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Oil-Dri Corporation of America
Annual Report 2013

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FY2013 Annual Report · Oil-Dri Corporation of America
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Creating Value From Sorbent Minerals

Letter to Stakeholders

Fiscal 2013

Daniel S. Jaffee 
President & Chief Executive Officer

What a great year 2013 was! Our strategic business units met or exceeded 
their plans for the year. Our sales of Cat’s Pride Fresh & Light grew by  
59% during the fiscal year, further proving that consumers will flock to  
a product that delivers superior performance and the added benefit of all  
the volume with less weight to carry home. 
We are running our TV spots again this fall. 
If you haven’t seen them, I encourage you 
to follow the link below to watch them. 

Our bleaching earth and animal health 
businesses continued to grow, while  
our industrial, sports turf and agricultural 
products delivered solid earnings. We 
created informative sales videos for a 
couple of these businesses. You will find 
these videos through the same link below. 

During the fiscal year, we made great 
progress on our ten-year All-In-Quality 
initiative. We now have over 80 Gemba 
qualified teammates and are continuously 
improving our processes on a company-wide basis. We raised our dividend 
for the tenth consecutive year and saw our stock price rise 45% during the 
twelve months of fiscal 2013. The compounded annual total return to our 
stakeholders over the last ten years has exceeded 13%!

The most exciting part of all of this is that we believe the best is yet to come.
Thank you for being a loyal Oil-Dri stakeholder. We are doing our very best  
to Create Value from Sorbent Minerals.

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Scan with a QR-Code reader or visit,  
http://vimeo.com/album/2572449

ODC Closing Stock Price
Fiscal Years End July 31,

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Financial Highlights

Fiscal Years End July 31,

Key Metrics
Dollar Amounts in Thousands

Return on Average Total Assets

Return on Average Stockholders’ Equity

Cash, Cash Equivalents & Investments

Cash, Cash Equivalents & Investments Less Notes Payable

2013 

2012 

2011

8.2%

15.5%

$
$

42,494
16,594

3.5%

6.8%

5.5%

9.7%

$
$

36,256
6,556

$
$

33,722
422

Income Statement Data
Dollar Amounts in Thousands

Net Sales 

Income from Operations 

Net Income 

$

$
$

250,583
18,871
14,586

$

$
$

240,681
10,079
6,098

$

$
$

226,755
13,709
9,051

$260,000

$245,000

$230,000

$215,000

$200,000

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Net Sales
Dollar Amounts in Thousands

Net Income
Dollar Amounts in Thousands

Balance Sheet Data
Dollar Amounts in Thousands

Working Capital

Total Assets 

Notes Payable

Per Share Data

Net Income per Diluted Share

Book Value per Share

Common Stock Price at July 31,

$

$
$

71,925

183,559
25,900

$

$
$

66,080

174,267
29,700

$

$
$

65,336

173,393
33,300

$

$
$

2.07

14.96
31.86

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12.19
21.93

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1.26

13.63
20.69

Board of Directors

Investor Inquiries

Richard M. Jaffee
Chairman

Daniel S. Jaffee
President & Chief Executive Officer 

Joseph C. Miller
Vice Chairman,  
Independent Consultant 

J. Steven Cole
President, Cole & Associates

Michael A. Nemeroff
 President & Chief Executive Officer,  
Vedder Price P.C.

Allan H. Selig
Commissioner of Major League 
Baseball; President & Chairman,  
Selig Lease Co.

Paul E. Suckow
 Business Fellow & Adjunct Professor, 
Finance & Economics,  
Villanova University

Lawrence E. Washow
Board Member, First Bauxite Corp.
Board Member & Partner, Eudora 
Global, LLC

Executive Officers 

Daniel S. Jaffee
President & Chief Executive Officer 

Thomas F. Cofsky
Vice President, Manufacturing

Douglas A. Graham 
Vice President, General Counsel  
& Secretary

Daniel T. Smith
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Paul D. Ziemnisky 
Vice President & General Manager 
Consumer Packaged Goods

Annual Meeting

On December 10, 2013 at  
9:30 am CT, Oil-Dri Corporation 
of America will hold its 2013 
Annual Meeting of Stockholders.  

Please join us:

The Standard Club
320 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604 

NYSE: ODC

Please direct all investor relations 
inquiries to:

Reagan B. Culbertson
(312) 321-1515
info@oildri.com

Oil-Dri Corporation of America
Attention: Investor Relations
410 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 400
Chicago, Illinois  60611-4213

www.oildri.com

Stockholders with inquiries 
regarding stock transfers, change  
of ownership, change of address  
or dividend payments should  
contact the company’s registrar  
and transfer agent:

Computershare Investor Services
2 North LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois 60602-3711
(312) 360-5257

Independent 
Registered Public 
Accounting Firm

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Forward-Looking 
Statements

Certain statements in this 
report, including, those under 
the heading “Management’s 
Discussion and Analysis of 
Financial Condition and Results 
of Operations” and those 
statements elsewhere in this 
report and other documents 
we file with the Securities and 
Exchange Commission contain 
forward-looking statements 
that are based on current 
expectations, estimates, forecasts 
and projections about our future 
performance, our business,  
our beliefs and our management’s 
assumptions. In addition, 

we, or others on our behalf, 
may make forward-looking 
statements in press releases or 
written statements, or in our 
communications and discussions 
with investors and analysts in 
the normal course of business 
through meetings, webcasts, 
phone calls and conference 
calls. Words such as “expect,” 
“outlook,” “forecast,” “would,” 
“could,” “should,” “project,” 
“intend,” “plan,” “continue,”  
“believe,” “seek,” “estimate,” 
“anticipate,”  “may,” “assume,” 
variations of such words and 
similar expressions are intended 
to identify such forward-looking 
statements, which are made 
pursuant to the safe harbor 
provisions of the Private 
Securities Litigation Reform Act 
of 1995.

Such statements are subject to 
certain risks, uncertainties and 
assumptions that could cause 
actual results to differ materially 
including, those described in 
Item 1A (Risk Factors) of this 
report and other documents 
we file with the Securities and 
Exchange Commission. Should 
one or more of these or other 
risks or uncertainties materialize, 
or should underlying assumptions 
prove incorrect, actual results 
may vary materially from those 
anticipated, intended, expected, 
believed, estimated, projected 
or planned. Investors are 
cautioned not to place undue 
reliance on these forward-looking 
statements, which speak only 
as of the date hereof. Except to 
the extent required by law, we 
do not have any intention or 
obligation to update publicly 
any forward-looking statements 
after the distribution of this 
report, whether as a result of 
new information, future events, 
changes in assumptions or 
otherwise.

Cat’s Pride and Fresh & Light are  
registered trademarks of Oil-Dri 
Corporation of America. 

©2013 Oil-Dri Corporation of America

 
Oil-Dri Corporation of America
Attention: Investor Relations
410 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 400
Chicago, Illinois  60611-4213