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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS:
12 Months Ended
Apr. 30, 2014
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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS:
 
 
During the first quarter of 2015, the Company and its indirect subsidiaries, Kable Distribution and Palm Coast, entered into a settlement agreement with a significant customer, Heinrich Bauer (USA) LLC (“Bauer”).
 
Kable Distribution and Bauer were parties to an ordinary course of business contract pursuant to which Kable Distribution distributes certain magazines of Bauer in return for a commission. Palm Coast and Bauer are parties to an ordinary course of business contract pursuant to which Palm Coast provides certain fulfillment services to Bauer in return for service fees.
 
As described in Note 7, Kable Distribution operates with negative working capital. The negative working capital of Kable Distribution represents the net payment obligation due to publisher clients and other third parties, which amounts will vary from period to period based on the level of magazine distribution. The negative working capital of Kable Distribution is calculated by deducting (a) the sum of the cash held by Kable Distribution plus the accounts receivable (net of estimated magazine returns to Kable Distribution) owed to Kable Distribution from wholesalers, retailers and other third parties from (b) the accounts payable (net of estimated magazine returns to publishers) owed by Kable Distribution to publisher clients and other third parties.
 
During the first quarter of 2014, Kable Distribution received notice that its ordinary course of business contract with Bauer, which provides Kable Distribution with a substantial amount of negative working capital liquidity, would not be renewed upon its scheduled expiration in June 2014.
 
Pursuant to the settlement agreement, Kable Distribution agreed to eliminate the commission paid by Bauer to Kable Distribution for distribution services for the remainder of the contract and to amend the payment procedures with respect to amounts received by Kable Distribution from wholesalers or retailers relating to the domestic sale by Kable Distribution of Bauer magazines to such wholesalers or retailers; Palm Coast agreed to reduce certain fees charged to Bauer for fulfillment services, with Bauer agreeing to extend the term of its fulfillment agreement to at least December 31, 2018; and the Company agreed to issue to Bauer 825,000 shares of common stock, par value $.10, of the Company, which represents approximately 10.3% of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company following such issuance, with Bauer agreeing to not sell or transfer such shares for a period of six months. In return for such consideration, Bauer released all claims it may have had against each of Kable Distribution, Palm Coast, the Company and its related persons, other than the obligations of Kable Distribution, Palm Coast and the Company under the settlement agreement, the future obligations of Kable Distribution under its distribution agreement as amended by the settlement agreement and the future obligations of Palm Coast under its fulfillment agreement as amended by the settlement agreement. In particular, the settlement agreement releases Kable Distribution from having to pay the accounts payable owed to Bauer relating to the domestic sale by Kable Distribution of Bauer magazines other than to the extent amounts have been received by Kable Distribution or Bauer on or after May 14, 2014 from wholesalers or retailers relating to the domestic sale by Kable Distribution of Bauer magazines to such wholesalers or retailers. As a result of the settlement agreement, on a pro forma basis, if the settlement agreement had been in effect as of April 30, 2014, Kable Distribution estimates that its negative working capital would have been reduced by $12,077,000.
 
In addition, during the first quarter of 2015, certain subsidiaries of the Company engaged in the Media Services business entered into the fourth amendment to the Media Services Credit Facility with its lender. The fourth amendment provides the bank’s consent to the settlement agreement with Bauer and eliminates references to Bauer in the Media Services Credit Facility. No other material terms of the Media Services Credit Facility changed in connection with the Fourth Amendment.