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Analysis of Municipal <br />Liquor Store Operations <br />for 1981 <br />ARNE H. CARLSON, Stale Auditor <br />There were 359 cities in Minnesota operating <br />ON AND Off SALE STORES <br />772 MUNICIPALITIES <br />- <br />municipal liquor stores during 1981. Two hundred and <br />Percent <br />seventy-two were on and off -sale stores, while 87 were <br />Item <br />Amount <br />of Saks <br />off -sale only. <br />Sales .....$86,769,197 <br />100.0 <br />Cost of Sales .............. <br />54,223,709 <br />62.5 <br />Gross Profit <br />$32,545,488 <br />37.5 <br />Municipal liquor store sales totaled $146.152.224 in <br />O..... <br />Operating Expense .. <br />.. 26,319, 715 <br />30.3 <br />1981 as compared to 1980 Sales of $140,869,427. an in- <br />Income from <br />crease of $5.3 million. Cost of Sales rose from 68.4 per- <br />Operations <br />-$2,921,057 <br />cent to 68.8 percent in 1981. Operating expense <br />e <br />Non operating Revenues <br />2, <br />3.2 <br />amounted to 23.9 percent of Sales, as compared to 23.4 <br />Non -operating Expenses <br />381.356 <br />0.4 <br />0.1 <br />percent in 1980. Operating income of $10.618.11W. or <br />Net Income ..... <br />761,474 <br />.$8.765,474 <br />10.1 <br />7.3 percent of Sales, was down $896,538 when com- <br />o Other <br />Contributions to Other <br />L <br />pared to the preceding year. <br />Municipal funds <br />Municipal F <br />85,914,511 <br />- <br />6 <br />Contributions of municipal liquor store profits To <br />ei <br />n <br />other municipal funds was up in 1981, amounting to <br />OEbsAtf ONLY STORES <br />37 MLwIaPAUSLES <br />v <br />S9,586,768 as compared to $8,774,721 in 1980. Twenty <br />Percent <br />stores showed contributions to the city governmental <br />Item <br />Amount <br />of Saks <br />funds of $700,000 or more in 1981, while 73 stores made <br />Sales - <br />$59.383,027 <br />100.0 <br />no contribution in 1981 and 14 required contributions <br />Cost or Sales <br />46,323,646 <br />78.0 <br />from governmental funds. <br />Gross Profit ... <br />$13,059.381 <br />22.0 <br />Operating Expense <br />8,666.294 <br />14.6 <br />Twenty-seven municipal liquor stores had gross Sales <br />Income from <br />in 1981 in excess of $1 million and two -Edina and <br />Operations <br />$4.393.087 <br />7.4 <br />Richfield -had sales of $6.1 million and $5.6 million, <br />Non -operating Revenues <br />.9b1,565 <br />1.6 <br />respectively. The most profitable municipal liquor store <br />Non -operating Expenses <br />149,034 <br />0.2 <br />was St. Anthony with an operating income of $399.487. <br />Net Income <br />. S5,205.618 <br />8.8 <br />followed by Edina and Richfield. Thirty stores had net in <br />Contributions to Other <br />comes of over $100.000 in 1961. Net income for all <br />Municipal Funds <br />_ $3,672.257 <br />- <br />- <br />stores amounted to $13.971,092, an average of 9.6 Pet - <br />sr <br />cent of sales. <br />Comparative operating income results for all store, <br />pd PP g <br />ALL STORES <br />359 MUNICIPALITIES <br />as a Percentof sales are presented below. <br />Percent <br />Percent of Saks <br />Item <br />Amount <br />of Saks <br />1981 1960 <br />Sales <br />$146.152,224 <br />100.0 <br />On and Off -sale Stores 7.2 83 <br />Cost of Sales <br />100,547,355 <br />68.8 <br />S <br />Off -sale Only Stores 7A 8.0 <br />Gross Prafil <br />$45,604,869 <br />31.2 <br />w <br />All Stores . ....... 7.3 82 <br />Operating Expense <br />34.986,009 <br />23.9 <br />Income from <br />Operations <br />..$10,618.860 <br />7.3 <br />Thnty-seven municipal liquor stores suffered <br />Non -operating Revenues .... <br />.. 3,882,622 <br />2.7 <br />operating losses in 1981, while 16 stores had nel losses. <br />Non -operating Expenses .. <br />530,390 <br />0.4 <br />Eleven stores were closed during 1981. A summary slate <br />Net Income <br />- S13,971.092 <br />9.6 <br />Trent of 1981 municipal liquor store operations is <br />Contributions to Other <br />presented in The next column. <br />Municipal Funds <br />_$9.586.768 <br />- <br />MINNESOIACITIES <br />