Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Your first question comes from Saul Ludwig - Keybanc Capital Markets
Saul Ludwig - Keybanc Capital Markets
A couple of questions; on Invision, first of all how much did you have sales of Invision in the quarter and do you think the $1.9 million total loss rate is likely to sort of stay about that level for the remaining part of this year?
Paul DeSantis
In terms of sales for the quarter Saul, they were not meaningful. We did have some sales but they weren’t meaningful and in terms of the loss we’re still expecting to be in about the $7 million range by the end of the year.
Joseph Gingo
But at the same time I would have to say on Invision right now, we’ve just really started to refocus in non-automotive back in January, we are beginning to see some progress in the non-automotive applications but it’s really just at the sampling stage. I think that we are going to be in a good position by the end of this fiscal year to see where our success is in terms of the non-automotive markets. In addition we are going to absolutely hold down costs during that time frame while we are doing that assessment, Saul.
Saul Ludwig - Keybanc Capital Markets
Right. Next question; you said your special losses were $11.7 million. I need some clarification on this. In the income statement you have three items at the bottom of the page, the goodwill impairment, the asset impairment and the restructuring expense which add up to $8.8 million; I would assume that’s $8.8 million of the $11.7. Then when you were discussing SG&A on page 2 of your release and you talked about the $3.6 million CEO transition cost and the plane loss expense, that’s $4.2 million and then you also alluded to the fact that if not for some special items, gross margins would have been higher which would imply there was some dollars of special expense in cost-of-goods-sold so if you take those dollars plus the $4.2 million in the SG&A plus the $8.8 million in the three items in the income statement, it would seem to come to a number much bigger than $11.7 million.
Paul DeSantis
Yes, the total year-to-date number—
Saul Ludwig - Keybanc Capital Markets
No, just focusing on the quarter.
Paul DeSantis
Saul, I’ve got the list right here in front of me so let me—I’ll have to re-add it while we are not on the phone just to make sure that we’ve got it but I’m looking at two lists that both total $11.7 million with those same numbers on them, so let me get back to you on that.
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