MILWAUKEE, WI--(Marketwire - Apr 26, 2012) - Koss Corporation (NASDAQ: KOSS), the U.S. based high-fidelity headphone company, has reported its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. Sales for the third quarter were $8,232,526 compared to $8,419,663 for the same three month period one year ago, a 2% decrease. Net income increased to $896,715, compared to $640,962 for the third quarter last year. Diluted income per common share was $0.12 compared with $0.09 one year ago.

Sales for the nine months ended March 31, 2012 trended down by 14% to $26,978,082 compared with $31,252,603 for the same nine month period a year ago. Nine month net income declined to $2,008,524 compared to $2,585,934 for the same nine months last year. Diluted income per common share was $0.27 compared with $0.35 one year ago.

"Europe rebounded in the quarter to show a small increase over last year, but it is still behind last year through the nine months. It was great to see the increase in activity and we hope it will carry into our fourth quarter," Michael J. Koss, President and CEO said here today. "We continued to see lower than expected orders from several major U.S. retailers which contributed to the small decline in this quarter compared to last year. The additions of new customers and products has helped to offset the impact from these U.S. retailers."

Koss went on to note that the Company has continued to be negatively impacted by higher costs from suppliers in China but has been able to partially offset the impact through alternate suppliers and pricing. These costs have hurt margins this year.

"We saw increased activity late in the quarter," Koss said. "Right now we have a lot of new and exciting products hitting the market. The most exciting of these is Striva, which was announced earlier this week. The two Striva products are the world's first Wi-Fi headphones to receive music directly from the internet. The revolution is in the air."

The Company will pay a dividend of $0.06 cents per share on July 16, 2012, to shareholders of record on June 29, 2012.

Koss Corporation markets a complete line of high-fidelity headphones, speaker-phones, computer headsets, telecommunications headsets, active noise canceling headphones, wireless headphones, and compact disc recordings of American Symphony Orchestras on the Koss Classics label.

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