INTANGIBLE ASSETS AND GOODWILL

12 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2021

Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]

Intangible Assets Disclosure [Text Block]

NOTE 9 – INTANGIBLE ASSETS AND GOODWILL

Our goodwill, some trademarks and trade names have indefinite useful lives and, consequently, are not subject to amortization for financial reporting purposes but are tested for impairment annually or more frequently if events or circumstances indicate that the asset might be impaired.

Our non-amortizable intangible assets consist of:

■ Goodwill and trademarks and tradenames related to the Home Meridian and Shenandoah acquisitions; and

■ Trademarks and tradenames related to the acquisitions of Bradington-Young (acquired in 2002), Sam Moore (acquired in 2007) and Home Meridian (acquired in 2016).

We review goodwill annually for impairment or more frequently if events or circumstances indicate that it might be impaired.

In accordance with ASU 2017-04, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment, we perform our annual goodwill impairment test by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount. Management judgment is a significant factor in the goodwill impairment evaluation process. The computations require management to make estimates and assumptions, the most critical of which are potential future cash flows and the appropriate discount rate.

In conjunction with our evaluation of the cash flows generated by the Home Meridian, Bradington-Young and Sam Moore reporting units, we evaluated the carrying value of trademarks and trade names using the relief from royalty method, which values the trademark/trade name by estimating the savings achieved by ownership of the trademark/trade name when compared to licensing the mark/name from an independent owner. The inputs used in the trademark/trade name analyses are considered Level 3 fair value measurements.

The adverse economic effects brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, including reductions in our sales, earnings and market value, as well as other changing market dynamics, required that we perform a valuation of our intangible assets in the 2021 first quarter. The calculation methodology for the fair value of our Home Meridian segment’s and the Shenandoah division of our Domestic Upholstery segment’s goodwill included three approaches: the Discounted Cash Flow Method (DCF) which was given the largest weighting, the Guideline Public Company Method (GPCM) based on the consideration of the facts of the Company’s peer competitors and the Guideline Transaction Method (GTM) based on consideration of transactions with varying risk profiles, geographies and market conditions. The income approach, specifically the relief from royalty method, was used as the valuation methodology for our trade names and trademarks, based on cash flow projections and growth rates for each trade name for five years in the future provided by management, and a royalty rate benchmark for companies with similar activities. As a result of our intangible asset valuation analysis, in the first quarter of fiscal 2021, we recorded $44.3 million non-cash impairment charges including $23.2 million to Home Meridian goodwill, $16.4 million to Shenandoah goodwill and $4.8 million to certain of Home Meridian segment’s trade names.

Based on our internal analyses at January 31, 2021, the fair values of our non-amortizable trademarks and trade names exceeded their carrying values and we concluded that Shenandoah goodwill in the Domestic Upholstery segment is not impaired.

Details of our non-amortizable intangible assets are as follows:

		January 31, 2021							February 2, 2020
Non-amortizable Intangible Assets	Segment	Beginning Balance		Impairment Charges			Net Book Value		Beginning Balance		Impairment Charges		Net Book Value
Goodwill	Home Meridian	$	23,187	$	(23,187	)	$	-	$	23,187	$	-	$	23,187
Goodwill	Domestic Upholstery		16,871		(16,381	)		490		16,871		-		16,871
Total Goodwill			40,058		(39,568	)		490		40,058		-		40,058
Trademarks and trade names - Home Meridian	Home Meridian		11,400		(4,750	)		6,650		11,400		-		11,400
Trademarks and trade names - Bradington-Young	Domestic Upholstery		861		-			861		861		-		861
Trademarks and trade names - Sam Moore	Domestic Upholstery		396		-			396		396		-		396
Total Trademarks and trade names		$	12,657	$	(4,750	)	$	7,907	$	12,657	$	-	$	12,657
Total non-amortizable assets		$	52,715	$	(44,318	)	$	8,397	$	52,715	$	-	$	52,715

Our amortizable intangible assets are recorded in the Home Meridian and in Domestic Upholstery segments. The carrying amounts and changes therein of those amortizable intangible assets were as follows:

	Amortizable Intangible Assets
	Customer
	Relationships			Trademarks			Totals
Balance at February 2, 2020	$	19,996		$	718		$	20,714
Amortization		(2,324	)		(60	)		(2,384	)
Balance at January 31, 2021	$	17,672		$	658		$	18,330

The estimated amortization expense associated with our amortizable intangible assets is expected to be as follows:

Fiscal Year	Amount
2022		2,384
2023		2,384
2024		2,384
2025		2,359
2026		2,359
2027 and thereafter		6,460
	$	18,330