This is the email that David Little, Chairman and CEO of Houston-based DXP Enterprises sent to his employees to explain why, “due to bank obligations and to continue a positive cash flow profile” the company has to freeze 401(k), why it is cutting pay in some cases as much as 60% and why many employees are about to lose their jobs in the middle of what is an “oil and gas depression.” It is a disturbing read.
Dear DXPeople, As you well know, these are very challenging times for everyone in the oil & gas industry and other industrial markets. We are working hard to navigate both the challenges in oil & gas and an industrial recession plus what appears to be continuing softening. Normally, when upstream oil and gas is down the rest of the industrial market is booming, not this time!
This past Friday, we announced our fourth quarter and year-end results. Our revenues were down 17% from a year ago and 27% from the fourth quarter of 2015 versus the fourth quarter of 2014. Fiscal year 2016 has started off even weaker than we anticipated with January sales down an additional 12% from December. Oil and gas related companies across the country have reported sales declines as high as 50% – 60%. All of this in the midst of declining industrial confidence and performance. Furthermore, the forecast by experts suggests the oil & gas economy will get worse before it gets better. We are currently 20 months into this oil & gas down cycle which is also unusually long for a correction.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on 03/04/2016.
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