Welcome to today’s PC Connection fourth quarter 2009 earnings conference call. Today’s call is being recorded. At this time I would like to turn the call over to Senior Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller Mr. Steve Baldridge.

This is Steve Baldridge, Senior VP of Finance and Corporate Controller. Patricia Gallup, Chairman and CEO; Jack Ferguson, Executive Vice President and CFO; and Tim McGrath, Executive Vice President PC Connection Enterprises are also here with us today. We’re pleased to have you join us today for PC Connection’s 2009 fourth quarter conference call. If you haven’t already seen our press release you can contact [Janet Rush] at 603-683-2322 and she will fax or email a copy to you immediately. You can also view it on our website. Today’s call is also being webcast and will be available from PC Connection’s website. Additionally, this conference call is the property of PC Connection and may not be recorded or rebroadcast without specific permission from the company. I would like to inform our participants that any statements or references made during the conference call that are not statements of historic fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Various remarks that we may make about the company’s future expectations, plans and prospects constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the Safe Harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including those discussed in risk factors in the company’s quarterly report on Form 10Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2009 which is on file with the Securities & Exchange Commission. In addition, any forward-looking statement represent our views only as of today and should not be relied up on as representing our views as of any subsequent date. While we may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so even if our estimates change and therefore you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as representing our views as of any date subsequent to today. I am now going to turn the call over to our CEO Patricia Gallop for her remarks on our quarterly and annual results.

Thank you for joining us to review the company’s financial results for the fourth quarter of 2009. Net sales in the fourth quarter increased year-over-year by $24 million or 5% to $463 million compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. Increased sales in our public sector and large account segments were partially offset by a slight decline in SMB sales. Net sales increased by $60 million or 15% over the third quarter representing the third straight quarter of sequential revenue growth. This was due in part to the seasonal growth in consumer sales as well as increased sales to commercial customers in both our SMB and large account segments. Net income for the quarter was $4 million or $0.15 per share compared to a net loss of $2.7 million or $0.10 per share for the prior year quarter. The fourth quarter of 2009 included a small adjustment to special charges that increased earnings whereas the fourth quarter of 2008 included $8.8 million of non-cash special charges related to the write off of goodwill. Had special charges not been incurred pro-forma net income for the fourth quarter of 2009 would have been $3.9 million or $0.14 per share compared to $2.7 million or $0.10 per share in 2008. Our press release includes a reconciliation of these pro forma amounts. I’ll now comment on our SMB segment, our original core business. Net sales decreased this quarter by $4 million or 2% from the fourth quarter of 2008 to $221 million. A slight improvement in corporate sales compared to the prior year quarter was more than offset by a decline in consumer sales. However, net sales grew sequentially by 21% reflecting substantial sales growth with our business and consumer customers. This represents this businesses’ third straight quarter of sequential growth. Sales by our…

First the cash flow; cash flow provided by operations for the year ended December 31, 2009 was $5.7 million compared to $45.2 million for the prior year period. The majority of this decrease in cash flow was due to an increase in accounts receivable resulting from stronger yearend sales partially offset by an increase in accounts payable. Capital expenditures in 2009 were lower than in the prior year amounting to $5.6 million in 2009 compared to $10.3 million in 2008. Financing activities in the year ending December 31, 2009 related to repayments on a capital lease obligation as well as treasury stock purchases. Our cash balance decreased slightly in 2009 compared to a $33 million increase for the prior year period. We had no outstanding quarter end borrowings from our credit facility and ended the quarter with the cash balance of $46 million. Turning now to the balance sheet, accounts receivable as of December 31, 2009 increased by $32 million to $218 million compared to the balance at December 31, 2008. Days sales outstanding were 47 days as of December 31, 2009 compared to 45 days both as of December 31, 2008 and as of September 30, 2009. The increase in DSO days over last year resulted primarily from the increase in public sector sales. Public sector customers generally have longer bill to cash cycles. We are continuing to monitor ongoing credit exposure from our customers given the current liquidity environment and minimized credit risk from our customers. Inventory balances increased by $7 million compared to prior yearend balance primarily due from inventory in transit from our vendors. Inventory turns for the quarter increased to 24 compared to 20 for the prior year period. We continue to believe that inventories are in excellent condition both in quantity and in quality. Net sales of products drop shipped by distributors and other vendors directly to our customers were 61% of total net sales in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared to 57% in the fourth quarter last year. We continue to focus on increasing drop shipments where appropriate and cost effective which supports lower inventory level. In summary, despite the current economy, the balance sheet remains very healthy. We will now entertain your questions.

Your next question comes from [Navil Hennano] – Raymond James. [Navil Hennano] – Raymond James: If I look on a sequential basis your consolidated revenue was up 15% which looks like you were well above normal seasonality. Can you comment on if the increase was more macro driven or simply yearend budget flush from your commercial customers?

I think there were a combination of factors in play. Clearly, we did see a little bit of a technology refresh happening and we did see some yearend budget project work start to move through the business and naturally the macroeconomic environment in December especially really helped that. But overall I think it goes back to execution of our strategy. [Navil Hennano] – Raymond James: When I look at your gross margins by segment I see that your SMB and corporate were both down year-over-year and sequentially. Can you speak to the pricing pressures that you’re seeing out in the market in each segment? Though I do understand that the decline in SMB will be partially attributable to your seasonal mix of products.

I’ll make a couple of comments and let Tim elaborate but our commercial customer sales segment did experience year-over-year and sequential declines in their gross margins. The lower margin rates were due largely to the aggressive pricing competition that we’ve mentioned in previous quarters and that pricing competition continued in Q4.

As a matter of fact, we really see hyper competitive pricing pressures out there in the competitive landscape but we also did make an investment in new account acquisitions in the quarter. [Navil Hennano] – Raymond James: Did that pricing pressure accelerate, decelerate or is it pretty much flat from the last quarter?

I would tell you as the activity started to heat up and as we found ourselves competing in more project work the competition was very strong. I think it accelerated towards the backend of the quarter. [Navil Hennano] – Raymond James: Now that the environment is clearly improving I would expect you to add back some costs at a measured pace. Can you kind of remind me what the historical variable costs either per revenue dollar or GP dollar is? Do you think that historical relationship will be any different going forward giving the actions you’ve taken during the downturn?

As you can appreciate we have a substantial portion of our expenses as relatively fixed over certain ranges. The highest percentage of our costs are of course personnel costs so it depends on the range that you’re speaking as to whether increases in revenue is going to what percentage of increase in costs that’s going to generate. As you undoubtedly read, we had taken out a fair amount of our costs in 2009, structural changes to try and make the operations more efficient. But, we have historically had a target of generally figuring for each margin dollar increase we would try not to increase SG&A over 50% or less of that increase. That’s over a longer period. I’m not sure I can be more specific than that. It depends on the range of increase that you might be looking at. [Navil Hennano] – Raymond James: Now, if I may switch to your product mix, your server and enterprising networking were up 25% year-over-year to over $180 million quarterly run rate and that’s the highest that I can recall. Can you kind of walk me through what drove that growth which is nearly four times your large enterprise segment where I imagine most of that business is?

I think there were a number of factors in play as we focused on kind of landing and expending our business driving our solutions business within our accounts, that certainly played a role in it. You’ll note that our average order size increased nicely and so we’re doing a better job connecting and making a more robust server offering. Then finally, as I mentioned a number of new buying accounts is up and I think again we’ve been involved in more opportunities. So, we’re very pleased with the solution focus and the rise in enterprise products. [Navil Hennano] – Raymond James: Are those products significantly higher margin or just a little bit higher margin than what you normally ship to your enterprise customers?

Again, in this competitive environment it’s tough to be definitive there but the enterprise blade server product and some of the virtualization products tend to be higher margins. [Navil Hennano] – Raymond James: Just my last question, looking at software it to was up in the double digits, now Microsoft two weeks ago I believe had a blow out quarter with regards to their Windows 7 product albeit that was largely consumer driven, what has been the customer feedback so far in deploying the software? Are they still waiting for the service pack 1? Then related to that what are your thoughts on the PC upgrade cycle given the lengthening age of the install base and the new release of the OS?

We certainly hope there’s a correlation there. We are seeing our customer base be a little more enthusiastic about Windows 7, certainly a little more than they were about Vista and we are seeing some encouraging signs that there will be a desktop fresh to go along with the Windows 7 refresh. So overall, we’re positive with the response of Windows 7 and we do anticipate that slight upward trend to continue.

At this time we have no further questions. I’ll turn the call back over to Ms. Patricia Gallup for any closing or additional remarks.

In closing, despite the challenging business environment, our fourth quarter sales grew by 15% sequentially and we generated over $6 million in operating income and earnings of $0.15 per share. I’d like to thank all of our customers, vendor partners and shareholders for their continued support and our dedicated co-workers for their efforts. I would also like to also thank those of you listening to our call this afternoon. Your time and interest in PC Connection are appreciated. Have a good evening.

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