UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-K

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þ		ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

o		TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

AMERICAN REPROGRAPHICS COMPANY

Delaware		20-1700361
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Based on the closing price of $8.73 of the registrant’s Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange on June 30, 2010 (the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter), the aggregate market value of the voting common equity held by non-affiliates of the registrant on that date was approximately $323,997,424.

As of March 7, 2011, there were 45,741,716 shares of the Registrant’s common stock outstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the Registrant’s Proxy Statement for its 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on April 28, 2011 are incorporated by reference in the Annual Report on Form 10-K in response to Part III, Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14.

 

 

AMERICAN REPROGRAPHICS COMPANY
ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010
Table of Contents

		Page
PART I			4
Item 1. Business			4
Item 1A. Risk Factors			11
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments			16
Item 2. Properties			16
Item 3. Legal Proceedings			16
Item 4. Removed and Reserved			16
PART II			17
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities			17
Item 6. Selected Financial Data			19
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations			20
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk			44
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data			44
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants On Accounting And Financial Disclosure			45
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures			45
Item 9B. Other Information			47
PART III			47
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance			47
Item 11. Executive Compensation			47
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters			47
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence			47
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services			47
PART IV			48
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules			48
SIGNATURES			55
Exhibit 4.1
Exhibit 21.1
Exhibit 23.1
Exhibit 23.2
Exhibit 31.1
Exhibit 31.2
Exhibit 32.1
Exhibit 32.2

AMERICAN REPROGRAPHICS COMPANY
2010 ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

In this Annual Report on Form 10-K, “American Reprographics Company,” “ARC,” “the Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to American Reprographics Company, a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries, unless the context otherwise dictates.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. When used in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the words “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “targets,” “likely,” “will,” “would,” “could,” and variations of such words and similar expressions as they relate to our management or to the Company are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated herein. We have described in Part I, Item 1A-“Risk Factors” a number of factors that could cause our actual results to differ from our projections or estimates. These factors and other risk factors described in this report are not necessarily all of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any of our forward-looking statements. Other unknown or unpredictable factors also could harm our results. Consequently, there can be no assurance that the actual results or developments anticipated by us will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, us. Given these uncertainties, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.

Except where otherwise indicated, the statements made in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are made as of the date we filed this report with the Securities and Exchange Commission and should not be relied upon as of any subsequent date. All future written and verbal forward-looking statements attributable to us or any person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this section. We undertake no obligation, and specifically disclaim any obligation, to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. You should, however, consult further disclosures we make in future filings of our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and Current Reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments thereto, as well as our proxy statements.

TRADEMARKS AND TRADE NAMES

We own or have rights to a number of trademarks, service marks, and trade names that we use in conjunction with the operation of our business, including the name and design mark “ARC American Reprographics Company ^®,” “PlanWell ^®,” “PlanWell PDS ^®,” “PlanWell Enterprise ^SM,” and various design marks associated therewith. In addition, we own or have rights to various trademarks, service marks, and trade names that we use regionally in conjunction with the operation of our segments. This report also includes trademarks, service marks and trade names of other companies.

PART I

Item 1.		Business

Our Company

We are the largest reprographics company in the United States with a network that consists of more than 225 production facilities in the U.S., significant operations in Canada, and a growing presence in the United Kingdom, India and China. Our primary business is providing highly-specialized document management services, document distribution and logistics, and print-on-demand services to the architectural, engineering and construction industry, or AEC industry. As a part of these services, we frequently place equipment in our customers’ offices and sell our services on a per-use basis on-site, a practice commonly referred to as facilities management, or “FM” services. We also sell reprographics equipment and supplies to complement our service offerings. Based on our extensive footprint and technology-enabled services, we are uniquely positioned to manage, store, distribute and print documents that are critical to the AEC industry, including large-format construction drawings, small-format specification documents, and color architectural renderings.

Construction documents are frequently reproduced in short runs and fast turnaround times, and are almost always technical, complex, constantly changing and confidential. We believe we hold the leading market share position in 30 of the Nielsen Group’s top 50 major metropolitan markets, and operate in eight times as many cities and with eight times the number of service facilities as our next largest competitor. We also provide services on-site in approximately 5,800 of our customers’ offices. We believe our national footprint provides a significant competitive advantage as the reprographics industry is largely comprised of small, local operators. We are the only single-source supplier of national reprographics services for regional, national and global AEC firms.

We also leverage our core competencies to address market opportunities outside of the construction industry. We provide document management and printing services to the retail, aerospace, technology, entertainment, and healthcare industries, among others. A significant portion of our non-AEC revenues are derived from supplying digital color printing services to customers with short-run, high-turnover promotional, advertising and marketing needs. We began to market these services in 2010 under a separate and dedicated brand known as Riot Creative Imaging.

We believe our long-standing customer relationships, domain expertise, document management capabilities and logistics services make us critical to the $788 billion AEC industry. Construction drawings and specifications are the primary means of communication in the AEC industry and link architects, engineers and construction professionals with more than 200 building trades throughout the life of a construction project. These drawings are usually larger than 11” x 17”, require specialized printing and finishing equipment to produce, and an intimate understanding of industry work flows. Changes in construction projects are communicated through distribution of new or updated drawings or specifications, which means that a document may be changed, sent to a reprographer, printed and re-distributed to project team members numerous times during the course of a building project. An initial set of 300 design documents can easily expand to 1,000 documents or more, and the number of reproductions can number into the tens of thousands. Our ability to manage this massive flow of changing and widely-distributed documents can significantly influence the efficiency and productivity of our customers’ projects.

We complement our market-leading reprographic services with the latest document management technology and proprietary software to strengthen our customer relationships and increase customer retention. In June 2000 we launched our flagship, cloud-based planroom application, PlanWell Enterprise. Since then we have introduced 10 other process improvement software applications that address online order management, print cost recovery, bid management, print automation, consolidated administrative access, and digital document distribution.

While we began operations in California and currently derive approximately 32% of our net sales from operations in that state, our company has grown and our market share has increased through more than 140 acquisitions of local reprographics and related companies that, in most cases, have more than 25 years of operating history at the time of acquisition. Our preferred practice is to maintain the senior management of companies we acquire.

Historically, our operating segments have functioned under local brand names. Each brand name typically represents a business or group of businesses that has been acquired by us. In the past, industry conventions led us to maintain acquired brands wherever practical due to the local nature of construction activity. Over the past several years, however, many large construction companies have grown through mergers and acquisitions, creating a market in which we believe that regional or national service providers have a greater marketing advantage. As a result, we have begun consolidating our operations under a single brand, ARC, to highlight the scope and scale of our services, especially with respect to customers that have a national presence.

We identify operating segments based on the various business activities that earn revenue and incur expense, whose operating results are reviewed by the chief operating decision maker. Based on the fact that operating segments have similar products and services, classes of customers, production processes and economic characteristics, we are deemed to operate as a single reportable segment. See Note 2 “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for further information.

Our main office is located at 1981 North Broadway, Suite 385, Walnut Creek, California 94596, and our telephone number at that location is (925) 949-5100.

Available Information

We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements, and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). You may read and copy any document we file with the SEC at the SEC’s public reference room at 100 F Street, N.E, Washington, DC 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for information on the public reference room. The SEC maintains an internet site that contains annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information that issuers file electronically with the SEC. The SEC’s internet site is www.sec.gov.

Our internet address is www.e-arc.com. You can access our Investor Relations webpage through our website, www.e-arc.com, by clicking on the “Investor Relations” link at the top of the page. We make available free of charge, through our Investor Relations webpage, our proxy statements, Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. We also make available, through our Investor Relations webpage, statements of beneficial ownership of our equity securities filed by our directors, officers, 10% or greater stockholders and others under Section 16 of the Exchange Act. The reference to our website does not constitute incorporation by reference of the information contained in the website and should not be considered part of this document. You can request a printed copy of these documents, excluding exhibits, at no cost, by contacting our Investor Relations department by telephone at 925-949-5100 or in writing to 1981 North Broadway, Suite 385, Walnut Creek, California 94596, Attention: David Stickney, Vice President of Corporate Communications.

Corporate Background and Reorganization

In February 2005, we reorganized from American Reprographics Holdings, L.L.C., a California limited liability company (“Holdings”), into American Reprographics Company, a Delaware corporation. We conduct our operations through our wholly-owned operating subsidiary, American Reprographics Company, L.L.C., a California limited liability company, and its subsidiaries.

Acquisitions

We have pursued acquisitions to expand and complement our existing service offerings and to increase the number of markets where we believe we could become a market leader. Since 1997, we have acquired more than 140 companies. Our recent acquisitions include one Chinese reprographics company for a purchase price of $0.6 million in 2010, two domestic reprographics companies and one Chinese reprographics company for an aggregate purchase price of $2.9 million in 2009, and 13 domestic reprographics companies acquired in 2008 for an aggregate purchase price of $31.9 million.

On August 1, 2008, we commenced operations of UNIS Document Solutions Co., Ltd. (“UDS”), our business venture with Unisplendour Corporation Limited (“Unisplendour” or “UNIS”). The purpose of UDS is to pair the digital document management solutions of our Company with the brand recognition and Chinese distribution channel of Unisplendour to deliver digital reprographics services to China’s growing construction industry. Under the terms of the agreement, our Company and Unisplendour have an economic ownership interest of 65 percent and 35 percent, respectively.

While our interest in acquisitions remains high, we have largely refrained from purchasing reprographics companies during the downturn in the construction industry. Our current intention is to resume our acquisition program when economic improvement in our industry is evident and business valuations have stabilized.

Industry Overview

According to the International Reprographics Association, or IRgA, the reprographics industry in the United States is approximately $4.5 billion in size, with approximately 3,000 firms with average annual sales of approximately $1.5 million and 20 to 25 employees. It is important to note that these statistics have not been revised in recent years and it is our belief that the industry may be significantly smaller due to the effects of the recent recession and downturn in the construction industry. Reprographics companies are often family-owned, and locate their businesses in proximity to customer locations. All reprographers focus on their ability to turnaround jobs quickly and develop local relationships. Reprographics services are purchased by nearly every trade in the construction industry and are most often passed through to project developers for reimbursement.

Demand for reprographics services in the AEC market is closely tied to the level of activity in the construction industry, which in turn is driven by macroeconomic trends such as GDP growth, interest rates, job creation, and office vacancy rates. Reprographics revenues are closely correlated to the private, non-residential sectors of the construction industry, which are often the largest users of reprographics services. According to FMI Corporation, or FMI, a consulting firm to the construction industry, the value of construction “put in place” in the United States for 2010 was estimated at $840 billion, with expenditures divided between residential construction at 29.9% and commercial and public, or non-residential, construction at 70.1%.

Reprographers also offer services in their customers’ offices where reprographics equipment, and sometimes staff, are provided on-site under a FM agreement. FMs allow customers to use reprographics equipment and services in their offices without the burden of equipment ownership, maintenance or supplies. The on-site use of our equipment and services is invoiced just as if those services were produced in our centralized production facilities, which allows the customer to submit such invoices for reimbursement to their clients. Like most reprographics services, reimbursement is the primary means of cost recovery for FM services. Growth in this offering has been robust, and is now expanding into managed print services, or MPS, which is the outsourced management of a customer’s entire print network, including office printers, multi-function devices, and office copiers. Photizo Group, a leading international consulting and research firm for the managed print services market, projects growth in the market to double from approximately $12 billion in the U.S. in 2009, to nearly $25 billion in 2013.

Digital color printing has been a critical part of reprographics services since the introduction of such production equipment in the 1990s. As the use of color has become more popular in most printing applications, non-AEC customers in particular are increasingly using large and small-format color imaging for short-run production of point-of-purchase displays, digital publishing, presentation materials, educational materials and marketing materials. InfoTrends, a leading independent research organization estimates that the overall market for digital color printing services in the U.S., which includes the segments we find most compelling, will reach $113 billion in 2010.

Our Competitive Strengths

We believe that our competitive strengths include the following:

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Leading Market Position in a Specialized Market. We are the largest reprographics company in the U.S., with operations in eight times as many cities and with eight times the number of service facilities as our next largest competitor in this fragmented and highly specialized market. We believe we are market share leaders in most of the major metropolitan areas we serve, and we believe our market share has increased as many small undercapitalized reprographers have closed as the economic downturn continues. Our size and national footprint provide us with significant economies of scale, making us one of the lowest cost operators in the reprographics industry. Furthermore, our leading position is bolstered by a highly-diverse customer base in which no single customer accounted for more than 2.7% of our net sales in 2010.

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Extensive National Footprint with Regional Expertise. We are the only reprographics company with a network that consists of more than 225 production facilities in the U.S., significant operations in Canada, and a growing presence in the United Kingdom, India and China. To enhance our global presence, we also have partnerships with independent reprographers in more than 50 countries around the world. Our service centers are digitally connected as a cohesive network, allowing us to provide our services locally, nationally, and globally to more than 120,000 customers. Our footprint also enables us to serve the local offices of our national and regional customers under a single contract through our Global Services (formerly Premier Accounts) program.

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Leader in Technology and Innovation. To maintain our leadership position amid growing adoption of technology by our customers we have invested approximately $100 million since 2000 in developing and maintaining our technology infrastructure and software applications. Our technology investments have helped us automate workflow, drive production costs down, increase efficiency and reduce errors for our customers and ourselves. We believe our technology products are well-positioned to become standards for document management and distribution in the AEC industry. With PlanWell, our cloud-based planroom application, we managed more than 30 terabytes of customer data and uploaded approximately 400,000 original documents to the system each month during 2010. We have developed and use other proprietary technology that supports online order management, print cost recovery, bid management, digital document distribution, and cloud printing and project collaboration. A dedicated staff of 44 engineers and technical specialists, with expertise in reprographics, internet-based applications, database management, and internet security, provide us with technology development and support capabilities unrivaled in our industry.

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Flexible Operating Model and Strong Cash Flows. Our business model has several characteristics that produce consistent cash flows under a variety of industry and economic conditions including (i) high gross margins relative to other reprographers, (ii) variable costs that comprise 55% of our total cost structure, as estimated in 2010 and (iii) the ability to leverage our economies of scale to closely manage our inventory, receivables and capital expenditures. We generate strong margins due to our lower cost structure and high-margin value-added services.

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Experienced Management Team and Highly Trained Workforce. Members of our executive and divisional senior management teams have an average of more than 20 years of industry experience. To maintain continuity of operations and local relationships, it is our preferred practice to maintain the senior management of the companies we acquire. We regularly offer training on every aspect of our business using a variety of online and in-person venues, conducting up to ten webinars or training seminars a week. We also actively develop our managerial “bench” through an elite leadership and mentoring program conducted by our senior executive staff, as well as respected third-party business consultants.

Our Business Strategy

We intend to strengthen our competitive position as the preferred provider of reprographics services in each market we serve. We seek to leverage our assets, facilities and core competencies to drive increasing revenue, cash flow and profitability in existing, adjacent and new markets. Our key strategies to accomplish these objectives include:

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Global Services (formerly “Premier Accounts”). We created Global Services in 2004 to take advantage of growing globalization and business consolidation within the AEC market. We plan to further enhance our market share and service portfolio on a national level by continuing to offer the services of all of ARC operating locations to large regional and national customers. We utilize our dedicated Global Services sales team to establish ourselves at an enterprise level as the only national reprographics services and technology provider with extensive geographic and service capabilities.

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Facilities Management/Managed Print Services. We intend to capitalize on the continued trend of our customers to outsource their document management services. Since the late 1990s, we have placed reprographics equipment and sometimes staff in our customers’ offices to eliminate the burden of equipment ownership, maintenance and the procurement of supplies. Customers are billed as if the services were outsourced, making reimbursement the primary means of cost recovery for FM services, and renewals for such contracts are typically high. Commissioned studies on the use of facilities management service strongly suggest that the FM customer is more likely to be retained over time, and use a greater amount and number of related reprographics services than a conventional reprographics customer. As of December 31, 2010, we had approximately 5,800 facilities management contracts, which represented 20.4% of our revenue in 2010. Managed print services, or MPS, is an extension of our FM business in which we address the equipment and cost recovery requirements of an entire enterprise print network, including reprographics services. By assuming the operation of substantially all of our customers’ print operations, we can offer them a mix of on-site and off-site services to provide more cost-effective operations, better asset management, and greater flexibility in production capacity. While this initiative is attractive to clients of any size, it has proved to be effective in attracting new business from our larger Global Services customers.

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Strategic Acquisitions. We have pursued acquisitions of reprographics companies to expand and complement our existing geographic footprint, especially in markets where we believe we could become a market leader. Since 1997, we have acquired more than 140 companies, realizing substantial operating and purchasing synergies by leveraging our existing corporate infrastructure, best practices and economies of scale. While we have largely refrained from purchases of U.S. reprographics companies during the recent economic downturn, we believe we can continue to grow our business by acquiring small, privately-held companies that serve local markets once the construction market begins to recover. Outside of the U.S., we will continue to look for opportunities in high-growth markets similar to our business venture with Unisplendour Corporation Limited in China, and our new operations in India.

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Generate Incremental Revenue From Technology. Our ability to design, develop and license best-in-class software applications, combined with our national distribution footprint, creates the opportunity to establish standards for technology use in the reprographics industry. By adding value to conventional services with technology and charging our customers for advances in productivity and efficiency, we seek to generate incremental revenue growth in the future. These value-added services include digital document distribution, file format and document conversions, building information modeling, scan-to-file, and digital document archiving, some of which are based on licensing and subscription models that create recurring revenue. Digital services revenue compromised 8.9% of overall revenue in 2010.

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Riot Creative Imaging. Since the 1990s, we have provided an extensive array of large- and small-format digital color printing services to our AEC and non-AEC customers through our reprographics service centers. Over the past 12 months, we have consolidated a significant portion of our existing color production capacity into ten centralized production facilities under a new, dedicated color services brand called Riot Creative Imaging. We support these centers with an existing color sales, support, and production team that has been repurposed to address the special promotional, marketing and advertising needs of retail companies and others in the non-AEC market. In less than a year, Riot has attracted high-profile clients such as Adobe, Ducati motorcycles, metropolitan and regional sports stadiums, national restaurant chains, clothing retailers and others. We intend to create smaller support centers within our existing branch network throughout 2011 to facilitate national production and distribution services.

Our Services

Reprographics services typically encompass business-to-business services including document management, document distribution and logistics, and print-on-demand. We also develop technology applications to support and enhance these services that improve control and efficiency in document workflows, and increase productivity.

Our services apply to time-sensitive and graphic-intensive documents and fall into four primary categories:

	•		Document management. Document management involves storing, tracking and providing authorized access to documents we maintain on our customers behalf. This is largely accomplished through digital database management as documents enter our digital infrastructure and are maintained on our production workstations, servers and networks.
	•		Document distribution and logistics. Document distribution and logistics involves transferring digital documents throughout our local and wide-area computer networks, and over the internet, as well as the pickup, delivery and shipping of hardcopy documents to and from locations around the world.
	•		Print-on-demand. Print-on-demand involves quick-turnaround digital printing in black and white and color, and in a wide variety of sizes and formats
	•		Facilities management. On-site services, frequently referred to as FMs, is any combination of the above services supplied at a customer’s location. On-site services involve placing equipment and sometimes staff in our customers’ location to provide convenience printing and other reprographics services. Our FM service offering is evolving to include the management of entire print networks in our customers’ offices, which we refer to as MPS.

We deliver these services through our specialized technology, more than 550 sales and customer service employees, and more than 5,800 on-site services facilities at our customers’ locations. All of our local service centers are connected by a digital infrastructure, allowing us to deliver services, products, and value to more than 120,000 U.S. customers who purchased goods and services from us in the past 24 months.

These broad categories of services are provided to our AEC customers, as well as to our non-AEC customers that have similar document management and production requirements. Our AEC customers work primarily with high volumes of large-format construction plans and small-format specification documents that are technical, complex, constantly changing and frequently confidential. Our non-AEC customers generally require services that apply to black and white and color small format documents, promotional documents of all sizes, and the digital distribution of document files to multiple locations for a variety of print-on-demand needs, including short-run digital publishing.

In order to increase our industry influence and establish industry standards for best business and technology practices throughout the reprographics industry, we also:

	•		License our suite of reprographics technology products, including our flagship online planroom, PlanWell, to independent reprographers.
	•		Operate Profit and Education in Reprographics (“PEiR”) Group, a trade organization wholly-owned by us, through which we charge membership fees and provide purchasing, technology, and educational benefits to other reprographers. PEiR members are required to license PlanWell and may purchase equipment and supplies at a lower cost than they could obtain independently. We also distribute our educational programs to PEiR members to help establish and promote best practices within the reprographics industry.

Customers

Our business is not dependent on any single customer or particular customers, the loss of any one or more of whom would have a material adverse effect on our business. Our customers are both local and national companies, with no single customer accounting for more than 2.7% of our net sales in 2010.

We have a geographic concentration risk as sales in California, as a percentage of total sales, were approximately 32%, 33% and 36% for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.

Operations

Geographic Presence. We operate 239 reprographics service centers, including 225 reprographics service centers in 198 cities in 42 states throughout the United States and in the District of Columbia, seven reprographics service centers in Canada, and one in the United Kingdom. We also have a business venture in China with four locations, and two startup locations in India. Our reprographics service centers are located in close proximity to the majority of our customers and offer pick-up and delivery services within a 15 to 30 mile radius. In our three prior fiscal years, sales outside the United States have been small but growing, amounting to $37.1 million, $28.2 million and $24.2 million for the years ending December 31, 2010, 2009, and 2008, respectively.

Hub and Satellite Configuration. We organize our business into operating segments that typically consist of a cluster configuration of at least one large service facility, or hub, and several smaller facilities, or satellites, that are digitally connected as a cohesive network, allowing us to provide all of our services both locally and nationwide. Our hub and satellite configuration enables us to shorten our customers’ document processing and distribution time, as well as achieve higher utilization of output devices by coordinating the distribution of work orders digitally among our service centers.

Management Systems and Controls. We operate with a largely centralized administrative function, with business decisions being heavily influenced by local and regional business information and business trends. Our common practice is to maintain the management team and sales force of acquired companies in order to maintain strong local customer relationships. Our local management maintains autonomy over the day-to-day operations of their business units, including profitability, customer billing, receivables collection, and service mix decisions.

Our senior management closely monitors and reviews each of our segments through daily reports that contain operating and financial information such as sales, inventory levels, purchasing commitments, collections, and receivables. In addition, our operating segments submit monthly reports to senior management that track each segments’ financial and operating performance in comparison to historical performance.

Suppliers and Vendors

We purchase raw materials, consisting primarily of paper, toner, and other consumables. Our reprographics equipment, which includes imaging and printing equipment, is either purchased or leased for use in our service facilities and facilities management sites. We centralize the purchase of most goods and services at the corporate level in order to maximize the economies associated with our size, while specialized goods and services are often purchased locally to maintain the efficiencies and time sensitivity required to meet specific customer demands. We continually monitor market conditions and product developments to take advantage of our buying power.

Our primary vendors of equipment, maintenance services, and reprographics supplies include Oce N.V., Azerty, and Xpedx, a division of International Paper Company. We have long-standing relationships with all of our suppliers and we believe we receive favorable prices as compared to our competition, due to the large quantities we purchase and strong relationships with our vendors. Significant market fluctuations in our raw material costs have historically been limited to paper prices and we have typically maintained strong gross margins due, in part to our efforts to pass increased material costs through to our customers.

Sales and Marketing

Divisional Sales Force. We market our products and services throughout the United States through localized sales forces and a combination of national and local marketing in each market we serve. We had approximately 550 sales and customer service representatives as of December 31, 2010. Each sales force generally consists of a sales manager and a staff of sales and customer service representatives that target various customer segments. Sales teams serve both the central hub service facility and satellite facilities, or if market demographics require, operate on behalf of a single service facility.

Global Services (formerly “Premier Accounts”). To further enhance our market share and our ability to service national customers, we offer the services of all of ARC operating locations to large regional and national customers through our Global Services program. We created Global Services to take advantage of growing globalization within the AEC market, and to establish ourselves as the leading national reprographer with extensive geographic and service capabilities. This consolidated service offering allows us to attract large AEC and non-AEC companies with document management, distribution and logistics, and print-on-demand needs that span wide geographical or organizational boundaries. As of December 31, 2010, we maintained 44 Global Services accounts.

PEiR Group. We established the PEiR Group in July 2003, a membership-based organization for the reprographics industry. Comprised of independent reprographers and reprographics vendors, PEiR members are required to license PlanWell technology, facilitating the promotion of our applications as industry standards. We also provide general purchasing discounts to PEiR members through our preferred vendors. This provides other reprographics companies the opportunity to purchase equipment and supplies at a lower cost than they could obtain independently, while increasing our influence and purchasing power with our vendors. Through PEiR, we also present educational programs to members to establish and promote best practices within the industry. As of December 31, 2010, the PEiR Group had 140 domestic and international members.

Competition

According to the IRgA, most firms in the United States reprographics services industry are small, privately-held entrepreneurial businesses. The larger reprographers in the United States, besides ourselves, include Service Point USA, a subsidiary of Service Point Solutions, S.A., Thomas Reprographics, Inc., ABC Imaging, LLC, and National Reprographics Inc. While we have no nationwide competitors, we do compete at the local level with a number of privately-held reprographics companies, commercial printers, digital imaging firms, and to a limited degree, retail copy shops. Competition is primarily based on customer service, technological leadership, product performance and price. See Item 1A — “Risk Factors — Competition in our industry and innovation by our competitors may hinder our ability to execute our business strategy and maintain our profitability.”

Research and Development

We believe that to compete effectively we must address the growing adoption of technology by our customers, and thus we conduct research and development in order to enhance our existing software and web-based applications, as well as create new proprietary technology products. As of December 31, 2010, we employed 44 engineers and technical specialists with expertise in software, internet-based applications, database management, internet security and quality assurance. In total, research and development amounted to $4.7 million, $4.0 million and $5.1 million during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, respectively.

Proprietary Rights

Our success depends, in part, on our proprietary information and technology. We rely on a combination of copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, license agreements, nondisclosure and non-competition agreements, reseller agreements, customer contracts, and technical measures to establish and protect our rights in our proprietary technology. Our PlanWell license agreements grant our customers a nonexclusive, nontransferable, limited license to use our products and receive our services and contain terms and conditions prohibiting the unauthorized reproduction or transfer of our proprietary technologies. We retain all title and rights of ownership in our software products. In addition, we enter into agreements with some of our employees, third-party consultants and contractors that prohibit the disclosure or use of our confidential information and require the assignment to us of any new ideas, developments, discoveries or inventions related to our business. We also require other third parties to enter into nondisclosure agreements that limit use of, access to, and distribution of our proprietary information. We also rely on a variety of technologies that are licensed from third parties to perform key functions.

We have registered our “American Reprographics Company” combined name and design as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and we have registered “PlanWell” and “PlanWell PDS” as trademarks with the USPTO and in Canada, Australia and the European Union. We do not own any other registered trademarks or service marks, or any patents, that are material to our business.

For a discussion of the risks associated with our proprietary rights, see Item 1A — “Risk Factors — Our failure to adequately protect the proprietary aspects of our technology, including PlanWell, may cause us to lose market share.”

Information Technology

We operate a technology center in Silicon Valley to support our reprographics services and software development. We also have a facility in Kolkata, India which gives us a powerful and cost effective resource to support our research and development. Our technology centers also serve as design and development facilities for our software applications, and our Silicon Valley technology center houses our North American database administration team and networking engineers.

From these technology centers, our technical staff is able to remotely manage, control and troubleshoot the primary databases and connectivity of each of our operating segments. This allows us to avoid the costs and expenses of employing costly database administrators and network engineers in each of our service facilities.

All of our reprographics service centers are connected via a high-performance, dedicated wide area network, with additional capacity and connectivity through a virtual private network to handle customer data transmissions and e-commerce transactions. Our technology centers use both commonly available software and custom applications running in a clustered computing environment and employ industry-leading technologies for redundancy, backup, and security.

Employees

As of December 31, 2010, we had approximately 3,200 employees, 16 of whom are covered by two collective bargaining agreements. The collective bargaining agreement with our subsidiary, Ridgway’s, LLC, covers six employees and the collective bargaining agreement with our subsidiary, BPI Repro, LLC, covers seven employees. We have not experienced a work stoppage during the past five years and believe that our relationships with our employees and collective bargaining units are good.

Executive Officers of the Registrant

The following sets forth certain information regarding all of our executive officers as of March 9, 2011:

Name		Age				Position
Kumarakulasingam Suriyakumar			57			Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan R. Mather			60			Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
Rahul K. Roy			51			Chief Technology Officer
Dilantha Wijesuriya			49			Chief Operating Officer

Kumarakulasingam (“Suri”) Suriyakumar has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since June 1, 2007, and he served as the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer from 1991 until his appointment as Chief Executive Officer. On July 24, 2008, Mr. Suriyakumar was appointed Chairman of our Board of Directors. Mr. Suriyakumar served as an advisor of Holdings from March 1998 until his appointment as a director of American Reprographics Company in October 2004. Mr. Suriyakumar joined Micro Device, Inc. (our predecessor company) in 1989. He became the Vice President of Micro Device, Inc. in 1990. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Suriyakumar was employed with Aitken Spence & Co. LTD, a highly diversified conglomerate and one of the five largest corporations in Sri Lanka. Mr. Suriyakumar is an active member of the International Reprographics Association (IRgA).

Jonathan R. Mather joined American Reprographics Company as its Chief Financial Officer in December 2006. From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Mather was employed at NETGEAR, a manufacturer of computer networking products, as its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before NETGEAR, from July 1995 to March 2001, Mr. Mather worked at Applause Inc., a consumer products company, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2001, as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer from 1997 to 1998 and as Chief Financial Officer from 1995 to 1997. From 1985 to 1995, Mr. Mather was employed with Home Fashions Inc., a consumer products company, where he served as Chief Financial Officer from 1992 to 1995, and as Vice President, Finance, of an operating segment, Louverdrape, from 1988 to 1992. Prior to that, he spent more than two years at the semiconductor division of Harris Corporation, a communications equipment company, where he served as the Finance Manager of the offshore manufacturing division. He also worked in public accounting for four years with Coopers & Lybrand (now part of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) and for two years with Ernst & Young. Mr. Mather has an M.B.A. from Cornell University. He is a Certified Management Accountant (C.M.A.) and a Fellow Chartered Accountant (F.C.A.).

Rahul K. Roy joined Holdings as its Chief Technology Officer in September 2000. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Roy was the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of MirrorPlus Technologies, Inc., which developed software for the reprographics industry, from August 1993 until it was acquired by the Company in 1999. Mr. Roy also served as the Chief Operating Officer of InPrint, a provider of printing, software, duplication, packaging, assembly, and distribution services to technology companies, from 1993 until it was acquired by the Company in 1999.

Dilantha Wijesuriya was appointed as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer effective March 4, 2011. Mr. Wijesuriya joined Ford Graphics, a segment of the Company, in January of 1991. He subsequently became president of that segment in 2001, became a Company regional operations head in 2004 and then became the Senior Vice President—National Operations in 2008, which position he retained until his appointment as the Chief Operating Officer. Prior to his employment with the Company, Mr. Wijesuriya was a divisional manager with Aitken Spence & Co. LTD, a highly diversified conglomerate and one of the five largest corporations in Sri Lanka.

Item 1A.		Risk Factors

Our business faces significant risks. The following risk factors could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition and the price of our common stock. We may encounter risks in addition to those described below. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair or adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.

Adverse domestic and global economic conditions and disruption of financial markets could have a material adverse impact on our business and results of operations.

During the past several years, domestic and international financial markets have experienced extreme disruption, including, among other things, extreme volatility in stock prices and severely diminished liquidity and credit availability. These developments and the related severe domestic and international economic downturn, have continued to adversely impact our business and financial condition in a number of ways, including effects beyond those that were experienced in previous recessions in the United States and foreign economies. The current restrictions in financial markets and the severe prolonged economic downturn may adversely affect the ability of our customers and suppliers to obtain financing for operations and purchases and to perform their obligations under agreements with us. These restrictions could result in a decrease in, or cancellation of, existing business, could limit new business, and could negatively impact our ability to collect on our accounts receivable on a timely basis, if at all. Although there have been recent signs of certain areas of economic improvement, we are unable to predict the duration and severity of the current economic downturn and disruption in financial markets and their effects on our business and results of operations. These events are more severe than the effects of previous economic recessions and may, in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

The residential and non-residential architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry is in the midst of a severe downturn. A continuing decline in the residential and non-residential AEC industry, could adversely affect our future revenue and profitability.

We believe that the residential and non-residential AEC markets together accounted for approximately 76% of our net sales for the year ended December 31, 2010, of which we believe the non-residential AEC industry accounted for approximately 93% of our net sales to the AEC market and the residential AEC industry accounted for approximately 7% of our net sales to the AEC market. Our historical operating results reflect the cyclical and variable nature of the AEC industry. Both the residential and non-residential portions of the AEC industry are in the midst of a severe downturn. The effects of the recent economic downturn in the United States economy and weakness in global economic conditions have resulted in a downturn in the residential and non-residential portions of the AEC industry. We believe that the AEC industry generally experiences downturns several months after a downturn in the general economy and that there may be a similar delay in the recovery in the AEC industry following a recovery in the general economy. A prolonged downturn in the AEC industry would diminish demand for our products and services, and would therefore negatively affect our revenues and have a material adverse impact on our business, operating results and financial condition. Since we derive a majority of our revenues from reprographics products and services provided to the AEC industry, our operating results are more sensitive to this industry than other companies that serve more diversified markets.

Because a majority of our overall costs are fixed, changes in economic activity, positive or negative, affect our results of operations.

Because approximately 45% of our overall costs were fixed for the year ended December 31, 2010, changes in economic activity, positive or negative, affect our results of operations. As a consequence, our results of operations are subject to volatility and could deteriorate rapidly in a prolonged environment of declining revenues. Failure to maintain adequate cash reserves and to effectively manage our costs could adversely affect our ability to offset our fixed costs and may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

Impairment of goodwill may adversely impact future results of operations.

We have intangible assets, including goodwill and other identifiable acquired intangibles on our balance sheet due to prior acquisitions. The initial identification and valuation of these intangible assets and the determination of the estimated useful lives at the time of acquisition involve management judgments and estimates. Based on our annual goodwill impairment assessment, we recorded a $38.3 million impairment during 2010.

The results of our impairment analysis are as of a particular point in time. If our assumptions regarding future forecasted revenue or gross margins of our operating segments (or “reporting units”) are not achieved, we may be required to record additional goodwill impairment charges in future periods, if any such change constitutes a triggering event prior to the quarter in which we perform our annual goodwill impairment test.

Competition in our industry and innovation by our competitors may hinder our ability to execute our business strategy and maintain our profitability.

The markets for our products and services are highly competitive, with competition primarily at local and regional levels. We compete primarily based on the level and quality of customer service, technological leadership, product performance and price. Our future success depends, in part, on our ability to continue to improve our service offerings, and develop and integrate technological advances. If we are unable to effectively develop and integrate technological advances into our service offerings and technology products in a timely manner, our operating results may be adversely affected. Technological innovation by our existing or future competitors could put us at a competitive disadvantage. In particular, our business could be adversely affected if any of our competitors develop or acquire superior technology that competes directly with or offers greater functionality than our proprietary technology, including our flagship product, PlanWell.

We also face the possibility that competition will continue to increase, particularly if copy and printing or business services companies choose to expand into the reprographics services industry. Many of these companies are substantially larger and have significantly greater financial resources than us, which could place us at a competitive disadvantage. In addition, we could encounter competition in the future from large, well-capitalized companies such as equipment dealers and system integrators that can produce their own technology and leverage their existing distribution channels. We could also encounter competition from non-traditional reprographics service providers that offer reprographics services as a component of the other services that they provide to the AEC industry, such as vendors to our industry that provide services directly to our customers, bypassing reprographers. Many of these companies are substantially larger and have significantly greater financial resources than us, which could place us at a competitive disadvantage. Any such future competition could adversely affect our business and impair our future revenue and profitability.

The reprographics industry has undergone significant changes in recent years and will continue to evolve. Our failure to anticipate and adapt to future changes in the reprographics industry could harm our competitive position and future revenue and profitability.

The reprographics industry has undergone significant changes in recent years. The industry’s main production technology has migrated from analog to digital. This has prompted a number of industry trends, including a rapid shift toward decentralized production and lower labor utilization. As digital output devices become smaller, less expensive, easier to use and interconnected, end users of construction drawings are placing these devices within their offices and other locations. On-site reprographics equipment allows a customer to print documents and review hard copies without the delays or interruptions associated with sending documents out for copying, and digital document services that were once considered the domain of experts, such as ourselves, are becoming easier to accomplish in common office settings. Also, as a direct result of advancements in digital technology, labor demands have decreased. Instead of producing one print job at a time, reprographers now have the capability to produce multiple sets of documents with a single production employee. By linking output devices through a single print server, a production employee simply directs output to the device that is best suited for the job. As a result of these trends, reprographers have had to modify their operations to decentralize printing and shift costs from labor to technology.

We expect the reprographics industry to continue to evolve. Our industry is expected to continue to embrace digital technology, not only in terms of production services, but also in terms of network technology, digital document storage and management, and information distribution, all of which will require investment in, and continued development of, technological innovation. If we fail to keep pace with current changes or fail to anticipate or adapt to future changes in our industry, including changes in digital document services, our competitive position could be harmed which would have a material adverse impact on our future revenue and profitability.

If we fail to continue to develop and introduce new services and technologies successfully, our competitive positioning and our ability to grow our business could be harmed.

In order to remain competitive, we must continually invest in new technologies that will enable us to meet the evolving demands of our customers. We cannot guarantee that we will be successful in the introduction, marketing and adoption of any of our new technology services and products, or that we will develop and introduce in a timely manner innovative services and products that satisfy customer needs or achieve market acceptance. Our failure to develop new services and products and introduce them successfully could harm our competitive position and our ability to grow our business, and our revenues and operating results could suffer.

In addition, as reprographics technologies continue to develop, one or more of our current service offerings may become obsolete. In particular, digital technologies may significantly reduce the need for high-volume printing. Digital technology makes traditional reprographics equipment smaller and cheaper, which may cause certain AEC customers to discontinue outsourcing their reprographics needs. Any such developments could adversely affect our business and impair future revenue and profitability.

If we are unable to charge for our value-added services to offset potential declines in print volumes, our long term revenue could decline.

Our customers value the ability to view and order prints over the internet and print to output devices in their own offices and other locations throughout the country and the world. In 2010, our reprographics services excluding digital revenues represented approximately 58% of our total net sales, and our facilities management services represented 20.4% of our total net sales. Both categories of revenue are generally derived from a charge per square foot of printed material. Future technological advances may further facilitate and improve our customers’ ability to print in their own offices or at a job site. As technology continues to improve, this trend toward printing on an “as needed” basis could result in decreasing printing volumes and declining revenues in the longer term. Failure to offset these potential declines in printing volumes by changing how we charge for our services and developing additional revenue sources could significantly affect our business and reduce our long term revenue, resulting in an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

We derive a significant percentage of net sales from within the State of California and our business could be disproportionately harmed by an economic downturn or natural disaster affecting California.

We derived approximately 32% of our net sales in 2010 from our operations in California. As a result, we are dependent to a large extent upon the AEC industry in California and, accordingly, are sensitive to economic factors affecting California, including general and local economic conditions, macroeconomic trends, and natural disasters (including earthquakes and wildfires). In recent years, the real estate development projects (both residential and non-residential) in California have significantly declined which, in turn, has resulted in a decline in sales from within the California-based AEC industry. Any adverse developments affecting California could have a disproportionately negative effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

Our growth strategy depends, in part, on our ability to successfully complete and manage our acquisitions and branch openings. Failure to do so could impede our future growth and adversely affect our competitive position.

As part of our growth strategy, we intend to prudently pursue strategic acquisitions within the reprographics industry. Since 1997, we have acquired more than 140 businesses, most of which were long established in the communities in which they conduct their business. Our efforts to execute our acquisition strategy may be affected by our ability to continue to identify, negotiate, close acquisitions and effectively integrate acquired businesses. In addition, any governmental review or investigation of our proposed acquisitions, such as by the Federal Trade Commission, may impede, limit or prevent us from proceeding with an acquisition. Acquisition activities have not been a significant part of our growth strategy in fiscal years 2010 and 2009 due to potential risks inherent in an economy recovering from a recent recession. As the economy improves, we currently expect to resume acquisition activity as a substantial component of our growth strategy. There can be no assurance, however, that any future acquisition activity, and any resulting growth, will equal or exceed prior levels of acquisition activity and growth.

Acquisitions involve a number of unique risks. For example, there may be difficulties integrating acquired personnel and distinct business cultures. Additional financing may be necessary and, if used, would increase our debt level, dilute our outstanding equity, or both. Acquisitions may divert management’s time and our other resources from existing operations. It is possible that there could be a negative effect on our financial statements from the impairment related to goodwill and other intangibles acquired through implementation of our acquisition strategy. We may experience the loss of key employees or customers of acquired companies. In addition, risks may include high transaction costs and expenses of integrating acquired companies, as well as exposure to unforeseen liabilities of acquired companies and failure of the acquired business to achieve expected results. These risks could hinder our future growth and adversely affect our competitive position and operating results.

In addition to acquisitions, part of our growth strategy is to expand our geographic coverage by opening additional satellite branches in regions near our established operations to capture new customers and greater market share. Although we believe that the capital investment for a new branch is generally modest, the branches that we open in the future may not ultimately produce returns that justify our investment.

If we are unable to successfully monitor and manage operations of our subsidiaries and segments, our business and profitability could suffer.

Since 1997, we have acquired more than 140 businesses and, in most cases, have delegated the responsibility for marketing, pricing, and selling practices with the local and operational managers of those businesses. During the past two years we have begun to centralize many of these functions, but if we do not successfully manage our subsidiaries and segments under this decentralized operating structure, we risk having disparate results, lost market opportunities, lack of economic synergies, and a loss of vision and planning, all of which could harm our business and profitability. In addition, there is a risk that the company-wide rebranding initiative that we commenced following the end of the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 could have a negative effect on our revenues and results of operations and financial condition.

We depend on certain key vendors for reprographics equipment, maintenance services and supplies, making us vulnerable to supply shortages and price fluctuations.

We purchase reprographics equipment and maintenance services, as well as paper, toner and other supplies, from a limited number of vendors. Our three largest vendors in 2010 were Oce N.V., Azerty, and Xpedx, a division of International Paper Company. Adverse developments concerning key vendors or our relationships with them could force us to seek alternate sources for our reprographics equipment, maintenance services and supplies, or to purchase such items on unfavorable terms. An alternative source of supply of reprographics equipment, maintenance services and supplies may not be readily available. A delay in procuring reprographics equipment, maintenance services or supplies, or an increase in the cost to purchase these items could limit our ability to provide services to our customers on a timely and cost-effective basis and could harm our results of operations and financial condition.

Our failure to adequately protect the proprietary aspects of our technology, including PlanWell, may cause us to lose market share.

Our success depends on our ability to protect and preserve the proprietary aspects of our technologies, including PlanWell. We rely on a combination of copyright, trademark and trade secret protection, confidentiality agreements, license agreements, non-competition agreements, reseller agreements, customer contracts, and technical measures to establish and protect our rights in our proprietary technologies. Our license agreements contain terms and conditions prohibiting the unauthorized reproduction or transfer of our products. These protections, however, may not be adequate to remedy harm we suffer due to misappropriation of our proprietary rights by third parties. In addition, United States law provides only limited protection of proprietary rights and the laws of some foreign countries may offer less protection than the laws of the United States. Third parties may unlawfully copy aspects of our technology products, unlawfully distribute them, impermissibly reverse engineer them or otherwise obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. If competitors are able to develop such technologies and we cannot successfully enforce our rights against them, they may be able to market and sell or license products that compete with ours, and this competition could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. Furthermore, we may, from time to time, be subject to intellectual property litigation which can be expensive, a burden on management’s time and our Company’s resources, and the outcome of any such litigation may be uncertain.

Damage or disruption to our facilities, our technology center, our vendors or a majority of our customers could impair our ability to effectively provide our services and may have a significant impact on our revenues, expenses and financial condition.

We currently store most of our customer data at our technology center located in Silicon Valley near known earthquake fault zones. Damage to or destruction of this technology center or a disruption of our data storage processes resulting from sustained process abnormalities, human error, acts of terrorism, violence, war or a natural disaster, such as fire, earthquake or flood, could have a material adverse effect on the markets in which we operate and on our business operations. We store and maintain critical customer data on computer servers at our technology center that our customers access remotely through the internet and/or directly through telecommunications lines. If our back-up power generators fail during any power outage, if our telecommunications lines are severed or internet access is impaired for any reason, our remote access customers would be unable to access their critical data, causing an interruption in their operations. In such event, our remote access customers and their customers could seek to hold us responsible for any losses that they may incur in this regard. We may also potentially lose these customers and our reputation could be harmed. In addition, such damage or destruction, particularly that directly impacting our technology center or our vendors or customers, could have an impact on our sales, supply chain, production capability, costs, and our ability to provide services to our customers.

Although we currently maintain general property damage insurance, if we incur losses from uninsured events, we could incur significant expenses which would adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.

If we lose key personnel or qualified technical staff, our ability to manage the day-to-day aspects of our business will be adversely affected.

We believe that our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel is critical to our success. If we lose key personnel and/or are unable to recruit qualified personnel, our ability to manage the day-to-day aspects of our business will be adversely affected. Our operations and prospects depend in large part on the performance of our senior management team and the managers of our principal operating segments. Outside of the implementation of succession plans and executive transitions done in the normal course of business, the loss of the services of one or more members of our senior management team, in particular, the sudden loss of the services of Mr. Suriyakumar, our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, would disrupt our business and impede our ability to execute our business strategy. Because the other members of our executive and divisional management team have on average more than 20 years of experience within the reprographics industry, it would be difficult to replace them.

Downgrades in our credit rating may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

From time to time, independent credit rating agencies rate our credit worthiness. Credit market deterioration and its actual or perceived effects on our business, financial condition and results of operation, along with deterioration in general economic conditions, may increase the likelihood that major independent credit agencies will downgrade our credit rating. Any downgrade in our credit rating could increase our cost of borrowing, which would adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations, perhaps materially. Any downgrade in our credit rating may also cause a decline in the market price of our common stock.

Valuation allowances recorded against our deferred tax assets may adversely impact our future results of operations.

We have deferred tax assets of $156 million and deferred tax liabilities of $111 million, which amounts to net deferred tax assets of $45 million on our balance sheet. Deferred tax assets are future income tax benefits we expect to realize. The realization of deferred tax assets requires an assessment of historical financial performance in conjunction with various forecasts and assumptions of future financial performance including future flows of taxable income. Actual results of these forecasts and projections may differ significantly whether positive or negative. Significant negative results may require a valuation allowance for the amount of deferred tax assets considered not to be realized in the future.

Results of tax examinations may adversely impact our future results of operations.

We are subject to various tax examinations on an ongoing basis. Adverse results of tax examinations for income, payroll, value added, sales-based and other taxes may require future material tax payments if we are unable to sustain our position with the relevant jurisdiction. Where appropriate, we have made accruals for these matters which are reflected in our Consolidated Balance Sheets and Statements of Operations.

Our debt instruments impose operating and financial restrictions on us and, in the event of a default, would have a material adverse impact on our business and results of operations.

The 2010 Credit Agreement and the Notes, impose operating and other restrictions on us and many of our subsidiaries.

The Indenture contains covenants that limit, among other things, our company’s and certain of our subsidiaries’ ability to incur additional debt and issue preferred stock, make certain restricted payments, consummate specified asset sales, enter into certain transactions with affiliates, create liens, declare or pay any dividend or make any other distributions, make certain investments, and merge or consolidate with another person.

The 2010 Credit Agreement contains covenants which, subject to certain exceptions as set forth in the 2010 Credit Agreement, restrict our ability to incur additional debt, grant liens or guaranty other indebtedness, pay dividends, redeem stock, pay or redeem subordinated indebtedness, make investments or capital expenditures, dispose or acquire assets, dispose of equity interests in subsidiaries, enter into any merger, sale of assets, consolidation or liquidation transaction, or engage in transactions with stockholders and affiliates.

The 2010 Credit Agreement contains financial covenants which, among other things, requires us to not exceed a specified maximum consolidated leverage ratio, not exceed a specified maximum consolidated senior secured leverage ratio and not go below a specified minimum consolidated interest coverage ratio.

A breach of any of these covenants could result in a default under our debt instruments. If any such default occurs, our creditors under the agreements may elect to declare all outstanding borrowings, together with accrued interest and other fees, to be immediately due and payable. The creditor under the 2010 Credit Agreement also has the right in these circumstances to terminate any commitments to provide further borrowings.

Item 1B.		Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

Item 2.		Properties

At the end of 2010, we operated 239 reprographics service centers, of which 225 were in the United States, seven were in Canada, four were in China, two were in India and one in London, England. We also occupied two technology centers in Silicon Valley, California, a software programming facility in Kolkata, India, as well as other facilities including our executive offices located in Walnut Creek, California, and our finance and purchasing offices located in Glendale, California.

In total the Company occupied approximately 1.8 million square feet as of December 31, 2010.

We lease nearly all of our reprographics service centers, each of our administrative facilities and our technology centers. The two facilities that we own are subject to liens under our credit facilities. In addition to the facilities that are owned, our fixed assets are comprised primarily of machinery and equipment, trucks, and computer equipment. We believe that our facilities are adequate and appropriate for the purposes for which they are currently used in our operations and are well maintained.

Item 3.		Legal Proceedings

On October 21, 2010, a former employee, individually and on behalf of a purported class consisting of all non-exempt employees who work or worked for American Reprographics Company, LLC and American Reprographics Company in the State of California at any time from October 21, 2006 through October 21, 2010, filed an action against us in the Superior Court of California for the County of Orange. The complaint alleges, among other things, that we violated the California Labor Code by failing to (i) provide meal and rest periods, or compensation in lieu thereof, (ii) timely pay wages due at termination, and (iii) that those practices also violate the California Business and Professions Code. The relief sought includes damages, restitution, penalties, interest, costs, and attorneys’ fees and such other relief as the court deems proper. We have not included any liability in our Consolidated Financial Statements in connection with this matter. We cannot reasonably estimate the amount or range of possible loss, if any, at this time.

In addition to the matter described above, we are involved in various legal proceedings and claims from time to time in the normal course of business. We do not believe, based on currently available information, that the final outcome of any of these matters, taken individually or as a whole, will have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows. We believe the amounts provided in our Consolidated Financial Statements, which are not material, are adequate in light of the probable and estimable liabilities. However, because such matters are subject to many uncertainties, the ultimate outcomes are not predictable and there can be no assurances that the actual amounts required to satisfy alleged liabilities will not exceed the amounts reflected in our Consolidated Financial Statements or will not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Item 4.		(REMOVED AND RESERVED)

PART II

Item 5.		Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Our common stock, par value $0.001, is listed on the NYSE under the stock symbol “ARC”. The following table sets forth for the fiscal periods indicated the high and low sales prices per share of our common stock as reported by the NYSE.

		2010								2009
		High				Low				High				Low
First Quarter		$	9.15			$	6.43			$	7.11			$	2.55
Second Quarter			11.31				8.33				10.26				3.26
Third Quarter			9.68				6.53				10.21				7.20
Fourth Quarter			7.97				6.00				9.74				5.43

Performance Graph

The graph below matches the cumulative 5-year total return of holders of American Reprographics Company’s common stock with the cumulative total returns of the Russell 2000 index, and a customized peer group of six companies (the “Diversified Commercial & Professional Services”) that includes: G & K Services Inc., Healthcare Services Group Inc., Mobile Mini Inc., School Specialty Inc., Tetra Tech Inc. and Viad Corp.. An investment of $100 (with reinvestment of all dividends) is assumed to have been made in our common stock, in the peer group, and the index on December 31, 2005 and its relative performance is tracked through December 31, 2010.

		12/05				12/06				12/07				12/08				12/09				12/10
American Reprographics Company			100.00				131.09				64.86				27.15				27.59				29.87
Russell 2000			100.00				118.37				116.51				77.15				98.11				124.46
Diversified Commercial & Professional Services			100.00				115.85				109.74				88.31				100.55				107.18

The stock price performance included in the graph above is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.

Holders

As of March 2, 2011, the approximate number of stockholders of record of our common stock was 84 and the closing price of our common stock was $8.52 per share as reported by the NYSE. Because many of the shares of our common stock are held by brokers and other institutions on behalf of stockholders, we are unable to estimate the total number of beneficial owners represented by these stockholders of record.

Dividends

We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain all available funds and any future earnings for use in the operation of our business and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Any future determination to declare cash dividends will be made at the discretion of our board of directors, subject to compliance with Delaware corporate law, certain covenants under our debt instruments which restrict or limit our ability to declare or pay dividends, and will depend on our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements, general business conditions, and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant.

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities; Use of Proceeds from Registered Securities

None.

Item 6.		Selected Financial Data

The selected historical financial data presented below is derived from the audited financial statements of American Reprographics Company for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006. The selected historical financial data does not purport to represent what our financial position or results of operations might be for any future period or date. The financial data set forth below should be read in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our audited financial statements included elsewhere in this report.

		Fiscal Year Ended December 31,
		2010				2009				2008				2007				2006
		(Dollars in thousands)
Statement of Operations Data:
Reprographics services		$	294,555			$	350,491			$	518,062			$	513,630			$	438,375
Facilities management			89,994				97,401				120,983				113,848				100,158
Equipment and supplies sales			57,090				53,657				61,942				60,876				53,305
Total net sales			441,639				501,549				700,987				688,354				591,838
Cost of sales			299,307				323,360				415,715				401,317				337,509
Gross profit			142,332				178,189				285,272				287,037				254,329
Selling, general and administrative expenses			107,744				115,020				154,728				143,811				131,743
Litigation (gain) reserve			—				—				—				(2,897	)			11,262
Amortization of intangibles			11,657				11,367				12,004				9,083				5,055
Goodwill impairment			38,263				37,382				35,154				—				—
Impairment of long-lived assets			—				781				—				—				—
(Loss) income from operations			(15,332	)			13,639				83,386				137,040				106,269
Other income, net			(156	)			(171	)			(517	)			—				(299	)
Interest expense, net			24,091				25,781				25,890				24,373				23,192
Loss on early extinguishment of debt			2,509				—				—				1,327				—
(Loss) income before income tax (benefit) provision			(41,776	)			(11,971	)			58,013				111,340				83,376
Income tax (benefit) provision			(14,186	)			3,018				21,200				42,203				31,982
Net (loss) income			(27,590	)			(14,989	)			36,813				69,137				51,394
Loss (income) attributable to noncontrolling interest			88				104				(59	)			—				—
Net (loss) income attributable to American Reprographics Company		$	(27,502	)		$	(14,885	)		$	36,754			$	69,137			$	51,394

		Fiscal Year Ended December 31,
		2010				2009				2008				2007				2006
		(In thousands, except per share amounts)
(Loss) earnings per share attributable to ARC shareholders:
Basic		$	(0.61	)		$	(0.33	)		$	0.82			$	1.52			$	1.14
Diluted		$	(0.61	)		$	(0.33	)		$	0.81			$	1.51			$	1.13
Weighted average common shares outstanding:
Basic			45,213				45,123				45,060				45,421				45,015
Diluted			45,213				45,123				45,398				45,829				45,595

		Fiscal Year Ended December 31,
		2010				2009				2008				2007				2006
		(Dollars in thousands)
Other Financial Data:
Depreciation and amortization		$	45,649			$	49,543			$	50,121			$	39,445			$	27,749
Capital expenditures		$	8,634			$	7,506			$	9,033			$	8,303			$	7,391
Interest expense, net		$	24,091			$	25,781			$	25,890			$	24,373			$	23,192

		As of December 31,
		2010				2009				2008				2007				2006
		(Dollars in thousands)
Balance Sheet Data:
Cash and cash equivalents		$	26,293			$	29,377			$	46,542			$	24,802			$	11,642
Total assets		$	569,085			$	620,954			$	725,931			$	722,611			$	547,581
Long term obligations		$	221,088			$	228,711			$	315,165			$	324,724			$	253,419
Total ARC stockholders’ equity		$	256,506			$	276,007			$	281,781			$	251,651			$	184,244
Working capital		$	22,387			$	(3,739	)		$	29,798			$	4,695			$	21,150

Item 7.		Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the other sections of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including Part 1, “Item 1 — Business”; Part I, “Item 1A — Risk Factors”; Part II, “Item 6 — Selected Financial Data”; and Part II, “Item 8 — Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.”

Executive Summary

American Reprographics Company (“ARC,” the “Company,” “we” or “us”) is the leading reprographics company in the United States. We provide business-to-business document management services primarily to the architectural, engineering and construction (“AEC”) industry, through a nationwide network of service centers. Prior to the inception of rebranding local operations as ARC, the majority of our customers have known us as a local reprographics provider, with a long history in the community.

We also serve a variety of clients and businesses outside the AEC industry in need of sophisticated document management services similar to our core AEC offerings.

Our services apply to time-sensitive and graphic-intensive documents and fall into four primary categories:

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Document management. Document management typically involves storing, tracking and providing authorized access to documents we maintain on our customers behalf. This activity is largely accomplished through digital database management as documents enter our digital infrastructure and are maintained on our production workstations, servers and networks.

•

Document distribution and logistics. Document distribution and logistics involves transferring digital documents throughout our local and wide-area computer networks, and over the internet, as well as pickup, delivery and shipping of hardcopy documents to and from locations around the world.

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Print-on-demand. Print-on-demand usually involves quick-turnaround digital printing of documents in black and white and color, and in a wide variety of sizes and formats

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On-site services, frequently referred to as facilities management (“FMs”), which is any combination of the above services supplied at a customer’s location. On-site services typically involve placing equipment and sometimes staff in our customers’ locations to provide convenience printing and other reprographic services. This category is evolving to include the management of entire print networks in our customers’ offices, which we refer to as “managed print services” or “MPS.”

We deliver these services through our specialized technology, more than 550 sales and customer service employees, and more than 5,800 on-site services facilities at our customers’ locations. All of our local service centers are connected by a digital infrastructure, allowing us to deliver services, products, and value to more than 120,000 U.S. customers who purchased goods and services from us in the past 24 months.

Historically, our operating segments have functioned under local brand names. Each brand name typically represents a business or group of businesses that has been acquired by us. In the past, industry conventions led us to maintain acquired brands wherever practical due to the local nature of construction activity. Over the past several years, however, many large construction companies have grown through mergers and acquisitions, creating a market where regional or national service providers have a greater marketing advantage. As a result, we have begun consolidating our operations under a single brand, ARC, to highlight the scope and scale of our services, especially with respect to customers that have a national presence.

During the fourth quarter of 2010, we decided to begin the process of consolidating many brands that comprise our market presence around the country. Beginning in January 2011, each of our operating divisions began to adopt the acronym of our corporate parent name, ARC. The name will be phased into our marketing operations throughout the course of the year to ensure customer recognition and retention. Original brand names will continue to be used in conjunction with ARC to reinforce our continuing presence in the business communities we serve, and ongoing relationships with our customers. The latest date we expect to fully retire original trade names is April 2012.

A significant component of our historical growth has been from acquisitions. The timing and number of acquisitions depends on various factors, including but not limited to, market conditions and availability of funding.

Acquisition activity has not been a meaningful part of our 2010 operations due to the potential risks inherent in an economy recovering from a recent recession. As a result, in 2010, we acquired one Chinese business through UNIS Document Solutions Co. Ltd., (“UDS”), our business venture with Unisplendour Corporation Limited (“Unisplendour”) for $0.6 million. In 2009, we acquired two U.S. businesses that consisted of “stand-alone acquisitions” and “fold-in acquisitions” (refer to the “Acquisitions” section below for an explanation of these terms) and one Chinese business acquired through UDS, for $2.9 million. In 2008, we acquired 13 businesses for $31.9 million. In connection with acquisitions completed in 2010 and 2009, we have applied the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) ASC 805, formerly Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 141 (Revised 2007), Business Combinations, using the acquisition method of accounting, however, acquisitions completed prior to 2009 were accounted for by applying the provisions SFAS No. 141, Business Combinations, (“SFAS 141”). Our Consolidated Statements of Operations reflect sales and expenses of acquired businesses only for post-acquisition periods.

On August 1, 2008, we commenced operations of UDS, our business venture with Unisplendour. The purpose of UDS is to pair the digital document management solutions of our Company with the brand recognition and Chinese distribution channel of Unisplendour to deliver digital reprographics services to China’s growing construction industry. Under the terms of the agreement, our Company and Unisplendour have an economic ownership interest of 65 percent and 35 percent, respectively. We consolidate UDS and reflect Unisplendour’s ownership as a noncontrolling interest.

As part of our growth strategy, we sometimes open or acquire branch or satellite service centers in contiguous markets, which we view as a low-cost, rapid form of market expansion. Our branch openings require modest capital expenditures and are expected to generate operating profit within the first 12 months of operations. We had 239 and 272 reprographic service centers for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Evaluating our Performance. We believe we are able to deliver value to our stockholders by:

	•		Creating consistent, profitable-growth, or in the absence of growth due to market conditions beyond our control, stable margins superior to commonly understood industry benchmarks;
	•		Maintaining our industry leadership position as measured by our geographical footprint, market share and revenue generation capabilities;
	•		Continuing to develop and invest in our products, services, and technology to meet the changing needs of our customers;
	•		Maintaining a low cost structure; and
	•		Maintaining a flexible capital structure that provides for both responsible debt service and pursuit of acquisitions and other high-return investments.

Primary Financial Measures. We use net sales, costs and expenses, earnings before taxes (“EBT”), earnings before interest and taxes (“EBIT”), earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) and operating cash flow to operate and assess the performance of our business.

Net Sales. Net sales represent total sales less returns and discounts. These sales consist of document management services, document distribution and logistics services, print-on-demand services, and reprographics equipment and supplies sales. We generate sales by individual orders through commissioned sales personnel and, in some cases, through national contracts.

Net sales are categorized as reprographics services, facilities management, and equipment and supplies. Our current revenue sources are likely to change in the future if our digital services revenue commands a greater and more distinctive role in our service mix. Digital services currently comprise approximately 8.9% of our overall revenue.

Revenues from software licenses and membership fees are derived over the term of the license or the membership agreement. Licensed technology includes PlanWell online planrooms, PlanWell EWO, PlanWell BidCaster, Abacus and MetaPrint, among others. Revenues from these agreements are separate from digital services and typically are derived from other reprographics companies licensing the applications as opposed to end users. Digital services we provide to our customers include digital document management tasks, scanning and archiving digital documents, posting documents to the web and other related work performed on a computer. Revenues from software licenses, membership fees and digital services are categorized and reported as a part of “Reprographics services”.

Revenue from reprographics services is derived from document management, document distribution and logistics, and print-on-demand services. We include revenues from these services under the caption “Reprographics services”.

On-site services, or facilities management, revenues are generated from providing reprographics services in our customers’ locations using machines that we own or lease. Generally, this category of revenue is derived from a single cost per-square-foot of printed material, similar to our reprographics services.

Revenue from equipment and supplies is derived from the resale of such items to our customers. We do not manufacture such items but rather purchase them from our vendors at wholesale costs.

While our services are now most frequently delivered through the use of computers and digital production equipment (as opposed to manual document management processes and analog printing devices), our primary revenue model remains based on the price of printing. Our progress in charging for digital services has increased to 8.9% of our overall revenue, but common practice in the construction industry has yet to fully support a pricing model that includes digital services as separate and discreet offering from general reprographics services. We believe that productivity enhancements that our technology provides to our customers’ workflow, and the resulting adoption of our technology by our customers, allows us to reshape our pricing justification. We also believe that the current challenging economic climate facing many construction companies will create more opportunities to promote and charge for the full value of our digital services.

In 2010, our reprographics services represented 66.7% of net sales, facilities management 20.4%, and sales of reprographics equipment and supplies 12.9%. Digital services revenue, which are included in reprographics services, represented approximately 8.9% of our net sales. Software licenses, including PlanWell, and PEiR memberships have not, to date, contributed significant revenue. While we achieve modest cost recovery through membership, licensing and maintenance fees charged by the PEiR Group, we measure success in this area primarily by the adoption rate of our programs and products.

We identify operating segments based on the various business activities that earn revenue and incur expense, whose operating results are reviewed by the chief operating decision maker. Based on the fact that operating segments have similar products and services, classes of customers, production processes and economic characteristics, we are deemed to operate as a single reportable segment. See Note 2 “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” for further information.

While large orders involving thousands of documents and hundreds of recipients are common, the bulk of our customer orders consist of organizing, printing or distributing less than 200 drawings at a time. Such “short-run” orders are usually recurring, despite their tendency to arrive with no advance notice and a short turnaround requirement. Since we do not operate with a backlog, it is difficult to predict the number, size and profitability of reprographics work that we expect to undertake more than a few weeks in advance.

Costs and Expenses. Our cost of sales consists primarily of paper, toner and other consumables, labor, and expenses for facilities and equipment. Facilities and equipment expenses include maintenance, repairs, rents, insurance, and depreciation. Paper is the largest component of our material cost. However, paper pricing typically does not affect our operating margins due, in part to our efforts to pass increased costs on to our customers. We closely monitor material cost as a percentage of net sales to measure volume and waste. We also track labor utilization, or net sales per employee, to measure productivity and determine staffing levels.

We maintain low levels of inventory and other working capital. Capital expenditure requirements are also low; most facilities are leased and equipment is either purchased or leased, with overall cash capital spending averaging approximately 1.6% of annual net sales over the last three years. Since we typically lease our reprographics equipment for three to five year terms, we are able to upgrade equipment in response to rapid changes in technology.

Research and development costs consist mainly of the salaries, leased building space, and computer equipment that comprise our data storage and development centers in Fremont, California and Kolkata, India. Such costs are primarily recorded to cost of sales.

Our selling expenses generally include salaries and commissions paid to our sales professionals, along with promotional, travel, and entertainment costs. Our general and administrative expenses generally include salaries and benefits paid to support personnel at our reprographics businesses and our corporate staff, as well as office rent, utilities, communications expenses, and various professional services.

One of the primary methods we have used to maintain our margins during periods of economic or industry decline has been to quickly and aggressively reduce our variable operating costs. The largest portions of our variable costs are labor related. Given that we manage production capacity primarily through labor utilization during a given daily production schedule or shift, we achieve cost containment objectives through the reduction of full-time employees, and the close management of hourly schedules.

Other Common Financial Measures. We also use a variety of other common financial measures as indicators of our performance, including:

	•		Net income and earnings per share;
	•		Material and labor costs as a percentage of net sales;
	•		Days sales outstanding/days sales inventory/days payable outstanding; and
	•		Cash flows from operations.

In addition to using these financial measures at the corporate level, we monitor some of them daily and operating segment by operating segment through use of our proprietary company intranet and reporting tools. Our corporate operations staff also conducts a monthly variance analysis on the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flows of each operating segment.

We believe our current customer segment mix is approximately 76% of revenues derived from the AEC industry, and 24% derived from non-AEC sources. We believe that non-AEC sources of revenue currently offer more attractive revenue opportunities in light of current credit and spending constraints affecting the AEC industry, therefore, we plan to increasingly focus our business on the non-AEC industry. Given this focus, we expect non-AEC revenues to continue to grow relative to our overall revenue in the future.

Not all of these financial measurements are represented directly on our Consolidated Financial Statements, but meaningful discussions of each are part of our quarterly disclosures and presentations to the investment community.

Acquisitions. Our disciplined approach to complementary acquisitions has led us to acquire reprographics businesses that fit our profile for performance potential and meet strategic criteria for gaining market share. In most cases, performance of newly-acquired businesses improves almost immediately due to the post-acquisition application of financial best practices, significantly greater purchasing power, and productivity-enhancing technology.

Based on our experience derived from completing more than 140 acquisitions since 1997, we believe that the reprographics industry is highly fragmented and comprised primarily of small businesses with less than $7.0 million in annual sales. None of our individual acquisitions in the past three years have added a material percentage of sales to our overall business. In the aggregate, however, our prior acquisitions have fueled the bulk of our historical annual sales growth. Acquisition activity has not been a meaningful part of our 2010 operations due to the potential risks of such activity inherent in an economy recovering from a recent recession. As the economy improves in the United States, it is our current intention to resume acquisition activity as a substantial component of our growth strategy. Currently, we are actively reviewing acquisition opportunities in China through UDS, and selectively in other countries as foreign economies emerge from the recent economic downturn.

When we acquire businesses, our management typically uses the previous year’s sales figures as an informal basis for estimating future revenues for our Company. We do not use this approach for formal accounting or reporting purposes but as an internal benchmark with which to measure the future effect of operating synergies, best practices and sound financial management on the acquired entity.

We also use the previous year’s sales figures to assist us in determining how the acquired business will be integrated into the overall management structure of our Company. We categorize newly acquired businesses in one of two ways:

	1.		Standalone Acquisitions. Post-acquisition, these businesses maintain their management team and act as strategic platforms for the Company to acquire market share in and around the specific geographical location.
	2.		Branch/Fold-in Acquisitions. These acquisitions are equivalent to opening a new or “greenfield” branch. They support an outlying portion of a larger market and rely on a larger centralized production facility nearby for strategic management, load balancing, providing specialized services, and for administrative and other “back office” support. We maintain the staff and equipment of these businesses to a minimum to serve a small market or a single large customer, or we may physically integrate (fold-in) staff and equipment into a larger nearby production facility.

New acquisitions frequently carry a significant amount of goodwill in their purchase price, even in the case of a low purchase multiple. Goodwill typically represents the purchase price of an acquired business less the fair value of tangible assets and identifiable intangible assets. We test our goodwill components for impairment annually on September 30 and more frequently if events and circumstances indicate that goodwill might be impaired. See Note 2 “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” to our Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.

Economic Factors Affecting Financial Performance. Based on a compilation of approximately 90% of revenues from our operating segments and certain assumptions derived from data relating to AEC and non-AEC customers, we estimate that sales to the AEC industry accounted for 76% of our net sales for the period ended December 31, 2010, with the remaining 24% consisting of sales to non-AEC industries. As a result, our operating results and financial condition can be significantly affected by economic factors that influence the AEC industry, such as the availability of commercial credit at reasonably attractive rates, non-residential and residential construction spending, GDP growth, interest rates, employment rates, commercial vacancy rates, and government expenditures. The effects of the current economic environment in the United States, and weakness in global economic conditions, have resulted in a significant reduction of activity in the non-residential and residential portions of the AEC industry, which in turn, has produced a decline in our revenues over the past few years. We believe that the AEC industry generally experiences downturns several months after a downturn in the general economy and that there may be a similar delay in the recovery of the AEC industry following a recovery in the general economy. Similar to the AEC industry, the reprographics industry typically lags a recovery in the broader economy.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios presented in this report are supplemental measures of our performance that are not required by or presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). These measures are not measurements of our financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to net income, income from operations, or any other performance measures derived in accordance with GAAP or as an alternative to cash flows from operating, investing or financing activities as a measure of our liquidity.

EBIT represents net income before interest and taxes. EBITDA represents net income before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Amortization does not include $5.9 million, $4.9 million and $4.3 million of stock-based compensation expense recorded in selling, general and administrative expenses, for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 respectively. EBIT margin is a non-GAAP measure calculated by dividing EBIT by net sales. EBITDA margin is a non-GAAP measure calculated by dividing EBITDA by net sales.

We present EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios because we consider them important supplemental measures of our performance and liquidity. We believe investors may also find these measures meaningful, given how our management makes use of them. The following is a discussion of our use of these measures.

We use EBIT and EBITDA to measure and compare the performance of our operating segments. Our operating segments’ financial performance includes all of the operating activities except for debt and taxation which are managed at the corporate level for U.S. operating segments. As a result, EBIT is the best measure of divisional profitability and the most useful metric by which to measure and compare the performance of our operating segments. We also use EBIT to measure performance for determining operating segment-level compensation and we use EBITDA to measure performance for determining consolidated-level compensation. We also use EBIT and EBITDA to evaluate potential acquisitions and to evaluate whether to incur capital expenditures.

EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider them in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are as follows:

	•		They do not reflect our cash expenditures, or future requirements for capital expenditures and contractual commitments;
	•		They do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs;
	•		They do not reflect the significant interest expense, or the cash requirements necessary, to service interest or principal payments on our debt;
	•		Although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and EBITDA does not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements; and
	•		Other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate these measures differently than we do, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.

Because of these limitations, EBIT, EBITDA, and related ratios should not be considered as measures of discretionary cash available to us to invest in business growth or to reduce our indebtedness. We compensate for these limitations by relying primarily on our GAAP results and using EBIT, EBITDA and related ratios only as supplements.

Our presentation of adjusted net income and adjusted EBITDA over certain periods is an attempt to provide meaningful comparisons to our historical performance for our existing and future investors. The unprecedented changes in our end markets over the past several years have required us to take measures that are unique in our history and specific to individual circumstances. Comparisons inclusive of these actions make normal financial and other performance patterns difficult to discern under a strict GAAP presentation. Each non-GAAP presentation, however, is explained in detail, as required in the reconciliation tables below.

Specifically, we have presented adjusted net income attributable to ARC and adjusted earnings per share attributable to ARC shareholders for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 to reflect the exclusion of the goodwill impairment charge, long-lived assets impairment charge, amortization impact related to the change in trade name, loss on early extinguishment of debt and certain interest rate swap related costs, and 2009 amendments to our credit agreement and swap transaction. We believe these charges were the result of valuations dependent on the stock market and the result of our capital restructuring, which have little bearing on our actual operating performance.

We presented adjusted EBITDA in 2010, 2009 and 2008 to exclude stock-based compensation expense, loss on early extinguishment of debt and the non-cash impairment charges. This presentation is consistent with the definition of EBITDA in our previous and current credit agreements. We believe these excluded charges are a result of the current economic environment, and not indicative of our continuing operations.

The following is a reconciliation of cash flows provided by operating activities to EBIT, EBITDA, and net (loss) income attributable to ARC (amounts in thousands):

		Fiscal Year Ended
		December 31,
		2010				2009				2008
Cash flows provided by operating activities		$	53,924			$	97,425			$	127,266
Changes in operating assets and liabilities			955				(19,919	)			(4,829	)
Non-cash (expenses) income, including depreciation and amortization			(82,469	)			(92,495	)			(85,624	)
Income tax (benefit) provision			(14,186	)			3,018				21,200
Interest expense, net			24,091				25,781				25,890
Net loss (income) attributable to the noncontrolling interest			88				104				(59	)
EBIT			(17,597	)			13,914				83,844
Depreciation and amortization			45,649				49,543				50,121
EBITDA			28,052				63,457				133,965
Interest expense			(24,091	)			(25,781	)			(25,890	)
Income tax benefit (provision)			14,186				(3,018	)			(21,200	)
Depreciation and amortization			(45,649	)			(49,543	)			(50,121	)
Net (loss) income attributable to American Reprographics Company		$	(27,502	)		$	(14,885	)		$	36,754

The following is a reconciliation of net (loss) income attributable to ARC to EBIT, EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA (amounts in thousands):

		Fiscal Year Ended
		December 31,
		2010				2009				2008
Net (loss) income attributable to American Reprographics Company		$	(27,502	)		$	(14,885	)		$	36,754
Interest expense, net			24,091				25,781				25,890
Income tax (benefit) provision			(14,186	)			3,018				21,200
EBIT			(17,597	)			13,914				83,844
Depreciation and amortization			45,649				49,543				50,121
EBITDA			28,052				63,457				133,965
Special items:
Stock-based compensation			5,922				4,892				4,289
Loss on early extinguishment of debt			2,509				—				—
Goodwill impairment			38,263				37,382				35,154
Impairment of long-lived assets			—				781				—
Adjusted EBITDA		$	74,746			$	106,512			$	173,408

The following is a reconciliation of our net (loss) income margin to EBIT margin, EBITDA margin and Adjusted EBITDA margin:

		Fiscal Year Ended
		December 31,
		2010 (1)				2009 (1)				2008 (1)
Net (loss) income margin			(6.2)	%			(3.0)	%			5.2	%
Interest expense, net			5.5				5.1				3.7
Income tax (benefit) provision			(3.2	)			0.6				3.0
EBIT margin			(4.0	)			2.8				12.0
Depreciation and amortization			10.3				9.9				7.2
EBITDA margin			6.4				12.7				19.1
Special items:
Stock-based compensation			1.3				1.0				0.6
Loss on early extinguishment of debt			0.6				—				—
Goodwill impairment			8.7				7.5				5.0
Impairment of long-lived assets			—				0.2				—
Adjusted EBITDA margin			16.9	%			21.2	%			24.7	%

The following is a reconciliation of net (loss) income attributable to ARC to adjusted net income attributable to ARC and (loss) earnings per share to adjusted earnings per share (amounts in thousands, except share and per share data):

		Fiscal Year Ended
		December 31,
		2010				2009				2008
Net (loss) income attributable to American Reprographics Company		$	(27,502	)		$	(14,885	)		$	36,754
Goodwill impairment			38,263				37,382				35,154
Impairment of long-lived assets			—				781				—
Change in trade name impact to amortization			1,579				—				—
Loss on early extinguishment of debt			2,509				—				—
Amended 2007 Credit Agreement and Swap Transaction costs			1,241				2,632				—
Income tax benefit, related to above items			(14,758	)			(8,748	)			(12,932	)
Unaudited adjusted net income attributable to ARC		$	1,332			$	17,162			$	58,976
(Loss) Earnings Per Share (Actual):
Basic		$	(0.61	)		$	(0.33	)		$	0.82
Diluted		$	(0.61	)		$	(0.33	)		$	0.81
Earnings Per Share (Adjusted):
Basic		$	0.03			$	0.38			$	1.31
Diluted		$	0.03			$	0.38			$	1.30
Weighted average common shares (Actual) outstanding:
Basic			45,212,724				45,123,110				45,060,482
Diluted			45,212,724				45,123,110				45,398,086
Weighted average common shares (Adjusted) outstanding:
Basic			45,212,724				45,123,110				45,060,482
Diluted			45,382,542				45,266,310				45,398,086

Results of Operations

The following table provides information on the percentages of certain items of selected financial data compared to net sales for the periods indicated:

		As a Percentage of Net Sales
		Fiscal Year Ended December 31,
		2010 (1)				2009 (1)				2008 (1)
Net sales			100.0	%			100.0	%			100.0	%
Cost of sales			67.8				64.5				59.3
Gross profit			32.2				35.5				40.7
Selling, general and administrative expenses			24.4				22.9				22.1
Amortization of intangibles			2.6				2.3				1.7
Goodwill impairment			8.7				7.5				5.0
Impairment of long-lived assets			0.0				0.2				0.0
(Loss) income from operations			(3.5	)			2.7				11.9
Other income, net			(0.0	)			0.0				(0.1	)
Interest expense, net			5.5				5.1				3.7
Loss on early extinguishment of debt			0.6				0.0				0.0
(Loss) income before income tax (benefit) provision			(9.5	)			(2.4	)			8.3
Income tax (benefit) provision			(3.2	)			0.6				3.0
Net (loss) income			(6.2	)			(3.0	)			5.3
Loss attributable to the noncontrolling interest			0.0				0.0				0.0
Net (loss) income attributable to ARC			(6.2	)%			(3.0	)%			5.2	%

Year Ended December 31, 2010 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2009

		Fiscal Year Ended
		December 31,								Increase (decrease)
		2010 (1)				2009 (1)				(In dollars)				(Percent)
		(In millions)
Reprographics services		$	294.6			$	350.5			$	(55.9	)			(15.9	)%
Facilities management			90.0				97.4				(7.4	)			(7.6	)%
Equipment and supplies sales			57.1				53.7				3.4				6.3	%
Total net sales		$	441.6			$	501.5			$	(59.9	)			(11.9	)%
Gross profit		$	142.3			$	178.2			$	(35.9	)			(20.1	)%
Selling, general and administrative expenses		$	107.7			$	115.0			$	(7.3	)			(6.3	)%
Amortization of intangible assets		$	11.7			$	11.4			$	0.3				2.6	%
Goodwill impairment		$	38.3			$	37.4			$	0.9				2.4	%
Impairment of long-lived assets		$	—			$	0.8			$	(0.8	)			(100.0	)%
Interest expense, net		$	24.1			$	25.8			$	(1.7	)			(6.6	)%
Loss on early extinguishment of debt		$	2.5			$	—			$	2.5				100.0	%
Income taxes (benefit) provision		$	(14.2	)		$	3.0			$	(17.2	)			(573.3	)%
Net (loss) income attributable to ARC		$	(27.5	)		$	(14.9	)		$	(12.6	)			84.6	%
EBITDA		$	28.1			$	63.5			$	(35.4	)			(55.7	)%

Net Sales

Net sales in 2010 decreased by 11.9%. The decrease in net sales was primarily due to declines in overall construction industry spending, most especially in the non-residential building segment.

Reprographics services. Reprographics sales decreased by $55.9 million, or 15.9%, in 2010 compared to 2009.

Overall reprographics services sales nationwide were negatively affected by the lack of significant new construction activity in the AEC industry. The revenue category that was most affected was large-format black and white printing, as this revenue category is more closely tied to non-residential and residential construction. Large-format black and white printing revenues represented approximately 36% of reprographics services in 2010; large-format black and white printing revenues decreased by approximately 26% in 2010 compared to 2009.

Large and small-format color printing in both the AEC market and the non-AEC market comprised approximately 25% of our overall reprographics services revenue for 2010, as compared to approximately 22% for 2009. Despite the weakness in the AEC industry, net sales of digital color printing services only decreased 1.5% in 2010, compared to 2009 and we partly attribute this to continuing marketing activity by non-AEC businesses aggressively competing for business as the general economy recovers.

We believe there is a growing demand for digital color printing services across all market segments due to increased equipment availability and lower production prices than have been seen in the past. We have branded a portion of our operations to address this growing demand for digital color printing. In 2010, we began offering digital color printing services through ten dedicated production facilities in major metropolitan areas around the United States under the brand Riot Creative Imaging.

While most of our customers in the AEC industry still prefer to receive documents in hardcopy, paper format, we have seen an increase in our digital service revenue as a percentage of total sales. This increase is presumably due to the greater efficiency that digital document workflows bring to our customers’ businesses, and also due to greater consistency in the way that we charge for these services as they become more widely accepted throughout the construction industry. As was the case with our overall sales, however, the dollar amount of digital service revenue was negatively affected by current market conditions. During 2010, digital service revenue decreased by $3.2 million or 7.4%, compared to 2009, but as a percentage of our overall sales it increased to 8.9% in 2010 compared to 8.5% in 2009.

Facilities management. On-site, or FM sales in 2010 compared to 2009, decreased by $7.4 million or 7.6%. FM revenue is derived from a single cost per square foot of printed material, similar to our reprographics services revenue. As convenience and speed continue to characterize our customers’ needs, and as printing equipment continues to become smaller and more affordable, the trend of placing equipment, and sometimes staff, in an architectural studio or construction company office remains strong. Despite a difficult market, we recorded a net increase of approximately 100 facilities management accounts during 2010, bringing our total FM accounts to approximately 5,800 as of December 31, 2010. By placing such equipment on-site and billing on a per use and per project basis, the invoice continues to be issued by us, as would be the case if the work was produced in one of our centralized production facilities. The resulting benefit to our customers is the convenience of on-site production with a pass-through, or reimbursable, cost of business that many customers continue to find attractive. Despite the increase in FM accounts, sales decreased as the volume of prints at FM locations significantly declined due to the current lack of construction activity described above.

We have seen growing interest in the marketplace for MPS, an expanded offering of our traditional FM services. Involving the outsourced management of all office printing within our customers’ offices — not just the reprographics printing — this service typically requires a longer sales cycle than our traditional FM offering. We are in the early stages of introducing this service to our customers and results from our sales and marketing efforts will be reviewed in future quarters.

Equipment and supplies sales. Equipment and supplies sales increased by $3.4 million or 6.3% over the same period in 2009. During 2010, the increase in equipment and supplies sales was primarily due to increased sales in UDS, our Chinese business venture with Beijing based Unisplendor. UDS commenced operations during the third quarter of 2008. Shanghai UNIS Document Printing Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of UDS which acquired the assets of Shanghai Light Business Machines Co., Ltd., commenced operations in July 2009. To date, the Chinese market has shown a preference for owning reprographics equipment as opposed to using equipment through an on-site services or FM arrangement. Chinese operations had sales of equipment and supplies of $19.0 million in 2010, as compared to $13.1 million in 2009. Excluding the impact of acquisitions and continuing equipment and supplies sales in China, we do not anticipate growth in equipment and supplies sales in the U.S., as we are placing more focus on facilities management sales programs.

Gross Profit

During the 12 months ended December 31, 2010, gross profit and gross profit margin decreased to $142.3 million, or 32.2%, compared to $178.2 million, or 35.5%, during the same period in 2009, on a sales decline of $59.9 million.

The primary reason for the decrease in gross margins was a change in our product mix. Material costs in 2010 as a percentage of sales were 300 basis points higher as compared to 2009. Specifically, we saw an increase in lower margin equipment and supplies sales as a percentage of total sales attributable to the performance of UDS. Lower margin equipment and supplies sales comprised 12.9% of total sales in 2010, compared to 10.7% in 2009. To a much lesser extent, material costs were also negatively impacted as material cost for color printing increased as a percentage of color sales by approximately 230 basis points in 2010 as compared to 2009. We believe these higher color material costs were driven in part by the need to outsource work as we reconfigured operations to support the new Riot Creative Imaging brand, and also from accepting lower margin work to help gain marketshare and credibility with a new customer base.

In response to the overall decline in sales, we implemented cost cutting initiatives that resulted in a decline in labor and overhead costs that were in line with the drop in overall sales. Overhead and labor costs as a percentage of sales in 2010 were consistent with 2009.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

The decrease of $7.3 million in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily due to the implementation of cost reduction programs initiated in response to the decline in sales and a decrease in bad debt expense. Specifically, general and administrative base compensation expense decreased by $4.0 million compared to 2009. The decrease in general and administrative compensation was primarily due to the consolidation of certain back office functions performed across operating segments, as well as other company initiatives. Bad debt expense decreased by $2.1 million in 2010 compared to 2009, as a result of improved collections and lack of significant write-offs in 2010. The cost reduction programs in 2010, as compared to 2009, have also resulted in a decrease of $1.3 million in professional fees, consulting fees, and advertising. Despite the significant decrease in sales, sales compensation increased by $0.5 million in 2010. This increase is due to additional sales personnel who were hired to implement new sales initiatives, under our new brand, Riot Creative Imaging, and through our MPS offering. The items noted above were further offset by an increase in stock based compensation of $1.0 million.

Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of net sales increased from 22.9% in 2009 to 24.4% in 2010, primarily due to the significant decline in sales resulting in unabsorbed sales compensation and administrative costs.

Amortization of Intangibles

In 2010, amortization of intangibles increased by $0.3 million, as compared to 2009. This increase is due to the impact of the change in estimated useful lives related to trade names of $1.6 million, partially offset by a decrease in amortization of customer relationships of $0.9 million.

During the fourth quarter of 2010, we decided to phase out the use of our local trade names over the following 18 months and revised the remaining estimated useful lives of our trade name intangible assets accordingly. Effective January 1, 2011, all divisions began using the ARC name, though some use of the original brand names will remain in circulation to ensure business recognition and the retention of existing customers. Once the trade names are fully transitioned to the ARC name and removed from the marketplace, they will quickly lose value. This change in estimate is accounted for on a prospective basis, resulting in increased amortization expense over the revised useful lives for each trade name. The remaining useful lives of trade names prior to this change ranged from 11 to 18 years.

Goodwill Impairment

We assess goodwill for impairment as of September 30 each year or more frequently if events and circumstances indicate that goodwill might be impaired. We concluded that, in the absence of the annual goodwill impairment analysis, there were sufficient indicators in the third quarter of 2010 to require a goodwill impairment analysis as of September 30, 2010. The indicators included among other factors, our 2010 third quarter results and our revision of projected future earnings.

Goodwill impairment testing is performed at the operating segment (or “reporting unit”) level. Goodwill is assigned to reporting units at the date the goodwill is initially recorded. Once goodwill has been assigned to reporting units, it no longer retains its association with a particular acquisition, and all of the activities within a reporting unit, whether acquired or internally generated, are available to support the value of the goodwill. Based on our annual goodwill impairment assessment, we recorded a $38.3 million impairment in the third quarter of 2010.

Given the current economic environment and the uncertainties regarding the impact on our business, there can be no assurance that our estimates and assumptions regarding the duration of the ongoing economic downturn in our industry, or the period or strength of recovery, made for purposes of our goodwill impairment testing will prove to be accurate predictions of the future. Based upon our assessment, we concluded that no goodwill impairment triggering events have occurred during the fourth quarter of 2010 that would require an additional impairment test. If our assumptions regarding forecasted revenue or gross margins of certain reporting units are not achieved, we may be required to record additional goodwill impairment charges in future periods, whether in connection with our next annual impairment testing in the third quarter of 2011, or prior to that, if any such change constitutes a triggering event outside of the quarter when we regularly perform our annual goodwill impairment test.

As of December 31, 2010, we believe the estimated fair value of our goodwill equals or exceeds the carrying value of goodwill for our reporting units. The estimated fair value of goodwill is based upon a number of factors, including weighted average cost of capital ranging from 11% to 14%, depending upon the size and risk profile of the reporting unit, discount rates, projected revenues and projected EBITDA. Projected revenues and projected EBITDA are driven, in part, by anticipated industry growth rates, anticipated GDP, customer composition and historical performance. Of the reporting units impaired during 2010, 11 continue to carry goodwill of $89.5 million. Additionally, at the time of the impairment test, one other reporting unit’s implied fair value of goodwill exceeded its book value of $1.3 million by only $66 thousand, or 5%. Relatively minor changes to the assumptions would lead to further impairments of the reporting units at risk.

Based upon a sensitivity analysis, performed as of the date of the 2010 impairment analysis, a reduction of approximately 0.5% of projected EBITDA in 2011 and beyond, assuming all other assumptions remain constant, would not result in any additional reporting units proceeding to step 2 of the analysis. However, the decrease of projected EBITDA in 2011 and subsequent years would have resulted in an additional impairment charge of $0.6 million for those reporting units that were evaluated in step 2.

Based upon a separate sensitivity analysis, performed as of the date of the 2010 impairment analysis, a 50 basis point increase to the weighted average cost of capital, assuming all other assumptions remain constant, would not result in any additional reporting units proceeding to step 2 of the analysis. However, the increase in the weighted average cost of capital would have resulted in a further impairment of approximately $8.4 million for those reporting units that were evaluated in step 2.

The results of our 2009 goodwill impairment analysis indicated that 11 of our reporting units, nine in the United States, one in the United Kingdom, and one in Canada, had a goodwill impairment in 2009. Accordingly, we recorded a pretax impairment in 2009 to reduce the carrying value of goodwill by $37.4 million.

See Note 2 “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” to our Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

Our operating segments are being negatively impacted by the drop in commercial and residential construction resulting from the current economic downturn. Before assessing our goodwill for impairment, we evaluated the long-lived assets of our operating segments. Based on this assessment there was no impairment in 2010. In 2009 we determined that there was an impairment of long-lived assets of our operating segment in the United Kingdom. Accordingly, we recorded a pretax, non-cash charge in 2009 to reduce the carrying value of other intangible assets by $0.8 million. Given the current economic environment we have and will continue to monitor the need to test our intangibles for impairment as required by ASC 805.

See Note 2 “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” to our Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.

Interest Expense, Net

Net interest expense was $24.1 million in 2010, compared to $25.8 million in 2009. The decrease of $1.7 million relates to the $34.6 million reduction of total debt during 2010. Specifically, our capital leases and seller notes had a net decrease in principal balances by $23.2 million in 2010. These decreases are partially offset by the issuance, on December 1, 2010, of $200.0 million in unsecured notes due December 2016, before debt discount of $4.4 million, which was used to pay off our prior bank debt of $199.4 million. Our effective interest rate increased from 8.1% on our retired bank debt to 11.0% on our notes issued on December 1, 2010. The Notes issued on December 1, 2010, were issued at a discount, which resulted in an effective interest rate of 11.0%. Since our debt is now financed by a fixed rate bond as opposed to a loan with a variable interest rate, our interest rate swap contract is no longer considered a cash flow hedge. The fair value of the swap agreement that was on the balance sheet as of December 2, 2010, will be amortized under interest expense. As required, in December 2010 we began to amortize the fair value of the interest rate swap.

Loss on the extinguishment of debt

On December 1, 2010, we closed a private placement of 10.5% senior unsecured notes due 2016 (the “Notes”) and extinguished the debt under our previous Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of December 6, 2007, as amended (“Amended 2007 Credit Agreement”). Accordingly, we wrote off unamortized deferred financing fees of $2.5 million.

Income Taxes

Our effective income tax rate of 34.0% related to our income tax benefit in 2010 was primarily impacted by the impairment of goodwill related to stock acquired in prior years which amounted to $3.9 million and derived no current tax benefit. This is due to the fact that impairment charges related to stock basis goodwill is not tax deductible until the stock is disposed of and is treated as a permanent item for financial reporting purposes. The total goodwill impairment of $38.3 million resulted in a tax benefit of $12.8 million deriving an effective tax rate of 33.4%.

Barring goodwill impairments, we had a tax benefit of $1.4 million on a pretax loss of $3.5 million in 2010 deriving an effective tax rate of 40.0%, compared to a tax provision of $10.3 million on pretax income of $25.4 million deriving an effective tax rate of 40.6% in 2009.

Noncontrolling Interest

Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest represents 35% of the loss of UDS and its subsidiaries, which together comprise our Chinese operations, which commenced operations on August 1, 2008.

Net Loss Attributable to ARC

Net loss attributable to ARC was $27.5 million in 2010, as compared to net loss attributable to ARC of $14.9 million in 2009. The decrease is primarily due to the decrease in sales and gross margins, partially offset by the decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses described above.

EBITDA

EBITDA margin decreased to 6.4% in 2010, as compared to 12.7% in 2009. EBITDA margin in 2010 compared to 2009 was negatively impacted primarily due to the decrease in gross profit, excluding the impact of depreciation, and the increase in selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of sales described above. Excluding the impact of stock-based compensation of $5.9 million and $4.9 million in 2010 and 2009, respectively, loss on early extinguishment of debt of $2.5 million in 2010, the non-cash $38.3 million and $37.4 million goodwill impairment in 2010 and 2009 respectively, and $0.8 million long-lived assets impairment charges in 2009, our adjusted EBITDA margin was 16.9% in 2010, as compared to 21.2% in 2009.

Year Ended December 31, 2009 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2008

		Fiscal Year Ended
		December 31,								Increase (decrease)
		2009 (1)				2008				(In dollars)				(Percent)
		(In millions)
Reprographics services		$	350.5			$	518.1			$	(167.6	)			(32.3	)%
Facilities management			97.4				121.0				(23.6	)			(19.5	)%
Equipment and supplies sales			53.7				61.9				(8.2	)			(13.2	)%
Total net sales		$	501.5			$	701.0			$	(199.5	)			(28.5	)%
Gross profit		$	178.2			$	285.3			$	(107.1	)			(37.5	)%
Selling, general and administrative expenses		$	115.0			$	154.7			$	(39.7	)			(25.7	)%
Amortization of intangible assets		$	11.4			$	12.0			$	(0.6	)			(5.0	)%
Goodwill impairment		$	37.4			$	35.2			$	2.2				6.3	%
Impairment of long-lived assets		$	0.8			$	—			$	0.8				100.0	%
Interest expense, net		$	25.8			$	25.9			$	(0.1	)			(0.4	)%
Income taxes provision		$	3.0			$	21.2			$	(18.2	)			(85.8	)%
Net (loss) income attributable to ARC		$	(14.9	)		$	36.8			$	(51.7	)			(140.5	)%
EBITDA		$	63.5			$	134.0			$	(70.5	)			(52.6	)%

Net Sales

Net sales in 2009 decreased by 28.5%, the decrease in net sales was primarily due to declines in overall construction industry spending, most especially in the non-residential building segment. In 2009, sales were favorably impacted by sales growth of approximately 2% from our standalone acquisitions completed since 2008.

Reprographics services. Net sales decreased by $167.6 million or 32.3% in 2009 compared to 2008.

Overall reprographics services sales nationwide were negatively affected by the slow down in the construction market and AEC industry. The revenue category that was most affected was large-format black and white printing, as this revenue category is more closely tied to non-residential and residential construction. Large-format black and white printing revenues represented approximately 40% of reprographics services in 2009; large-format black and white printing revenues decreased by approximately 41% in 2009 compared to 2008.

While most of our customers in the AEC industry still prefer to receive documents in hardcopy, paper format, we have seen an increase in our digital service revenue as a percentage of total sales. This increase is presumably due to the greater efficiency that digital document workflows bring to our customers’ businesses, and also due to greater consistency in the way that we charge for these services as they become more widely accepted throughout the construction industry. As was the case with our overall sales, digital service revenue was also negatively affected by current market conditions. During 2009, digital service revenue decreased by $11.4 million or 21.1%, compared to 2008, but as a percentage of our overall sales it increased to 8.5% from 7.7% in 2009 compared to 2008.

Facilities management. On-site, or FM sales in 2009 compared to 2008, decreased by $23.6 million, or 19.5%. FM revenue is derived from a single cost per square foot of printed material, similar to our reprographics services revenue. As convenience and speed continue to characterize our customers’ needs, and as printing equipment continues to become smaller and more affordable, the trend of placing equipment, and sometimes staff, in an architectural studio or construction company office remains strong despite a difficult market, as evidenced by a net increase of approximately 100 facilities management accounts during 2009, bringing our total FM accounts to approximately 5,700 as of December 31, 2009. By placing such equipment on-site and billing on a per use and per project basis, the invoice continues to be issued by us, just as if the work was produced in one of our centralized production facilities. The resulting benefit is the convenience of on-site production with a pass-through or reimbursable cost of business that many customers continue to find attractive. Despite the increase in FM accounts, sales decreased as the volume of printing at FM locations significantly declined due to the current economic conditions described above. As a percentage of total sales, FM sales have increased to 19.4% in 2009, compared to 17.3% in 2008.

Equipment and supplies sales. Equipment and supplies sales decreased by $8.2 million, or 13.2%, over the same period in 2008. During 2009, the decrease in equipment and supplies sales was due primarily to current economic conditions. This trend was partially offset by the operations of UDS, which commenced operations during the third quarter of 2008, and the operations of Shanghai UNIS Document Printing Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of UDS which acquired the assets of Shanghai Light Business Machines Co., Ltd. in July 2009. To date, the Chinese market has shown a preference for owning reprographics equipment as opposed to acquiring it via an on-site services or FM arrangement. Chinese operations had sales of equipment and supplies of $13.1 million in 2009.

Gross Profit

During the 12 months ended December 31, 2009, gross profit and gross profit margin decreased to $178.2 million or 35.5%, compared to $285.3 million or 40.7% during the same period in 2008, on a sales decline of $199.5 million.

The primary driver of the decrease in gross margins was the absorption of overhead resulting from the decrease in sales. Overhead as a percentage of sales was 440 basis points higher in 2009, as compared to 2008, of which depreciation and facility rental were the primary components and accounted for 320 basis points. The decrease in margins was also attributable to an increase in material costs as a percentage of sales of 160 basis points in 2009, as compared to 2008. This was primarily due to an increase in lower margin equipment and supplies sales as a percentage of total sales due to the performance of UDS. Specifically, lower margin equipment and supplies sales comprised 10.7% of total sales in 2009, compared to 8.8% in 2008. The decrease in margins was partially offset by a favorable decrease as a percentage of sales of direct labor of 80 basis points in 2009, as compared to 2008, that was driven by cost cutting initiatives that were implemented in 2009 in response to lower sales.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

In 2009, selling, general and administrative expenses decreased by $39.7 million, or 25.7%, over 2008. The decrease is primarily due to the decline in sales and the implementation of cost reduction programs initiated in response to the decline in sales. Specifically, sales personnel compensation decreased by $10.0 million in 2009, compared to 2008, and general and administrative compensation decreased by $16.0 million in 2009, compared to 2008. The decrease in sales compensation, which includes commissions, is primarily attributed to the decline in sales volume explained above, and the decrease in general and administrative compensation is primarily due to staff reductions and bonus performance targets not being met. The cost reduction programs have also resulted in a decrease in professional fees, consulting fees, advertising, and travel expenses. These expenses have decreased by approximately $5.6 million in 2009, as compared to 2008. Also contributing to the decrease is a $1.9 million decrease in bad debt expense in 2009, compared to 2008 as a result of improved collections and because the majority of the bad debt expense related to the deterioration of the residential home building industry was recognized in 2008.

Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of net sales increased from 22.1% in 2008 to 22.9% in 2009 as compared to 2008, primarily due to the significant decline in sales resulting in unabsorbed administrative costs.

On April 22, 2009, we commenced a stock option exchange program to allow certain of our employees the opportunity to exchange all or a portion of their eligible outstanding stock options for an equivalent number of new, replacement options. In connection with the exchange program, we issued 1,479,250 nonstatutory stock options with an exercise price of $8.20, equal to the closing price of our common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on May 21, 2009. Generally, all employees who held options upon expiration of the exchange program, other than our board members, were eligible to participate in the program. The number of shares of our common stock subject to outstanding options did not change as a result of the exchange offer. New options issued as part of the exchange offer are subject to a two-year vesting schedule, with 50% of the shares subject to an option vesting on the one-year anniversary of the date of grant of the replacement option, and the remaining 50% of the shares subject to an option vesting on the second anniversary of the date of grant of the replacement option. The total incremental cost of the repriced options is approximately $2.4 million, of which $0.7 million has been recognized in our Consolidated Statements of Operations for the twelve months ended December 31, 2009. For further information see Note 2 “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” to our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Amortization of Intangibles

Amortization of intangibles of $11.4 million in 2009 remained consistent with the amount in prior year due to the fact that acquisition activity and the size of acquisitions decreased significantly since September 30, 2008. In 2009, we only completed three acquisitions, as compared to 13 in 2008 and 19 in 2007.

Goodwill Impairment

We assess goodwill for impairment as of September 30 each year, or more frequently if events and circumstances indicate that goodwill might be impaired. We concluded that, in the absence of the annual goodwill impairment test, there were sufficient indicators to require us to perform a goodwill impairment analysis as of September 30, 2009. The indicators were based on a combination of factors, including the current economic downturn and revised forecasted future earnings. Based on our annual goodwill impairment assessment, we recorded an impairment of $37.4 million in the third quarter of 2009. During the quarter ended December 31, 2008, based on a combination of factors, including the then current economic environment, and a significant decline in market capitalization, we concluded that there were sufficient indicators to require us to perform an interim goodwill impairment analysis as of December 31, 2008. The result of such analysis indicated that eight of our reporting units, six in the United States, one in Canada, and one in the United Kingdom had an impairment of goodwill. Accordingly, we recorded a pretax, non-cash charge for the year ended December 31, 2008 to reduce the carrying value of goodwill by $35.2 million.

See Note 2 “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” to our Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

Our operating segments are being negatively impacted by the drop in commercial and residential construction resulting from the current economic downturn. Before assessing our goodwill for impairment, we evaluated the long-lived assets of our operating segments for impairment. Based on this assessment, we determined that there was an impairment of long-lived assets of our operating segment in the United Kingdom. Accordingly, we recorded a pretax, non-cash charge in 2009 to reduce the carrying value of other intangible assets by $0.8 million. See Note 2 “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” to our Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.

Other Income

Other income of $0.5 million for the twelve months ended December 31, 2008 was primarily related to the sale of the Auto Desk sales department of our Imaging Technologies Services operating segment. In 2009, we have not sold any departments, hence the decrease in other income.

Interest Expense, Net

Net interest expense was $25.8 million in 2009, compared with $25.9 million in 2008. The slight decrease is primarily due to our reduction of our principal balances of bank debt, capital leases and seller notes payable which was mostly offset by additional interest expense due to the cost of amending our credit facility and interest rate swap transaction in the fourth quarter of 2009. Our total debt has decreased by over $86.0 million in 2009. Our interest expense in 2009 includes a $0.8 million expense due to the amendment to our interest rate swap (“Swap Transaction”) and $1.8 million related to fees to amend our credit facility in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Income Taxes

Our effective income tax rate in 2009 was primarily impacted by the impairment of goodwill related to stock acquisitions in prior years. The goodwill and long-lived asset impairment of $38.2 million resulted in a tax benefit of $7.5 million, a 19.6% benefit. This was due to that $17.5 million of the impairment charges related to stock basis goodwill, which is not tax deductible until the stock is disposed of and is treated as a permanent item for financial reporting purposes. Additionally, $0.6 million of impairment related to goodwill in Canada, which is not tax deductible for Canadian tax purposes, contributed to the negative impact on our effective tax rate in 2009.

Barring discrete items and impairments, our effective income tax rate increased to 40.1% in 2009, from 39.0% in 2008. This increase is primarily due to a lower federal tax benefit in relation to our domestic production activities deduction in 2009 as allowed by Internal Revenue Code Section 199. The amount of deduction and related tax benefit is directly impacted by our expected federal taxable income for the fiscal year 2009, which has dropped significantly in light of the recent decrease in sales and the corresponding pretax income.

Noncontrolling Interest

Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest represents 35% of the loss attributable to UDS, our Chinese operations, which commenced operations on August 1, 2008.

Net (Loss) Income Attributable to ARC

Net loss attributable to ARC was $14.9 million in 2009, as compared to net income attributable to ARC of $36.8 million in 2008. The decrease is primarily due to the decrease in sales and gross margins, partially offset by the decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses described above.

EBITDA

EBITDA margin decreased to 12.7% in 2009, as compared to 19.1% in 2008. EBITDA margin in 2009 compared 2008 was negatively impacted primarily due to the decrease in gross profit, excluding the impact of depreciation, and the increase in selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of sales described above. Excluding the impact of the non-cash $37.4 million goodwill impairment and $0.8 million long-lived assets impairment charges, our adjusted EBITDA margin was 20.3% in 2009.

Quarterly Results of Operations

The following table sets forth certain quarterly financial data for the eight quarters ended December 31, 2010. This quarterly information has been prepared on the same basis as the annual financial statements and, in our opinion, reflects all adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of the information for periods presented. Operating results for any quarter are not necessarily indicative of results for any future period.

		Quarter Ended
		Mar. 31,				June 30,				Sept. 30,				Dec. 31,				Mar. 31,				June 30,				Sept. 30,				Dec. 31,
		2010																2009
Reprographics services		$	76,257			$	78,453			$	72,709			$	67,136			$	99,769			$	92,905			$	81,989			$	75,828
Facilities management			22,403				22,627				22,602				22,362				26,865				24,898				23,395				22,243
Equipment and supplies sales			13,501				14,008				14,110				15,471				12,849				13,251				13,966				13,591
Total net sales		$	112,161			$	115,088			$	109,421			$	104,969			$	139,483			$	131,054			$	119,350			$	111,662
Quarterly sales as a % of annual sales			25.4	%			26.1	%			24.8	%			23.7	%			27.8	%			26.1	%			23.8	%			22.3	%
Gross profit		$	36,851			$	39,455			$	35,018			$	31,008			$	51,979			$	49,155			$	41,131			$	35,924
Income (loss) from operations		$	7,084			$	8,729			$	(32,323	)		$	1,178			$	18,030			$	16,202			$	(27,139	)		$	6,546
EBITDA		$	18,791			$	19,817			$	(21,441	)		$	10,885			$	30,816			$	28,990			$	(14,885	)		$	18,536
Net income (loss)attributable to ARC		$	717			$	1,679			$	(25,144	)		$	(4,754	)		$	7,547			$	6,307			$	(28,164	)		$	(575	)

The following is a reconciliation of EBITDA to net income for each respective quarter.

		Quarter Ended
		Mar. 31,				June 30,				Sept. 30,				Dec. 31,				Mar. 31,				June 30,				Sept. 30,				Dec. 31,
		2010																2009
EBITDA		$	18,791			$	19,817			$	(21,441	)		$	10,885			$	30,816			$	28,990			$	(14,885	)		$	18,536
Interest expense, net			(5,888	)			(5,754	)			(5,614	)			(6,835	)			(5,796	)			(5,836	)			(6,428	)			(7,721	)
Income tax (provision) benefit			(530	)			(1,276	)			12,668				3,324				(4,758	)			(4,096	)			5,334				502
Depreciation and amortization			(11,656	)			(11,108	)			(10,757	)			(12,128	)			(12,715	)			(12,751	)			(12,185	)			(11,892	)
Net income (loss) attributable to ARC		$	717			$	1,679			$	(25,144	)		$	(4,754	)		$	7,547			$	6,307			$	(28,164	)		$	(575	)

We believe that quarterly revenues and operating results may vary significantly in the future and that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our results of operations are not necessarily meaningful and should not be relied upon as indications of future performance. In addition, our quarterly operating results are typically affected by seasonal factors, primarily the number of working days in a quarter. Historically, our fourth quarter is the slowest, reflecting the slowdown in construction activity during the holiday season. We recorded a goodwill impairment in the amount of $38.3 million and $37.4 million, during the quarter ended September 30, 2010, and September 30, 2009, respectively.

Impact of Inflation

Inflation has not had a significant effect on our operations. Price increases for raw materials, such as paper, typically have been, and we expect will continue to be, passed on to customers in the ordinary course of business.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our principal sources of cash have been operations and borrowings under our debt agreements. Our historical uses of cash have been for acquisitions of reprographics businesses, payment of principal and interest on outstanding debt obligations, and capital expenditures. Total cash as of December 31, 2010 was $26.3 million. Of this amount, $13.7 million was held in foreign countries. Specifically, $13.2 million was held in China and is considered a permanent investment in UDS. Supplemental information pertaining to our historical sources and uses of cash is presented as follows and should be read in conjunction with our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows and notes thereto included elsewhere in this report.

		Year Ended December 31,
		2010				2009				2008
Net cash provided by operating activities		$	53,924			$	97,425			$	127,266
Net cash used in investing activities		$	(8,502	)		$	(9,349	)		$	(30,807	)
Net cash used in financing activities		$	(48,999	)		$	(105,332	)		$	(74,334	)

Operating Activities

Net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2010 was primarily driven by sales and net profit generated from these sales, excluding depreciation, amortization and the goodwill impairment charge. The overall decrease in cash flows from operations in 2010 was due to the significant decline in sales and related profits and the cash contribution from a decrease in receivables in 2009. With the downturn in the general economy, we will continue to focus on our accounts receivable collections and days sales outstanding (DSO), which was 45 days as of December 31, 2010. Cash flows from operations for the twelve months ended December 31, 2010 were negatively affected by an increase in prepaid taxes of approximately $2.5 million. If the recent negative sales trends continue throughout 2011, this will significantly impact our cash flows from operations in the future. With the issuance of the Notes of $200 million, our effective interest rate increased from 8.1% to 11.0%, which will affect our cash flows from operations in the future.

Net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2009 was primarily driven by sales, and net profit generated from these sales, excluding depreciation and the goodwill impairment charge. The overall decrease in cash flows from operations in 2009 compared to 2008 was due to the decline in sales and corresponding EBITDA. Our strong cash flows from operations in 2009, despite the decrease in profitability, was partially due to continued improved accounts receivable collection efforts. As evidence of our improved collection efforts, our days sales outstanding decreased slightly to 43 days as of December 31, 2009, as compared to 45 days as of December 31, 2008. Also contributing to the strong cash generation in 2009 is the fact that higher sales in the fourth quarter of 2008, as compared to the sales trend in 2009, were partially collected in 2009. Additionally, the utilization of $3.6 million of prepaid taxes contributed to the cash flows from operations.

Net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2008 was primarily related to adjusted net income of $59.0 million, depreciation and amortization of $50.1 million and a change in accounts receivable of $21.6 million. Our cash flows from operations are mainly driven by sales and net profit generated from these sales. Our increase in cash flows from operations in 2008 compared to the same period in 2007 was mainly due to two factors; improved accounts receivable collections, and in the fourth quarter of 2007 we had a $10.5 million cash payment related to the settlement of the previously disclosed Louis Frey litigation. As evidence of our improved collection efforts, our days sales outstanding of 45 days as of December 31, 2008 reflect a five day improvement, as compared to 50 days as of December 31, 2007. The accounts receivable cash inflow from operating activities in 2008 was positively affected by strong sales in the fourth quarter of 2007, which were collected in 2008.

Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities primarily related to capital expenditures and acquisition of businesses. Payments for businesses acquired, net of cash acquired and including other cash payments and earnout payments associated with the acquisitions, amounted to $0.9 million, $3.5 million, and $23.9 million during the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009, and 2008, respectively. The decrease is due to the significant decrease in acquisition activity in 2010 and 2009 that we expect to continue domestically in the near future and fewer earnout payments made in 2010 and 2009. We incurred capital expenditures totaling $8.6 million, $7.5 million, and $9.0 million during the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009, and 2008, respectively. Other cash flows from investing activities of $1.0 million, $1.7 million, and $1.2 million during the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009, and 2008, respectively, are primarily due to cash received from the sale of property, and disposal of fixed assets. Our restricted cash inflow of $1.0 million in 2008 related to the receipt of an escrow account established in connection with the acquisition of a business. Cash used in investing activities will vary depending on the timing and the size of acquisitions. Funds required to finance our business expansion will come from operating cash flows and additional borrowings.

Financing Activities

Net cash of $49.0 million used in financing activities during the 12 months ended December 31, 2010, primarily relates to scheduled payments of approximately $39 million on our debt agreements and capital leases, and payment of deferred financing fees of $4.5 million related to the issuance of the Notes. On December 1, 2010 we paid off our then-existing senior secured credit facility in the amount of $199.4 million, with net proceeds of $195.6 million from the issuance of the Notes and available cash. See Note 5 “Long-Term Debt” to our Consolidated Financial Statements for more information related to the Notes issuance. Net cash of $105.3 million used in financing activities during the 12 months ended December 31, 2009, primarily relates to scheduled payments of $59.0 million on our debt agreements and capital leases, a $35.0 million early paydown on our then-existing term loan facility, and approximately $11.0 million in early paydowns of capital lease obligations. Net cash of $74.3 million used in financing activities during the 12 months ended December 31, 2008, primarily relates to scheduled payments of $51.9 million on our debt agreements and capital leases and a $22 million pay down on our then-existing revolving credit facility. Our cash position, working capital, and debt obligations as of December 31, 2010, 2009, and 2008 are shown below and should be read in conjunction with our Consolidated Balance Sheets and notes thereto elsewhere in this report.

		December 31,
		2010				2009				2008
Cash and cash equivalents		$	26,293			$	29,377			$	46,542
Working capital		$	22,387			$	(3,739	)		$	29,798
Borrowings from senior secured credit facilities and Notes		$	195,692			$	205,625			$	261,250
Other debt obligations			43,932				68,606				99,790
Total debt obligations		$	239,624			$	274,231			$	361,040

The increase of $26.1 million in working capital in 2010 was primarily due to payment of our senior secured debt outstanding of which $21.5 million was classified as current as of December 31, 2009. The debt was paid off primarily with proceeds from the issuance, on December 1, 2010, of the Notes. To manage our working capital, we focus on our number of days sales outstanding and monitor the aging of our accounts receivable, as receivables are the most significant element of our working capital.

We believe that our current cash balance of $26.3 million, availability under the 2010 Credit Agreement and additional cash flows provided by operations should be adequate to cover the next twelve months working capital needs, debt service requirements which consists of scheduled principal and interest payments, and planned capital expenditures, to the extent such items are known or are reasonably determinable based on current business and market conditions. In addition we may elect to finance certain of our capital expenditure requirements through borrowings under our senior secured revolving credit facility, which had no debt outstanding as of December 31, 2010, or the issuance of additional debt which is dependent on availability of third party financing. See “Debt Obligations” section for further information related to our current credit facility.

We generate the majority of our revenue from sales of products and services provided to the AEC industry. As a result, our operating results and financial condition can be significantly affected by economic factors that influence the AEC industry, such as non-residential and residential construction spending. The effects of the current economic downturn in the United States, and weakness in global economic conditions, have resulted in a downturn in the residential and non-residential construction spending of the AEC industry, which have adversely affected our operating results. The current diminished liquidity and credit availability in financial markets and the general economic downturn may adversely affect the ability of our customers and suppliers to obtain financing for significant operations and purchases, and to perform their obligations under their agreements with us. We believe the credit constraints in the financial markets are resulting in a decrease in, or cancellation of, existing business, could limit new business, and could negatively impact our ability to collect our accounts receivable on a timely basis. We are unable to predict the duration and severity of the current economic downturn or its effects on our business and results of operations, but the consequences may be materially adverse and more severe than other recent economic slowdowns.

We continually evaluate potential acquisitions. Absent a compelling strategic reason, we target potential acquisitions that would be cash flow accretive within six months. Currently, we are not a party to any agreements, or engaged in any negotiations regarding a material acquisition. We expect to fund future acquisitions through cash flows provided by operations and additional borrowings. The extent to which we will be willing or able to use our equity or a mix of equity and cash payments to make acquisitions will depend on the market value of our shares from time to time, and the willingness of potential sellers to accept equity as full or partial payment. We expect that the decreased level of acquisition activity in the United States during 2010 will continue in the near future.

Debt Obligations

10.5% Senior Notes due 2016

On December 1, 2010, we completed a private offering of the Notes. We also entered into a new $50 million revolving credit agreement dated December 1, 2010 with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (the “2010 Credit Agreement”) and paid off in full amounts outstanding under the Amended 2007 Credit Agreement.

The Notes have an aggregate principal amount of $200 million. The Notes are general unsecured senior obligations and will be subordinated to all of our existing and future senior secured debts to the extent of the assets securing such debt. Our obligations under the Notes are jointly and severally guaranteed by all of our domestic subsidiaries. The issue price was 97.824% with a yield to maturity of 11.0%. Interest on the Notes accrues at a rate of 10.5% per annum and is payable semiannually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing on June 15, 2011. We will make each interest payment to the holders of record of the Notes on the immediately preceding June 1 and December 1.

We received gross proceeds of $195.6 million from the Notes offering. In connection with the issuance of the Notes, we entered into an Indenture, dated as of the closing date (the “Indenture”), among our company, certain of our subsidiaries are named therein, as guarantors (the “Guarantors”), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Trustee, and a Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), among our company, the Guarantors, and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, as representatives of the initial purchasers of the Notes (the “Initial Purchasers”). The Notes were offered only to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and outside the United States to non-U.S. persons pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.

Optional Redemption. At any time prior to December 15, 2013, we may redeem all or part of the Notes upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice at a redemption price equal to the sum of (i) 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus (ii) a make-whole premium as of the date of redemption, plus (iii) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of redemption. In addition, we may redeem some or all of the Notes on or after December 15, 2013, at redemption prices set forth in the Indenture, together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of redemption. At any time prior to December 15, 2013, we may use the proceeds of certain equity offerings to redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes, including any permitted additional Notes, at a redemption price equal to 110.5% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of redemption.

Repurchase upon Change of Control. Upon the occurrence of a change in control (as defined in the Indenture), each holder of the Notes may require us to repurchase all of the then-outstanding Notes in cash at a price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase.

Other Covenants. The Indenture contains covenants that limit, among other things, our company’s and certain of our subsidiaries’ ability to (1) incur additional debt and issue preferred stock, (2) make certain restricted payments, (3) consummate specified asset sales, (4) enter into certain transactions with affiliates, (5) create liens, (6) declare or pay any dividend or make any other distributions, (7) make certain investments, and (8) merge or consolidate with another person.

Events of Default. The Indenture provides for customary events of default (subject in certain cases to customary grace and cure periods), which include non-payment, breach of covenants in the Indenture, cross default and acceleration of other indebtedness, a failure to pay certain judgments and certain events of bankruptcy and insolvency. Generally, if an event of default occurs, the Trustee or holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may declare the principal of and accrued but unpaid interest on all of the then-outstanding Notes to be due and payable.

2010 Credit Agreement

On December 1, 2010, our company and certain of our subsidiaries entered into the 2010 Credit Agreement. The 2010 Credit Agreement provides for a $50 million senior secured revolving line of credit, of which up to $20 million will be available for the issuance of letters of credit. The revolving line of credit will be available on a revolving basis during the period commencing after the Closing Date and ending on December 1, 2015 and is secured by substantially all of our assets and certain of our subsidiaries. Advances under the revolving line of credit will be subject to customary borrowing conditions, including the accuracy of representations and warranties and the absence of events of default. We may borrow, partially or wholly repay its outstanding borrowings and reborrow, subject to the limitations, terms and conditions contained in the 2010 Credit Agreement.

The obligations under the 2010 Credit Agreement are guaranteed by our domestic subsidiaries and, subject to certain limited exceptions, are secured by security interests granted in all of our and the guarantors’ personal and real property.

Advances under the 2010 Credit Agreement will bear interest at LIBOR plus the “applicable rate.” The applicable rate will initially be 2.00%. The applicable rate will be determined based upon our consolidated leverage ratio with a minimum and maximum applicable rate of 1.50% and 2.00%, respectively. During the continuation of certain events of default all amounts due under the 2010 Credit Agreement will bear interest at 4.0% above the rate otherwise applicable. In addition, we will be required to pay an unused commitment fee on the average daily unused amount of the line of credit at the applicable rate, calculated and payable quarterly in arrears, as follows: if the consolidated leverage ratio is (i) greater than 3.00x, the unused commitment fee is 0.20%, (ii) less than 2.99x but greater than 2.00x, 0.15%, and (iii) less than 2.00x, 0.10%.

The 2010 Credit Agreement contains the following financial covenants:

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Maximum consolidated leverage ratio:

	•		4.35:1.00 for quarters ending December 31, 2010 through September 30, 2011
	•		4.25:1.00 for quarters ending December 31, 2011 through September 30, 2012
	•		4.15:1.00 for quarters ending December 31, 2012 through September 30, 2013
	•		4.00:1.00 for quarters ending December 31, 2013 through maturity;

	•		Maximum consolidated senior secured debt leverage ratio not greater than 1.50:1.00, determined on the last day of each fiscal quarter through maturity;
	•		Minimum consolidated interest coverage ratio:

	•		1.70:1.00 for quarters ending December 31, 2010 through September 30, 2011
	•		1.75:1.00 for quarters ending December 31, 2011 through maturity;

The 2010 Credit Agreement also contains covenants which, subject to certain exceptions as set forth in the 2010 Credit Agreement, restrict our ability to incur additional debt, grant liens or guaranty other indebtedness, pay dividends, redeem stock, pay or redeem subordinated indebtedness, make investments or capital expenditures, dispose or acquire assets, dispose of equity interests in subsidiaries, enter into any merger, sale of assets, consolidation or liquidation transaction, or engage in transactions with stockholders and affiliates. Covenants in the 2010 Credit Agreement also require that we provide periodic financial reports to the lender, observe certain practices and procedures with respect to the collateral pledged as security, comply with applicable laws and maintain and preserve our company’s and our subsidiaries’ properties and maintain insurance.

As of December 31, 2010, we were in compliance with the financial incurrence-based covenants under the Notes and financial covenants under the 2010 Credit Agreement. Our trailing twelve months key financial covenant ratios as of December 31, 2010 were 2.09:1.00 for minimum interest coverage, 3.26:1.00 for maximum total leverage and 0.47:1.00 for maximum senior secured leverage.

As of December 31, 2010, we were in compliance with the financial covenants in the 2010 Credit Agreement and we expect to be in compliance through the term of that agreement. However, it is possible that a default under certain financial covenants may occur in the future, should the minimum required profitability levels are not achieved. If we default on the covenants under the 2010 Credit Agreement and are unable to obtain waivers from our lenders, the lenders will be able to exercise their rights and remedies under the 2010 Credit Agreement, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and liquidity. As of December 31, 2010 we did not have any outstanding debt under the 2010 Credit Agreement.

As of December 31, 2010, standby letters of credit aggregated to $3.9 million. The standby letters of credit under the 2010 Credit Agreement reduced our borrowing availability under the 2010 Credit Agreement to $46.1 million.

2007 Credit Agreement

On December 6, 2007, we entered into a credit and guaranty agreement. That credit agreement provided for senior secured credit facilities aggregating up to $350 million, consisting of a $275 million term loan facility and a $75 million revolving credit facility. We used proceeds under the 2007 Credit Agreement in the amount of $289.4 million to extinguish in full all principal and interest payable under our then former credit facility.

On October 5, 2009 we entered into the Amended 2007 Credit Agreement. In exchange for the terms set forth in the Amended 2007 Credit Agreement, we agreed to pay to each consenting lender an amendment fee equal to 50 basis points of the amount of each consenting lender’s revolving commitment and outstanding term loans as of the effective date of the Amended 2007 Credit Agreement (as determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the $35.0 million prepayment and reduction of total revolving commitments to $49.5 million) which amounted to $1.3 million. In addition, we agreed to pay to each consenting lender that has a Class B term loan commitment under the Amended 2007 Credit Agreement an amortization deferral fee of 100 basis points of such consenting lender’s Class B term loan commitment which amounted to $0.4 million. We also paid customary arrangement and service fees of $2.0 million in connection with the Amended 2007 Credit Agreement. Total fees amounted to $3.7 million of which $2.1 million was capitalized into deferred financing fees and $1.6 million was expensed under interest expense for 2009.

On December 1, 2010, we paid off, in full, amounts outstanding under our Amended 2007 Credit Agreement when the private placement of the Notes was completed.

Foreign Credit Agreement

In the fourth quarter of 2009, in connection with our China operations, we entered into one-year revolving credit facilities. The facilities provided for a maximum credit amount of 14.5 million Chinese Yuan Renminbi. This translated to $2.1 million as of December 31, 2009. Draws on the facilities were limited to 30 day periods and incur a fee of .05% of the amount drawn and no additional interest is charged. The facilities were not renewed in the fourth quarter of 2010 and there was no amount outstanding as of December 31, 2010,

The following table sets forth the outstanding balance, borrowing capacity and applicable interest rate under the Notes and senior secured credit facilities.

		As of December 31, 2010												As of December 31, 2009
						Available												Available
						Borrowing				Interest								Borrowing				Interest
		Balance				Capacity				Rate				Balance				Capacity				Rate
		(Dollars in thousands)
Notes (1)		$	200,000			$	—				10.50	%		$	—			$	—				—
Term facility			—				—				—				205,625				—				8.10	%
Revolving facilities			—				46,146				—				1,523				46,073				6.00	%
		$	200,000			$	46,146							$	207,148			$	46,073

Seller Notes. As of December 31, 2010, we had $8.6 million of seller notes outstanding, with interest rates ranging between 5.0% and 7.1% and maturities between 2011 and 2012. These notes were issued in connection with prior acquisitions.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

As of December 31, 2010, and 2009, we did not have any relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes.

Contractual Obligations and Other Commitments

Our future contractual obligations as of December 31, 2010, are as follows:

						Less than												More than
		Total				1 year				1 to 3 years				3 to 5 years				5 years
		(Dollars in thousands)
Debt obligations and Notes (2)		$	208,635			$	7,940			$	695			$	—			$	200,000
Capital lease obligations			35,297				15,668				16,717				2,911				1
Amended Swap Transaction (3)			9,729				9,729				—				—				—
Interest on long-term debt, Notes and capital leases			131,228				24,757				44,218				42,736				19,517
Operating lease			74,734				23,672				30,424				11,735				8,903
ASC 740 liability (1)			—				—				—				—				—
Total		$	459,623			$	81,766			$	92,054			$	57,382			$	228,421

Operating Leases. We have entered into various noncancelable operating leases primarily related to facilities, equipment and vehicles used in the ordinary course of our business.

Contingent Transaction Consideration. We have entered into earnout agreements in connection with prior acquisitions. If the acquired businesses generate operating profits or revenues in excess of predetermined targets, we are obligated to make additional cash payments in accordance with the terms of such earnout agreements. As of December 31, 2010, the maximum amount that may be required to be paid out under existing earnout agreements is $1.5 million, in the aggregate, between 2011 and 2014.

Critical Accounting Policies

Our management prepares financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. This requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis and rely on historical experience and other factors that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results could differ from those estimates and such differences may be material to the Consolidated Financial Statements. We believe the critical accounting policies and areas that require more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements to be the following: impairment of long-lived assets; goodwill and other intangible assets; revenue recognition; income taxes; allowance for doubtful accounts; commitments and contingencies; and stock-based compensation.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

We periodically assess potential impairments of our long-lived assets in accordance with the provisions of ASC 360. An impairment review is performed whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of the assets may not be recoverable.

Factors we considered include, but are not limited to, significant underperformance relative to historical or projected operating results; significant changes in the manner of use of the acquired assets or the strategy for the overall business; and significant negative industry or economic trends. When the carrying value of a long-lived asset may not be recoverable based upon the existence of one or more of the above indicators of impairment, we estimate the future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset and its eventual disposition. If the sum of the expected future undiscounted cash flows and eventual disposition is less than the carrying amount of the asset, we recognize an impairment loss. An impairment loss is reflected as the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset, based on the fair value if available, or as estimated using discounted cash flows, if not.

Our operating segments have been negatively impacted by the drop in commercial and residential construction resulting from the current economic downturn. Before assessing our goodwill for impairment, we evaluated, as described above, the long-lived assets in our operating segments for impairment in 2010 and 2009 given the reduced level of expected sales, profits and cash flows. Based on this assessment, there was no impairment in 2010. In 2009 we determined that there was an impairment of long-lived assets for our operating segment in the United Kingdom. Accordingly, we recorded a pretax, non-cash charge in 2009 to reduce the carrying value of other intangible assets by $0.8 million. Given the current economic environment, we have and will continue to monitor the need to test our long-lived assets for impairment as required by ASC 805.

Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

In connection with acquisitions, we apply the provisions of ASC 805, using the acquisition method of accounting. Acquisitions completed prior to 2009 were accounted for by applying the provisions of SFAS No. 141, Business Combinations, (“SFAS 141”), pursuant to which the assets and liabilities assumed were recorded at their estimated fair values. The excess purchase price over the fair value of net tangible assets and identifiable intangible assets acquired was recorded as goodwill.

We assess goodwill at least annually for impairment as of September 30 or more frequently if events and circumstances indicate that goodwill might be impaired. We concluded that in the absence of the annual goodwill impairment analysis, there were sufficient indicators in the third quarter of 2010 to require a goodwill impairment analysis as of September 30, 2010. The indicators included among other factors, our 2010 third quarter results and our revision of projected future earnings.

Goodwill impairment testing is performed at the operating segment (or “reporting unit”) level. Goodwill is assigned to reporting units at the date the goodwill is initially recorded. Once goodwill has been assigned to reporting units, it no longer retains its association with a particular acquisition, and all of the activities within a reporting unit, whether acquired or internally generated, are available to support the value of the goodwill. The results of our analysis in 2010 indicated that 13 of our reporting units, 12 in the United States, one in China, had a goodwill impairment. Accordingly, we recorded a pretax, non-cash charge in 2010 to reduce the carrying value of goodwill by $38.3 million. We continue to assess, among other things, the current economic downturn, reporting unit and consolidated performance against plan, and the outlook of our business and industry in general. A downward trend in one or more of these factors, or a significant decrease in our stock price, could cause us to reduce the estimated fair value of our reporting units and recognize a corresponding impairment of the goodwill in connection with a future goodwill impairment analysis. Based upon our assessment, we concluded that no goodwill impairment triggering events have occurred during the fourth quarter of 2010 that would require an additional impairment test.

The results of our 2009 goodwill impairment analysis in indicated that 11 of our reporting units, nine in the United States, one in the United Kingdom, and one in Canada, had a goodwill impairment in 2009. Accordingly, we recorded a pretax, non-cash charge in 2009 to reduce the carrying value of goodwill by $37.4 million.

During the quarter ended December 31, 2008, based on a combination of factors, including the then current economic environment, and a significant decline in market capitalization, we concluded that there were sufficient indicators to require us to perform an interim goodwill impairment analysis as of December 31, 2008. The results of our analysis indicated that eight of our reporting units, six in the United States, one in Canada, and one in the United Kingdom had a goodwill impairment. Accordingly, we recorded a pretax, non-cash charge in, 2008 to reduce the carrying value of goodwill by $35.2 million.

Goodwill impairment testing is a two-step process. Step one involves comparing the fair value of our reporting units to their carrying amount. If the fair value of the reporting unit is greater than its carrying amount, there is no impairment. If the reporting unit’s carrying amount is greater than the fair value, the second step must be completed to measure the amount of impairment, if any. Step two involves calculating the implied fair value of goodwill by deducting the fair value of all tangible and intangible assets, excluding goodwill, of the reporting unit from the fair value of the reporting unit as determined in Step one. The implied fair value of goodwill determined in this step is compared to the carrying value of goodwill. If the implied fair value of goodwill is less than the carrying value of goodwill, an impairment loss is recognized equal to the difference.

We determine the fair value of our reporting units using an income approach. Under the income approach, we determined fair value based on estimated discounted future cash flows of each reporting unit. The cash flows are discounted by an estimated weighted-average cost of capital, which reflects the overall level of inherent risk of a reporting unit. Determining the fair value of a reporting unit is judgmental in nature and requires the use of significant estimates and assumptions, including revenue growth rates and operating margins, discount rates and future market conditions, among others. We considered market information in assessing the reasonableness of the fair value under the income approach outlined above.

Given the current economic environment and the uncertainties regarding the impact on our business, there can be no assurance that the estimates and assumptions regarding the duration of the ongoing economic downturn in our industry, or the period or strength of recovery, made for purposes of our goodwill impairment testing during the nine months ended September 30, 2010, will prove to be accurate predictions of the future. If our assumptions regarding forecasted revenue or gross margins of certain reporting units are not achieved, we may be required to record additional goodwill impairment charges in future periods, whether in connection with our next annual impairment testing in the third quarter of 2011, or prior to that, if any such change constitutes a triggering event outside of the quarter when we regularly perform our annual goodwill impairment test. It is not possible at this time to determine if any such future impairment charge would result or, if it does, whether such charge would be material.

As of December 31, 2010, we believe the estimated fair value of our goodwill equals or exceeds the carrying value of goodwill for our reporting units. The estimated fair value of goodwill is based upon a number of factors, including weighted average cost of capital ranging from 11% to 14%, depending upon the size and risk profile of the reporting unit, discount rates, projected revenues and projected EBITDA. Projected revenues and projected EBITDA are driven, in part, by anticipated industry growth rates, anticipated GDP, customer composition and historical performance. Of the reporting units impaired during 2010, 11 continue to carry goodwill of $89.5 million. Additionally, at the time of the impairment test, one other reporting unit’s implied fair value of goodwill exceeded its book value of $1.3 million by only $66 thousand, or 5%. Relatively minor changes to the assumptions would lead to further impairments of the reporting units at risk.

Based upon a sensitivity analysis, performed as of the date of the 2010 impairment analysis, a reduction of approximately 0.5% of projected EBITDA in 2011 and beyond, assuming all other assumptions remain constant, would not result in any additional reporting units proceeding to step 2 of the analysis. However, the decrease of projected EBITDA in 2011 and subsequent years would have resulted in an additional impairment charge of $0.6 million for those reporting units that were evaluated in step 2.

Based upon a separate sensitivity analysis, performed as of the date of the 2010 impairment analysis, a 50 basis point increase to the weighted average cost of capital would not result in any additional reporting units proceeding to step 2 of the analysis. However, the increase in the weighted average cost of capital would have resulted in a further impairment of approximately $8.4 million for those reporting units that were evaluated in step 2.

The additions to goodwill include the excess purchase price over fair value of net assets acquired, purchase price adjustments, and certain earnout payments. See Note 3 “Acquisitions” to our Consolidated Financial Statements included in this report.

Customer relationships are amortized over their estimated useful lives of 13 (weighted average) and amortized using the accelerated method (based on customer attrition rates).

During the fourth quarter of 2010, we decided to affect a consolidation of the many brands that comprise our market presence around the country. Accordingly, we have revised the remaining estimated useful lives of its trade name intangible assets down to 18 months. This change in estimate is accounted for on a prospective basis, resulting in increased amortization expense over the revised useful lives for each trade name. The remaining useful lives of trade names prior to this change ranged from 11 to 18 years. The impact of this change in the fourth quarter of 2010 was an increase in amortization expense of approximately $1.6 million. Trade names are amortized using the straight-line method. Beginning in January 2011, each of our operating divisions and their respective locations will begin to adopt the name of our corporate parent, ARC. The name will be phased into our marketing operations throughout the course of the year to ensure customer recognition and retention. Original brand names will continue to be used in conjunction with ARC to reinforce our continuing presence in the business communities we serve, and ongoing relationships with our customers. The latest date we expect to fully retire original trade names is April 2012. The non-competition agreements are amortized over their weighted average term on a straight-line basis.

Revenue Recognition

We apply the provisions of ASC 605, formerly the SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 104, Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements. In general, we recognize revenue when (i) persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, (ii) shipment of products has occurred or services have been rendered, (iii) the sales price charged is fixed or determinable and (iv) collection is reasonably assured. Net sales include an allowance for estimated sales returns and discounts.

We recognize revenues from reprographics and facilities management services when services have been rendered while revenues from the resale of reprographics supplies and equipment are recognized upon delivery to the customer or upon customer pickup.

We have established contractual pricing for certain large national customer accounts. These contracts generally establish uniform pricing at all branches for Global Services. Revenues earned from our Global Services are recognized in the same manner as non-Global Services revenues.

Revenues from software licensing activities are recognized over the term of the license. Revenues from membership fees are recognized over the term of the membership agreement.

Management provides for returns, discounts and allowances based on historic experience and adjusts such allowances as considered necessary. To date, such provisions have been within the range of management’s expectations.

Income Taxes

Deferred tax assets and liabilities reflect temporary differences between the amount of assets and liabilities for financial and tax reporting purposes. Such amounts are adjusted, as appropriate, to reflect changes in tax rates expected to be in effect when the temporary differences reverse. A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce our deferred tax assets to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized. Changes in tax laws or accounting standards and methods may affect recorded deferred taxes in future periods.

When establishing a valuation allowance, we consider future sources of taxable income such as “future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, future taxable income exclusive of reversing temporary differences and carryforwards” and “tax planning strategies.” A tax planning strategy is “an action that: is prudent and feasible; an enterprise ordinarily might not take, but would take to prevent an operating loss or tax credit carryforward from expiring unused; and would result in realization of deferred tax assets.” In the event we determine the deferred tax assets will not be realized in the future, the valuation adjustment to the deferred tax assets will be charged to earnings in the period in which we make such a determination. As of December 31, 2010, based on various factors, including but not limited to the fact that we had cumulative pretax book income over the previous three year period, we determined no valuation allowance was required to be recorded. However, due to our losses during 2009 and 2010, it is likely that we will have a three year cumulative book loss at some point in 2011. We will continue to evaluate our recent historical results, the nature of any unusual amounts included in our results and the likelihood they will recur, and our forecasted future results in determining our ability to earn sufficient taxable income to utilize our deferred tax assets. If our assumptions regarding forecasted revenue or gross margins of our Company are not achieved, it may have a significant impact on the corresponding taxable income which may require a valuation allowance to be recorded against our then existing deferred tax assets.

We calculate our current and deferred tax provision based on estimates and assumptions that could differ from the actual results reflected in income tax returns filed in subsequent years. Adjustments based on filed returns are recorded when identified.

Income taxes have not been provided on certain undistributed earnings of international subsidiaries because such earnings are considered to be permanently reinvested.

The amount of income taxes we pay is subject to ongoing audits by federal, state and foreign tax authorities. Our estimate of the potential outcome of any uncertain tax issue is subject to management’s assessment of relevant risks, facts, and circumstances existing at that time. We use a more-likely-than-not threshold for financial statement recognition and measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. We record a liability for the difference between the benefit recognized and measured and tax position taken or expected to be taken on our tax return. To the extent that our assessment of such tax positions changes, the change in estimate is recorded in the period in which the determination is made. We report tax-related interest and penalties as a component of income tax expense.

Our effective income tax rate differs from the statutory tax rate primarily due to state income taxes, the Domestic Production Activities Deduction, nondeductible items and income tax credits recognized with respect to hiring employees and the purchase and lease of tangible assets in certain qualified enterprise zones.

Income tax benefits credited to stockholders’ equity are primarily related to employee exercises of non-qualified stock options.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

We perform periodic credit evaluations of the financial condition of our customers, monitor collections and payments from customers, and generally do not require collateral. We provide for the possible inability to collect accounts receivable by recording an allowance for doubtful accounts. We write off an account when it is considered uncollectible. We estimate our allowance for doubtful accounts based on historical experience, aging of accounts receivable, and information regarding the creditworthiness of our customers. In 2010, 2009, and 2008, we recorded expenses of $1.0 million, $3.0 million, and $4.9 million, respectively, related to the allowance for trade receivables.

Commitments and Contingencies

In the normal course of business, we estimate potential future loss accruals related to legal, workers compensation, healthcare, tax and other contingencies. These accruals require management’s judgment on the outcome of various events based on the best available information. However, due to changes in facts and circumstances, the ultimate outcomes could differ from management’s estimates.

Stock-Based Compensation

We apply the Black-Scholes valuation model in determining the fair value of share-based payments to employees, which is then amortized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period. Upon the adoption FSP FAS 123(R-3), Transition Election Related to Accounting for the Tax Effects of Share-Based Payment Awards, we used the “shortcut method” for determining the historical windfall tax benefit.

Total stock-based compensation for the years ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008 was $5.9 million, $4.9 million and $4.3 million, respectively and was recorded in selling, general, and administrative expenses. In addition, upon the adoption of ASC 718, the excess tax benefit resulting from stock-based compensation, in our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, is classified as cash flows from financing activities.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

See Note 2 “Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” to our Consolidated Financial Statements for disclosure on recent accounting pronouncements.

Item 7A.		Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk