SEC Company Response from PARK AEROSPACE CORP (PKE) (CIK 0000076267) (PKE) — Feb 7, 2008
PARK AEROSPACE CORP (PKE) (CIK 0000076267)
Date: Feb. 7, 2008 · CIK: 0000076267 · Accession: 0000076267-08-000002
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Via Edgar and Overnight Mail
February 7, 2008
Barbara C. Jacobs, Esq.
Assistant Director
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C. 20549
Mail Stop 4561
Re: Park Electrochemical Corp.
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 25, 2007
Filed May 10, 2007
File No. 001-04415
Dear Ms. Jacobs:
We have reviewed the comments relating to the above
referenced filing presented in the letter signed by you and
dated January 30, 2008 to Mr. Brian E. Shore, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Park Electrochemical Corp.
(hereinafter "Park" or the "Company"). The comments and
Park's responses to the comments are set forth below:
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended February 25, 2007
Part I
Item 1. Business, page 4
COMMENT:
1. It appears that Sanmina-SCI Corporation, and TTM
Technologies, Inc. represent 16.7% and 10.7%, respectively,
of your total worldwide sales of printed circuit materials
in FY 2007. We also note your risk factor disclosure on
page 17 that a loss of one or more of your key customers
could affect your business. Because you appear to be
substantially dependent on your agreements with Sanmina-SCI
Corporation, and TTM Technologies, Inc., please advise if
you considered including in your Form 10-K a description of
your contractual arrangements with these customers and
filing your agreements with them as exhibits. See Item
601(b)(10)(ii)(B) of Regulations S-K.
RESPONSE:
The Company does not have contractual arrangements with
these customers. The Company sells printed circuit
materials to these customers pursuant to purchase orders
submitted by such customers to the Company.
Definitive Proxy Statement of Schedule 14A
Executive Compensation, page 6
COMMENT:
2. As you are aware, the Division has recently released
Staff observations relating to a focused review of executive
compensation disclosure. This guidance, which is available
on our website at
http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/execco
mpdisclosure.htm, may be helpful as you draft future
versions of your executive compensation and other
related disclosure. In drafting future executive
compensation disclosure, please consider in
particular providing a more complete description of
your executive compensation practices in the
following areas:
* appropriate analysis and insight into how the Committee
determined specific payouts;
* benchmarking of the elements of your compensation
program; and
* appropriate disclosure of the specific items of
corporate performance that are taken into consideration in
making compensation decisions and how specific forms of
compensation are structured and implemented to reflect these
performance items.
RESPONSE:
The Company will review its executive compensation
disclosure in light of the recent staff guidance relating to
executive compensation disclosure.
Signatures
COMMENT:
3. It does not appear that your Form 10-K has been signed
by either your principal accounting officer or controller,
as is required by General Instruction D to the Form 10-K.
If a person acts in more than one of these capacities, the
signature page must indicate all of the capacities in which
they are signing. Please advise.
RESPONSE:
The Form 10-K was signed by James L. Zerby, the principal
financial officer at the time, and he was also the principal
accounting officer. The Company did not have a controller.
It was an oversight that Mr. Zerby was not identified as the
Company's principal accounting officer, as well as its
principal financial officer. The Company's Form 10-K for
its fiscal year ending March 2, 2008 will indicate all the
capacities in which the persons are signing.
General
The Company acknowledges that: the Company is responsible
for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the
filing; staff comments or changes to disclosure in response
to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from
taking any action with respect to the filing; and the
Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any
proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under
the federal securities laws of the United States.
The information in the foregoing responses that will be
included in the Company's Form 10-K Annual Report for the
fiscal year ending March 2, 2008 will be in such Report that
will be filed on or before May 16, 2008.
Please provide any questions or comments that the staff may
have with respect to our responses to the staff's comments
to Stephen Gilhuley, Park's Executive Vice President,
Secretary and General Counsel, or Matthew Farabaugh, Park's
Vice President and Controller, at 631-465-3600 or send them
via facsimile to 631-465-3100.
Very truly yours,
PARK ELECTROCHEMICAL CORP.
Stephen E. Gilhuley
Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel
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