New York Stock Brokers Club :
Baldwin Technology
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16:15| NYSBC(AMX:BLD)9801 . Harry`s@Hanover . Baldwin Tech . Press Equipment
Originally : Baldwin Bkln 1918 . | Printing & Pub mkt : Newspaper - going to
customization & color . Mags & catalogs .
US 210B$ . greater than all other electronic media combined .
Buys 10 - 15 B$ WW % yr . 5B$ accessories & controls . .2-.3 of 5M$ cost of
web press is their sort of prods . Enkel Splicer . finishing - folding
.5 to 1 M$ each . Blanket Cleaner 8-15k$ each . 200 prods tot , 3 catagories
: .4 .3 .3 | US Europe Asia | 475 393 165 employees : 85 68 62 M$ rev
Material handling in US . need to expand this into RoW .
220M$ tot Sales . Cos Run by locals WW .
Markets : Commercial , Publications , Newspaper , Packaging , Converting (
envelopes & papertowell rolls , etc ) , Print-on-Demand .
Digital data very liquid now days . Distributed printing .
Customers : OEM ( press mfgs : Heidberg ) . Direct : Donnelly McGraw
Largest cust < .08 of tot sales .
See : www.baldwintech.com
Not had good run this half fair evaluation . Over last cpl yrs been
reevaluating what they doing . Focused evryone shareholder val .
Portfolio of Cos . Streamline global mkting .
Actions : divested Pre-Press , restructured mkting to Product WW .
Baldwin JV w Davlin ( CAN ) : print-on-demand , cleaning eq .
Fin measurement sys : incentive compensation on Economic value added
Publishers & Users : more Tek sofist . continue to consolidate , more niche
mkting . Their eq adds hrs of press time by reducing turnaround .
Signature waste ? Focusing on Environment waset VOC emisions .
Cleaning & water systems .
Q1 52 57 48 M | 1 .6 1.2 earnings . last 3 yr .
Why invest : Industry large stable - lot of change , high cap-ex now .
They one stop shop . Solid Fin Base : Where there`s Printing , ther`s
Baldwin .
|17:11| ?s : Ted : Institutional ownership - > .15 ( 13f funds ) Insiders :
Jerry Chmn 1 yr . been in busn since `68 . Joined Baldwin US `90 .
B all inside - supervoting , A .2 inside . Options - lot out @ 3 - 7 $ .
dbld this yr - forcasts hav ~ been reliable . 2.75 to now 5 .
| Sales to Fed ? Gov buys from press mfgs or farm out .
Market cap | 17.5 x 5 |>| 87.5 | M$ | Book 60 M$ |
E % S ? .45 - .5 | est
Largest cust : Mitsubishi , German firm , last 2 yrs .
Competition . Press Mfgs themselves after patents expire .
other , all Private : Oxytran ~ Chic IL | B only major WW player .
Bought Mizomex `89 . sold , took 38M$ writeoff .
Acqs ? record poor so going to be carefull .
Wherefrom Growth ? Newspapers - reequiping w multiuse presses that need
cleaning in between . Distributive printing .
Material handling |
Clare : Asia ? in Japan & PRC - they relatively unaffected . produce there
. not seeing declines in sale , but is translation issue .
Cash % share ? 10 M$ ( .7 % share ) | Debt ? 30 M$ .
Profit margs : Gross .30 ; operating : .07 |
Internet , Home shopping ? CD-Rom - good for ref , - didn`t impact mags &
periodicals . 1 wall in Computer store filled w books .
Got more niche mkting catalogs . Wife does shopping off net & catalogs .
Does not now see as bleeding . Printing growth @ .05 |
Digital DB used to create all push media
|17:34| Jerry Larry & Helen .
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