William P. Angrick
Analyst
Let me just address the strategic imperative for being an international business. The world's manufacturing supply chain has moved considerably in the last 10, 15 years from more developed countries, North America and Europe, to lesser developed, high-growth regions like Asia-Pacific region. Our clients, many of which are U.S. headquartered, have property, plant, equipment and supply chains in Asia. They're doing business there. They want to be serviced there. The needs of that client really demand us to be in-country in places like China. So this is clearly something that we'll look back on in a year, 3 years and be very, very satisfied with our strategic position to be a service provider in these high-growth regions. So what we're really talking about, Jordan, is a tactical set of issues around bringing on a group of 300-plus employees that are new to LSI and on-boarding them and then aligning process and execution and making sure that we fully understand where clients have recurring business requirements and where they do not, and risk adjusting and refining our process as we move forward. This business is completely different than the business that we had in Europe in 2008 and '09. That was a retail liquidation business that was regrettably acquired right before the financial downturn of December 2008 and was a case where a few of their large clients simply went bankrupt. And the business we're referring to when we say GoIndustry serves 75 Fortune 500 blue-chip clients, sells high-value equipment on a consignment basis, a commission basis, there's 0 inventory risk and is leveraging a buyer base that's already been developed for the last decade and only continues to grow. More of our buyers want to be accessing our marketplace online. We use 1,200 videos a week globally to support these sales of rolling stock, of processing equipment, laboratory-tested measurement equipment. This is where the world is going and we're leading it in this new innovative way, and therefore, we're very much convinced that this is a terrific investment for us at $11 million. If you were just to be conservative, let's say we paid $20 million for the business, in our historical acquisition filter, we would be looking to pay in the range of 5 to 6x, maybe a little bit more for our business. So the question you have to ask is, are we able to drive a $4 million EBITDA return out of this business? I think unequivocally, the answer is yes. Will it take a little longer than we initially thought? Yes it will. In the end, it's going to be very high return on capital exercise for us, more importantly very strategic to where our clients are going and need to be served. I'll turn it over to Jim.