Investor
Relations Contact:
Stephen
P. Golden
Vice
President, Investor Relations
sgolden@ironmountain.com
(617)
535-4799
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Iron
Mountain Incorporated Hosts 10th Annual Investor Day in New York
City
The
Company describes accelerating market opportunities and what that means for
future growth and investment
Third
quarter and full year 2007 guidance updated;
Preview
of 2008 financial performance provided; Company targeting strong revenue and
OIBDA growth
The
Company announces the acquisition of RMS Services - USA, Inc., expanding its
Health Information Services portfolio
Boston,
MA - October 2, 2006 - Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the global leader
in information protection and storage services, today described the accelerating
market opportunities in the information protection and storage services industry
and reviewed their operating and financial strategies at the Company's 10th
Annual Investor Day in New York. This annual gathering of Company management,
investors and Wall Street analysts features management presentations covering
a
variety of important topics related to the Company's strategy, execution and
financial performance. The Company also updated its third quarter and full
year
2007 guidance and provided a preview of its 2008 financial performance.
In
a
separate release, the Company announced the acquisition of RMS Services - USA,
Inc. ("RMS"), a $27 million records management company and the industry's
leading provider of outsourced file room solutions for hospitals. Terms of
the
deal were not disclosed. For more than 30 years, RMS' vision has been to help
large healthcare systems improve organizational performance and operating
results through comprehensive, next-generation file-room and film-library
management solutions. RMS has deployed innovative records management services
that drive operational savings and immediate customer benefits, and assist
in
the transition to an electronic environment.
The
Company is raising its financial performance outlook for the quarter ended
September 30, 2007 and the full year ending December 31, 2007 to reflect the
expected contribution of its recently completed acquisition of RMS. The
following statements are based on current expectations and do not include the
potential impact of any future acquisitions (dollars in millions):
For
the
full year ending December 31, 2007, the Company expects the
following:
Total
revenues in the range of $2,669 million to $2,704 million;
Operating
income between $434 million and $453 million;
Depreciation
and amortization of approximately $241 million;
Capital
expenditures of $395 million to $425 million; and
Total
revenue internal growth rate between 8% and 10%.
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For
the
third quarter ending September 30, 2007, expects the following:
Total
revenues in the range of $680 million to $695 million;
Operating
income between $108 million and $115 million; and
Depreciation
and amortization to be approximately $61 million.
Within
the framework of its long-term financial strategy, Iron Mountain issued its
preliminary outlook for its 2008 financial performance. For its full year 2008,
the Company expects the following:
Revenue
growth between 9% and 12%;
Operating
Income Before Depreciation and Amortization growth between 10% and 14%;
and
Capital
expenditures in the range of $440 million to $480 million.
In
order
to further enhance the overall quality of its investor communications, the
Company will make an audiocast of its Investor Day presentation available on
its
website (www.ironmountain.com). Please check the website for details regarding
the timing of the posting of the audiocast. The slides that will be presented
at
the conference will also be posted to the website and available for viewing
after 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, October 2, 2007.
About
Iron Mountain
Iron
Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) helps organizations around the world reduce
the
costs and risks associated with information protection and storage. The Company
offers comprehensive records management and data protection solutions, along
with the expertise and experience to address complex information challenges
such
as rising storage costs, litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster
recovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain is a trusted partner to more than
100,000 corporate clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin American
and
Asia Pacific. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at
www.ironmountain.com.
Certain
Important Factors
This
press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning
of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and federal securities
laws, and is subject to the safe-harbor created by such Act. Forward-looking
statements include our 2007 and 2008 financial performance outlook and
statements regarding our goals, beliefs, future growth strategies, investments,
objectives, plans or current expectations. These statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results
to be materially different from those contemplated in the forward-looking
statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) changes in
customer preferences and demand for the Company's services; (ii) changes in
the
price for the Company's services relative to the cost of providing such
services; (iii) in the various digital businesses in which the Company is
engaged, capital and technical requirements will be beyond the Company's means,
markets for the Company's services will be less robust than anticipated, or
competition will be more intense than anticipated; (iv) the cost to comply
with
current and future legislation or regulation relating to privacy issues; (v)
the
impact of litigation that may arise in connection with incidents of inadvertent
disclosures of customers' confidential information; (vi) the Company's ability
or inability to complete acquisitions on satisfactory terms and to integrate
acquired companies efficiently; (vii) the cost and availability of financing
for
contemplated growth; (viii) business partners upon which the Company depends
for
technical assistance or management and acquisition expertise outside the United
States will not perform as anticipated; (ix) changes in the political and
economic environments in the countries in which the Company's international
subsidiaries operate; (x) other trends in competitive or economic conditions
affecting Iron Mountain's financial condition or results of operations not
presently contemplated; and (xi) other risks described more fully in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 under
"Item 1A. Risk Factors". Except as required by law, Iron Mountain undertakes
no
obligation to release publicly the result of any revision to these
forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances
after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
events.