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RESTRUCTURING
3 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
RESTRUCTURING [Abstract]  
RESTRUCTURING
  9. RESTRUCTURING

 

In March 2012, we announced a plan to restructure our bioanalytical laboratory operations. We consolidated our laboratory in McMinnville, Oregon into our 120,000 square foot headquarters facility in West Lafayette, Indiana. This plan was implemented to reduce operating costs and strengthen our ability to meet clients' needs by improving laboratory utilization. In the fourth fiscal quarter of 2012, we decided to initiate closure of our facility and bioanalytical laboratory in Warwickshire, United Kingdom after careful evaluation of its financial performance and analysis of our strategic alternatives. We will continue to sell our products globally while further consolidating delivery of our CRO services into our Indiana locations. As part of the overall evaluation of our business, personnel reductions in the Selling, R&D and General and Administrative functions were also implemented at both of our Indiana locations during the second half of fiscal 2012. In total, 74 employees were terminated as part of the restructuring activities in fiscal 2012.

 

We have reserved for lease payments at the UK location as of the cease use date and have considered free rent, sublease rentals and the number of days it would take to restore the space to its original condition prior to our improvements. In the first fiscal quarter of 2013, we began amortizing into normal operating income, equally through the cease use date, the estimated rent income of $200K from the prior fiscal year. Based on these, we have $818 reserved for UK lease related costs.

 

The following table sets forth the rollforward of the restructuring activity for the three months ended December 31, 2012.

 

    Balance,
September 30,
2012
    Total
Charges
    Cash
Payments
    Other     Balance,
December 31,
2012
 
One-time termination benefits   $ 448     $ -     $ (398 )   $ -     $ 50  
Lease related costs     800       -       -       18       818  
Equipment moving costs and method transfers     49       -       (49 )     -       -  
Travel and relocation costs     4       -       (4 )     -       -  
Loss on sale of equipment     (93 )     -       -       21       (72 )
Other costs     197       -       (42 )     -       155  
Total   $ 1,405     $ -     $ (493 )   $ 39     $ 951  

  

Other costs include legal and professional fees and other costs incurred in connection with transitioning services from sites being closed as well as costs incurred to remove improvements previously made to the UK facility. Other activity in the reserve rollforward primarily reflects a receivable for settlement of the capital lease in the UK.