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Palm Coast Data’s Latest Revenue Down 18.6% Over the Year But Ticks Up in 2012

September 17, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Palm Coast Data's revenue has been on a downward spiral since its peak in 2009. Click on the graph for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)
Palm Coast Data’s revenue has been on a downward spiral since its peak in 2009. Click on the graph for larger view.
(© FlaglerLive)

You could look at one glimmer at Palm Coast Data: revenue ticked up by $100,000 between its fourth financial quarter of 2012, which ended in April, and the first quarter of 2013, which ended in July, though minor quarter-to-quarter fluctuations are not as telling as year-over-year comparisons. In that regard, Palm Coast Data’s revenue is still following the steep downward trend it’s been on since 2009, with its latest quarter recording an 18.6 percent decline from a year ago, according to its parent company’s latest financial report.

Palm Coast Data revenue for the three months ending July 31 was $13.6 million, compared to $16.5 million a year ago, and $32 million in 2008.

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Palm Coast Data is a subsidiary of Amrep Corp., which consists of Palm Coast Data’s subscription fulfillment services, newsstand distribution and product services, and land sales in New Mexico through the Amrep Southwest subsidiary. Amrep reported a net loss of $608,000 in its first quarter of 2013, compared to a loss of $279,000 a year ago, and a loss of $1.63 million in the previous quarter. That’s the 12th loss in the last 16 quarters.

The company’s health has been weighed down by the effects of the recession on two of the most severely impacted sectors of the economy: real estate and publishing. In the last quarter, Amrep Southwest saw no land sales at all. And the restructuring of the media industry, away from print and toward the web, continues to hurt industries built around print. Palm Coast Data’s subscription fulfillment services depend on having magazine subscriptions to manage. But the magazine industry has been contracting, with titles going out of business or going exclusively to web editions, and several subscription fulfillment companies competing for what remains.

“The result has been a trend of reduced subscription and newsstand magazine sales, which has caused publishers to close some magazine titles and seek more favorable terms from Palm Coast and Kable and their competitors when contracts are up for bid or renewal,” Amrep reports in its latest financial statement.

At its peak in 2008, Palm Coast Data was employing more than 1,000 at its Palm Coast operations on Commerce Boulevard, and projecting to expand by adding 700 more employees and building up its campus. At the time the company was consolidating all its subscription fulfillment operations in three states into the Palm Coast operation, in what was designed to make the company more efficient and better position it to face the competitive environment. The company secured extremely favorable financial terms from the state of Florida (including a $3 million economic incentive grant), and from Palm Coast and Flagler County. One part of Palm Coast’s incentives, however, of just under half a million dollars, was contingent on the company producing the new jobs. Another part of Palm Coast’s incentives–the selling, for just $3 million, of a 70,000-square-foot building the city had previously occupied as its city hall–is not recoverable.


Palm Coast Data has continuously refused to disclose how many employees are on its payroll, or whether it produced any of the jobs promised in 2008. But its revenue declines, now well below half where revue stood in 2008, several rounds of layoffs, and parking lots with large, empty swaths in the middle of the work day, strongly suggests that the company’s employment ranks have declined significantly. Florida Hospital Flagler is most likely Flagler County’s largest private-sector employer, its ranks hovering near 1,000. (The Flagler County School Board is the largest employer overall, with 1,700 employees.)

The company’s executives have shuffled and changed over the past couple of years, with Michael Duloc, who’s been with the company since 1993, taking over as president and CEO of its media services, with a total annual compensation Reuters reports at $445,000–higher than the reported compensation of Theodore Gaasche, Amrep’s president and CEO (Reuters reports that compensation at $352,000).

The company’s secrecy extends to local governments and boards focused on economic development: city and county officials profess ignorance about goings-on at Palm Coast Data, and the company’s direction has yet to be a matter of discussion at the county’s economic development council, or to be a matter of interest–as it routinely did in 2008, when Palm Coast was boasting of having preserved those jobs–at the Palm Coast City Council.

Amrep stock on Monday was trading at $8.89 a share. It’s 52-weeek high was $9.57. Its 52-week low was $4.80.

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  1. blondee says

    September 17, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    Of course revenue is up; they got rid of half of their employees!!!!

  2. sunshine says

    September 21, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    Yes you are right Blondee. The only reason revenue is up, is because they have gotten rid of so many people. Not only have they gotten rid of the “higher ups” who make the big money they have also gotten rid of many “little people” too. They got rid of our front desk lady who was with the company since day 1. Cut our long term HR lady. Got rid of the electrician who worked for many years at PCD. They got rid of the lawn cutting company, it’s now being done by the employees in maintenance. They are also getting rid of their rented warehouse in St. Augustine. Thewarehouse is down to only a handful of workers. So many empty offices through out all three buildings. So all these cut backs and changes will save the company some money. there is no way that PCD has hired anywhere near the 700 people that they promised the city that they would. They have hired some customer service reps, but most of them are just “part time” so the company won’t have to pay out any “benifits” to them. I think most people that work here are just waiting for the day that we come to work and there is a big ‘CLOSED”: sign on the front door. So sad.

  3. Mark Redshaw says

    January 3, 2013 at 11:38 am

    Revenue is not impacted by reductions in expense….revenue is about additional sales. The economy and the lack of a focus on business that is killing small business in America. Too bad we dont have someone to lead us on Job Creation.

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