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Nyer Medical Group, Inc. Announces the Addition of 3 Pharmacies
BANGOR, Maine, July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nyer Medical Group
Inc., (Nasdaq: NYER) announced today that its 80% owned subsidiary, D.A.W.,
Inc. has added three pharmacies. Two of the pharmacies are start-ups
operating in the Massachusetts communities of Brockton and Framingham. Each
of the two pharmacies has entered into a contract to maintain a segregated
inventory on behalf of a federally qualified health center for the purpose
of providing pharmacy services consistent with the federal 340B
prescription program. A third, long-operating pharmacy, has been acquired
in Woburn, Massachusetts. Mark Dumouchel, President of the pharmacy
subsidiary, stated that "the additions bring us to a total of 18 owned
pharmacies. The company also has contracts to manage two pharmacies owned
by federally qualified health centers in addition to contracts with four
other federally qualified health centers to provide pharmacy services to
their patients."
The addition of the three pharmacies will add approximately $3.7
million to revenue in fiscal 2008 and the two new health center pharmacies
will add approximately $600,000 to dispensing fee revenue in fiscal 2008.
In other news today, Nyer Medical Group Inc. received a letter dated
July 15, 2007 from the minority shareholders (the "Minority Shareholders")
of D.A.W., Inc. ("DAW") and F.M.T. Franchise Co., Inc. ("FMT"), that the
Minority Shareholders "do not presently intend to (a) take any action with
respect to any provisions of either the Shareholders' Agreement, dated as
of August 5, 1996, by and among the Minority Shareholders, DAW, FMT and
Nyer Medical Group, Inc. or the Agreement, dated as of August 9, 2006, by
and among the same parties or (b) enforce any remedies available to them
under either of such agreements. These statements represent the Minority
Shareholders' intentions as of the date hereof only and no assurance can be
given that such intentions will not change in the future, whether or not
there occurs any change of circumstances."
Karen Wright, President of Nyer Medical Group said, "Yesterday's
statement by the Minority Shareholders demonstrates that the Minority
Shareholders are willing to work with the Company past the contractual July
15, 2007 deadline to buy out their interests."
Nyer Medical Group, Inc. is a holding company that through its
subsidiaries operates pharmacies in the greater Boston area and a medical
products business that distributes and markets medical equipment and supply
products to hospitals, physicians and nursing homes using
relationship-based telemarketing, direct sales personnel, catalogs and the
Internet. These orders are filled by the company's distribution centers
located in New England and South Florida.
For further information contact Karen Wright (207) 942-5273.
Additional information concerning Nyer Medical Group, Inc. may be found
on NYER's website http://www.nyermedicalgroup.com.
Safe Harbor under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
This press release may contain forward-looking statements as that term
is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All
statements in this release that are not historical facts (including,
without limitation, and statements concerning the addition of revenue and
dispensing fee revenue and the present intention of the Minority
Shareholders not to act against the Nyer Medical Group) are forward-looking
statements and are subject to risk and uncertainties. Such risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, any possible change in our
core business and changes in the capital equity markets. Nyer Medical
Group, Inc. does not undertake any obligation to update these
forward-looking statements.
SOURCE Nyer Medical Group, Inc.
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