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Central European Distribution Corp. – CEDC – Announces Third Quarter 2012 Results

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Central European Distribution Corporation (NASDAQ: CEDC) announced its results for the third quarter of 2012. CEDC also announced that it has finalized the restatement of its financial statements for the second quarter 2012.

CEDC – Third Quarter 2012 Results

CEDC today announced that, for the three months ended September 30, 2012 net sales were $191.3 million as compared to $209.6 million reported for the same period in 2011. CEDC also announced that its net income on a U.S. GAAP basis (as hereinafter defined), for the third quarter was $35.8 million or $0.44 per fully diluted share, as compared to a net loss of $848.7 million or $11.71 per fully diluted share, for the same period in 2011. On a comparable basis, CEDC announced a net loss of $0.3 million, or $0.00 per fully diluted share, for the third quarter of 2012, as compared to a net loss of $4.5 million, or $0.06 per fully diluted share, for the same period in 2011. The number of fully diluted shares used in computing the earnings per share was 81.8 million for the third quarter of 2012 and 72.6 million for the same period in 2011

CEDC – Q3 2012 Business summary (in comparison to Q3 2011):

  • Net sales of $191 million (-8.7%), driven by organic growth of 1 % which was offset by negative impact of FX (-9.7%);
  • Overall comparable gross margin improvement from 38% to 43%;
  • Comparable operating profit up by 22%; and
  • Further growth of domestic vodka sales in volume and value in Poland; decline in the
  • Russian market due to among others factors prior overstocking of the market before July 1st excise tax increase.

“In spite of the challenges faced by the company during this period, the changes in operational management and controls are starting to produce improved operating results. The efforts we have put into better execution of our pricing policy and focus on more profitable product mix in all of our key markets resulted in improvement of our comparable gross margin and significant increase of our comparable operating profit”- commented David Bailey, CEO of CEDC

About Central European Distribution Corporation – CEDC

CEDC is one of the largest producers of vodka in the world and Central and Eastern Europe’s largest integrated spirit beverage business. CEDC produces the Green Mark, Absolwent, Zubrowka, Bols, Parliament, Zhuravli, Royal and Soplica brands, among others. CEDC currently exports its products to many markets around the world, including the United States, England, France and Japan.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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