DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 28, 2015

DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS.

DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS.

NOTE 2 — DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS

On December 31, 2013, the Company announced its intention to divest its shuttle bus business. The progressively competitive environment in the bus industry led to intensified price cutting, making it more difficult to sustain profitability. Shuttle bus products represented less than 13% of the Company’s consolidated sales for the year ended December 28, 2013, but have had a material adverse effect on reported financial results in recent years.

On February 28, 2014, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”) for the sale of certain assets of the Company’s shuttle bus division. Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and upon satisfaction of the closing conditions, the Company sold the assets of the shuttle bus operations including machinery and equipment, inventory, trademarks, engineering drawings, bills of materials, customer lists, customer purchasing histories, price lists, distribution lists, supplier lists, production data, quality control records, procedures related to the shuttle bus business, demonstrator vehicles, and all open purchase orders and unexpired governmental and municipal bid contracts. In addition, the purchaser assumed certain warranty obligations.

The Company continued to operate the business for a period of time following the date of the Agreement to finish certain orders.  The transaction closed on March 28, 2014. Net proceeds from the sale were $3.9 million and net assets of the shuttle bus operations sold consisted of inventory of $4.1 million, machinery and equipment of $0.2 million, reduced by a warranty obligation of $0.5 million, resulting in a gain of $0.1 million, net of tax, recorded during the three month period ended March 29, 2014. The Agreement contains a five-year period during which the Company will not compete in the shuttle bus business, with the exception that the non-competition does not apply to the Company’s trolley bus division.

The results for the shuttle bus division are classified as discontinued operations as follows:

	Three Months Ended
	March 29, 2014
Net sales	$	6,549,209
Loss before income taxes	(2,306,655		)
Loss after income taxes	(1,567,423		)