For Further Information:
Scheid Vineyards Inc.
305 Hilltown Road
Salinas, CA 93908
(831) 455-9990
CONTACT: Scott Scheid, President and CEO
Mike Thomsen, Chief
Financial Officer
For Immediate Release:
March 14, 2007
SCHEID
VINEYARDS INC. REPORTS YEAR END RESULTS
; Yields up 50%
SALINAS, CA – March 14, 2007 - Scheid Vineyards Inc.
announced today its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2006.
Financial Results
Total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2006 totaled $30.1
million, compared to $31.2 million for the same period of 2005. Net income for the year ended December 31,
2006 was $1.1 million ($1.12 per share), compared to $4.4 million ($4.09 per
share) in 2005.
Mike Thomsen, Chief Financial
Officer, stated, “Although grape sale revenues decreased by approximately 25%
to $16.4 million in 2006 from the record level harvest of 2005, bulk wine
revenues increased 45% to $9.0 million, and winery processing revenues
increased 118% to $3.1 million in 2006.
It should be noted that the
profit results for the 2006 period included the costs of the settlement of a
lawsuit in the amount of $1.0 million, and $1.3 million of additional interest
expense as the result of additional borrowings used to finance the construction
of the Company’s winery. The 2005
period reflects a gain of $0.9 million from the sale of vineyard land and
certain equipment.”
Scott Scheid, President and Chief Executive Officer added, “The Company’s
new winery facility operated at near capacity in its second year of operations
and processed grapes for winery customers as well as the Company’s own grape
production. Construction is underway to
expand the facility from its current 18,000 ton crush capacity to 30,000 tons
of crush capacity in time for the 2007 harvest.”
About Scheid Vineyards Inc.
Scheid Vineyards
Inc. (www.scheidvineyards.com) is
an independent producer of premium wine grapes and bulk wine. The Company operates approximately 5,300
acres of vineyards, primarily in Monterey County, California. The Company sells
most of its grape production under short and long-term grape and bulk wine
contracts to wineries producing high quality table wine. The Company also operates a winery with
approximately 18,000 tons of processing capability. The Company produces bulk wine, as well as a small amount of
ultra premium wine under its own label.
The Class A Common Stock of Scheid Vineyards is traded on the
Pink Sheets Electric Quotation Service under the stock symbol SVIN. The “Pink Sheets” is a centralized quotation
service that collects and publishes market maker quotes in real time, primarily
through its website, www.pinksheets.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This release
contains forward-looking statements as well as historical information.
Statements of goals and strategies and words such as “plan”, “believe”,
“anticipate”, “expect”, “objectives”, “forecast”, and “predict” and other
similar words are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These
forward looking statements are included in accordance with the “safe harbor”
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and involve
risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual
results, performance, or financial condition to be materially different from
any results, performance, or financial condition suggested by the statements in
this release.