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Related Parties
6 Months Ended
Apr. 30, 2012
Related Parties [Abstract]  
RELATED PARTIES

17. RELATED PARTIES

The Company currently has an agreement with Morris Sutton, the Company’s former Chief Executive Officer and father of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, under which he provides services as a consultant. The agreement provides for a monthly retainer of $13. Under this arrangement, fees earned in the three and six months ended April 30, 2012 totaled $38 and $75, respectively, and fees earned in the three and six months ended April 30, 2011 totaled $38 and $75, respectively.

MSI Entertainment, a company controlled by Morris Sutton, acted as an agent for the Company in sales to a distributor. The titles, for which the Company had no other planned distribution, were paid for in advance by the distributor. In the six months ended April 30, 2011, the Company paid MSI a fee of $78 in connection with the sales.

Beginning in 2011, the Company has purchased a portion of its Zumba belt accessories from a second supplier, on terms equivalent to those of its primary supplier. Morris Sutton and another relative of Jesse Sutton, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, earned compensation from the supplier of approximately $0 and $446 in the three and six months ended April 30, 2012, respectively, based on the value of the Company’s purchases. No such compensation applied in in the three and six months ended April 30, 2011. In addition, in the three and six months ended April 30, 2012, the Company purchased $35 of supplies from a company controlled by Morris Sutton.

The Company also has an agreement with a member of its board of directors to provide specified strategic consulting services, in addition to his services as a board member, on a month-to-month basis at a monthly rate of $10. Under this arrangement, fees earned in the three and six months ended April 30, 2012 totaled $30 and $60, respectively, and fees earned in the three and six months ended April 30, 2011 totaled $30 and $60, respectively.