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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Eastman Kodak Company reported second-quarter results that reflect continued momentum of the company's core digital growth businesses, increased raw material costs, continued investment in certain growth businesses, and cash performance which reflects the company's seasonal pattern.
Second-quarter sales were $1.485 billion, a 5% decrease from the year-ago quarter. Digital revenue was $1.089 billion, consistent with the year-ago quarter. Revenue from the company's core digital growth businesses – Consumer and Commercial Inkjet, Packaging Solutions, and Workflow Software & Services – increased 22%, fueled by a 48% revenue growth in Consumer Inkjet printers and ink. Revenue from the company's Consumer Digital Imaging Group decreased 8%, reflecting planned lower sales of digital cameras, as the company implements its previously announced strategy in this business to trade top-line growth for improved full-year profitability. Second-quarter revenue from the company's Film, Photofinishing and Entertainment Group declined by 14%.
On the basis of U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), the company reported a second-quarter loss from continuing operations of $179 million, or $0.67 per share, compared with a loss from continuing operations on the same basis of $167 million, or $0.62 per share, in the year-ago period. The year-over-year earnings decline was largely the result of rising raw material costs, particularly silver and aluminum, as well as investments to drive digital growth initiatives, particularly in Commercial Inkjet. Non-operational items of net expense in the second quarter of 2011 totaled $12 million after tax, or $0.05 per share, primarily due to tax-related items, restructuring charges, and corporate components of pension and other post-employment benefit costs. Non-operational items of net expense in the second quarter of 2010 totaled $9 million after tax, or $0.03 per share, primarily due to legal contingencies, restructuring charges and corporate components of pension and other post-employment benefit costs. (Please refer to the attached Non-Operational Items table for more information.)
"We are enjoying success in our new growth businesses, as well as the challenges typical in the creation of new businesses based on revolutionary new technologies," said Antonio M. Perez, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Eastman Kodak Company. "We have ambitious goals for our growth businesses, and thus far have achieved impressive results against the industry. Revenue growth in these businesses is accelerating, with second-quarter 2011 growth more than double the year-ago period. We are also on track this year to once again double ink gross profit dollars in our Consumer Inkjet business, and we're enjoying strong customer demand for KODAK PROSPER Presses.
"We are investing in these growth businesses to create a new profitable, sustainable digital company by 2012," Perez said. "At the same time, we continue to fund legacy liabilities associated with the traditional businesses. This was especially evident in our cash usage during the second quarter, in which we typically use cash because of seasonal patterns. We have every expectation our cash flow pattern this year will mirror the pattern of previous years, with sizeable cash generation in the second half of the year, primarily in the fourth quarter. In summary, while we continue to face challenges, I remain confident in Kodak's future and in our ability to maintain the investments necessary to complete our transformation."
Other second-quarter 2011 details:
Segment sales and earnings from continuing operations before interest, taxes, and other income and charges (segment earnings from operations), are as follows:
Update on Intellectual Property Activities
As the company has previously discussed, Kodak's intellectual property strategy strives to achieve three goals: providing the company with design freedom to develop and introduce innovative new products; providing Kodak with access to new markets and new partnerships; and income and cash generation.
In recent years, the company has benefitted from cash from intellectual property licensing transactions as a way to fund its digital transformation. Given the recent trends in the IP marketplace, and a heightened demand for premier intellectual property portfolios, the company previously announced its intention to explore strategic alternatives for approximately 1,100 U.S. digital imaging patents, representing approximately 10% of its patent portfolio.
The company's updated outlook, detailed below, does not include any revenue or cash flow from the potential alternatives for its digital imaging patent portfolios, nor does it include any potential outcomes from intellectual property litigation currently before the U.S. International Trade Commission. The company remains confident that it will ultimately prevail in its current litigation involving Apple and Research in Motion.
2011 Outlook
Kodak today provided an updated outlook regarding its targets for 2011 performance, in light of rising raw material costs and a heightened competitive pricing environment in Consumer Inkjet, both of which the company is addressing, and higher than planned start-up costs associated with Commercial Inkjet, which the company expects have been largely contained to the first half of 2011.
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