Courier Q2 Revenues Flat Due to Failure of Book Distribution Customer, Slow FastPencil Sales

NORTH CHELMSFORD, MA—May 8, 2014—Courier Corp., one of America’s leading innovators in book manufacturing, publishing and content management, today announced results for the quarter ended March 29, 2014, the second quarter of its 2014 fiscal year. Revenues were $61.4 million, off slightly from $61.8 million in last year’s second quarter. For the quarter, the company reported a loss of $3.4 million or $.30 per diluted share, including a non-cash impairment charge of $1.9 million or $.17 per diluted share related to FastPencil, a California startup acquired by Courier last spring, as well as an $825,000 write-off associated with the failure of a book distribution customer. Excluding the impairment charge and the receivable write-off, the adjusted loss for the quarter was $1.0 million or $.09 per diluted share. In fiscal 2013’s second quarter, net income was $336,000 or $.03 per diluted share.