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EXHIBIT 99.1
EVENFLO COMPANY, INC.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT FOR PURPOSES OF THE "SAFE HARBOR" PROVISIONS OF THE PRIVATE
SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe
harbor" for forward-looking statements to encourage companies to provide
prospective information about their companies without fear of litigation so long
as those statements are identified as forward-looking and are accompanied by
meaningful cautionary statements identifying important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking
statements. Evenflo Company, Inc. ("Evenflo") desires to take advantage of the
"safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
and is filing this Form 8-K in order to do so.
Forward looking statements are necessarily dependent upon assumptions,
estimates and data that may be incorrect or imprecise and involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that could cause the
actual results, performance or achievements of Evenflo or any of its
subsidiaries, or industry results, to differ materially from any future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Although Evenflo believes that the expectations reflected in such
forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such
expectations will prove to have been correct. Accordingly, Evenflo hereby
identifies the following important factors as some of the factors that could
cause Evenflo's financial results to differ materially from any such results
that might be projected, forecast, estimated or budgeted by Evenflo in
forward-looking statements:
(a) Heightened competition, including specifically the intensification of
price competition, the development and introduction of new products
and entry by competitors into new product markets;
(b) Higher selling, general and administrative expenses, including
advertising and promotion;
(c) Significant indebtedness of Evenflo;
(d) Need to continue introduction of products that represent an
improvement over our existing products, or which are more successful
than competitors' innovations;
(e) Failure to obtain new customers or retain existing key customers or
the effects of inventory reductions by key accounts;
(f) Ability to maintain and increase shelf space for our products at key
accounts;
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(g) Inability to carry out domestic and foreign marketing and sales plans;
(h) Decline in international sales due to economic disruptions in certain
foreign countries, or due to fluctuations in currency exchange rates;
(i) Increased manufacturing costs, including inability or reduced ability
to have products manufactured overseas and the cost of raw materials;
(j) Loss of the services of one or more key personnel;
(k) Changes in operating strategy or development plans;
(l) Any protracted labor relations dispute;
(m) Changes in Evenflo's capital expenditure plan;
(n) Continued consolidation in the retail industry;
(o) General domestic and foreign economic downturns;
(p) Changes in or failure to comply with government regulations; and
(q) Product recalls, corrective actions and liability claims and product
liability litigation and the impact on sales of adverse publicity and
news coverage due to any recall, corrective action or litigation.
The foregoing review of factors pursuant to the Private Litigation
Securities Reform Act of 1995 should not be construed as exhaustive or as any
admission regarding the adequacy of disclosures made by Evenflo prior to this
filing. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable
to Evenflo or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their
entirety by such factors.
