UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-K

 

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

For the Fiscal Year Ended January 2, 2010

Commission File Number 001-32374

 

SYMMETRY MEDICAL INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Delaware		35-1996126
(State of Incorporation)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

3724 North State Road 15
Warsaw, Indiana 46582

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

(574) 268-2252

(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:
Common Stock, Par Value $0.001 Per Share		New York Stock Exchange

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 of the Securities Act. Yes o 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 o No x

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (l) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of l934 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 past 90 days. Yes x No o

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 (S232.405 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 o No o

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (229.405 of this chapter) 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. o

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 the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and” smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer o		Accelerated filer x		Non-accelerated filer o		Smaller reporting company o

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

The aggregate market value of voting stock of Symmetry Medical Inc. held by non-affiliates of the Registrant as of July 4, 2009, based on the closing price was $9.13, as reported by the New York Stock Exchange: Approximately $327.0 million.

The number of shares outstanding of the registrant’s common stock as of March 2, 2010 was 35,839,550.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Certain information is incorporated into Part III of this report by reference to the Registrant’s 2010 Proxy Statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this Form 10-K.

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PART I
Item 1. Business			1
Item 1A. Risk Factors			14
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments			25
Item 2. Properties			25
Item 3. Legal Proceedings			25
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders			26
PART II
Item 5. Market for the Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities			27
Item 6. Selected Financial Data			29
Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations			31
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risks			43
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data			45
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure			73
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures			73
Item 9B. Other Information			73
PART III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance			74
Item 11. Executive Compensation			74
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters			74
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions and Director Independence			74
Item 14. Principal Accounting Fees and Services			74
PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules			75
Signatures			77

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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Throughout this Annual Report on Form 10-K, or in other reports or registration statements filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or under the Securities Act of 1933, as well as in documents we incorporate by reference or in press releases or oral statements made by our officers or representatives, we may make statements that express our opinions, expectations, or projections regarding future events or future results, in contrast with statements that reflect historical facts. These predictive statements, which we generally precede or accompany by such typical conditional words such as “anticipate,” “intend,” “believe,” “estimate,” “plan,” “seek,” “project,” “potential,” or “expect,” or by the words “may,” “will,” “could,” or “should,” and similar expressions or terminology are intended to operate as “forward-looking statements” of the kind permitted by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. That legislation protects such predictive statements by creating a “safe harbor” from liability in the event that a particular prediction does not turn out as anticipated.

Forward-looking statements convey our current expectations or forecast future events. While we always intend to express our best judgment when we make statements about what we believe will occur in the future, and although we base these statements on assumptions that we believe to be reasonable when made, these forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of performance, and you should not place undue reliance on such statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to many uncertainties and other variable circumstances, many of which are outside of our control, that could cause our actual results and experience to differ materially from those we thought would occur.

We also refer you to and believe that you should carefully read the portion of this report described in “Risk Factors” to better understand the risks and uncertainties that are inherent in our business and in owning our securities.

Any forward-looking statements which we make in this report or in any of the documents that are incorporated by reference herein speak only as of the date of such statement, and we undertake no ongoing obligation to update such statements. Comparisons of results between current and any prior periods are not intended to express any future trends or indications of future performance, unless expressed as such, and should only be viewed as historical data.

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PART I

Item 1. Business

General

Symmetry Medical Inc. (which we sometimes refer to, together with our consolidated subsidiaries, as the “Corporation,” “we,” “our” or “Symmetry”) is a leading independent provider of implants and related instruments and cases to global orthopedic device manufacturers. We design, develop and produce these products for companies in other segments of the medical device market, including the dental, osteobiologic and endoscopy segments, and we also provide limited specialized products to non-healthcare markets, such as the aerospace market. Our Total Solutions® concept provides our customers a collaborative process for developing complete implant systems, including the implant, the surgical instruments, and the related case. This approach presents our customers with a broad range of products, as well as comprehensive design, engineering and project management services and state of the art production capabilities to help them bring their implant systems to market quickly and efficiently. We believe that our Total Solutions® approach gives us a competitive advantage.

During fiscal year 2009, we generated revenue of $365.9 million, derived primarily from the sale of products to the orthopedic device market and other medical markets. Our Total Solutions® approach is supported by an experienced team of designers, development engineers, logistics specialists and by our global sales force that work with our customers to coordinate all of our products.

Our primary products include:

History

Our business was established in 1976 as a supplier of instruments to orthopedic device manufacturers. Symmetry Medical Inc. was incorporated in Delaware on July 25, 1996. Over the past four years, we have made several acquisitions which expanded our customer base, enhanced our product offerings and extended our product lines.

In 2006, we acquired Riley Medical and Everest Metal. On May 2, 2006 we acquired all of the stock of Riley Medical, Inc., a privately owned company based in Auburn, Maine, and Riley Medical Europe S.A., its Swiss subsidiary (collectively “Riley Medical”). Riley Medical specializes in cases and trays for the orthopedic industry and was acquired for approximately $45.8 million. The acquisition of Riley Medical included many patented products and expanded our product offering of medical cases and trays to the medical markets. In 2008, the Switzerland facility was consolidated into our operations in France. In 2009, we announced the planned consolidation of Riley Medical into our other case facilities during 2010. On August 31, 2006, we acquired certain assets of Everest Metal Finishing, LLC now located in Hillburn, New York, and all of the issued and outstanding stock of Everest Metal International, Limited located in Cork, Ireland (collectively “Everest Metal”) for approximately $10.3 million. Everest Metal specializes in machining and finishing for the orthopedic industry.

During 2007, we acquired Clamonta Ltd., TNCO, Inc., Specialty Surgical Instrumentation, Inc. and UCA, LLC. On January 9, 2007, we acquired all of the stock of Whedon Limited, located in Warwickshire, United Kingdom and the holding company of Clamonta Limited (collectively “Clamonta Ltd”) for approximately $10.4 million. Clamonta Ltd machines and finishes products for the global aerospace industry. On April 3, 2007, we acquired all of the stock of TNCO, Inc. (“TNCO”) located in Whitman, Massachusetts. TNCO was a privately owned company with a 40-year history of designing and supplying instruments for arthroscopic, laparoscopic, sinus and other minimally invasive procedures. TNCO was acquired for

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approximately $7.6 million and allows us to leverage our instrument manufacturing while also leveraging their customer base in non-orthopedic segments of the healthcare market. In 2009, the TNCO facility was consolidated into operations in New Bedford, Massachusetts. On August 31, 2007, we acquired Specialty Surgical Instrumentation, Inc. and UCA, LLC (collectively “SSI”) located in Nashville, Tennessee for approximately $14.6 million in cash. SSI distributes surgical instruments and sterilization containers directly to hospitals. The addition of SSI allows us to offer a broad array of medical instruments and related products to our customer base. This includes over 13,000 individual items, many of which are held in inventory for quick delivery. For Symmetry, this was our first entry into the medical product distribution industry which provides us direct access to hospitals.

Finally, in January of 2008, we acquired DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.’s New Bedford, Massachusetts instrument manufacturing facility (“New Bedford”) for approximately $45.2 million. This facility manufactures orthopedic instruments as well as general surgical instruments and small implants. In connection with the acquisition, we entered into a supply agreement which, starting January 25, 2008, requires DePuy to make minimum purchases totaling $106 million from New Bedford for a four year period, with specific amounts in each year. The agreement stipulates that these purchases are incremental to other products we previously produced on DePuy’s behalf. These minimum purchases have been met for fiscal 2009 and 2008.

Our Total Solutions® Approach

We believe that we have created a distinct competitive position in the orthopedic device market based upon our Total Solutions® approach. Our Total Solutions® approach presents our customers with a broad range of products, as well as comprehensive design, engineering and project management services and state of the art production capabilities to help bring their implant systems to market quickly and efficiently.

Our Total Solutions® offering is based on:

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We believe that our Total Solutions® approach offers a number of benefits to our customers, including:

In recent years, we have further developed our Total Solutions® offering through strategic acquisitions which expanded our product offerings to include medical cases and trays to non-orthopedic medical markets, additional patented products, enhanced implant finishing capabilities and minimally invasive instrumentation.

Business Strategy

Our goal is to increase our share of the orthopedic device market and to leverage our strengths to expand in other medical device market segments. The key elements of our business strategy are to:

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We believe all of our acquisitions support our stated strategies and strengthen our business model because they diversify our sales into other medical markets, which allows us to cross sell our products, increase our product offerings and provide strategic locations that we can use as a base for expansion of our business.

Products

We design, develop and manufacture implants and related surgical instruments and cases for orthopedic device companies. We also design, develop and manufacture products for companies in other medical device markets, such as dental, osteobiologic and endoscopy, and we provide specialized products used in the aerospace market. We also market and sell highly specialized operating room products, such as instrumentation, fiber optic light sources and non-toxic enzymatic detergent, targeted directly to specialty surgeons. Our revenue from the sale of instruments, implants, cases and other products represented 45.6%, 29.5%, 18.7% and 6.2%, respectively, of our revenue in fiscal 2009, compared with 41.9%, 29.0%, 20.4% and 8.7%, respectively, of our revenue in fiscal 2008.

Implants

We design, develop and manufacture implants for use in specific implant systems developed by our customers. We make orthopedic implants used primarily in knee and hip implant systems. Our orthopedic implants are used in reconstructive surgeries to replace or repair hips, knees and other joints, such as shoulders, ankles and elbows (sometimes referred to as extremities), that have deteriorated as a result of disease or injury. An orthopedic implant system is generally comprised of several implants designed to work in concert to replicate the structure and function of a healthy joint.

We also manufacture implant products for trauma, spine and other implant systems. Trauma implant systems are used primarily to reattach or stabilize damaged bone or tissue while the body heals. Spinal implant systems are used by orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons in the treatment of degenerative diseases, deformities and injuries in various regions of the spine.

Our design, engineering and prototyping expertise is an integral part of our implant offering. Medical device companies, which typically focus their resources on developing new implant systems as well as sales and marketing, may rely on us and companies like us to design, develop and manufacture the implants that comprise their implant systems. Our manufacturing capabilities, including our net shaped forging capabilities, technologically advanced casting facility and machining expertise, allow us to produce consistent, tight tolerance implants in large volumes for our customers.

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We produce gross shaped, near-net shaped and net shaped implants for medical device manufacturers. Gross shaped implants require a significant amount of machining and hand processing post-forging. Near-net shaped implants are distinguished by geometric features that are thinner; more detailed and have tighter tolerances. Net shaped and near-net shaped implants require far fewer machine and hand operations post-forging. Net shaped implants typically require machining only on vital areas, such as the taper segment of a hip where it is joined to the femoral head.

We have the machining expertise needed to provide finished implants to our customers. Some customers purchase finished implants from us while others purchase unfinished implants and machine them to final specifications.

Our primary implant products and their applications are:

Instruments

We make high-precision surgical instruments used in hip, knee and shoulder reconstruction procedures, as well as in spinal, trauma and other implant procedures. We design, develop and manufacture implant-specific and procedure-specific instruments. In addition, we have several orthopedic reamer systems used by many of our large customers. We typically do not manufacture general surgical instruments, but will procure them as an offering to our customers in order to provide our customers with complete instrument sets. We also market and sell highly specialized operating room instrumentation targeted directly to specialty surgeons. We currently have over 1,500 Symmetry standard products in our catalog plus over 13,000 individual items sold directly to hospitals.

We primarily make a wide range of knee cutting blocks (instruments that guide blades that cut bone), osteotome revision systems (instruments used to cut through bone), reamers (instruments used for shaping bone sockets or cavities) and retractors (instruments used to pull back tissue for clear sight during surgery). Some of our instrument handles are made with our patented plastic insertion machine, which is designed to withstand the intense heat produced during frequent sterilizations and is attached to the instrument. Our instruments are made to tight tolerances to ensure precise alignment and fitting of implants.

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Each implant system typically has an associated instrument set that is used in the surgical procedure to insert that specific implant system. Instruments included in a set vary by implant system. For example, hip and knee implant procedure instrument sets often contain in excess of 100 instruments, whereas revision procedure sets may contain approximately 50 instruments. Usually, instrument sets are sterilized after each use and then reused.

The instruments we produce are typically used in either open, minimally invasive, or revision implant procedures and can generally be categorized as:

Implant-Specific Instruments.  The size, shape and other features of each implant system are unique. Consequently, unique instruments must be used to ensure precise alignment and fitting during the surgical procedure to insert an implant system. Accordingly, when a medical device company develops a new implant system, it typically also develops instruments specifically designed to insert the implant system. Medical device companies typically provide complete, customized implant-specific instrument sets to end users (hospitals, outpatient centers and physicians) in order to facilitate use of the implant.

We seek to collaborate with our customers early in the development process to facilitate the concurrent design of the implant system and the instruments that will accompany the system. Our implant-specific instruments generally include customized reamers, cutting blocks, broaches, rasps, guides and other instruments designed to accommodate the unique size, shape and other features of our customers’ implant systems. These instruments are used by the surgeon to cut and shape bone and cavities during the surgical procedure and to align and fit the implant system. We are recognized in the orthopedic community for constructing these instruments to extremely tight tolerances.

Procedure-Specific Instruments.  We also manufacture independently developed instruments referred to as our Symmetry products. We have developed these products through our years of experience serving the orthopedic market and our investments in research and development. Complete implant procedure instrument sets typically include certain instruments that are designed for a particular type of procedure but can be used with the implant systems of multiple companies. By purchasing our proven Symmetry products, customers can leverage our extensive experience and expertise to complete their instrument sets more quickly and efficiently.

Our Symmetry products include successful hip and knee revision systems. Instruments that make up revision systems, which are used to remove orthopedic implants, are typically designed for a specific type of procedure but can be used to remove various brands of implants. These self-contained systems include an assortment of osteotome blades that assist the surgeon in separating an implant from cement or bone in-growth where access is limited, while minimizing damage to the bone. Our established revision systems can also be readily modified for a customer by adding additional instruments.

Specialty Surgical Instrumentation.  We distribute a wide array of instruments and related products directly to hospitals. These instruments comprise cutting, dissecting, grasping, cauterizing, ligating, coagulating, hot blade cutting, bi-polar and mono-polar instruments as well as reusable and disposable instruments. Most of these instruments are sold into specialty operating room settings, including neurology, ophthalmology, rhinoplasty, reconstructive, cardiovascular, thoracic, vascular, laparoscopic, and gynecology.

Cases

We produce a wide range of plastic, metal and hybrid cases used in over 25 medical device markets, including orthopedic, arthroscopy, osteobiologic, endoscopy, cardiovascular, dental, ophthalmology, diagnostic imaging and ear, nose and throat surgical procedures. Cases are used to store, transport and arrange implant systems and other medical devices and related surgical instruments. Our cases are generally designed to allow for sterilization and re-use after an implant or other surgical procedure is performed. Our plastic cases are designed to withstand the intense heat produced during the sterilization process.

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Many of the cases we make are tailored for specific implant procedures so that the instruments, implants and other devices are arranged within the case to match the order of use in the procedure and are securely held in clearly labeled, custom-formed pockets. We seek to collaborate with our customers early in the development processes to facilitate the concurrent design of the case and related instruments.

We also produce standard cases which are primarily used in the non-orthopedic market segments where the security or presentation of the instruments and devices is less important. Over the past several years, we have made a significant investment to obtain 510(k) clearance for our PolyVac line of standard cases through the FDA pre-market notification process. We believe this allows our customers to reduce time to market and to reallocate financial and human resources that would otherwise be spent on compliance efforts, which provides us with a significant competitive advantage in selling our standard cases.

We have 40 patents related to our case designs and manufacturing processes. We believe that our complete line of plastic, metal and hybrid product offerings strategically positions us in the case market. We also offer medical containers which are used by hospitals to hold instruments when they are sterilized.

Highlights of our case product offerings include:

Specialized Non-Healthcare Products

We offer specialized non-healthcare products on a limited basis. One of our UK based facilities produced a range of cutting tools, cutlery and surgical instruments in the 1950s. This facility evolved to focus on net shaped forgings, which resulted in a business focusing on orthopedic instruments and aerospace products for jet engines in the late 1990s. Our core design, engineering and manufacturing competencies give us the expertise to offer aerospace products. Our aerospace products primarily are net shaped aerofoils and non-rotating aircraft engine forgings produced for our aerospace customers. Additionally, our offering in the aerospace industry includes aerospace machining capabilities.

Product Development

Our Design and Development Centers provide dedicated expertise and greater coordination for our design, engineering and prototyping offerings. Our main Design and Development Center is located in Warsaw, Indiana, and brings together talented engineering and design personnel and provides them with state-of-the-art design software and prototyping equipment. Our Design and Development Centers serve to centralize and better institutionalize our design and engineering knowledge and creates a fertile environment for new product development. We can coordinate the product development projects for our customers as well as the efforts of our engineers and designers in order to ensure that we have the appropriate people and technology focused on particular product development initiatives. We also have Design and Development Centers in Manchester, New Hampshire, Lansing, Michigan, Cheltenham, UK and Penang, Malaysia.

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We seek to collaborate with our customers’ product development teams and to assist in the design, engineering and prototyping of new medical device systems from the beginning of the development process. Our sales staff is technically trained and works closely with our customers’ staff. As new product concepts are formulated, our sales people bring in our design and engineering personnel and utilize the resources of our Design and Development Centers to provide dedicated design teams with exceptional knowledge and experience. As a project evolves, we can rapidly create prototypes of the proposed product, instrument, case or implant. Working closely with our customers through the conceptual, planning and prototyping stages positions allows us to quickly scale up for manufacturing of the product.

In addition to supporting our customers’ product development efforts, our Design and Development Centers are continuously developing our own product lines, which we refer to as Symmetry products. We develop products by utilizing years of experience and knowledge, investing in research and development and continually seeking to expand our knowledge of the marketplace by consulting surgeons and other end users of our products. We currently offer over 1,500 Symmetry products, including instruments for minimally invasive surgical implant procedures and hip and knee revision systems.

Environmental Issues

Our discussion of environmental issues is presented under the caption “Environmental” in Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in this Form 10-K.

Capital Investment

Information concerning our capital expenditures is presented under the caption “Capital Expenditures” in Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in this Form 10-K.

Customers

We supply our products primarily to manufacturers in the medical device market. Our customers include large orthopedic device manufacturers, including Biomet Inc., DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, (“Depuy”), Medtronic Inc., Smith & Nephew plc, Stryker Corp. and Zimmer Holdings, Inc. (“Zimmer”). We also have established relationships, primarily through our case product offerings, with leading medical device manufacturers and distributors in numerous other medical device market segments, including Cardinal Health, Inc., Karl Storz, Edward Lifesciences and St. Jude Medical Inc. With the addition of SSI in August 2007, we serve over 1,000 additional customers, some of which own multiple hospitals.

We sold to approximately 1,850 customers in fiscal 2009. Sales to our ten largest customers represented 73.1% and 70.7% of our revenue in fiscal 2009 and 2008, respectively. Our largest customer accounted for 39.1% of our revenue in fiscal 2009 and our two largest customers accounted for 33.0% and 11.1% of our revenue in fiscal 2008. Our largest customer in fiscal 2009 was DePuy. Our largest customers in 2008 were DePuy and Zimmer. No other customer accounted for more than 10% of our revenue in fiscal 2009 or fiscal 2008. We typically serve several product teams and facilities within each of our largest customers, which mitigate our reliance on any particular customer. Over the past four years, we have reduced our concentration in the orthopedic industry with the acquisitions of Riley Medical, TNCO and SSI, which are primarily in non-orthopedic medical markets, and Clamonta Ltd, which serves the aerospace industry. We may experience a seasonal impact of the orthopedic industry on revenue in the third quarter because many of our products are used in elective procedures that tend to decline to some degree during the summer months.

We sell our products to customers domestically and in a number of regions outside the United States. In addition, our customers often distribute globally products purchased from us in the United States. Set forth below is a summary of percent of revenue by selected geographic locations in our last three fiscal years, based on the location to which we shipped our products:

		Fiscal Year Ended
		2009				2008				2007
United States			73.3	%			71.5	%			61.1	%
United Kingdom			8.0	%			13.0	%			18.8	%
Ireland			10.2	%			7.5	%			9.1	%
Other foreign countries			8.5	%			8.0	%			11.0	%
Total net revenues			100.0	%			100.0	%			100.0	%

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Sales and Marketing

Our sales and marketing efforts emphasize our design and engineering expertise, internally developed Symmetry products, manufacturing capabilities, international distribution network and our ability to provide customers with a comprehensive product offering. We are increasingly presenting our products to customers in a Total Solutions® concept which offers the customer a collaborator for developing complete implant, instrument and case solutions.

We have over 70 sales and marketing personnel worldwide serving our Original Equipment Manufacturer (“OEM”) customers and more than 30 direct sales personnel selling directly to hospitals. In addition to our internal sales efforts, we also sell standard cases through distributors. Our sales personnel are trained in all of our products in order to cross-sell and identify opportunities outside their immediate area of focus. We typically serve several product teams and facilities within each OEM customer which diminishes our reliance on any one purchasing decision. Our customer base for cases extends into nearly every segment of the medical device market. We believe there is a significant opportunity to leverage our existing relationships among this customer base to achieve greater penetration of our customized instrument and implant products. We intend to increase our marketing of implants, instruments and our Total Solutions® concept to these customers.

Our sales personnel are technically trained and are based in close proximity to or located at our largest customers’ sites. This physical proximity allows sales personnel to engage quickly with the marketing, design, engineering and purchasing staffs of these orthopedic device manufacturers. Our sales people are empowered to bring in design and engineering product development teams to facilitate a customer’s efforts. Our goal is to collaborate with customers early in the development cycle and to continue through production, packaging, delivery and logistics.

Manufacturing and Materials

We have manufacturing facilities in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Malaysia. We have made investments in recent years to modernize our production facilities, improve our production processes and develop superior technical skills that complement our manufacturing capabilities. These investments have allowed us to continue to improve the quality of our products, increase our manufacturing capacity and improve our efficiency. Our manufacturing processes include:

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The majority of products that we produce are customized to the unique specifications of our customers. Our ability to maintain flexible operations is an important factor in maintaining high levels of productivity. We endeavor to use “just-in-time” manufacturing and flexible manufacturing cells in our production processes. Just-in-time manufacturing is a production technique that minimizes work-in-process inventory and manufacturing cycles. Manufacturing cells are clusters of individual manufacturing operations and work stations grouped in a circular configuration, with the operators placed centrally within the configuration. Cell manufacturing provides flexibility by allowing efficient changes to the number of operations each operator performs, which enhances our ability to maintain product volumes that are consistent with our customers’ requirements and reduce our level of inventory.

We use raw materials, including titanium, cobalt chrome, stainless steel and nickel alloys, and various other components in the manufacture of our products. Although we generally believe these materials are readily available from multiple sources, from time to time we rely on a limited number of suppliers and in some cases on a single source vendor. For example, we obtain patented Radel® R plastic, which is designed to withstand intense heat produced during frequent sterilizations, from a single supplier for use in our instrument handles and plastic cases.

Quality Assurance

We maintain a comprehensive quality assurance and quality control program, which includes the control and documentation of all material specifications, operating procedures, equipment maintenance and quality control methods. Our quality systems are based upon FDA requirements and the ISO standards for medical device manufacturers. We believe that all of our facilities are currently in substantial compliance with regulations applicable to them. For example, in the United States and United Kingdom these regulations include the current good manufacturing practice regulations and other quality system regulations imposed by the FDA. Specific United States based facilities are registered with and audited by the FDA. Our line of PolyVac standard cases received FDA 510(k) clearance, which can reduce our customers’ burden in obtaining FDA approval. The European, Malaysia and specific United States based facilities are ISO registered and audited annually. Our facilities have obtained numerous industry-specific quality and regulatory assurance certifications.

Competition

Our OEM customers, to varying degrees, are capable of internally developing and producing most of the products we provide. While we believe that our comprehensive offerings and core production competencies allow medical device companies to reduce costs and shorten time to market, one or more of our customers may seek to expand their development and manufacturing operations which may reduce their reliance on independent suppliers such as us. We compete on the basis of development capability, breadth of product offering, manufacturing quality, cost and on time delivery.

We also compete with independent suppliers of implants, instruments and cases to medical device companies. A majority of these suppliers are privately owned and produce some, but not all, of the products required in orthopedic implant systems. We compete with other independent suppliers primarily on the basis of development capability, breadth of product offering, manufacturing quality, cost and on time delivery. We believe that we are the largest independent supplier of implants, instruments and cases to orthopedic device manufacturers. However, other independent suppliers may consolidate and some of our current and future competitors, either alone or in conjunction with their respective parent corporate groups, may have financial resources and research and development, sales and marketing, and manufacturing capabilities and brand recognition that are greater than ours.

Intellectual Property

We believe our patents are valuable; however, our knowledge, experience, proprietary and trade secret information, manufacturing processes, product design and development staff and sales staff have been equally or more important in maintaining our competitive position. We seek to protect our non-patented know-how, trade secrets, processes and other proprietary confidential information principally through confidentiality, non-compete and invention assignment agreements.

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We currently own 89 total issued patents and 55 patents pending related to our cases and instruments. These patents expire at various times beginning in 2011 and ending in 2026. We also have 27 issued trademarks and 7 pending trademarks. Our policy is to protect technology, inventions and improvements that we consider important through the use of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets in the United States and significant foreign markets. If our products were found to infringe any proprietary right of a third party, we could be required to pay significant damages or license fees to the third party or cease production, marketing and distribution of those products. Litigation may be necessary to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets or other proprietary information we own and to determine the validity and scope of our proprietary rights.

We cannot provide complete assurance that our existing or future patents, if any, will afford adequate protection, that any existing patent applications will result in issued patents, that our patents will not be circumvented, invalidated, or held unenforceable, that our proprietary information will not become known to, or be independently developed by, our competitors, or that the validity or enforceability of any patents or other intellectual property owned by or licensed to us will be upheld if challenged by others in litigation. Due to these and other risks, we do not rely solely on our patents and other intellectual property to maintain our competitive position. Although intellectual property is important to our business operations and in the aggregate constitutes a valuable asset, we do not believe that any single patent, trade secret, trademark or copyright, or group of patents, trade secrets, trademarks or copyrights is critical to the success of our business.

Employees

As of February 27, 2010 we had 2,357 employees. Our employees are not represented by any unions. From time to time in the past, however, some of our employees have attempted to unionize at two of our facilities. We believe that we have a good relationship with our employees.

Government Regulation

Our business is subject to governmental regulation. We are subject to federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations governing the emission, discharge, use, storage and disposal of hazardous materials and the remediation of contamination associated with the release of these materials at our facilities and at off-site disposal locations. We are not aware of any material noncompliance with the environmental laws currently applicable to our business and we are not subject to any material claim for liability with respect to contamination at any company facility or any off-site location. We cannot assure you that we will not be subject to such environmental liabilities in the future as a result of historic or current operations.

As a component manufacturer, our medical products are subject to regulation by the FDA. The FDA and related state and foreign governmental agencies regulate many of our customers’ products as medical devices. In many cases, the FDA must approve those products prior to commercialization. We believe that our existing medical manufacturing plants comply with current Good Manufacturing Practices as applicable.

We have “master files” on record with the FDA. Master files may be used to provide confidential detailed information about facilities, processes or articles used in the manufacturing, processing, packaging and storing of one or more medical device components. These submissions may be used by device manufacturers to support the premarket notification process required by Section 510(k) of the federal Food Drug & Cosmetic Act. This notification process is necessary to obtain clearance from the FDA to market a device for human use in the United States.

We are also subject to various other environmental, transportation and labor laws as well as various other directives and regulations both in the U.S. and abroad. We believe that compliance with these laws will not have a material impact on our capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position. Given the scope and nature of these laws; however, there can be no assurance that they will not have a material impact on our results of operations.

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Executive Officers of the Registrant

Set forth below are the name, age, position and a brief account of the business experience of each of the Corporation’s executive officers as of January 2, 2010.

Name		Age		Position
Executive Officers:
Brian S. Moore		63		President and Chief Executive Officer
Fred L. Hite		42		Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
D. Darin Martin		58		Senior Vice President, Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs and Compliance Officer
David C. Milne		42		Senior Vice President of Human Resources, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Michael W. Curtis		55		Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, USA
John J. Hynes		49		Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Europe
Ronda L. Harris		39		Chief Accounting Officer

Brian S. Moore has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a director since the Corporation’s acquisition of Mettis in June 2003. From April 1999 to June 2003, Mr. Moore served as the Chief Executive Officer of Mettis Group Limited, the parent company of Mettis. From April 1994 to March 1999, Mr. Moore held various positions with EIS Group plc, including Chairman of the Aircraft and Precision Engineering Division, and from 1987 to 1999, Mr. Moore served as Chief Executive Officer of AB Precision (Poole) Limited. Prior thereto, Mr. Moore served in various management positions at Vanderhoff plc, Land Rover Vehicles, Bass Brewing and Prudential Insurance, and as the Financial Director for a subsidiary of GEC Ltd. (UK). Mr. Moore has qualified as a Graduate Mechanical Engineer by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (the qualifying body for mechanical engineers in the UK) and as an Accountant with the UK Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Fred L. Hite has served as the Corporation’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since March 2004. From 1997 to 2004, Mr. Hite served in various capacities at General Electric Industrial Systems, including Finance Manager of General Electric Motors and Controls from 2001 to 2004, Manufacturing Finance Manager from 2000 to 2001 and Finance Manager of Engineering Services from 1997 to 2000. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Hite served as Sourcing Finance Manager and Commercial Finance Analyst at General Electric Industrial Control Systems. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Hite served in various finance positions at General Electric Appliances. Mr. Hite received a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University.

D. Darin Martin has served as the Corporation’s Senior Vice President of Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and Chief Compliance Officer since June 2003. From 1994 to 2003, Mr. Martin served as the Corporation’s Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs. Mr. Martin joined the Corporation in 1990 as Director of Quality Assurance. From 1984 to 1990, Mr. Martin served as Quality Assurance Supervisor for Owens-Illinois Inc.’s Kimble HealthCare Division. Mr. Martin has been a member in various medical device industry associations, including a 20 year membership with the American Society of Quality, Biomedical Devices-NE Indiana Division. Mr. Martin received a B.S. in Business Management from Ball State University, a S.P.C. Instructor Certification from Baldwin-Wallace College and a M.B.A. from Kennedy-Western University.

David C. Milne joined Symmetry in 2009 as Senior Vice President of Human Resources, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. From 2000 through 2009 Mr. Milne was employed by The Steak `n Shake Company (NYSE: SNS), where he most recently served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. After graduating cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law, Mr. Milne practiced with Bose, McKinney & Evans and Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary where he concentrated on representing employers in labor and employment law matters. Mr. Milne received his undergraduate degree from Wabash College and his MA English Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Michael W. Curtis was promoted to the position of the Corporation’s Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, USA as of January 1, 2008. Mr. Curtis joined the Corporation in November 2002. Prior to joining the Corporation, Mr. Curtis served as Vice President of Operations for Lightchip, Inc. from

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May 2000 to 2002, and from 1998 to 2000, Mr. Curtis served as Vice President/General Manager of Communications Products at Thomas & Betts Corporation. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Curtis was employed at Amphenol Aerospace — Amphenol Corporation, initially as a Business Unit Manager and subsequently as Director of Filter Products. From 1976 through 1994, Mr. Curtis served in various capacities at Hamilton Standard Division of United Technologies Corporation, the last of which was Product Line Manager. Mr. Curtis received his B.S., M.B.A. and M.S. in Engineering Management from Western New England College.

John J. Hynes was appointed by the Board of Directors on October 17, 2007 as the Corporation’s Chief Operating Officer, Europe, effective November 1, 2007. Prior to his appointment, from April 2004 until October 2007, Mr. Hynes was employed by Rolls-Royce PLC where he served as Supply Chain Director from January 2007 to October 2007, Supply Chain Control Director from May 2006 to January 2007 and Logistics Director from April 2004 to March 2006. Prior to Rolls-Royce, Mr. Hynes served as the General Manager of Land Rover Group Ltd. from May 1998 to April 2004. Mr. Hynes received his Masters Degree in Business Administration from Warwick University as well as attending Ford’s Lean Manufacturing Academy in Liverpool.

Ronda L. Harris joined Symmetry Medical Inc. on July 14, 2008 with extensive experience in financial management, planning and implementation of effective financial reporting and financial control processes. Prior to joining Symmetry, Ms. Harris served as Assistant Controller of General Electric’s Consumer and Industrial Business. Ronda L. Harris began her career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Ms. Harris received a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University.

For information regarding our directors, and additional information regarding our executive officers, see our 2010 Proxy Statement which will be filed with the Securities Exchange Commission no later than 120 days after the end of our fiscal year.

Family Relationships

There are no family relationships between any of the executive officers or directors of the Corporation.

Available Information

Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are available free of charge through our website as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Our internet address is www.symmetrymedical.com (access the filings by using the “Investor Relations” link on the home page, and “SEC Filings” within the “Investor Relations” box located in the text). You may read and copy any materials we file with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC. The address of that site is http://www.sec.gov.

Information relating to our corporate governance, including our Corporate Governance Guidelines, Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and information concerning our executive officers, directors and Board committees (including committee charters), and transactions in Symmetry Medical Inc. securities by directors and officers, is available on or through our website at www.symmetrymedical.com under “Investor Relations” then “Corporate Governance.”

We are not including the information on our website as a part of, or incorporating it by reference into, our Form 10-K.

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Item 1A. Risk Factors

Our profitability is subject to risks described under this section on “Risk Factors” described below. Although the following are not necessarily the only ones facing our company, our business, financial condition or results of operations they could be materially adversely affected by many of the following risks.

Risks Related to Our Business

We expect that we will continue to depend on a limited number of large customers for a significant portion of our revenue. Our sales may be impacted by significant changes in our customers’ market share, cyclicality, unpredictability of their new product launch activity and possible changes in their supply chain management.

Many healthcare companies are consolidating to create new companies with greater market power. As the healthcare industry continues to consolidate, our customers may delay demand as they integrate operations and products. A consolidation of our customers may also impact demand for our products as the consolidated company implements their supply chain management philosophy. Consolidation of our competitors may also increase pressure as they combine product and services offerings. Consolidation of our customers or competitors may increase pricing pressure or reduce our revenue, either of which would impact our operating results.

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We carry product liability insurance but it is limited in scope and amount and may not be adequate to protect us against product liability claims. We may be unable to maintain this insurance at reasonable costs and on reasonable terms, if at all.

Our quarterly revenue and operating results may vary significantly in the future and period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations may not necessarily be meaningful and should not be relied upon as indications of our future performance. We cannot assure you that our revenue will increase or be sustained in future periods or that we will be profitable in any future period. Any shortfalls in revenue or earnings from levels expected by securities or industry analysts could have an immediate and significant adverse effect on the trading price of our common stock in any given period.

We compete with numerous precision manufacturing companies to attract and retain qualified and highly skilled manufacturing employees. Our Warsaw, Indiana facilities, in particular, face significant competition, including from certain of our customers and other companies located in or near Warsaw that are larger and have greater financial and other resources than we do, for skilled production employees. If we are not able to retain and attract skilled manufacturing employees, we may be unable to support our anticipated growth, which could adversely affect our profitability.

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Our indebtedness could:

Our ability to service our indebtedness will depend on our future performance, which will be affected by prevailing economic conditions and financial, business, regulatory and other factors. Some of these factors are beyond our control. We believe that, based upon current levels of operations, we will be able to meet our debt service obligations when due. Significant assumptions underlie this belief, including, among others, that we will continue to be successful in implementing our business strategy and that there will be no material adverse developments in our business, liquidity or capital requirements. If we cannot generate sufficient cash flow from operations to service our indebtedness and to meet our other obligations and commitments, we may be required to refinance our debt or to dispose of assets to obtain funds for such purpose. We cannot assure you that refinancing or asset dispositions could be effected on a timely basis or on satisfactory terms, if at all, or would be permitted by the terms of our debt instruments. To the extent we incur additional indebtedness or other obligations in the future, the risks associated with our indebtedness described above, including our possible inability to service our debt, would increase.

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Our senior credit facility also contains covenants that limit our ability to incur indebtedness, invest in our foreign operations, acquire other businesses and make capital expenditures, and impose various other restrictions. These covenants could affect our ability to operate our business and may limit our ability to take advantage of potential business opportunities as they arise. We may be unable to comply with the foregoing financial ratios or covenants and, if we fail to do so, we may be unable to obtain waivers from our lenders.

As a result of these factors, we may need to raise additional funds, and these funds may not be available on favorable terms, or at all. Furthermore, if we issue equity or convertible debt securities to raise additional funds, our existing stockholders may experience dilution, and the new equity or convertible debt securities may have rights, preferences and privileges senior to those of our existing stockholders. If we cannot raise funds on acceptable terms, we may not be able to develop or enhance our products, execute our business strategy, take advantage of future opportunities, or respond to competitive pressures or unanticipated customer requirements.

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We seek to protect our trade secrets, know-how and other unpatented proprietary technology, in part, with confidentiality agreements with our employees, independent distributors and customers. We cannot assure you, however, that:

We hold licenses with third parties that are necessary to utilize certain technologies used in the design and manufacturing of some of our products. The loss of such licenses would prevent us from manufacturing, marketing and selling these products, which could harm our business.

In addition, third parties may claim that we are infringing, misappropriating or violating their intellectual property rights. We could be found to infringe those intellectual property rights, which could affect our ability to manufacture any affected product. In addition, any protracted litigation to defend or prosecute our intellectual property rights could drain our financial resources, divert the time and effort of our management and cause customers to delay or limit their purchases of the affected product until resolution of the litigation.

Any litigation or claims against us, whether or not successful, could result in substantial costs and could harm our reputation. In addition, intellectual property litigation or claims could force us to do one or more of the following:

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As we continue to expand our business globally, our success will depend, in part, on our ability to anticipate and effectively manage these and other risks. We cannot assure you that these and other factors will not have a material adverse effect on our international operations or our business as a whole.

Additional acquisitions could also materially impair our operating results by causing us to incur debt and acquisition expenses or requiring us to amortize acquired assets.

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As a result of the global economic downturn, we have worked and will continue to work to increase cost efficiencies and to reduce discretionary expenditures, and in the event of further deterioration of the economy, we may also be required to consider further steps to improve our cost structure. Additionally, the anticipated benefits of our cost reduction initiatives are based on forecasts which could vary substantially from actual results, and we cannot provide assurance that any such cost saving initiatives will not have a material adverse effect on our business.

Risks Related to Our Industry

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In addition, orthopedic implants and other medical devices produced by our customers are subject to intensive regulation and potential pre-approval requirements by the FDA and similar international agencies that govern a wide variety of product activities from design and development to labeling, manufacturing, promotion, sales and distribution. Compliance with these regulations may be time consuming, burdensome and expensive for our customers and, indirectly, for us to the extent that our customers’ compliance depends on our operations. These regulations could negatively affect our customers’ abilities to sell their products, which in turn would adversely affect our ability to sell our products. This may result in higher than anticipated costs or lower than anticipated revenue.

The regulations that we and our customers are subject to are complex, change frequently and have tended to become more stringent over time. Federal and state legislatures have periodically considered programs to reform or amend the U.S. healthcare system at both the federal and state levels. In addition, these regulations may contain proposals to increase governmental involvement in healthcare, lower reimbursement rates or otherwise change the environment in which healthcare industry participants operate. Foreign governmental authorities that regulate the manufacture and sale of medical devices have become increasingly stringent and, to the extent we sell our products in foreign countries, we may be subject to rigorous regulation in the future. Regulatory changes could result in restrictions on our ability to carry on or expand our operations, higher than anticipated costs or lower than anticipated revenue.

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In addition, the proposed changes may also include additional healthcare coverage for the uninsured. It has been estimated that these increased insured could reach 34 million within ten years. While proposed legislation has not yet become law, it appears likely some changes will be forthcoming and it is difficult to determine the overall impact to our industry or our business.

Risks Relating to Our Common Stock

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In the past, following periods of volatility in the market price of a particular company’s securities or financial restatements, litigation has often been brought against that company. If litigation of this type is brought against us, it could be extremely expensive and divert management’s attention and the Corporation’s resources.

We are also protected by Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which prevents us from engaging in a business combination with a person who becomes a 15.0% or greater stockholder for a period of three years from the date such person acquired such status unless certain board or stockholder approvals were obtained.

We have fully cooperated with the SEC in its investigation. At this time we are unable to predict the time period necessary to resolve the investigation or the ultimate resolution thereof. To date, considerable legal, tax and accounting expenses have been incurred in connection with our Audit Committee’s investigation into this matter and expenditures may continue to be incurred in the future with regard to the SEC’s investigation. It is also possible that the investigation may continue to require management’s time and attention and accounting and legal resources, which could otherwise be devoted to the operation of our business. Moreover, any action by the SEC against us, or members of our management, may cause us to be subject to injunctions, fines and other penalties or sanctions or result in private civil actions, loss of key personnel or other adverse consequences and may require us to devote additional time and resources to these matters. The investigation may adversely affect our ability to obtain, and/or increase the cost of obtaining, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and/or other types of insurance, which could have a material adverse affect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. In addition, the SEC investigation and the remedies applied may affect certain of our business relationships and consequently may have an adverse effect on our business in the future.

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Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments

None.

Item 2. Properties

The properties below are owned or leased by us and we believe these properties are suitable and adequate for our current operations and are appropriately utilized.

Location

Principal Use

Approximate Square Footage

Own/ Lease

Auburn, Maine

Case design and manufacturing

33,500

Own

Avilla, Indiana

Instrument and implant design and manufacturing

41,000

Lease

Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Instrument design and manufacturing

25,000

Lease

Claypool, Indiana

Instrument design and manufacturing

33,800

Own

Cork, Ireland

Implant finishing

12,500

Lease

Hillburn, New York

Implant finishing

16,000

Lease

Lansing, Michigan

Implant design, forging and machining

65,000

Own

Lansing, Michigan

Implant Finishing and Design and Development Center

15,000

Lease

Manchester, New Hampshire

Plastic and metal case design and manufacturing

122,000

Lease

Nashville, Tennessee

Medical products distribution

16,500

Own

New Bedford, Massachusetts

Instrument and implant manufacturing

85,000

Own

Penang, Malaysia

Case, instrument and implant design and manufacturing

53,000

Lease

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Implant and specialized non-healthcare product design, forging, casting and machining

134,600

Own

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Implant machining

43,400

Own

Wambrechies, France

Case design and manufacturing

25,000

Lease

Warsaw, Indiana

Instrument design and manufacturing

58,000

Own

Warsaw, Indiana

Design and Development Center; Corporate Headquarters

15,800

Own

Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Specialized non-healthcare machining

20,300

Own

Total square footage

815,400

We own approximately 16 acres of land in Warsaw, Indiana, and approximately 9 acres in Lansing, Michigan. These sites are available for future expansion.

All of our owned properties are encumbered by our Senior Credit Facility. See Note 9 of our consolidated financial statements. Our capital lease arrangements are discussed in Note 10 of our Financial Statements.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings

SEC Inquiry

Following the discovery of the accounting irregularities at our Sheffield, UK operating unit, the Audit Committee self-reported the matter to the staff of the SEC in October 2007. Thereafter, the SEC commenced an informal inquiry regarding this matter.

We have fully cooperated with the SEC in its investigation. At this time we are unable to predict the time period necessary to resolve the investigation or the ultimate resolution thereof. To date, considerable legal, tax

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and accounting expenses have been incurred in connection with our Audit Committee’s investigation into this matter and expenditures may continue to be incurred in the future with regard to the SEC’s investigation. It is also possible that the investigation may continue to require management’s time and attention and accounting and legal resources, which could otherwise be devoted to the operation of our business. Moreover, any action by the SEC against us, or members of our management, may cause us to be subject to injunctions, fines and other penalties or sanctions or result in private civil actions, loss of key personnel or other adverse consequences and may require us to devote additional time and resources to these matters. The investigation may adversely affect our ability to obtain, and/or increase the cost of obtaining, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and/or other types of insurance, which could have a material adverse affect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. In addition, the SEC investigation and the remedies applied may affect certain of our business relationships and consequently may have an adverse effect on our business in the future.

Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

None.

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PART II

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

Our common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the trading symbol SMA. As of March 2, 2010, there were approximately 373 registered holders of record of our common stock. The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is Computershare Trust Company, N.A., P.O. Box 43078, Providence, RI 02940-3078, telephone (877) 282-1168.

In the two most recent fiscal years, we have not paid dividends on our common stock and do not expect to pay dividends for the foreseeable future. Instead, we anticipate that our earnings in the foreseeable future will be used in the operation and growth of our business. The payment of dividends by us to holders of our common stock is restricted by our senior credit facility. Any future determination to pay dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend upon, among other factors, our results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements and contractual restrictions.

We currently do not have a share repurchase plan or program.

The information required by Item 5 with respect to securities authorized for issuance under Equity Compensation Plans is set forth in Part III, Item 12 of this Form 10-K.

Our common stock has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since our initial public offering on December 9, 2004. The following table sets forth, for the period indicated, the highest and lowest closing sale price for our common stock by quarter for 2009 and 2008, as reported by the New York Stock Exchange:

		2009
		High				Low
Fourth Quarter		$	10.45			$	7.40
Third Quarter		$	11.47			$	8.06
Second Quarter		$	9.60			$	6.10
First Quarter		$	8.12			$	4.00

		2008
		High				Low
Fourth Quarter		$	15.97			$	7.31
Third Quarter		$	18.82			$	15.66
Second Quarter		$	17.25			$	13.05
First Quarter		$	19.15			$	15.97

The closing sale price for our common stock on March 2, 2010 was $9.05.

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Total Return Graph

The following graph compares the cumulative total return on the Corporation’s common stock during the last five fiscal years with the S&P 500 Stock Index and the S&P Health Care Index during the same period. The graph shows the value, at the end of each of the last five fiscal years, of $100 invested Symmetry Medical Inc. stock or the indices on January 1, 2005 and assumes the reinvestment of all dividends. No dividends have been declared or paid on the Corporation’s common stock. The graph depicts the change in the value of common stock relative to the indices at the end of each fiscal year and not for any interim period. Returns over the indicated period should not be considered indicative of future stock price performance.

Comparison of 5 Year Cumulative Total Return

		End of Fiscal Year
		2004				2005				2006				2007				2008				2009
Symmetry Medical Inc.		$	100			$	92			$	66			$	83			$	39			$	38
S&P 500 Stock Index		$	100			$	103			$	117			$	121			$	75			$	92
S&P Health Care Index		$	100			$	105			$	111			$	117			$	88			$	103

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in connection with our consolidated financial statements, the notes related thereto, and Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and has been derived from our consolidated financial statements.

		Fiscal Year Ended
		2009				2008(4)				2007(3)				2006(2)				2005
		(In Thousands)
Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:
Revenue		$	365,943			$	423,406			$	290,922			$	245,017			$	259,702
Cost of Revenue			278,926				323,048				238,343				188,579				192,930
Gross Profit			87,017				100,358				52,579				56,438				66,772
Selling, general and administrative expenses			47,863				58,340				39,484				28,278				27,570
Impairment of goodwill and intangible assets(1)			—				—				—				—				33,580
Facility closure and severance costs(5)			2,822				—				—				—				—
Operating Income			36,332				42,018				13,095				28,160				5,622
Interest expense, net			6,647				10,092				6,917				4,448				2,954
Derivative valuation(gain)/loss(6)			(1,173	)			(2,460	)			1,740				2,317				(98	)
Other (income)/expense			428				2,874				(503	)			(3,699	)			2,320
Income before income taxes			30,430				31,512				4,941				25,094				446
Income tax expense			8,646				7,493				5,090				6,580				10,315
Net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders		$	21,784			$	24,019			$	(149	)		$	18,514			$	(9,869	)
Basic per share:
Net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders		$	0.61			$	0.67			$	—			$	0.53			$	(0.29	)
Diluted per share:
Net income (loss) applicable to common shareholders		$	0.61			$	0.67			$	—			$	0.53			$	(0.28	)
Weighted average common shares and equivalent shares outstanding:
Basic			35,308				35,170				35,089				34,826				33,841
Diluted			35,530				35,357				35,268				35,156				34,670
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:
Cash and cash equivalents		$	14,219			$	10,191			$	12,089			$	11,721			$	12,471
Working capital			70,455				69,939				36,134				44,873				42,662
Total Assets			438,345				453,237				400,430				354,396				293,045
Long-term debt and capital lease obligations, less current portion			72,087				110,956				72,532				68,792				34,782
Total shareholders’ equity			282,470				252,414				237,536				232,607				207,760
Other Financial Data:
Depreciation and amortization		$	22,252			$	21,463			$	19,998			$	17,022			$	13,674

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

Overview

As a leading independent provider to orthopedic device manufacturers, we offer a broad range of products, including implants, instruments and cases as well as design and development services. We also provide these types of products and services to companies in other segments of the medical device market, including dental, osteobiologic, and endoscopy sectors, and we provide limited specialized products to non-healthcare markets, such as the aerospace industry.

We manufacture many of the products we sell and have manufacturing locations worldwide to service our global customer base. We believe that our comprehensive product and services offering, our quality and regulatory expertise, our global resources and our size and capability provide us a competitive advantage. We leverage these competitive advantages to accelerate our customers’ time to market as they develop and launch new products. This relationship typically leads to an ongoing supply of products to our customers during the life of the product.

Our core business strategy is built around our business model which leverages our global resources to expand our leadership position within the orthopedic sector as well as to diversify within related medical markets. In the non-orthopedic sector, we are expanding that core strategy by adding new distribution channels to reach even more end-users of medical instruments, containers and related products. Using this strategy, we strive to provide the best possible customer experience by offering superior value; the highest-quality, new technology; customized services; superior support; and the combination of our products and services into our Total Solutions® offering. Historically, our growth has been driven organically from our core businesses as well as acquisitions designed to augment select areas of our business with more products, services, and technology.

The global medical device market was estimated to be approximately $336 billion in 2008, which was an 11% increase from the $300 billion in 2007. In 2008 revenues generated by sales of orthopedic products worldwide neared $36 billion, an increase of 10% over 2007 global revenues. Of the $36 billion, 77% or $28 billion came from the ten largest orthopedic companies in the world. The U.S. orthopedic device market was $16 billion in 2008 representing 44.5% of the global medical device market. Growth for the U.S. orthopedic device market alone is projected to be $26 billion by 2013. Orthopedic devices consist of reconstructive implants used to repair knees, hips, shoulders and other joints, as well as other orthopedic devices to repair bone fractures and the spine. In 2008, global sales of joint replacement products (hips, knees, shoulders, elbows, wrists, digits) exceeded $13 billion, an increase of just under 10% over sales generated in 2007. Knees comprised the largest sub-segment of the joint replacement market at $6.5 billion followed by hips at $5.4 billion. Geographically, sales in the U.S. accounted for 53% of global joint replacement revenue. Worldwide, spine procedure volumes exceeded three million in 2008, including fusion, discectomy, disc replacement, vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty and fracture repair. In 2008, sales of spine products (excluding biologics) approached $6.5 billion worldwide, an increase of 13% over 2007 revenues. The six largest companies in the global spine market controlled 81% sales in this segment. We expect continued growth in the orthopedic device market to be driven by a number of trends including:

We offer our customers Total Solutions® for complete implant systems-implants, instruments and cases. While our revenue to date has been derived primarily from the sale of implants, instruments, and cases separately, or instruments and cases together, our ability to provide Total Solutions® for complete implant

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systems has already proven to be attractive to our customers, and we expect this capability will provide us with growth opportunities. In addition, we expect that our Total Solutions® capability will increase the relative percentage of value added products that we supply to our customers.

We believe that we have well-established relationships with our major customers and these relationships, to a significant extent, involve the sale of products that we have developed or modified specifically for our customers’ particular product lines. In connection with the launch of a new implant system, our customers typically provide a customized implant-specific instrument set in cases to end-users (hospitals, outpatient centers and physicians) for use with the new implant system. As a result, our sales of instruments and cases in any particular period are significantly impacted by the amount of new product launch activity by our customers. Our revenues are affected by changes in the number and size of orders and the timing of delivery dates. Our revenues have fluctuated in the past and may vary in the future due to the effects of changes in inventory management practices and new product introductions by our customers.

Despite our recent levels of revenue, we are optimistic about the future as the larger OEMs are increasingly focused on improving their supply chains. This will result in fewer suppliers who in turn will be expected to provide a wider range of services coupled with high quality and reduced overall costs. We believe that we are well positioned to benefit from increased OEM outsourcing and consolidation of suppliers.

Recently we have been engaged in more active and positive discussions with our customers to provide enhanced services. While these strategic changes do not happen overnight, we continue to believe that we are in a favorable position to emerge as a supplier of choice for our major customers. We believe our global capacity and competitive strengths will benefit us when the order volume and large project launches return, particularly within the dynamic and aging US population.

We have been focused on cost reduction and cash conservation for some time and are confident that further cost savings can be achieved. We are reviewing all aspects of our operations to achieve these further cost reductions.

We believe the following actions will help position us for sustainable long-term profitable growth.

A significant part of our business strategy has been growth through acquisitions which have enhanced our product offerings and our business model.

In January 2007, we acquired Clamonta Ltd located in Warwickshire, UK for approximately $10.4 million in cash. Clamonta Ltd was a privately held company that has a 50-year history of supplying

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precision machined products to the global aerospace industry. Clamonta Ltd’s products will help bridge our Total Solutions® business model into the aerospace industry. This acquisition expanded our added value operation within our existing product expertise and supports a major customer by providing a more complete Total Solution®. Clamonta is well known in the industry for producing quality engineered products for aircraft engines. Clamonta Ltd’s pre-acquisition management team continues to lead this business unit. This acquisition helps to diversify us and will allow us to capitalize on a long term growth cycle in the aerospace industry.

In April 2007, we acquired TNCO located in Whitman, Massachusetts for approximately $7.6 million in cash. TNCO was a privately held company that has a 40-year history of designing and supplying precision instruments for arthroscopic, laparoscopic, sinus and other minimally invasive procedures. TNCO’s strong intellectual property portfolio and customer relationships extend our product offering into these additional medical fields. TNCO is well known in the industry for designing and producing quality engineered products for minimally invasive procedures. This acquisition is consistent with our strategy to enhance our product offering into medical markets beyond our existing products and allows us to offer our Total Solutions® model to an expanded customer base. During 2009, TNCO was consolidated into our New Bedford, Massachusetts facility.

In August 2007, we acquired SSI located in Nashville, Tennessee for approximately $14.6 million in cash and at the same time entered into a two year earn-out agreement with the two principals of SSI specifying receipt of additional consideration if SSI met certain earnings levels in 2008 and 2009. These earnings levels were not met in 2008 or 2009. SSI was a privately held company that has a 30-year history of offering targeted sales, marketing and distribution programs to serve the key surgical specialties of neurological, spine, cardiovascular, ENT, laparoscopy, ophthalmology and orthopedics. SSI’s portfolio includes its own line of Ultra Instruments and includes the Ultra Container sterilization system, a hospital proven, closed container system that is designed to store and transport sterilized instruments. The Ultra Instruments, containers and multiple other product lines are offered through SSI’s distribution channels and sold to hospitals with their 30 strong sales staff. This acquisition is consistent with our strategy to enhance our product offering into medical markets beyond our existing products and provides a direct access to hospitals and doctors to accelerate our own product designs.

In January 2008, we acquired DePuy’s New Bedford, Massachusetts instrument manufacturing facility (“New Bedford”). We purchased substantially all of the assets and real estate of New Bedford for approximately $45.2 million in cash. New Bedford produces orthopedic instruments, general medical instruments and some small spine related implants. Historically, 100% of the products produced at the facility are for DePuy. Commencing in 2008, we began to utilize this facility to serve our other medical customers, as we have a strategy to diversify and expand both product and customer portfolio at this facility. In connection with the acquisition, we entered into a supply agreement which requires DePuy to make minimum purchases from New Bedford for a four year period. The agreement stipulates that these purchases are incremental to other products we presently or previously produced on DePuy’s behalf. The commitment from DePuy totals $106.0 million over the four year period, with specific amounts in each year. We believe this acquisition strengthens our position as a leading provider to the orthopedic industry and provides additional manufacturing capacity to better serve our broad customer base, builds on our relationship with DePuy, expands our east coast presence and allows us to move forward with an existing skilled workforce to service our growing market.

Our acquisitions have afforded us the opportunity to offer a comprehensive line of implants, surgical instruments and cases for orthopedic device manufacturers on a global basis, instruments and cases into other medical markets and specialized parts into the aerospace industry.

During fiscal 2009, we sold our products to approximately 1,850 customers. Our largest customer accounted for approximately 39.1% of our revenue in fiscal 2009 and our two largest customers accounted for 33.0% and 11.1% of our revenue in fiscal 2008. Our ten largest customers collectively accounted for approximately 73.1% and 70.7% of our revenue in fiscal 2009 and fiscal 2008, respectively. Within each of our largest customers, we typically serve several product teams and facilities, which reduce our reliance on any single purchasing decision. Approximately 73.3%, 8.0%, 10.2% and 8.5% of our revenue in fiscal 2009

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and approximately 71.5%, 13.0%, 7.5% and 8.0% of our revenue in fiscal 2008 was from sales to the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and other foreign countries, respectively.

Our revenue from the sale of instruments, implants, cases and other products represented 45.6%, 29.5%, 18.7% and 6.2%, respectively, of our revenue in fiscal 2009, compared with 41.9%, 29.0%, 20.4% and 8.7% respectively, of our revenue in fiscal 2008.

Results of Operations

The following table summarizes our consolidated results of operations for each of the past three years. Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the operating results that may be expected in the future.

		Fiscal Year
		2009								2008								2007
		Dollars				% of Revenue				Dollars				% of Revenue				Dollars				% of Revenue
		(In Millions)
Statement of Operations Data:
Revenue		$	365.9				100.0	%		$	423.4				100.0	%		$	290.9				100.0	%
Cost of Revenue			278.9				76.2	%			323.1				76.3	%			238.3				81.9	%
Gross Profit			87.0				23.8	%			100.3				23.7	%			52.6				18.1	%
Selling, general, and administrative expenses			47.9				13.1	%			58.3				13.8	%			39.5				13.6	%
Facility closure and severance costs			2.8				0.8	%			—				0.0	%			—				0.0	%
Operating Income			36.3				9.9	%			42.0				9.9	%			13.1				4.5	%
Other (income)/expense:
Interest expense			6.6				1.8	%			10.1				2.4	%			6.9				2.4	%
Derivatives valuation (gain)/loss			(1.2	)			(0.3%)				(2.5	)			-0.6	%			1.7				0.6	%
Other			0.4				0.1	%			2.9				0.7	%			(0.5	)			-0.2	%
Income before income taxes			30.4				8.3	%			31.5				7.4	%			4.9				1.7	%
Income tax expense			8.6				2.4	%			7.5				1.8	%			5.1				1.7	%
Net income (loss)		$	21.8				6.0	%		$	24.0				5.6	%		$	(0.1	)			0.0	%

Fiscal Year 2009 Compared to Fiscal Year 2008

Revenue.  Revenue for fiscal 2009 decreased $57.5 million or 13.6% to $365.9 million from $423.4 million in fiscal 2008. Revenue for each of our principal product categories in these periods was as follows:

		Product Category
		2009				2008
		(In Millions)
Instruments		$	166.7			$	177.5
Implants			108.0				122.6
Cases			68.5				86.4
Other			22.7				36.9
Total		$	365.9			$	423.4

The $57.5 million decrease in revenue resulted from unfavorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations of $13.6 million as well as challenging business conditions in the second half of 2009 due to the overall economic environment that has resulted in reduced demand of 10.4% for our five largest OEM customers as they continue to work down inventory levels and adjust the timing of their various product launches. Instrument revenue decreased $10.8 million. This decrease was driven primarily by lower demand from our major OEM customers due to the timing of their various product launch activity and their reduction of inventory levels. Foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations had an unfavorable impact of $1.7 million on instrument revenue, however, this was more than offset by $2.2 million of incremental instrument revenue

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from our New Bedford acquisition which was completed at the end of January 2008. Implant revenue decreased $14.6 million in fiscal 2009 which was driven by unfavorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations of $7.0 million and decreased customer demand of $8.1 million as our major OEM customers worked down their inventory levels. This was partially offset by the additional sales from our New Bedford acquisition of $0.5 million. Case revenues decreased $17.9 million for fiscal 2009 mainly due to a $16.5 million decrease in customer demand primarily from our non-orthopedic medical customers as they react to the current economic environment. Additionally, we experienced a reduction in demand from our five largest OEM customers as they work down inventory levels and adjust the timing of product launches combined with $1.4 million unfavorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations in case revenues. Other product revenue decreased $14.2 million driven by both a reduction in customer demand of $10.7 million due to our largest customer in the aerospace industry reacting to economic market conditions in that sector and unfavorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations of $3.5 million.

We estimate that global orthopedic device procedures grew approximately 6% in 2009 as compared to procedures performed in 2008 and we expect slightly higher industry procedure growth in the future.

Gross Profit.  Gross profit for fiscal 2009 decreased $13.3 million, or 13.3%, to $87.0 million from $100.3 million in fiscal 2008 primarily due to the decline in revenue of 13.6%. Despite experiencing declining revenues, the Corporation was able to increase the gross profit as a percentage of revenue to 23.8% in 2009 from 23.7% in 2008. This improvement was primarily due to aggressive actions to manage labor and other costs at all facilities and improved operational performance at our Sheffield, UK operating unit driven by the continued favorable impacts of our new ERP system, implemented in March 2009, headcount reductions, improved manufacturing processes and reduced material costs from the renegotiation of a key supply agreement. We continue to drive improvements at Sheffield and anticipate continued improvements in the future. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates negatively affected our total year 2009 gross profit by $1.1 million.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses.  Selling, general and administrative expenses in fiscal 2009 decreased $10.4 million, or 18.0%, to $47.9 million from $58.3 million in fiscal 2008. This decrease was primarily driven by a $5.6 million decrease in employee compensation costs, including reductions in headcount due to decreased production, reduced overtime costs and decreased performance based compensation and non-cash stock compensation expense due to lower financial results. The improvement also reflects a reduction in professional fees and expenses incurred during 2008 of $4.7 million from the review of accounting irregularities at our Sheffield, UK operating unit. As a percentage of revenue, selling, general and administrative expenses were 13.1% in fiscal 2009 as compared to 13.8% in fiscal 2008. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates decreased our selling, general and administrative expenses by $0.9 million.

Facility Consolidation and Severance Costs.  Results of Operations for fiscal 2009 include net pre-tax charges of $2.8 million related primarily to the consolidation of our Whitman, MA and Auburn, ME facilities into other facilities that produce similar products. These costs are comprised of $1.4 million of severance costs and an additional $1.4 million of asset impairment and moving expenses. As of January 2, 2010, severance accruals related to these cost reduction and efficiency actions totaled $0.8 million, and are included in accrued and other liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets. This accrual is expected to be paid during the first quarter of 2010.

Other (Income) Expense.  Interest expense for fiscal 2009 decreased $3.5 million, or 34.1%, to $6.6 million from $10.1 million in fiscal 2008. This decrease reflects the reduction in our interest rate margin above LIBOR due to improved financial ratios, as well as the general decline in the interest rate market in 2009 as compared to 2008. Additionally, aggregate outstanding indebtedness has decreased $35.0 million, or 26.7% as compared to January 3, 2009. In 2009, we entered into a forward swap contract to manage interest rate risk related to a portion of its current outstanding term loan indebtedness due in 2011. This swap contract is designated as a cash flow hedge of the future payment of variable rate interest with three-month LIBOR fixed at 1.34% per annum in 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively. The net derivatives valuation gain for 2009 consists of a gain on interest rate swap valuation of $1.2 million related to our interest rate swap that has not been designated as a hedge as compared to a loss of $1.8 million in fiscal 2008. During 2008, we also held foreign currency forwards to mitigate fluctuations in foreign currency on the statement of operations. A gain

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on the foreign currency valuation of $4.3 million was recorded in derivative valuation gain in 2008 and partially offset $3.3 million of losses on foreign currency fluctuations that were included within other expense.

Provision for Income Taxes.  Our effective tax rate in fiscal year 2009 was 28.4% compared to 23.8% in fiscal 2008. This rate is lower than the U.S. Federal statutory rate primarily due to the favorable impact of foreign income taxes as we benefited from an increase in income earned in foreign jurisdictions in 2009 where the statutory tax rate is lower than the Federal statutory rate. We also recognized $0.5 million of valuation allowance against foreign losses incurred during the year.

Fiscal Year 2008 Compared to Fiscal Year 2007

Revenue.  Revenue for fiscal 2008 increased $132.5 million or 45.5% to $423.4 million from $290.9 million in fiscal 2007. Revenue for each of our principal product categories in these periods was as follows:

		Product Category
		2008				2007
		(In Millions)
Instruments		$	177.5			$	79.1
Implants			122.6				96.8
Cases			86.4				77.2
Other			36.9				37.8
Total		$	423.4			$	290.9

The $132.5 million increase in revenue resulted from organic growth of 23.4% and the impact of recent acquisitions. Implant revenue increased $25.8 million in fiscal 2008 which was primarily driven by increased organic customer demand as well our New Bedford acquisition in January 2008, which added $7.4 million of implant revenue. The increase in instrument revenue of $98.4 million for fiscal 2008 was driven by a 52.4% increase in organic customer demand and $57.0 million of additional instrument revenue from acquired entities. Case revenues increased $9.2 million for fiscal 2008 primarily due to increased organic customer demand. The decrease in other revenue was driven by reduced customer demand. Impacts of unfavorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations negatively affected our 2008 revenue by $2.7 million.

We estimate that global orthopedic device procedures grew at approximately 6% to 7% in 2008 and expect similar industry procedure growth in the future. In the second half of 2007 and during 2008, we experienced increased organic demand from our customers as many of them experienced significant product launches.

Gross Profit.  Gross profit for fiscal 2008 increased $47.8 million, or 90.9%, to $100.4 million from $52.6 million in fiscal 2007. Gross profit was positively impacted by the 45.5% increase in revenue. The increase was also driven by gross profit as a percentage of revenue which increased by 5.6%. This increase in gross profit percentage was driven by increased leverage of fixed costs at our operations which experienced an increase in revenues during the period while controlling infrastructure costs and improvements at our Sheffield, UK facility. Our Sheffield, UK operation experienced improved gross profit as a percentage of revenue versus 2007 driven by higher selling prices, lower costs and improved operational management. We continue to drive improvements at Sheffield and anticipate continued improvements in the future. Changes in foreign exchange rates positively affected our total year 2008 gross profit by $0.4 million.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses.  Selling, general and administrative expenses in fiscal 2008 increased $18.9 million, or 47.8%, to $58.3 million from $39.5 million in fiscal 2007. This increase was primarily driven by the inclusion of $8.1 million of incremental expenses related to acquired entities. Additional incremental costs were driven by a $7.4 million increase in employee compensation costs including $2.6 million of an increase in non-cash stock-based compensation expense. Expenditures associated with the Sheffield investigation and restatement process increased $1.2 million from $3.5 million in 2007 to $4.7 million in 2008. As a percentage of revenue, selling, general and administrative expenses were 13.8% of revenue in fiscal 2008 as compared to 13.6% in fiscal 2007. Changes in foreign currency exchange rates decreased our selling, general and administrative expenses by $0.4 million.

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Other (Income) Expense.  Interest expense for fiscal 2008 increased $3.2 million, or 45.9%, to $10.1 million from $6.9 million in fiscal 2007. This increase primarily reflects expense from the increase in debt incurred for acquisitions as well as higher interest rates in the first quarter 2008 due to the debt covenant violations related to the Sheffield accounting irregularities. The net derivatives gain in fiscal 2008 consisted of a $1.8 million loss on interest rate SWAP valuation, offset by a $4.3 million gain on the settlement of foreign currency forward contracts. The interest rate SWAPs are used to convert our variable rate long-term debt to fixed rates. The foreign currency forwards are used to mitigate fluctuations in foreign currency on the statement of operations. The gain of the foreign currency valuation for fiscal 2008 offset losses on foreign currency fluctuations, primarily related to intercompany loans that are included within other expense of $3.3 million.

Provision for Income Taxes.  Our effective tax rate in fiscal year 2008 was 23.8% compared to 38.2% in fiscal 2007. This rate is lower than the U.S. Federal statutory rate primarily from tax benefits of $12.0 million from the realization of losses on the Corporation’s initial investment in the Sheffield, UK operations partially offset by additional tax provisions for uncertain tax positions of $2.2 million. We also recognized $3.0 million of valuation allowance against foreign losses incurred during the year.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Current Market Conditions

We are experiencing very challenging business conditions due to the overall economic environment that has resulted in reduced demand from our major OEM customers. Our major OEM customers continue to work down inventory levels and manage the timing of their product launch activity.

Current global economic conditions have resulted in increased volatility in the financial markets. During fiscal 2009, we actively monitored the financial health of our supplier base, tightened requirements for customer credit, and increased spending controls across the Company. We will continue to monitor and manage these activities depending on current and expected market developments.

Liquidity

Our principal sources of liquidity in fiscal 2009 were cash generated from operations. Principal uses of cash in fiscal 2009 included capital expenditures as well as debt service. We expect that our principal uses of cash in the future will be to finance working capital, to pay for capital expenditures, to service debt and to fund possible future acquisitions. In January 2008, we obtained a new $60.0 million term loan with a five year maturity to fund the $45.2 million New Bedford acquisition and to pay down borrowings under our revolving credit facility.

We believe our cash resources will permit us to stay committed to our strategic plan of increasing our share in the orthopedic market and expanding into other medical device segments. In order to sustain profitability and cash flow during these current economic conditions, we have reduced our work force and compensation costs, renegotiated a key supply agreement for reduced material costs, implemented other cost control measures and consolidated certain operating facilities.

We believe that cash flow from operating activities and borrowings under our Senior Credit Agreement will be sufficient to fund currently anticipated working capital, planned capital spending and debt service requirements for the next twelve months. The Corporation’s Senior Credit Agreement, including the revolving credit facility, which has a balance of $89.6 million at January 2, 2010, matures in June 2011. We have begun to explore refinancing alternatives to pay off the remaining balance and to establish adequate funds for future expansion. At this time, we believe that we will have multiple financing options and we anticipate completing a refinancing in the second half of 2010.

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The following table summarizes our primary sources and uses of cash in the periods presented:

		Fiscal Year Ended
		2009				2008				2007
		(In Millions)
Net Cash Flow provided by (used in):
Operating activities		$	53.4			$	25.7			$	24.7
Investing activities			(14.9	)			(68.0	)			(40.8	)
Financing activities			(35.6	)			41.5				15.5
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents			1.1				(1.1	)			1.0
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents		$	4.0			$	(1.9	)		$	0.4

Operating Activities.  We generated cash from operations of $53.4 million in fiscal 2009 compared to $25.7 million in fiscal 2008. During 2008, we used cash to support working capital needs as we integrated our New Bedford, MA acquisition and supported the strong organic growth of the Corporation. During 2009, the significant increase in cash from operations is primarily the result of lower working capital requirements given the reduction in revenue in the second half of 2009. As revenue declined, the Corporation focused on reducing account receivable days, reducing required inventory levels and extending accounts payable terms.

Investing Activities.  Net cash used in investing activities was $14.9 million for fiscal 2009 compared to $68.0 million in fiscal 2008. Investing activities in fiscal 2009 consisted of $15.0 million for capital expenditures. Our investing activities in fiscal 2008 consisted of $22.8 million for capital expenditures and $46.6 million primarily related to the New Bedford acquisition.

Financing Activities.  Financing activities used $35.6 million of cash in fiscal 2009 due primarily to payments on long-term debt, capital leases and our revolving line of credit. During 2008, the $41.5 million provided by financing activities was primarily due to the incremental $60.0 million of borrowings under our senior credit loan facility used to fund the New Bedford acquisition, offset by payments on long-term debt and capital leases.

Capital Expenditures.  Capital expenditures totaled $15.0 million in fiscal 2009, compared to $22.8 million in fiscal 2008. Fiscal 2009 capital spending was on required replacement equipment and strategic additions in high precision capabilities focused on the spine market as well as expanded capabilities in Malaysia. Total expenditures were lower than prior year as we adjusted spending to reflect lower second half 2009 demand. In 2008, we replaced equipment and enhanced production capacity in several of our facilities, including the addition of a high precision machining cell to better serve the spine market. We expect capital expenditures for fiscal 2010 to approximate $20.0 million. These expenditures are expected to be funded from our cash flows from operating activities.

Debt and Credit Facilities

In connection with our initial public offering in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, we entered into a $75.0 million senior secured credit facility, consisting of a $35.0 million five-year term loan (“Term Loan A”) and a $40.0 million five-year revolving credit facility. In the second quarter of 2006, we amended and restated this credit facility to increase our term loans by $40.0 million (“Term Loan A-1”) and extended the revolving credit facility to June 2011. In the first quarter of 2008 we amended the credit facility to increase our term loans by $60.0 million (“Term Loan A-2”). As of January 2, 2010, we had an aggregate of approximately $96.3 million of outstanding indebtedness, which consisted of the following:

Borrowings under this senior credit facility bear interest at a floating rate, which is either a base rate, or at our option, a London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) rate, plus an applicable margin. As of January 2,

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2010, an aggregate of $89.6 million was outstanding under the term loans at a weighted average interest rate of 2.0000%. As of January 2, 2010, we had no borrowings outstanding under the revolving credit facility. We had two outstanding letters of credit as of January 2, 2010 in the amounts of $3.5 million and $0.2 million.

Historically, we have had a significant amount of variable rate long-term indebtedness. We have managed our exposure to changes in interest rates by entering into interest rate swap agreements. As further discussed in “Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risks — Interest Rate Risk,” we have an existing agreement that does not qualify for hedge accounting under the applicable accounting guidelines and a new agreement in 2009 that does qualify for hedge accounting. We recorded nonqualifying interest rate swap valuation of $1.2 million gain, $1.8 million loss and $1.4 million loss for fiscal 2009, fiscal 2008 and fiscal 2007, respectively. Our senior credit agreement (“Senior Credit Agreement”) contains various financial covenants, including covenants requiring a maximum total debt to EBITDA ratio, minimum EBITDA to interest ratio and a minimum EBITDA to fixed charges ratio. The Senior Credit Agreement also contains covenants restricting certain corporate actions, including asset dispositions, acquisitions, payment of dividends and certain other restricted payments, changes of control, incurring indebtedness, incurring liens, making loans and investments and transactions with affiliates. The senior credit facility is secured by substantially all of our assets. Our Senior Credit Agreement also contains customary events of default. We were in compliance with all of our covenants as of January 2, 2010.

In connection with the January 25, 2008 New Bedford acquisition a Term A-2 Incremental Term Loan was completed and the Incremental Term Loan of $60,000 was funded. The Incremental Term Loan will mature June 13, 2011. Quarterly installments of principal are to be paid so as to reduce the remaining principal balance by approximately ten percent (10%) in 2009, fifteen percent (15%) in 2010 and seventy percent (70%) in 2011. The Corporation retained the right to have borrowed funds bear interest at the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) plus an applicable margin or at a “Base Rate” plus an applicable margin under the Waiver. The applicable margins increased by 0.50% and the Corporation was limited in its ability to borrow under the revolving credit facility until the Corporation became current in filing its reports under Section 13 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act.

On June 24, 2008, the Corporation filed its 2008 first quarter filing on Form 10-Q and became current in its SEC filing requirements. As such, the interest margin decreased 0.50% and the restrictions on borrowings were lifted.

The term loans require quarterly payments of scheduled principal and interest, with annual scheduled principal payments increasing each year. Term Loan A matured in December 2009. Term Loan A-1, Term Loan A-2 and borrowings under the revolving credit facility mature in June 2011.

We hold certain property and equipment pursuant to capital leases. As of January 2, 2010, these leases have future minimum lease payments of $1.1 million, $0.9 million, $0.9 million, $0.9 million and $0.8 million in each of the next 5 fiscal years and $1.4 million thereafter.

Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments

The following table reflects our contractual obligations as of January 2, 2010:

		Payments Due by Period
		Total				Less Than 1 Year				1 – 3 Years				4 – 5 Years				More Than 5 Years
		(In Millions)
Long-term debt obligations(1)		$	89.6			$	20.4			$	69.2			$	—			$	—
Capital lease obligations			6.0				1.0				2.8				1.6				0.6
Operating lease obligations			4.8				1.9				2.2				0.5				0.2
Purchase obligations(2)			33.0				20.4				12.6				—				—
Total		$	133.4			$	43.7			$	86.8			$	2.1			$	0.8

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This table does not include liabilities for unrecognized tax benefits of $6.2 million as reasonable estimates could not be made regarding the timing of future cash outflows associated with those liabilities.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

Our off balance sheet arrangements include our operating leases and letters of credit, which are available under the senior credit facility. We had two letters of credit outstanding as of January 2, 2010 in the amounts of $3.5 million and $0.2 million.

Environmental

Our facilities and operations are subject to extensive federal, state, local and foreign environmental and occupational health and safety laws and regulations. These laws and regulations govern, among other things, air emissions; wastewater discharges; the generation, storage, handling, use and transportation of hazardous materials; the handling and disposal of hazardous wastes; the cleanup of contamination; and the health and safety of our employees. Under such laws and regulations, we are required to obtain permits from governmental authorities for some of our operations. If we violate or fail to comply with these laws, regulations or permits, we could be fined or otherwise sanctioned by regulators. We could also be held responsible for costs and damages arising from any contamination at our past or present facilities or at third-party waste disposal sites. We cannot completely eliminate the risk of contamination or injury resulting from hazardous materials, and we may incur material liability as a result of any contamination or injury.

We incurred approximately $0.4 million and $0.6 million in capital expenditures for environmental, health and safety in 2009 and 2008, respectively. During 2009, purchases focused on two areas: safety and environmental. Projects included purchases of new press controllers and emergency stops, wet dust collection systems and a nitric system. During 2008, our significant purchases included an EP passivate system and a wet dust collection system.

In connection with past acquisitions, we completed Phase I environmental assessments and did not find any significant issues that we believe needed to be remediated. We cannot be certain that environmental issues will not be discovered or arise in the future related to these acquisitions.

In conjunction with the New Bedford acquisition, we purchased $5.0 million of environmental insurance coverage for this facility. This policy period expires January 25, 2013. While the insurance may mitigate the risk of certain environmental liabilities, we cannot guarantee that a particular liability will be covered by this insurance.

Based on information currently available, we do not believe that we have any material environmental liabilities.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The preparation of our financial statements requires management to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses during the periods presented. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate these estimates. We base our estimates on historical experiences and assumptions believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Those estimates form the basis for our judgments that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements. Actual results could differ from our estimates under different assumptions or conditions. Our significant accounting policies, which may be

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affected by our estimates and assumptions, are more fully described in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements that appear elsewhere in this Form 10-K.

Intangible assets subject to amortization consist of technology, non-compete and customer related intangible assets acquired in connection with our various acquisitions. These assets are amortized using the straight-line method. The Corporation is required to reassess the expected useful lives of existing intangible assets annually. The Corporation also evaluates the recoverability of intangible assets subject to amortization based on undiscounted operating cash flows when factors indicate impairment may exist. In the event of impairment, the Corporation makes appropriate write-downs of recorded costs to fair value. The Corporation reviewed its amortizing intangible assets and has not recorded any impairment related to these assets for fiscal 2009, 2008 or 2007.

Goodwill is not amortized but is periodically tested for impairment using a two-step process. The first step is a screen for potential impairment, while the second step measures the amount of impairment. Potential impairment is determined by comparing estimated fair value to the net book value of the reporting unit. Fair value is calculated as the present value of estimated future cash flows. The Corporation has multiple operating segments. The Corporation has defined its reporting units at the component of an operating segment as this is the lowest level for which discrete financial information is available and the operating results of that component are regularly reviewed by management. The Corporation completed its annual impairment testing and concluded that no impairment of goodwill existed for fiscal 2009, 2008 or 2007.

Intangible assets with an indefinite life are not amortized but are subject to review each reporting period to determine whether events and circumstances continue to support an indefinite useful life as well as an annual impairment test in accordance with this statement. The Corporation reviewed its intangible assets and has not recorded any impairment related to these assets for fiscal 2009, 2008 or 2007.

The assessment of the recoverability of long-lived assets reflects management’s assumptions and estimates. Factors that management must estimate when performing impairment tests include future sales volume, prices, inflation, discount rates, exchange rates, tax rates and capital spending. Significant management judgment is involved in estimating these factors, and they include inherent uncertainties. Measurement of the recoverability of these assets is dependent upon the accuracy of the assumptions used in making these estimates, as well as how the estimates compare to the eventual future operating performance of the specific reporting unit to which the assets are attributed.

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Impact of Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Standards

Accounting Standards Codification.  In June 2009, the FASB issued pronouncements under ASC 825-10, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (formerly SFAS No. 168, The FASB Accounting Standards Codification and Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). ASC 825-10 established a single official source of authoritative United States accounting and reporting standards for all non-governmental entities (other than guidance issued by the SEC) and changes the referencing and organization on financial standards. On October 3, 2009, we adopted ASC 825-10, which did not have an impact on the Corporation’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Fair Value Measurements.  We adopted the FASB pronouncement under ASC 820-10 (formerly SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements) relating to fair value measurements for non-financial assets and liabilities on January 4, 2009. This pronouncement provides guidance for using fair value to measure assets and liabilities and only applies when other pronouncements require or permit the fair value measurement of assets and liabilities. It does not expand the use of fair value measurement. The adoption of this pronouncement did not have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Business Combinations.  We adopted the FASB pronouncement under ASC 805-10, Business Combinations (formerly SFAS No. 141(R)) on January 4, 2009. This pronouncement amends the previously issued Statement on Business Combinations and provides revised guidance for recognizing and measuring identifiable assets and goodwill acquired, liabilities assumed, and any non-controlling interest in the acquiree. It also provides disclosure requirements to enable users of the financial statements to evaluate the nature and financial effects of the business combination. The adoption of the pronouncement had an immaterial impact on the Corporation’s financial position and results of operations.

Disclosures About Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities.  We adopted the FASB pronouncement under ASC 815-10, Derivatives and Hedging (formerly SFAS No. 161, Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities) on January 4, 2009. This pronouncement requires entities to provide enhanced disclosures about how and why an entity uses derivative instruments, how derivative instruments and related hedged items are accounted, and how derivative instruments and related hedged items affect an entity’s financial position, results of operations, and cash flows. The adoption of this pronouncement had no impact on the Corporation’s financial position or results of operations. These disclosures are included in Note 11.

Determining Whether Instruments Granted in Share-Based Payment Transactions Are Participating Securities.  We adopted the FASB pronouncement under ASC 260-10, Earnings per Share (formerly EITF Issue No. 07-4, Application of the Two-Class Method Under FASB Statement No. 128) on January 4, 2009,

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with retrospective application. This pronouncement was issued to clarify that unvested share-based payment awards with a right to receive non-forfeitable dividends are participating securities. This pronouncement also provides guidance on how to allocate earnings to participating securities and compute basic earnings per share (EPS) using the two-class method. The adoption of this pronouncement reduced previously reported EPS by $0.01 for the year ended January 3, 2009.

Subsequent Events.  On July 4, 2009, we adopted the FASB pronouncement under ASC 855-10, Subsequent Events (formerly SFAS No. 165, Subsequent Events). This pronouncement provides additional disclosure requirements for material events occurring subsequent to the balance sheet date and prior to the issuance of the financial statements. This pronouncement also modifies the definition of subsequent events and defines the two types of subsequent events as recognized and non-recognized.

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risks

Interest Rate Risk

We are exposed to market risk from fluctuations in interest rates. We manage our interest rate risk by balancing the amount of our fixed rate and variable rate debt and through the use of interest rate swaps. The objective of the swaps is to more effectively balance borrowing costs and interest rate risk. For fixed rate debt, interest rate changes affect the fair market value of such debt but do not impact earnings or cash flows. Conversely for variable rate debt, interest rate changes generally do not affect the fair market value of such debt, but do impact future earnings and cash flows, assuming other factors are held constant. At January 2, 2010, we had approximately $92.5 million of variable rate debt. The weighted average interest rate for this debt in 2009 was 2.4770%. Holding other variables constant (such as foreign exchange rates and debt levels), a one percentage point change in interest rates would be expected to have an impact on pre-tax earnings and cash flows for the next year of approximately $0.9 million, before giving effect to the interest rate swap agreements described below.

On January 13, 2009, we entered into an interest rate swap agreement to hedge $64.1 million of our variable rate term loans into a fixed rate obligation until June 13, 2011. We will receive payments at variable rates, while we make payments at a fixed rate of 1.3375%. The objective of this swap is to hedge against potential changes in cash flows on our outstanding term debt. No credit risk was hedged. The receive variable leg of the swap and the variable rate paid on the term debt bear the same rate of interest, excluding the credit spread, and reset and pay interest on the same dates.

During June 2006, we entered into an interest rate swap agreement to economically hedge $15.0 million of our variable rate term loans into a fixed rate obligation for the period commencing on June 30, 2006 and ending on December 31, 2007. We received payments at variable rates, while we made payments at a fixed rate of 3.98% per annum. When we borrowed $40.0 million to acquire Riley Medical in May 2006, we subsequently entered into an interest rate swap agreement to economically hedge the $40.0 million of debt at a fixed payment obligation of 5.45% per annum for the period commencing on July 3, 2006 and ending on June 10, 2011.

Foreign Currency Risk

Foreign currency risk is the risk that we will incur economic losses due to adverse changes in foreign currency exchange rates. As a global company with operations in the United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Malaysia, we experienced an impact from foreign exchange in fiscal 2009. As a result of the fluctuation in rates, our revenue increased for the fourth quarter 2009 by $1.8 million and decreased for the total year 2009 by $13.6 million. The fluctuation in rates increased our gross margin for the fourth quarter 2009 by $0.2 million and decreased our gross margin by $1.1 million for the total year 2009. The impact of rates had minimal impact on our net income in the fourth quarter and decreased the total year 2009 net income by $0.2 million.

Historically the Corporation entered into foreign currency forward contracts to mitigate fluctuations in foreign currency on the statement of operations. The gain of the foreign currency valuation of $4.3 million included in derivative income for 2008 offset foreign currency transaction loss included within the other expense of $3.3 million. We did not have any outstanding contracts during 2009.

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Our primary exposures to foreign currency exchange fluctuations are pound sterling/US dollar and Euro/US dollar. At January 2, 2010, the potential reduction in earnings from a hypothetical instantaneous 10.0% increase or decrease in quoted foreign currency spot rates applied to foreign currency sensitive instruments would be approximately $3.6 million, net of tax. This foreign currency sensitivity model is limited by the assumption that all of the foreign currencies to which we are exposed would simultaneously decrease by 10.0% because such synchronized changes are unlikely to occur.

Commodity Price Risk

We are exposed to fluctuations in commodity prices through the purchase of raw materials that are processed from commodities, such as titanium, stainless steel, cobalt chrome and aluminum. Given the historical volatility of certain commodity prices, this exposure can impact product costs. To manage these fluctuations, we utilize competitive pricing methods such as bulk purchases, blanket orders and long-term contracts with our major suppliers to reduce short term fluctuations. For 2010, we have entered into purchasing contracts on certain raw materials totaling $31.6 million at fixed prices in order to manage our risk of commodity price movements. Additionally, we often do not set prices for our products in advance of our commodity purchases; therefore, we can take into account the cost of the commodity in setting our prices for each order. In instances where we have supply agreements with customers; many of these agreements allow us to partially adjust prices for the impact of any raw material price increases. However, to the extent that we are unable to offset the increased commodity costs in our product prices, our results would be adversely affected.

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Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplemental Data

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Consolidated Financial Statements:
Consolidated Balance Sheets			46
Consolidated Statements of Operations			47
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity			48
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flow			49
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements			50
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm			70
Reports on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting:
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting			71
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting			72

All schedules have been omitted because they are not required or applicable or the information is included in the consolidated financial statements or notes thereto.

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In Thousands)

		January 2, 2010				January 3, 2009
ASSETS:
Current Assets:
Cash and cash equivalents		$	14,219			$	10,191
Accounts receivable, net			38,221				52,845
Inventories			62,301				61,111
Refundable income taxes			3,048				6,610
Deferred income taxes			5,816				3,993
Other current assets			3,648				3,154
Total current assets			127,253				137,904
Property and equipment, net			113,369				115,045
Goodwill			153,813				153,521
Intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization			42,729				45,039
Other assets			1,181				1,728
Total Assets		$	438,345			$	453,237
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY:
Current Liabilities:
Accounts payable		$	19,494			$	26,929
Accrued wages and benefits			7,607				12,784
Other accrued expenses			5,113				5,186
Accrued income taxes			257				2,637
Deferred income taxes			78				—
Revolving line of credit			3,320				2,495
Current portion of capital lease obligations			529				1,034
Current portion of long-term debt			20,400				16,900
Total current liabilities			56,798				67,965
Accrued income taxes			6,362				—
Deferred income taxes			17,646				18,131
Derivative valuation liability			2,982				3,771
Capital lease obligations, less current portion			2,887				3,356
Long-term debt, less current portion			69,200				107,600
Total Liabilities			155,875				200,823
Shareholders’ Equity:
Common Stock, $.0001 par value; 75,000 shares authorized; shares issued January 2, 2010 – 35,840; January 3, 2009 – 35,801			4				4
Additional paid-in capital			278,176				275,890
Retained earnings (deficit)			277				(21,507	)
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)			4,013				(1,973	)
Total Shareholders’ Equity			282,470				252,414
Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity		$	438,345			$	453,237

 
 
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In Thousands, Except per Share Data)

		Years Ended
		January 2, 2010				January 3, 2009				December 29, 2007
Revenue		$	365,943			$	423,406			$	290,922
Cost of Revenue			278,926				323,048				238,343
Gross Profit			87,017				100,358				52,579
Selling, general and administrative expenses			47,863				58,340				39,484
Facility closure and severance costs			2,822				—				—
Operating Income			36,332				42,018				13,095
Other (income)/expense:
Interest expense			6,647				10,092				6,917
Derivatives valuation (gain)/loss			(1,173	)			(2,460	)			1,740
Other			428				2,874				(503	)
Income before income taxes			30,430				31,512				4,941
Income tax expense			8,646				7,493				5,090
Net income (loss)		$	21,784			$	24,019			$	(149	)
Net income per share:
Basic		$	0.61			$	0.67			$	—
Diluted		$	0.61			$	0.67			$	—
Weighted average common shares and equivalent shares outstanding:
Basic			35,308				35,170				35,089
Diluted			35,530				35,357				35,268

 
 
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(In Thousands)

		Common Stock				Additional Paid-In Capital				Retained Earnings (Deficit)				Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)				Total
Balance at December 30, 2006		$	4			$	270,716			$	(45,377	)		$	7,264			$	232,607
Comprehensive income:
Net loss											(149	)							(149	)
Other comprehensive income –
Foreign currency translation adjustment															3,171				3,171
Comprehensive income																		$	3,022
Exercise of Common Stock options							1,416												1,416
Amortization of unearned compensation cost							362												362
Issuance of Common Stock –
Employee Stock Purchase Plan							129												129
Balance at December 29, 2007		$	4			$	272,623			$	(45,526	)		$	10,435			$	237,536
Comprehensive income:
Net income											24,019								24,019
Other comprehensive income (loss) –
Foreign currency translation adjustment															(12,408	)			(12,408	)
Comprehensive income																		$	11,611
Exercise of Common Stock options							371												371
Amortization of unearned compensation cost							2,875												2,875
Issuance of Common Stock –
Employee Stock Purchase Plan							312												312
Restricted Stock							(291	)											(291	)
Balance at January 3, 2009		$	4			$	275,890			$	(21,507	)		$	(1,973	)		$	252,414
Comprehensive income:
Net income											21,784								21,784
Other comprehensive income (loss) –
Foreign currency translation adjustment															6,217				6,217
Derivative, net of tax benefit of $154															(231	)			(231	)
Comprehensive income																		$	27,770
Amortization of unearned compensation cost							2,765												2,765
Issuance of Common Stock –
Employee Stock Purchase Plan							202												202
Restricted Stock							(681	)											(681	)
Balance at January 2, 2010		$	4			$	278,176			$	277			$	4,013			$	282,470

 
 
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOW
(In Thousands)

		Years Ended
		January 2, 2010				January 3, 2009				December 29, 2007
Operating activities
Net income (loss)		$	21,784			$	24,019			$	(149	)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:
Depreciation			19,307				18,524				17,741
Amortization			2,945				2,939				2,257
Net (gain) loss on sale of assets			1,014				(464	)			153
Deferred income tax provision			4,311				3,475				(1,873	)
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation			—				(568	)			(845	)
Stock-based compensation			2,765				2,875				362
Derivative valuation (gain) loss			(1,173	)			1,782				256
Foreign currency transaction (gain) loss			(33	)			5,025				(530	)
Change in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable			16,450				(14,944	)			(3,968	)
Other assets			599				(1,083	)			1,401
Inventories			197				(12,136	)			(5,238	)
Current income taxes			833				(1,377	)			615
Accounts payable			(9,558	)			(2,131	)			8,020
Accrued expenses and other			(6,016	)			(263	)			6,454
Net cash provided by operating activities			53,425				25,673				24,656
Investing activities
Purchases of property and equipment			(15,017	)			(22,756	)			(8,846	)
Proceeds from the sale of property and equipment			69				1,374				1,731
Acquisitions, net of cash received			—				(46,584	)			(33,660	)
Net cash used in investing activities			(14,948	)			(67,966	)			(40,775	)
Financing activities
Proceeds from bank revolver			104,477				97,663				64,880
Payments on bank revolver			(122,045	)			(100,680	)			(44,177	)
Issuance of long-term debt			—				60,000				—
Payments on long-term debt and capital lease obligations			(17,952	)			(16,388	)			(6,756	)
Proceeds from the issuance of common stock			(81	)			357				700
Excess tax benefit from stock-based compensation			—				568				845
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities			(35,601	)			41,520				15,492
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash			1,152				(1,125	)			995
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents			4,028				(1,898	)			368
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period			10,191				12,089				11,721
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period		$	14,219			$	10,191			$	12,089
Supplemental disclosures:
Cash paid for interest		$	6,859			$	9,335			$	5,458
Cash paid for income taxes		$	3,964			$	4,946			$	4,672
Assets acquired under capital leases		$	—			$	639			$	195

 
 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(In Thousands, Except Share and per Share Data)

1. Description of the Business

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Symmetry Medical Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries (collectively referred to as the Corporation), Symmetry Medical USA Inc., Jet Engineering, Inc., Ultrexx, Inc., Riley Medical, Inc., Symmetry Medical Switzerland SA (formerly known as Riley Medical Europe, SA), Symmetry Medical Everest LLC, Everest Metal International Limited, Symmetry Medical Cheltenham Limited, Symmetry Medical PolyVac, SAS, Thornton Precision Components Limited (“Thornton”), Symmetry Medical Malaysia SDN, Clamonta Limited, Specialty Surgical Instrumentation, Inc., and TNCO, Inc.

Symmetry Medical Inc. is a leading independent provider of implants and related instruments and cases to global orthopedic device manufacturers. The Corporation designs, develops and produces these products for companies in other segments of the medical device market, including the dental, osteobiologic and endoscopy segments, and also provides limited specialized products to non-healthcare markets, such as the aerospace market.

On January 25, 2008, the Corporation acquired DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc’s (“DePuy”) New Bedford, Massachusetts instrument manufacturing facility (“New Bedford”). This facility manufactures orthopedic instruments as well as general surgical instruments and small implants.

On August 31, 2007, the Corporation acquired Specialty Surgical Instrumentation, Inc. and UCA, LLC (“SSI”) privately owned companies based in Nashville, Tennessee. SSI distributes surgical instruments and sterilization containers directly to hospitals.

On April 3, 2007, the Corporation acquired all of the stock of TNCO, Inc. (“TNCO”), a privately owned company based in Whitman, Massachusetts. TNCO designs and supplies precision instruments for arthroscopic, laparoscopic, sinus, and other minimally invasive procedures.

On January 9, 2007, the Corporation acquired all of the stock of Whedon Limited, a privately owned company based in Warwickshire, UK and the holding company of Clamonta Limited (collectively “Clamonta Ltd”). Clamonta Ltd manufactures aerospace products for the global aerospace industry.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Principles of Consolidation.  The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Year End.  The Corporation’s fiscal year is the 52 or 53 week period ending on the Saturday closest to December 31. Fiscal year 2009 is a 52 week year (ending January 2, 2010), fiscal 2008 was a 53 week year (ending January 3, 2009) and fiscal 2007 (ending December 29, 2007) was 52 weeks. References in these consolidated financial statements to 2009, 2008 and 2007 refer to these financial years, respectively.

Use of Estimates.  Preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates, but management does not believe such differences will materially affect the Corporation’s financial position or results of operations.

Revenue Recognition.  The Corporation recognizes revenue on orders received from its customers when there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement with the customer that is supportive of revenue recognition, the customer has made a fixed commitment to purchase the product for a fixed or determinable price, collection is reasonably assured under the Corporation’s normal billing and credit terms and ownership and all risks of loss have been transferred to the buyer, which is normally upon shipment. In certain circumstances, customer terms require receipt of product prior to the transfer of the risk of ownership. In such circumstances, revenue is not recognized upon shipment, but rather upon confirmation of delivery.

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(In Thousands, Except Share and per Share Data)

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies  – (continued)

Cash and Cash Equivalents.  Cash and cash equivalents include all highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less at the time of purchase.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts.  The Corporation performs periodic credit evaluations of customers’ financial condition and generally does not require collateral. Receivables are generally due within 30 to 90 days. The Corporation maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses in the collection of accounts receivable. The Corporation makes estimates regarding the future ability of its customers to make required payments based on historical credit experience and expected future trends. Provisions to the allowance for doubtful accounts are charged to current operating expenses. Actual losses are charged against this allowance when incurred. The activity in the allowance for doubtful accounts was as follows:

		January 2, 2010				January 3, 2009				December 29, 2007
Beginning balance		$	838			$	440			$	229
Provision			22				612				299
Write-offs, net			(282	)			(214	)			(88	)
Ending balance		$	578			$	838			$	440

Inventories.  Inventories generally are stated at the lower of cost, determined on the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method, or market. Costs include material, labor and manufacturing overhead costs. Inventory balances are reviewed monthly for excess products or obsolete inventory levels and written down, if necessary, to net realizable value.

Property and Equipment.  Property and equipment, which includes assets under capital lease, are stated on the basis of cost. Depreciation is calculated on the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets or lease terms, whichever is shorter. Repair and maintenance costs are charged to expense as incurred. Upon retirement or sale of an asset, its cost and related accumulated depreciation or amortization is removed from the consolidated balance sheet and any gain or loss is recorded in operating income or expense.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets, Including Intangible Assets.  The Corporation assesses the impairment of definite lived long-lived assets when circumstances indicate the carrying value of an asset may not be recoverable based on the undiscounted future cash flows of an asset. If the carrying amount of the asset is determined not to be recoverable, a write-down to fair value is recorded. Fair values are determined based on quoted market values, undiscounted cash flows, or external appraisals, as applicable. The Corporation reviews long-lived assets for impairment at the individual asset or the asset group level for which the lowest level of independent cash flows can be identified.

Intangible assets subject to amortization consist of technology, non-compete and customer related intangible assets acquired in connection with our various acquisitions. These assets are amortized using the straight-line method. The Corporation is required to reassess the expected useful lives of existing intangible assets annually. The Corporation also evaluates the recoverability of intangible assets subject to amortization based on undiscounted operating cash flows when factors indicate impairment may exist. In the event of impairment, the Corporation makes appropriate write-downs of recorded costs to fair value. The Corporation reviewed its amortizing intangible assets and has not recorded any impairment related to these assets for fiscal 2009, 2008 or 2007.

Goodwill is not amortized but is periodically tested for impairment using a two-step process. The first step is a screen for potential impairment, while the second step measures the amount of impairment. Potential impairment is determined by comparing estimated fair value to the net book value of the reporting unit. Fair value is calculated as the present value of estimated future cash flows. The Corporation has multiple operating

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2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies  – (continued)

segments. The Corporation has defined its reporting units at the component of an operating segment as this is the lowest level for which discrete financial information is available and the operating results of that component are regularly reviewed by management. The Corporation completed its annual impairment testing and concluded that no impairment of goodwill existed for fiscal 2009, 2008 or 2007.

Intangible assets with an indefinite life are not amortized but are subject to review each reporting period to determine whether events and circumstances continue to support an indefinite useful life as well as an annual impairment test in accordance with this statement. The Corporation reviewed its intangible assets and has not recorded any impairment related to these assets for fiscal 2009, 2008 or 2007.

The assessment of the recoverability of long-lived assets reflects management’s assumptions and estimates. Factors that management must estimate when performing impairment tests include sales volume, prices, inflation, discount rates, exchange rates, tax rates and capital spending. Significant management judgment is involved in estimating these factors, and they include inherent uncertainties. Measurement of the recoverability of these assets is dependent upon the accuracy of the assumptions used in making these estimates, as well as how the estimates compare to the eventual future operating performance of the specific reporting unit to which the assets are attributed. Changes in these estimates could change our conclusion regarding the impairment of goodwill or other intangible assets and potentially result in a non-cash impairment in the future period.

Income Taxes.  The consolidated financial statements of the Corporation have been prepared using the asset and liability method in accounting for income taxes, which requires the recognition of deferred income taxes for the expected future tax consequences of net operating losses, credits, and temporary differences between the financial statement carrying amounts and the tax basis of assets and liabilities. Differences between the anticipated and actual outcomes of these future tax consequences could have a material impact on our consolidated results of operations or financial position. Additionally, we use tax planning strategies as part of our global tax compliance program. Judgments and interpretation of statutes are inherent in this process. The Corporation provides related reserves, where applicable, in accounting for uncertain tax positions. Interest and penalties associated with reserves for uncertain tax positions are classified in income tax expense in the Statements of Operations.

Foreign Currency Translation.  The financial statements of the Corporation’s foreign subsidiaries are accounted for and have been translated into U.S. dollars in accordance with accounting guidance on foreign currency translation. Assets and liabilities have been translated using the exchange rate in effect at the balance sheet date. Revenues and expenses have been translated using a weighted-average exchange rate for the period. Currency translation adjustments have been recorded as a separate component of shareholders’ equity. Foreign currency transaction gains and losses resulting from a subsidiary’s foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities included in other income were a $302 loss, $3,309 loss and $382 gain in 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.

Shipping and Handling Costs.  The Corporation reflects freight costs associated with shipping its products to customers as a component of cost of revenues.

Advertising Costs.  Advertising costs are expensed as incurred. Advertising costs were $315, $317 and $287 for the years ending January 2, 2010, January 3, 2009 and December 29, 2007, respectively.

Derivative Financial Instruments.  The Corporation recognizes all derivative instruments in its consolidated financial statements at its fair value. Changes in the fair value of derivatives are recorded each period in the Derivative Valuation (gain)/loss line item of the Statements of Operations unless the derivative qualifies for hedge accounting. The effective portion of changes in fair value of hedges is recorded each period in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax, until the related hedge transaction

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2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies  – (continued)

occurs. Any ineffective portion of changes in fair value of the hedges is recorded in the Derivative Valuation (gain)/loss line item of the Statement of Operations.

Stock-Based Compensation.  The Corporation measures stock-based compensation cost at the grant date based on the estimated fair value of the award. Compensation cost for service-based awards is recognized ratably over the applicable vesting period. Compensation cost for performance-based awards is reassessed each period and recognized based upon the probability that the performance targets will be achieved. There have been no grants of stock options since 2004. For restricted stock, the fair market value of the award is determined based upon the closing value of the Corporation’s stock price on the grant date. The amount of stock-based compensation expense recognized during a period is based on the portion of the awards that are ultimately expected to vest. The Corporation estimates forfeitures at the time of grant by analyzing historical data and revises those estimates in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. The total expense recognized over the vesting period will only be for those awards that ultimately vest. Refer to Note 13 for additional information on the Corporation’s compensation plans.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

Accounting Standards Codification.  In June 2009, the FASB issued pronouncements under ASC 825-10, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (formerly SFAS No. 168, The FASB Accounting Standards Codification and Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). ASC 825-10 established a single official source of authoritative United States accounting and reporting standards for all non-governmental entities (other than guidance issued by the SEC) and changes the referencing and organization on financial standards. On October 3, 2009, the Corporation adopted ASC 825-10, which did not have an impact on the Corporation’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Fair Value Measurements.  The Corporation adopted the FASB pronouncement under ASC 820-10 (formerly SFAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements) relating to fair value measurements for non-financial assets and liabilities on January 4, 2009. This pronouncement provides guidance for using fair value to measure assets and liabilities and only applies when other pronouncements require or permit the fair value measurement of assets and liabilities. It does not expand the use of fair value measurement. The adoption of this pronouncement did not have a material impact on the Corporation’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Business Combinations.  The Corporation adopted the FASB pronouncement under ASC 805-10, Business Combinations (formerly SFAS No. 141(R)) on January 4, 2009. This pronouncement amends the previously issued Statement on Business Combinations and provides revised guidance for recognizing and measuring identifiable assets and goodwill acquired, liabilities assumed, and any non-controlling interest in the acquiree. It also provides disclosure requirements to enable users of the financial statements to evaluate the nature and financial effects of the business combination. The adoption of the pronouncement had an immaterial impact on the Corporation’s financial position and results of operations.

Disclosures About Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities.  The Corporation adopted the FASB pronouncement under ASC 815-10, Derivatives and Hedging (formerly SFAS No. 161, Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities) on January 4, 2009.  This pronouncement requires entities to provide enhanced disclosures about how and why an entity uses derivative instruments, how derivative instruments and related hedged items are accounted, and how derivative instruments and related hedged items affect an entity’s financial position, results of operations, and cash flows. The adoption of this pronouncement had no impact on the Corporation’s financial position or results of operations. These disclosures are included in Note 11.

Determining Whether Instruments Granted in Share-Based Payment Transactions are Participating Securities.  We adopted the FASB pronouncement under ASC 260-10, Earnings per Share (formerly EITF Issue No. 07-4, Application of the Two-Class Method under FASB Statement No. 128) on January 4, 2009,

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2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies  – (continued)

with retrospective application. This pronouncement was issued to clarify that unvested share-based payment awards with a right to receive non-forfeitable dividends are participating securities. This pronouncement also provides guidance on how to allocate earnings to participating securities and compute basic earnings per share (EPS) using the two-class method. The adoption of this pronouncement reduced previously reported EPS by $0.01 for the year ended January 3, 2009.

Subsequent Events.  On July 4, 2009, the Corporation adopted the FASB pronouncement under ASC 855-10, Subsequent Events (formerly SFAS No. 165, Subsequent Events). This pronouncement provides additional disclosure requirements for material events occurring subsequent to the balance sheet date and prior to the issuance of the financial statements. This pronouncement also modifies the definition of subsequent events and defines the two types of subsequent events as recognized and non-recognized.

3. Acquisition

On January 25, 2008, the Corporation acquired substantially all the assets and real property of DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc’s (“DePuy”) New Bedford, Massachusetts instrument manufacturing facility (“New Bedford”) for $45,246 in cash. This facility manufactures orthopedic instruments as well as general surgical instruments and small implants.

The aggregate purchase price of $45,246 was allocated to the opening balance sheet as follows:

Current assets		$	7,819
PP&E			22,101
Acquired customers (amortized over 15 years)			5,130
Goodwill			10,196
Purchase price, net		$	45,246

Unaudited Proforma Results.  The following table represents the proforma results of the Corporation’s operations had the acquisitions of Clamonta Ltd, TNCO, SSI and New Bedford been completed as of the beginning of the periods presented:

		Fiscal Year Ended
		2009				2008				2007
Revenue		$	365,943			$	426,083			$	339,429
Net income (loss)			21,784				24,085				(2,539	)
Earnings per share – basic		$	0.61			$	0.68			$	(0.07	)
Earnings per share – diluted		$	0.61			$	0.68			$	(0.07	)

4. Inventories

Inventories consist of the following:

		January 2, 2010				January 3, 2009
Raw material and supplies		$	15,099			$	12,444
Work-in-process			27,120				30,541
Finished goods			20,082				18,126
		$	62,301			$	61,111

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5. Property and Equipment

Property and equipment, including depreciable lives, consists of the following:

		January 2, 2010				January 3, 2009
Land		$	6,965			$	6,473
Buildings and improvements (20 to 40 years)			42,252				40,183
Machinery and equipment (5 to 15 years)			138,182				127,716
Office equipment (3 to 5 years)			13,194				10,859
Construction-in-progress			3,750				4,227
			204,343				189,458
Less accumulated depreciation			(90,974	)			(74,413	)
		$	113,369			$	115,045

6. Intangible Assets

As of January 2, 2010, the balances of intangible assets, other than goodwill, were as follows:

		Weighted-Average Amortization Period				Gross Intangible Assets				Accumulated Amortization				Net Intangible Assets
Acquired technology and patents			10 years			$	2,343			$	(1,020	)		$	1,323
Acquired customers			18 years				42,613				(9,166	)			33,447
Non-compete agreements			5 years				691				(420	)			271
Intangible assets subject to amortization			17 years				45,647				(10,606	)			35,041
Proprietary processes			Indefinite												3,586
Trademarks			Indefinite												4,102
Indefinite-lived intangible assets, other than goodwill															7,688
Total														$	42,729

As of January 3, 2009, the balances of intangible assets, other than goodwill, were as follows:

		Weighted-Average Amortization Period				Gross Intangible Assets				Accumulated Amortization				Net Intangible Assets
Acquired technology and patents			10 years			$	2,295			$	(713	)		$	1,582
Acquired customers			18 years				42,330				(6,596	)			35,734
Non-compete agreements			5 years				559				(243	)			316
Intangible assets subject to amortization			17 years				45,184				(7,552	)			37,632
Proprietary processes			Indefinite												3,428
Trademarks			Indefinite												3,979
Indefinite-lived intangible assets, other than goodwill															7,407
Total														$	45,039

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6. Intangible Assets  – (continued)

Intangible asset amortization expense was $2,945, $2,939 and $2,257 for 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively. Annual intangible asset amortization expense for the next 5 fiscal years is estimated to be $2,900 per year.

The changes in the carrying amounts of goodwill for the years ended January 2, 2010 and January 3, 2009, are as follows:

Balance as of December 29, 2007		$	141,985
Goodwill acquired			12,265
Effects of foreign currency			(729	)
Balance as of January 3, 2009		$	153,521
Adjustment to goodwill			(482	)
Effects of foreign currency			774
Balance as of January 2, 2010		$	153,813

7. Fair Value of Financial Instruments

In September 2006, the FASB issued a statement to define fair value, established a framework for measuring fair value in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, and expand disclosures about fair value measurements. The Corporation adopted the provisions as of December 30, 2007 for financial instruments and as of January 4, 2009 for non-financial instruments. Although the adoption did not materially impact its financial condition, results of operations, or cash flow, the Corporation is now required to provide additional disclosures as part of its financial statements.

Accounting guidance establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value. These tiers include: Level 1, defined as observable inputs such as quoted prices in active markets; Level 2, defined as inputs other than quoted prices in active markets that are either directly or indirectly observable, and Level 3, defined as unobservable inputs in which little or no market data exists, therefore requiring an entity to develop its own assumptions.

As of January 2, 2010, the Corporation held certain assets that are required to be measured at fair value on a recurring basis. These included the Corporation’s interest rate derivative instruments. The Corporation’s derivative instruments consist of contracts that are not traded on a public exchange. The fair values of interest rate derivative instruments are determined based on inputs that are readily available in public markets or can be derived from information available in publicly quoted markets. Therefore, the Corporation has categorized these swap contracts as Level 2 in accordance with the FASB Statement on fair value measurement.

The following table summarizes certain fair value information at January 2, 2010 and January 3, 2009 for assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis.

		January 2, 2010																January 3, 2009
		Fair Value Measurements																Fair Value Measurements
		Level 1				Level 2				Level 3				Total				Level 1				Level 2				Level 3				Total
Liabilities
Interest rate swaps		$	—			$	(2,982	)		$	—			$	(2,982	)		$	—			$	(3,771	)		$	—			$	(3,771	)
		$	—			$	(2,982	)		$	—			$	(2,982	)		$	—			$	(3,771	)		$	—			$	(3,771	)

Additionally, financial instruments also consist of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, and long-term debt. The carrying value of these financial instruments approximates fair value.

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8. Derivatives

The Corporation utilizes derivative instruments to minimize the volatility of cash flows and income statement impacts associated with interest rate payments on its variable rate debt. The Corporation recognizes all derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities at fair value on the consolidated balance sheets. The Corporation utilizes third party valuations to assist in the determination of the fair value of these derivatives. The Corporation considers its derivative instrument valuations to be Level 2 fair value measurements under the provision of the FASB Statement on fair value measurements (See Note 7).

To the extent a derivative instrument is designated effective as a cash flow hedge of an exposure to changes in the fair value of a future transaction, the change in fair value of the derivative is deferred in accumulated other comprehensive income/ (loss), a component of shareholders’ equity in the consolidated balance sheets, until the underlying transaction hedged is recognized in the consolidated statements of operations. The Corporation accounts for certain derivatives hedging the payment of interest as cash flow hedges and the impact of the hedge is reclassified to interest expense in the consolidated statements of operations upon payment of interest.

The Corporation’s profitability and cash flows are affected by changes in interest rates, specifically the LIBOR rate. The primary purpose of the Corporation’s interest rate risk management activities is to hedge its exposure to changes in interest rates. In 2009, the Corporation entered into a forward swap contract to manage interest rate risk related to a portion of its current variable rate senior secured term loan. The Corporation has hedged the future interest payments related to $64,100 of the total outstanding term loan indebtedness due in 2011 pursuant to this forward swap contract. This swap contract, which had a fair value of ($384) at January 2, 2010, is designated as a cash flow hedge of the future payment of variable rate interest with three-month LIBOR fixed at 1.34% per annum in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

In 2006, the Corporation entered into a forward swap contract to manage interest rate risk related to $40,000 of its then existing variable rate senior secured first lien term loan to a fixed payment obligation of 5.45% per annum for the period commencing July 3, 2006 and ending on June 10, 2010. This swap contract, which had a fair value of ($2,598) at January 2, 2010, was not designated as a cash flow hedge of the future variable rate payment of interest. The entire change in the fair value of this interest rate swap is recorded to derivative valuation (gain)/loss in the consolidated statements of operations. In Fiscal 2009, 2008 and 2007, the Corporation recorded a $1,173 gain, $1,856 loss and $1,366 loss, respectively.

Historically, the Corporation entered into forward contracts to mitigate the impact of fluctuations in foreign currency on the Statements of Operations. As of January 2, 2010, the Corporation had no foreign currency contracts outstanding since all contracts were settled during fiscal 2008, resulting in $4,316 of realized gains. As of December 29, 2007, the Corporation had two contracts for the sale of $5,000 British pounds each with settlement dates no later than January 18, 2008 and one contract for the sale of $10,000 British pounds with a settlement date no later than April 21, 2008. As of December 30, 2006, the Corporation had entered into three contracts for the sale of $5,000 British pounds each with settlement dates no later than January 17, 2007, May 2, 2007 and May 11, 2007 for each of the three contracts, respectively. The entire change in the fair value of the forwards in 2008 and 2007 of $4,316 and $374, respectively, was included in the derivative valuation (gain)/loss line item of the consolidated statement of operations.

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9. Debt Arrangements

Long-term debt consists of the following:

		January 2, 2010				January 3, 2009
Bank term loan payable in quarterly installments, plus interest at a variable rate, through December 2009		$	—			$	10,500
Bank term loan payable in quarterly installments, plus interest at a variable rate (2.0000% at January 2, 2010), through June 2011			38,600				39,000
Bank term loan payable in quarterly installments, plus interest at a variable rate (2.0000% at January 2, 2010), through June 2011			51,000				57,000
Revolving line of credit, due June 2011			—				18,000
			89,600				124,500
Less current portion			(20,400	)			(16,900	)
		$	69,200			$	107,600