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Key Tronic Corporation (Nasdaq:KTCC), a provider of electronic manufacturing services (EMS), today announced its results for the quarter and year ended June 27, 2009.

For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, Key Tronic reported total revenue of $45.5 million, compared to $57.3 million in the same period of fiscal 2008. For the full year of fiscal 2009, total revenue was $184.9 million, compared to $204.1 million for fiscal 2008.

Net income for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 was $0.3 million or $0.03 per diluted share, compared to $2.6 million or $0.25 per diluted share for the same period of fiscal 2008. Results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 included charges of approximately $0.7 million or $0.07 per diluted share for severance charges related to cost reduction efforts. For the full year of fiscal 2009, net income was $1.1 million or $0.11 per diluted share, compared to $5.6 million or $0.54 per diluted share for fiscal 2008.

“We successfully confronted the challenging global economic environment in the second half of fiscal 2009 by reducing our costs while ramping up our new customer programs, which allowed us to maintain our profitability and strengthen our balance sheet,” said Craig Gates, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Despite the current economic uncertainty, our strong financial position and string of 22 consecutive profitable quarters have helped us to win additional new programs and further diversify our customer portfolio across a wide range of industries. During the fourth quarter, we won new programs involving gaming technology, consumer medical devices, computer networking and HVAC control systems.

“As we move into fiscal 2010, we continue to focus on controlling operating expense and on leveraging the synergistic capabilities of our world-class facilities in Mexico, China and the US. We’re also taking steps to further increase the efficiency of our supply chain and new product introduction processes. Given our competitive advantages and the growing need for some potential customers to move forward with their outsourcing strategies, we’re strongly positioned to win new business in coming periods and grow our revenue and profits as the economy rebounds.”

Business Outlook

For the first quarter of fiscal 2010, the Company expects revenue in the range of $41 million to $44 million, with earnings in the range of $0.01 to $0.03 per share. In addition, the Company has a commitment letter from a bank for a new line of credit agreement which it expects to sign before August 22, 2009

Conference Call

Key Tronic will host a conference call today to discuss its financial results at 2:00 PM Pacific (5:00 PM Eastern). A broadcast of the conference call will be available at www.keytronic.com under “Investor Relations” or by calling 800-762-8779 or +1 480-629-9770. A 48-hour replay will be available by calling 800-406-7325 or +1 303 590 3030 (Access Code: 4099852). A replay will also be available on the Company’s Web site.

About Key Tronic

Key Tronic is a leading contract manufacturer offering value-added design and manufacturing services from its facilities in the United States, Mexico and China. The Company provides its customers full engineering services, materials management, worldwide manufacturing facilities, assembly services, in-house testing, and worldwide distribution. Its customers include some of the world's leading original equipment manufacturers. For more information about Key Tronic visit: www.keytronic.com.

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include all passages containing verbs such as ‘aims, anticipates, believes, estimates, expects, hopes, intends, plans, predicts, projects or targets’ or nouns corresponding to such verbs. Forward-looking statements also include other passages that are primarily relevant to expected future events or that can only be fully evaluated by events that will occur in the future. Forward-looking statements in this release include, without limitation, the Company’s statements regarding its expectations with respect to quarterly revenue and earnings during fiscal 2010. There are many factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted or projected in forward-looking statements, including but not limited to the future of the global economic environment and its impact on our customers and suppliers, the accuracy of customers’ forecasts; success of customers’ programs; timing of new programs; success of new-product introductions; acquisitions or divestitures of operations or facilities; technology advances; changes in pricing policies by the Company, its competitors, customers or suppliers; and the other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in the Company’s SEC filings.