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PART I
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This Annual Report on Form 10-K (“Annual Report”) contains forward-looking statements. These statements
relate to future events or our future financial performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking
statements by terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,”
“may,” “might,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “should” or “will,” or the negative of such terms. Forward-
looking statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors,
including the risks outlined under Item 1A. Risk Factors and elsewhere in this report, that may cause our, or our
industry’s, actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. You should not place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the
forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, performance or achievements. We
undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, unless required by law. Unless the context requires otherwise, the terms
“Coinstar,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Coinstar, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
Item 1. Business
Overview
We were incorporated in Delaware on October 12, 1993 and are a leading provider of automated retail solutions
offering convenient products and services that benefit consumers and drive incremental retail traffic and revenue
for retailers. Our core offerings in automated retail include our DVD business, where consumers can rent or
purchase movies from self-service kiosks (“DVD Services” segment), and our Coin business, where consumers
can convert their coin to cash or stored value products at coin-counting self-service kiosks (“Coin Services”
segment).
Summary of Recent Divestitures and Acquisitions
The following is a summary of the acquisitions and divestitures that we have made during the last five years:
Year Transaction
2006 • We acquired Travelex Money Transfer Limited, part of our money transfer business (the
“Money Transfer Business”).
2008 • We increased our ownership percentage of Redbox Automated Retail, LLC (“Redbox”)
from 47.3% to 51.0%.
• We acquired GroupEx Financial Corporation, JRJ Express Inc. and Kimeco, LLC, part
of our Money Transfer Business.
2009 • We increased our ownership percentage of Redbox from 51.0% to 100.0%.
• We sold our subsidiaries comprising our entertainment business (the “Entertainment
Business”).
2010 • We agreed to sell our subsidiaries comprising our Money Transfer Business.
• We sold our subsidiaries comprising our electronic payment business (the “E-Pay
Business”).
Additional information related to our acquisitions and divestitures can be found in Note 3: Acquisitions and
Note 4: Discontinued Operations, Sale of Assets and Assets Held for Sale in the Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements.
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