Navarre Corp (NAVR:NASDAQ) is a publisher and distributor of physical and digital home entertainment and multimedia products in the U.S. and Canada. The company’s customers come from a wide spectrum of retailers, including mass merchandisers, third party distributors, wholesale clubs, computer speciality stores, music specialty stores, book stores, and office and electronic superstores nationwide.

Navarre operates in two segments: distribution and publishing. The distribution part of the company distributes various finished goods including PC software, CD audio, DVD video, video games and accessories. These finished products are provided by PC software and video game publishers and developers, independent music labels, and independent movie studios.

The second segment that Navarre operates in is publishing. This part of the company owns, licenses and publishes animation content, DVD and video products, as well as educational and interactive gaming PC products. These products are then distributed to all Navarre’s retailing partners.

In April 2008, Navarre estimated that for the fiscal year 2008 net sales would be approximately $650 million with net income of approximately $7 million. For fiscal year 2009, the company estimated net sales to be flat with 2008 and net income to be approximately $8 million.

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