, as such, are not matched to their future revenues
and benefits as provided for under previous accounting standards.
Such costs associated with expanded sales, marketing, engineering
and M & A activities in combination with the increased costs
of professional fees and corporate governance as required by the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act have been and are significant expense factors.
The Company is composed of two groups –
the Advanced Technology Group and the Consumer Products Group. The
Advanced Technology Group designs, develops and manufactures servo
control and other components for various commercial and government
applications (i.e., aircraft, jet engines, missiles, satellite launch
vehicles, etc.). This group is currently providing products for
a significant number of aerospace programs such as the F/A–18
E/F Super Hornet and other jet fighters; the Bell/Boeing MV-22 Osprey
Tiltrotor Joint Service Aircraft, the Blackhawk, Apache, A–10
and other helicopters, the Standard Missile, numerous business and
regional jet aircraft, Raytheon's Hawker Horizon Aircraft, Embraer
TwinTurbo Fan aircraft, the Airbus 300 series and Boeing 700 series
commercial aircraft, DeHavilland DHC8-40 and various other programs.
Servotronics’ Consumer Products Group designs
and manufactures cutlery, bayonets, machetes and combat, survival,
sporting, agriculture, and pocket knives for both commercial and
government applications.
SERVOTRONICS, INC. (SVT) IS LISTED ON THE AMERICAN
STOCK EXCHANGE.
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