Note 11 - Other Income/Expense

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Other Income and Other Expense Disclosure [Text Block]

11.  Other Income

During 2011, the Company and one of its international distributors entered into a mutual settlement and termination agreement in which the Company agreed to an early termination of this distributor’s contracts for $3,000,000.  This amount was received in February 2011 and is included in Other Income in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Earnings/Loss.  The contracts with this distributor were terminated as a result of this distributor not performing in accordance with their contracts, and there was no litigation.  The loss of this distributor did not have a significant impact on the Company’s revenues or gross margin.  The Company secured another distributor for this region during the fourth quarter of 2011.