The loss making KLE Group Limited advised that Joseph M. Matalon has resigned as Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company with effect on December 15, 2013 and Audrey Marks will assume Chairmanship of the Board of Directors effective the same day.
Joseph M. Matalon has also resigned as Chairman of the Audit Committee with effect from December 15, 2013. Matalon’s resignation from the Audit Committee was in no way related to any disagreement in respect of accounting principles, financial statement disclosure or any other material issue impacting the Audit Committee or its function, the company stated.
The resignation comes against the back drop of the company reporting another quarter of losses, which is worse than the same quarter last year despite the rise in revenues from $82 million in the 2012 quarter to $102 million in 2013. For the September quarter, losses climbed to $12.4 million up from a loss of $1 million in 2012 and for the nine months period the loss is $48 million versus $10.5 million in 2012. For the nine months, revenues climbed from $215 million to $249 million. Compounding the matter is that interest cost climbed to $9.75 million in the latest quarter from $6.58 million last year and $23 million year to date versus nearly $20 million last year.
Matalon, being a board member of Scotia Group, would have most likely paid a major role in the decision to exit the loss making company that in all probability will be struggling to turn things around.
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