Note 1 - Description of Business and Basis of Presentation

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Notes To Financial Statements

Nature of Operations [Text Block]

1.   Description of Business and Basis of Presentation

General— Merisel, Inc. (“Merisel”, or the “Company”) was founded in 1980 as Softsel Computer Products, Inc., was incorporated in Delaware in 1987 and changed its name to Merisel, Inc. in 1990 in connection with the acquisition of Microamerica, Inc. The Company operated as a full-line computer distributor through 2000 and as a software licensing distributor through August 2004, when the remaining operations were sold.

The Company and its subsidiaries currently operate in the visual communications services business.  It entered that business beginning March 2005 through a series of acquisitions, which continued through 2006. These acquisitions include Color Edge, Inc. and Color Edge Visual, Inc. (together “Color Edge”), Comp 24, LLC (“Comp 24”); Crush Creative, Inc. (“Crush”); Dennis Curtin Studios, Inc. (“DCS”); Advertising Props, Inc. (“AdProps”); and Fuel Digital, Inc. (“Fuel”). The acquisitions of the Company’s seven operating entities are referred to below as “Acquisitions.” The Company’s financial statements are on a consolidated basis.