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| We believe there is great potential in this market, and this will be a sustainable repeatable business for SPAR |
| And again, we're already experiencing recovery on this, some of the notes I made in the -- a moment ago, that we're up 60% from second quarter to third quarter back in our remodel |
| Our results reflect growth in our merchandising services, strong progress in distribution services and the beginning of a recovery in our remodel services |
| merchandising business of 27% in the third quarter and 72% top line growth in our Canadian business are a good example of the material market opportunity we have in North America |
| South Africa, while challenged on revenue, increased gross margin percent by 90 basis point and Brazil delivered a 230 basis point improvement over the same period last year |
| Our focus on operating results, portfolio contribution and capital structure will evolve over the next few quarters, but I'm confident this at SPAR for years to come as a strong leading services provider |
| I'm excited about the next several quarters and our opportunity in the market |
| I am pleased with our continued progress on profitability and our ability to successfully recruit, retain and reward great talent to serve our clients |
| This highly respected business leaders, each brings valuable experience to further enhance and balance the diverse skills on the board, and develop our strategic growth plans to unlock value |
| Similar to the second quarter, we continue to see strong sales momentum for the third quarter related to merchandise services in the U.S., Canada, Brazil and Mexico |
| Our distribution business had an exceptionally strong third quarter |
| As Mike mentioned earlier, our Americas segment reflects strong merchandising revenues with softness from the U.S |
| As far as one of the most unique and successful services business in the market, we have a tangible window of opportunity for the next several years to take more market share, grow the bottom line and expand our value-added services |
| We and I personally look forward to benefiting from their expertise as SPAR Group continues to accelerate its business strategy and build on its position as a leading global merchandising, marketing and distribution services company |
| This is our fourth successive quarter in a row of gross margin percent improvement |
| I'm grateful to lead this outstanding group of people and look forward to building shareholder value and generating revenue, profitability and incremental cash flow |
| The great strength in our merchandising services business was offset on a consolidated basis by our Asia Pacific businesses |
| The company's balance sheet remains strong and total worldwide liquidity at quarter end was $12.4 million, with $8 million in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash and $4.4 million of unused availability at quarter end |
| We believe there is material incremental opportunity in a growing addressable market as more brands and retailers turn to us for the last product touch and driving consumer experience |
| It's a much healthier margin business for us than remodels |
| We launched this business 24 months ago, and we are building momentum each quarter |
| We expect this to fully recover over the next 12 months, and we are positioned to take even more share as we look forward |
| And some of what we see the benefit of when merchandising grow so quickly and has grown over the last four quarters |
| merchandising business grew by 27% |
| Attributable adjusted EBITDA is up 23.8% for the first nine months of the year |
| Mike discussed this 150 basis point improvement from the prior year, which was based on improvement contract terms and pricing, system enhancements and other cost containment as well as services mix shifts in the quarter |
| This provides us more opportunity, but it also means we've become an important part of how they operate and succeed in a way, their success is connected to our plans and growth |
| Canada merchandising grew by 23%, Mexico by 28% and Brazil by 10% |
| This is completely aligned with how we think of the market opportunity as more and more large clients turn to us, take over their field organizations or provide services, we're exploring improved terms that improve our liquidity and reduce our carrying expense |
| merchandising gross margin was up 290 basis points |
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| Third quarter 2023 net revenues totaled $67.3 million, a decline of 3.6% on reported numbers |
| The third quarter operating income was $1.5 million, down 10.4% versus operating income of $1.7 million in the prior year quarter |
| On a consolidated basis, our third quarter revenue was down 3.6% |
| Reported revenues by segment for quarter three versus the prior year were essentially flat for the Americas, while EMEA declined 12.1% and APAC revenue declined by 20.6% |
| remodel business was still softer than the same period last year, it was up 60% over the second quarter this year |
| Our Asia Pacific business represents 8.4% of our revenue but declined 21% in the third quarter |
| I've noted in prior calls that clients had delayed remodel transformation projects early in the year |
| Part of the challenge in Mexico still remains for us to get our cost structure right |
| EMEA, which is comprised of South Africa which now makes up 11.7% of our revenue, declined 12%, making our performance in the Americas, which is the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, the cornerstone of our results |
| As a reminder, I shared on prior calls that some of our remodel clients had pushed out or delayed remodel work |
| for Q3 was $259,000 or $0.01 per share compared to a net loss of $32,000 or $0 per share in the year ago quarter |
| Again, I expect the remodel transformation service business to take another nine to 12 months to fully recover |
| While the U.S |
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