Sharper Image Corporation (the “Company”) (Pink Sheets:SHRPQ),announced today that on May 29, 2008, the Company entered into a revised Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Revised Asset Purchase Agreement”) with a joint venture of Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, LLC, GB Brands, LLC, Hilco Merchant Resources, LLC, and Hilco Consumer Capital, LLC (the “Hilco/GB Joint Venture”). The Company had previously entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with the Hilco/GB Joint Venture on May 13, 2008, under which the Company agreed to sell certain assets to the Hilco/GB Joint Venture. Because of changed circumstances and after an active auction sale process directed by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Court”) on May 29, 2008, the Company entered into the Revised Asset Purchase Agreement with the Hilco/GB Joint Venture, which was approved by the Court on May 30, 2008. The revision was a reduction of the purchase price from $51,250,000 to a base price of $49,000,000. The Company may receive additional proceeds of up to $1,500,000 dependent upon the occurrence of certain contingencies. The Company does not believe those contingencies will occur.
About Sharper Image
The Sharper Image is a specialty retailer that is nationally and internationally renowned as a leading source of new, innovative, high-quality products that make life better and more enjoyable. The Company's principal selling channels include Sharper Image specialty stores throughout the United States; the award-winning Sharper Image monthly catalog; and its primary Web site, www.sharperimage.com. The Company also has business-to-business sales teams for marketing its exclusive and proprietary products for corporate incentive and reward programs and wholesale to selected U.S. and international retailers.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current plans, expectations, estimates, and projections about the specialty retail industry and management's beliefs about the Company's future performance. Words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates" or variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and which may cause the Company's actual results and performance to differ materially from those expressed or forecasted in any such forward-looking statements.
