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e.Digital Corporation
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FINANCIAL AND LABOR PRODUCTIVITY BENCHMARKS ON E.DIGITAL CORPORATION
PUBLISHED

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - January 15, 103 - ICON Group International Ltd. today released studies on labor
productivity and financial benchmarks for e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG).

What?

International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis

How does e.Digital Corporation’s balance sheet structure differ from global benchmarks? Does e.Digital
Corporation hold more cash and short-term assets? Does it have more retained earnings compared to the
benchmarks? Does it hold a higher concentration of long-term debt? Does e.Digital Corporation have
relatively higher pre-tax margins compared to global benchmarks?

Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis

Are workers at e.Digital Corporation productive? There is no absolute answer to this economic question.
The second study considers how labor deployment and productivity indicators for e.Digital Corporation
differ from the global benchmarks. It looks at the amount of labor required to operate e.Digital
Corporation and the resulting return on human investment. What is the ratio of short-term and long-term
assets to employee? What are comparative capital-labor ratios? What are the average operating expenses
per employee in e.Digital Corporation compared to benchmarks in the Communications Equipment
manufacturing sector?

Reports for over 23 Communications Equipment manufacturing companies are available now, including the
following:

Aiphone Co., Ltd.
Allied Electronics Corporation Limited
Ansaldo Trasporti SPA
Checkpoint Systems, Inc.
Ericsson SPA
Fujitsu Denso Ltd.
Group Sense (International) Limited
Hochiki Corporation
Kyosan Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Lo-Jack Corp.
N.V. Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek 'Nedap'
Nanjing Putian Telecommunications Co., Ltd.
NAPCO Security Systems, Inc.
Nippon Signal Co., Ltd.
Nohmi Bosai Ltd.
Qualcomm Incorporated
Superior Telecom Inc
Taiko Electric Works, Ltd.
Tamura Electric Works, Ltd.
Tekelec
Teles AG Informationstechnologien
Trans-Lux Corporation
UTStarcom, Inc.

Why?

The methodologist for this unique study is Philip Parker, Eli Lilly Chair Professor of Innovation, Business
and Society at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France and Singapore). According to Professor Parker, “With
the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of barriers to entry, it becomes
all the more important to benchmark a company’s financial indicators on a worldwide basis. World stock
markets have recently witnessed a return to fundamental financial analysis. ” The goal of the reports is to
assist consultants, financial managers, strategic planners, and corporate officers in gauging certain
indicators of e.Digital Corporation’s financial and human resource structure.

Professor Parker states, "We are intrigued by the wide variations in basic financial and productivity
measures between e.Digital Corporation and other Communications Equipment manufacturing companies.
The Earnings Before Interest And Taxes (EBIT), for example, varied from -199.45 to 38.67. We see this
type of variation in the hundreds of ratios that we estimate.”

How?: Methodology

The report uses a proprietary methodology to generate international financial and human resource
benchmarks and measure gaps that might be revealed from such an exercise. Using common-size
statements, ICON Group International Ltd. prepares these vertical analyses by pooling statistics on tens of
thousands of companies across over 40 countries and applying a seven-stage methodology. (1)
identification of industry classifications, (2) firm-level data collection and aggregation, (3) standardization of
raw statistics, (4) filtering outliers, (5) calculation of global norms, (6) projection of deviations and gaps,
and (7) projection of ranks and percentiles.

Previously available only through booksellers such as Hoovers, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble, two
studies are now available direct from the publisher at a 50% discount off the cover price. This special offer
includes International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis and Labor
Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis at US$ 199.90 ($99.95 each). E-mail
[e-mail] for more information.



FINANCIAL BENCHMARKS

Audience: designed for financial managers, directors, CFOs, strategic planners
Price: $99.95
Pages: 79 pp
Published: January, 103
Table of Contents
About the Author(s)
Methodology/Excerpt (free to view)
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LABOR BENCHMARKS

Audience: designed for productivity managers, HR directors, strategic planners
Price: $99.95
Pages: 68 pp
Published: January, 103
Table of Contents
About the Author(s)
Methodology/Excerpt (free to view)
Order Via Fax
Order Online

About ICON Group Ltd.

ICON Group Ltd. assists managers with global benchmarking, gap analysis, and productivity
studies. Clients can create their own benchmarks by choosing their competitors from among
over 20,000 companies.

CONTACT:

Ula Tuszewicka
ICON Group Ltd.
4370 La Jolla Village Drive, Fourth Floor
San Diego, CA 92122
U.S. Telephone: [phone]
U.S. Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]



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