Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. And welcome to the MMSI’s First Quarter 2013 Earnings Conference Call. During today's presentation all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation the conference will be opened for questions. (Operator Instructions) I would now like to turn the conference over to our host, Fred Lampropoulos, Chairman and CEO. Please go ahead.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We are assembled in South Jordan, Utah to present to you our first quarter results and to talk about lot of items that I know that you are interested in today. We’ll start out first by having our General Counsel, Rashelle Perry read our opening statements. Rashelle?

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Rashelle thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, we have to talk about today and a lot of issues that I know will be of interest to you. Let me start off first and talk a little bit about the revenue side of things and explain a little bit about our business there in the first quarter. And then I will turn the time over to Kent Stanger, our Chief Financial Officer, who will discuss with you the various issues as it pertains to gross margins and the expenses that have been added there, so that you have a clear understanding. Let’s talk about revenues, first of all, as I think you are well aware that we had relatively slow quarter. This is not inconsistent with other medical device companies and there are many, many factors behind this. Some has to do with utilization. Some has to do with various aspects of the Affordable Healthcare Act. There are lot of various issues that go into this. Our sales increased over the previous year was 9%, however, of note for you, well, is that 3% was the direct growth rate of Merit’s direct sales and the rest of that was added from the addition of Melbourne. So that is I think essentially the slowest quarter in terms of growth that we’ve, that I can recall and I can go through, and we’ll go through a number of the areas little bit later on in terms of both revenues. Now, unless you immediately either get off the call or get this made, I will tell that business were better in March. We had a record month. We did $37.5 million. The business has improved substantially and we have a number of new products and ideas that we will submit to you that we think will be of interest to you. But the first thing I’m going to do this have Kent go over the gross margins, because we think that’s an important to understand. Kent, do you want to go through that?

Certainly. Gross margins were 41.4% compared to 46.2% for the first quarter year ago and there is a lot of issues there that I want to disclose. First of all, we had a reduction due to manufacturing variances or unapplied overheads due to reduction of inventory. We drop our inventory $2.1 million during the quarter and are managing that in a prudent manner. And $1 million of that was due to variances in Malvern in the lower sales volumes and production volumes associated with that. The next thing of note is that we had new amortizations of intangibles in regards to gross margins for Malvern, which was $1.3 million. And we also had new taxes you're aware of it that was we've put it into cost of sales, so that was over $1 million, almost $1.1 million and 1% of sales adjustment to the cost of sales. And finally, 26% or $580,000 of one-time charges that have to do with the markup of inventory or the increase of inventory costs due to the acquisition accounting values that are flowing through and almost completed this quarter, we have a couple hundred thousand that left. I think those are total adjustments was the 4.8% that you saw on the GAAP basis.

Okay. All right, Kent.

I might following with net non-GAAP basis but the gross margins were 44.4%, compared to 47.2% a year ago and if you take the tax out of that which wasn't there to be compared, its 45.4%. So still a decline of 1.8% and most of that has to do with the manufacturing variances I referred to.

Okay. All right. Thank you. Let me talk about the revenue side for a moment. You'll notice there and I'm sure you're well aware that Merit has reduced its guidance for the year by about $10 million. Almost all of that comes from Malvern and I’d like to explain to you what our thinking is there and why we've done this. When we acquired Thomas Medical, we had a forecast based on the best possible information of due diligence that was available. One other things that we have not -- we did see by the way, a substantial amount of record sales of product that was shipped out of Malvern in the fourth quarter. We were fortunate that we picked up about $1.7 million worth of that, but clearly the pipeline was quite full. In fact I think their amount was almost $8 million, Kent, if I’m…

For the quarter.

… for the quarter.

The total was over $10 million.

… over $10 million.

Yeah.

And for business that is doing -- was doing about $36 million, that's a pretty heavy fourth quarter. And so as we came into the first quarter that pipeline was full and it was fair to say, it was very dry. Now we talked with management at Thomas Medical now Merit Malvern and these are the guys that are now Merit employees who work there and they indicated to us that this was not unusual to see a dry spot in that first quarter and that sales were ramp up over the year. That's what we have seen as we're starting to see that trend. But where the fly in the ointment is so to speak, is that what we’re not sure of, but what we’ve anecdotal evidence to believe is that we may have lost. We didn't know this is the time but we may have lost and they have reason anecdotally to believe that the orders which represented about 23% of the revenues of Malvern, which were a major company that was the largest part of that business may have gone to another company, we have reason to believe that. We’ve met with the management of that company and so that I don't say anything, imagine if you go back into our records in the past you'll know exactly who I’m talking about because there are only three or four companies that we deal with on that OEM that large size. So they may have gone away. Now, we had the same thing happened at Thomas prior to Merit’s acquisition and that was another company up in the New England area and they came back. So I'm not suggesting they will come back, but based on the best information we have, since we've not received any orders for…

I’d like to add the SG&A expenses when you look at on a non-GAAP basis and pull out some one-time charges and compare to the prior year is down to 28.9% versus 29.5% a year ago. So we did drop in real terms, I think, 60 bps out of our SG&A costs in the competitive quarter analysis.

This should be another one that I think will be important for you. We've got over $2.3 million going forward in bonuses and bonus structures that existed in the company. Not sure of some but we have contractual responsibility to fulfill. We've taking a lot of the existing structure in cost in those areas and on an annual basis it will reduce our expenses by $2.3 million. In other words, all of us at Merit are going to be making a lot less money because our shareholders aren’t making any money. And but its big money, its big money. So let me review some of these things. So we've got the bonuses. We’ve got discretionary spending, trade shows, contributions, all of these things are millions and millions of dollars, and they have been cut essentially to the bone. Now I think it's important for us if we could for minute to move to operations, talk a little bit about some of the things we are doing and some of the expenses that are in this statement. Merit, as many of you know, over 25 year history has tried to plan for our growth and tried to look essentially a five to seven-year plan. We built the most recent facilities on our campus about seven years ago and we fill them up and built our business. We’ve been in a older facility of about 85,000 square feet, about 5 miles from here and it's where all of our automation is and so we constantly are tracking product back and forth with a lot of people involved in that movement. In the new facility, which we’ve just opened in South Jordan, we have essentially an automated delivery that goes from modeling, to the fulfillment center, to automation and to the floor. It will cut out ten hundreds of thousands millions of dollars of cost as it comes online and Kent, I will let you, maybe just comment briefly on kind of the structure of cost as everyone came for this.

Thank you. Yeah. So the new facility the 255,000-square feet was 62,000-square feet which is substantial increase in clean rooms and other supports. The facility is going to cost about $3.9 million a year for all this overhead, depreciation and another costs. We can eliminate or offset $1 million a year that when we in August time expected and beyond. When we close down and move out of the facility across time that Fred referred too. We also believe that the material handlers alone. In other words the people moving and touching the parts will be some 39 people, 30 to 39 people, another $1.1 million per year. So we are approaching half of that at least in the offset later this year towards the end of the third quarter, certainly by the fourth quarter. The rest of that overhead will be absorbed over the next five to seven years as we bring in new products and grow the business and volumes within our existing products and bring new ones off and that will take sometime.

Yeah. Now, I think, I have a little bit from number that Kent, and I don’t know but its, its not like sales number I’m going to argue about. But I believe that we are up and efficiently running this facility by the end of the year. It will helps us to avoid hiring at least 100 people or depending on the business level and how efficiently become we’ll be able to reduce by 100 people. And if you look at $35,000 a year would average benefits and salaries and that sort of thing that’s $3.5 million on an annual basis, not that we’ll pick up this year but we will pick up a portion of it. And you take that $3.5 million and then you take the other million dollars of less operation from the facility, now what you have done in a relatively short period of time, as you’ve picked up almost all the costs, then that’s my optimistic view of all of this and then what you’ve done is you have a lot of capacity going forward. So that will be -- the other part is that we’re going to more than double that capacity as we build our business. And we have plenty of reasons to believe by the way that our business will grow. And I still believe by the way that we will be in the double digits. Now, we’re at 9% but I believe some of the things I’m going to share with you now, I’ll show you how we’re going to continue to grow because we think there is a couple of ways out of this, reduce expenses and increase revenues and that’s what we are focused on. So let’s talk about the revenue side of things and where we’re going from…

Well, I think it’s significant. It’s got all new IP on it that will help us maintain our position and keep the separation or differentiation in our product.

Yeah. And again I’m going to talk about this just a little bit more because I don’t want you to dismiss it because once you are in those labs, things like the OsteoPro, things like our sheets, our pacts, snares, all of these things, kind of, go right along with it. And we’re going to be able to be in places that we have been before. So we’ve been able to compete. So we’re very excited about this product. The IP side of things we received notice from me from the patent office that they have -- I want to make sure, I use the right word. What’s the word I want to use for sure? Preliminary approved almost 20 claims. So they have allowed our preliminary basis, the reason I say that as you go through the final preparation, we’re receiving notice of allowance. It could adjust up or down slightly. But the fact of the matter is we’ll have new intellectual property that we think we’ll have issued in the next three or four months. If it goes, it’s normal course of action. This will give us almost 20 years of proprietary preference for this product. Now, another reason why it's important is for instance, if you're using a balloon to do a PTA, an angioplasty that you would do for patients that’s having dialysis and has that fissure to block of. They have balloons that go up to 35 atmospheres but none of the companies that of the big four have an inflation device that can get anywhere near that, that we’re aware of, that they have on the market like today. So we had one physician use this product at the SIR meeting. And then this is what he said, when I’m using one of the…

On the basic?

You concur.

Yeah, the touch I think is fabulous. One of the things that he didn't mention and I like is the fact that one of the obstacles we've had to gaining market share recently is the ability that some of our competitors had to do, what it’s call the one hand prime, where you can control the fluid end of the -- expelling of fluid better with their devices. We now have power steering built into the handle. And it allows you to press down against the table or other object and therefore release the trigger and push out the fluid and do one hand of prime. So I think it not only ups them, starts pressure as far as volume and as far as the ease of use of going to the high-pressure. It also allows them set it up, prepare much easier and take away that one negative I think we have. So from the little bit I’ve seen in the conversations of the sales force, I'm excited about this is going, I see it as a real strong product.

Let’s talk about some others areas of the business but I think you find interesting. We’ve discussed this briefly that for the first time that our Endotek division was profitable. I know that many of you were concerned. When we bought it, we were little bit disappointed and for of a couple of years we've operated at losses in that position. Now, we've been able to do this without adding a lot of overhead cost. One of the really exciting things that will be happening here as we’ve discussed before is that we are now just starting to shift. We have shipped some of the newer low-cost stents. So we were able to reduce by shipping vendors and this has been well over a year ago, our cost of goods in this division by over a third. And that has a savings on volume at somewhere around $1.5 million to $2 million annually, once we get all of the stents converted. And that will happen over the balance of the year, which means that we’ll see higher gross margins. We are about 62% in that division right now. We believe that those will rise to probably somewhere around 67% or 68%. And so we’ll continue to make a lot more money in that particular division and that becomes a very attractive asset and offer to us as we go forward particularly with the new products that are coming out of there, most noted -- notable is the new valve esophageal stents. So that's a very, very big deal to be able to swing that around into profitability and to contribute both the gross margins and to profitability going forward. Kent, you want to comment.

I agree it’s a nice relief, I guess. I'll say from a financial standpoint to see contributing. It’s even doing more so on EBITDA basis. And there’s leverage there because of the gross margins not only being higher. Now, we’ve raised prices in some of our products. We’re seeing the cost reductions you are talking about and the volume increases are making it more efficient. It's also improving the efficiency of our distribution system. We’ve had too few products and we’re getting of them on this, more to come.

Thanks Kent. Lot of the things I have been asked because I think it did have such an impact on this first quarter. I want to come back to Melbourne just for a second and talk a little bit about that. I’ve been asked and I'm sure I will be asked, did you make a mistake? And the answer to that is, well if you look at it today, I suppose you could come to that conclusion. I have not come to that conclusion. I believe the electrophysiology, which continues to grow. I wish I read report. It was issued just a few days ago about division of a major big four. And the electrophysiology with that area grew at 12%. We continue to believe that particularly area is going to become very, very important from that, has a lot of pull through. We have a lot of new products that we are issuing in that area, coronary sinus guides, transeptal needles, steerable catheters and then mirror improved classic sheath. All of those things are coming forward. We’ve sized the business. We’ll continue to size it to its revenue base but we -- although it’s very disappointing at first. In some ways, it kind of reminds me of alveolus in which we -- it was disappointing kind of coming out of the shoot. But we didn’t give up on it. We believe and continue to believe that this particular area on a worldwide basis is going to be very, very important. And we will meritize products, will deliver new products and will build this business. So it's $10 million off what we thought that’s kind of a big hit. There's no doubt about it. And we could have a lot of discussion about that. But the bottom line is as…

Well, I know that we’ve made cuts and made decisions to eliminate some $7 million, $8 million at the AEROSIZER. Going forward and no, they weren’t really effective in the first quarter. In fact, we had increased caused due to severance and some of those things to make those decisions. And we’ve got increased cost to move into these facilities in the interim. So, no, it's not going to be easy and the second quarter isn’t going to be really easier. But it’s going to sequentially improve I really believe that, and you'll start seeing more leverage when you get to that to the fourth quarter and in the next year, as we can downsize some of this redundancy in our facilities. And some of the people and really take advantage of some of the, both new product introduction both in sales, because our sales volumes were going to forecast to reach our numbers are going to increase.

So, one other thing I can’t mentioned I have discussed is that in this, we had almost a $1 million of expense. I’m not going to call it one-time expense because I don’t think that it was an expense. Med expense was for severance. We made a number of management changes in a number of things that to be intended to and we made those and we took the hit forth there in this quarter as well. It was a substantial sum of money. So we, again, made the tough decisions that we thought needed to be made and that was in this quarter. So again, that's another part of the perfect storm because when all of these things hit us, but they are -- not that we won't have these expenses and other business issues, but those things are behind us. And what you will see forward is a more efficient company, a more cost conscious company. In fact, all the staff is sitting in our room right now. They're hearing all this. They know what they need to do. We know what we need to do. So you will have to make the decisions as to the value. And what we will do is we will make the decisions relative to what we can do to increase that value from where we are today. That's our job, that’s what we are committed to do and it's underway. Again, this isn’t something that we decided today. This is something that we've been working on now for this quarter and looking at these issues, as we saw it kind of play out. So, I think that’s all I have.

No. Couple of quick comments. I think part of the difference from last year is that our interest in expense is considerably due to the transaction of purchasing power. And that we have an usual tax being, where we were able to bring from last year, a catch up that Congress and the President passed right early in the year from last year for the R&D tax credit. So it made our tax advantage looks strange in the percentages of in pretax income. So, I just wanted to point that out.

Another thing too that we are very concerned about is we are very concerned about the debt level. And we have opportunities that don't dilute shareholders to go out and that can help to offset a lot of the stat and these interest rates that we would like to have. So there are lot of options that we have and opportunities to align our business, to take a look at the strategic assets and to align the business the way we think it will be the most efficient in terms of our sales points and that sort of thing. And so we will be doing some of those things as well. So, I think that pretty well covers it. Great, unless you want to add anything. I think what we will do is we will call on our operator and we will go ahead and open up the line and we will go ahead and take your questions.

Thank you. (Operator Instructions) And our first question comes from the line of Tom Gunderson with Piper Jaffray. Please go ahead.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Hey, Tom.

So a couple of clarifications first and then I will finish up with one original question. But the clarification is -- the worst is behind us kind of tone you're giving us and then the March number revenues that you gave us of $37.5 million and a lower SG&A ratio. Can you give us a comparison on that and is the $37.5 million all in, or is that core without Malvern? Give us a sense of how to compare that to last March.

Yeah. I don't have last march in front of me. But it is all in, Tom that was $37.5 million of revenues for all divisions in the company. So I do that but I don't have in front of me last March. I think what I was trying to point out was, is even though January and February were very slow in the $31 million, $33 million range are working on, I think in that range. It was a pretty substantial increase and we start seeing. We ended up I think at about $5.5 million for the quarter with Malvern. And I think for the first two months, we are like -- I’m just going to pull this off. But I think it was 28. So we almost double that, as that thing started ramping up, that pipeline start filling up. That has been kind of the history of their business. People fill up for the year. They worked on their inventories and then, it starts to fill back up again. So we saw not quite but we saw the business almost double just in the month of March. And we continued to see by the orders now on a regular basis that were lacking in that first quarter, coming from this large OEM customers. So that goes to -- it’s the best way I can answer that now. We can go back and look at March. But I think the point I also wanted to make up, Kent talked about that sequentially on a non-GAAP basis, we improved our SG&A expense and I will tell you that sequentially every month going forward it will reduce and improve substantially. Now, we would be at that 27.2%. I will tell you this. That if it was that same revenue level that number may very well be 26%. Again, I’m pulling that number up but there are a number of these costs that have been taken out and we will see that as a percentage of sales going forward every quarter, because of these things, these costs that we’ve already taken out. That’s the best way I can answer the question now. We will do some research and get back to you on a comparison to last March. Now, I’m going to take your next question.

Sure. And then the other clarification, maybe we can do that offline. I will just ask. On the Malvern side and lowering guidance and putting in the premium loss customer, do you have a sense? You talked about price and lowering the price form. But do you have a sense of what was the cause of the loss? Did somebody come in and underbid or -- ?

I know exactly what the cause is, Tom, and you ask the question, I will answer it. So one of the things that was taking place in Thomas Medical is that one time, they were a sole provider on an OEM basis to one customer. Patents expired on that product and Thomas Medical went out and attempted to go direct to the end users then rather than go to a third-party. Okay. They were successful in doing that except in one case, in which they went to -- one of the companies which was their largest customer. If you go back in the records there, it's very easy to identify who they are and what they did -- I’m talking about the Thomas Medical. This is an issue of record. They raise substantially the price of the product that was under the third-party in an attempt to get that business direct. And the bottom line was it backfired. And the other guys didn't want to do that and so they got tired of that whole situation. So what we did and this is why I can say in good faith that we did not anticipate. We went back to pressure products who is -- was the original customer that all of this business. We went back and we lowered the price to what their original price was, because we believe together we can get that business back. That’s what we did. So it wasn’t likely lowered below. We loaded back to the original price they were getting before management at Thomas raised it substantially. And we didn't think that was the right thing to do, as it all turns out it wasn't. So we put it back to the original price. By that time there had been so much damage…

Got it. Thanks, Fred. I will add other ask their questions.

Thanks, Tom.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jayson Bedford with Raymond James. Please go ahead.

Hi. Good evening. Can you hear me?

We can't, Jason. Thank you for being on the call.

Okay. Thanks. Just as follow-up, what is your expectation for the Malvern business in 2013?

Right now, we are booking at approximately $26 million. I think, Kent, is that correct. We have $26 million.

Okay. And so getting with customer back would be upside clearly to that $26 million?

That’s correct. And Jason if I could on this revenue, the entire amount of adjustment, we went back to each of our sales units and responsibly leadership of each of those units. And up until last evening, we were going to all of this to make sure that when we look at this we would have confidence in everyone of our sales leaders, indicated that they would stand and they went coerced. They were simply asked, are you going to be up, down or the same and everyone of it, the international, OEM, U.S. direct, Endotek. All came back with -- they expect to be on forecast. Now what that means is it was pretty low in the first quarter. Hardly any of them hit that. But each and every one of them believed that by the time they get to the end of the year, they will make their original forecast that was part of our initial guidance. So, almost 100% of this guidance that's been reduced is because of this situation in Malvern. And we will work and eventually, we will get that business back one way or the other.

Okay. In the quarter just excluding the Malvern piece, where was softness geographically? Was it in the U.S., Europe, emerging markets? Can you maybe just parse that out for us?

Kent and I will let you go through that because let me comment on little bit. So without Malvern, our domestic sales force was about 3.5%. I think that…

3.5% was Malvern and they don’t have a lot. It was 2.3% with that.

Okay. So it was not at the level. I would say most of the softness we are seeing was in -- Endotek was little softer than we've seen the past that was a slow quarter for them.

OEM.

U.S. OEM was down and that’s what type on, but the international markets were still very strong.

The Pacific Rim was 17% up. Japan was 6%. China was 10%. So those areas were still strong, some slower than they have been but still in double digits. EU directive slowed down some at 6% and the EU dealers was only 3%, that one had slowdown also. So the international is still where most of the growth is. It was up 7.5% percent of the total group and the U.S. direct was like you said 3.5%, including some of the direct sales of Malvern product that helped a little bit. You want more than that. I think we covered most of it.

Okay. That’s helpful. And then just one last one for me and then I will let someone jump in. On the gross margin, Kent you mentioned the variances. Have you kind of burn through that or are these going to continue with the headwinds in the second quarter and then maybe where do you expect gross margins for the year to shakeout on an non-GAAP basis? Thanks.

Yeah, I'm glad you asked. There is some overhangs still. We feel like we are carrying, maybe $1 million right now that comes to the flow of inventory but it is improving. I will share with you that in March, we had positive variances here in Salt Lake. So that was a switch from some large negatives that were in few months for prior.

In this negative variance and this overhang, more than half of his coming out of Malvern.

Yeah. Because when you have the overhead there, even though we frame -- 20 people, we didn't train them in January, we trained them as we started to see and most of those were done in March and some in April. So we’ve turned print that. So we got that overhead thing that’s sitting there. But the positive part is that that part of the business is start to improve where that’s more than half of the variance that we saw in the first quarter. So the trend is positive. It’s not over but it’s not going to happened stop overnight and we do have. We have coming on, the whole explanation about the higher facilities when it converts over to production and overheads get allocated there versus to move costs. In SG&A, you will see that have to be overcome too. So, there is still some challenges as we go through this but the trend is good it. Some of the worst months were in late fourth quarter and early first quarter and that’s been improving.

Yeah. Kent, also on that, the cost of the new facility in the first quarter runs in SG&A line. Is that correct?

Because most of it was. It started in March and it got reallocated because it’s non-production right now. It's just being moved and qualified and so forth. Some of it is starting to become productive now in April month.

So some of that will move to the gross margin line is my point. And I think it’s also interesting to know that even at 27.2%, that there was a portion of the SG&A cost of the facilities cost because it was in the production we had there in G&A. 381,000. Also another point that we hadn’t mentioned is that, as part of this expense issue there was a transition agreement that we had with GE, as we were transitioning through computers and telephone lines and cards access and all these various things. And I think that number -- that was about $140,000 that will be gone in the second quarter because we’ve essentially wrapped up, essentially almost all of the transition items, that was expensed also in the first quarter. That goes back to this perfect storm. Everything that we could get hit with, we did get hit with. I don’t think we missed a single shop. We had a snowball fight. We got hit by all of them. But I think that as we move forward, we are going to have a few snowballs of our own so. Okay. Jason, I hope that answers your question.

It does. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jim Sidoti with Sidoti & Company. Please go ahead. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: Good afternoon. Can you hear me?

We can, Jim. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: Great. Great. I just want to get some numbers down before I ask a question. You said that you had about 3% organic growth and the rest was Thomas. So, I assume Thomas is about $5.5 million. So it sounds right.

That’s correct.

That’s correct. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: Okay. And then if I look at some of the non-GAAP adjustments, if I just take the adjustment that were one-time not the amortization. It looks like it was a little over $2 million, about $2.3 million, does that sound about right?

I have to add what are you talking about. I can go through some of them but… Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: Okay. I’m just -- if your acquisitions severance and inventory write-ups, looks like it totaled little over $2 million to about $0.04, $0.05 per share.

Yeah. That’s right. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: So that’s about $0.04, $0.05 of one-time charges in the quarter? And now…

And do you have the sense…

The after tax to that, the after tax that you have mention you do that, but, I mean, right, go ahead… Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: After tax about 30%.

Yeah. We are using 38% on an incremental basis, although, our tax rate on average -- our effective rate is going to be like 22%, 24% this year. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: Okay. All right. So but it’s still about $0.04, $0.05 of one-times in the quarter it sounds like.

Sounds little high, I think it’s more accurate, Fred, isn’t it. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: Terrified. I’ll double-check the tax rate on it.

Okay. You said you don’t know.

Yeah. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: This…

Go ahead. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: The Thomas…

Go ahead. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: Thomas customer was about 25% of the revenue.

23, I think was the number.

Yeah. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: Okay. And I’m sorry, did you say that there are going to make the product themselves or they went to another supplier?

No, no. They don’t make the product themselves. They -- we believe that they are buying it from one or two -- we have three competitors in the marketplace. There is Merit, there is Oscars, which sales through pressure products and there is GREATBATCH. Those are the three competitors. Merit is still the market leader overall those other companies. We still have a substantial market share and I think that market share is probably close to, I’m going to say, two-thirds or something like that. So we are still the market leader in this area, but we intend, we intend to stay the market leader and in fact increase and take some of that business and take more of it direct overtime at higher sales prices. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: Okay. And the way you do that now is instead of going to the OEM, you are going to sell direct to the hospital?

Yeah. We are doing that, we are doing that. By the way there was another distributor out there that they have signed the deal with and so we’re completing with our sales forces against all these other players with our products, that’s what we are doing. By the way, we did calculate that, Jim, and it was a little bit about $3.01… Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: The $0.03…

… that come back to us.

Yeah. That’s correct. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: Okay. All right. Great.

Okay. Jim Sidoti - Sidoti & Company: All right. Thank you

Yeah. I think $5 would probably be closer when you take, well, maybe $4, $4.5. You can take the question now.

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Chris Cooley with Stephens. Please go ahead.

Thanks so much and appreciate you’re taken the questions here evening. You hear me okay.

You’re welcome, Chris.

Yeah. We hear you fine. I really appreciate all the detail you provided us in terms of the initiatives that you are taking to reduce costs and fully appreciate this, have to play out over the course of the year. So I just want to make sure that I heard you correct, Kent, when you were talking about, how we should think about this to our margins, specifically you are looking for about $7 million to $8 million in annual cost saving, but not really going to see the majority of that impact until the fourth quarter of this year. Help us think a little bit about the current quarter and maybe a little bit into the 3Q in terms of how we should think about this through our operating lines and then I have one quick follow up? Thanks so much.

I want to clarify, Kent, most of that $7 million to $8 million is in SG&A and its start most of it in April. The following K adjustment started April 1st, many of the termination were in that month so March and in the April some of it. The saving overtime through marketing and sales reductions will come through the year as they happened in the show or in advertising or in whatever they happened to be.

Okay. Let me clarify so that I extent your answer. What you are saying is $7 million to $8 million was spread, I’m not to say necessary evenly, but it will be spread throughout the balance of this year?

Right. And probably we’re estimating $6 million of it, I’m not including the bonuses, the $6 million of it will be in this year ’13, there are three quarters in front of us, second, third and fourth quarter.

And if you add the bonuses what happened then?

That’s another $2.3 million.

Why wouldn’t you include those?

Only because we had all ready left them out of the first quarter.

Okay.

They were increase savings.

So, Chris, I think, what you saying is 75% of those bonuses or those expanses reduction will role through the balance of the year…

Right about.

… coming quarter and we took a portion of that $2 million we reduced in the first quarter.

So we have that that benefit already in the first quarter. We didn’t recoup for any bonuses for the management.

So we took 25% of that $2.3 million.

Yeah.

… was reduction in cost in the first quarter.

It’s ready in our numbers, correct.

Yeah. Okay.

Got you.

So when you talk about gross margin that was the discussion about transitioning into our new facility, getting out of our old facility, bringing online the automated handling systems and being able to start reducing headcount, that discussion may have been confuse with the other. But it was as a separate transition into our facilities and the utilization of the capital we’ve invested here.

And we can try it out.

No. I think we got there. Thanks so much. And then just to clarify, I think you stated into one of the prior questions that your expectations for the Malvern business this year 2013 were $26 million. And I was curious, what type of growth rate, you’re assuming on that, that base business that remains. Now, Fred had mentioned that you were winning new contrasts. So I’m just trying to parse out what type of growth you’re seeing there in terms of new customer ad versus existing customer accelerating use. I’ll get back to you?

Let me explain. It’s a hard questions to answer but let me put this way. Almost a 100% of the business that Thomas had when through OEM customers. And what we’re doing and in Canada, what we’re forced to do, and we have already initiated this as we’re putting this products, particularly sheet is in our sales bag right now. And we’re opening up new accounts everyday. I look at it a minute ago, we opened up new six new accounts today. And I will imagine will continue to adjust that. So I have a hard time comparing that against to what they had because there wasn’t any. So because it’s old now, these portion are now going direct. But we’ll continue to accelerate that. We have two new products that we meritized that we never win our forecast. These are coronary sinus guides and our lateral vein introducers were never in Merit’s bag when we both -- when we both Thomas. The products they made for another company but what we did as we negotiated the ability to sell those worldwide. So those are two new products that we other than mentioning now that will be in our bag going forward that we didn’t have there. That will be our new incremental business on those products. And those products itself 400 or 500 a prop by the way and which we get about 65% gross margin. So that’s the best I can answer that question right now. We can do some more work, I’ll talk of then but that’s the best I can give you right now.

That’s great. Thank you so much. I’ll get back in queue.

Thank you.

Thank you. (Operator instructions) And our next question come from the line of Ross Taylor with CL King. Please go ahead.

Hi. I missed a lot of the call, maybe you’ve answered this questions already. But I just want to know, if you have capital spending or forecast for the year and whether you maybe you kind of cutback on what your original CapEx plans were, given more happens here. And I guess, also you mentioned you’re realigning the business with the debt levels. Is there any assets or facilities you can sell with the result of some of the consolidation facility and other things yet going on in your business in order to your raising cash and pay down the debt?

Yeah. Let me go through a terms of assets to sell towards the building. We’re moving from a place that we are renting and so that’s certainly be. There are assets that we could sell to reduce our business while not affecting the overall business in our -- and the answer is the yes. I don’t think it would be appropriate to meet or identify those at this particular point for vague reason. But yes there are things too. In terms of cash flow, we have a capital budget. This is again budgets that people foot forth. And all those things are being reviewed. Some of those will be deferred, some of those will be discontinued. And there maybe other opportunities. As an example, on the facility, we may just the stop the facility. That’s one of our options, we may sell it down. We may do lots of things but I think to answer your question, all of those things are being looked at as well. What we want to do is get up, get burden of the step out of the way and we know how to do that. We have to sell more and we have to have better margins and we do have some other opportunities. But again I really comment on those right now.

Okay. And any specific number you have attached to capital spending budget right now for 2013?

On a budget basis, it is about $50 million or so that are in there and was very likely to reduce that by a third to a half. One way or the other, we will.

All right. Good. Thank you.

Okay.

Our next is a follow up from the line of Chris Cooley with Stephens. Please go ahead.

Thank you, very much. I apologized I didn’t ask earlier there, Fred and Kent. When you talk about the debt and the opportunities you have to further reduce the balances. Assuming you can get in those at this point but can you talk to us a little bit about what level of debt, you might be more comfortable with just when we think about the capital structure going forward. Maybe help us get a better understanding of kind of the levels that you’re trying to get the company down to in the near term?

Yeah. I think -- I mean I take over the intermediate term or the near term. I’d like to reuccedover the immediate term of the near term, I’d like to reduce the debt part by $80 to $100 million?

And is that just from the working capital standpoint, covenant standpoint, just trying to think about what’s -- why, what you’re seeing now the debt level down at this point

I also want to get -- I mean I don’t like that to start at very low rate. But I mean, you asked the question of what I think if had $100 million less or $80 million lest in debt, I feel low, and I feel better. I feel a lot better when it’s gone. But I think that’s kind of what I have in mind is reduction in extra level. But again I want to say that I really can’t answer any further questions on that other than the statements that I have made.

Understood. Thank you so much for the clarity.

Thank you. I’m showing no further question in the queue at this time. I’d like to turn the conference back to management for final remarks.

Well. Ladies and gentlemen, so late in the afternoon here and I know later where you are and we appreciate the questions. Kent and I will be available for the next couple of hours to answer your questions and to maybe clarify some of these points. But I think, we all now where we are. I hope what I would like to see and you will have to make this call but, we believe that we are doing the things that need to be done in a serious manner. Let me give you an idea of some other things that we are talking about. We have a President's Club every year. It is something that we use for our sale force. We have substantially reduced by almost 75% of the expense in that area. We are going to have a Christmas Party this year. We have one every year. It’s going to be in the Merit Cafeteria this year. And this may sound right. But these are I think the things that the staff knows. We put our Christmas light around our place. We make and put up a few lights. We will put up a tree, but we are now going to spend that kind of money. We are cutting back a lot of areas, our government affairs. Greg Fredde, who overseas that for us and has helped us in terms of grants of R&D tax credits in the State of Utah. I can’t go on and on. But essentially when I asked him the question, what’s your budget for political contribution this year, he answered straight forward. It’s zero. We are just not going to spend that money. We can’t. We have debt to take care of. We have performance and we are just going to tighten this,…

The BIG60.

The BIG60, excuse me is up 130%. So we have the products. We have the sales forces. We are cutting the discretionary expanses but we are not cutting our sales force. We are also not adding to that sales forces, but what we are doing is adding these products that will have a dramatic affect. So we are doing what has to be done. And you guys left aside, the speed of that how we are doing? But as Kent pointed out, we’ve already done a good portion up to this point. We’ve reaffirmed with our sales leadership, the revenues and the difference this year over our first part of the year was this, the Malvern situation which we explained to you to the best of your ability. So there it is. We know what we need to do. The task is before us, we are engaged in it and it will be -- we look forward to reporting back our results. We again thank you for joining us today. And I will tell you this isn’t a pleasant call to make. And I’ve been looking at all the other reports from other medical device companies. The medical device industry is going to have tough time. But all that being said, these are the times when the great opportunities present themselves. And this is when business says when individuals have the opportunity to raise to the occasion and we think that’s exactly what we intend to do. So ladies and gentlemen, thank you again for your interest. So, Kent and I now will be available here. We look forward to answering your questions. Thank you very much. Sign off from Salt Lake City. Good night.

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