11-K 1 sdc756.htm ANNUAL REPORT

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 11-K

|X| ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003

  or

|   | TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 For the transition period from ____________ to ____________


Commission File Number:  000-00795


  A. Full title of the plan and address of the plan, if different from that of the issuer named below:

BADGER PAPER MILLS, INC.
PROFIT SHARING PLAN AND TRUST FOR NON-UNION EMPLOYEES


  B. Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and the address of its principal executive office:

BADGER PAPER MILLS, INC.
200 West Front Street
Peshtigo, Wisconsin 54157









REQUIRED INFORMATION

        The following financial statements and schedules of the Badger Paper Mills, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees, prepared in accordance with the financial reporting requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, are filed herewith.



















Financial statements and report of independent certified public accountants

Badger Paper Mills, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees

December 31, 2003 and 2002



















CONTENTS

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Report Of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
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Financial Statements

       Statements Of Net Assets Available For Benefits
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       Statements Of Changes In Net Assets Available For Benefits
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       Notes To Financial Statements
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Supplementary Information

       Report Of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm On
          Supplementary Information
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       Schedule H, Line 4(i) - Schedule Of Assets Held At End Of Year
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM


Badger Paper Mills, Inc.

We have audited the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits of Badger Paper Mills, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related statements of changes in net assets available for benefits for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of Badger Paper Mills, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the years then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.


/s/  Grant Thornton LLP

Appleton, Wisconsin
June 8, 2004










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Badger Paper Mills, Inc.
Profit Sharing Plan And Trust For Non-Union Employees

STATEMENTS OF NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS

December 31,


2003
2002
                                  ASSETS   

Investments, at fair value
           
    Common trust funds   $ 1,660,352   $ 1,561,454  
    Mutual funds    6,827,038    5,182,918  
    Common stock    11,358    32,127  


     8,498,748    6,776,499  

Employer contributions receivable
    208,590    232,919  

Accrued income
    --    5  



        Total assets
    8,707,338    7,009,423  

                            LIABILITIES
  

Miscellaneous payable
    --    384  



        Total liabilities
    --    384  



NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS
   $ 8,707,338   $ 7,009,039  





The accompanying notes are an integral part of these statements.






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Badger Paper Mills, Inc.
Profit Sharing Plan And Trust For Non-Union Employees

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS

Year ended December 31,


2003
2002

Additions to net assets available for benefits:
           
   Investment income:  
      Interest income and dividends   $ 86,136   $ 66,265  
      Net appreciation (depreciation) in fair value of investments    1,511,368    (1,292,043 )


     1,597,504    (1,225,778 )

   Contributions:
  
      Employee contributions    264,988    268,222  
      Employer contributions    212,430    232,919  


     477,418    501,141  



            Total additions
    2,074,922    (724,637 )

Deductions from net assets available for benefits:
  
    Benefits paid to participants    403,347    1,256,289  
    Trust and other fees    13,282    10,125  



            Total deductions
    416,629    1,266,414  



            INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET
               ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS
    1,658,293    (1,991,051 )

Net assets available for benefits at beginning of year
    7,009,039    8,998,715  

Transfer from Badger Paper Mills, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan
  
 and Trust for Union Employees    40,006    1,375  



Net assets available for benefits at end of year
   $ 8,707,338   $ 7,009,039  




The accompanying notes are an integral part of these statements.


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Badger Paper Mills, Inc.
Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

December 31, 2003 and 2002



NOTE A — PLAN DESCRIPTION

The following brief description of Badger Paper Mills, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees (the “Plan”) is provided for general information purposes only.  Participants should refer to the Plan document for more complete information.

1. General

  The Plan is a defined contribution plan, which covers substantially all salaried employees of Badger Paper Mills, Inc. (the “Company”) who have attained the age of 18. Employees who have completed at least two months of service with the Company are eligible to make 401(k) contributions. Employees are eligible to receive an allocation of the Company’s contribution after at least 1,000 hours of service during the year and they must be employed at year-end. It is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), as amended.

2. Contributions

  The Company may make discretionary contributions to the plan each year. For the plan year ended December 31, 2003 and 2002, the Company contributed to the plan $212,430 and $232,919, respectively.

  A cash or deferred arrangement plan, as authorized by Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), allows employees to defer a portion of their compensation up to the applicable IRC limits by having it contributed by the Company to their individual account in the Plan.






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Badger Paper Mills, Inc.
Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — CONTINUED

December 31, 2003 and 2002

3. Vesting

  Participants are at all times fully vested in the value of their accounts attributable to their voluntary contributions.

  Vesting in employer contributions are in accordance with the following graduated vesting schedule:

Years of service
Nonforfeitable percentage
Less than 1      0 %
1    33  
2    66  
3 or more    100  


  Upon death, disability or retirement, participants are automatically 100% vested regardless of years of service.

4. Participant Accounts

  Each participant’s account is credited with the participant’s contribution, an allocation of the Company’s profit sharing contribution, Plan earnings and forfeitures of terminated participants’ nonvested accounts and charged with an allocation of administrative expenses. Allocations are based on participant earnings or account balances, as defined.

5. Investment Options

  Upon enrollment in the Plan, a participant may direct investments consisting of his or her employee contributions and employer contributions plus actual earnings thereon in 1% increments in any of the investment options offered by the Plan.

  Participants may change their investment options daily.




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Badger Paper Mills, Inc.
Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — CONTINUED

December 31, 2003 and 2002



NOTE A — PLAN DESCRIPTION — Continued

6. Benefits

  On termination of service due to death, disability or retirement, the participant or beneficiary is entitled to receive the full value of the participant’s account. Upon a participant’s termination from employment with the Company for a reason other than death, disability or retirement, the participant is entitled to the vested balance in their account.

  The method of distribution for account balances exceeding $5,000 will be determined by an election made by the Plan participant. The methods available are lump sum, direct rollover, installment payments or part installments and lump sum. The standard method for account balances less than $5,000 is lump sum payments.


NOTE B — SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The financial statements of the Plan have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America as applied to profit sharing plans.

A summary of the significant accounting policies consistently applied in the preparation of the accompanying financial statements follows.

1. Use of Estimates

  In preparation of the financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reported period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

2. Basis of Accounting

  The financial statements of the Plan are prepared on an accrual basis.



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Badger Paper Mills, Inc.
Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — CONTINUED

December 31, 2003 and 2002

3. Valuation of Investments

  The Plan's investments are held by Wells Fargo Bank Minnesota, N.A. (the "Trustee"). Plan investments are stated at market value as reported by the Plan Trustee.

  Investments in securities traded on a national securities exchange are valued at the last reported sales price on the last business day of the year; securities traded in the over-the-counter market and listed securities for which no sale was reported on that date are valued at the mean between the last reported bid and asked prices. Investments in mutual funds are stated at a value based upon the per unit allocation of the funds’net assets, stated at fair market value on the last business day of the year.

4. Payment of Benefits

  Benefits are recorded when paid.


NOTE C — INVESTMENTS

The following schedule presents the investments held by the Trustee in each fund at December 31, 2003 and 2002. Investments that represent 5% or more of the Plan’s net assets are separately identified.

2003
2002
Common Trust Funds:            
   Wells Fargo Stable Return Fund   $ 1,476,651   $ 1,433,256  
   Other    183,701    128,198  

Mutual Funds:
  
   Wells Fargo Growth Balanced Fund    2,584,152    2,119,263  
   Wells Fargo Growth Equity Fund    886,021    649,349  
   Wells Fargo Diversified Equity Fund    1,090,458    783,322  
   Wells Fargo Large Company Growth Fund    652,240    468,650  
   Janus Overseas Fund    542,453    380,796  
   Wells Fargo Small Cap Fund    848,342    623,438  
   Other    223,372    158,100  

Common stock
    11,358    32,127  


    $ 8,498,748   $ 6,776,499  




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Badger Paper Mills, Inc.
Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — CONTINUED

December 31, 2003 and 2002



The Plan’s investments (including investments bought, sold and held during the year) appreciated (depreciated) in value as follows for the years ended December 31:

2003
2002
Common trust funds     $ 108,937   $ 35,973  
Mutual funds    1,410,978    (1,346,514 )
Common stock    (8,547 )  18,498  


    $ 1,511,368   $ (1,292,043 )



In general, the investments provided by the Plan are exposed to various risks, such as interest rate, credit and overall market volatility risks. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is reasonably possible that changes in the values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes could materially affect the amounts reported in the statement of net assets available for benefits.


NOTE D — ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

All administrative expenses in connection with the operation of the Plan are paid from Plan earnings.


NOTE E — PLAN TERMINATION

Although it has not expressed any intent to do so, the Company has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA. Participants will become fully vested upon termination of the Plan.


NOTE F — INCOME TAX STATUS

The Plan has adopted Wells Fargo Prototype Plan and the Prototype Plan obtained an opinion letter dated August 30, 2001, in which the Internal Revenue Service stated that the Plan was designed in accordance with applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”). Since receiving the opinion letter, the Plan has been amended. However, the Plan administrator and the Plan’s tax counsel believe that the amended Plan is designed and is currently being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the IRC.



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Badger Paper Mills, Inc.
Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — CONTINUED

December 31, 2003 and 2002



NOTE G — RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Certain plan investments are managed by Wells Fargo Bank. Wells Fargo Bank is the trustee as defined by the Plan and, therefore, these transactions qualify as party-in-interest transactions.

At December 31, 2003 and 2002, the Plan has an investment in the Company’s common stock. The fair market value of this investment is $11,358 and $32,127, respectively.











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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION



















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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
ON SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION


Badger Paper Mills, Inc.

Our audits were conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic financial statements taken as a whole of Badger Paper Mills, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees as of December 31, 2003 and 2002 and for the years then ended, which are presented in the preceding section of this report. The supplementary schedule is presented for the purpose of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic financial statements but is supplementary information required by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Such information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audits of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole.


/s/  Grant Thornton LLP

Appleton, Wisconsin
June 8, 2004











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Badger Paper Mills, Inc.
Profit Sharing Plan and Trust for Non-Union Employees

SCHEDULE H, LINE 4(i) — SCHEDULE OF ASSETS HELD AT END OF YEAR

Employer ID # 39-0143840 — Plan # 002

December 31, 2003



  (a)
(b) Identity of issuer, borrower,
lessor or similar party

(c) Description of investment including maturity
date, rate of interest, collateral, par or maturity value

(e) Current 
value 



  *
    Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.     Stable Return Fund     $ 1,476,651  
      Short-Term Investment Fund    1,318  
      S & P 500 Collective Fund    182,383  
          1,660,352  

  *
   Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.   Growth Balanced Fund    2,584,152  
      Growth Equity Fund    886,021  
      Large Company Growth Fund    652,240  
      Strategic Income Fund    115,770  
      Diversified Equity Fund    1,090,458  
      Small Cap Fund    848,342  
   Janus   Overseas Fund    542,453  
   MSIF Trust   Mid Cap Growth Portfolio Fund    107,602  

          6,827,038  

  *
   Badger Paper Mills, Inc.   Common Stock    11,358  


  
         $8,498,748  




  *   Indicates party-in-interest investment.




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SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Badger Paper Mills, Inc., the Plan administrator, has duly caused this Annual Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Peshtigo, and State of Wisconsin, on this 24th day of June, 2004.



BADGER PAPER MILLS, INC. PROFIT SHARING
PLAN AND TRUST FOR NON-UNION EMPLOYEES


By:    /s/  William H. Peters
William H. Peters
Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer of Badger Paper Mills, Inc.










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EXHIBIT INDEX

BADGER PAPER MILLS, INC.
PROFIT SHARING PLAN AND TRUST FOR NON-UNION EMPLOYEES

FORM 11-K



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