AMS Bankruptcy By the numbers

by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 2/5/2007

$41.5 million: Amount owed banks at the time of Chapter 11 filing

$147.5 million: Value of AMS accounts receivable

$72.5 million: Value of AMS inventory (excluding PGW books)

$180 million: Value of PGW inventory

$20.3 million: Legal/accounting fees in fiscal 2005 and 2006 related to AMS investigations

808: Number of AMS employees

165: Number of employees at AMS headquarters

$281,000: Projected biweekly payroll for PGW employees

$1.6 million: Projected biweekly payroll for AMS employees