SEC Company Response from OUTLOOK GROUP CORP (CIK 0000867490) — Feb 4, 2005
OUTLOOK GROUP CORP (CIK 0000867490)
Date: Feb. 4, 2005 · CIK: 0000867490 · Accession: 0000950137-05-001229
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File numbers found in text: 000-18815
Referenced dates: January 7, 2005
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February 4, 2005
VIA EDGAR AND OVERNIGHT DELIVERY
Linda Cvrkel
Branch Chief
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 5th Street, N.W.
Judiciary Plaza
Washington DC 20549
RE: OUTLOOK GROUP CORP.
COMMISSION FILE NO. 000-18815
YOUR LETTER OF JANUARY 7, 2005
Dear Ms. Cvrkel:
This letter responds to the comments which Commission Staff made in its
letter dated January 7, 2005 to me as Outlook Group Corp.'s chief financial
officer, relating to our response dated December 15, 2004 to questions relating
to the OGC Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2004 and its Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended August 28, 2004. Comments are made in response to the
numbered paragraphs in your letter. For convenient reference, a copy of your
letter is attached to the delivered copy of this letter. In this letter, "we"
refers to OGC and its management generally.
Comment
No. OGC Response
1. An analysis of the manufacturing flow and the nature of the delivered
item was performed when considering the criteria set forth in paragraph
9 of EITF 00-21. When a supply chain or similar arrangement exists, a
client seeks a "single source" supplier that provides a deliverable
product. This final delivered product may go through several
manufacturing operations (these manufacturing operations are termed
"services" in the printing industry). For example, a supply chain
direct mail product will flow through the following manufacturing
operations or services: prepress, printing, finishing, collating,
over-wrapping, addressing and mailing. These print manufacturing
operations (or "services") are not billed separately to a client. The
client is billed for the delivered item. Therefore, in these
situations, the individual manufacturing operations (or "services") do
not have value to the client. The value to the client is in the final
delivered item. If, in the rare situation that a client would request
that only one operation, such as over-wrapping, be performed, then the
client would be billed for the final delivered item, which would be an
over-wrapped item.
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Linda Cvrkel
December __, 2004
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If Commission Staff still has questions regarding this situation,
perhaps a conference call would expedite clarification..
2. Per the contractual arrangement with the Buyer, the Buyer is obligated
to provide a formal accounting as of each July 1, 2005, 2006, 2007 and
2008. The Buyer is also obligated to provide quarterly status reports
with respect to calculation of any such amounts during the year. It is
possible that OGC could owe or be due a payment in a year, but not owe
or be due a payment in a subsequent year, so a determination for one
year will not necessarily mean that a payment would be owed or due in a
subsequent period. Accordingly, we will accrue a penalty or bonus
payment when the amounts are reasonably determinable. As of this date
we are not aware of any payments that will be due for fiscal year 2005.
We have also made a related disclosure in our Form 10-Q filing for the
Quarter ended November 27, 2004.
To further clarify our earlier response, reference was made to FAS 141
and FAS 128 relative to the assumption that there would be contingent
proceeds to the sale and that we believe contingently returnable
amounts are effectively the same as contingently payable amounts. We
concur with staff that paragraph 8 of SFAS No. 5 relates to recording
an estimated loss from a loss contingency.
* * *
On behalf of Outlook Group Corp., and as requested in your letter, we
acknowledge that:
o Outlook Group Corp. is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in its filings;
o staff comments or changes in disclosure in response to staff comments
in the filings reviewed by the staff do not foreclose the Commission
from taking any action with respect to the filing; and
o Outlook Group Corp. 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.
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Linda Cvrkel
December __, 2004
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We trust that you will find this letter responsive to your comments.
Please feel free to contact me at (920) 727-8566, or Ken Hallett of Quarles &
Brady LLP, our outside counsel, at (414) 277-5345 if you have any questions or
need further information.
Very truly yours,
OUTLOOK GROUP CORP.
By: /s/ Paul M. Drewek
Paul M. Drewek
Chief Financial Officer
cc: Kenneth V. Hallett, Esq.
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