Shareholders' Equity

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Shareholders' Equity [Abstract]

Shareholders' Equity

Note 13.  Shareholders' Equity

Under terms of the Company's stock option plans, officers and certain other employees were granted options to purchase the Company's common stock at no less than 100% of the market price on the date the option was granted.  No additional options can be granted under these plans; however, the Company has reserved unissued shares of common stock for the exercise of the 19,008 unexercised and outstanding options as of June 30, 2012 under these employee plans.  All options granted under these plans vested prior to 2007.

In addition, the Company's Non-employee Directors Stock Incentive Plan allows non-employee directors to have a personal financial stake in the Company through an ownership interest.  Directors may elect to receive their compensation in cash, common stock, deferred stock or stock options.  Options granted under the Non-employee Directors Stock Incentive Plan vest and become fully exercisable immediately.  All stock options have a 10-year term.  The shares reserved under the 1998 Non-Employee Directors Stock Incentive Plan total 132,904 as of June 30, 2012, of which 108,738 shares are available for future grants of stock or deferred stock to directors.  No additional options can be granted under this plan.  The fair value of stock awards granted to non-employee directors totaled $58,000 and $66,000 during the three-month periods ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.  The fair value of stock awards granted to non-employee directors totaled $116,000 and $124,000 during the six-month periods ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

In 2006, the Company adopted a five-year plan to award key members of management restricted stock units ("RSUs") each year under the Company's 2006 Incentive Plan.  The plan allowed the Company to grant up to 700,000 RSUs to employees based upon the annual performance of individual subsidiaries and the Company as a whole during each of the five years ended December 31, 2011.  Additional RSUs were granted in 2011 based upon cumulative five-year performance.  Generally, each award will vest at the end of five years from its date of grant, or at the time a recipient retires after reaching age 65, if earlier.  In early 2011, a subsequent plan was formulated under the Company's 2011 Incentive Plan which was approved by the Company's shareholders in their annual meeting held in April 2011.  This plan also allows the Company to grant up to 700,000 RSUs to employees and will operate in a similar fashion to the 2006 Incentive Plan for each of the five years ending December 31, 2015.  Compensation expense of $371,000 and $634,000 has been recorded in the three-month periods ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, to reflect the fair value of the total shares granted or expected to be granted under both plans, amortized over the portion of the vesting period occurring during the periods.  Compensation expense of $438,000 and $1,500,000 has been recorded in the six-month periods ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, to reflect the fair value of the total shares granted or expected to be granted under both plans, amortized over the portion of the vesting period occurring during the periods.  No RSUs vested in the three-month period ended June 30, 2012.  A total of 3,020 RSUs vested in the three-month period ended June 30, 2011.  A total of 62,307 and 6,464 RSUs vested in the six-month periods ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.  The Company withheld 19,146 shares upon the vesting of 62,307 RSUs during the six months ended June 30, 2012 and used Company funds to remit the related required minimum withholding taxes to the various tax authorities.  The vesting date fair value of the RSUs that vested in the three-month period ended June 30, 2011 was $113,000.  The vesting date fair value of the RSUs that vested in the six-month periods ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 was $2,233,000 and $228,000, respectively.