Farmer Brothers Company Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Sep 13, 2010
Farmer Brothers Company (FARM, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2010-06-30.

Farmer Brothers Company has a market cap of $251.32 million; its shares were traded at around $15.55 with and P/S ratio of 0.74. The dividend yield of Farmer Brothers Company stocks is 2.96%.FARM is in the portfolios of Michael Price of MFP Investors LLC, Chuck Royce of Royce& Associates, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Our mission is to sell great coffee, tea and culinary products and provide superior serviceone customer at a time. The acquisition of the DSD Coffee Business in fiscal 2009 furthered our efforts to achieve this mission. As a primary result of this acquisition, our sales grew to $450.3 million in fiscal 2010 from $266.5 million in fiscal 2008, and we acquired over 2,000 new SKUs and over 60 trademarks, tradenames and service marks including the major regional brands MCGARVEY®, CAINS®, IRELAND®, JUSTIN LLOYD®, METROPOLITAN®, PREBICA®, WECHSLER®, WORLDS FINEST® and CAFÉ ROYAL®, and the national brand SUPERIOR®, broadened and diversified our customer base to include a major presence in the gaming industry as well as significant national chain accounts, and expanded geographically from our previous 28 state marketing area into all 48 contiguous states. In fiscal 2010 we completed the post-acquisition integration of the DSD Coffee Business in an effort to realize the selling and operating efficiencies of the combined organization through consolidation of product offerings and SKUs, streamlining of routes and distribution logistics, and consolidation of warehouses and distribution centers, with an expanded, customer-focused organization enabled by enhanced information management tools and training.

We have a $50 million senior secured revolving credit facility. As of September 9 , 2010, approximately $32.5 million was outstanding under this credit facility. Maintaining a large loan balance under our credit facility could adversely affect our business and limit our ability to plan for or respond to changes in our business. Additionally, our borrowings under the credit facility are at variable rates of interest, exposing us to the risk of interest rate volatility, which could lead to a decrease in our net income. Our debt obligations could also:

At the end of fiscal 2010, the projected benefit obligation of our defined benefit pension plans was $114.7 million and assets were $66.0 million. The difference between plan obligations and assets, or the funded status of the plans, significantly affects the net periodic benefit costs of our pension plans and the ongoing funding requirements of those plans. Among other factors, changes in interest rates, mortality rates, early retirement rates, investment returns and the market value of plan assets can affect the level of plan funding, cause volatility in the net periodic pension costs, and increase our future funding requirements. We expect to make approximately $4.9 milli

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