PHOENIX, March 20, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Radyne Corporation (Nasdaq:RADN) announced today that its exploration of strategic alternatives is continuing. As previously announced, the Company retained Needham & Company as its financial advisor to assist it in exploring strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the Company. Although an evaluation process continues, including discussions with various interested parties, the Company has not set any time frame for conclusion of the process. There cannot be any assurance that a transaction, whether a sale, recapitalization or other event, will take place. The Company does not anticipate making another announcement in regard to this matter until a definitive transaction has been agreed to, or it has concluded its evaluation efforts.
About Radyne Corporation
Radyne Corporation designs, manufactures, sells, integrates and installs products, systems and software used for the transmission and reception of data and video over satellite, troposcatter, microwave and cable communication networks. The Company sells under four brands:
* Radyne builds satellite modems, converters and switches, * Xicom Technology produces high power amplifiers, * AeroAstro is a leader in microsatellite systems, components, and advanced communications technologies, * Tiernan supplies HDTV and SDTV encoding and transmission equipment.
Radyne is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, with additional offices in Santa Clara and San Diego, California, Ashburn, Virginia and Littleton, Colorado. In addition, the Company has sales offices in Singapore, Beijing, Jakarta and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit our web site at www.radn.com.
Safe Harbor Paragraph for Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes statements that may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Reform Act") and Radyne claims the protection of the safe-harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Reform Act. These forward-looking statements are often characterized by the terms "may," "believes," "projects," "expects," or "anticipates," and do not reflect historical facts. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements of Radyne Corporation and its subsidiaries to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Specific forward-looking statements contained in this press release include factors that could affect Radyne Corporation's results and cause them to materially differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements contained herein including, without limitation, the possibility that the Company will enter into an agreement to sell itself, recapitalize, or otherwise significantly alter its structure or business.
Other factors that may affect forward-looking statements and the Company's business generally include but are not limited to:
* The outcome of the Company's strategic evaluation * Risk factors and cautionary statements made in Radyne Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2007. * The effect that acts of international terrorism may have on Radyne Corporation's ability to ship products abroad. * Other factors that Radyne Corporation is currently unable to identify or quantify, but may exist in the future.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statement was made. Radyne Corporation does not undertake and specifically declines any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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