Business Segment Data

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2024

Business Segment Data [Line Items]

Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block]

Note 13 – Business Segment Data

Operating segments are based on the Company’s business components for which separate financial information is available and are evaluated regularly by the Company’s chief operating decision makers in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance of the business.

The Company evaluates segment performance and allocates resources based upon operating income (loss). The Company’s operations are managed in two reportable business segments: Digital product sales and Digital product lease and maintenance.  Both design and produce large-scale, multi-color, real-time digital displays.  Both operating segments are conducted on a global basis, primarily through operations in the United States.  The Company also has operations in Canada.  The Digital product sales segment sells equipment and the Digital product lease and maintenance segment leases and maintains equipment.  Corporate general and administrative items relate to costs that are not directly identifiable with a segment.  There are no intersegment sales.

Foreign revenues represented less than 10% of the Company’s revenues in the six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023.  The Company’s foreign operation does not manufacture its own equipment; the domestic operation provides the equipment that the foreign operation leases or sells.  The foreign operation operates similarly to the domestic operation and has similar profit margins.  Foreign assets are immaterial.

Information about the Company’s operations in its two business segments for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024 and 2023 is as follows:

	Three months ended June 30				Six months ended June 30
In thousands	2024		2023		2024		2023
Revenues:
Digital product sales	$	3,273	$	2,767	$	5,702	$	6,888
Digital product lease and maintenance		190		219		385		447
Total revenues	$	3,463	$	2,986	$	6,087	$	7,335
Operating (loss) income:
Digital product sales	$	(266)	$	(181)	$	(1,025)	$	(482)
Digital product lease and maintenance		76		109		186		232
Corporate general and administrative expenses		(489)		(490)		(962)		(949)
Total operating loss		(679)		(562)		(1,801)		(1,199)
Interest expense, net		(147)		(194)		(289)		(338)
Gain (loss) on foreign currency remeasurement		24		(51)		76		(59)
Pension expense		(50)		(62)		(100)		(125)
Loss before income taxes		(852)		(869)		(2,114)		(1,721)
Income tax expense		(6)		(6)		(13)		(12)
Net loss	$	(858)	$	(875)	$	(2,127)	$	(1,733)

	June 30 2024		December 31 2023
Assets
Digital product sales	$	7,213	$	7,502
Digital product lease and maintenance		551		643
Total identifiable assets		7,764		8,145
General corporate		169		185
Total assets	$	7,933	$	8,330