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Profile - Electronic Retailing Sys. (OTC BB:ERSI.OB)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
488 Main Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06851
Phone: (203) 849-2500
Fax: (203) 849-2501
Email: thorne@ersi.com
Employees (last reported count): 69
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 ·Sector: Technology
 ·Industry: Office Equipment
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 64%
·Institutional: 10% (27% of float)
(14 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 2.04M shares (+49.12%)
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Electronic Retailing Systems International Inc. develops and provides electronic shelf label (ESL) systems designed to allow supermarket chains and other retailers to increase productivity, reduce labor costs and improve management information systems. The ERS ShelfNet system has been designed as a productivity-enhancing center store automation system, which replaces paper price tags on retail shelves with electronic liquid crystal display units and provides a suite of applications to enhance a retailer's pricing, inventory, shelf management, merchandising and promotional activities. Each ERS ShelfNet System generally consists of up to 30,000 ESLs and the necessary communication and support infrastructure to link the ESLs with the store's central computer and point-of-sale systems. The Company's new generation system consists of various components including Electronic Shelf Label, Spread Spectrum Wireless Network, Communication Hub, System Controller and Software System.
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Financial Summary
Electronic Retailing Systems develops and supplies electronic shelf labeling systems which replace paper price tags on retail shelves with liquid crystal display labels and transmit pricing and other information to and from the aisle. For the six months ended 6/30/01, revenues rose 20% to $3.1 million. Net loss before extraordinary item fell 40% to $6.7 million. Revenues reflect increased sales activity. Lower loss also reflects decreased interest expenses.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY1999 Pay

Norton Garfinkle, 69
Chairman
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Michael Persky, 36
Pres and COO
$235K
Bruce Failing, Jr., 51
Vice Chairman, CEO
150K
Jerry McAuliffe, 36
VP, CFO
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Paul Lavoie, 39
VP of Sales
180K
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-1999 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc..
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Statistics at a Glance -- OTC BB:ERSI.OBAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 4-Apr-2001
$0.078
Recent Price$0.24 
52-Week High
on 5-Sep-2000
$1.047
Beta-0.16 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)8,682 
Daily Volume (10-day avg)1,000 
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change-72.6%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
-63.2%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$5.12M
Shares Outstanding21.3M
Float7.70M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividendnone 
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq)-$0.81 
Earnings (ttm)-$0.90 
Earnings (mrq)-$0.15 
Sales (ttm)$0.24 
Cash (mrq)$0.01 
Valuation Ratios
Price/BookN/A 
Price/EarningsN/A 
Price/Sales (ttm)1.00 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$5.10M
EBITDA (ttm)-$11.2M
Income available to common (ttm)-$19.1M
Profitability
Profit MarginN/A 
Operating MarginN/A 
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsDec 31
Most recent quarter30-June-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)-141.93%
Return on EquityN/A 
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq)0.29 
Debt/EquityN/A 
Total Cash (mrq)$228.0K
Short Interest
As of 8-Sep-1999
Shares Short0 
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
52.0K
Daily Volume7,000 
See Profile Help for a description of each item above;   K = thousands;   M = millions;   mrq = most-recent quarter;   ttm = trailing twelve months;   (as of 30-June-2001)

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