FORM 10-K
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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 10-K

 

x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2012

OR

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Commission file number 001-32845

 

 

 

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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   32-0163571

(State or other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

39 East Union Street

Pasadena, California 91103

  (626) 584-9722
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of Each Class

 

Name of Each Exchange On Which Registered

Units, each consisting of one share of Common Stock,

$0.0001 par value, and One Warrant

  NASDAQ Global Market
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value   NASDAQ Global Market
Warrants to Purchase 0.5 Shares of Common Stock   NASDAQ Global Market

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

 

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 the Securities Act.    Yes  ¨    No  x

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.    Yes  ¨    No  x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the last 90 days.    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    Yes  x    No  ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.    x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer   ¨    Accelerated filer   ¨
Non-accelerated filer   ¨  (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)    Smaller reporting company   x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ¨    No  x

The aggregate market value of Common Stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant on December 31, 2011 was approximately $43,924,000 based on a closing price of $3.22 for the Common Stock on such date. For purposes of this computation, all executive officers and directors have been deemed to be affiliates. Such determination should not be deemed to be an admission that such executive officers and directors are, in fact, affiliates of the Registrant.

There were 22,026,631 shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock outstanding as of September 10, 2012.

 

 

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the Registrant’s Proxy Statement for its 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In addition, certain exhibits are incorporated into Part IV, Item 15. of this Annual Report on Form 10-K by reference to other reports and registration statements of the Registrant, which have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

 

 


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GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION

2012 ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K

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SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT

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PART I

  

Item 1. Business

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Item 1A. Risk Factors

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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

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Item 2. Properties

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Item 3. Legal Proceedings

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Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

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PART II

  

Item  5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data

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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

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Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

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Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

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Item 9B. Other Information

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PART III

  

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

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Item 11. Executive Compensation

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Item  12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

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Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

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Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services

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PART IV

  

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

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SIGNATURES

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SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT

This Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the documents incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K, contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, referred to in this Annual Report on Form 10-K as the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, referred to in this Annual Report on Form 10-K as the Exchange Act. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause results or outcomes to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may include, without limitation, statements relating to our plans, strategies, objectives, expectations and intentions and are intended to be made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Some of the forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terms such as “believes,” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “seek,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “anticipates” or other comparable terms. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties discussed in “Risk Factors” should be considered in evaluating our forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Further, any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements.

 

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PART I

Item 1. Business

References to “we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company” refer to General Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“GFN”), and its consolidated subsidiaries. These subsidiaries include GFN U.S. Australasia Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“GFN U.S.”); GFN North America Corp., a Delaware corporation (“GFNNA”); GFN Manufacturing Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“GFNMC”); Royal Wolf Holdings Limited (formerly GFN Australasia Holdings Pty Ltd)., an Australian corporation publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (“RWH”); and its Australian and New Zealand subsidiaries (collectively, “Royal Wolf”); Pac-Van, Inc., an Indiana corporation , and its Canadian subsidiary, PV Acquisition Corp., an Alberta corporation, doing business as “Container King” (collectively “Pac-Van”).

Background and Overview

We incorporated in Delaware on October 14, 2005 and completed our initial public offering (“IPO”) in April 2006. Our primary long-term strategy and business plan are to acquire and operate rental services and specialty finance businesses in North and South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific (or Pan-Pacific) area.

On September 13, 2007 (September 14 in Australia), we acquired Royal Wolf with cash and the issuance to Bison Capital Australia, L.P. (“Bison Capital”), one of the sellers, of shares of common stock of GFN U.S. and a promissory note. Following the acquisition, we owned 86.2% of the outstanding capital stock of GFN U.S. and Bison Capital owned 13.8% of the outstanding capital stock of GFN U.S. On May 31, 2011, we completed an IPO in Australia of a noncontrolling interest in RWH and, simultaneously, acquired the 13.8% of GFN U.S. previously owned by Bison Capital. At the IPO date and at June 30, 2012, RWH had a total of 100,387,052 shares of capital stock issued and outstanding, of which GFN U.S. owns a direct (and we an indirect) majority interest of 50.005%. Royal Wolf leases and sells storage containers, portable container buildings and freight containers in Australia and New Zealand, which we consider geographically to be the Asia-Pacific area.

On October 1, 2008, we acquired Pac-Van through a merger with Mobile Office Acquisition Corp. (“MOAC”), the parent of Pac-Van, and our wholly-owned subsidiary, GFNNA. Pac-Van leases and sells storage, office and portable liquid storage tank containers, modular buildings and mobile offices in North America.

We do business in three distinct, but related industries, mobile storage, modular space and liquid containment; which we collectively refer to as the “portable services industry.” However, our business in the liquid containment industry commenced during the second half of the year ended June 30, 2012 (“FY 2012”) and was not significant at June 30, 2012. Our two operating subsidiaries, Royal Wolf and Pac-Van, lease and sell their products through seventeen customer service centers (“CSCs”) in Australia, seven CSCs in New Zealand and twenty-seven branch locations across eighteen states in the United States and in Alberta, Canada. As of June 30, 2012, we had 241 and 198 employees and 36,497 and 12,391 lease fleet units in the Asia-Pacific area and North America, respectively.

Our products primarily consist of the following:

Mobile Storage

Storage Containers. Storage containers consist of new and used shipping containers that provide a flexible, low cost alternative to warehousing, while offering greater security, convenience and immediate accessibility. Our storage products include general purpose dry storage containers, refrigerated containers and specialty containers in a range of standard and modified sizes, designs and storage capacities. Specialty containers include blast-resistant units, hoarding units and hazardous-waste units. We also offer storage vans, also known as storage trailers or dock-height trailers.

Freight Containers. Freight containers are specifically designed for transport of products by road and rail. Our freight container products include curtain-side, refrigerated and bulk cargo containers, together with a range of standard and industry-specific dry freight containers.

Modular Space

Modular Buildings. Also known as manufactured buildings, modular buildings provide customers with additional space and are often modified to customer specifications. Modular buildings range in size from 1,000 to more than 30,000 square feet and may be highly customized.

Mobile Offices. Also known as trailers or construction trailers, mobile offices are re-locatable units with aluminum or wood exteriors on wood (or steel) frames on a steel carriage fitted with axles, allowing for an assortment of “add-ons” to provide comfortable and convenient temporary space solutions.

 

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Portable Container Buildings and Office Containers. Portable container buildings and office containers are either modified or specifically-manufactured containers that provide self-contained office space with maximum design flexibility. Office containers in the U.S. are oftentimes referred to as ground level offices (“GLOs”).

Liquid Containment

Portable Liquid Storage Tank Containers. Portable liquid storage tank containers are often referred to as “frac tanks” or “frac tank containers” and are manufactured steel containers with fixed steel axles for transport and use in a variety of industries; including oil and gas exploration and field services, refinery, chemical and industrial plant maintenance, environmental remediation and field services, infrastructure building construction, marine services, pipeline construction and maintenance, tank terminals services, wastewater treatment and waste management and landfill services. While there are a number of different sizes of tanks currently used in the market place, we are currently focusing on the more common 500-barrel capacity containers. Our products typically include features such as guardrails, safety stairways, multiple entry ways and a sloped bottom for easy cleaning, an epoxy lining, and various feed and drain lines.

ROYAL WOLF

Royal Wolf is the leading provider in Australia and New Zealand of portable storage containers, portable container buildings and freight containers, which we refer to collectively as “storage container products.” Royal Wolf leases and sells storage container products through its 24 Customer Service Centers (“CSCs”) located in every state in Australia and in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. We believe Royal Wolf has the largest lease fleet of storage container products in Australia and New Zealand. Royal Wolf is the only portable container lease and sales company with CSCs in all major business centers in Australia and New Zealand and, as such, is the only storage container products company in Australia and New Zealand with a national infrastructure and work force. Royal Wolf has an experienced senior management team. Robert Allan, the chief executive officer of Royal Wolf, has 27 years of experience in the equipment leasing industry. The ten members of the senior management team of Royal Wolf have an average of over 16 years of experience in the equipment leasing industry. We believe the experience of this management team will be critical to growing Royal Wolf’s business.

Royal Wolf’s storage container products are used by a broad range of industries. Our storage container products provide secure, accessible temporary storage for a diverse client base of nearly 20,000 large and small customers who conduct business in industries that include mining, road and rail, construction, moving and storage, manufacturing, transportation, defense and in the support of small and medium-size entities (“SMEs”). Our customers use our products for a wide variety of storage applications, including retail and manufacturing inventory, construction materials and equipment, documents and records and household goods.

We are pursuing a long-term strategy focused on growing our leasing operations, generating strong internal growth and leveraging our infrastructure through acquisitions, as follows:

Focus on Mobile Storage Leasing Business. We focus on growing our core leasing business because it provides predictable, recurring revenue and high margins. We believe that we can generate substantial demand for our storage container products as the container storage and portable container building industry is relatively underdeveloped in Australia and New Zealand. We believe the underdeveloped nature of the market presents significant growth opportunities for Royal Wolf. Although mobile storage, domestic freight movement and portable building applications are increasing, we believe many more uses for our storage container products are still to be developed. Royal Wolf’s market opportunity is to fully develop and service these applications.

Generate Strong Internal Growth. We define internal growth as an increase in lease revenues on a year-over-year basis at our CSCs in operation for at least one year, without inclusion of leasing revenue attributed to same-market acquisitions. We continue to focus on increasing the number of storage containers we lease from our existing branches to both new and repeat customers. Historically, we have been able to generate strong internal growth within our existing markets through sales and marketing programs designed to increase brand recognition, expand market awareness of the uses of mobile storage and differentiate our products from our competitors.

Leverage our Infrastructure through Acquisitions. Our branch network infrastructure covers a broad geographic area and is capable of serving additional volume at minimal levels of additional fixed costs. Our objective is to add volume by organically growing the lease fleet in these locations and through acquisitions. Asset purchases of “tuck in” competitors to existing or acquired CSCs or adding new fleets allows us to more effectively leverage our infrastructure. In addition, the corporate infrastructure of Royal Wolf is capable of managing existing fleets and locations in geographies outside of Australia and New Zealand, but within the Asia-Pacific area. From September 2007 through June 2012, Royal Wolf completed seven acquisitions and, as a result of these acquisitions and organic growth, Royal Wolf’s lease fleet grew from approximately 17,000 units at September 30, 2007 to over 36,000 units as of June 30, 2012.

 

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Industry Overview

The storage industry includes two principal markets, fixed self-storage and mobile storage. The fixed self-storage market consists of permanent structures located away from customer locations used primarily by consumers to temporarily store excess household goods. Although we have containers that are used for self-storage on our sites and have sites that are focused on self-storage such as Auckland and Christchurch in New Zealand and Tomago in Australia, we do not participate in the fixed self-storage market with permanent structures.

The portable storage market, in which we operate, differs from the fixed self-storage market in that it brings the storage solution to the customer’s location and addresses the need for secure, temporary storage with immediate access to the storage unit. The advantages of portable storage include convenience, immediate accessibility, better security and lower costs. In contrast to fixed self-storage, the portable storage market is primarily used by businesses.

Mobile Storage Container Market

Since the mid-1990s, the storage container industry in Australia and New Zealand has developed into a stable market analogous to the marine container business of 20 or 25 years ago. Marine containerization displaced less efficient and more expensive specialized equipment. We believe mobile storage containers are achieving increased market share compared to the other options because of an increasing awareness that containers provide ground level access, durable protection against damage caused by wind or water and custom modifications tailored to customers’ specific uses.

We are not aware of any published third-party analysis of the Australia and New Zealand mobile storage container markets. Based upon internal analysis, Royal Wolf’s management team estimates that the mobile storage market in Australia and New Zealand currently generates annual revenues of approximately $241 million (AUS$237 million), with an estimated 60% derived from sales of mobile storage containers. Royal Wolf’s management team also anticipates that, as the market matures, leasing revenues will account for an increasing proportion of the total revenue.

The mobile storage market has experienced steady growth since the mid-1990s. Although there is no official forecast of industry growth rates or the future potential size market for mobile storage in Australia and New Zealand, we believe that a number of factors suggest that the market will continue to grow:

 

   

The level of knowledge among potential customers regarding the availability and benefits of containerized storage in key Australia and New Zealand markets, such as the construction and mining industries, is still relatively low;

 

   

Suppliers and customers continue to develop further uses for mobile storage containers, thereby broadening the market for mobile storage containers; and

 

   

As the market leader in Australia and New Zealand, Royal Wolf has consistently achieved organic growth based, in part, on growth in the market as a whole.

The mobile storage markets in Australia and New Zealand are highly fragmented. In most locations in Australia, Royal Wolf competes with several national and regional competitors, including, Cronos, and CGM-CMA, as well as smaller, full and part-time operators. Local competitors are regionally focused, and are usually more capital-constrained. Therefore, in general, most are heavily reliant on monthly sales performance, have slowly growing rental fleets and have limited ability to transact larger deals. The New Zealand market is even more fragmented.

The following table lists Royal Wolf’s principal competitors in the mobile storage container market in Australia. This information was compiled by Royal Wolf’s management team based upon informal estimates and internal surveys of competitor rental fleet size, annual sales volumes and, where possible, external information such as competitor newsletters, placement of advertising in regional yellow pages and discussions with corporate customers and suppliers of used boxes; such as wholesalers, shipping lines and container fleet lessors. We have no independent corroboration of this market information, and there is no assurance that this internally-generated information is accurate or complete.

 

Competitor    Scope of Operations

Cronos

   National

CGM-CMA

   National

 

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Portable Container Buildings Market

The portable container buildings market in Australia was estimated to have generated revenue totaling $2,032 million (AUS$2,000 million) during FY 2012, of which approximately $762 million (AUS$750 million) relates to the markets in which Royal Wolf offers a competing product, according to reports from IBIS World Industry Report published in May 2012.The portable buildings market consists of the following:

 

   

Engineering, construction and resources — approximately 27.5%.

 

   

Household — approximately 25%

 

   

Non-residential building construction — approximately 30%.

 

   

Recreation and holiday — approximately 10%.

 

   

Agriculture and export — approximately 7.5%

Within the engineering, construction and resources market, portable container buildings are used for site offices, toilet and shower facilities, and worker housing and temporary accommodation blocks. This market is influenced by trends in public and private sector spending on infrastructure, generally, and, particularly, mine development and road and pipeline construction.

Demand from the non-residential buildings market principally stems from the demand for work sheds, site offices, industrial garages and temporary warehousing.

We believe the recreation and holiday market is increasingly becoming an important source of demand, particularly for the supply of fitted out cabins to be used as rental accommodations and second homes on purchased blocks of land. Growth in demand has been driven by growth in disposable income and increased leisure time associated with an aging population.

We believe that the portable container buildings market will grow over the long-term term, driven in part by a cyclical expansion in the mining and construction markets. We believe that the advantages of containerized portable buildings over traditional portable buildings of transportability, security and flexibility are highly valued in the mining and construction markets. We believe these markets represent a significant growth opportunity for Royal Wolf.

In the portable container buildings markets, Royal Wolf competes with three or four other large participants who manufacture their own units and most of whom offer units for both lease and sale to customers. These competitors include Coates, Atco, Ausco and Nomad. At present, Royal Wolf has a small presence in this market. The major barrier to entry for new participants is the degree of market penetration necessary to create a wide profile with contractors and clients. Penetrating and competing with the range of products and number of depots and agencies offered by incumbent operators tends to inhibit new entrants. As Royal Wolf already has a national sale and distribution network, established supply channels and a strong profile in its target markets, many of the barriers to entry applicable to other new entrants are not applicable to it.

The following table lists Royal Wolf’s principal competitors in the Australian portable buildings market:

 

Competitor    Scope of Operations

Coates

   National

Ausco

   National

Nomad

   National

Atco

   National

Freight Container Market

Based upon internal analysis, Royal Wolf’s management team estimates that the freight container market in Australia generates approximately $41 million (AUS $40 million) in aggregate annual lease and sales revenues. The rate of growth in this industry has been slow compared with the portable container storage and portable container buildings market, which reflects the relative maturity of this industry. Although there is potential for growth in the freight container market as more road and rail carriers recognize the efficiencies of containerization, Royal Wolf’s present strategy is to maintain rather than grow its container fleet in this sector. Competitors include Cronos and the SCF Group (Simply Containers).

 

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The following table lists Royal Wolf’s principal competitors in the Australian freight container market:

 

Competitor    Scope of Operations

Cronos

   National

SCF Group

   National

Products and Services

Royal Wolf is the only storage container product company in Australia and New Zealand with both the national presence and product range capable of servicing all sectors of the domestic rental and sales market. The Company’s key products include:

 

Mobile storage containers:

  

10-foot, 20-foot and 40-foot general purpose units

Double pallet-wide high cube units

Hazardous goods containers

Refrigerated containers

Portable building containers: buildings:

  

Site offices and cabins

Workforce accommodation units

Luxury accommodation units

Restroom blocks

Blast-resistant units

Specialized office and infrastructure suites

Freight containers:

  

Curtain-side containers

20-foot and 40-foot Hi-cube containers

20-foot and 40-foot two pallet-wide containers

Side-opening door containers

20-foot bulk containers

Mobile Storage Containers. Royal Wolf leases and sells mobile storage containers, some of which are customized for specific customers, for on-site storage by customers. These customers include retail outlets and manufacturers, government departments, farming and agricultural concerns, building and construction companies, clubs and sporting associations, mine operators and the general public. Royal Wolf’s products include general purpose dry storage containers, refrigerated containers and hazardous goods containers in a range of standard and modified sizes, designs and storage capacities. There were 23,855 mobile storage containers in the lease fleet at June 30, 2012. The amount and percentage of Royal Wolf’s total sales and leasing revenues of mobile storage containers for FY 2012 were as follows ($ in millions):

 

     Dollars      Percentage  

Sales

   $ 66.4         83.5

Leasing

     40.8         65.3   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total revenues from mobile storage containers were 75% of Royal Wolf’s total revenues in FY 2012.

Portable Container Buildings. Royal Wolf also leases and sells portable container buildings as site offices and for temporary accommodations. Royal Wolf customizes mobile storage container buildings for some customers. Royal Wolf entered the portable building market in August 2005 with 20-foot and 40-foot portable buildings manufactured from steel container platforms which it markets to a subset of its mobile storage container customer base. There were 3,294 portable container buildings in the lease fleet at June 30, 2012. The amount and percentage of Royal Wolf’s total sales and leasing of portable container building revenues for FY 2012 were as follows ($ in millions):

 

     Dollars      Percentage  

Sales

   $ 10.9         13.7

Leasing

     11.2         17.9   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total revenues from portable container buildings were 16% of Royal Wolf’s total revenues in FY 2012.

Freight Containers. Royal Wolf leases and sells freight containers specifically designed for transport of products by road and rail. Customers include national moving and storage companies, distribution and logistics companies, freight forwarders, transport companies, rail freight operators and the Australian military. Royal Wolf’s freight container products include curtain-side, refrigerated and bulk cargo containers, together with a range of standard and industry-

 

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specific dry freight containers. There were 9,348 freight containers in the lease fleet at June 30, 2012. The amount and percentage of Royal Wolf’s total sales and leasing of freight container revenues for FY 2012 were as follows ($ in millions):

 

     Dollars      Percentage  

Sales

   $ 2.2         2.8

Leasing

     10.5         16.8   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total revenues from freight containers were 9% of Royal Wolf’s total revenues in FY 2012.

Most of our fleet is comprised of new and refurbished and customized storage containers, manufactured steel containers and record storage units, along with our freight and accommodation units. These products are designed for long useful lives. A portion of our fleet consists of used storage containers of eight to 13 years in age, a time at which their useful life as ocean-going shipping containers is over according to the standards promulgated by the International Organization for Standardization, which we refer to as “ISO.” Because we do not have the same stacking and strength requirements that apply in the ocean-going shipping industry, we have no need for these containers to meet ISO standards. We purchase these containers in large quantities, refurbish them by removing any rust and paint them with a rust inhibiting paint, and further customize them, and add our decals and branding.

We maintain our steel containers on a regular basis by painting them on average once every three to five years, removing rust, and occasionally replacing the wooden floor or other parts. This periodic maintenance keeps the container in good condition and is designed to maintain the unit’s value and rental rates comparable to new units.

Product Procurement

Royal Wolf purchases marine cargo containers from a wide variety of international shipping lines and container leasing companies and new container products directly from storage container manufacturers in China. We believe Royal Wolf is the largest buyer of both new and used storage container products for the Australia and New Zealand markets. The majority of used storage containers purchased is standard 20-foot and 40-foot units which Royal Wolf converts, refurbishes or customizes. Royal Wolf purchases new storage containers directly from container manufacturers.

Each of the following material suppliers was the source of two percent or more of Royal Wolf’s container purchases during FY 2012:

 

Suppliers

   Type of Product Purchased    Percentage of
Container Purchases
 

Nantong CIMC

   New      10

Singamas

   New      6   

World Container Traders

   New      3   

Flex-box

   New      3   

TAL International

   New      2   
     

 

 

 

Royal Wolf purchases new storage container products under purchase orders issued to container manufacturers, which the manufacturers may or may not accept or be able to fill. There are several alternative sources of supply for storage containers. Though Royal Wolf is not dependent upon any one manufacturer in purchasing storage container products, the failure of one or more of its suppliers to timely deliver containers to Royal Wolf could adversely affect its operations. If these suppliers do not timely fill Royal Wolf’s purchase orders or do not properly manufacture the ordered products, Royal Wolf’s reputation and financial condition also could be harmed.

In connection with a Business Sale Agreement dated November 14, 2007, as amended, with GE SeaCo Australia Pty Ltd. and GE SeaCo SRL (collectively “GE SeaCo”), Royal Wolf entered in a preferred supply agreement with GE SeaCo. Under the preferred supply agreement, GE SeaCo agreed to sell to Royal Wolf, and Royal Wolf has agreed to purchase, all of GE SeaCo’s containers that GE SeaCo determines to sell, up to a maximum of 2,500 containers each year. The purchase price for the containers will be based on their condition and is specified in the agreement, subject to annual adjustment. In addition, Royal Wolf received a right of first refusal to purchase any additional containers that GE SeaCo desires to sell in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Either party may terminate the agreement upon no less than 90 days’ prior notice at any time after November 15, 2012. Approximately 335 units were purchased under this contract during FY 2012.

 

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CSC Network

Royal Wolf leases and sells its storage container products from an Australia and New Zealand network of 24 CSCs, the largest branch network of any storage container company in Australia and New Zealand. Royal Wolf is represented in all major metropolitan areas, and Royal Wolf is the only container leasing and sales company with a nationally integrated infrastructure and work force. A typical Royal Wolf CSC consists of a leased site of approximately two to five acres with a sales office, forklifts and all-weather container repair workshop. CSC office staffing ranges from two to 15 people and include a branch manager supported by the appropriate level of sales, operations and administrative personnel. Yard and workshop staffing usually ranges between one and 12 people and can consist of welders, spray painters, boilermakers, forklift drivers and production supervisors. CSC inventory holding usually ranges between 150 and 700 storage containers at any one time, depending on market size and throughput demand. The following map shows Royal Wolf’s existing CSC locations at June 30, 2012:

 

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Each CSC has a branch manager who has overall supervisory responsibility for all activities of the CSC. Branch managers report to one of our six regional managers. Our regional managers, in turn, report to our CSC or retail manager. Performance-based incentive bonuses are a portion of the compensation for the CSC, regional and branch managers.

Each branch has its own sales force, and we are introducing a transportation department that will deliver and pick up mobile storage units from customers in certain hub areas. Each branch has forklifts to load, transport and unload units and a storage yard staff responsible for unloading and stacking units. Steel units can be stored by stacking them three-high to maximize usable ground area. Our larger branches also have a fleet maintenance department to make modifications to the containers and maintain the branch’s forklifts and other equipment. Our smaller branches perform preventative maintenance tasks and outsource major repairs.

Except for the Auckland, New Zealand self-storage and regional office site, we lease all of our branch locations and Royal Wolf’s corporate and administrative offices in Hornsby, New South Wales. All of our major leased properties have remaining lease terms of up to 15 years and we believe that satisfactory alternative properties can be found in all of our markets, if we do not renew these existing leased properties. Reference is made to “Item. 2 – Properties” for a more detailed description of our leased facilities.

Customers

Royal Wolf has a broad base of nearly 20,000 active customers, with no customer constituting more than 2% of our annual revenue for FY 2012. Our customer base includes the retail and manufacturing sectors, councils and government departments, the farming and agricultural community, the building and construction industry, clubs and sporting associations, the mining sector and the general public. We believe the disparity of Royal Wolf’s customer base reduces the business exposure to a significant downturn in any particular industry.

Royal Wolf provides its customers a solutions-oriented approach, with high reliability in equipment quality and supply, with prompt and efficient delivery and pick-up, and with superior service and product knowledge. This is supported by a highly responsive national marketing team, in-house finance, and control and engineering expertise and nationally linked fleet management and accounting systems. Royal Wolf is the largest and only truly national supplier of container products in Australia and New Zealand, and the only container company with the scale and capacity to service a full range of customers; from small local accounts right through to the largest national businesses. Royal Wolf’s diverse customer base is depicted in the following chart for FY 2012:

 

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Royal Wolf customers use its storage containers for a wide variety of purposes, which include:

 

   

Temporary storage of excess inventory for the retail and wholesale industries;

 

   

Offices, workshops or storerooms;

 

   

Portable work camps for the resources industry, including accommodations, ablution and kitchen containers;

 

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Blast resistant containers for refineries;

 

   

Rapid deployment storage for the military, emergency services and disaster relief;

 

   

Low-cost accommodations for remote communities and caravan parks; and

 

   

Farm storage for cattle feed, farm equipment, fertilizers and other items.

Sales and Marketing

Royal Wolf’s sales and marketing strategy is designed to reach thousands of potential customers. Communication with potential customers is predominantly generated through a combination of Yellow Pages, internal advertising and SEO (search engine optimization), print media advertising, telemarketing, web-site, customer referrals, signage and decal awareness, direct mail and radio. The customer hiring or buying process is being driven by customer awareness of the products combined with price shopping. We believe that while a typical customer may shop a limited number of suppliers, the customer does not spend much time doing so because the potential cost savings is relatively low compared to the value of their time. Our goal is for Royal Wolf to be one of the suppliers that potential customers call.

Fleet Management

Royal Wolf regularly re-locates containers between its CSCs to meet peaks in regional demand and optimize inventory levels. Royal Wolf has close relationships with the national road and rail hauling companies that enable it to transport the majority of containers interstate at attractive rates.

Royal Wolf’s management information systems are instrumental to its fleet management and targeted marketing efforts. Fleet information is updated daily at the CSC level which provides management with on-line access to utilization, leasing and sale fleet unit levels and revenues by branch or geographic region.

Management Information Systems

Our management information systems, including the RMI and Navision software programs, are scalable and provide us with critical information to manage our business. Utilizing our systems, we track a number of key operating and financial metrics including utilization, lease rates, customer trends and fleet data. All our branches use RMI/Navision and our support office provides financial, inventory and customer reports for branch managers.

Employees

As of June 30, 2012, Royal Wolf employed 241 full-time employees in the following major categories:

 

Senior and CSC management

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Corporate staff

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Sales and marketing

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CSC operations and administration

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None of our employees is covered by a collective bargaining agreement. We believe our relationship with our employees is good. We have never experienced any material labor disruption, and we are not aware of any efforts or plans to unionize our employees.

PAC-VAN

Pac-Van leases and sells storage, office and portable liquid storage tank containers, mobile offices and modular buildings to customers throughout a number of industries in North America through its branch network of 27 locations in both the United State and Canada. The senior management team has extensive experience in the industry and with Pac-Van.

Pac-Van competes in the mobile storage, modular space, and liquid containment industries. Mobile storage generally includes providing customers with secure, temporary storage at their site locations. Modular space includes mobile offices and modular buildings and involves the rental and sales of factory built structures and the delivery and installation of the equipment at customer properties. Liquid containment generally includes providing tank containers to store various liquids in a number of environmental and industrial applications. All of the Company’s products service a broad range of industries, including construction, services, retail, manufacturing, transportation, mining and energy and government.

Pac-Van is pursuing a business strategy focused on investing in primarily the container lease fleet, expanding the branch network, growing leasing revenues, maintaining disciplined cost controls, managing indebtedness and completing accretive acquisitions, as follows:

 

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Investing in the Container Lease Fleet. We will emphasize fleet growth of our higher return products, particularly storage and office containers. In addition, we will continue to pursue the introduction of specialty container products that can attain long lease durations and high leasing margins. We expect to drive a portion of our growth from opportunities beyond our traditional products and markets. In FY 2012, we expanded our product line to include portable liquid storage tank containers.

Growing Leasing Revenues. We are emphasizing programs and initiatives to grow leasing revenues, not only from container products, but also from our idle mobile office and modular building fleet. This should generate higher margins as there are limited incremental costs related to leasing our existing product lines.

Disciplined Cost Controls. Pac-Van’s size and experience permits it to adjust more rapidly to changing market conditions than many of its larger competitors. These attributes enable Pac-Van to better control capital expenditures and other spending and maintain more disciplined cost controls than competitors whose cost structures include large payrolls and large investments in outdated product classes.

Managing Indebtedness. We continue to focus on managing the debt level of Pac-Van while also investing in growing product lines and markets. We believe this emphasis on the capital structure will provide great flexibility in the future and will position Pac-Van to capture future growth opportunities. In recovering economic cycles, such as we are experiencing in the United States, the Company focuses on optimizing lease fleet investment, utilization, and collections to achieve this objective.

Accretive Acquisitions. Pac-Van pursues acquisitions that are both accretive and have strong growth products. These acquisitions, especially “tuck in” acquisitions, allow Pac-Van to leverage the fixed costs of its branch offices with additional lease fleet that deliver scale and increased profitability. In FY 2012, we made an acquisition to open our first branch in Canada.

Industry Overview

Pac-Van competes in three different, but related, sectors of the portable services industry, mobile storage, modular space, and liquid containment industries.

Mobile Storage Container Market

Mobile Storage is used primarily by businesses for secure, temporary storage at the customer’s location and offers customers a flexible, secure, cost-effective and convenient alternative to constructing permanent warehouse space or storing items at a fixed-site self-storage facility. A broad range of industries, including construction, industrial, commercial, services, retail, and government utilize mobile storage equipment to meet both their short-term and permanent storage needs. Although Pac-Van is not aware of any published estimates, Pac-Van believes the mobile storage industry is growing due to an increasing awareness of its convenience and cost benefits. The mobile storage industry is highly fragmented, with numerous participants in local markets leasing and selling storage containers, storage trailers and other storage structures.

Pac-Van believes that participants in its industry compete on the basis of customer relationships, price, service, delivery speed and breadth and quality of equipment offered. In every area Pac-Van serves, Pac-Van competes with multiple local, regional, and national portable storage providers. Some of Pac-Van’s competitors may have greater market share, less indebtedness, greater pricing flexibility or superior marketing and financial resources. Pac-Van’s largest competitors in the storage container and storage trailer markets in the U.S. are Mobile Mini, McGrath Rentals, Williams Scotsman, Allied Leasing, Haulaway, Eagle Leasing and National Trailer Storage.

Modular Space Market

Modular Space is used primarily by businesses to address either temporary or permanent space needs. We believe modular space delivers four core benefits: lower costs, flexibility, reusability and timely solutions. Modular buildings offer customers significant cost savings over permanent construction and can generally be installed quicker because site work and fabrication can take place concurrently. In addition, modular solutions are not site specific and can be configured in multiple ways to meet a variety of needs. Finally, modular buildings are reusable and will generally serve a wide variety of users during their life span. We believe this characteristic can be a key competitive advantage with the emphasis on green building. The Modular Building Institute, in its State of the Industry 2011 Annual Reports estimated that U.S. modular space industry dealers earned in excess of $5.0 billion in leasing and sales revenues in calendar year 2010. The industry has expanded rapidly over the last thirty years as the number of applications for modular space has increased and recognition of the product’s positive attributes has grown. We believe we are well-positioned to benefit from growth in the modular space industry.

 

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The modular space industry is highly competitive. Pac-Van competes with service, quality, customer relationships and price. Pac-Van believes that its reputation for customer service and a wide selection of units allow it to compete effectively. However, Pac-Van’s largest North American competitors, ModSpace, Williams-Scotsman, and Mobile Mini have greater market share or product availability in some markets, as well as greater financial resources and pricing flexibility. Other regional competitors include Acton Mobile, Vanguard Modular, and Satellite Shelters.

Liquid Containment Market

Customers use portable liquid storage tank containers or “frac tanks” or “frac tank containers” in environmental and industrial applications for storage of hazardous and non-hazardous liquids and semi-solids. The tanks are used by customers in a wide variety of industries, including oil and gas exploration and field services, refinery, chemical and industrial plant maintenance, environmental remediation and field services, infrastructure building construction, marine services, pipeline construction and maintenance, tank terminals services, wastewater treatment and waste management and landfill services. Industry experts estimate that the rental industry in the United States for containment equipment generates approximately $1.5 billion of annual rental revenues. While this is a new product for us, we believe we can leverage our branch network, existing relationships, and operating philosophies to successfully compete in this industry. Furthermore our research indicates that many of the companies currently using containment solutions also use our portable storage and mobile offices products.

The liquid containment industry is highly competitive, consisting of national, regional and local companies. Some of our national competitors, notably BakerCorp, Rain For Rent, and Adler, are significantly larger than we are and may have greater financial and marketing resources than we have. Some of our competitors also have longer operating histories, lower cost basis of rental equipment, lower cost structures and more established relationships with equipment manufacturers than we have. In addition, certain of our competitors are more geographically diverse than we are and have greater name recognition among customers than we do. As a result, our competitors that have these advantages may be better able to attract customers and provide their products and services at lower rental rates. Pac-Van competes with these companies based upon product availability, product quality, price, service and reliability.

Business Attributes

Pac-Van is a recognized provider of modular buildings, mobile offices and container products on a national, regional and local basis in the United States. Pac-Van believes it possesses the following strengths:

Extensive Geographic Coverage. With growing lease fleet of over 12,000 units, Pac-Van is a national participant in the mobile storage, modular space, and liquid containment sectors. Pac-Van’s branch offices serve 17 of the 50 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas, or MSAs, in the United States, and, with our Edmonton branch, we are able to serve the western provinces in Canada. Pac-Van serves a diverse base of national, regional and local customers. The size of Pac-Van’s fleet also allows Pac-Van to offer a wide selection of products to its customers and to achieve purchasing efficiencies.

Diversified Customer Base. Pac-Van has established strong relationships with a diverse customer base in the North America., ranging from large companies with a national presence to small local businesses. During FY 2012, Pac-Van leased or sold its equipment to approximately 8,100 customers. In FY 2012, Pac-Van’s largest customer accounted for slightly less than 10% of its total revenues and Pac-Van’s top ten customers accounted for approximately 22% of its total revenues. These results were unusually high to a large single contract that accounted for approximately $6.5 million in revenues. In the year ended June 30, 2011 (“FY 2011”), the largest customer accounted for 2% and the top ten customers accounted for 9% of total revenues, and we believe that these results are more indicative of our business. Pac-Van believes that the diversity of its business limits the impact on Pac-Van of changes in any given customer, geography or market.

Sales and Marketing Excellence. Pac-Van has implemented a centralized customer relationship management system that allows it to coordinate its sales and marketing efforts. Through its branch network, Pac-Van develops local market knowledge and strong customer relationships while the corporate based marketing group manages the company’s brand image, web presence, and lead generation programs. Pac-Van provides ongoing training to it sales team, monitors call quality and surveys it customer to ensure that customer interactions meet its standards. All of Pac-Van’s lease fleet carries signage reflecting its brand, important to the ongoing branding and name recognition in marketing its products

Focus On Customer Service and Support. Pac-Van’s operating infrastructure is designed to ensure that we consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. On the national and regional level, Pac-Van’s administrative support services and scalable management information systems enhance its service by enabling Pac-Van to access real-time information on product availability, customer reservations, customer usage history and rates. Pac-Van believes this focus on customer service attracts new and retains existing customers. In FY 2012, more than 85% of its lease and lease-related revenues were generated from customers who leased from Pac-Van in prior years.

 

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Significant Cash Flow Generation and Discretionary Capital Expenditures. Pac-Van has consistently generated significant cash flow from operations by maintaining high utilization rates and leasing margins and controlling capital expenditures. A significant portion of Pac-Van’s capital expenditures are discretionary in nature, thus providing Pac-Van with the flexibility to readily adjust the amount that it spends based on its business needs and prevailing economic conditions.

High Quality Fleet. Pac-Van’s branches maintain their lease fleet to consistent quality standards. Maintenance is expensed as incurred and branch managers and operations staff are responsible for managing a maintenance program aimed at providing equipment to customers that meets or exceed customer expectations and industry standards.

Experienced Management Team. Pac-Van has an experienced and proven senior management team, with its seven most senior managers having worked at Pac-Van for an average of more than ten years. Pac-Van’s President, Theodore M. Mourouzis, joined Pac-Van in 1997 and the consistency of the senior management, corporate and branch management teams has been integral in developing and maintaining its high level of customer service, deploying technology to improve operational efficiencies and integrating acquisitions.

Products and Services

Pac-Van provides a broad range of products to meet the needs of its customer base. These products include storage containers, office containers, mobile offices, modular buildings, and portable liquid storage tanks. The following provides a description of Pac-Van’s products:

Storage Containers. Storage containers also consist of domestic storage containers and include storage trailers. Storage containers vary in size from 10 feet to 48 feet in length, with 20-foot and 40-foot length containers being the most common. Storage containers are steel units, which are generally eight feet wide and eight and one-half feet high; and, like at Royal Wolf, are built to ISO standards for carrying ocean cargo. Pac-Van purchases both new and used storage containers. Domestic storage containers are generally eight feet wide, ten feet high and come in lengths ranging from 40 to 53 feet. Storage trailers, which vary in size from 28 to 53 feet in length, have wheels and hitches and provide dock height storage. At June 30, 2012, there were 5,247 storage containers in Pac-Van’s lease fleet.

Container Offices. Container offices are storage containers that have been modified to include office space. Floor plans can be either all office space or a combination of office and storage space. The office space includes features similar to those found in mobile offices. Like storage storages, container offices typically come in lengths of 20 feet and 40 feet. Due to their construction, they provide greater security than traditional field offices, and since they sit at ground level they don’t require stairs for entry and exit. Container offices are oftentimes referred to as “GLOs” (ground level offices). At June 30, 2012, there were 1,272 container offices in Pac-Van’s lease fleet.

Mobile Offices. Sales and construction offices, also known as field offices, are factory built, single-unit structures that are relocatable and used primarily for temporary office space. These units are generally built on frames that are connected to axles and wheels and have either a fixed or removable hitch for easy transportation. Standard field offices come in 8, 10, 12, and 14 foot widths and range in size from approximately 160 square feet to 1,000 square feet. They include HVAC systems, lighting, electrical wiring, phone jacks, plan tables, shelving, and other features normally associated with basic office space. Sales offices typically come in 12 foot widths and provide 350 to 700 square feet. In addition to the basic amenities included in a field office, sales offices generally have wood siding, carpeting, high ceilings, custom windows, and glass storefront doors, which provide a professional, customer-friendly building in which to conduct business. All of Pac-Van’s mobile offices are built by an established network of manufacturing partners to standard specification, which may vary depending on regional preferences. In addition, Pac-Van builds these units to meet state building code requirements and generally obtains multi-state codes enabling the company to move equipment among its branch network to meet changing demand and supply conditions. At June 30, 2012, there were 4,825 mobile offices in Pac-Van’s lease fleet.

Modular Buildings. Modular buildings are factory-built, portable structures generally consisting of two or more floors and are used in a wide variety of applications, ranging from schools to restaurants to medical offices. Ranging in size from 1,000 to more than 30,000 square feet, the company’s modular buildings are constructed in many sizes and are usually designed to satisfy unique customer requirements. Like mobile offices, Pac-Van procures modular buildings from an established network of manufacturing partners to meet state building requirements, and generally obtains multiple state codes for each unit. As of June 30, 2012, there were 992 modular building units in Pac-Van’s lease fleet.

Portable Liquid Storage Tank Containers. Portable liquid storage tank containers or “frac tanks” or “frac tank containers” are manufactured steel containers with fixed steel axles for transport. While there are a number of different sizes of frac tanks currently used in the market place, we are currently focusing on the more common 500-barrel capacity. Our products typically include features such as guardrails, safety stairways, multiple entry ways and a sloped

 

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bottom for easy cleaning, an epoxy lining, and various feed and drain lines. Like mobile offices, Pac-Van procures frac tanks from an established network of manufacturing partners located throughout the United States. As of June 30, 2012, there were 55 portable liquid storage tank containers in Pac-Van’s lease fleet.

Delivery and Installation, Return and Dismantle, and Other Site Services. Pac-Van delivers and where necessary installs all four product lines directly to its customers’ premises. Installation services range from simple leveling for portable storage to complex seaming and joining for modular buildings. Pac-Van will also provide skirting and ramps as needed by the customer. Depending on the type of unit some states will also require tie downs and other features to secure the unit. Once a unit is on site at a customer location, Pac-Van’s site services include relocating the unit.

Ancillary Products and Services. In addition to leasing it core product line, Pac-Van provides ancillary products such as steps, furniture, portable toilets, security systems, and other items to its customers for their use in connection with its equipment. Pac-Van also offers its lease customers a damage waiver program that protects them in case the leased unit is damaged. For customers who do not select the damage waiver program, Pac-Van bills them for the cost of any repairs.

Pac-Van complements its core leasing business by selling either existing rental fleet assets or assets purchased specifically for resale. In FY 2012, management estimates that nearly 22% of the sales came from existing fleet units. The sale of lease fleet units has historically been a cost-effective method of replenishing and upgrading the lease fleet. As with the leasing business, Pac-Van provides additional services when selling units. These services range from delivery to full scale turnkey solutions. In a turnkey solution, Pac-Van provides not only the underlying equipment but also a full range of ancillary services, such as a foundation, specialty interior finishes, and landscaping, necessary to make the equipment fully operational for the customer.

The following charts provide the mix of Pac-Van’s products in the lease fleet in both units and dollars at June 30, 2012:

 

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Leasing. Leasing revenue is a function of average monthly rental rate, fleet size and utilization. Pac-Van monitors fleet utilization at each branch. For FY 2012, average unit utilization of the lease fleet was approximately 75% on a gross dollar basis and 76% on a unit basis. While Pac-Van adjusts its pricing to respond to local market conditions, management believes that it generally achieves a rental rate equal to or above that of competitors because of the quality of Pac-Van’s products and its high level of customer service. As part of its leasing operations, Pac-Van sells used units from its rental fleet at fair market value or, to a much lesser extent, pursuant to pre-established lease purchase options included in the terms of its lease agreements. Due in part to an active fleet maintenance program, Pac-Van’s units maintain a substantial portion of their initial value which includes the cost of the units as well as costs of significant improvements made to the units.

 

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Sales. Pac-Van will sell units out of its sale inventory as well as its lease fleet. Pac-Van does not generally purchase new units for resale until it has obtained firm purchase orders (which are generally non-cancelable) for such units.

Delivery and Installation. Pac-Van provides delivery, site-work, installation and other services to its customers as part of its leasing and sales operations. Revenues from delivery, site-work and installation result from the transportation of units to a customer’s location, site-work required prior to installation and installation of the units which have been leased or sold. Typically units are placed on temporary foundations constructed by service technicians, and service personnel will also generally install ancillary products. Pac-Van also derives revenues from dismantling and transporting units upon lease expiration.

Product Procurement and Capital Expenditures

Pac-Van closely monitors fleet capital expenditures, which include fleet purchases and any capitalized improvements to existing units. Generally, fleet purchases require corporate approval and must pass purchasing guidelines (primarily based on minimum return on investment requirements and utilization requirement). Pac-Van purchases storage equipment, modular and mobile offices, and portable liquid storage tanks from a network of third-party suppliers. The top three suppliers of units for FY 2012 represented approximately 46% of all fleet purchases and the top ten suppliers represented approximately 74% of all fleet purchases

Pac-Van can adjust capital expenditures to match business needs and prevailing economic conditions. Pac-Van does not generally enter into long-term purchase contracts with manufacturers and can modify its capital spending activities to correspond to market conditions.

We supplement our fleet spending with acquisitions. Although the timing and amount of acquisitions are difficult to predict, management considers its acquisition strategy to be opportunistic and will adjust its fleet spending patterns as favorable acquisition opportunities become available.

Fleet Maintenance

Ongoing maintenance to Pac-Van’s lease fleet is performed on an as-needed basis and is intended to maintain the value and rental-ready condition of its units. Pac-Van uses both in-house fleet technicians and third-party vendors to perform maintenance depending on the branch and complexity of the work. Maintenance requirements on containers are generally minor and include removing rust and dents, patching small holes, repairing floors, painting and replacing seals around the doors. Maintenance requirements for mobile offices and modular buildings tend to be more significant than for storage equipment and may involve repairs of floors, doors, air conditioning units, windows, roofs and electric wiring. Major office repairs are sometimes outsourced. As with other product, the maintenance requirements for portable liquid storage tanks are fairly simple and generally include a thorough cleaning to eliminate any residual material (this cost is generally the responsibility of the customer) and inspection of the lining. Whether performed by Pac-Van or a third party, the cost of maintenance and repair of Pac-Van’s lease fleet is included as direct costs of leasing operations and is expensed as incurred. We believe that Pac-Van’s maintenance program ensures a high quality fleet.

 

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Branch Network

The following map shows Pac-Van’s existing branch network as of June 30, 2012:

 

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As a key element to its market strategy, Pac-Van maintains a network of 27 branch offices throughout the United States and Canada. This network enables it to maintain product availability and provide customer service within regional and local markets. Customers benefit because they are provided with improved service availability, reduced time to occupancy, better access to sales representatives, the ability to inspect units prior to rental, and lower freight costs which are typically paid by the customer. Pac-Van benefits because it is able to spread regional overhead and marketing costs over a larger lease base, redeploy units within its branch network to optimize utilization, discourage potential competitors by providing ample local supply and service local customers in a more cost efficient manner.

Branches are generally headed by a branch manager with profitability responsibility and are organized into four regions, which are managed by four regional vice presidents each with more than 10 years in the portable services industry. Management believes it is important to encourage employees to achieve specified revenue and profit levels and to provide a high level of service to customers. Regional and branch managers’ compensation is based upon the financial performance of their branches and overall corporate performance and, in some cases, sales commissions. Sales representatives compensation includes both base and commission elements.

 

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Customers

Pac-Van has established strong relationships with a diverse set of customers, ranging from large national retailers and manufacturers to local sole proprietors. During FY 2012, Pac-Van provided its portable storage, mobile office, modular building, and portable liquid storage tank products to a diversified base of approximately 8,100 national, regional and local companies in a variety of industries including construction, industrial, manufacturing, mining and energy, education, service, and government sectors.

In FY 2012, Pac-Van generated 59% of its revenues from leasing and 41% of its revenues from sales. Despite growth of approximately $3.4 million or 9%, leasing revenues at 59% of total revenues in FY 2012 were lower than in the past due to the impact of one large sale which was approximately $6.5 million. Reference is made to “PART II – Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for further discussion of this one large sale. In FY 2011 and the year ended June 30, 2010, leasing accounted for 68% and 65% of total revenues, respectively. Management expects leasing revenues to account for larger portion of total revenue in future periods. Pac-Van’s largest leasing customer accounted for approximately 5% of total leasing revenues and its top ten customers accounted for approximately 11% of its total leasing revenues. The following chart shows the percentage of revenues generated by different industries in FY 2012 for both leasing and sales.

 

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Construction. Construction customers include a diverse group of contractors and subcontractors who work on commercial and residential projects. This customer base includes general contractors, mechanical contractors, plumbers, electricians and roofers. In FY 2012, revenue generated from construction customers was 33% of total revenues, a decrease from 35% in FY 2011. Contractors typically use Pac-Van’s products to provide on-site office facilities and to securely store construction materials and supplies at construction sites. Nevertheless, Pac-Van believes the majority of its lease and lease-related revenue is derived from the commercial construction market. Demand from Pac-Van’s construction customers tends to be higher in the second and third calendar quarters when the weather is warmer, particularly in the central and northern United States.

Services. Service customers include businesses that provide medical care or veterinary services, entertainment companies including those conducting sporting events, religious institutions, other than for their classroom needs and equipment leasing companies that sublease Pac-Van’s equipment. These customers may use any or all of Pac-Van’s products and services.

Retail. Retail customers include both large national chains and small local stores. These customers typically lease storage containers and storage trailers to store excess inventory and supplies. Retail customers also use Pac-Van’s storage products during store remodeling or refurbishment. Demand from these customers can be seasonal and tends to peak just prior to the winter holidays.

 

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Industrial. Industrial and manufacturing customers include a broad array of manufacturers, water, refuse, recycling, and bottling companies. They generally lease storage containers and storage trailers to store both inventory and raw materials. They lease mobile offices and modular buildings for extra office space, cafeterias, changing rooms and other interior space needs. These customers use portable liquid storage tanks to store chemicals, waters, and other fluids.

Mining and Energy. Mining and energy customers include a broad array of businesses, including oil refineries, petrochemical refineries, power plants, oil and natural gas exploration, and alternative energy companies. They generally lease storage containers and storage trailers to store equipment both inventory and raw materials. They lease mobile offices and modular buildings for temporary on site extra office space, cafeterias, changing rooms and other space needs. Frac tank containers are leased in to aid in the fracturing, capturing, and processing of natural gas and oil.

Commercial. The commercial customer segment includes a wide variety of businesses, but excludes businesses that have customers who shop at their location. These customers may use Pac-Van’s modular products as their place of business, Pac-Van’s mobile offices as supplemental office space and Pac-Van’s storage products to store their inventory, goods or supplies.

Government. Government customers include correctional institutions, fire departments as well as the U.S. military. These customers generally lease storage containers and storage trailers to safeguard materials used in their day-to-day operations and various government projects. They lease mobile offices and modular buildings for classrooms, training offices and general office space.

Education. The education customer segment includes both public and private schools and day care facilities, and includes classroom space for religious institutions. Pac-Van provides space to this customer group ranging from entire school facilities to supplemental classroom space, to portable storage equipment for storing athletic gear.

Sales and Marketing

As of June 30, 2012, Pac-Van’s sales and marketing team consisted of 32 employees. The 19 branch managers also play a critical role in Pac-Van’s sales and marketing programs. Members of Pac-Van’s sales group act as its primary customer service representatives and are responsible for fielding calls, obtaining credit applications, quoting prices, following up on quotes and handling orders. The sales team is responsible for developing and managing local relationships, as well as making both inbound and outbound calls. The sales team assists customers define and understand their space needs, assesses potential opportunities, quotes deals, closes transactions and obtains the necessary documentation. Upon completing a lease or a sale the sales team works closely with the local branch operations team to ensure that Pac-Van is able to meet or exceed customer expectations. Pac-Van’s centralized support services group handles all billing, collections and other support functions, allowing its sales and marketing team to focus on addressing the needs of its customers.

Pac-Van’s marketing group is primarily responsible for coordinating direct mail, Internet marketing and other advertising campaigns, producing company literature, creating promotional sales tools and managing its customer relationship management system. Pac-Van’s centralized support services group handles all billing, collections and other support functions, allowing its sales and marketing team to focus on addressing the needs of its customers. Pac-Van’s marketing programs emphasize product quality, service capabilities, the cost-savings and convenience of using its products versus constructing temporary or permanent offices or storage facilities. Pac-Van markets its services through a number of promotional vehicles, including the Internet, Yellow Pages, prominent branding of its equipment, telemarketing, targeted mailings, trade shows and limited advertising in publications.

The development of Pac-Van’s marketing programs are developed by branch managers, regional vice presidents and senior management, all of whom participate in devising branch-by-branch marketing strategies based on fleet availability and forecasted demand. Pac-Van’s branch managers, working with its corporate marketing team, determine the timing, content and target audience of direct mailings, specials and promotional offers, while the corporate office manages the marketing process itself to ensure the consistency of its message, achieve economies of scale and relieve its local branches of the administrative responsibility of running its marketing programs. Pac-Van believes that its approach to marketing is consistent with the local nature of its business and allows each branch to employ a customized marketing plan that fosters growth within its particular market.

Management Information Systems

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personnel. This provides management with on-line access to utilization, lease fleet unit levels and rental revenues by branch or geographic region. In addition, an electronic file for each unit showing its lease history and current location and status is maintained in the information system. Branch sales people utilize the system to obtain information regarding unit condition and availability. The database tracks individual units by serial number and provides comprehensive information including cost, condition and other financial and unit specific information.

Employees

As of June 30, 2012, Pac-Van had 194 employees. None of our employees are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and management believes its relationship with employees is good. We have never experienced any material labor disruption and are unaware of any efforts or plan to organize our employees. The employee groups are as follows:

 

Senior and branch management

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Corporate staff

     24   

Sales and marketing

     32   

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In addition, at June 30, 2012, we have four full-time employees at our GFN corporate office in Pasadena, California.

Regulatory Matters

We must comply with various federal, state and local laws and regulations in connection with our operations. We believe that we are in substantial compliance with these laws and regulations. In addition to compliance costs, we may incur costs related to alleged environmental damage associated with past or current properties owned or leased. We believe that our liability, if any, for any environmental remediation will not have a material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition. However, we cannot be certain that the discovery of currently unknown matters or conditions, new laws and regulations, or stricter interpretations of existing environmental laws will not have a material adverse effect on our business or operations in the future.

A portion of Pac-Van’s units are subject to regulation in certain states under motor vehicle and similar registrations and certificate of title statutes. We believe that we have complied in all material respects with all motor vehicle registration and similar certificate of title statutes in states where such statutes clearly apply to modular space units. However, in certain states, the applicability of such statutes to its modular space units is not clear beyond doubt. If additional registration and related requirements are deemed to be necessary in such states or if the laws in such states or other states were to change to require compliance with such requirements, Pac-Van could be subject to additional costs, fees and taxes as well as administrative burdens in order to comply with such statutes and requirements. We do not believe the effect of such compliance will be material to our business, results of operations or financial condition.

Trademarks

We entered into a licensing agreement with Triton Corporation in May 2008 for the use of the “Royal Wolf” name and trademark in connection with its retail sales and leasing of intermodal cargo containers and other container applications in the domestic storage market within Australia and New Zealand and surrounding islands in the Pacific Islands region. We paid Triton Corporation $740,000 to license the trademark. The license will continue in perpetuity as long as Royal Wolf continues to use the “Royal Wolf” name and trademark as the exclusive name for its business and mark for its products, subject to the termination provisions of the license. The license may be terminated by the licensor upon 30 days notice in the event Royal Wolf breaches its obligations under the license and will terminate automatically if Royal Wolf becomes insolvent or ceases to sell products under the trademark for a continuous period of 30 months. GFN sold the “Royal Wolf” name and trademark to Royal Wolf in May 2011 in connection with the Australian IPO of RWH. There are no claims pending against Royal Wolf challenging its right to use the “Royal Wolf” name and trade mark within Royal Wolf’s region of business.

Pac-Van owns a number of trademarks important to its business, including Pac-Van® and “We’ve Put Thousands of U.S. Businesses In Space ®.” We have also applied for and are awaiting final confirmation on “Expect More. We’ll Deliver” and “Container King”. Material trademarks are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Registrations for such trademarks in the United States will last indefinitely as long as Pac-Van continues to use and maintain the trademarks and renew filings with the applicable governmental offices.

 

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Available information

Our Internet website address is www.generalfinance.com. This reference to our Internet website does not incorporate by reference the information contained on or hyperlinked from our Internet website into this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Such information should not be considered part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The Internet websites for Royal Wolf and Pac-Van are www.royalwolf.com.au and www.PacVan.com, respectively. A noncontrolling interest of the capital stock of Royal Wolf that we do not own is traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (“ASX”) under the symbol “RWH.”

We are required to file Annual Reports on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on a regular basis, and are required to disclose certain material events in a current report on Form 8-K. The public may read and obtain a copy of any materials we file with the SEC through our Internet website noted above, which is hyperlinked to the SEC’s Internet website that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. The SEC’s Internet website is located at http://www.sec.gov.

 

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Executive Officers of the Registrant

The following information is provided as of June 30, 2012 regarding our executive officers who are not a continuing director or a director nominee. Information concerning our chief executive officer, who is a continuing director or a director nominee, is set forth in “PART III — Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which incorporates by reference to our definitive Proxy Statement for the 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

No family relationship exists between any executive officer.

 

Name    Age      Position

Charles E. Barrantes

     60       Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Christopher A. Wilson

     45       General Counsel, Vice President and Secretary

Jeffrey A. Kluckman

     51       Executive Vice President, Business Development

Robert Allan

     56       Chief Executive Officer of Royal Wolf

Theodore Mourouzis

     49       President and Chief Operating Officer of Pac-Van, Inc.

Charles E. Barrantes has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since September 2006. Prior to joining us, Mr. Barrantes was vice president and chief financial officer for Royce Medical Company from early 2005 to its sale in late 2005. From 1999 to early 2005, he was chief financial officer of Earl Scheib, Inc., a public company that operated over 100 retail paint and body shops. Mr. Barrantes has over 25 years of experience in accounting and finance, starting with more than a decade with Arthur Andersen & Co.

Christopher A. Wilson has served as our General Counsel, Vice President and Secretary since December 2007. Prior to joining us, Mr. Wilson was the general counsel and assistant secretary of Mobile Services Group, Inc. from February 2002 to December 2007. Mr. Wilson practiced corporate law as an associate at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP from 1998 to February 2002. Mr. Wilson graduated with a B.A. from Duke University in 1989 and a J.D. from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles in 1993.

Jeffrey A. Kluckman became our Executive Vice President, Business Development in September 2011. Prior to joining us, among other things, he held the role of vice president of mergers and acquisitions for portable storage solutions provider Mobile Mini, Inc. (NASDAQ: MINI) and, earlier, similar positions with Mobile Storage Group, Inc., which was acquired by Mobile Mini in 2008, and RSC Equipment Rental, Inc. (NYSE: RRR). In his over 15-year background in the rental services sector, including the mobile storage, modular space and equipment rental industries, Mr. Kluckman successfully completed more than 110 transactions. Mr. Kluckman received an accounting degree from Northern Illinois University.

Robert Allan has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Royal Wolf since February 2006. Mr. Allan joined Royal Wolf in April 2004 as its Executive General Manager. From 2000 until joining Royal Wolf, he served as Group General Manager of IPS Logistics Pty Ltd, a shipping and logistics company. From 1997 until 2000, Mr. Allan was employed as a Regional Director of Triton Container International, the world’s largest lessor of marine cargo containers to the international shipping industry. Mr. Allan has more than 30 years of experience in the container leasing and logistics industries.

Theodore Mourouzis has served as the President of Pac-Van, Inc. since August 2006. He previously served as its Chief Operating Officer since 1999 and as its Vice President of Finance from 1997 until 1999. Prior to his employment with Pac-Van, Mr. Mourouzis, among other things, was a controller for a 3M joint venture, served four years in management consulting with Deloitte & Touche (focusing in operations and business process consulting), and was president of a picture framing distributor and the chief financial officer of its holding company. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University (in 1985) and a Masters of Business Administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (in 1991).

 

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Item 1A. Risk Factors

In addition to the other information in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, you should consider the risks described below that we believe may be material to investors in evaluating us. This section contains forward-looking statements, and in considering these statements, you should refer to the qualifications and limitations on our forward-looking statements that are described in SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT before the beginning of Item 1.

Global economic conditions and market disruptions may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

There continues to be global economic uncertainty, elevated levels of unemployment, reduced levels of economic activity, and it is uncertain as to when economic conditions will improve. These negative economic conditions in the markets where we operate, and other events or factors that adversely affect demand in the portable services industry, could continue to adversely affect our business. Though we have strengthened our efforts in collections and inventory control, continued worsening of conditions could adversely affect the collection of trade receivables on a timely basis, could result in additional reserves for uncollectible accounts and, in the event of continued contraction in container and modular unit sales and leasing, could lead to a build-up of inventory and lease fleet levels. These factors would have a further adverse impact on operating results and cash flows. In addition, fluctuations in the rates of exchange for the U.S. dollar against the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian dollars could significantly affect our results of operations through lower than anticipated reported revenues and profitability as a result of the translation of our foreign operations’ financial results into U.S. dollars.

We operate with a significant amount of indebtedness, which is secured by all or substantially all of our assets, subject to variable interest rates and contain restrictive covenants.

Our substantial indebtedness could have adverse consequences, such as:

 

   

require us to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations at Royal Wolf and Pac-Van to payments on our indebtedness, which could reduce the availability of our cash flow to fund future operating capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate purposes;

 

   

expose us to the risk of increased interest rates, as our borrowings on our secured senior credit facilities are at variable rates of interest;

 

   

require us to sell assets to reduce indebtedness or influence our decisions about whether to do so;

 

   

increase our vulnerability to general adverse economic and industry conditions;

 

   

limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and our industry;

 

   

restrict us from making strategic acquisitions or pursuing business opportunities;

 

   

limit, along with the financial and other restrictive covenants in our indebtedness, among other things, our ability to borrow additional funds; and

 

   

violating covenants in these agreements could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations; including substantially increasing our cost of borrowing and restricting our future operations, if not cured or waived. In addition, the lenders may be able to terminate any commitments they had made to supply us with further funds. Accordingly, we may not be able to fully repay our debt obligations, if some or all of our debt obligations are accelerated upon an event of default.

Our senior credit agreements also contain various restrictive covenants that limit the operations of our business. In particular, these agreements include covenants and restrictions relating to:

 

   

payments and distributions to GFN;

 

   

liens and sale-leaseback transactions;

 

   

loans and investments;

 

   

debt and hedging arrangements;

 

   

mergers, acquisitions and asset sales;

 

   

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There were no events of default under the covenants of our senior credit facilities at June 30, 2012. While we believe we will remain in compliance with covenants in the foreseeable future and that our relationships with our senior lenders are good, there is no assurance our lenders would consent to an amendment or waiver in the event of noncompliance; or that such consent would not be conditioned upon the receipt of a cash payment, revised principal payout terms, increased interest rates, or restrictions in the expansion of the credit facilities for the foreseeable future; or that our senior lenders would not exercise rights that would be available to them, including, among other things, demanding payment of outstanding borrowings. In addition, our ability to obtain additional capital or alternative borrowing arrangements at reasonable rates may be adversely affected. All or any of these adverse events would further limit our flexibility in planning for or reacting to downturns in our business.

Reference is made to Note 5 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for more information regarding our indebtedness.

Our inability to raise capital.

Our inability to obtain capital in the amounts and at the times when needed, may have a material adverse affect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, including substantially increasing our cost of borrowing and restricting our future operations. These events may significantly reduce the value of your investment.

A write-off of all or a part of our goodwill and intangibles would hurt our operating results and reduce our stockholders’ equity.

As a result of our acquisitions of Royal Wolf, Pac-Van and other smaller businesses, we have recorded significant amounts of goodwill and intangible assets. Goodwill represents the excess of the total purchase price of these acquisitions over the fair value of the net assets acquired. We are not permitted to amortize goodwill under U.S. accounting standards and instead we review goodwill, as well as intangible assets, at least annually for impairment. Impairment may result from, among other things, deterioration in the performance of acquired businesses, adverse market conditions and adverse changes in applicable laws or regulations, including changes that restrict the activities of the acquired business. In the event impairment is identified, a charge to earnings would be recorded. Although it does not affect our cash flow, a write-off of all or a part of our goodwill or intangibles would adversely affect our operating results and stockholders’ equity. At each yearend of the two fiscal years prior to June 30, 2012, we recognized an impairment charge to the goodwill recorded in the Pac-Van acquisition. At June 30, 2012, there was no impairment charge recorded, but future write-downs may be occur if conditions, such as those discussed above, would adversely impair our operations.

Reference is made to Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for more information regarding goodwill and intangible assets.

Future acquisitions of businesses could subject us to additional business, operating and industry risks, the impact of which cannot presently be evaluated, and could adversely impact our capital structure.

We intend to pursue acquisition opportunities in an effort to diversify our investments and grow our business. Any business we acquire may cause us to be affected by numerous risks inherent in the acquired business’ operations. If we acquire a business in an industry characterized by a high level of risk, we may be affected by the currently unascertainable risks of that industry. Although we will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular industry or target business, we cannot assure that we will be able to properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors.

In addition, the financing of any acquisition we complete could adversely impact our capital structure as any such financing would likely include the issuance of additional equity securities and/or the borrowing of additional funds. The issuance of additional equity securities may significantly reduce the equity interest of our stockholders and/or adversely affect prevailing market prices for our common stock. Increasing our indebtedness could increase the risk of a default that would entitle the holder to declare all of such indebtedness due and payable and/or to seize any collateral securing the indebtedness. In addition, default under one debt instrument could in turn permit lenders under other debt instruments to declare borrowings outstanding under those other instruments to be due and payable pursuant to cross default clauses. Accordingly, the financing of future acquisitions could adversely impact our capital structure and any equity interests in us.

While part of our long-term business strategy is to acquire additional businesses, there is no assurance that we will be able to identify businesses that we can acquire upon terms we believe acceptable, or if such acquisitions require additional financing, that we could obtain such additional financing.

We cannot ascertain the availability of businesses to acquire, nor the capital requirements for future transactions. We cannot assure that, if required, additional financing will be available on acceptable terms, if at all. To the extent that additional financing proves to be unavailable when needed to consummate a particular acquisition, we would be compelled to either restructure the

 

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transaction or abandon that particular acquisition. In addition, if we consummate a future acquisition, we may require additional financing to fund the operations or growth of the target business. The failure to secure additional financing may impact the continued development or growth of the target business.

Our long-term growth plan includes the expansion of operations into markets outside of the United States and the Asia-Pacific area. Such international expansion may not prove successful, and may divert significant capital, resources and management’s time and attention and adversely affect our on-going operations.

To date, we have conducted all of our business within North America and the Asia-Pacific area. However, we have intentions in the future to enter international markets, including possibly South America and the European markets, which will require substantial amounts of management time and attention. Our products and overall marketing approach may not be accepted in other markets to the extent needed to make our international expansion profitable. In addition, the additional demands on management from these activities may detract from our efforts in our current markets and adversely affect our operating results therein. Any international expansion will expose us to the risks normally associated with conducting international business operations, including unexpected changes in regulatory requirements, changes in foreign legislation, possible foreign currency controls, currency exchange rate fluctuations or devaluations, tariffs, difficulties in staffing and managing foreign operations, difficulties in obtaining and managing vendors and distributors, potential negative tax consequences and difficulties collecting accounts receivable.

Our long-term growth could strain our management resources.

Our future performance will depend in large part on our ability to manage our long-term planned growth that could strain our existing management, human and other resources. To successfully manage this growth, we must continue to add managers and employees and improve our operating, financial and other internal procedures and controls. We also must effectively motivate, train and manage employees. If we do not manage our growth effectively, it would adversely affect our future operating results.

To complete future business combinations, we may issue shares of our capital stock that would reduce the equity interest of our stockholders and could cause a change in control of our ownership, or incur debt, which could adversely affect our financial condition.

Our certificate of incorporation authorizes the issuance of up to 100,000,000 shares of common stock and up to 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock. At June 30, 2012, there were 74,042,748 authorized shares of our common stock available for issuance (after appropriate reservation for the issuance of shares upon full exercise of our outstanding warrants and options issued under our Stock Incentive Plan (see Note 9 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements). If we seek to consummate future business combinations, we may be required to issue a substantial number of additional shares of our common or preferred stock, or a combination of common and preferred stock, to complete the other business combination. The issuance of additional shares of our common stock or any number of shares of our preferred stock:

 

   

may significantly reduce the equity interest of investors;

 

   

may subordinate the rights of holders of common stock if preferred stock is issued with rights senior to those afforded to our common stock;

 

   

may cause a change in control if a substantial number of our shares of common stock are issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carry forwards, if any, and could result in the resignation or removal of our present officers and directors; and

 

   

may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our common stock.

In addition, we may incur substantial debt to complete another business combination. The incurrence of debt could result in:

 

   

default and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues after a business combination are insufficient to repay our debt obligations;

 

   

our immediate payment of all principal and accrued interest, if any, if the debt security is payable on demand; and

 

   

our inability to obtain necessary additional financing if the debt security instrument covenants restricting our ability to obtain such financing while the debt instrument is outstanding.

We are subject to laws and governmental regulations and actions that affect our operating results and financial condition.

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Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and NASDAQ, as well as applicable labor laws. Although we have policies and procedures designed to comply with applicable laws and regulations, failure to comply with the various laws and regulations may result in civil and criminal liability, fines and penalties, increased costs of compliance, additional taxation and restatement of our financial statements.

There can also be no assurance that, in response to current economic conditions or the current political environment or otherwise, laws and regulations will not be implemented or changed in ways that adversely affect our operating results and financial condition, such as recently adopted legislation that expands health care coverage costs, or facilitates union activity or federal legislative proposals to otherwise increase taxation and operating costs.

We are exposed to various possible claims relating to our business and our insurance may not fully protect us.

We are exposed to various possible claims relating to our business. These possible claims include those relating to: (i) personal injury or death caused by container products, mobile offices or modular units leased or sold by us; (ii) accidents involving our vehicles and our employees; (iii) employment-related claims; (iv) property damage and (v) commercial claims. We believe that we have adequate insurance coverage for the protection of our assets and operations. However, our insurance may not fully protect us for certain types of claims, such as claims for punitive damages or for damages arising from intentional misconduct, which are often alleged in third party lawsuits.

In addition, we may be exposed to uninsured liability at levels in excess of our policy limits. If we are found liable for any significant claims that are not covered by insurance, our liquidity and operating results could be materially adversely affected. It is possible that our insurance carrier may disclaim coverage for any class action and derivative lawsuits against us. It is also possible that some or all of the insurance that is currently available to us will not be available in the future on economically reasonable terms or not available at all. In addition, whether we are covered by insurance or not, certain claims may have the potential for negative publicity surrounding such claims, which may adversely impact our operating results, value of our public securities, or give rise to additional similar claims being filed.

Disruptions in our information technology systems could limit our ability to effectively monitor and control our operations and adversely affect our operations.

Our information technology systems facilitate our ability to monitor and control our operations and adjust to changing market conditions. Any disruption in our information technology systems or the failure of these systems to operate as expected could, depending on the magnitude of the problem, adversely affect our operating results by limiting our capacity to effectively transact business, monitor and control our operations and adjust to changing market conditions in a timely manner.

The delay or failure to implement information system upgrades and new systems effectively could disrupt our business, distract management’s focus and attention from our business operations and growth initiatives, and increase our implementation and operating costs, any of which could negatively impact our operations and operating results.

The price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly, which may make it difficult for stockholders to resell common stock when they want or at a price they find attractive.

We expect that the market price of our common stock will fluctuate. Our common stock price can fluctuate as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are beyond our control. These factors include:

 

   

actual or anticipated variations in our quarterly operating results;

 

   

changes in interest rates and other general economic conditions;

 

   

significant acquisitions or business combinations, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments by or involving us or our competitors;

 

   

operating and stock price performance of other companies that investors deem comparable to us;

 

   

news reports relating to trends, concerns, litigation, regulatory changes and other issues in our industry;

 

   

geopolitical conditions such as acts or threats of terrorism or military conflicts;

 

   

relatively low trading volume; and

 

   

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If equity research analysts do not publish research or reports about our business or if they issue unfavorable commentary or downgrade our common stock, the price of our common stock could decline.

The trading market for our common stock will rely in part on the research and reports that equity research analysts publish about us and our business. We do not control these analysts. The price of our stock could decline if one or more equity analysts downgrade our stock or if those analysts issue other unfavorable commentary or cease publishing reports about us or our business.

We do not currently intend to pay dividends on our common stock, which may limit the return on your investment in us.

Except for payment of dividends on our preferred stock and on the capital stock of Royal Wolf, we intend to retain all available funds and any future earnings for use in the operation and expansion of our business and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.

Our outstanding options and warrants may have an adverse effect on the market price of common stock and increase the difficulty of effecting future business combinations.

At June 30, 2012, we had outstanding options and warrants to purchase 3,937,287 shares of common stock. The potential for the issuance of substantial numbers of additional shares of common stock upon exercise of these warrants and options could make us a less attractive acquisition vehicle in the eyes of a target business. Such securities, when exercised, will increase the number of issued and outstanding shares of our common stock and reduce the value of the shares issued. Additionally, the sale, or even the possibility of sale, of the shares underlying the warrants and options could have an adverse effect on the market price for our securities or on our ability to obtain future financing.

Unionization by some or all of our employees could cause increases in operating costs.

Our employees are not presently covered by collective bargaining agreements. Unions may attempt to organize our employees in the future. We are unable to predict the outcome of any continuing or future efforts to organize our employees, the terms of any future labor agreements, or the effect, if any, those agreements might have on our operations or financial performance.

Significant Risks Related Primarily to Our Operations in the Asia-Pacific Area

The future performance of Royal Wolf depends on customer demand for portable container solutions as well as the expansion of the portable container solutions products market in Australia.

Any reduction in customer demand, failure of customer demand to grow, or failure of Royal Wolf to meet changes in customer demand or preferences may adversely affect Royal Wolf’s businesses, operational performance, growth prospects and financial position. Royal Wolf is also subject to demand fluctuations in key markets such as resources, construction, manufacturing, and retail.

The success and ability to drive future growth is dependent to a large extent on brand reputation.

Royal Wolf believes its brand reputation is a key driver in its success and its ability to drive future growth. Any adverse change to the reputation of Royal Wolf may adversely affect the Company’s businesses, operational performance and financial condition. Royal Wolf owns the trademark and license for the name “Royal Wolf” in Australia, New Zealand and surrounding islands in the Asia-Pacific region. There is a risk that use of the “Royal Wolf” brand by third parties in jurisdictions in which Royal Wolf does not own the trademark may adversely impact the Royal Wolf brand.

Royal Wolf’s ability to achieve its long-term business strategy is dependent to a certain extent on its supply chain and purchasing.

Royal Wolf’s long-term business strategy assumes a certain level of growth in Australian and New Zealand demand for container based solutions. Royal Wolf’s ability to meet this demand is dependent, to a certain extent, on the ability of Royal Wolf to purchase storage containers economically and on an on-time basis. Historically, Royal Wolf has successfully worked with shipping lines and international container leasing companies to purchase used containers, and with manufacturers and brokers, including in China, to purchase new containers, but there can be no guarantee of this in the future. Changes to shipping line practices with respect to used containers, and adverse changes in trade practices, regulations and relations between Australia and its trading partners, including China, could adversely impact Royal Wolf’s ability to purchase containers or impact the price at which Royal Wolf is able to purchase containers.

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deliver in a timely manner, or material increases in the price of new or used containers could have an adverse impact on Royal Wolf’s business, operational performance, profit margins and financial results.

Royal Wolf’s expansion plans involve an element of risk and could strain management resources.

Royal Wolf intends to pursue a growth strategy involving organic and non-organic growth. There is a no guarantee that such growth will occur or be successful. Royal Wolf may incur significant capital expenditure in connection with expansion plans that may not be realized or may not deliver the earnings that are expected. In addition, Royal Wolf’s expansion plans may, in the future, give rise to risks or problems, including the diversion of management’s attention and resources, which may have a materially adverse impact on the performance of Royal Wolf. Limitations on Royal Wolf’s growth and expansion, or materially adverse changes arising from expansion plans, may affect the operating and financial performance of Royal Wolf.

Failure to retain key personnel could adversely affect Royal Wolf’s ability to execute its business strategy.

The successful operation and growth of Royal Wolf depends, to a significant extent, upon the performance and expertise of key staff and Royal Wolf’s ability to attract and retain skilled employees. Changes that adversely affect Royal Wolf’s ability to attract and retain skilled employees could materially impact Royal Wolf’s business, operational performance and financial results. Additionally, Royal Wolf does not maintain key person insurance, and as such may be adversely impacted by the departure of key staff.

Royal Wolf conducts its business in a highly competitive sector.

Royal Wolf’s faces competition in the portable buildings, freight and portable storage markets. Royal Wolf also faces potentially significant competition from modular industry companies who have non-container portable building offerings, especially from several national competitors in Australia who have greater financial resources and pricing flexibility than Royal Wolf. As a result, Royal Wolf is subject to potential entry by new domestic and foreign competitors and the provision of new products or services, aggressive pricing and lease rates offered by existing competitors. Royal Wolf may not always be able to match its competitors in service levels, functionality and price. The emergence of a new competitor with international reach, or increased focus on the rental model by existing competitors, particularly with an extensive distribution network, could have an adverse effect on Royal Wolf’s business, financial condition, results of operations and growth prospects. Also, continued service improvement by competitors may result in Royal Wolf’s customers using substitutes in place of some of Royal Wolf’s products. Royal Wolf may not always be able to match its competitors in both functionality and price, which could negatively impact Royal Wolf’s revenues. In addition, some of Royal Wolf’s unique products are the subject of patent applications only and there is no guarantee that those applications will become effective. If the patent applications do not become effective, there is a risk that Royal Wolf’s competitors could produce similar rival products, which may have an adverse effect on Royal Wolf.

Royal Wolf is subject to foreign exchange rate fluctuations.

Royal Wolf is subject to exchange rate fluctuations, particularly as it sources a substantial portion of its portable container solutions fleet from China in purchases, which are U.S. dollar-denominated. While Royal Wolf has a hedging policy to mitigate this risk, unhedged exchange rate fluctuations in the Australian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar and, to a lesser extent, the New Zealand dollar, may adversely affect the financial performance of Royal Wolf, including its financial position, cash flows, distributions, growth prospects, and Share price

Royal Wolf is subject to Australian and New Zealand taxation and tariff regulation.

Significant recent reforms and current proposals for further reforms to tax laws in the jurisdictions within which Royal Wolf operates may give rise to uncertainty. The precise scope and impact of future changes to tax laws may not be known. Royal Wolf is also subject to import tariffs with respect to the portable container products it sources from overseas. Any changes to such tax or tariff laws (including the imposition of, or increases to, such taxes or tariffs), their interpretation or the manner in which they are administered by the relevant government agency or the current rate of company income tax or import tariff may impact the operational or financial performance of Royal Wolf (or customers in its key end markets).

Royal wolf may face a tightening labor force and is subject to Occupational Health and Safety regulations.

Royal Wolf’s ability to remain productive, profitable and competitive and to effect its planned growth initiatives depends on its ability to attract and retain workers. Tightening of the labor market in key regions due to a shortage of suitably skilled workers may inhibit Royal Wolf’s ability to hire and retain employees. Additionally, rising wages paid to employees may pose a risk to Royal Wolf’s margins if it is unable to pass on such higher costs through price increases.

 

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Royal Wolf is also subject to Occupational Health and Safety regulations. If Royal Wolf is not able to maintain its working conditions to meet Occupational Health and Safety regulations it may impact Royal Wolf’s operations and ability to attract and retain workers and also result in contravention of those regulations, which may give rise to potential criminal and civil liability and also damage Royal Wolf’s brand and reputation.

Significant Risks Related Primarily to Our Business and Operations in North America

General or localized economic downturns or weakness may adversely affect Pac-Van’s customers, in particular those in the construction industry, which may reduce demand for Pac-Van’s products and services and negatively impact our future revenues and results of operations.

A significant portion of Pac-Van’s revenues is derived from customers who are in industries and businesses that are cyclical in nature and subject to changes in general economic conditions, including the construction industry, which constituted over 30% of Pac-Van’s revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012. Although the variety of Pac-Van’s products, the breadth of its customer base and the number of markets it serves throughout the United States limit its exposure to economic downturns, general economic downturns or localized downturns in markets where its operates could reduce demand for Pac-Van’s products, especially in the construction industry, and negatively impact our future revenues and results of operations.

Pac-Van faces significant competition in the modular buildings and portable storage industries. Pac-Van also faces potentially significant competition from modular buildings companies who have portable storage product offerings, especially from several national competitors in the United States who have greater financial resources and pricing flexibility than Pac-Van does. If Pac-Van is unable to compete successfully, it could lose customers and our future revenues could decline.

Although Pac-Van’s competition varies significantly by market, the modular buildings markets in which Pac-Van competes are dominated by two large participants and are highly competitive. In addition, Pac-Van competes with a number of large to mid-sized regional competitors, as well as many smaller, full and part-time operators in many local regions. The modular building industry is highly competitive, subject to stiff pricing competition and almost all of the competitors have portable storage product offerings. The primary modular national competitors with portable storage product offerings are less leveraged than Pac-Van, and have greater financial resources and pricing flexibility than Pac-Van does. If they focus on portable storage, Pac-Van could lose customers and our future revenues could decline. If Pac-Van is unable to compete successfully, it could lose customers and our future revenues could decline.

Because Pac-Van has depended to a large extent on the success of its leasing operations, the failure of Pac-Van to effectively and quickly remarket lease units that are returned could materially and adversely affect our results of operations.

Historically, Pac-Van’s average monthly lease fleet utilization has averaged between 70% and 85%; with the typical lease term being for an average period of over twelve months. The high utilization rate and the length of the average lease have provided Pac-Van with a predictable revenue stream. However, if utilization rates decline or should a significant number of Pac-Van’s lease units be returned during any short period of time, Pac-Van would have to re-lease a large supply of units at similar rates to maintain historic revenues from these operations. Pac-Van’s failure to effectively maintain historical utilization rates or remarket a large influx of units returning from leases could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

Sales of modular buildings, mobile offices and container product units constitute a significant portion of Pac-Van’s revenues and the failure to continue to sell units at historic rates could adversely affect our ability to grow Pac-Van’s lease fleet.

Revenues from sales of modular buildings, mobile offices and container products have been used to fund increases in the size of our lease fleet. As a result, the failure to continue to sell a significant number of units may adversely affect our ability to increase the size of Pac-Van’s lease fleet or to otherwise take advantage of business and growth opportunities available to it.

We may be brought into tort or environmental litigation or held responsible for cleanup of spills if the customer fails to perform, or an accident occurs in the use of our tank container products, which could materially adversely affect our business, future operating results or financial position.

Our portable liquid tank containers are used by our customers to store non-hazardous and certain hazardous liquids on the customer’s site. Our customers are responsible for proper operation of our fleet equipment while on lease and returning a cleaned and undamaged container upon completion of use, but we cannot always assure that these responsibilities are fully met in all cases. In addition, if an accident were to occur involving our lease equipment or a spill of substances were to occur when in-transport or on-lease with our customer, a claim could be made against us as owner of the lease equipment.

 

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In the event of a spill or accident, we may be brought into a lawsuit or enforcement action by either our customer or a third party on numerous potential grounds, including that an inherent flaw in a container tank contributed to the accident or that the container tank had suffered some undiscovered harm from a previous customer’s prior use. In the event of a spill caused by our customers, we may be held responsible for cleanup under environmental laws and regulations concerning obligations of suppliers of rental products to effect remediation. In addition, applicable environmental laws and regulations may impose liability on us for conduct of third parties, or for actions that complied with applicable regulations when taken, regardless of negligence or fault. Substantial damage awards have also been made in certain jurisdictions against lessors of industrial equipment based upon claims of personal injury, property damage, and resource damage caused by the use of various products. While we try to take reasonable precautions that our lease equipment is in good and safe condition prior to lease and carry insurance to protect against certain risks of loss or accidents, liability could adversely impact our profitability.

The portable liquid containment rental industry is highly competitive, and competitive pressures could impair or ability to increase market share and to rent, or sell, equipment at favorable prices.

The portable liquid containment industry is highly competitive. We compete against national, regional and local companies, some of which are significantly larger than we are and both of which have greater financial and marketing resources than we have. Some of our competitors also have longer operating histories, lower cost basis of rental equipment, lower cost structures and more established relationships with equipment manufacturers than we have. In addition, certain of our competitors are more geographically diverse than we are and have greater name recognition among customers than we do. As a result, our competitors that have these advantages may be better able to attract customers.

We believe that local relationships, equipment quality, service levels and fleet size are key competitive factors in the portable liquid containment industry. From time to time, we or our competitors may attempt to compete aggressively by lowering rental rates or prices. Competitive pressures could adversely affect our future revenues and operating results by depressing the rental rates. To the extent we lower lease rates or increase our fleet in order to retain or increase market share, our operating margins would be adversely impacted. In addition, we may not be able to match a larger competitor’s price reductions or fleet investment because of its greater financial resources, all of which could adversely impact our future operating results.

Changes in regulatory, or governmental, oversight of hydraulic fracturing could materially adversely affect the demand for our portable liquid containment products.

We believe that in recent years growing demand related to hydraulic fracturing has increased and we have made a conscientious decision to enter into this market. However, oil and gas exploration and extraction (including use of tanks for hydraulic fracturing of gas and oil shale) are subject to numerous local, state and federal regulations. The hydraulic fracturing method of extraction has come under scrutiny in several states and by the Federal government due to the potential adverse effects that hydraulic fracturing, and the liquids and chemicals used, may have on water quality and public health. In addition, the disposal of wastewater from the hydraulic fracturing process into injection wells may increase the rate of seismic activity near drill sites and could result in regulatory changes, delays or interruption of future activity. Changes in these regulations could limit, interrupt, or stop exploration and extraction activities, which would negatively impact the demand for our portable liquid containment products.

Seasonality of the portable liquid containment industry may impact future quarterly results.

Activity may decline in our second quarter month of December and our third quarter months of January and February. These months may have lower rental activity in parts of the country where inclement weather may delay, or suspend, a company’s project. The impact of these delays may be to decrease the number of frac tank containers on lease until companies are able to resume their projects when weather improves. These seasonal factors may impact our future quarterly results in each year’s second and third quarters.

Significant increases in raw material costs could increase our operating costs significantly and harm our future results of operations.

Pac-Van purchases raw materials, including metals, lumber, siding and roofing and other products, to construct and modify modular buildings and to modify containers to its customers’ requirements. Pac-Van also maintains a truck fleet to deliver units to and return units from customers. During periods of rising prices for raw materials, especially oil and fuel for delivery vehicles, and in particular when the prices increase rapidly or to levels significantly higher than normal, Pac-Van may incur significant increases in operating costs and may not be able to pass price increases through to customers in a timely manner, which could harm our future results of operations.

 

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Failure to retain key personnel could adversely affect Pac-Van’s operations and could impede our ability to execute our business plan and growth strategy.

Pac-Van is managed largely by seven key senior managers. The continued success of Pac-Van will depend largely on the efforts and abilities of these senior managers. These officers and employees have an understanding of Pac-Van and its industry that cannot be readily duplicated. In addition, we do not have key-man insurance. The loss of any member of Pac-Van’s senior management team could impair our ability to execute our business plan and growth strategy, cause a loss of customers, reduce revenues and adversely affect employee morale.

Failure by Pac-Van’s manufacturers to sell and deliver products to Pac-Van in timely fashion may harm Pac-Van’s reputation and our financial condition.

Pac-Van currently purchases new modular buildings and components, mobile offices and container products directly from manufacturers. Although Pac-Van is not dependent on any one manufacturer and is able to purchase products from a variety of suppliers, the failure of one or more of its suppliers to timely manufacture and deliver storage containers to Pac-Van could adversely affect its operations. Pac-Van purchases new modular buildings and components, mobile offices and storage containers under purchase orders issued to various manufacturers, which the manufacturers may or may not accept or be able to fill. Pac-Van has no contracts with any supplier. If these suppliers do not timely fill Pac-Van’s purchase orders, or do not properly manufacture the ordered products, our reputation and financial condition also could be harmed.

Some zoning laws restrict the use of Pac-Van’s storage units and therefore limit its ability to offer its products in all markets.

Many of Pac-Van’s customers use Pac-Van’s storage units to store goods on their own properties. Local zoning laws in some of Pac-Van’s markets prohibit customers from maintaining mobile offices or storage containers on their properties or require that mobile offices or storage containers be located out of sight from the street. If local zoning laws in one or more of Pac-Van’s geographic markets were to ban or restrict its products from being stored on customers’ sites, Pac-Van’s business in that market could suffer.

Developments in California may have an adverse impact on our business and financial results.

We are headquartered and have operations in California, which like many other state and local jurisdictions is facing severe budgetary problems and deficits. Action that may be taken in response to these problems, such as increases in property taxes, changes to sales taxes, adoption of a proposed “Business Net Receipts Tax” or other governmental efforts to raise revenues could adversely impact our business and results of operations.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

 

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Item 2. Properties

We locate our Asia-Pacific CSCs (or branches) in markets with attractive demographics and strong growth prospects. Within each market, we have located our CSCs in areas that allow for easy delivery of mobile storage units to our customers over a wide geographic area. In addition, when cost effective, we seek high visibility locations. Our CSCs maintain an inventory of mobile storage units available for lease, and most of our CSCs also provide storage of units under lease at the site (“on-site storage”). Several CSCs have multiple leases of adjoining or contiguous properties and, except for the Auckland, New Zealand self-storage and regional office site, the CSCs are all leased.

The following table shows information about our CSCs and other properties by country (Australia and New Zealand) and we believe these properties are suitable and adequate for our needs:

 

Location

  

Functions/Uses

   Year Established  

Australia:

     

Adelaide

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2006   

Brisbane

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2005   

Brisbane (special products and modifications)

   Leasing and modifications (not a CSC)      2008   

Cairns

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2004   

Canberra

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2007   

Melbourne East — Clayton

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      1997   

Melbourne West — Sunshine

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2005   

Darwin

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2010   

Geraldton

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2007   

Gold Coast

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2005   

Gosford — Central Coast

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2009   

Hobart

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2008   

Hornsby

   Head office      1986   

Sydney — Moorebank

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2009   

Sydney — St Marys

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2011   

Newcastle

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2001   

Perth North — Bayswater

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2004   

Perth South — Bibra Lakes

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2006   

Tomago (Newcastle)

   On-site storage and sales (not a CSC)      2008   

Townsville

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2005   

New Zealand:

     

Auckland-Ormiston Rd (owned)

   Head office and on-site storage      2000   

Auckland-East Tama

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2005   

Christchurch

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2002   

Hamilton

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2010   

New Plymouth (Palmerston North)

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2012   

Silverdale/Albany

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2008   

Tauranga/Bay of Plenty

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2009   

Wellington

   Leasing, on-site storage and sales      2007   

 

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Except for the head office of Pac-Van, which we own, all of the locations in North America are leased. Most of Pac-Van’s major leased properties have remaining lease terms of at least one year, and we believe that none of the individual branch locations is material to our operations. We also believe that satisfactory alternative properties could be found in all of our North American markets, if necessary. The following table shows information about our branches and other properties in North America:

 

Location

  

Functions/Uses

   Year Established  

United States:

     

Atlanta, GA

   Leasing and sales      2008   

Bakersfield, CA

   Leasing and sales      2008   

Charleston, WV

   Fleet storage      2007   

Charlotte, NC

   Leasing and sales      2005   

Chicago, IL

   Leasing and sales      2005   

Cincinnati, OH

   Leasing and sales      2008   

Cleveland, OH

   Leasing and sales      2008   

Columbus, OH

   Leasing and sales      2005   

Dallas, TX

   Leasing and sales      2008   

Denver, CO

   Leasing and sales      2008   

Elkhart, IN

   Fleet storage      2009   

Chino, CA

   Leasing and sales      2008   

Indianapolis, IN

   Leasing and sales      1998   

Indianapolis, IN (owned)

   Head office      2011   

Jacksonville, FL

   Leasing and sales      2007   

Kansas City, MO

   Leasing and sales      2000   

Las Vegas, NV

   Leasing and sales      2006   

Louisville, KY

   Leasing and sales      2006   

Memphis, TN

   Leasing and sales      1999   

Nashville, TN

   Leasing and sales      2001   

Orlando, FL

   Leasing and sales      2006   

Phoenix, AZ

   Leasing and sales      2009   

Pittsburgh, PA

   Leasing and sales      2005   

Salt Lake City, UT

   Leasing and sales      2008   

St. Louis, MO

   Leasing and sales      2008   

Toledo, OH

   Leasing and sales      2008   

Trenton, NJ

   Leasing and sales      2009   

Canada:

     

Edmonton, AB

   Leasing and sales      2012   

We lease our corporate headquarters in Pasadena, California, effective January 31, 2008, from an affiliate of our chief executive officer, who is also a member of the board of directors. The rent is $7,393 per month, plus allocated charges for common area maintenance, real property taxes and insurance, for approximately 3,000 square feet of office space. The term of the lease is five years, with two five-year renewal options, and the rent is adjusted yearly based on the consumer price index.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

We are not involved in any material lawsuits or claims arising out of the normal course of our business. We have insurance policies to cover general liability and workers compensation related claims. In our opinion, the ultimate amount of liability not covered by insurance under pending litigation and claims, if any, will not have a material adverse effect on our financial position, operating results or cash flows.

Reference is made to Note 10 of our consolidated financial statements for further discussion of commitments and contingencies, including any legal proceedings.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

Not applicable.

 

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PART II

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Our common stock is listed on The NASDAQ Global Market (NASDAQ) under the symbol “GFN” and our units and warrants are listed on NASDAQ under the symbols “GFNCL” and GFNCZ,” respectively. The following tables set forth, for the periods indicated, the range of high and low closing sales prices for our common stock, units and warrants.

 

     Units      Common Stock      Warrants  
     High      Low      High      Low      High      Low  

Year Ended June 30, 2012:

                 

Fourth Quarter

   $ 3.35       $ 3.00       $ 3.22       $ 2.78       $ 0.25       $ 0.25   

Third Quarter

     3.39         2.66         2.89         2.48         0.00         0.00   

Second Quarter

     3.50         2.63         2.98         2.50         0.00         0.00   

First Quarter

     3.50         3.47         3.48         2.63         0.00         0.00   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Year Ended June 30, 2011:

                 

Fourth Quarter

   $ 4.40       $ 2.80       $ 3.40       $ 2.61       $ 0.00       $ 0.00   

Third Quarter

     3.51         2.22         3.65         2.01         0.00         0.00   

Second Quarter

     4.00         1.50         2.60         1.30         0.00         0.00   

First Quarter

     2.70         1.50         1.28         1.01         0.00         0.00   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Record Holders

As of July 31, 2012, there were a combined 77 holders of record of our common stock, units and warrants; however, we believe that there are thousands of beneficial owners.

Dividend Policy

We have not paid any dividends on our common stock to date. The payment of dividends in the future will be contingent upon our revenues and earnings, if any, capital requirements and general financial condition. The payment of any dividends will be within the discretion of our board of directors. It is the present intention of our board of directors to retain all earnings, if any, for use in our business operations and, accordingly, our board does not anticipate declaring any dividends in the foreseeable future.

Sales of Unregistered Securities

We conducted private placements of Series A 12.5% Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share and liquidation preference of $50 per share (“Series A Preferred Stock”), and Series B 8% Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value of $0.0001 per share and liquidation value of $1,000 per share (“Series B Preferred Stock”), in reliance upon exemptions from registration pursuant to Section 4(2) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder. The Series A Preferred Stock and the Series B Preferred Stock are referred to collectively as the “Cumulative Preferred Stock.”

The Cumulative Preferred Stock is not convertible into GFN common stock, has no voting rights, except as required by Delaware law, and is not redeemable prior to February 1, 2014; at which time it may be redeemed at any time, in whole or in part, at our option. Holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock are entitled to receive, when declared by our Board of Directors, annual dividends payable quarterly in arrears on the 31st day of January, July and October and the 30th day of April of each year. In the event of any liquidation or winding up of the Company, the holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock will have preference to holders of common stock, with the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock having preference over holders of the Series B Preferred Stock.

As of June 30, 2012, we had issued 25,900 shares and 173.333 shares of Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock for total proceeds of $1,295,000 and $173,333, respectively.

 

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Equity Compensation Plan

The following table sets forth information concerning our equity compensation plans, the 2006 Stock Option Plan and the 2009 Stock Incentive Plan, as of June 30, 2012:

 

Plan category

   (a)
Number of  securities
to be issued upon
exercise of
outstanding options,
warrants and rights
     (b)
Weighted-average exercise
price of outstanding
options, warrants and
rights
     (c)
Number of  securities
remaining available
for future issuance
under equity
compensation plans
(excluding securities
reflected in column

(a))
 

Equity compensation plans approved by security holders

     1,843,664       $ 4.96         656,336   

Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders

     —                   —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

     1,843,664       $ 4.96         656,336   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Item 6. Selected Financial Data

The following tables summarize our selected financial data for each of the four years ended June 30, 2012 and should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements included in “Item 8 Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” and “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

Consolidated Statement of Operations Information:

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2009     2010     2011     2012  

Sales

   $ 75,528      $ 79,207      $ 92,687      $ 108,341   

Leasing

     70,932        77,102        89,577        103,898   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
     146,460        156,309        182,264        212,239   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income

     14,058        3,575        9,781        26,245   

Other expense, net

     (25,177     (13,792     (15,681     (12,143

Income (loss) before provision for income taxes

     (11,119     (10,217     (5,900     14,102   

Net income (loss)

     (6,745     (8,956     (8,858     8,742   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss) per common share:

        

Basic

   $ (0.22   $ (0.64   $ (0.72   $ 0.11   

Diluted

     (0.22     (0.64     (0.72     0.11   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Consolidated Balance Sheet Information:

 

     June 30,  
     2009      2010      2011      2012  

Trade and other receivables, net

   $ 27,565       $ 27,449       $ 30,498       $ 35,443   

Inventories

     22,511         19,063         20,942         31,206   

Lease fleet, net

     188,915         188,410         220,095         259,458   

Total assets

     358,696         346,880         387,570         437,560   

Trade payables and accrued liabilities

     24,657         25,246         32,522         35,964   

Senior and other debt

     200,304         186,183         136,589         174,092   

Total equity

     103,174         101,734         191,892         193,997   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Selected Unaudited Quarterly Financial Data

The following table sets forth unaudited operating data for each quarter of the years ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2011. This quarterly information has been prepared on the same basis as the annual consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, contains all significant adjustments necessary to state fairly the information set forth herein. These quarterly results are not necessarily indicative of future results, growth rates or quarter-to-quarter comparisons.

 

     First
Quarter
     Second
Quarter
     Third
Quarter
    Fourth
Quarter
 
     (in thousands, except per share data)  

For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2012:

          

Revenues

   $ 52,793       $ 48,107       $ 56,154      $ 55,185   

Gross profit

     7,732         6,179         7,098        7,714   

Operating income

     6,657         5,423         7,357        6,808   

Net income

     2,751         1,118         3,307        1,566   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss) per common share:

          

Basic

   $ 0.05       $ 0.00       $ 0.05      $ 0.01   

Diluted

     0.05         0.00         0.05        0.01   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2011:

          

Revenues

   $ 43,465       $ 44,897       $ 43,322      $ 50,580   

Gross profit

     5,779         5,515         4,708        7,233   

Operating income (loss) (a)(b)

     3,670         4,345         4,278        (2,512

Net income (loss) (c)

     1,195         1,342         (196     (11,199
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss) per common share:

          

Basic

   $ 0.03       $ 0.03       $ (0.12   $ (0.67

Diluted

     0.03         0.03         (0.12     (0.67
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) Includes non-cash impairment charge to the goodwill recorded in the Pac-Van acquisition of $5,858 in the fourth quarter of FY 2011.
(b) Includes non-recurring expenses incurred in the Royal Wolf IPO of $2,482 in the fourth quarter.
(c) Includes noncontrolling interest charge of $3,413 in the fourth quarter, primarily due to the increased redemption value of the Bison Capital put option to the final accretion value of $17,634.

 

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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion of our financial condition and results of operations should be read together with the consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes thereto included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. This discussion includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ significantly from those anticipated or discussed in those forward-looking statements as a result of various factors; including, but not limited to, those described in Item 1A. “Risk Factors.”

References to “we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company” refer to General Finance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“GFN”), and its consolidated subsidiaries. These subsidiaries include GFN U.S. Australasia Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“GFN U.S.”); GFN North America Corp., a Delaware corporation (“GFNNA”); GFN Manufacturing Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“GFNMC”); Royal Wolf Holdings Limited (formerly GFN Australasia Holdings Pty Ltd)., an Australian corporation publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (“RWH”); and its Australian and New Zealand subsidiaries (collectively, “Royal Wolf”); Pac-Van, Inc., an Indiana corporation , and its Canadian subsidiary, PV Acquisition Corp., an Alberta corporation, doing business as “Container King” (collectively “Pac-Van”).

Background and Overview

We incorporated in Delaware on October 14, 2005 and completed our initial public offering (“IPO”) in April 2006. Our primary long-term strategy and business plan are to acquire and operate rental services and specialty finance businesses in North and South America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific (or Pan-Pacific) area.

On September 13, 2007 (September 14 in Australia), we acquired Royal Wolf with cash and the issuance to Bison Capital Australia, L.P. (“Bison Capital”), one of the sellers, of shares of common stock of GFN U.S. and a promissory note. Following the acquisition, we owned 86.2% of the outstanding capital stock of GFN U.S. and Bison Capital owned 13.8% of the outstanding capital stock of GFN U.S. On May 31, 2011, we completed an IPO in Australia of a noncontrolling interest in RWH and, simultaneously, acquired the 13.8% of GFN U.S. previously owned by Bison Capital. At the IPO date and at June 30, 2012, RWH had a total of 100,387,052 shares of capital stock issued and outstanding, of which GFN U.S. owns a direct (and we an indirect) majority interest of 50.005%. Royal Wolf leases and sells storage containers, portable container buildings and freight containers in Australia and New Zealand, which we consider geographically to be the Asia-Pacific area.

On October 1, 2008, we acquired Pac-Van through a merger with Mobile Office Acquisition Corp. (“MOAC”), the parent of Pac-Van, and our wholly-owned subsidiary, GFNNA. Pac-Van leases and sells storage, office and portable liquid storage tank containers, modular buildings and mobile offices in North America.

We do business in three distinct, but related industries, mobile storage, modular space and liquid containment; which we collectively refer to as the “portable services industry.” However, our business in the liquid containment industry commenced during the second half of the year ended June 30, 2012 and was not significant at June 30, 2012. Our two operating subsidiaries, Royal Wolf and Pac-Van, lease and sell their products through seventeen customer service centers (“CSCs”) in Australia, seven CSCs in New Zealand and twenty-seven branch locations across eighteen states in the United States and in Alberta, Canada. As of June 30, 2012, we had 241 and 198 employees and 36,497 and 12,391 lease fleet units in the Asia-Pacific area and North America, respectively.

Our products primarily consist of the following:

Mobile Storage

Storage Containers. Storage containers consist of new and used shipping containers that provide a flexible, low cost alternative to warehousing, while offering greater security, convenience and immediate accessibility. Our storage products include general purpose dry storage containers, refrigerated containers and specialty containers in a range of standard and modified sizes, designs and storage capacities. Specialty containers include blast-resistant units, hoarding units and hazardous-waste units. We also offer storage vans, also known as storage trailers or dock-height trailers.

Freight Containers. Freight containers are specifically designed for transport of products by road and rail. Our freight container products include curtain-side, refrigerated and bulk cargo containers, together with a range of standard and industry-specific dry freight containers.

Modular Space

Modular Buildings. Also known as manufactured buildings, modular buildings provide customers with additional space and are often modified to customer specifications. Modular buildings range in size from 1,000 to more than 30,000 square feet and may be highly customized.

 

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Mobile Offices. Also known as trailers or construction trailers, mobile offices are re-locatable units with aluminum or wood exteriors on wood (or steel) frames on a steel carriage fitted with axles, allowing for an assortment of “add-ons” to provide comfortable and convenient temporary space solutions.

Portable Container Buildings and Office Containers. Portable container buildings and office containers are either modified or specifically-manufactured containers that provide self-contained office space with maximum design flexibility. Office containers in the U.S. are oftentimes referred to as ground level offices (“GLOs”).

Liquid Containment

Portable Liquid Storage Tank Containers. Portable liquid storage tank containers are often referred to as “frac tanks” or “frac tank containers” and are manufactured steel containers with fixed steel axles for transport and use in a variety of industries; including oil and gas exploration and field services, refinery, chemical and industrial plant maintenance, environmental remediation and field services, infrastructure building construction, marine services, pipeline construction and maintenance, tank terminals services, wastewater treatment and waste management and landfill services. While there are a number of different sizes of tanks currently used in the market place, we are currently focusing on the more common 500-barrel capacity containers. Our products typically include features such as guardrails, safety stairways, multiple entry ways and a sloped bottom for easy cleaning, an epoxy lining, and various feed and drain lines.

Results of Operations

Year Ended June 30, 2012 (“FY 2012”) Compared to Year Ended June 30, 2011 (“FY 2011”)

The following compares our FY 2012 results of operations with our FY 2011 results of operations.

Revenues. Revenues increased 16% to $212.2 million in FY 2012 from $182.3 million in FY 2011. This consisted of an increase of $15.6 million, or 12%, in revenues at Royal Wolf and a $14.3 million increase, or 26%, in revenues at Pac-Van. The translation effect of the average currency exchange rate, driven by the strengthening in the Australian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar in FY 2012 versus FY 2011, caused a portion of the increase in total revenues at Royal Wolf which showed an increase of 8% locally in Australian dollars. The average currency exchange rate of one Australian dollar during FY 2012 was $1.03272 U.S. dollar compared to $0.98939 U.S. dollar during FY 2011. The revenue increase at Royal Wolf was reflected in most of the sectors in which we do business in the Asia-Pacific area, but most significantly in the mining, building and construction, manufacturing, government and utilities sectors where revenues increased by approximately $13.6 million, or 10.8%, in FY 2012 from FY 2011.

Since the second half of our fiscal year ended June 30, 2009, the economic downturn, particularly in the construction-related industries, resulted in a significant reduction in our overall business in the United States. However, in FY 2012, revenues in this sector increased by $3.5 million from FY 2011. In addition, revenue increases in North America in FY 2012 over FY 2011 in the government-related, commercial, industrial, retail and mining and energy sectors totaling $13.2 million, more than offset a net decrease in primarily the education and services sectors of $2.4 million. FY 2012 revenues benefitted by the recognition of $6.5 million for modular unit revenues to one customer in the government-related sector in the United States. We believe these results are an indication that the North American markets where we conduct our business are generally stabilizing.

Sales and leasing revenues represented 51% and 49%, respectively, of total revenues in both FY 2012 and FY 2011.

Sales during FY 2012 amounted to $108.3 million, compared to $92.7 million during FY 2011; representing an increase of $15.6 million, or 17%. This included an increase of $4.7 million (primarily in the CSC retail operations), or 6%, in sales at Royal Wolf and a $10.9 million increase, or 61%, at Pac-Van. The translation effect of the average currency exchange rate, driven by the strengthening in the Australian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar in FY 2012 versus FY 2011, caused a portion of the increase in sales revenues at Royal Wolf which showed an increase of 2% locally in Australian dollars. Sales increases of $7.1 million (primarily from higher average prices of $5.4 million and favorable foreign exchange translation effect of $2.7 million, offset somewhat by a decrease in unit sales of $1.0 million) in our CSC retail operations in FY 2012 versus FY 2011 were offset somewhat by a sales decrease of $2.4 million in our national accounts group (primarily from lower unit sales of $3.1 million, offset somewhat by increases in average prices of $0.3 million and a favorable foreign exchange translation effect of $0.4 million). In addition to the $6.5 million of sales revenues recognized from one customer for modular units in the government-related sector discussed above, the higher sales of $4.4 million at Pac-Van in FY 2012 from FY 2011 resulted primarily from $6.4 million of additional business in primarily the construction, commercial, government-related and mining and energy sectors, which more than offset the net reduction in the other sectors, primarily education and industrial, of $2.0 million. The higher sales at Pac-Van in FY 2012 from FY 2011 were effectively recognized across all product lines, which more than offset the reduction of $0.7 million in service revenues.

 

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Leasing revenues during FY 2012 totaled $103.9 million, as compared to $89.6 million during FY 2011, representing an increase of $14.3 million, or 16%. Leasing revenues increased at Royal Wolf by $10.9 million, or 21%, and $3.4 million, or 9%, at Pac-Van. The translation effect of the average currency exchange rate, driven by the strengthening in the Australian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar in FY 2012 versus FY 2011, caused a portion of the increase in total revenues at Royal Wolf which showed an increase of 16% locally in Australian dollars.

At Royal Wolf, average utilization in the retail operations was 87% during FY 2012 and 88 % during FY 2011; and average utilization in the national accounts group operations was 79% during FY 2012 and 80% during FY 2011. In FY 2012 and FY 2011, the overall average utilization was 84% and 85%, respectively; and the average monthly lease rate of containers was AUS$151 in FY 2012 and AUS$153 in FY 2011. Leasing revenues in FY 2012 increased primarily due to the average monthly number of units on lease being over 3,700 higher in FY 2012 as compared to FY 2011 driven by, among other things, demand for storage and accomodation units in New Zealand resulting from the Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake in June 2011. However, we believe the primary reasons we’re generally able to maintain high average utilization rates and increase our average units on lease between periods at Royal Wolf are the stronger economy in the Asia-Pacific area and our position as the only company with a national footprint in the mobile storage industry in Australia and New Zealand. This increase in volume more than offset the decline in our overall average lease rate at Royal Wolf, which was primarily due to, among other things, increased competitive pressures in certain regions in Australia. We continually review each local market in which we do business to determine if local factors justify increases or decreases in lease rates and the effect these changes would have on utilization and revenues.

At Pac-Van, average utilization rates were 86%, 84%, 57%, 66% and 77% and average monthly lease rates were $102, $254, $1,327, $225 and $774 for storage containers, office containers, frac tank containers, mobile offices and modular units, respectively, during FY 2012; as compared to 87%, 74%, 0%, 63% and 75% and $96, $237, $0, $220 and $835 for storage containers, office containers, frac tank containers, mobile offices and modular units in FY 2011, respectively. The average composite utilization rate in FY 2012 was 76%, as compared to 74% in FY 2011, and the composite average monthly number of units on lease was over 800 higher in FY 2012 as compared to FY 2011. The generally higher utilization and monthly lease rates resulted primarily from improved demand in the mining and energy, construction, commercial and retail sectors. However, the average monthly lease rate for modular units decreased in FY 2012 from FY 2011 reflecting the general pricing pressures in the markets served by this product line.

Cost of Sales. Cost of sales (which is the cost related to our sales revenues only and exclusive of the line items discussed below) increased by $10.1 million to $79.6 million during FY 2012 from $69.5 million during FY 2011 as a result of the higher sales revenues discussed above; but we were more profitable primarily because of certain higher margin sales activities in our national accounts group in Australia and in our retail operations in New Zealand, as well as procurement cost improvements at both operating segments. Our gross profit percentage from sales revenues was 27% in FY 2012 versus 25% in FY 2011.

Direct Costs of Leasing Operations and Selling and General Expenses. Direct costs of leasing operations (which excludes depreciation and amortization) and selling and general expenses increased by $9.5 million to $87.5 million during FY 2012 from $78.0 million during FY 2011 to support the increased business activity, but decreased as a percentage of revenues to 41% in FY 2012 from 43% in FY 2011; primarily due to non-recurring expenses incurred in the Royal Wolf IPO in FY 2011 totaling $2.5 million.

Depreciation and Amortization. Depreciation and amortization decreased slightly by $0.3 million to $18.9 million in FY 2012 from $19.2 million in FY 2011.

Interest Expense. Interest expense of $12.7 million in FY 2012 was $7.6 million lower than the $20.3 million in FY 2011. This was comprised of a decrease of $7.2 million at Royal Wolf and $0.4 million in North America, primarily because of the lower average borrowings in FY 2012 as compared to FY 2011. In addition, the weighted-average interest rate (which does not include the effect of translation, interest rate swap contracts and options and the amortization of deferred financing costs) at Royal Wolf of 8.1% in FY 2012 was lower than the 12.0% in FY 2011. However, in North America the lower average borrowings in FY 2012 as compared to FY 2011 was offset somewhat by a slight increase in the weighted-average interest rate (which does not include the effect of the amortization of deferred financing costs) of 6.4% in FY 2012 versus 6.2% in FY 2011.

Foreign Currency Exchange. Prior to May 31, 2011, we had certain U.S. dollar-denominated debt at Royal Wolf, including intercompany borrowings, which were remeasured at each financial reporting date with the impact of the remeasurement being recorded in our consolidated statements of operations. Unrealized gains and losses resulting from such remeasurement due to changes in the Australian exchange rate to the U.S. dollar had a significant impact in our reported results of operations, as well as any realized gains and losses from payments on such U.S. dollar-denominated

 

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debt and intercompany borrowings. At May 31, 2011, the U.S. dollar-denominated debt, including intercompany borrowings, at Royal Wolf was fully repaid in conjunction with the Royal Wolf IPO. The currency exchange rate of one Australian dollar at June 30, 2010 was $0.8567 U.S. dollar compared to $1.0597 U.S. dollar at June 30, 2011. The repayment of the U.S. dollar-denominated debt, including intercompany borrowings, at Royal Wolf in conjunction with the Royal Wolf IPO was the primary reason we recognized a net realized foreign exchange gain of $13.5 million in FY 2011. Also in FY 2011, net unrealized losses on foreign exchange and forward currency exchange contracts totaled $9.0 million and $0.4 million, respectively. The currency exchange rate of one Australian dollar at June 30, 2012 was $1.0161 U.S. dollar. In FY 2012, net unrealized and realized gains (losses) on foreign exchange totaled $(0.7 million) and $0.9 million, respectively, and net unrealized gains on forward currency exchange contracts totaled $0.1 million.

Income Taxes. Our effective income tax rate was 38.0% in FY 2012, as compared to an effective tax rate of 50.1% in FY 2011 despite the pretax loss. The effective rate in FY 2012 is greater than the U.S. federal rate of 34% (the Australian statutory tax rate is 30%) primarily because of state income taxes from the filing of tax returns in multiple U.S. states and because a portion of the depreciation and amortization on the fixed and intangible assets recorded in the Pac-Van acquisition is not deductible for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The primary reason for a tax provision in FY 2011 versus a benefit was the Royal Wolf IPO, which triggered U.S. federal and state income taxes as a result of changing the tax status of Royal Wolf from an over 80% subsidiary treated as a “disregarded entity” (which effectively considered Royal Wolf a domestic subsidiary that was included in our consolidated income tax returns) to a majority-owned foreign corporation (which effectively excludes it from our consolidated income tax returns). Among other things, this change required us to increase, for tax purposes, the cost basis of Royal Wolf’s inventory to fair value, which resulted in a taxable gain of approximately $6.4 million. In addition, in FY 2011, the effective tax rate was impacted by the non-deductibility for U.S. federal income tax purposes of the goodwill impairment charge and the filing of tax returns in multiple U.S. states. These increases to the effective tax rate in FY 2011 were offset somewhat by the favorable income tax impact of the amortization of goodwill acquired in acquisitions made in the Asia-Pacific area; which, until the date of the Royal Wolf IPO, was deductible for U.S. income tax reporting purposes. Reference is made to Note 7 of Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion regarding income taxes.

Noncontrolling Interest. Noncontrolling interest represented Bison Capital’s 13.8% interest in Royal Wolf until the Royal Wolf IPO at May 31, 2011. Effective June 1, 2011, noncontrolling interest represents the pro rata share in the Royal Wolf results of operations of the shareholders of the RWH capital stock, other than us. In FY 2012, the charge for noncontrolling interest was $6.1 million, reflecting the profitability of Royal Wolf in FY 2012, as compared to a $6.9 million charge in FY 2011. In FY 2011, the noncontrolling interest primarily reflected the accretion of the redemption value of the Bison Capital put option and reference is made to the “Liquidity and Financial Condition” section and Note 1 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of the satisfaction of the Bison Capital put option in conjunction with the Royal Wolf IPO.

Net Income Attributable to Common Stockholders. We had net income attributable to common stockholders of $2.4 million FY 2012, as compared to a net loss of $15.9 million in FY 2011, an increase of $18.3 million; primarily the result of increased profitability in both operating segments, non-recurring expenses of $2.5 million incurred in FY 2011 as a result of the Royal Wolf IPO, but not incurred in FY 2012, and lower interest expense; offset somewhat by a lower foreign currency exchange gain and higher income tax provision in FY 2012 versus FY 2011.

Measures not in Accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”)

Earnings before interest, income taxes, impairment, depreciation and amortization and other non-operating costs and income (“EBITDA”) and adjusted EBITDA are supplemental measures of our performance that are not required by, or presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. These measures are not measurements of our financial performance under U.S. GAAP and should not be considered as alternatives to net income, income from operations or any other performance measures derived in accordance with U.S. GAAP or as an alternative to cash flow from operating, investing or financing activities as a measure of liquidity.

Adjusted EBITDA is a non-U.S. GAAP measure. We calculate adjusted EBITDA to eliminate the impact of certain items we do not consider to be indicative of the performance of our ongoing operations. You are encouraged to evaluate each adjustment and whether you consider each to be appropriate. In addition, in evaluating adjusted EBITDA, you should be aware that in the future, we may incur expenses similar to the adjustments in the presentation of adjusted EBITDA. Our presentation of adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an inference that our future results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items. We present adjusted EBITDA because we consider it to be an important supplemental measure of our performance and because we believe it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in our industry, many of which present EBITDA and a form of adjusted EBITDA when reporting their results. Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under U.S. GAAP. Because of these limitations, adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as a measure of discretionary cash available to us to invest in the growth of our business or to reduce our indebtedness. We compensate for these limitations by relying primarily on our

 

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U.S. GAAP results and using adjusted EBITDA only supplementally. The following table shows our adjusted EBITDA and the reconciliation from net income (loss) (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011     2012  

Net loss

   $ (8,858   $ 8,742   

Add —

    

Provision for income taxes

     2,958        5,360   

Foreign currency exchange gain and other

     (4,125     (443

Interest expense

     20,293        12,743   

Interest income

     (487     (157

Depreciation and amortization

     19,165        18,924   

Impairment of goodwill

     5,858        —     

Share-based compensation expense

     693        901   

Shares of RWH capital stock issued at IPO to Royal Wolf board of directors and executive management

     369        —     

Provision for shares of RWH capital stock to be purchased and awarded to Royal Wolf senior management team

     802        —     

Loyalty, past performance and successful IPO bonus to Royal Wolf executive and senior management team

     1,311        —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA

   $ 37,979      $ 46,070   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Our business is capital intensive, so from an operating level we focus primarily on EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA to measure our results. These measures provide us with a means to track internally generated cash from which we can fund our interest expense and fleet growth objectives. In managing our business, we regularly compare our adjusted EBITDA margins on a monthly basis. As capital is invested in our established branch locations, we achieve higher adjusted EBITDA margins on that capital than we achieve on capital invested to establish a new branch (or CSC), because our fixed costs are already in place in connection with the established branches. The fixed costs are those associated with yard and delivery equipment, as well as advertising, sales, marketing and office expenses. With a new market or branch, we must first fund and absorb the start-up costs for setting up the new branch facility, hiring and developing the management and sales team and developing our marketing and advertising programs. A new branch will have low adjusted EBITDA margins in its early years until the number of units on rent increases. Because of our higher operating margins on incremental lease revenue, which we realize on a branch-by-branch basis, when the branch achieves leasing revenues sufficient to cover the branch’s fixed costs, leasing revenues in excess of the break-even amount produce large increases in profitability and adjusted EBITDA margins. Conversely, absent significant growth in leasing revenues, the adjusted EBITDA margin at a branch will remain relatively flat on a period by period comparative basis.

Liquidity and Financial Condition

Each of our two operating units, Royal Wolf and Pac Van, substantially fund their operations through secured bank credit facilities that require compliance with various covenants. These covenants require them to, among other things, maintain certain levels of interest coverage, EBITDA (as defined), utilization rate and overall leverage.

The economic downturn in the United States during our fiscal year ended June 30, 2009, particularly in the construction-related industries (where Pac-Van has currently over 30% of its business and historically has had over 40%), had an adverse impact on our operating results. To offset this adverse effect, we undertook cost-reduction and other measures to reduce our indebtedness and to strive to comply with financial loan covenants.

Over the two fiscal years prior to FY 2012, we undertook various capital events to improve our liquidity and leverage, the most significant of which are as follows:

1. On June 25, 2010, we completed a rights offering for the issuance and sale of units at $1.50 each (with each unit consisting of one share of GFN common stock and a three-year warrant to purchase 0.5 additional shares of GFN common stock at an exercise price of $4.00 per share). We utilized $4,800,000 of the approximately $5,900,000 net proceeds from the rights offering in the refinancing at Pac-Van (see below).

2. Prior to July 16, 2010, Pac-Van had a senior credit facility, as amended, with a syndicate of four financial institutions led by Bank of America, N.A. (“BOA”), as administrative and collateral agent, and a $25,000,000 senior subordinated secured note payable to SPV Capital Funding, L.L.C. (“SPV”). On July 16, 2010, we entered into several agreements relating to: (a) an $85,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility at Pac-Van with a syndicate led by PNC Bank, National Association (“PNC”) that included Wells Fargo Bank, National Association and Union Bank (the

 

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“PNC Credit Facility”); and (b) a $15,000,000 senior subordinated note issued by GFN to Laminar Direct Capital, L.L.C. (the “Laminar Note”). Borrowings under the PNC Credit Facility and proceeds from both the issuance of the Laminar Note and our rights offering (see above) were used to, among other things, prepay in full all borrowings under the BOA credit facility and the $25,000,000 senior subordinated secured note payable to SPV. In September 2012, the PNC Credit Facility was fully repaid by the entering of a new credit facility by Pac-Van (see below).

3. On May 31, 2011, we completed an IPO in Australia of a noncontrolling interest in RWH. A total of 50,000,000 shares of capital stock were issued to the Australian market at $1.96 (AUS$1.83) per share, resulting in gross proceeds of $97,850,000 (AUS$91,500,000). An additional total of 188,526 shares ($369,000 value) were issued to the non-employee members of the RWH Board of Directors, the RWH chief executive officer and the RWH chief financial officer. As a result of the IPO, GFN U.S. received 50,198,526 of the 100,387,052 shares of new capital stock, thereby retaining a controlling interest. We used the proceeds of the RWH IPO to, among other things, pay offering costs of $5,443,000 (AUS$5,090,000), pay down borrowings at each of the senior credit facilities, as well as fully repay the subordinated notes held by Bison Capital. Simultaneously, we also satisfied the Bison Capital put option to acquire the 13.8% of GFN U.S. previously owned by Bison Capital. We own 100% of GFN U.S. and, thereby, a majority of Royal Wolf.

Royal Wolf has an approximately $111,771,000 (AUS$110,000,000) senior credit facility with Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (“ANZ” and the “ANZ Credit Facility”). The ANZ Credit Facility, as amended, matures on June 30, 2014 and is comprised of, among other things, a working capital sub-facility (primarily for receivable financing) and a revolving sub-facility (primarily for lease fleet purchases and acquisitions).

On September 7, 2012, Pac-Van entered into a new five-year, senior secured revolving credit facility with a syndicate led by Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, that also includes HSBC Bank USA, NA, and the Private Bank and Trust Company (the “ New Pac-Van Credit Facility “). Under the New Pac-Van Credit Facility, Pac-Van may borrow up to $110,000,000, subject to the terms of a borrowing base, as defined, and provides for the issuance of irrevocable standby letters of credit in amounts totaling up to $5,000,000. In connection with the New Pac-Van Credit Facility, all outstanding amounts due under the PNC Credit Facility and Laminar Note were fully repaid.

Reference is made to Notes 5 and 13 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of our senior and other debt.

As of June 30, 2012, our required principal and other obligations payments for the year ending June 30, 2013 and the subsequent three fiscal years are as follows (in thousands):

 

     Year Ending June 30,  
     2013      2014      2015      2016  

ANZ Credit Facility (a)

   $ 7,770       $ 87,167       $ 367       $ 286   

PNC Credit Facility (b)

     —           —           —           —     

Laminar Note (b)

     —           —           —           —     

Other

     369         727         36         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 8,139       $ 87,894       $ 403       $ 286   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(a) Reflects primarily the working capital sub-facilities as due within the next twelve months. These should continually roll over and would be fully repaid at the maturity of the ANZ Credit Facility in June 2014.
(b) Borrowings at June 30, 2012 were repaid in connection with the New Pac-Van Credit Facility, which matures in September 2017.

As a result of our actions, we have significantly improved our financial position and intend to continue utilizing our operating cash flow and borrowing capacity to expanding our container sale inventory and lease fleet through both capital expenditures and acquisitions.

We currently do not pay a dividend on our common stock and do not intend on doing so in the foreseeable future.

Cash Flow for FY 2012 Compared to FY 2011

Our leasing business is capital intensive, and we acquire leasing assets before they generate revenues, cash flow and earnings. These leasing assets have long useful lives and require relatively minimal maintenance expenditures. Most of the capital we deploy into our leasing business historically has been used to expand our operations geographically, to increase the number of units available for lease at our branch and CSC locations and to add to the breadth of our product mix. Our operations have generated annual cash flow that exceeds our reported earnings, which would include, even in profitable periods, the deferral of income taxes caused by accelerated depreciation that is used for tax accounting.

 

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As we discussed above, our principal source of capital for operations consists of funds available from the senior secured credit facilities at our operating units, Royal Wolf and Pac-Van. We also finance a smaller portion of capital requirements through finance leases and lease-purchase contracts. Supplemental information pertaining to our consolidated sources and uses of cash is presented in the table below (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011     2012  

Net cash provided by operating activities

   $ 18,515      $ 15,185   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

   $ (20,704   $ (53,249
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

   $ 3,963      $ 38,856   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating activities. Our operations provided net cash flow of $15.2 million during FY 2012, a decrease of $3.3 million from the $18.5 million provided during FY 2011. Though the net income of $8.7 million in FY 2012 was higher by $17.6 million from net loss of $9.0 million in FY 2011, our operating cash flows were reduced by $12.3 million from the management of operating assets and liabilities in FY 2012, as compared to a reduction of $6.3 million in FY 2011, primarily as a result of increased investments in container sale inventory in the Asia-Pacific area and higher levels of trade and other receivables due to the significantly increased revenues at both operating segments in FY 2012 versus FY 2011. In addition, net unrealized losses from foreign exchange and derivative instruments (see Note 6 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements), which reduce operating results, but are non-cash add-backs for cash flow purposes, were $1.4 million in FY 2012 versus $8.7 million in FY 2011; and, in FY 2011, we recorded a non-cash impairment write-down of goodwill of $5.9 million (see Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements), which is also an add-back for cash flow purposes. In both periods, operating cash flows benefitted from the deferral of income taxes, $4.6 million in FY 2012 and $2.4 million in FY 2011. Historically, operating cash flows are typically enhanced by the deferral of most income taxes due to the rapid tax depreciation rate of our fixed assets and available net operating loss carryforwards. Additionally, in both FY 2012 and FY 2011, operating cash flows were enhanced by non-cash adjustments of depreciation and amortization on fixed and intangible assets of $19.6 million in FY 2012 and $21.1 million in FY 2011; and were reduced by gains on the sales of lease fleet of $7.6 million in FY 2012 and $5.6 million in FY 2011.

Investing Activities. Net cash used by investing activities was $53.2 million during FY 2012, as compared to $20.7 million being used during FY 2011. Purchases of property, plant and equipment, or rolling stock, were approximately $3.2 million in FY 2012 and $3.8 million in FY 2011; and net capital expenditures of lease fleet (purchases, net of proceeds from sales of lease fleet) were $45.4 million in FY 2012 and $16.1 million in FY 2011. Although the increase in FY 2012 capital expenditures from FY 2011 primarily resulted from container lease fleet purchases in the Asia-Pacific area, we also increased container capital expenditures in the United States in order to diversify our domestic lease fleet from mobile offices and modular units, which sales and leasing activities can be influenced by the cyclical construction-related industries. However, the amount of cash that we use during any period in investing activities is almost entirely within management’s discretion and, other than a preferred supply agreement which requires us to purchase yearly up to a certain amount of containers, if offered to us (see Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements), we have no significant long-term contracts or other arrangements pursuant to which we may be required to purchase at a certain price or a minimum amount of goods or services. In FY 2012, we made two acquisitions, one in Canada and the other in New Zealand, totaling $4.6 million versus one acquisition, in two separate transactions, in the United States totaling $0.9 million (see Note 4 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements).

Financing Activities. Net cash provided by financing activities was $38.9 million during FY 2012, as compared to $4.0 million provided during FY 2011. In FY 2012, we borrowed a net $41.4 million on our existing credit facilities in order to fund our increasing investment in container sale inventory and lease fleet, as compared to reducing our outstanding borrowings in FY 2011 by a net $69.4 million. In FY 2011, we completed an IPO in Australia of a noncontrolling interest in Royal Wolf for net proceeds of $92.4 million (see “Liquidity and Financial Condition” above) and over $84.0 million of the net proceeds from the Royal Wolf IPO in FY 2011was used to reduce outstanding borrowings and to satisfy the Bison put option (see Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements). Also in FY 2012, the Board of Directors of Royal Wolf declared a dividend of AUS$0.035 per RWH share payable to shareholders of record on March 20, 2012, with $1.8 million representing the amount of the dividend pertaining to the noncontrolling interest. In FY 2011, we incurred deferred financing costs of $1.8 million during the July 2010 refinancing at Pac-Van (see “Liquidity and Financial Condition” above).

 

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Asset Management

Receivables and inventories (including foreign translation effect) were $35.4 million and $31.2 million at June 30, 2012 and $30.5 million and $20.9 million at June 30, 2011, respectively. Inventory levels have increased primarily in the Asia-Pacific area to meet the increasing demand there and the higher levels of trade and other receivables reflect the significantly increased revenues at both operating segments. Effective asset management remains a significant focus as we strive to continue to apply appropriate credit and collection controls and maintain proper inventory levels to enhance cash flow and profitability. At June 30, 2012, days sales outstanding (“DSO”) in trade receivables were 41 days and 51 days for Royal Wolf and Pac-Van, as compared to 42 days and 47 days at June 30, 2011, respectively.

The net book value of our total lease fleet increased (including foreign translation effect) from $220.1 million at June 30, 2011 to $259.5 million at June 30, 2012. At June 30, 2012, we had 48,888 units (18,297 units in retail operations in Australia, 9,971 units in national account group operations in Australia, 8,229 units in New Zealand, which are considered retail; and 12,391 units in North America) in our lease fleet, as compared to 41,346 units (16,668 units in retail operations in Australia, 7,675 units in national account group operations in Australia, 5,827 units in New Zealand, which are considered retail; and 11,176 units in North America) at June 30, 2011. At those dates, 39,001 units (14,957 units in retail operations in Australia, 7,291 units in national account group operations in Australia, 7,205 units in New Zealand, which are considered retail; and 9,548 units in North America) and 33,876 units (14,030 units in retail operations in Australia, 5,814 units in national account group operations in Australia, 5,481 units in New Zealand, which are considered retail; and 8,551 units in North America) were on lease, respectively.

In the Asia-Pacific area, the lease fleet was comprised of 33,203 storage and freight containers and 3,294 portable building containers at June 30, 2012; and 27,943 storage and freight containers and 2,227 portable building containers at June 30, 2011. At those dates, units on lease were comprised of 26,988 storage and freight containers and 2,465 portable building containers; and 23,753 storage and freight containers and 1,572 portable building containers, respectively.

In North America, the lease fleet was comprised of 5,247 storage containers, 1,272 office containers (GLOs), 55 portable liquid storage tank containers, 4,825 mobile offices and 992 modular units at June 30, 2012; and 4,072 storage containers, 1,228 office containers, 4,885 mobile offices and 991 modular units at June 30, 2011. At those dates, units on lease were comprised of 4,498 storage containers, 1,034 office containers, 39 portable liquid storage tank containers, 3,220 mobile offices and 757 modular units; and 3,661 storage containers, 993 office containers, 3,095 mobile offices and 802 modular units, respectively

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We do not maintain any off-balance sheet transactions, arrangements, obligations or other relationships with unconsolidated entities or others that are reasonably likely to have a material current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.

Seasonality

Although demand from certain customer segments can be seasonal, our operations as a whole are not seasonal to any significant extent. We experience a reduction in sales volumes at Royal Wolf during Australia’s summer holiday break from mid-December to the end of January, followed by February being a short working day month. However, this reduction in sales typically is counterbalanced by the increased lease revenues derived from the removals or moving and storage industry, which experiences its seasonal peak of personnel relocations during this same summer holiday break. Demand from some of Pac-Van’s customers can be seasonal, such as in the construction industry, which tends to increase leasing activity in the first and fourth quarters; while customers in the retail industry tend to lease more units in the second quarter.

Impact of Inflation

We believe that inflation has not had a material effect on our business. However, during periods of rising prices and, in particular when the prices increase rapidly or to levels significantly higher than normal, we may incur significant increases in our operating costs and may not be able to pass price increases through to our customers in a timely manner, which could harm our future results of operations.

Critical Accounting Estimates

Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses. On an ongoing basis, we re-evaluate all of our estimates. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may materially differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions as additional information becomes available in future periods. We believe the following are the more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements.

 

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We are required to estimate the collectability of our trade receivables. Accordingly, we maintain allowances for doubtful accounts for estimated losses that may result from the inability of our customers to make required payments. On a recurring basis, we evaluate a variety of factors in assessing the ultimate realization of these receivables, including the current credit-worthiness of our customers, days sales outstanding trends, a review of historical collection results and a review of specific past due receivables. If the financial condition of our customers were to deteriorate, resulting in an impairment of their ability to make payments, additional allowances may be required, resulting in decreased net income. To date, uncollectible accounts have been within the range of our expectations.

We lease and sell storage, building, office and portable liquid storage tank containers, modular buildings and mobile offices to our customers. Leases to customers generally qualify as operating leases unless there is a bargain purchase option at the end of the lease term. Revenue is recognized as earned in accordance with the lease terms established by the lease agreements and when collectability is reasonably assured. Revenue is recognized as earned in accordance with the lease terms established by the lease agreements and when collectability is reasonably assured. Revenue from sales of equipment is recognized upon delivery and when collectability is reasonably assured.

We have a fleet of storage, portable building, office and portable liquid storage tank containers, mobile offices, modular buildings and steps that we lease to customers under operating lease agreements with varying terms. The lease fleet (or lease or rental equipment) is recorded at cost and depreciated on the straight-line basis over the estimated useful life (5 — 20 years), after the date the units are put in service, down to their estimated residual values (up to 70% of cost). In our opinion, estimated residual values are at or below net realizable values. We periodically review these depreciation policies in light of various factors, including the practices of the larger competitors in the industry, and our own historical experience.

For the issuances of stock options, we follow the fair value provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 718, Compensation — Stock Compensation. FASB ASC Topic 718 requires recognition of employee share-based compensation expense in the statements of income over the vesting period based on the fair value of the stock option at the grant date. The pricing model we use for determining fair values of the purchase option is the Black-Scholes Pricing Model. Valuations derived from this model are subject to ongoing internal and external verification and review. The model uses market-sourced inputs such as interest rates, market prices and volatilities. Selection of these inputs involves management’s judgment and may impact net income. In particular, prior to July 1, 2009, we used volatility rates based upon a sample of comparable companies in our industry and we now use a volatility rate based on the performance of our common stock, which yields a higher rate. In addition we use a risk-free interest rate, which is the rate on U.S. Treasury instruments, for a security with a maturity that approximates the estimated remaining expected term of the stock option.

We account for goodwill in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 350, Intangibles — Goodwill and Other. FASB ASC Topic 350 prohibits the amortization of goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite lives and requires these assets be reviewed for impairment at least annually. We operate two reportable and operating segments (Pac-Van and Royal Wolf). All of our goodwill was allocated between these two reporting units. We perform an annual impairment test on goodwill at June 30 using the two-step process required under FASB ASC Topic 350. The first step is a screen for potential impairment, while the second step measures the amount of the impairment, if any. We would also consider performing impairment tests during an interim reporting period in which significant events or changes in circumstances indicate that a permanent impairment may have occurred. Some factors we consider important which could trigger such an impairment review include (1) significant underperformance relative to historical, expected or projected future operating results; (2) significant changes in the manner of our use of the acquired assets or the strategy for our overall business; (3) significant changes during the period in our market capitalization relative to net book value; and (4) significant negative industry or general economic trends.

At June 30, 2011 and 2012, we performed the first step of the two-step impairment test and compared the fair value of each reporting unit to its carrying value. In assessing the fair value of the reporting units, we considered both the market approach and the income approach. Under the market approach, the fair value of the reporting unit was determined on a weighted-average range of multiples to adjusted EBITDA. Under the income approach, the fair value of the reporting unit was based on the present value of estimated cash flows. The income approach was dependent on a number of significant management assumptions, including estimated future revenue growth rates, gross margins on sales, operating margins, capital expenditures and discount rates. Each approach was given equal weight in arriving at the fair value of the reporting unit. If the carrying value of the net assets of any reporting unit would have exceeded its fair value, a step-two impairment test would have been performed. In a step-two test, we would be required to determine the implied fair value of the goodwill and compare it to the carrying value of the goodwill. Generally, this would involve allocating the fair value of the reporting unit to the respective assets and liabilities (as if the reporting unit had been

 

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acquired in separate and individual business combination and the fair value was the price paid to acquire it) with the excess of the fair value of the reporting unit over the amounts assigned to their respective assets and liabilities being the implied fair value of goodwill. It was determined that the fair value of the Royal Wolf reporting unit exceeded the carrying values of its net assets at June 30, 2011 and 2012, and that the fair value of the Pac-Van reporting unit exceeded the carrying values of its net assets at June 30, 2012. However, the fair value of the Pac-Van reporting unit was less than the carrying values the net assets at June 30, 2011; therefore, we performed a step-two impairment test for Pac-Van. In the step-two test for Pac-Van, the implied value of its goodwill was less than the carrying value of goodwill, resulting in an impairment charge of $5,858,000 at June 30, 2011. We also recorded an impairment charge related to Pac-Van of $7,633,000 at June 30, 2010, but had not recorded an impairment charge to goodwill prior to that time.

Intangible assets include those with indefinite (trademark and trade name) and finite (primarily customer base and lists, non-compete agreements and deferred financing costs) useful lives. Customer base and lists and non-compete agreements are amortized on the straight-line basis over the expected period of benefit which range from one to ten years. Costs to obtaining long-term financing are deferred and amortized over the term of the related debt using the straight-line method. Amortizing the deferred financing costs using the straight-line method does not produce significantly different results than that of the effective interest method. We review intangibles (those assets resulting from acquisitions) at least annually for impairment or when events or circumstances indicate these assets might be impaired. We test impairment using historical cash flows and other relevant facts and circumstances as the primary basis for its estimates of future cash flows. This process requires the use of estimates and assumptions, which are subject to a high degree of judgment.

At June 30, 2011, we, pursuant to an evaluation that determined that the respective fair values were less than the carrying values, recognized an impairment charge of $250,000 to the trade name acquired in the Pac-Van acquisition. This impairment charge was recorded as a part of depreciation and amortization in the consolidated statements of operations.

In preparing our consolidated financial statements, we recognize income taxes in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate. For each jurisdiction, we estimate the actual amount of taxes currently payable or receivable as well as deferred tax assets and liabilities attributable to temporary differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which these temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. A valuation allowance would be provided for those deferred tax assets for which it is more likely than not that the related benefits will not be realized. In determining the amount of the valuation allowance, we consider estimated future taxable income as well as feasible tax planning strategies in each jurisdiction. If we determine that we will not realize all or a portion of our deferred tax assets, we would increase our valuation allowance with a charge to income tax expense or offset goodwill if the deferred tax asset was acquired in a business combination. Conversely, if we determine that we will ultimately be able to realize all or a portion of the related benefits for which a valuation allowance has been provided, all or a portion of the related valuation allowance would be reduced with a credit to income tax expense except if the valuation allowance was created in conjunction with a tax asset in a business combination.

Reference is made to Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for a further discussion of our significant accounting policies.

Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Reference is made to Note 2 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of recently issued accounting pronouncements that could potentially impact us.

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

Market risk is the sensitivity of income to changes in interest rates, foreign exchanges and other market-driven rates or prices. Exposure to interest rates and currency risks arises in the normal course of our business and we may use derivative financial instruments to hedge exposure to fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and interest rates. We believe we have no material market risks to our operations, financial position or liquidity as a result of derivative activities, including forward-exchange contracts.

Reference is made to Note 6 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of financial instruments.

 

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements:

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     F-1   

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2011 and 2012

     F-2   

Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2012

     F-3   

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2012

     F-4   

Consolidated Statements of Equity for the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2012

     F-5   

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2012

     F-6   

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

     F-7   

Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

None.

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures

Conclusion Regarding the Effectiveness of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports we file and submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Exchange Act”), is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in accordance with SEC guidelines and that such information is communicated to management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure based on the definition of “disclosure controls and procedures” in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Exchange Act. In designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, we recognized that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives and that our management necessarily was required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures in reaching that level of reasonable assurance.

Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures, as required by Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(b), as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f). Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of assets; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

 

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A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the controls system are met. Because of the inherent limitations in all controls systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected.

Under the supervision and with the participation of management, we assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the criteria in Internal Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on our evaluation under the criteria in Internal Control — Integrated Framework, we concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of June 30, 2012.

This Annual Report of Form 10-K does not include an attestation report of our independent registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our independent registered public accounting firm pursuant to regulatory provisions that permit us to provide only management’s report in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There has not been any change in our internal control over financial reporting in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) under the Exchange Act that occurred during the quarter ended June 30, 2012 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Item 9B. Other Information

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PART III

Certain information required by Part III is omitted from this Annual Report on Form 10-K because we will file a definitive Proxy Statement for the 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, pursuant to Regulation 14A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Proxy Statement”), not later than 120 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K and the applicable information included in the Proxy Statement is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

Information concerning our executive officers is set forth in Item 1. of this Annual Report on Form 10-K under the caption “Executive Officers of the Registrant.”

Information required by Items 401 and 407(c)(3) of Regulation S-K regarding our directors and the nomination process is incorporated herein by reference to information included in the Proxy Statement.

Information required by Item 405 of Regulation S-K regarding compliance with Section 16(A) of the Exchange Act is incorporated herein by reference to information included in the Proxy Statement.

Information required by Item 407(d)(4) and (d)(5) of Regulation S-K regarding our audit committee and our audit committee financial experts is incorporated herein by reference to information included in the Proxy Statement.

We have adopted a code of ethics that applies to our directors, officers (including our principal executive and principal financial and accounting officers) and employees. A copy of these code of ethics is available free of charge on the “Corporate Governance” section of our website at www.generalfinance.com or by a written request addressed to the Corporate Secretary, General Finance Corporation, 39 East Union Street, Pasadena, California 91103. We intend to satisfy any disclosure requirement under Item 5.05 of Form 8-K regarding an amendment to, or waiver from, a provision of the code of ethics by posting such information on our web site at the address and location specified above.

Item 11. Executive Compensation

Information required by Item 402 of Regulation S-K regarding executive compensation is incorporated herein by reference to information included in the Proxy Statement.

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

Information required by Items 201(d) and 403 of Regulation S-K is incorporated herein by reference to the sections of the Proxy Statement entitled “Equity Compensation Plan Information” and “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management.”

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

Information required by Item 404 of Regulation S-K is incorporated herein by reference to information to the section of the Proxy Statement entitled “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.”

Information required by Item 407(a) regarding director independence compensation is incorporated herein by reference to information included in the Proxy Statement.

Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services

Information required by this Item is incorporated herein by reference to information included in the Proxy Statement.

 

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PART IV

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

(a) Financial Statements

(1) The financial statements required in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are included in Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

(2) Financial statement schedule:

Schedule I — Condensed Financial Information of Registrant (Parent Company Information)

All other supplemental schedules have been omitted since the required information is not present in amounts sufficient to require submission of the schedule, or because the required information is included in the consolidated financial statements or notes thereto.

(b) Exhibits

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Exhibit Description

2.1    Agreement and Plan of Merger dated July 28, 2008 among General Finance Corporation, GFN North America Corp., Mobile Office Acquisition Corp., Pac-Van, Inc., Ronald F. Valenta, Ronald L. Havner, Jr., D. E. Shaw Laminar Portfolios, L.L.C. and Kaiser Investments Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 28, 2008).
3.1    Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation filed April 4, 2006 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of Registrant’s Form S-1, File No. 333-129830).
3.2    Amended and Restated Bylaws as of October 30, 2007 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of Registrant’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2007).
3.3    Certificate of Designation for the Series A Preferred Stock filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on December 3, 2008 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed December 9, 2008).
3.4    Certificate of Designation for the Series B Preferred Stock filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on December 3, 2008 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed December 9, 2008).
4.1    Form of Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of Registrant’s Form S-1, File No. 333-129830).
10.1    Compensation of Non-Employee Directors (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.29 of Registrant’s Form 10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2007).
10.2    Preferred Supply Agreement among General Electric Capital Container Finance Corporation, Genstar Container Corporation, GE SeaCo SRL, Sea Containers Ltd., Royal Wolf Trading Australia Pty Limited and GE SeaCo Australia Pty Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-1 filed January 29, 2008).
10.3    Employment Agreement dated February 11, 2009 between General Finance Corporation and Ronald F. Valenta 2006 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 of Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2008).
10.4    Form of Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed February 13, 2009 and November 12, 2009).
10.5    Form of Registration Rights Agreement (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed February 13, 2009 and November 12, 2009).
10.6    First Amendment to Stockholders Agreement dated March 31, 2009 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed April 1, 2009).
10.7    Letter Agreement dated March 30, 2009 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed April 1, 2009).

 

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Exhibit
Number

  

Exhibit Description

10.8    Variation Letter dated as of September 11, 2009 among GFN Australasia Holdings Pty Ltd., GFN Australasia Finance Pty Ltd., RWA Holdings Pty Ltd., Royalwolf Trading Australia Pty Ltd., Royal Wolf Hi-Tech Pty Ltd., Royalwolf NZ Acquisition Co Ltd., Royalwolf Trading New Zealand Ltd. and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed September 11, 2009).
10.9    Second Amendment to Shareholders Agreement dated September 21, 2009 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed September 25, 2009).
10.10    2009 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Appendix A of Registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement filed October 19, 2009).
10.11    Variation Letter dated as of June 29, 2010 among the Royal Wolf Australia Group and ANZ (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed June 30, 2010).
10.12    Amendment and Release Agreement dated June 30, 2010 among GFN Australasia Finance Pty Ltd and Bison Capital Australia L.P. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 2, 2010).
10.13    Revolving Credit and Security Agreement dated July 16, 2010 among PNC, Wells Fargo, Union Bank, GFNA, Pac-Van and the Pac-Van Asset Trust (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010)
10.14    Guaranty and Suretyship Agreement dated July 16, 2010 among GFNNA (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010).
10.15    Limited Guaranty dated July 16, 2010 by Ronald F. Valenta and Lydia D. Valenta (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010).
10.16    Pledge Agreement dated July 16, 2010 by GFNA (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010)
10.17    Patent, Trademark and Copyright Security Agreement dated July 16, 2010 by Pac-Van, GFNA for the benefit of PNC Bank, National Association (“PNC”), as administrative and collateral agent for the Lenders (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010).
10.18    Pledge and Security Agreement dated July 16, 2010 by Ronald F. Valenta and Lydia D. Valenta for the benefit of PNC, as administrative and collateral agent for the Lenders (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010).
10.19    Investment Agreement dated July 16, 2010 among GFN, Laminar Direct Capital, L.L.C., as administrative agent and the other lenders from time to time party hereto (“Laminar”) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010).
10.20    Continuing Unconditional Guaranty dated July 16, 2010 by GFNA and Pac-Van for the benefit of Laminar (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010).
10.21    Subordination and Intercreditor Agreement dated July 16, 2010 among Pac-Van, GFNA, PNC and Laminar (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010).
10.22    Master Restructure and Debt Exchange Agreement dated July 16, 2010 among GFNA, Pac-Van, Laminar and SPV Capital Funding, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“SPV”) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 of Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010).
10.23    Subordination Agreement dated July 16, 2010 among Laminar, Pac-Van, GFNA and PNC (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed July 22, 2010).
10.24    Employment Agreement dated October 5, 2010 with Theodore M. Mourouzis (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed October 5, 2010).

 

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Exhibit
Number

  

Exhibit Description

10.25    Variation Letter executed on December 23, 2010 among Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, GFN Australasia Holdings Pty Ltd., GFN Australasia Finance Pty Ltd., RWA Holdings Pty Ltd., Royal Wolf Trading Australia Pty Ltd. and Royal Wolf Hi-Tech Pty Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed December 28, 2010).
10.26    Annual Review and Variation Letter executed on December 31, 2010 among Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, GFN Australasia Holdings Pty Ltd., GFN Australasia Finance Pty Ltd., RWA Holdings Pty Ltd., Royal Wolf Trading Australia Pty Ltd. and Royal Wolf Hi-Tech Pty Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed January 6, 2011).
10.27    Letter of Offer executed on March 4, 2011 by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, GFN Australasia Holdings Pty Ltd., GFN Australasia Finance Pty Ltd., RWA Holdings Pty Ltd., Royal Wolf Trading Australia Pty Ltd. and Royal Wolf Hi-Tech Pty Ltd. (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed March 7, 2011).
10.28    First Amendment to Revolving Credit and Security Agreement, dated May 9, 2011, by and among Pac-Van, Inc., an Indiana corporation, GFN North America Corp., a Delaware corporation, the financial institutions party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders”), and PNC Bank, National Association, as administrative and collateral agent for the Lenders (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of Registrant’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2011).
10.29    Underwriting Agreement dated May 13, 2011 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed May 19, 2011).
10.30    Voluntary Escrow Deed dated May 13, 2011 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed May 19, 2011).
10.31    Separation Agreement dated May 13, 2011 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed May 19, 2011).
10.32    Letter Agreement re Put Option dated May 13, 2011 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed May 19, 2011).
10.33    Payoff Letter dated May 13, 2011 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed May 19, 2011).
10.34    ANZ Letter of Offer dated May 12, 2011 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed May 19, 2011).
10.35    Robert Allan Employment Agreement dated May 13, 2011 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed May 19, 2011).
10.36    Second Amendment to Revolving Credit and Security Agreement dated November 30, 2011 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed December 2, 2011)
10.37    Letter of Offer executed on March 15, 2012 by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Royal Wolf Trading Australia Pty Limited, Royal Wolf Est Pty Ltd., Royal Wolf Holdings Limited, Royalwolf NZ Acquisition Co. Limited and Royalwolf Trading New Zealand Limited 2011 (incorporated by reference to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed March 20, 2012)
21.1    Subsidiaries of General Finance Corporation (a)
23.1    Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (a)
31.1    Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to SEC Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14 (a)
31.2    Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to SEC Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14 (a)
32.1    Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350 (a)
32.2    Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350(a)
101*    The following materials from the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2012, formatted in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language): (i) the Consolidated Balance Sheets, (ii) the Consolidated Statements of Operations, (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Equity, (iv) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows and (v) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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(a) Filed herewith.
* Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, these interactive data files are deemed not filed or part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of Section 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, are deemed not filed for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and otherwise are not subject to liability under those sections.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

General Finance Corporation

By:

 

/s/ Ronald F. Valenta

  September 14, 2012
 

Name: Ronald F. Valenta

Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

 

Signature

  

Title

   Date

/s/ Ronald F. Valenta

Ronald F. Valenta

  

Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

   September 14, 2012

/s/ Charles E. Barrantes

Charles E. Barrantes

  

Executive Vice President and Chief

Financial Officer (Principal

Accounting and Financial Officer)

   September 14, 2012

/s/ Lawrence Glascott

Lawrence Glascott

   Chairman of the Board of Directors    September 14, 2012

/s/ David M. Connell

David M. Connell

   Director    September 14, 2012

/s/ Manuel Marrero

Manuel Marrero

   Director    September 14, 2012

/s/ James B. Roszak

James B. Roszak

   Director    September 14, 2012

/s/ Susan Harris

Susan Harris

   Director    September 14, 2012

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders

General Finance Corporation

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of General Finance Corporation and Subsidiaries as of June 30, 2012 and 2011, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, equity and cash flows for the years then ended. In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we have also audited the financial statement schedule listed in Item 15(a) of this Form 10-K. These consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company as of June 30, 2012 and 2011, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also, in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.

/s/ Crowe Horwath LLP

Sherman Oaks, California

September 14, 2012

 

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GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(In thousands, except share and per share data)

 

     June 30, 2011     June 30, 2012  

Assets

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 6,574      $ 7,085   

Trade and other receivables, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $2,331 and $2,538 at June 30, 2011 and 2012, respectively

     30,498        35,443   

Inventories

     20,942        31,206   

Prepaid expenses and other

     4,503        5,029   

Property, plant and equipment, net

     12,652        12,732   

Lease fleet, net

     220,095        259,458   

Goodwill

     68,948        68,449   

Other intangible assets, net

     23,358        18,158   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 387,570      $ 437,560   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities

    

Trade payables and accrued liabilities

   $ 32,522      $ 35,964   

Income taxes payable

     440        593   

Unearned revenue and advance payments

     10,292        12,151   

Senior and other debt

     136,589        174,092   

Deferred tax liabilities

     15,835        20,763   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     195,678        243,563   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 10)

     —          —     

Equity

    

Cumulative preferred stock, $.0001 par value: 1,000,000 shares authorized; 26,000 shares issued and outstanding (in series) and liquidation value of $1,438 at June 30, 2011 and 2012

     1,395        1,395   

Common stock, $.0001 par value: 100,000,000 shares authorized; 22,013,299 and 22,019,965 shares outstanding at June 30, 2011 and 2012, respectively

     2        2   

Additional paid-in capital

     112,278        112,865   

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     4,904        5,809   

Accumulated deficit

     (25,490     (22,877
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total General Finance Corporation stockholders’ equity

     93,089        97,194   

Equity of noncontrolling interests

     98,803        96,803   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total equity

     191,892        193,997   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and equity

   $ 387,570      $ 437,560   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(In thousands, except share and per share data)

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011     2012  

Revenues

    

Sales

   $ 92,687      $ 108,341   

Leasing

     89,577        103,898   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     182,264        212,239   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Costs and expenses

    

Cost of sales (exclusive of the items shown separately below)

     69,452        79,618   

Direct costs of leasing operations

     35,906        41,585   

Selling and general expenses

     42,102        45,867   

Impairment of goodwill

     5,858        —     

Depreciation and amortization

     19,165        18,924   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income

     9,781        26,245   

Interest income

     487        157   

Interest expense

     (20,293     (12,743

Foreign currency exchange gain and other

     4,125        443   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     (15,681     (12,143
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income (loss) before provision for income taxes

     (5,900     14,102   

Provision for income taxes

     2,958        5,360   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

     (8,858     8,742   

Preferred stock dividends

     (177     (177

Noncontrolling interest

     (6,857     (6,129
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders

   $ (15,892   $ 2,436   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss) per common share:

    

Basic

   $ (0.72   $ 0.11   

Diluted

     (0.72     0.11   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Weighted average shares outstanding:

    

Basic

     22,013,299        22,013,401   

Diluted

     22,013,299        22,299,625   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

(In thousands, except share and per share data)

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011     2012  

Net income (loss)

   $ (8,858   $ 8,742   

Redeemable noncontrolling interest (Note 10)

     (5,740     —     

Other comprehensive income (loss) – cumulative translation adjustment

     11,379        (5,566
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total comprehensive income (loss)

     (3,219     3,176   

Comprehensive loss (gain) allocated to noncontrolling interests

     (6,021     342   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Comprehensive income (loss) allocable to General Finance Corporation stockholders

   $ (9,240   $ 3,518   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY

(In thousands, except share data)

 

    Cumulative           Additional          

Accumulated

Other

   

Retained

Earnings

   

Total

General Finance

Corporation

    Equity of        
    Preferred
Stock
    Common
Stock
    Paid-In
Capital
    Subscription
Receivables
    Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
    (Accumulated
Deficit)
    Stockholders’
Equity
    Noncontrolling
Interests
    Total
Equity
 

Balance at June 30, 2010

  $ 1,395      $ 2      $ 111,783      $ (100   $ (1,571   $ (9,775   $ 101,734      $ —        $ 101,734   

Cancellation of subscription receivables (10,000 shares)

    —          —          (15     15        —          —          —          —          —     

Subscription receivables receipts

    —          —          —          85        —          —          85        —          85   

Share-based compensation

    —          —          687        —          —          —          687        6        693   

Preferred stock dividends

    —          —          (177     —          —          —          (177     —          (177

Issuance of capital stock by subsidiary (a)

    —          —          —          —          —          —          —          92,776        92,776   

Net loss

    —          —          —          —          —          (9,975     (9,975     1,117        (8,858

Redeemable noncontrolling interest

    —          —          —          —          —          (5,740     (5,740     —          (5,740

Cumulative translation adjustment

    —          —          —          —          6,475        —          6,475        4,904        11,379   
             

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total comprehensive income (loss)

    —          —          —          —          —          —          (9,240     6,021        (3,219
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at June 30, 2011

    1,395        2        112,278        —          4,904        (25,490     93,089        98,803        191,892   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Share-based compensation

    —          —          756        —          —          —          756        145        901   

Preferred stock dividends

    —          —          (177     —          —          —          (177     —          (177

Dividends on capital stock by subsidiary

    —          —          —          —          —          —          —          (1,803     (1,803

Issuances of 6,666 shares of common stock

    —          —          8        —          —          —          8        —          8   

Net income

    —          —          —          —          —          2,613        2,613        6,129        8,742   

Cumulative translation adjustment

    —          —          —          —          905        —          905        (6,471     (5,566
             

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total comprehensive income (loss)

    —          —          —          —          —          —          3,518        (342     3,176   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance at June 30, 2012

  $ 1,395      $ 2      $ 112,865      $ —        $ 5,809      $ (22,877   $ 97,194      $ 96,803      $ 193,997   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(a) Includes $369 for shares of subsidiary capital stock issued to subsidiary board of directors and executive management

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(In thousands)

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011     2012  

Cash flows from operating activities:

    

Net income (loss)

   $ (8,858   $ 8,742   

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to cash flows from operating activities:

    

Gain on sales and disposals of property, plant and equipment

     (21     (157

Gain on sales of lease fleet

     (5,631     (7,645

Unrealized foreign exchange loss

     9,026        712   

Unrealized (gain) loss on forward exchange contracts

     387        (132

Unrealized (gain) loss on interest rate swaps and options

     (697     816   

Impairment of goodwill

     5,858        —     

Depreciation and amortization

     19,165        18,924   

Amortization of deferred financing costs

     1,917        690   

Accretion of interest

     220        —     

Share-based compensation expense

     693        901   

Shares of subsidiary capital stock issued to subsidiary board of directors and executive management

     369        —     

Deferred income taxes

     2,353        4,611   

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

    

Trade and other receivables, net

     3,666        (5,935

Inventories

     1,566        (10,463

Prepaid expenses and other

     (2,228     (423

Trade payables, accrued liabilities and other deferred credits

     (9,741     4,328   

Income taxes

     471        216   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

     18,515        15,185   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

    

Business acquisitions, net of cash acquired

     (880     (4,631

Proceeds from sales of property, plant and equipment

     99        265   

Purchases of property, plant and equipment

     (3,799     (3,177

Proceeds from sales of lease fleet

     24,115        27,770   

Purchases of lease fleet

     (40,239     (73,168

Other intangible assets

     —          (308
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

     (20,704     (53,249
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities:

    

Proceeds from (repayments on) equipment financing activities

     531        (556

Proceeds from (repayments on) senior and other debt borrowings, net

     (69,404     41,384   

Deferred financing costs

     (1,760     —     

Proceeds from issuances of common stock

     —          8   

Preferred stock dividends

     (177     (177

Net proceeds from issuance of capital stock by subsidiary

     92,407        —     

Dividends on capital stock by subsidiary

     —          (1,803

Payment of redeemable noncontrolling interest

     (17,634     —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

     3,963        38,856   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase in cash

     1,774        792   

Cash and equivalents at beginning of period

     4,786        6,574   

The effect of foreign currency translation on cash

     14        (281
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash and equivalents at end of period

   $ 6,574      $ 7,085   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:

    

Cash paid during the period:

    

Interest

   $ 18,615      $ 12,035   

Income taxes

     28        482   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Non-cash investing and financing activities:

On October 1, 2010 and January 14, 2011, the Company issued redeemable preferred stock of $100 and $10, respectively, as part of the consideration for business acquisitions (see Note 4).

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Note 1. Organization and Business Operations

Organization

General Finance Corporation (“GFN”) was incorporated in Delaware in October 2005. References to the “Company” in these Notes are to GFN and its consolidated subsidiaries. These subsidiaries include GFN U.S. Australasia Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“GFN U.S.”); GFN North America Corp., a Delaware corporation (“GFNNA”); GFN Manufacturing Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“GFNMC”); Royal Wolf Holdings Limited (formerly GFN Australasia Holdings Pty Ltd)., an Australian corporation publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (“RWH”); and its Australian and New Zealand subsidiaries (collectively, “Royal Wolf”); Pac-Van, Inc., an Indiana corporation, and its Canadian subsidiary, PV Acquisition Corp., an Alberta corporation, doing business as (“d.b.a.”) “Container King” (collectively “Pac-Van”).

Acquisition of Royal Wolf

On September 13, 2007 (September 14 in Australia), the Company acquired Royal Wolf and paid the purchase price by a combination of cash, the issuance to Bison Capital Australia, L.P. (“Bison Capital”), one of the sellers, of shares of common stock of GFN U.S. and the issuance of a subordinated note to Bison Capital. As a result of this structure, the Company owned 86.2% of the outstanding capital stock of GFN U.S. and Bison Capital owned 13.8% of the outstanding capital stock of GFN U.S. at that time (see “IPO of Royal Wolf” below). Royal Wolf leases and sells storage containers, portable container buildings and freight containers in Australia and New Zealand, which is considered geographically by the Company to be the Asia-Pacific area.

Acquisition of Pac-Van

On October 1, 2008, the Company acquired Pac-Van through a merger with Mobile Office Acquisition Corp. (“MOAC”), the parent of Pac-Van, and the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, GFNNA. Pac-Van leases and sells storage, office and portable liquid storage tank containers, modular buildings and mobile offices in the United States.

IPO of Royal Wolf

On May 31, 2011, the Company completed an initial public offering (“IPO”) in Australia of a noncontrolling interest in RWH. A total of 50,000,000 shares of capital stock were issued to the Australian market at $1.96 (AUS$1.83) per share, resulting in gross proceeds of $97,850,000 (AUS$91,500,000). An additional total of 188,526 shares ($369,000 value) were issued to the non-employee members of the RWH Board of Directors, the RWH chief executive officer and the RWH chief financial officer. Previously, GFN U.S. owned the only capital stock outstanding of RWH. In conjunction with the IPO, RWH undertook a share split which resulted in GFN U.S. receiving 50,198,526 shares of the new capital stock. The Company used the proceeds of the RWH IPO to, among other things, pay offering costs of $5,443,000 (AUS$5,090,000), pay down borrowings at each of the senior credit facilities (see Note 5), as well as fully repay the subordinated debt to Bison Capital. Simultaneously, the Company also satisfied the Bison Capital put option (see Note 10) to acquire the 13.8% of GFN U.S. previously owned by Bison Capital and now owns 100% of GFN U.S. At the IPO date and at June 30, 2012, RWH had a total of 100,387,052 shares of capital stock issued and outstanding, of which GFN U.S. owns a direct (and the Company an indirect) majority interest of 50.005%.

Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the accrual basis of accounting in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.

Unless otherwise indicated, references to “FY 2011” and “FY 2012” are to the fiscal years ended June 30, 2011 and 2012, respectively.

Certain reclassifications have been made to the FY 2011 statements to conform to the current period presentation, the most significant of which was to reclass certain facilities costs from selling and general expenses to direct costs of leasing operations.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned and majority-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

 

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GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Foreign Currency Translation

The Company’s functional currencies for its foreign operations are the respective local currencies, the Australian (“AUS”) and New Zealand (“NZ”) dollars in the Asia-Pacific area and the Canadian (“C”) dollar in North America. All adjustments resulting from the translation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements from the functional currency into reporting currency are recorded as a component of stockholders’ equity in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 830, Foreign Currency Matters. All assets and liabilities are translated at the rates in effect at the balance sheet dates; and revenues, expenses, gains and losses are translated using the average exchange rates during the periods. Transactions in foreign currencies are translated at the foreign exchange rate prevailing at the date of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies at the balance sheet date are translated to the functional currency at the foreign exchange rate prevailing at that date. Foreign exchange differences arising on translation are recognized in the statement of operations. Non-monetary assets and liabilities that are measured in terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are translated using the exchange rate at the date of the transaction. Non-monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies that are stated at fair value are translated to the functional currency at foreign exchange rates prevailing at the dates the fair value was determined.

Segment Information

FASB ASC Topic 280, Segment Reporting, establishes standards for the way companies report information about operating segments in annual financial statements. It also establishes standards for related disclosures about products and services, geographic areas and major customers. Based on the provisions of FASB ASC Topic 280 and the manner in which the chief operating decision maker analyzes the business, the Company has determined it has two separately reportable geographic and operating segments, North America (Pac-Van, including corporate headquarters) and the Asia-Pacific area (Royal Wolf).

Use of Estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. Material estimates that are particularly susceptible to significant changes include assumptions used in assigning value to identifiable intangible assets at the acquisition date, the assessment for impairment of goodwill, the assessment for impairment of other intangible assets, the allowance for doubtful accounts, share-based compensation expense, residual value of the lease fleet and deferred tax assets and liabilities. Assumptions and factors used in the estimates are evaluated on an annual basis or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the previous assumptions and factors have changed. The results of the analysis could result in adjustments to estimates.

Cash Equivalents

The Company considers highly liquid investments with maturities of three months or less, when purchased, to be cash equivalents. The Company maintains its cash in bank deposit accounts that, at times, may exceed federally insured limits. The Company has not experienced any losses in such accounts. The Company believes it is not exposed to any significant credit risk on its cash balances.

Inventories

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or market (net realizable value). Net realizable value is the estimated selling price in the ordinary course of business. Expenses of marketing, selling and distribution to customers, as well as costs of completion are estimated and are deducted from the estimated selling price to establish net realizable value. Costs are assigned to individual items of inventory on the basis of specific identification and include expenditures incurred in acquiring the inventories and bringing them to their existing condition and location. Inventories consist primarily of containers, modular buildings and mobile offices held for sale or lease and are comprised of the following (in thousands):

 

     June 30,  
     2011      2012  

Finished goods

   $ 20,661       $ 30,053   

Work in progress

     281         1,153   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 20,942       $ 31,206   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Derivative Financial Instruments

Derivative financial instruments include warrants issued by the Company’s rights offering (Note 3). Based on Emerging Issues Task Force Issue No. 00-19, Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments Indexed to, and Potentially Settled in, a Company’s Own Stock, the issuance of the warrants were reported in stockholders’ equity and, accordingly, there was no impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations. Subsequent changes in the fair value will not be recognized as the warrants are classified as equity instruments.

The Company may use derivative financial instruments to hedge its exposure to foreign currency and interest rate risks arising from operating, financing and investing activities. The Company does not hold or issue derivative financial instruments for trading purposes. However, derivatives that do not qualify for hedge accounting are accounted for as trading instruments. Derivative financial instruments are recognized initially at fair value. Subsequent to initial recognition, derivative financial instruments are stated at fair value. The gain or loss on remeasurement to fair value is recognized immediately in the statement of operations.

Accounting for Stock Options

For the issuances of stock options, the Company follows the fair value provisions of FASB ASC Topic 718, Stock Compensation, which require recognition of employee share-based compensation expense in the statements of operations over the vesting period based on the fair value of the stock option at the grant date. For stock options granted to non-employee consultants, the Company recognizes compensation expense measured at their fair value at each reporting date. Therefore, these stock options are subject to periodic fair value adjustments recorded in share-based compensation over the vesting period.

Fair Value

Fair values of financial instruments are estimated using relevant market information and other assumptions, as more fully disclosed in Note 6. Fair value estimates would involve uncertainties and matters of significant judgment regarding interest rates, credit risk, prepayments and other factors, especially in the absence of broad markets for particular items. Changes in assumptions or in market conditions could significantly affect these estimates

Property, Plant and Equipment

Owned assets

Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation and impairment losses. The cost of self-constructed assets includes the cost of materials, direct labor, the initial estimate (where relevant) of the costs of dismantling and removing the items and restoring the site on which they are located; and an appropriate allocation of production overhead, where applicable. Depreciation for property, plant and equipment is recorded on the straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the related asset. The residual value, the useful life and the depreciation method applied to an asset are reassessed at least annually.

Property, plant and equipment consist of the following (in thousands):

 

     Estimated
Useful  Life
     June 30,  
            2011     2012  

Land

     —         $ 2,064      $ 2,016   

Building

     40 years         1,027        1,020   

Transportation and plant equipment (including capital lease assets)

     3 — 10 years         15,914        18,196   

Furniture, fixtures and office equipment

     3 — 10 years         3,273        3,589   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 
        22,278        24,821   

Less accumulated depreciation and amortization

        (9,626     (12,089
     

 

 

   

 

 

 
      $ 12,652      $ 12,732   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Capital leases

Leases under which substantially all the risks and benefits incidental to ownership of the leased assets are assumed by the Company are classified as capital leases. Other leases are classified as operating leases. A lease asset and a lease liability equal to the present value of the minimum lease payments, or the fair value of the leased item, whichever

 

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is the lower, are capitalized and recorded at the inception of the lease. Lease payments are apportioned between the finance charges and reduction of the lease liability so as to achieve a constant rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability. Finance charges are charged directly to the statement of operations. Capitalized leased assets are depreciated over the shorter of the estimated useful life of the asset or the lease term.

Operating leases

Payments made under operating leases are expensed on the straight-line basis over the term of the lease, except where an alternative basis is more representative of the pattern of benefits to be derived from the leased property. Where leases have fixed rate increases, these increases are accrued and amortized over the entire lease period, yielding a constant periodic expense over the term of the lease.

Lease Fleet

The Company has a fleet of storage, portable building, office and portable liquid storage tank containers, mobile offices, modular buildings and steps that it primarily leases to customers under operating lease agreements with varying terms. The value of the lease fleet (or lease or rental equipment) is recorded at cost and depreciated on the straight-line basis over the estimated useful life (5 — 20 years), after the date the units are put in service, down to their estimated residual values (up to 70% of cost). In the opinion of management, estimated residual values are at or below net realizable values. The Company periodically reviews these depreciation policies in light of various factors, including the practices of the larger competitors in the industry, and its own historical experience. Costs incurred on lease fleet units subsequent to initial acquisition are capitalized when it is probable that future economic benefits in excess of the originally assessed performance will result; otherwise, they are expensed as incurred.

At June 30, 2011 and 2012, the gross costs of the lease fleet were $246,932,000 and $294,258,000, respectively.

Units in the lease fleet are also available for sale. The cost of sales of a unit in the lease fleet is recognized at the carrying amount at the date of sale.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

The Company periodically reviews for the impairment of long-lived assets and assesses when an event or change in circumstances indicates the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable. An impairment loss would be recognized when estimated future cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset and the eventual disposition is less than its carrying amount. The Company has determined that no impairment provision related to long-lived assets was required to be recorded as of June 30, 2011 and 2012.

Goodwill

The Company accounts for goodwill in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 350, Intangibles — Goodwill and Other. FASB ASC Topic 350 prohibits the amortization of goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite lives and requires these assets be reviewed for impairment at least annually. The Company operates two reportable and operating segments (Pac-Van and Royal Wolf) and all of the goodwill was allocated between these two reporting units. The Company performs an annual impairment test on goodwill at year end using the two-step process required under FASB ASC Topic 350. The first step is a screen for potential impairment, while the second step measures the amount of the impairment, if any.

At June 30, 2011 and 2012, the Company performed the first step of the two-step impairment test and compared the fair value of each reporting unit to its carrying value. In assessing the fair value of the reporting units, the Company considered both the market approach and the income approach. Under the market approach, the fair value of the reporting unit was determined on a weighted-average range of multiples to adjusted EBITDA. Under the income approach, the fair value of the reporting unit was based on the present value of estimated cash flows. The income approach was dependent on a number of significant management assumptions, including estimated future revenue growth rates, gross margins on sales, operating margins, capital expenditures and discount rates. Each approach was given equal weight in arriving at the fair value of the reporting unit and it was determined that the fair value of the Royal Wolf reporting unit exceeded the carrying values of its net assets at both periods and that the fair value of the Pac-Van reporting unit exceeded the carrying values of its net assets at June 30, 2012. However, at June 30, 2011, the fair value of the Pac-Van reporting unit was less than the carrying values of its net assets and, therefore, the Company performed a step-two impairment test for Pac-Van.

 

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In the step-two test, the Company determined the implied fair value of the Pac-Van reporting unit’s goodwill and compared it to the carrying value of the goodwill. This involved allocating the fair value of the reporting unit to its respective assets and liabilities (as if it had been acquired in a separate and individual business combination and the fair value was the price paid to acquire it) with the excess of the fair value over the amounts assigned being the implied fair value of goodwill. For Pac-Van, the implied value of its goodwill was less than the carrying value of goodwill, resulting in an impairment charge of $5,858,000 at June 30, 2011. At June 30, 2012, the carrying value of goodwill at Pac-Van was $33,859,000.

The change in the balance of goodwill was as follows (in thousands)

 

     June 30,  
     2011     2012  

Beginning of year

   $ 67,919      $ 68,948   

Additions to goodwill

     —          999   

Foreign translation effect

     6,887        (1,498

Impairment of goodwill

     (5,858     —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

End of year

   $ 68,948      $ 68,449   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Intangible Assets

Intangible assets include those with indefinite (trademark and trade name) and finite (primarily customer base and lists, non-compete agreements and deferred financing costs) useful lives. Customer base and lists and non-compete agreements are amortized on the straight-line basis over the expected period of benefit which range from one to ten years. Costs to obtaining long-term financing are deferred and amortized over the term of the related debt using the straight-line method. Amortizing the deferred financing costs using the straight-line method does not produce significantly different results than that of the effective interest method.

Intangible assets consist of the following (in thousands):

 

     June 30,  
     2011     2012  

Trademark and trade name

   $ 2,500      $ 2,542   

Customer base and lists

     37,224        36,431   

Non-compete agreements

     7,313        7,321   

Deferred financing costs

     1,948        1,933   

Other

     1,372        1,618   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     50,357        49,845   

Less accumulated amortization

     (26,999     (31,687
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
   $ 23,358      $ 18,158   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The Company reviews intangible assets (those assets resulting from acquisitions) at least annually for impairment or when events or circumstances indicate these assets might be impaired. The Company tests impairment using historical cash flows and other relevant facts and circumstances as the primary basis for estimates of future cash flows. At June 30, 2011, the Company, pursuant to an evaluation that determined that the respective fair value was less than the carrying value, recognized an impairment charge of $250,000 to the trade name acquired in the Pac-Van acquisition (see Note 1). This impairment charge was recorded as a part of depreciation and amortization in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

The estimated future amortization of intangible assets with finite useful lives as of June 30, 2012 is as follows (in thousands):

 

Year Ending June 30,

      

2013

   $ 5,090   

2014

     3,414   

2015

     2,314   

2016

     2,235   

2017

     2,485   

Thereafter

     78   
  

 

 

 
   $ 15,616   
  

 

 

 

 

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Defined Contribution Benefit Plan

Obligations for contributions to defined contribution benefit plans are recognized as an expense in the statement of operations as incurred. Contributions to defined contribution benefit plans in FY 2011 and FY 2012 were $1,115,000 and $1,249,000, respectively.

Revenue Recognition

The Company leases and sells new and used storage, office, building and portable liquid storage tank containers, modular buildings and mobile offices to its customers, as well as providing other ancillary products and services. Leases to customers generally qualify as operating leases unless there is a bargain purchase option at the end of the lease term. Revenue is recognized as earned in accordance with the lease terms established by the lease agreements and when collectability is reasonably assured.

Revenue from sales of the lease fleet is generally recognized upon delivery and when collectability is reasonably assured. Certain arrangements to sell units under long-term construction-type sales contracts are accounted for under the percentage of completion method. Under this method, income is recognized in proportion to the incurred costs to date under the contract to estimated total costs.

Unearned revenue includes end of lease services not yet performed by the Company (such as transport charges for the pick-up of a unit where the actual pick-up has not yet occurred as the unit is still leased), advance rentals and deposit payments.

Advertising

Advertising costs are generally expensed as incurred. Direct-response advertising costs, principally yellow page advertising, are monitored through call logs and advertising source codes, are capitalized when paid and amortized over the period in which the benefit is derived. However, the amortization period of the prepaid balance never exceeds 12 months. At June 30, 2011 and 2012, prepaid advertising costs were approximately $257,000 and $179,000, respectively. Advertising costs expensed were approximately $2,774,000 and $2,966,000 for FY 2011 and FY 2012, respectively.

Income Taxes

The Company uses the asset and liability method of accounting for income taxes. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recorded for temporary differences between the financial reporting basis and income tax basis of assets and liabilities at the balance sheet date multiplied by the applicable tax rates. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized. Income tax expense is recorded for the amount of income tax payable or refundable for the period increased or decreased by the change in deferred tax assets and liabilities during the period.

The Company files U.S. Federal tax returns, multiple U.S. state (and state franchise) tax returns and Australian, New Zealand and Canadian tax returns. For U.S. Federal tax purposes, all periods subsequent to June 30, 2008 are subject to examination by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). The Company believes that its income tax filing positions and deductions would be sustained on audit and does not anticipate any adjustments that would result in a material change. Therefore, no reserves for uncertain income tax positions have been recorded. In addition, the Company does not anticipate that the total amount of unrecognized tax benefit related to any particular tax position will change significantly within the next 12 months.

The Company’s policy for recording interest and penalties, if any, will be to record such items as a component of income taxes.

Net Income per Common Share

Basic net income per common share is computed by dividing net income attributable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the periods. Diluted net income per common share reflects the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised or converted into common stock or resulted in the issuance of common stock that then shared in the earnings of the Company. The potential dilutive securities the Company has outstanding are warrants and stock options. The following is a reconciliation of weighted average shares outstanding used in calculating earnings per common share:

 

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     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011      2012  

Basic

     22,013,299         22,013,401   

Assumed exercise of warrants

     —           —     

Assumed exercise of stock options

     —           286,224   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Diluted

     22,013,299         22,299,625   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Potential common stock equivalents (consisting of warrants and stock options) totaling 3,414,674 and 3,651,063 for FY 2011 and FY 2012, respectively, have been excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share because the effect is anti-dilutive.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

In August 2010, the FASB, as result of a joint project with the International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) to simplify lease accounting and improve the quality of and comparability of financial information for users, published a proposed standard that would change the accounting and financial reporting for both lessee and lessor under ASC Topic 840, Leases. The proposed standard would effectively eliminate off-balance sheet accounting for most of the operating leases of lessees and would require lessors to apply a receivable and residual accounting approach. Subsequent to June 30, 2011, the FASB and IASB announced their intention to re-expose the common leasing standard exposure draft for revised proposals since August 2010 and, through June 30, 2012, continue to redeliberate issues and concerns raised in response to the proposed standard. Completion of deliberations and issuance of a revised exposure draft are anticipated during the fourth quarter of calendar year 2012, with final standards to be published in mid-2013. The Company believes that the final standards, if issued in substantially the same form as the published proposal, would have a material effect in the presentation of its consolidated financial position and results of operations.

In May 2011, the FASB issued amendments to the existing guidance on fair value measurement. The amendments are intended to create consistency between GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards on measuring fair value and disclosing information about fair value measurements. The amendments clarify the application of existing fair value measurement requirements including (i) the application of the highest and best use valuation premise concepts, (ii) measuring the fair value of an instrument classified in a reporting entity’s equity and (iii) quantitative information required for fair value measurements categorized within Level 3. In addition, the amendments require additional disclosure for Level 3 measurements regarding the sensitivity of fair value to changes in unobservable inputs and any interrelationships between those inputs. These amendments are effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2011. These changes are required to be applied prospectively and the adoption did not have a material impact on the consolidated financial position or results of operations.

In September 2011, the FASB issued an amendment to the existing guidance on goodwill impairment. The amendment allows entities to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is necessary to perform the current two-step quantitative goodwill impairment test under ASC Topic 350, Intangibles –Goodwill. If an entity elects to use the option, it will no longer be required to calculate the fair value of a reporting unit unless a determination is made based on a qualitative assessment that it is more likely than not (i.e., greater than 50%) that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. If the entity concludes that fair value is less than the carrying amount, the existing quantitative calculations in steps one and two under ASC Topic 350 continue to apply. However, if the entity concludes that fair value exceeds the carrying amount; neither of the two steps is required. The amendment allows entities to continue applying the existing two-step test and if an entity elects not to use the qualitative assessment in one period, it may resume performing the qualitative assessment in any subsequent period. The amendment is effective for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011, though early adoption is permitted. The Company will use the new qualitative assessment of the amendment for periods subsequent to June 30, 2012.

In December 2011, the FASB and IASB issued joint amendments to enhance disclosures with respect to offsetting and related arrangements for financial and derivative instruments presented in statements of financial position. These amendments to ASC Topic 210, Balance Sheet, require entities to provide both net and gross information about both instruments and transactions subject to an agreement similar to a master netting arrangement in order to enhance comparability between those entities that prepare their financial statements on the basis of U.S. GAAP and those entities that prepare their financial statements on the basis of International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”). The amendments are effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013 and interim periods within those annual periods. These amendments are required to be applied prospectively and the Company does not expect that the adoption will have a material impact on its consolidated financial position or results of operations.

 

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In July 2012, the FASB issued an amendment to the existing guidance on evaluating Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets for Impairment. The amendment allows entities to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is necessary to perform the current impairment test under ASC Topic 350. If an entity determines based on a qualitative assessment that it is more likely than not (i.e., greater than 50%) that the fair value is not impaired no further testing is necessary. If the entity concludes that fair value is less than the carrying amount, the existing quantitative calculations under ASC Topic 350 continue to apply. The amendment is effective for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed for fiscal years beginning after September 15, 2012, though early adoption is permitted. The Company will use the new qualitative assessment of the amendment for periods subsequent to June 30, 2012.

Note 3. Equity Transactions

Rights Offering

On June 25, 2010, the Company completed a rights offering to stockholders of record as of May 14, 2010. The offering entitled holders of the rights to purchase units at $1.50 per unit, with each unit consisting of one share of GFN common stock and a three-year warrant to purchase 0.5 additional shares of GFN common stock at an exercise price of $4.00 per share. At June 30, 2012, the Company has a total of 4,187,247 shares of common stock and 4,187,247 warrants to acquire an additional 2,093,623 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $4.00 per share.

Cumulative Preferred Stock

The Company conducted private placements of Series A 12.5% Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share and liquidation preference of $50 per share (“Series A Preferred Stock”); and Series B 8% Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value of $0.0001 per share and liquidation value of $1,000 per share (“Series B Preferred Stock”). The Series B Preferred Stock is offered primarily in connection with business combinations. The Series A Preferred Stock and the Series B Preferred Stock are referred to collectively as the “Cumulative Preferred Stock.” Upon issuance of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, the Company records the liquidation value as the preferred equity in the consolidated balance sheet, with any issuance or offering costs as a reduction in additional paid-in capital. As of June 30, 2012, the Company had issued 25,900 shares and 100 shares of Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock for total proceeds of $1,295,000 and $100,000, respectively.

The Cumulative Preferred Stock is not convertible into GFN common stock, has no voting rights, except as required by Delaware law, and is not redeemable prior to February 1, 2014; at which time it may be redeemed at any time, in whole or in part, at the Company’s option. Holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock are entitled to receive, when declared by the Company’s Board of Directors, annual dividends payable quarterly in arrears on the 31st day of January, July and October and on the 30th day of April of each year. In the event of any liquidation or winding up of the Company, the holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock will have preference to holders of common stock; with the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock having preference over holders of the Series B Preferred Stock.

In connection with the acquisition of Advanced Mobile Storage (see Note 4), the Company issued 110 shares of Series B Preferred Stock with a liquidation value of $110,000 that is redeemable in three annual installments from the dates of issuance. As a result, these issuances, which total $73,000 at June 30, 2012, is classified as a liability in the consolidated balance sheet under the caption “Senior and other debt.”

As of June 30, 2012, since issuance, dividends paid or payable totaled $544,000 and $40,000 for the Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock, respectively. The characterization of dividends to the recipients for Federal income tax purposes is made based upon the earnings and profits of the Company, as defined by the Internal Revenue Code.

Royal Wolf Dividend

In February 2012, the Board of Directors of Royal Wolf declared a dividend of AUS$0.035 per RWH share payable to shareholders of record on March 20, 2012 and the consolidated financial statements reflect the amount of the dividend pertaining to the noncontrolling interest.

 

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Note 4. Acquisitions

FY 2011 Acquisitions

In two separate transactions, on October 1, 2010 and on January 14, 2011, the Company, through Pac-Van, purchased the business of Advanced Mobile Storage (“AMS”) for a total of $990,000; which included the issuance of 110 shares of redeemable preferred stock (see Note 3). The total purchase price has been allocated to tangible (lease fleet) and intangible (customer base and non-compete agreement) assets acquired, based on their estimated fair market values, and totaled $893,000 and $193,000, respectively, less trade payables and accrued liabilities assumed of $96,000.

FY 2012 Acquisitions

Effective May 1, 2012, the Company, through Pac-Van, purchased the business of Handysides Developments Ltd., d.b.a. “Container King,” for $1,721,000 (C$1,692,000). Container King leases and sells containers and is located in Alberta, Canada.

On May 31, 2012, the Company, through Royal Wolf, purchased the business of ContainerTech Hire Ltd. and ContainerTech Services Ltd., divisions of ContainerTech Group Ltd. (“Container Tech”) for $2,910,000 (NZ$3,798,000). Container Tech leases, sells and modifies container products and is located in New Zealand.

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the operations of the acquired businesses from the dates of acquisition. The allocation for the acquisitions in FY 2012 to tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair market values were as follows (in thousands):

 

     Container King
May 1, 2012
    Container Tech
May 31, 2012
    Total  

Fair value of the net tangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed:

      

Trade and other receivables

   $ 197      $ —        $ 197   

Inventories (primarily containers)

     546        —          546   

Property, plant and equipment

     421        125        546   

Lease fleet

     292        2,020        2,312   

Trade payables and accrued liabilities

     (413     (77     (490

Income taxes payable

     (53     —          (53

Unearned revenue and advance payments

     (14     (23     (37

Long-term debt and obligations

     —          —          —     

Deferred tax liabilities

     (189     —          (189
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total net tangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed

     787        2,045        2,832   

Fair value of intangible assets acquired:

      

Non-compete agreement

     48        249        297   

Customer lists

     262        197        459   

Trade name

     44        —          44   

Goodwill

     580        419        999   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total intangible assets acquired

     934        865        1,799   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total purchase consideration

   $ 1,721      $ 2,910      $ 4,631   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

The Company can enhance its business and enter new markets in various ways, including starting up a new location or acquiring a business consisting of container, modular unit or mobile office assets of another entity. An acquisition generally provides the Company with operations that enables it to at least cover existing overhead costs and is preferable to a start-up or greenfield location. The businesses discussed above were acquired primarily to expand the Company’s container lease fleet.

Goodwill recognized is attributable primarily to expected corporate synergies, the assembled workforce and other factors. None of the goodwill is deductible for U.S. income tax purposes. The Company incurred approximately $100,000 of transaction costs associated with acquisitions during FY 2012 that were expensed as incurred and are included in selling and general expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

 

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Note 5. Senior and Other Debt

Royal Wolf Senior Credit Facility

Royal Wolf has an approximately $111,771,000 (AUS$110,000,000) senior credit facility with Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (“ANZ”), which is secured by substantially all of the assets of the Company’s Australian and New Zealand subsidiaries and matures on June 30, 2014. The ANZ credit facility, as amended, is comprised of two sub-facilities, a $15,242,000 (AUS$15,000,000) working capital sub-facility, primarily for receivable financing and a $96,530,000 (AUS$95,000,000) revolving sub-facility, primarily for lease fleet purchases and acquisitions. As of June 30, 2012, based upon the exchange rate of one Australian dollar to $1.0161 U.S. dollar and one New Zealand dollar to $0.7840 Australian dollar, borrowings and availability under the ANZ credit facility totaled $95,759,000 (AUS$94,242,000) and $16,012,000 (AUS$15,758,000), respectively. At June 30, 2012, borrowings under the working capital sub-facility totaled $8,858,000 (AUS$8,718,000) and bear interest at ANZ’s prime rate (3.50% at June 30, 2012) plus 1.85% per annum, and borrowings under the revolving sub-facility totaled $86,901,000 (AUS$85,524,000) and bear interest at ANZ’s prime rate plus 2.05% per annum.

Royal Wolf also has a $3,048,000 (AUS$3,000,000) sub-facility with ANZ to, among other things, facilitate direct and global payments using electronic banking services.

The ANZ senior credit facility, as amended, is subject to certain financial and other customary covenants, including, among other things, compliance with specified consolidated interest coverage and total debt ratios based on earnings before interest, income taxes, amortization and depreciation and other non-operating costs (“EBITDA”) and the payment of dividends are not to exceed 60% of net profits (adding back amortization), plus any dividend surplus from the previous year, as defined.

Pac-Van Senior Credit Facility

Pac-Van has an $85,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility with a syndicate led by PNC Bank, National Association (“PNC”) that includes Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (“Wells Fargo”) and Union Bank, N.A. (“UB”) (the “PNC Credit Facility”). Under the terms of the PNC Credit Facility, as amended, Pac-Van may borrow up to $85,000,000, subject to the terms of a borrowing base and certain borrowing restrictions based on senior leverage, as defined, and will accrue interest, at Pac-Van’s option, either at the prime rate (3.25% at June 30, 2012) plus 2.75%, or the Eurodollar rate (0.24575%, 0.34275% and 0.46060% at June 30, 2012 for the one-month, two-month and three-month LIBOR, respectively) plus 3.75%. The PNC Credit Facility also provides for the issuance of irrevocable standby letters of credit in amounts totaling up to $5,000,000, contains certain financial covenants, including fixed charge coverage and senior leverage ratios based on EBITDA, as defined, and a lease fleet utilization ratio. The PNC Credit Facility also includes customary negative and other covenants, including events of default relating to a change of control, as defined, at GFN, GFNNA (which has guaranteed the repayment of all outstanding borrowings and obligations of the PNC Credit Facility) and Pac-Van or upon the cessation of involvement of Ronald F. Valenta as a director or officer in the operations and management of GFN, GFNNA or Pac-Van.

The PNC Credit Facility matures on January 16, 2013, at which time all amounts borrowed must be repaid, but Pac-Van has the right to prepay loans in whole or in part at any time, provided that Pac-Van will be required to pay PNC a prepayment fee of $350,000 if it prepays the loans in full prior to July 16, 2012. At June 30, 2012, borrowings and availability under the PNC Credit Facility totaled $62,201,000 and $20,701,000, respectively.

The repayment of borrowings under the PNC Credit Facility is secured by substantially all of the assets of Pac-Van and by a limited guaranty by Ronald F. Valenta and Lydia D. Valenta (the “Valenta Limited Guaranty”). Pursuant to the Valenta Limited Guaranty, the Valentas guaranteed $10,000,000 of borrowings from July 16, 2010 until June 30, 2011, $8,000,000 of borrowings from July 1, 2011 until June 30, 2012 and $6,000,000 of borrowings from July 1, 2012 until January 16, 2013. The amounts guaranteed by the Valentas will only be reduced if no event of default has occurred under the PNC Credit Facility and if Pac-Van has delivered to PNC the certificates necessary to demonstrate compliance by Pac-Van with the financial covenants at the date of each scheduled reduction. In consideration for entering into the Valenta Limited Guaranty, Pac-Van will pay the Valentas a fee equal to 1.2% of the lower of outstanding borrowings or the guaranty amount. A guarantee fee of $120,000 for the first year was paid at or near the closing of the PNC Credit Facility and, commencing with the first anniversary from the closing date, the guaranty fee will be paid in advance at a rate of 0.3% per quarter, so long as Pac-Van remains in compliance with the covenants of the PNC Credit Facility. In addition, the Valentas entered into a pledge and security agreement for the benefit of PNC whereby the Valentas pledged a deposit account maintained by PNC, and all interest accrued thereon, to secure the repayment of all loans and the performance of all obligations under the PNC Credit Facility.

 

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Subsequent to June 30, 2012, borrowings under the PNC Credit Facility were fully repaid and the Valenta Limited Guaranty was terminated in connection with the entering of a new senior credit facility at Pac-Van (see Note 13).

Laminar Note

The Company has a $15,000,000 senior subordinated note with Laminar Direct Capital, L.L.C. (“Laminar”) issued by GFN (the “Laminar Note”). The Laminar Note accrues interest at the floating rate of LIBOR plus 10.0% per annum, provided that LIBOR shall be not less than 3.0%, and is payable monthly in arrears commencing on August 1, 2010. The Laminar Note matures on July 16, 2013, at which time all amounts borrowed must be repaid; but it may be prepaid by GFN in part or in full at any time before the maturity date without penalty and by Pac-Van, upon prior written notice, subject to the terms of the intercreditor agreement among Pac-Van, GFNNA, PNC and Laminar.

The Laminar Note contains certain financial covenants, including a consolidated funded indebtedness-to-consolidated EBITDA, as defined, leverage ratio, a minimum consolidated EBITDA covenant for the four most recently completed calendar quarters of not less than $28,000,000; and customary covenants, including events of default relating to a change of control, as defined, at GFN, GFNNA and Pac-Van (both of which have guaranteed the repayment of all outstanding borrowings and obligations of the Laminar Note) and covenants which limit the ability of GFNNA and Pac-Van to sell assets, enter into acquisitions and incur additional indebtedness. In addition, the terms of the Laminar Note prohibit GFNNA and Pac-Van from extending the maturity of the PNC Credit Facility to a date later than April 16, 2013, increasing the maximum indebtedness above $93,500,000 without the prior written consent of Laminar, entering into interest rate increases for indebtedness and from undertaking certain other actions.

Subsequent to June 30, 2012, borrowings under the Laminar Note were fully repaid in connection with the entering of a new senior credit facility at Pac-Van (see Note 13).

Other

Other debt (including redeemable preferred stock – see Note 3) totaled $1,132,000 at June 30, 2012.

The weighted-average interest rate in the Asia-Pacific area was 12.0% and 8.1% in FY 2011 and FY 2012, respectively; which does not include the effect of translation, interest rate swap contracts and options and the amortization of deferred financing costs. The weighted-average interest rate in the United States was 6.2% and 6.4% in FY 2011 and FY 2012, respectively, which does not include the effect of the amortization of deferred financing costs.

Loan Covenant Compliance

At June 30, 2012, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants under its senior credit facilities and the Laminar Note.

Senior and other debt consisted of the following at June 30, 2011 and 2012 (in thousands):

 

     June 30,  
     2011      2012  

ANZ Credit Facility

   $ 63,113       $ 95,759   

PNC Credit Facility

     56,689         62,201   

Laminar Note

     15,000         15,000   

Other

     1,787         1,132   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 136,589       $ 174,092   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Scheduled Maturities on Senior and Other Debt

The scheduled maturities for the senior credit facilities senior subordinated notes and other debt at June 30, 2012 were as follows (in thousands):

 

Year Ending June 30,

      

2013

   $ 8,139   

2014

     87,894   

2015

     403   

2016

     286   

2017

     77,370   

Thereafter

     —     
  

 

 

 
   $ 174,092   
  

 

 

 

Note 6. Financial Instruments

Fair Value Measurements

FASB ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, defines fair value as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions, FASB ASC Topic 820 establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value, as follows:

Level 1 — Observable inputs such as quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;

Level 2 — Observable inputs, other than Level 1 inputs in active markets, that are observable either directly or indirectly; and

Level 3 — Unobservable inputs in which there is little or no market data, which require the reporting entity to develop its own assumptions.

The Company’s swap contracts and options (caps) and forward-exchange contracts are not traded on a market exchange; therefore, the fair values are determined using valuation models that include assumptions about yield curve at the reporting dates as well as counter-party credit risk. The assumptions are generally derived from market-observable data. The Company has consistently applied these calculation techniques to all periods presented, which are considered Level 2.

Derivative instruments measured at fair value and their classification on the consolidated balances sheets and consolidated statements of operations are as follows (in thousands):

 

Type of Derivative         Derivative - Fair Value (Level 2)  

Contract                

  

Balance Sheet Classification

   June 30, 2011     June 30, 2012  

Swap Contracts and Options (Caps and Collars)

   Trade payables and accrued liabilities    $ (743   $ (1,539

Forward-Exchange Contracts

   Trade payables and accrued liabilities      (401     (102
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Type of Derivative

Contract

  

Statement of Operations

Classification

   Year Ended June 30, 2011     Year Ended June 30, 2012  

Swap Contracts and Options (Caps and Collars)

   Unrealized gain (loss) included in interest expense    $ 697      $ (816

Forward-Exchange Contracts

   Unrealized foreign currency exchange gain (loss) and other      (387     132   
     

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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Interest Rate Swap Contracts

The Company’s exposure to market risk for changes in interest rates relates primarily to its long-term debt obligations. The Company’s policy is to manage its interest expense by using a mix of fixed and variable rate debt.

To manage its exposure to variable interest rates in a cost-efficient manner, the Company enters into interest rate swaps and interest rate options, in which the Company agrees to exchange, at specified intervals, the difference between fixed and variable interest amounts calculated by reference to an agreed-upon notional principal amount. These swaps and options are designated to hedge changes in the interest rate of a portion of the ANZ outstanding borrowings. The Company believes that financial instruments designated as interest rate hedges are highly effective. However, documentation of such, as required by FASB ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, does not exist. Therefore, all movements in the fair values of these hedges are reported in the statement of operations in the period in which fair values change.

The Company’s interest rate swap and option (cap and collar) contracts are not traded on a market exchange; therefore, the fair values are determined using valuation models which include assumptions about the interest rate yield curve at the reporting dates (Level 2 fair value measurement). As of June 30, 2011, there were three open interest rate swap contracts and two open interest rate option (cap) contracts; and, as of June 30, 2012, there was one open interest rate swap contract and one open interest rate option (collar) contract that mature in June 2014, as follows (dollars in thousands):

 

     June 30, 2011     June 30, 2012  
     Swap     Option (Cap)     Swap     Option (Collar)  

Notional amounts

   $ 23,543      $ 14,161      $ 15,242      $ 25,403   

Fixed/Strike Rates

     7.19% – 8.22     7.19% – 7.98     6.25     6.25

Floating Rates

     7.01     7.01     5.47     5.47

Fair Value of Combined Contracts

   $ (743   $ —        $ (587   $ (952
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Foreign Currency Risk

The Company has transactional currency exposures. Such exposure arises from sales or purchases in currencies other than the functional currency. The currency giving rise to this risk is primarily U.S. dollars. Royal Wolf has a bank account denominated in U.S. dollars into which a small number of customers pay their debts. This is a natural hedge against fluctuations in the exchange rate. The funds are then used to pay suppliers, avoiding the need to convert to Australian dollars. Royal Wolf uses forward currency contracts and options to eliminate the currency exposures on the majority of its transactions denominated in foreign currencies, either by transaction if the amount is significant, or on a general cash flow hedge basis. The forward currency contracts and options are always in the same currency as the hedged item. The Company believes that financial instruments designated as foreign currency hedges are highly effective. However documentation of such as required by ASC Topic 815 does not exist. Therefore, all movements in the fair values of these hedges are reported in the statement of operations in the period in which fair values change. As of June 30, 2011, there were 25 open forward exchange contracts; and, as of June 30, 2012, there were 12 open forward exchange contracts that mature between August 2012 and April 2013, as follows (dollars in thousands):

 

     June 30, 2011      June 30, 2012  
     Forward Exchange     Currency Option      Forward Exchange     Currency Option  

Notional amounts

   $ 11,452      $ —         $ 7,096      $ —     

Exchange/Strike Rates (AUD to USD)

     0.9973 – 1.0465        —           0.9702 – 1.0201        —     

Fair Value of Combined Contracts

   $ (401   $ —         $ (102   $ —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

In FY 2011 and FY 2012, the Company also had certain U.S. dollar-denominated debt at Royal Wolf, including intercompany borrowings, which are remeasured at each financial reporting date with the impact of the remeasurement being recorded in our consolidated statements of operations. Prior to FY 2012, unrealized gains and losses resulting from such remeasurement due to changes in the Australian exchange rate to the U.S. dollar had a significant impact in the Company’s reported results of operations, as well as any realized gains and losses from the payments on such U.S. dollar-denominated debt and intercompany borrowings. In FY 2011 and FY 2012, net unrealized and realized foreign exchange gains (losses) totaled $(9,026,000) and $13,540,000, and $(712,000) and $893,000, respectively.

 

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Fair Value of Other Financial Instruments

The fair value of the Company’s borrowings under its senior credit facilities and Laminar Note was determined based on level 3 inputs including a search for debt issuances with maturities comparable to the Company’s debt (“Debt Issuances with Upcoming Call Dates”), a comparison to a group of comparable industry debt issuances (“Industry Comparable Debt Issuances”) and a study of credit (“Credit Spread Analysis”) as of June 30, 2012. Under the Debt Issuances with Upcoming Call Dates, the Company performed a Yield-to-Worse analysis on debt issuances with call dates that were comparable to the maturity dates of the Company’s borrowings. Under the Industry Comparable Debt Issuance method, the Company compared the debt facilities to several industry comparable debt issuances.

This method consisted of an analysis of the offering yields compared to the current yields on publicly traded debt securities. Under the Credit Spread Analysis, the Company first examined the implied credit spreads of the United States Federal Reserve. Based on this analysis the Company was able to assess the credit market. The fair value of the Company’s senior credit facilities and Laminar Note as of June 30, 2012 was determined to be approximately $174,200,000. The fair value of the Company’s other debt of $1,132,000 approximates or would not vary significantly from its carrying values due to current market conditions and other factors.

Under the provisions of FASB ASC Topic 825, Financial Instruments, the carrying value of the Company’s other financial instruments (consisting primarily of cash and cash equivalents, net receivables, trade payables and accrued liabilities) approximate fair value.

Credit Risk and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

Financial instruments potentially exposing the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of receivables. Concentrations of credit risk with respect to receivables are limited due to the large number of customers spread over a large geographic area in many industry sectors. However, in the U.S. a significant portion of the Company’s business activity is with companies in the construction industry. Revenues and trade receivables from this industry totaled $19,831,000 and $3,895,000 during FY 2011 and at June 30, 2011, respectively; and $23,344,000 and $3,188,000 during FY 2012 and at June 30, 2012, respectively.

The Company’s receivables related to sales are generally secured by the equipment sold to the customer. The Company’s receivables related to its lease operations are primarily amounts generated from both off-site and on-site customers. The Company has the right to repossess lease equipment for nonpayment. It is the Company’s policy that all customers who wish to purchase or lease containers on credit terms are subject to credit verification procedures and the Company will agree to terms with customers believed to be creditworthy. In addition, receivable balances are monitored on an ongoing basis with the result that the Company’s exposure to bad debts is not significant. Net allowance for doubtful accounts provided and uncollectible accounts written off, net of recoveries, was $954,000 and $1,078,000 and $1,204,000 and 1,000,000 for FY 2011 and FY 2012, respectively. The translation gain to the allowance for doubtful accounts for FY 2011 and FY 2012 was $127,000 and $3,000, respectively.

With respect to credit risk arising from the other significant financial assets of the Company, which comprise cash and cash equivalents, available-for-sale financial assets and certain derivative instruments, the Company’s exposure to credit risk arises from default of the counter party, with a maximum exposure equal to the carrying amount of these instruments. As the counter party for derivative instruments is nearly always a bank, the Company has assessed this as a low risk.

Note 7. Income Taxes

Income (loss) before provision for income taxes consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011     2012  

North America

   $ (4,527   $ (3,087

Asia-Pacific

     (1,373     17,189   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
   $ (5,900   $ 14,102   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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The provision (benefit) for income taxes consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011      2012  

Current:

     

U.S. Federal

   $ 144       $ —     

State

     49         —     

Foreign

     276         501   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     469         501   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Deferred:

     

U.S. Federal

     1,291         850   

State

     84         100   

Foreign

     1,114         3,909   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     2,489         4,859   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 2,958       $ 5,360   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The components of the net deferred tax liability are as follows (in thousands):

 

     June 30,  
     2011     2012  

Deferred tax assets:

    

Net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards

   $ 17,111      $ 15,508   

Deferred revenue and expenses

     466        779   

Accrued compensation and other benefits

     877        1,322   

Allowance for doubtful accounts

     374        458   

Unrealized exchange gains and losses

     —          —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total deferred tax assets

     18,828        18,067   

Valuation allowance

     —          —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net deferred tax assets

     18,828        18,067   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Deferred tax liabilities:

    

Accelerated tax depreciation and amortization

     (34,592     (38,830

Other

     (71     —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total deferred tax liabilities

     (34,663     (38,830
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net deferred tax liabilities

   $ (15,835   $ (20,763
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

At June 30, 2012, the Company had a U.S. federal net operating loss carryforward of $42,700,000, which expires if unused during fiscal years 2021 – 2032, and an Australian net operating loss carryforward of approximately $17,400,000 with no expiration date. As a result of the stock ownership change in the merger with MOAC (see Note 1), the available deduction of the net operating loss carryforward of $15,300,000 acquired in the Pac-Van acquisition is generally limited to approximately $2,500,000 on a yearly basis.

Management evaluates the ability to realize its deferred tax assets on a quarterly basis and adjusts the amount of its valuation allowance if necessary. No valuation allowance has been determined to be required as of June 30, 2011 and 2012.

 

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A reconciliation of the U.S. federal statutory rate of 34% to the Company’s effective tax rate is as follows:

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011     2012  

Federal statutory rate

     (34.0 )%      34.0

State and Asia-Pacific taxes, net of U.S. federal benefit and credit

     (4.0     4.0   

U.S. income taxes related to RWH IPO

     48.5        —     

Amortization and impairment of goodwill and intangible assets, net

     30.1        —     

Nondeductible expenses (primarily share-based compensation expense at Royal Wolf)

     9.5        —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Effective tax rate

     50.1     38.0
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

As a result of the RWH IPO (see Note 1), the Company, among other things, was required to increase, for tax purposes, the cost basis of Royal Wolf’s inventory to fair value, which resulted in a taxable gain of approximately $6,400,000. This gain was recorded in the consolidated income tax expense and, as such, was the most significant portion in the federal rate reconciliation of 48.5% in FY 2011.

Note 8. Related-Party Transactions

Effective January 31, 2008, the Company entered into a lease with an affiliate of Ronald F. Valenta, a director and the chief executive officer of the Company, for its corporate headquarters in Pasadena, California. The rent is $7,393 per month, effective March 1, 2009, plus allocated charges for common area maintenance, real property taxes and insurance, for approximately 3,000 square feet of office space. The term of the lease is five years, with two five-year renewal options, and the rent is adjusted yearly based on the consumer price index. Rental payments were $110,000 in both FY 2011 and FY 2012.

Effective October 1, 2008, the Company entered into a services agreement with an affiliate of Mr. Valenta for certain accounting, administrative and secretarial services to be provided at the corporate offices and for certain operational, technical, sales and marketing services to be provided directly to the Company’s operating subsidiaries. Charges for services rendered at the corporate offices will be, until further notice, at $7,000 per month and charges for services rendered to the Company’s subsidiaries will vary depending on the scope of services provided. The services agreement provides for, among other things, mutual modifications to the scope of services and rates charged and automatically renews for successive one-year terms, unless terminated in writing by either party not less than 30 days prior to the fiscal year end. Total charges to the Company for services rendered under this agreement totaled $212,000 ($84,000 at the corporate office and $128,000 at the operating subsidiaries) in FY 2011and $197,000 ($84,000 at the corporate office and $113,000 at the operating subsidiaries) in FY 2012.

Revenues at Pac-Van from affiliates of Mr. Valenta totaled $27,000 and $36,000 in FY 2011 and FY 2012, respectively, and equipment and other services purchased by Pac-Van from these affiliated entities totaled $40,000 in FY 2012.

Note 9. Stock Option Plans

On August 29, 2006, the Board of Directors of the Company adopted the General Finance Corporation 2006 Stock Option Plan (“2006 Plan”), which was approved and amended by stockholders on June 14, 2007 and December 11, 2008, respectively. Options granted and outstanding under the 2006 Plan are either incentive stock options under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or so-called non-qualified options that are not intended to meet incentive stock option requirements. All options granted do not have a term in excess of ten years, and the exercise price of any option is not less than the fair market value of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. After the adoption by the Board of Directors and upon the approval of the 2009 Stock Incentive Plan by the stockholders (see below), the Company suspended any further grants under the 2006 Plan.

On September 21, 2009, the Board of Directors of the Company adopted the 2009 Stock Incentive Plan (“2009 Plan”), which was approved by the stockholders at the Company’s annual meeting on December 10, 2009. The 2009 Plan is an “omnibus” incentive plan permitting a variety of equity programs designed to provide flexibility in implementing equity and cash awards, including incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, restricted stock

 

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grants, restricted stock units, stock appreciation rights, performance stock, performance units and other stock-based awards. Participants in the 2009 Plan may be granted any one of the equity awards or any combination of them, as determined by the Board of Directors or the Compensation Committee. Upon the approval of the 2009 Plan by the stockholders, the Company suspended further grants under the 2006 Plan (see above). Any stock options which are forfeited under the 2006 Plan will become available for grant under the 2009 Plan, but the total number of shares available under the 2006 Plan and the 2009 Plan will not exceed the 2,500,000 shares reserved for grant under the 2006 Plan. Unless terminated earlier at the discretion of the Board of Directors, the 2009 Plan will terminate September 21, 2019.

The 2006 Plan and the 2009 Plan are referred to collectively as the “Stock Incentive Plan.”

There have been no grants or awards of restricted stock, restricted stock units, stock appreciation rights, performance stock or performance units under the Stock Incentive Plan. All grants to-date consist of incentive and non-qualified stock options that vest over a period of up to five years (“time-based options”) and non-qualified stock options that vest over varying periods that are dependent on the attainment of certain defined EBITDA and other targets (“performance-based options”).

On July 14, 2010 (“July 2010 Grant”), the Company granted options to three non-employee consultants to purchase 40,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of equal to the closing market value of the Company’s common stock as of date, or $1.22 per share, with a vesting period of three years.

On September 15, 2010 (“September 2010 Grant”), the Company granted options to three officers of GFN and 12 key employees of Pac-Van and Royal Wolf to purchase 298,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price equal to the closing market price of the Company’s common stock as of that date, or $1.06 per share. The options under the September 2010 Grant vest over four years, subject to performance conditions based on achieving cumulative EBITDA and indebtedness targets for FY 2011 and the fiscal years ending June 30, 2012 and 2013.

On December 9, 2010 (“December 2010 Grant”), the Company granted options to two members of its Board of Directors to purchase 18,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price equal to the closing market price of the Company’s common stock as of that date, or $2.04 per share, with a vesting period of three years.

On June 23, 2011 (“June 2011 Grant”), the Company granted options to two officers of GFN, seven key employees of Pac-Van and a non-employee consultant to purchase 131,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price equal to the closing market price of the Company’s common stock as of that date, or $2.99 per share. The options under the June 2011 Grant vest over forty-two months, subject to performance conditions based on achieving cumulative EBITDA and indebtedness targets for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2012 — 2014.

On August 25, 2011 (“August 2011 Grant”), the Company granted options to an officer of GFN for 80,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.11, which was equal to the closing market price of the Company’s common stock as of that date. The options under the August 2011 Grant vest over 40 months, subject to performance conditions based on achieving cumulative EBITDA targets for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2012 — 2014.

On December 6, 2011 (“December 2011 Grant”), the Company granted options to three members of its Board of Directors to purchase 27,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price equal to the closing market price of the Company’s common stock as of that date, or $2.58 per share, with a vesting period of three years.

On June 7, 2012 (“June 2012 Grant”), the Company granted options to four officers of GFN, seven key employees of Pac-Van and three non-employee consultants to purchase 264,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price equal to the closing market price of the Company’s common stock as of that date, or $3.15 per share. The options under the June 2012 Grant vest over forty-two months, subject to performance conditions based on achieving cumulative EBITDA and indebtedness targets for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2013 — 2015.

 

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In FY 2012, the weighted-average fair value of the stock options granted was $2.28, determined using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model using the following assumptions: a risk-free interest rate of 1.19% — 1.61%, an expected life of 7.5 years, an expected volatility of 77.9% — 84.6% and no expected dividend. Since inception, the range of the fair value of the stock options granted (other than to non-employee consultants) and the assumptions used are as follows:

 

Fair value of stock option

   $0.81 – $3.94
  

 

Assumptions used:

  

Risk-free interest rate

   1.19% – 4.8%

Expected life (in years)

   7.5

Expected volatility

   26.5% – 84.6%

Expected dividends

  
  

 

At June 30, 2012, the weighted-average fair value of the stock options granted to non-employee consultants was $2.65, determined using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model using the following assumptions: a risk-free interest rate of 1.30% — 1.66%, an expected life of 8.0 — 9.9 years an expected volatility of 77.5%, and no expected dividend.

A summary of the Company’s stock option activity and related information as of and for FY 2011 and FY 2012 follows:

 

     Number of
Options
(Shares)
    Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price
     Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term (Years)
 

Outstanding at June 30, 2010

     1,254,910      $ 6.65      

Granted

     487,000        1.63      

Exercised

     —          —        

Forfeited or expired

     (201,340     3.53      
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

Outstanding at June 30, 2011

     1,540,570        5.47      

Granted

     371,000        3.10      

Exercised

     (6,666     1.22      

Forfeited or expired

     (61,240     7.15      
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

Outstanding at June 30, 2012

     1,843,664      $ 4.96         7.2   
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Vested and expected to vest at June 30, 2012

     1,843,664      $ 4.96         7.2   
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Exercisable at June 30, 2012

     783,781      $ 7.26         5.5   
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

At June 30, 2012, outstanding time-based options and performance-based options totaled 892,384 and 951,280, respectively. Also at that date, the Company’s market price for its common stock was $3.22 per share, which was at or below the exercise prices of almost half of the outstanding stock options. As a result, the intrinsic value of the outstanding stock options at that date was $948,000.

Share-based compensation of $3,599,000 related to stock options has been recognized in the statement of operations, with a corresponding benefit to equity, from inception through June 30, 2012. At that date, there remains $1,517,000 of unrecognized compensation expense to be recorded on a straight-line basis over the remaining weighted-average vesting period of 1.96 years.

A deduction is not allowed for U.S. income tax purposes with respect to non-qualified options granted in the United States until the stock options are exercised or, with respect to incentive stock options issued in the United States, unless the optionee makes a disqualifying disposition of the underlying shares. The amount of any deduction will be the difference between the fair value of the Company’s common stock and the exercise price at the date of exercise. Accordingly, there is a deferred tax asset recorded for the U.S. tax effect of the financial statement expense recorded related to stock option grants in the United States. The tax effect of the U.S. income tax deduction in excess of the financial statement expense, if any, will be recorded as an increase to additional paid-in capital.

 

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Royal Wolf Long Term Incentive Plan

In FY 2011, in conjunction with the RWH IPO, Royal Wolf established the Royal Wolf Long Term Incentive Plan (the “LTI Plan”). Under the LTI Plan, the RWH Board of Directors may grant, at its discretion, options, performance rights and/or restricted shares of RWH capital stock to Royal Wolf employees and executive directors. Vesting terms and conditions may be up to four years and, generally, will be subject to performance criteria based primarily on enhancing shareholder returns using a number of key financial benchmarks, including EBITDA. In addition, unless the RWH Board determines otherwise, if an option, performance right or restricted share has not lapsed or been forfeited earlier, it will terminate at the seventh anniversary from the date of grant.

It is intended that up to one percent of RWH’s outstanding capital stock will be reserved for grant under the LTI Plan and a trust will be established to hold RWH shares for this purpose. However, so long as the Company holds more than 50% of the outstanding shares of RWH capital stock, RWH shares reserved for grant under the LTI Plan are required to be purchased in the open market unless the Company agrees otherwise.

The LTI Plan, among other provisions, does not permit the transfer, sale, mortgage or encumbering of options, performance rights and restricted shares without the prior approval of the RWH Board. In the event of a change of control, the RWH Board, at its discretion, will determine whether, and how many, unvested options, performance rights and restricted shares will vest. In addition, if, in the RWH Board’s opinion, a participant acts fraudulently or dishonestly or is in breach of their obligations to Royal Wolf, the RWH Board may deem any options, performance rights and restricted shares held by or reserved for the participant to have lapsed or been forfeited.

As of June 30, 2012, the Royal Wolf Board of Directors granted 375,000 performance rights in FY 2012 to key management personnel under the LTI Plan. In FY 2012, share-based compensation of $146,000 related to the LTI Plan has been recognized in the statement of operations, with a corresponding benefit to equity.

Note 10. Commitments and Contingencies

Operating Lease Rentals

The Company leases office equipment and other facilities under operating leases. The leases have terms of between one and nine years, some with an option to renew the lease after that period. None of the leases includes contingent rentals. There are no restrictions placed upon the lessee by entering into these leases.

Non-cancellable operating lease rentals at June 30, 2012 are payable as follows (in thousands):

 

Year Ending June 30,

      

2013

   $ 7,680   

2014

     5,672   

2015

     4,183   

2016

     3,627   

2017

     2,075   

Thereafter

     4,869   
  

 

 

 
   $ 28,106   
  

 

 

 

Rental expense on non-cancellable operating leases was $5,593,000 and $7,201,000 in FY 2011 and FY 2012, respectively.

Sales-Type and Operating Fleet Leases

Future minimum receipts under sales-type and operating fleet leases at June 30, 2012 are as follows (in thousands):

 

Year Ending June 30,

      

2013

   $ 8,151   

2014

     2,476   

2015

     1,235   

2016

     1,004   

2017

     855   

Thereafter

     3,649   
  

 

 

 
   $ 17,370   
  

 

 

 

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Bison Capital Put Option

In conjunction with the closing of the acquisition of Royal Wolf (see Note 1), the Company entered into a shareholders agreement with Bison Capital. The shareholders agreement, as amended, provided that, at any time after July 1, 2011, Bison Capital could require the Company to purchase from Bison Capital all of its 13.8% outstanding capital stock of GFN U.S. The purchase price for the capital stock was the greater $12,850,000, or the results of several other formulas, typically based as an 8.25 multiple of EBITDA, as defined. This provision in the shareholders agreement was referred as the “Bison Capital put option” and the Company accreted the redemption value of the Bison Capital put option in FY 2011 to net income or loss attributable to noncontrolling interest. Simultaneously with the RWH IPO (see Note 1) in May 2011, the Company satisfied the Bison Capital put option for $17,634,000 and now owns 100% of GFN U.S.

Preferred Supply Agreement

In connection with a Business Sale Agreement dated November 14, 2007, as amended, with GE SeaCo Australia Pty Ltd. and GE SeaCo SRL (collectively “GE SeaCo”), Royal Wolf entered in a preferred supply agreement with GE SeaCo. Under the preferred supply agreement, GE SeaCo agreed to sell to Royal Wolf, and Royal Wolf has agreed to purchase, all of GE SeaCo’s containers that GE SeaCo determines to sell, up to a maximum of 2,500 containers each year. The purchase price for the containers will be based on their condition and is specified in the agreement, subject to annual adjustment. In addition, Royal Wolf received a right of first refusal to purchase any additional containers that GE SeaCo desires to sell in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Either party may terminate the agreement upon no less than 90 days’ prior notice at any time after November 15, 2012.

Other Matters

The Company is not involved in any material lawsuits or claims arising out of the normal course of business. The nature of its business is such that disputes can occasionally arise with employees, vendors (including suppliers and subcontractors) and customers over warranties, contract specifications and contract interpretations among other things. The Company assesses these matters on a case-by-case basis as they arise. Reserves are established, as required, based on its assessment of its exposure. The Company has insurance policies to cover general liability and workers compensation related claims. In the opinion of management, the ultimate amount of liability not covered by insurance under pending litigation and claims, if any, will not have a material adverse effect on our financial position, operating results or cash flows.

Note 11. Detail of Certain Accounts

Trade payables and accrued liabilities consist of the following (in thousands):

 

     June 30,  
     2011      2012  

Trade payables

   $ 19,316       $ 22,094   

Checks written in excess of bank balance

     1,147         597   

Payroll and related

     6,268         5,758   

Taxes, other than income

     793         2,336   

Fair value of interest swap and option and forward currency exchange contacts

     1,144         1,641   

Accrued interest

     707         428   

Other accruals

     3,147         3,110   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 32,522       $ 35,964   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Note 12. Segment Reporting

The tables below represent the Company’s revenues from external customers, operating income, interest income and expense, share-based compensation expense, depreciation and amortization, expenditures for additions to long-lived assets (consisting of lease fleet and property, plant and equipment), long-lived assets and goodwill; as attributed to its two geographic (and operating) segments (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011     2012  

Revenues from external customers

    

North America:

    

Sales

   $ 17,876      $ 28,839   

Leasing

     38,000        41,443   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     55,876        70,282   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Asia-Pacific:

    

Sales

     74,811        79,502   

Leasing

     51,577        62,455   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     126,388        141,957   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 182,264      $ 212,239   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income (loss)

    

North America

   $ (4,418   $ 2,336   

Asia-Pacific

     14,199        23,909   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 9,781      $ 26,245   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Interest income

    

North America

   $ —        $ 8   

Asia-Pacific

     487        149   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 487      $ 157   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Interest expense

    

North America

   $ 5,792      $ 5,431   

Asia-Pacific

     14,501        7,312   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 20,293      $ 12,743   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Share-based compensation

    

North America

   $ 552      $ 611   

Asia-Pacific

     510        290   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 1,062      $ 901   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Impairment of goodwill

    

North America

   $ 5,858      $ —     

Asia-Pacific

     —          —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 5,858      $ —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

    

North America

   $ 6,087      $ 5,805   

Asia-Pacific

     13,078        13,119   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 19,165      $ 18,924   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Additions to long-lived assets

    

North America

   $ 7,478      $ 12,360   

Asia-Pacific

     36,560        63,985   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 44,038      $ 76,345   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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     At June 30,  
     2011      2012  

Long-lived assets

     

North America

   $ 108,212       $ 112,867   

Asia-Pacific

     124,535         159,323   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 232,747       $ 272,190   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Goodwill

     

North America

   $ 33,303       $ 33,859   

Asia-Pacific

     35,645         34,590   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 68,948       $ 68,449   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Intersegment net revenues totaled $2,237,000 during FY 2011 and $75,000 during FY 2012.

Note 13. Subsequent Events

Effective July 31, 2012, the Company, through Royal Wolf, purchased the business of Tassay Pty Ltd., d.b.a. “Rockhampton Container Sales,” for approximately $654,000 (AUS$624,000). Rockhampton Container Sales leases and sells containers and is based in Rockhampton, Queensland.

On August 14, 2012, the Board of Directors of Royal Wolf declared a dividend of AUS$0.045 per RWH share payable on October 2, 2012 to shareholders of record on September 20, 2012.

On September 7, 2012, Pac-Van entered into a new five-year, senior secured revolving credit facility with a syndicate led by Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, that also includes HSBC Bank USA, NA, and the Private Bank and Trust Company (the “ New Pac-Van Credit Facility “). Under the New Pac-Van Credit Facility, Pac-Van may borrow up to $110 million, subject to the terms of a borrowing base, as defined, and provides for the issuance of irrevocable standby letters of credit in amounts totaling up to $5 million. Borrowings will accrue interest, at Pac-Van’s option, either at the base rate plus 1.75% to 2.25% or the LIBOR rate plus 2.75% to 3.25%. The New Pac-Van Credit Facility contains, among other things, certain financial covenants, including fixed charge coverage ratios and utilization ratios, and provides that at any time prior to September 7, 2016, Pac-Van, subject to certain conditions, may increase the amount that may be borrowed under the Credit Facility by $10 million to a maximum of $120 million. In connection with the New Pac-Van Credit Facility, all outstanding amounts due under the PNC Credit Facility and Laminar Note were fully repaid and, in addition, the Valenta Limited Guaranty was terminated (see Note 5).

 

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Schedule CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF REGISTRANT

SCHEDULE I — CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF REGISTRANT

 

GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION

(PARENT COMPANY INFORMATION)

CONDENSED BALANCE SHEETS

 

     June 30,  
     2011      2012  
     (in thousands)  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 6,019       $ 6,438   

Property and equipment, net

     24         12   

Other assets

     376         275   

Investment and intercompany accounts

     111,043         108,084   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Assets

   $ 117,462       $ 114,809   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Accounts payable, accrued and other liabilities

   $ 1,168       $ 1,019   

Senior and other debt

     15,110         15,073   

Other deferred credits

     8,095         1,523   

General Finance Corporation stockholders’ equity

     93,089         97,194   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

   $ 117,462       $ 114,809   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION

(PARENT COMPANY INFORMATION)

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011     2012  
     (in thousands)  

General and administrative expenses

   $ 3,178      $ 3,545   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Equity in earnings (losses) of subsidiaries

     (8,457 )     3,274   

Intercompany income

     3,915        4,377   

Interest expense

     (1,902     (1,988

Other income, net

     2,746        8   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     (3,698 )     5,671   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income (loss )before income taxes

     (6,876 )     2,126   

Income tax provision (benefit)

     8,839        (487
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss) attributable to stockholders

     (15,715     2,613   

Preferred stock dividends

     177        177   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders

   $ (15,892 )   $ 2,436   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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SCHEDULE I — CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION OF REGISTRANT

 

GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION

(PARENT COMPANY INFORMATION)

CONDENSED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

     Year Ended June 30,  
     2011     2012  
     (in thousands)  

Cash flows from operating activities:

    

Net income (loss) attributable to stockholders

   $ (15,715 )   $ 2,613   

Equity in (earnings) losses of subsidiaries

     8,457        (3,274

Unrealized foreign exchange gain

     (2,935     —     

Depreciation and amortization

     92        46   

Share-based compensation expense

     458        414   

Deferred income taxes

     8,839        (487

Changes in operating assets and liabilities

     2,728        (223
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided (used) by operating activities

     1,924        (911
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities:

    

Acquisitions, net of cash acquired

     —          —     

Purchases of property and equipment

     —          (4

Purchases of intangible assets

     —          —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used by investing activities

     —          (4
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities:

    

Proceeds from (payments of) senior and other debt borrowings

     15,000        (37

Deferred financing costs

     (89     —     

Proceeds from issuances of common stock

     —          8   

Payment of redeemable noncontrolling interest

     (17,634     —     

Preferred stock dividends

     (177 )     (177 )

Intercompany transfers

     2,941        1,540   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by financing activities

     41        1,334   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase in cash

     1,965        419   

Cash at beginning of period

     4,054        6,019   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash at end of period

   $ 6,019      $ 6,438   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Exhibit Description

21.1    Subsidiaries of General Finance Corporation
23.1    Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
31.1    Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to SEC Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
31.2    Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to SEC Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a)
32.1    Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350
32.2    Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §1350