As previously announced, on July 16, 2009 the Company sold substantially all of the assets relating to its US line of business to Pierrel Research USA, Inc., the result of which the Company no longer has any employees or significant operations in the United States. Due to this sale, for the six months ended June 30, 2009 and 2008, the results of the U.S. business have been presented as discontinued operations in the Company's consolidated financial statements.

Net revenue for the second quarter of 2009 was $4.5 million, a decrease of 23.37% from $5.9 million for the second quarter of 2008. The decrease in net revenues was primarily attributable to unfavorable foreign currency fluctuations of $1.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2009. The Company had a consolidated backlog at June 30, 2009 from continuing operations of $19.6 million which included approximately $4.8 million of new business wins in the first half of 2009 compared to a backlog of $23.5 million at June 30, 2008.

Direct expenses for the second quarter of 2009 were $3.4 million, or 76.3% of net revenues, compared to $3.8 million, or 64.2% of net revenues, for the comparable prior year period. The decrease in direct expenses was primarily the result of approximately $541,000 of favorable foreign currency fluctuations absorbed by the Company's European operations in the second quarter of 2009, partially offset by severance and other costs of $202 thousand.

Selling, general, and administrative expenses (SG&A) decreased by 12% to $2.2 million, or 49.9% of net revenue, for the three months ended June 30, 2009, compared to $2.5 million, or 43% of net revenue, for the three months ended June 30, 2008. The decrease in SG&A was due primarily to approximately $178 thousand of favorable currency fluctuations and reduction in staff and facility costs in the Company's U.S. operations, partially offset by higher professional fee associated with the sale of the U.S. business.

Depreciation and amortization expense decreased 61.25% to $93,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2009 from $240,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2009 primarily as a result of certain intangible assets acquired as part of the Encorium Oy (formerly Remedium) acquisition being fully amortized.

Loss from continued operations increased by $604,000 for the three months to $1.3 million or $(0.06) per diluted share for the second quarter of 2009, from a net loss of $665,000, or $(0.03) per diluted share in the second quarter of 2008.

Financial Position

Encorium's balance sheet at June 30, 2009 reflected cash and cash equivalents of $838,696 and stockholders' equity of $1.8 million. The Company's latest financials have been prepared on a going concern basis. As previously disclosed, Encorium's independent registered public accounting firm reported that the Company's audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 27, 2009, contains a paragraph that indicates that, while the Company's financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern, and that no adjustments have been made to the financial statements that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

Update on Sale of Encorium Oy

On May 11, 2009, we announced that we had entered into a non-binding letter of intent to sell our wholly-owned subsidiary, Encorium Oy, to a U.S. based clinical research organization. The terms of the transaction have not been announced and are continuing to be negotiated between the parties. The closing of the sale is subject to the completion if due diligence, execution of definitive agreements and stockholder approval. In the event the sale of Encorium Oy is consummated, the Company will no longer have any operations and the Board of Directors intend to, subject to stockholder approval, adopt a plan to liquidate and dissolve the Company and distribute liquidation proceeds, if any, to the stockholders. We anticipate the transaction will not close until the fourth quarter of 2009.

In the event the sale of Encorioum Oy is not consummated, we anticipate that will be able to meet our cash requirements through June of 2010, assuming we are able to fully implement our current cost cutting initiatives, we are able to win additional contracts during fiscal 2009 and we are able to maintain our current customer contracts. If the sale of Encorium Oy is not consummated we will continue to seek strategic alternatives, including, but not limited to attempting to secure additional financing. Our ability to obtain additional financing in the future will depend in part upon prevailing capital market conditions, as well as conditions in our business and our operating results; and those factors may affect our efforts to arrange additional financing on terms that are satisfactory to us or at all.