-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, MZIKAh/oH+cyd9GyuINlDiM2ls5teNbfiMu4FFciri2+dkvOh9vISCI8ak84zfd1 +YjMgynvQEFFX3HEvzqmIQ== 0000950124-07-004643.txt : 20071126 0000950124-07-004643.hdr.sgml : 20071126 20070907112356 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950124-07-004643 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 FILED AS OF DATE: 20070907 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CHAMPION ENTERPRISES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000814068 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: MOBILE HOMES [2451] IRS NUMBER: 382743168 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MI FISCAL YEAR END: 1225 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2701 CAMBRIDGE COURT STREET 2: STE 300 CITY: AUBURN HILLS STATE: MI ZIP: 48326 BUSINESS PHONE: 2483409090 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2701 UNIVERSITY DRIVE STREET 2: STE 300 CITY: AUBURN HILLS STATE: MI ZIP: 48326 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm corresp
 

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        Champion Enterprises Inc.
Phyllis A. Knight       2701 Cambridge Court
Executive Vice President       Suite 300
and Chief Financial Officer       Auburn Hills, MI 48326
pknight@championhomes.net       248.340.0880
September 7, 2007
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E., Stop 7010
Washington, D.C. 20549-7010
     
Attention:
  Rufus Decker 
 
  Accounting Branch Chief 
     
RE:
  Champion Enterprises, Inc.
 
  Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 30, 2006
 
  Forms 10-Q for Fiscal Quarters Ended March 31, 2007 and June 30, 2007
 
  File No. 1-9751
Dear Mr. Decker:
     The following is our response to written comments received from the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission in a letter dated August 31, 2007.
FORM 10-K FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 30, 2006
General
  1.   Where a comment below requests additional disclosures or other revisions, please show us what the revisions will look like in your supplemental response. All revisions should be included in your future filings, including your interim filings where appropriate.
 
      Drafts of additional disclosures or other revisions resulting from our responses to the written comments are included in our responses below. All such revisions will be included in our future filings, including interim filings, as appropriate.
Selected Financial Information, page 19
  2.   We have read your response to comment two from our letter dated July 31,2007. We continue to believe that loss (gain) on debt retirement should not be included as a component of operating income (loss). Please include your loss (gain) on debt retirement around interest expense in your income statements.
 
      In future filings loss (gain) on debt retirement will be reported below operating income and will be included around net interest expense. A draft of such revised income statement, as contained in Selected Financial Information, follows:

 


 

                                         
    Five-Year Highlights  
    2006     2005     2004     2003     2002  
  (In Thousands)  
Net sales
                                       
Manufacturing
  $ 1,195,834     $ 1,190,819     $ 1,002,164     $ 981,254     $ 1,150,638  
International
    90,717                          
Retail
    117,397       135,371       110,024       130,366       250,277  
Less: Intercompany
    (39,300 )     (53,600 )     (97,900 )     (109,686 )     (156,704 )
 
                             
Total net sales
    1,364,648       1,272,590       1,014,288       1,001,934       1,244,211  
Cost of sales
    1,147,032       1,055,749       843,261       866,020       1,077,045  
 
                             
Gross margin
    217,616       216,841       171,027       135,914       167,166  
Selling, general and administrative expenses
    154,518       151,810       129,096       146,513       197,317  
Goodwill impairment charges
                      34,183       97,000  
Restructuring charges
    1,200             3,300       21,100       40,000  
Amortization of intangible assets
    3,941                          
Mark-to-market (credit) charge for common stock warrant
          (4,300 )     5,500       3,300        
 
                             
Operating income (loss)
    57,957       69,331       33,131       (69,182 )     (167,151 )
Loss (gain) on debt retirement
    398       9,857       2,776       (10,639 )     (7,385 )
Net interest expense
    14,446     13,986     17,219     26,399     26,430
 
                             
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes
    43,113       45,488       13,136       (84,942 )     (186,196 )
Income tax (benefit) expense
    (95,211 )     3,300       (10,000 )     (5,500 )     53,500  
 
                             
Income (loss) from continuing operations
    138,324       42,188       23,136       (79,442 )     (239,696 )
 
                                       
Loss from discontinued operations
    (16 )     (4,383 )     (6,125 )     (23,642 )     (15,859 )
 
                             
Net income (loss)
  $ 138,308     $ 37,805     $ 17,011     $ (103,084 )   $ (255,555 )
 
                             
FORM 10-Q FOR THE QUARTER ENDED JUNE 30, 2007
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Consolidated Results of Operations, page 16
  3.   We have read your response to comment five from our letter dated July 31,2007. We continue to believe that you should discuss the business reasons for the changes in general corporate expenses line item between periods in the MD&A, where applicable. Please discuss the business reasons for the changes in this line item for all periods presented in MD&A wherever you discuss segment results. Please also attempt to quantify the impact of each factor you identify when multiple and offsetting factors contribute to fluctuations.
 
      In future filings we will discuss the reasons for the changes in general corporate expenses between periods in the MD&A, wherever we discuss segment results. We will also attempt to quantify the impact of each factor we identify when multiple and offsetting factors contribute to fluctuations. In our response letter dated August 23, 2007, we provided a draft of such explanation for changes in general corporate expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2007 versus the comparable periods of the prior year.
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In connection with our response to your comments, we acknowledge that the we are responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosures in our filings; staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and we may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.
If you have any questions relating to these responses, please feel free to contact me at (248) 340-0880.
         
  Very truly yours,
 
 
  /s/ Phyllis A. Knight    
  Phyllis A. Knight   
  Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer 
 
 

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