Glacier Announces Value Enhancement Initiatives
(firmenpresse) - VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 11/12/13 -- Glacier Media Inc. (TSX: GVC) ("Glacier" or the "Company") announced today that a program of strategic initiatives has been undertaken to enhance its operations and financial position. These initiatives have been designed to address current economic and market challenges, as well as position the Company for long-term growth in accordance with its business strategies.
Value Enhancement Initiatives
The profitability enhancement and asset sale initiatives outlined are intended to enhance Glacier's operations and cash flow, reduce leverage and place the Company in a strong position with which to take advantage of growth opportunities through both operational development and acquisition.
Shares in Glacier are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol GVC.
About the Company: Glacier Media Inc. is an information communications company focused on the provision of primary and essential information and related services through print, electronic and online media. Glacier is pursuing this strategy through its core businesses: the local newspaper, trade information and business and professional information markets.
Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements that relate to, among other things, the Company's objectives, goals, strategies, intentions, plans, beliefs, expectations and estimates. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, statements relating to the Company's expectations regarding revenues, expenses, cash flows and future profitability and the effect of Glacier's strategic initiatives, including its expectations to grow its business information operations, to implement cost reduction measures, to sell real estate properties and utilize proceeds of such sales to cover required CRA re-assessment deposits and reduce leverage, to sell other non-core assets, to grow cash flow per share, to pay dividends, to repurchase shares and to reduce leverage and debt levels. These forward looking statements are based on certain assumptions, including continued economic growth and recovery and the realization of cost savings in a timely manner and in the expected amounts, and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these expectations include failure to implement or achieve the intended results from Glacier's strategic initiatives, the failure to implement or realize cost savings in a timely manner or in the expected amounts, the failure to negotiate or complete the sale of real estate and other non-core assets and the other risk factors listed in the Company's Annual Information Form under the heading "Risk Factors" and in the Company's MD&A under the heading "Business Environment and Risks", many of which are out of the Company's control. These other risk factors include, but are not limited to, the ability of the Company to sell advertising and subscriptions related to its publications, foreign exchange rate fluctuations, the seasonal and cyclical nature of the agricultural industry, discontinuation of the Department of Canadian Heritage's Canada Periodical Fund, general market conditions in both Canada and the United States, changes in the prices of purchased supplies including newsprint, the effects of competition in the Company's markets, dependence on key personnel, integration of newly acquired businesses, technological changes, tax risk and financing and debt service risk.
The forward-looking statements made in this news release relate only to events or information as of the date on which the statements are made. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date on which the statements are made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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Glacier Media Inc.
Mr. Orest Smysnuik
Chief Financial Officer
604-708-3264
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Datum: 12.11.2013 - 18:20 Uhr
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