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:
June 4, 2007
SCHEID
VINEYARDS INC. REPORTS 1st QUARTER RESULTS
SALINAS,
CA – June 4, 2007 - Scheid
Vineyards Inc. announced today its financial results for the first quarter
ended March 31, 2007.
Financial Results
Mike Thomsen,
Chief Financial Officer, reports, “Revenues
for the three months ended March 31, 2007 increased to $10.1 million from $7.0
million for the same period in 2006, primarily due to increased sales of bulk
wine. Margins were lower for wine sold
in 2007, which was primarily wine produced in 2006, than margins for wine sold
in 2006, which was primarily wine produced in 2005. Yields of the 2005 harvest were at record
levels, resulting in lower production costs per unit of bulk wine. As a result, gross profit for the three
months ended March 31, 2007 totaled $2.8 million, as compared to $3.2 million
in the 2006 period.”
Mr. Thomsen continued, “For the three months
ended March 31, 2007, income from operations totaled $0.3 million, compared to
$0.8 million for the same period in 2006.
Early in 2007, the Company sold a 360-acre vineyard, resulting in a
one-time gain of $4.2 million. After
reflecting the gain on the vineyard sale and income taxes on net profits, net
income for the three months ended March 31, 2007 was $2.6 million ($2.57 per share),
compared to $0.5 million ($0.45 per share) in 2006.”
Winery Construction
Scott Scheid, President and Chief Executive
Officer added, “Construction of the second phase of the Company’s winery
facility is proceeding on schedule. This
expansion will increase capacity from a current 18,000 tons of processing
capability to approximately 30,000 tons and will be completed in time for the
2007 harvest.”
About
Scheid Vineyards Inc.
Scheid Vineyards
Inc. (www.scheidvineyards.com)
operates approximately 5,300 acres of premium wine grape vineyards, primarily
in Monterey County, California. The Company is in the business of selling
grapes and bulk wine to wineries producing high quality table wine. The Company also operates a winery that
currently has approximately 18,000 tons of annual processing capability, an
amount that will increase to approximately 30,000 tons upon completion of ongoing
construction, in which it crushes grapes for its own account, as well as for
outside wineries. The Company also
produces a small amount of ultra premium wine under the Scheid Vineyards
label, which is sold through the Company’s tasting room, wine club, and
local-area retailers. 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.