NAPLES, Fla., March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Food
Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: IVFH), a marketer and purveyor of over 5,000
high quality gourmet food products throughout the United States to professional chefs and to
the gourmet consumer market, announced today full year 2011 record
results.
Net revenues were a record $11.5
million for the year ended December
31, 2011, an approximate 17% increase compared to net
revenues of $9.8 million for
2010.
The Company's EBITDA (without operations related stock, warrant
and options related gains/losses) increased by over 25% to
$510,645, compared to $405,318 in EBITDA (without operations related
stock, warrant and options related gains/losses) for 2010.
Highlights for 2011 included:
- Continuing improvement in revenues and operating profits
- Further improved balance sheet by the repayment or conversion
of over $600,000 in principal and
interest of convertible notes
- Continue to improve cash position; Cash at year end was over
$860,000
- 29 consecutive months of month over month record revenues
- Launched new website, www.forthegourmet.com, in December 2011
By the end of 2011 the Company had the following profile:
- Manages the premier gourmet food program with one of the
leading foodservice providers in the
United States.
- High quality demographic: foodservice customer base of
over 24,000 professional chefs in some of the finest restaurants,
hotels and other Foodservice establishments across the United States.
- Customer satisfaction rate of approximately 99 %.
- An ability to leverage its market position and market
reputation to introduce and grow new private label products.
- A platform which enabled the retail and wholesale, purchase,
sale and delivery of over 99,000 packages on a yearly basis. This
represents a more than a 40% increase versus the number of packages
shipped in 2010, while maintaining a very high level of customer
satisfaction.
- A logistics, distribution and customer service platform which
can handle significant additional sales growth at low incremental
cost.
- Overall Sales of over $11.5
million with strong operating profits and strong operating
cash flow.
- Approximately $ 860,000 cash in
the bank at the end of 2011.
- Market cap of approximately $2.2
million.
About Innovative Food Holdings
Innovative Food Holdings, Inc., through its wholly owned
subsidiaries, is in the business of marketing and selling high
quality gourmet food.
About Food innovations
Food Innovations, Inc., in partnership with one of the largest
Foodservice distributors in the United
States, provides over 5,000 of the highest quality gourmet
food products to professional chefs throughout the United States. To learn more, visit the
Food Innovations website at www.foodinno.com. Food Innovations is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Innovative Food Holdings, Inc.
About For The Gourmet, Inc. Through its website, and through
additional sales channels, For The Gourmet, Inc. provides the
highest quality gourmet food products to the retail consumer market
under the For The Gourmet line at www.forthegourmet.com. To learn
more visit the For The Gourmet website at
http://www.forthegourmet.com/. For The Gourmet, Inc. is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Innovative Food Holdings, Inc.
This release contains certain forward-looking statements and
information relating to Innovative Food Holdings, Inc. (the
"Company") that are based on the current beliefs of the Company's
management, as well as assumptions made by, and information
currently available to, the Company. Such statements reflect the
current views of the Company with respect to future events and are
subject to certain assumptions, including those described in this
release. Should one or more of these underlying assumptions prove
incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described
herein as should, could, anticipate, believe, intend, plan, might,
potentially or expect. The Company does not intend to update these
forward-looking statements.
Contact:
Innovative Food Holdings, Inc.
Sam Klepfish
(239) 449-3235
sklepfish@innovativefoodholdings.com
Innovative Food Holdings, Inc.
IR@Innovativefoodholdings.com
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