14 May 2008
Operating Result of the 1st Quarter of Year_2008
May 14, 2008
Subject : Operating Result of the 1st quarter of year 2008
To : The Managing Director, the Stock Exchange of Thailand
Sabina Public Co., Ltd. would like to clarify the operation result of the 1st
quarter of year 2008 as follows:-
Sales & Service revenue as of the first quarter of 2008 was 466.27 million
baht, which decreased by 41.80 million baht or 8.23% from that of the same
period of 2007. This resulted from a decrease in sales revenue in OEM products
by 50.85 million baht and increase in sales revenue of Sabina-brand products
by 10.07 million baht.
The cost of goods sold was 287.66 million baht which decreased by 60.34
million baht or 17.34% from that of the same quarter last year. This resulted
from reduce sales revenue of OEM products and the implementation of "Lean
Manufacturing System" which is an improvement in the efficiency of the
manufacturing process.
In 1st quarter of year 2008, Selling General and Administrative expenses was
116.84 million baht which increased by 14.8 million baht or 14.5%. Due to the
company had a lot of sales promotion & advertising expenses in order to
increase sales for product under trademark of subsidiary. As the result of
sales promotion and advertising expenses, operating profit of the company was
61.77 million baht or 13.25%
Net profit of the company was 55.68 million baht which increased by 4.19
million baht. This resulted from increase in sales from subsidiary
trademark's product and continuously decreases in OEM's orders that has slight
gross profit margin and concentrated on high-fashion product which has good
price and implementation of "Lean Manufacturing System". Furthermore, interest
expenses also decreased as well. The amount of interest expenses decreased was
3.89 million baht. These factors caused the net profit of the company increase
8.14 % and net profit margin was 11.59%
Please be informed accordingly.
Respectfully yours,
(Mr.Apisit Jongkittipong)
Director