INGLES MARKETS INC - Quarter Report: 2003 March (Form 10-Q)

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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

Commission file number 0-14706.

INGLES MARKETS, INCORPORATED

(828) 669-2941

     Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes   x    No   o.

     Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes   x    No   o.

     As of May 1, 2003, the Registrant had 10,499,998 shares of Class A Common Stock, $.05 par value per share, outstanding and 12,391,966 shares of Class B Common Stock, $.05 par value per share, outstanding.

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INGLES MARKETS, INCORPORATED
INDEX

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Part I. Financial Information

INGLES MARKETS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

ASSETS

NOTE: The balance sheet at September 28, 2002 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date.

See notes to unaudited interim financial statements.

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INGLES MARKETS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (CONCLUDED)

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

NOTE: The balance sheet at September 28, 2002 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date.

See notes to unaudited interim financial statements.

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INGLES MARKETS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (UNAUDITED)

See notes to unaudited interim financial statements.

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INGLES MARKETS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (UNAUDITED)

See notes to unaudited interim financial statements.

* Certain amounts have been reclassified for the provisions of FAS 145. See Note J for further details.

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INGLES MARKETS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (UNAUDITED)

See notes to unaudited interim financial statements.

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INGLES MARKETS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (UNAUDITED)

See notes to unaudited interim financial statements.

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INGLES MARKETS, INCORPORATED AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO UNAUDITED INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

A. BASIS OF PREPARATION

In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited interim financial statements contain all adjustments necessary to present fairly the Company’s financial position as of March 29, 2003, and the results of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the three- month and six-month periods ended March 29, 2003 and March 30, 2002. The adjustments made are of a normal recurring nature. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in the annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States have been condensed or omitted pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission for Form 10-Q. It is suggested that these unaudited interim financial statements be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and the notes thereto included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 28, 2002 filed by the Company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on December 10, 2002.

The results of operations for the three-month and six-month periods ended March 29, 2003 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full fiscal year.

Certain amounts for the three-month and six-month periods ended March 30, 2002 have been reclassified for comparative purposes.

B. ALLOWANCE FOR DOUBTFUL ACCOUNTS

Receivables are presented net of an allowance for doubtful accounts of $565,854 and $479,113 at March 29, 2003 and September 28, 2002, respectively.

C. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, ACCRUED EXPENSES AND CURRENT PORTION OF OTHER LONG-TERM LIABILITIES

Accounts payable, accrued expenses and current portion of other long-term liabilities consist of the following:

Self-insurance reserves are established for workers’ compensation and employee group medical and dental benefits based on claims filed and estimates of claims incurred but not reported. The Company is insured for covered costs in excess of $350,000 per occurrence for workers’ compensation and $175,000 per covered person for medical care benefits for a policy year. Employee insurance expense, including workers’ compensation and medical care benefits, net of employee contributions, totaled $5.0 million and $5.4 million for the three-month periods ended March 29, 2003 and March 30, 2002, respectively.

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For the six-month periods ended March 29, 2003 and March 30, 2002, employee insurance expense, net of employee contributions, totaled $9.7 million and $10.5 million, respectively.

D. LONG-TERM DEBT

On December 11, 2001 the Company closed an offering of $250 million principal amount of senior subordinated notes due in 2011. The notes bear an annual interest rate of 8-7/8% and were issued at a discount to yield 9%. A portion of the proceeds was used to repay $170.0 million in existing indebtedness.

In conjunction with the issuance of the notes, the Company renegotiated its lines of credit, extending the maturity dates and increasing available lines of credit from $130 million to $145 million. Of the $145 million of committed lines of credit, $130 million matures in October 2004 and $15 million matures in October 2003.

During the six months ended March 29, 2003, the Company obtained $20.6 million in net advances on lines of credit at interest rates less than the prime rate. The proceeds of the loans were used to fund capital expenditures and for general corporate purposes.

E. DIVIDENDS

The Company paid cash dividends of $.165 for each share of Class A Common Stock and $.15 for each share of Class B Common Stock on January 15, 2003 and October 9, 2002 to stockholders of record on January 6, 2003 and October 1, 2002, respectively.

F. SUPPLEMENTARY CASH FLOW INFORMATION

Cash paid for interest and taxes is as follows:

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G. EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE

The following tables set forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share for the three-month periods indicated:

     The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share for the six-month periods indicated:

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H. LINES OF BUSINESS

The Company operates three lines of business: retail grocery sales, shopping center rentals, and a fluid dairy processing plant. All of the Company’s operations are domestic. Information about the Company’s operations by lines of business (in thousands) is as follows:

Revenue from shopping center rentals is reported on the rental income, net line of the income statements. The other revenues comprise the net sales reported.

For the three months ended March 29, 2003 and March 30, 2002, respectively, the fluid dairy segment had $11.3 and $11.0 million in sales to the grocery sales segment. The fluid dairy segment had $22.7 and $22.3 million in sales to the grocery sales segment in the six-month periods ended March 29, 2003 and March 30, 2002, respectively. These sales have been eliminated in consolidation and are excluded from the amounts in the table above.

I. ACCOUNTING FOR STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

In December 2002, the FASB issued Statement No. 148, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation– Transition and Disclosure” (“FAS 148”). FAS 148 amends FASB Statement No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation” (“FAS123”), to provide alternative methods of transition to the fair value method of accounting for stock-based employee compensation. In addition, FAS 148 amends the disclosure provisions of FAS 123 to require disclosure of the effects of an entity’s accounting policy with

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respect to stock-based employee compensation on reported net income and earnings per share in annual and interim financial statements. FAS 148 does not amend FAS 123 to require companies to account for their employee stock-based awards using the fair value method. However, the disclosure provisions are required for all companies with stock-based employee compensation, regardless of whether they utilize the fair value method of accounting described in FAS 123 or the intrinsic value method described in APB Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees. FAS 148 is effective for fiscal years ending after December 15, 2002 and early application is permitted. Interim pro forma disclosures are required for interim periods beginning after December 15, 2002. The Company adopted FAS 148 beginning with the March 29, 2003 quarter.

The Company reports under the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123,“Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (“FAS 123”). FAS 123 establishes financial accounting and reporting standards for stock-based compensation plans. As permitted by FAS 123, the Company elected to account for stock-based compensation awards in accordance with Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25. In accordance with FAS 123, the fair value of each option grant was determined by using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model.

Had compensation cost for the Company’s plans been determined based on the fair value at the grant date for such awards consistent with the provisions of FAS 123, the Company’s earnings and earnings per share, basic and diluted, would have been reduced to the pro forma amounts indicated below:

No compensation expense has been recognized under Opinion 25 in the three and six month periods ended March 29, 2003 and March 30, 2002. The pro forma impact of these options is not likely to be representative of the effects on reported net income for future years.

J. NEW ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

In August 2001, the FASB issued Statement No. 143 “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations” that provides accounting guidance for the costs of retiring long-lived assets and is effective for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2002. The Company adopted this statement at the beginning of fiscal year 2003. Adoption of the statement did not have any impact on the Company’s financial statements.

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In October 2001, the FASB issued Statement No. 144 “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets” (“FAS 144”). FAS 144 provides accounting guidance for financial accounting and reporting for the impairment or disposal of long-lived assets. The statement supercedes FASB Statement No. 121, “Accounting for the Impairment of Long-Lived Assets and for Long-Lived Assets to be Disposed Of” (“FAS 121”). It also supercedes the accounting and reporting provisions of APB Opinion No. 30 “Reporting the Results of Operations – Reporting the Effects of Disposal of a Segment of a Business, and Extraordinary, Unusual and Infrequently Occurring Events and Transactions” related to the disposal of a segment of a business. FAS 144 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2001. The Company adopted this statement at the beginning of fiscal year 2003. Adoption of the statement did not have any impact on the Company’s financial statements.

In April 2002, the FASB issued Statement No. 145, “Modifications to Reporting of Extinguishments of Debt and Accounting for Certain Capital Lease Modifications and Technical Corrections” (“FAS 145”). FAS 145 requires gains and losses on extinguishments of debt to be classified as income or loss from continuing operations rather than as extraordinary items as previously required under FASB Statement No. 4. Extraordinary treatment is required for certain extinguishments as provided in APB Opinion No. 30. FAS 145 also amends FASB Statement No. 13 to require certain modifications to capital leases be treated as sale-leaseback transactions and modifies the accounting for sub-leases when the original lessee remains a secondary obligor (or guarantor). In the December 2002 quarter, the Company adopted FAS 145. Costs of $0.7 million incurred with the early retirement of the $170.0 million in debt have been reclassified in the March 2002 six-month period from an extraordinary item to interest expense. The reclassification has no effect on total basic or diluted earnings per share but eliminates the need to classify a $0.02 per share loss in the March 2002 six-month period as an extraordinary item.

EITF (Emerging Issues Task Force) 02-16 - “Accounting by a Customer (including a Reseller) for Cash Consideration Received from a Vendor” — with regard to the treatment of cash consideration received by a customer, the Task Force reached a consensus that the consideration received generally should be presumed to be a reduction of the prices of the vendor’s products or services and should therefore be shown as a reduction of cost of sales in the income statement of the customer. In the second quarter the Company adopted EITF 02-16. The adoption did not have any impact on the Company’s financial statements.

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Item 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Overview

Ingles, a leading supermarket chain in the Southeast, operates 200 supermarkets in Georgia (83), North Carolina (60), South Carolina (33), Tennessee (21), Virginia (2) and Alabama (1). The Company locates its supermarkets primarily in suburban areas, small towns and rural communities. Ingles supermarkets offer customers a wide variety of nationally advertised food products, including grocery, meat and dairy products, produce, frozen foods and other perishables and non-food products, including health and beauty care products and general merchandise, as well as quality private label items. In addition, the Company focuses on selling high-growth, high-margin products to its customers through the development of book sections, media centers, floral departments, bakery departments and prepared foods including delicatessen sections. The Company recently began adding fuel centers and pharmacies at select store locations. As of March 29, 2003, the Company operates 21 in-store pharmacies and 16 fuel centers.

Ingles also operates two other lines of business, fluid dairy processing and shopping center rentals. The fluid dairy processing segment sells approximately 33% of its products to the retail grocery segment and approximately 67% of its products to third parties. Real estate ownership (including the shopping center rental segment) is an important component of the Company’s operations, providing both operational and economic benefit.

Critical Accounting Policies

Critical accounting policies are those accounting policies that management believes are important to the portrayal of Ingles’ financial condition and results of operations, and require management’s most difficult, subjective or complex judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain.

Self-Insurance

The Company is self-insured for workers’ compensation and group medical and dental benefits. Risks and uncertainties are associated with self-insurance; however, the Company has limited its exposure by maintaining excess liability coverages. Self-insurance reserves are established based on claims filed and estimates of claims incurred but not reported. The estimates are based on data provided by the respective claims administrators. The majority of the Company’s properties are self-insured for casualty losses and business interruption; however, liability coverage is maintained.

Asset Impairments

Beginning in fiscal 2003, the Company accounts for the impairment of long-lived assets in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 144. For assets to be held and used, the Company tests for impairment using undiscounted cash flows and calculates the amount of impairment using discounted cash flows. For assets held for sale, impairment is recognized based on the excess of remaining book value over expected recovery value. The recovery value is the fair value as determined by independent quotes or expected sales prices developed by internal specialists. Estimates of future cash flows and expected sales prices are judgments based upon the Company’s experience and knowledge of local operations and cash flows that are projected for several years into the future. These estimates can fluctuate significantly due to changes in real estate market conditions, the economic environment, capital spending decisions and inflation. Adoption of Statement No. 144 had no impact on results of operations or financial position.

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Closed Store Accrual

For properties to be closed that are under long-term lease agreements, the present value of any remaining liability under the lease, discounted using risk-free rates and net of expected sublease recovery, is recognized as a liability and expensed. If the real estate and leasing markets change, sublease recovery could vary significantly from the recoveries originally assumed, resulting in a material change in the Company’s recorded liability.

Results of Operations

Ingles operates on a 52 or 53-week fiscal year ending on the last Saturday in September. There are 13 and 26 weeks of operations included in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of income for the three and six-month periods ended March 29, 2003 and March 30, 2002. Comparable store sales are defined as sales by grocery stores in operation for the entire duration of the previous and current fiscal years. Replacement stores and major and minor remodels are included in the comparable store sales calculation. A replacement store is a new store that is opened to replace an existing nearby store that is closed. A major remodel entails substantial remodeling of an existing store and may include additional retail square footage. A minor remodel includes repainting, remodeling and updating the lighting and equipment throughout an existing store.

The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, selected financial information as a percentage of net sales. For information regarding the various segments of the business, see Note H “Lines of Business” to the Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements.