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VOXX SHOXX Market with Double-Digit Percentage Sales Declines & Deepening Losses

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VOXX Stock Value Drops Nearly 30%

Yet more evidence of an industrywide downturn emerges, this time from VOXX International’s Fiscal 2023 fourth quarter and full-year results. After claiming that “…we had a lot of positive developments and continued to win new business and expand globally,” Voxx President Pat Lavelle went on to blame “inflation,” “fears of recession,” “the retail environment,” and “supply chain constraints,” for creating “roadblocks” to the company’s performance this year. Roadblocks, indeed…

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Premium Audio Company Elevates Rob Standley and Lowers Prices

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A couple of interesting announcements this week from Premium Audio Company (PAC), the Voxx Int’l subsidiary that markets the company’s premier audio brands such as Klipsch, Onkyo, Integra, Jamo, Pioneer, Elite, and more. First up, Rob Standley gets a big promotion to President of Technology and Product, a big step up. Second, and I would say counter-intuitively, the company says it’s lowering prices on many of its “most popular and best-selling audio solutions.”

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Voxx Int’l Fiscal 3rd Quarter Sales Drop 25.4%; Profits Up on Cost Cutting

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CEO Says Onkyo AVRs Offered to Costco This Year

Citing the “current state of the global economies” and “ongoing supply chain issues” Voxx International (NASDAQ: VOXX) reported the results of their fiscal 2023, third quarter this week and it was a story of more of the same, perhaps intensifying, business challenges that they identified when the company announced its second-quarter results. All of its major business segments reported sales declines – dropping double-digit percentages – with overall sales dropping 25.4% year-over-year. But the company said profits increased on aggressive cost cutting.

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VOXX Intl’s Premium Audio Company Says Its COO Has Departed

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Premium Audio Company logo and brands

On Monday, a federal holiday, VOXX International’s Premium Audio Company (PAC) announced that Oscar Bernardo, its Chief Operating Officer, left the company on December 31, 2022. The company says – in this kind of strange, after-the-fact announcement – that Bernardo left to relaunch the Mirage speaker brand. Mirage is owned by VOXX International, which acquired it in 2006.

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VOXX Intl, Owner of Onkyo & Others, Reports Fiscal ’23 Q2 Sales Decline, $11M Net Loss

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VOXX International Corporation (NASDAQ: VOXX) announced its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2023 this week and they were quite sobering. Not only did revenues decline by double digits, but the company had a dramatic increase in net loss to nearly $11 million.

What went wrong?

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Layoffs Hit Premium Audio Company as It Right-Sizes Ops; To Skip CEDIA Expo

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Onkyo receiver, part of Premium Audio Company

BREAKING NEWS

Premium Audio Company, a division of VOXX International and operator of brands such as Onkyo, Integra, Pioneer, and Elite, confirmed today that it has instituted a round of layoffs to “right-size” company operations based on current macroeconomic trends. The company has also confirmed that it has decided, for the second year in a row, not to participate in next week’s CEDIA Expo 2022, due to product roadmap cycles.

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VOXX Int’l Launches E-Commerce Platform Selling Premium Audio Co. Brands

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VOXX International Corporation (VOXX), owner of Premium Audio Company (PAC) and many other brands, announced this week that it has launched a new e-commerce platform. This new platform is initially being rolled out at Premium Audio Company – the division that operates brands such as Klipsch, Jamo, Onkyo, Integra, Pioneer, Elite, Magnat, and Heco.

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VOXX Fiscal ’23 Q1 Results Decline; Blames Chip Shortage, Retailer Over-Inventory

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VOXX International Corp. announced its fiscal 2023, first-quarter results late Monday, reporting that it saw sales declines, deepening operating losses, and a swing to a net loss in the quarter. Shares in VOXX declined 9.44% in value in trading Monday – and after-hours trading in the early evening pointed to another nearly 3% decline in shares. By comparison, the S & P 500 saw overall shares decline 1.15% on Monday.

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Osaka District Court Approves Onkyo Bankruptcy Petition for Two Subsidiaries

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Onkyo Home Entertainment Co. Ltd. (Onkyo) has announced that its two consolidated subsidiaries – Onkyo Sound Co. Ltd. (ONS) and Onkyo Marketing Co. Ltd (OMC) – have filed for bankruptcy. The company said that it had petitioned the court to begin bankruptcy proceedings for these divisions and has received judicial approval to begin the bankruptcy process from the Osaka District Court in Osaka, Japan.

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Voxx Announces Final Deal to Acquire Onkyo, with a Twist

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Voxx International has announced that they have finalized their agreement to partner with Sharp Corporation to acquire the Home Entertainment Division of Onkyo – news that Strata-gee readers knew about last week. The news comes as a result of Onkyo shareholders voting last Friday to approve the sale of the company to Voxx’s subsidiary known as the Premium Audio Company. Not much was new here on the Onkyo front, as we already told you about the deal only covering the Onkyo and Integra brands. However, we did learn some more interesting details on the company’s attempts relative to the Pioneer and Pioneer Elite brands.

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