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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549




FORM 10-K




(Mark One)

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ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2009

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TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from                                to                               

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x                              ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2006

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o                                 TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

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Commission File Number 1-13045




IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

23-2588479

Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)


745 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts

02111


(Address of principal executive offices)

23-2588479
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
02111
(Zip Code)

617-535-4766
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)



617-535-4766

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)


Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of Each Class

Name of Exchange on Which Registered

Common Stock, $.01 par value per share

New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes xý    No o

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes o    No xý

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes xý    No o

         Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes o    No o

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’sregistrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K ýo

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a non-accelerated filer.small reporting company. See definitionthe definitions of “accelerated"large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and large accelerated filer”"smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer xý

Accelerated filer o

Non-accelerated filer o


(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
Smaller reporting company o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o    No xý

As of June 30, 2006,2009, the aggregate market value of the Common Stock of the registrant held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $4,377,632,337$5,202,229,298 based on the closing price on the New York Stock Exchange on such date.

Number of shares of the registrant’sregistrant's Common Stock at February 15, 2007: 199,153,51411, 2010: 203,611,989


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IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED
20062009 FORM 10-K ANNUAL REPORT



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Market for Registrant’sRegistrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

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References in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to “the"the Company,” “we,” “us”" "we," "us" or “our”"our" include Iron Mountain Incorporated and its consolidated subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.


DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Certain information required in Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K is incorporated by reference from our definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on or about May 24, 2007.June 3, 2010.


CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

We have made statements in this Annual Report on Form 10-K that constitute “forward-looking statements”"forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements concern our operations, economic performance, financial condition, goals, beliefs, future growth strategies, investments, objectives, plans and current expectations.expectations, including our intent to repurchase shares and to pay dividends, our financial ability and sources to fund the repurchase program and dividend policy, and the amounts of such repurchases and dividends. The forward-looking statements are subject to various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. When we use words such as “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates”"believes," "expects," "anticipates," "estimates" or similar expressions, we are making forward-looking statements.

Although we believe that our forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, our expected results may not be achieved, and actual results may differ materially from our expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from expectations include, among others:

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Other risks may adversely impact us, as described more fully under “Item"Item 1A. Risk Factors."

You should not rely upon forward-looking statements except as statements of our present intentions and of our present expectations, which may or may not occur. You should read these cautionary statements as being applicable to all forward-looking statements wherever they appear. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to release publicly the result of any revision to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Readers are also urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures we have made in this document, as well as our other periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”"Commission" or “SEC”"SEC").

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PART I

Item 1. Business.

A.    Development of Business.

We believe we are the global leader ina leading information protection and storage services.management services company. We help organizations around the world reduce the risks, costs and risksinefficiencies associated with information protectionstoring and storage.using their physical and digital data. We offer comprehensive records management andservices, data protection solutions,& recovery services and information destruction services, along with the expertise and experience to address complex information management challenges such as rising storage costs, litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Founded in an underground facility near Hudson, New York in 1951, Iron Mountain is a trusted partner to more than 90,000140,000 corporate clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We have a diversified customer base comprised of commercial, legal, banking, healthcare, accounting, insurance, entertainment and government organizations, including more than 90%97% of the Fortune 1000 and more than 85%93% of the FTSE 100. As of December 31, 2009, we provided services in 38 countries on five continents, employed over 20,000 people and operated more than 1,000 facilities.

        Now in our 59th year, we have experienced tremendous growth, particularly since successfully completing the initial public offering of our common stock in February 1996. We have grown from a business with limited product offerings and annual revenues of $104 million in 1995 into a global enterprise providing a broad range of information management services to customers in markets around the world with total revenues of $3 billion for the year ended December 31, 2009. On January 5, 2009, we were added to the S&P 500 Index and we are currently number 681 on the Fortune 1000.

        Our success since becoming a public company in 1996 has been driven in large part by our execution of a consistent long-term growth plan to build market leadership by extending our strategic position through service line and global expansion. This growth plan has been sequenced into three phases. The first phase involved establishing leadership and broad market access in our core businesses: records management and data protection & recovery, primarily through acquisitions. In the second phase we invested in building a successful selling organization to access new customers, converting previously unvended demand. While different parts of our business are in different stages of evolution along our three-phase strategy, as an enterprise, we have transitioned to the third phase of our growth plan, which we call the capitalization phase. In this phase, which we expect will run for a long time to come, we seek to expand our relationships with our customers to continue solving their increasingly complex information management problems. Doing this well means expanding our service offerings on a global basis while maximizing our solid core businesses. In doing this, we continue to build what we believe to be a very durable business through disciplined execution.

        Consistent with this strategy, we have transitioned from a growth strategy driven primarily by acquisitions of information management services companies to expansion driven primarily by internal growth. In 2001, internal revenue growth exceeded growth through acquisitions for the first time since we began our acquisition program in 1996. This has continued to be the case in each year since 2001 with the exception of 2004. In the absence of unusual acquisition activity, we expect to achieve more of our revenue growth internally in 2010 and beyond.

        In February, 2010, we acquired Mimosa Systems, Inc. ("Mimosa"), a leader in enterprise-class digital content archiving solutions, for approximately $112 million in cash. Mimosa, based in Santa Clara, California, provides an on-premises integrated archive for email, SharePoint data and files, and complements our existing enterprise-class, cloud-based digital archive services. NearPoint®, Mimosa's enterprise archiving platform, has applications for retention and disposition, electronic discovery ("eDiscovery"), compliance supervision, classification, recovery, and end-user search, enabling customers to reduce risk, and lower their eDiscovery and storage costs.


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        We expect to achieve our internal revenue growth objectives primarily through a sophisticated sales and account management coverage model. This model is designed to drive incremental revenues by acquiring new customer relationships and increasing business with new and existing customers by selling them our products and services in new geographies and selling additional products and services such as information destruction, digital data protection, document management services and eDiscovery services. We intend our selling efforts to be augmented and supported by expanded marketing programs, which include product management as a core discipline. We also plan to continue developing an extensive worldwide network of channel partners through which we are selling a wide array of technology solutions. Our sales and account coverage model and our go-to-market strategy will continue to evolve to meet the needs of our customers.

B.    Description of Business.

Overview

Our information protection and storagemanagement services can be broadly divided into three major service categories: records management services, data protection & recovery services, and information destruction.destruction services. We offer both physical services and technology solutions in each of these categories,categories. Media formats can be broadly divided into physical and we continueelectronic records. We define physical records to expand our geographic footprint in order to protectinclude paper documents, as well as all other non-electronic media such as microfilm and store our customers’ information without regard tomicrofiche, master audio and videotapes, film, X-rays and blueprints. Electronic records include email and various forms of magnetic media format or geographic location.such as computer tapes and hard drives and optical disks.

Our physical records management services include: records management program development and implementation based on best-practices to help customers comply with specific regulatory requirements, implementation of policy-based programs that feature secure, cost-effective storage for all major media, including paper (which is the dominant form of records storage), flexible retrieval access and retention management. Included within physical records management services is Document Management Solutions ("DMS"). This suite of services helps organizations to gain better access to and, ultimately, control over their paper records by digitizing, indexing and hosting them in online archives to provide complete information life-cycle solutions. Our technology-based records management services are comprised primarily of digital archiving and related services for secure, legally compliant and cost-effective long-term archiving of electronic records.records and eDiscovery services. Within the records management services category, we have developed specialized services for vital records and regulated industries such as healthcare, energy, government and financial services.

Our physical data protection & recovery services include disaster preparedness, planning, support and secure, off-site vaulting of data backup media for fast and efficient data recovery in the event of a disaster, human error or virus. Our technology-based data protection & recovery services include online backup and recovery solutions (also known as electronic vaulting) for desktop and laptop computers and remote servers. Additionally, we serve as a trusted, neutral third party and offer technologyintellectual property escrow services to protect and manage source code and other proprietary information.

Our information destruction services are comprised almost exclusively of secure shredding services. Secure shredding services complete the life cycle of a record and involve the shredding of sensitive documents in a way that ensures privacy and a secure chain of record custody.custody for the records. These services typically include either the scheduled pick-up of loose office records which customers accumulate in specially designed secure containers we provide. Our technology-based information destruction services include DataDefense, which provides automatic, intelligent encryptionprovide or the shredding of sensitive PC data and, when behaviors that are inconsistent with authorized use are detected, that data is automatically eliminated anddocuments stored in records facilities upon the PC is disabled—this is designed to render the data useless to unauthorized users.

In addition to our core records management, data protection & recovery, and information destruction services, we sell storage materials, including cardboard boxes and magnetic media, and provide consulting, facilities management, fulfillment and other outsourcing services.

Our vision is to protect and store the world’s information and to that end we have organized our business into a geographic model with separate management teams for eachexpiration of the following major geographic regions:  North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The one exception to this


model is our Digital Services business unit. Digital services, by their nature, are deployed in a virtual fashion leveraging a common set of intellectual property and a global technology infrastructure. Our largest segment, the North American Physical Business, offers all of our physical records management services, data protection & recovery services, and information destruction services. We expect that over time all of these products and services will be available on a global basis throughout all of our geographic segments.scheduled retention periods.

Iron Mountain was founded in 1951 in an underground facility near Hudson, New York. Now in our 56th year, we have experienced tremendous growth and organizational change, particularly since successfully completing the initial public offering of our common stock in February 1996. Since then, we have grown from a regional business with limited product offerings and annual revenues of $104 million in 1995 into a global enterprise providing a broad range of information protection and storage services to customers in markets around the world. For the year ended December 31, 2006, we had total revenues of $2.4 billion.

Our growth since 1995 has been accomplished primarily through the acquisition of U.S. and international information protection and storage services companies. The goals of our current acquisition program are:  to supplement internal growth in our physical businesses by continuing to establish a footprint in targeted international markets and adding fold-in acquisitions both in the U.S. and internationally; and to accelerate our strategy, leadership and time to market in our digital businesses. We expect our digital acquisitions will be of two primary types, those that bring us new or improved technologies to enhance our existing technology portfolio and those that increase our market position through technology and established revenue streams. To date, we completed two significant technology acquisitions:  Connected Corporation (“Connected”) in November 2004 and LiveVault Corporation (“LiveVault”) in December 2005.

Having substantially completed our North American geographic expansion by the end of 2000, we shifted our focus from growth through acquisitions to internal revenue growth. In 2001, as a result of this shift, internal revenue growth exceeded growth through acquisitions for the first time since we began our acquisition program in 1996.This has been the case in each year since 2001 with the exception of 2004, when revenue growth from acquisitions exceeded internal revenue growth due primarily to the acquisition of the records management operations of Hays plc (“Hays IMS”) in July 2003. In the absence of unusual acquisition activity, we expect to achieve most of our revenue growth internally in 2007 and beyond.

We expect to achieve our internal revenue growth objectives primarily through a sophisticated sales and account management coverage model designed to drive incremental revenues by acquiring new customer relationships and increasing business with new and existing customers by selling them our products and services in new geographies and selling additional products and services such as secure shredding and digital data protection. These selling efforts will be augmented and supported by an expanded marketing program, which includes product management as a core discipline. We are also developing an extensive worldwide network of channel partners through which we are selling a wide array of technology solutions, primarily our digital data protection and recovery products and services.

As of December 31, 2006, we provided services to over 90,000 corporate clients in 85 markets in the U.S. and 86 markets outside of the U.S., employed over 18,600 people and operated over 900 records management facilities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.


B. Description of Business.

The Information Protection and Storage Services Industry

Overview

Companies in the information protection and storage services industry store and manage information in a variety of media formats, which can broadly be divided into physical and electronic records, and provide a wide range of services related to the records stored. We define physical records to include paper documents, as well as all other non-electronic media such as microfilm and microfiche, master audio and videotapes, film, X-rays and blueprints. Electronic records include various forms of magnetic media such as computer tapes and hard drives and optical disks.

Physical Records

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ensure ready availability. Inactive physical records are the principal focus of the information protection and storagemanagement services industry. Inactive records consist of those records that are not needed for immediate access but which must be retained for legal, regulatory and compliance reasons or for occasional reference in support of ongoing business operations. A large and growing specialty subset of the physical records market is medical records. These are active and semi-active records that are often stored off-site with and serviced by an information protection and storagemanagement services vendor. Special regulatory requirements often apply to medical records. In addition to our core records management services, we provide consulting, facilities management, fulfillment and other outsourcing services.

Electronic Records

Electronic records management focuses on the storage of, and related services for, computer media that is either a backup copy of recently processed data or archival in nature. Customer needs for data backup and recovery and archiving are distinctively different. Backup data exists because of the need of many businesses to maintain backup copies of their data in order to be able to recover the data in the event of a system failure, casualty loss or other disaster. It is customary (and a best practice) for data processing groups to rotate backup tapes to off-site locations on a regular basis and to require multiple copies of such information at multiple sites.

In addition to the physical rotation and storage of backup data that our physical business segments provide, our Worldwide Digital Business segment offers electronic vaultingonline backup services as an alternative way for businesses to transfer data to us, and to access the data they have stored with us. Electronic vaultingOnline backup is a Web-based service that automatically backs up computer data from servers or directly from desktop and laptop computers over the Internet and stores it in one of our secure data centers. In early 2003, we announced an expansion of the electronic vaultingonline backup service to include backup and recovery for personal computer data, answering customers’customers' needs to protect critical business data, which is often unprotected on employee laptop and desktop personal computers. In November 2004, we acquired Connected Corporation ("Connected"), a market leader in the backup and recovery of this distributed data, and in December 2005, we acquired LiveVault Corporation ("LiveVault"), a market leader in the backup and recovery of server data.

There is a growing need for better ways of archiving electronic records for legal, regulatory and compliance reasons and for occasional reference in support of ongoing business operations. Historically, businesses have relied on backup tapes for storing archived data in electronic format, but this process can be costly and ineffective when attempting to search and retrieve the data for litigation or other needs. In addition, many industries, such as healthcare and financial services, are facing increased governmental regulation mandating the way in which electronic records are stored and managed. To help customers


meet these growing storage challenges, we introduced digital archiving services.services in 2003. We have experienced increasing market adoption of these services, especially for e-mail archiving, which enables businesses to identify and retrieve electronic records quickly and cost-effectively, while maintaining regulatory compliance.

        On December 1, 2006, changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ("FRCP") were implemented; as a result, electronically stored information was explicitly defined as a separate class of discoverable information in litigation. There is no longer any ambiguity about whether digital data constitutes a "document" and businesses now have the clear responsibility to produce electronic records. In December 2007, we acquired Stratify Inc. ("Stratify"), a leading provider of eDiscovery services to assist customers with managing discovery of electronic records.

We believe the issues encountered by customers trying to manage their electronic records are similar to the ones they face in their physical records management programs and consist primarily of: (1) storage capacity and the preservation of data; (2) access to and control over the data in a secure environment; and (3) the need to retain electronic records due to regulatory compliancerequirements or for


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litigation support. Our digital services offerings are representative of our commitment to address evolving records management needs and expand the array of services we offer.

Growth of Market

We believe that the volume of stored physical and electronic records will continue to increase for a number of reasons, including: (1) inexpensive document producing technologies such as facsimile, desktop publishing software and desktop printing; (2) the continued proliferation of data processing technologies such as personal computers and networks; (3) regulatory requirements; (4)(2) concerns over possible future litigation and the resulting increases in volume and holding periods of records; (3) the continued proliferation of data processing technologies such as personal computers and networks; (4) inexpensive document producing technologies such as facsimile, desktop publishing software and desktop printing; (5) the high cost of reviewing records and deciding whether to retain or destroy them; (6) the failure of many entities to adopt or follow policies on records destruction; and (7) audit requirementsthe need to keep backup copies of certain records in off-site locations.locations for business continuity purposes in the event of disaster.

We believe that paper-based information will continue to grow, not in spite of, but because of, new “paperless”"paperless" technologies such as e-mail and the Internet. These technologies have prompted the creation of hard copies of such electronic information and have also led to increased demand for electronic records services, such as the storage and off-site rotation of backup copies of magnetic media. In addition, we believe that the proliferation of digital information technologies and distributed data networks has created a growing need for efficient, cost-effective, high quality technology solutions for electronic data protection, digital archiving and the management of electronic documents.

Consolidation of a Highly Fragmented Industry

There was significant consolidation within the highly fragmented physical information protection and storagemanagement services industry in North America from 1995 to 2000 and at a slower but continuing pace in recent years. Most physical information protection and storagemanagement services companies serve a single local market, and are often either owner-operated or ancillary to another business, such as a moving and storage company. We believe that the consolidation trend in the physical information management industry, both in North America and other regions,international geographies, will continue because of the industry’sindustry's capital requirements for growth, opportunities for large information protection and storagemanagement services providers to achieve economies of scale and customer demands for more sophisticated technology-based solutions.

We believe that the consolidation trend in thethis industry is also due to, and will continue as a result of, the preference of certain large organizations to contract with one vendor in multiple cities and countries for multiple services. In particular, larger customers increasingly demand a single, large, sophisticated company to handle all of their important physical and electronic records needs. Large national and multinational companies are better able to satisfy these demands than smaller competitors. We have made, and intend tomay continue to make from time to time, acquisitions of our competitors, many of whom are small, single-city operators.

Description of Our Business

We generate our revenues by providing storage for both(both physical and electronic records in a variety of information media formats,formats), core records management, data protection & recovery, and information


destruction services and an expanding menu of complementary products and services to a large and diverse customer base. Providing outsourced information protection and storagemanagement services is the mainstay of our customer relationships and provides the foundation for our revenue growth. Core services, which are a vital part of a comprehensive records management program, consist primarily of the handling and transportation of stored records and information. In our secure shredding operations, core services consist primarily of the scheduled collection and handlingshredding of sensitive records.records and documents generated by business operations. As is the case with storage revenues, core service revenues are highly recurring in nature and therefore very predictable.nature. In 2006,2009, our storage and core service revenues represented approximately 87%88% of our total consolidated revenues. In addition to our core services, we offer a wide array of complementary


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products and services, such as performingincluding special project work, selling records management services related products, providingdata restoration projects, fulfillment services, consulting services and consulting on records management issues.product sales (including software licenses, specially designed storage containers and related supplies). In addition, included in complementary services revenue is recycled paper revenues. These services address more specific needs and are designed to enhance our customers’customers' overall records management programs. These services complement our core services; however, they are more episodic and discretionary in nature. Revenue generated by all of our operating segments includes both core and complementary components.

Our various operating segments offer the products and services discussed below. In general, our North American Physical Business segment offersand our International Physical Business segments offer physical records management services, including business records management, healthcare information services, vital records services, physical data protection & recovery services service and courier operations, secure shredding, fulfillment and consultinginformation destruction services, in the U.S. and Canada. Our International Physical Business segment offers elements of our physical product and services lines outside the U.S. and Canada.their respective geographies. Our Worldwide Digital Business segment includes our online backup and recovery solutions for server data and personal computers, digital archiving services, eDiscovery services and intellectual property management services and electronic information destruction services.is not limited to any particular geography. Some of our complementary services and products are offered within all of our segments. The amount of revenues derived from our North American Physical Business, International Physical Business and Worldwide Digital Business operating segments and other relevant data, including financial information about geographic areas and product and service lines, for fiscal years 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 20062009 are set forth in Note 9 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Service Offerings

        Our information management services can be broadly divided into three major categories: records management services, data protection & recovery services and information destruction services. We offer both physical services and technology solutions in the records management and data protection & recovery categories. Currently, we only offer physical services in the information destruction services category.

Business Records Management Services

The hard        By far our largest category of services, records management services are comprised primarily of the archival storage of records, both physical and digital, for long periods of time according to applicable laws, regulations and industry best practice. Core to any records management program is the handling and transportation of those records being stored and the destruction of documents stored in records facilities upon the expiration of their scheduled retention periods. For physical records, this is accomplished through our extensive service and courier operations. Other records management services include: Compliant Records Management and Consulting Services, DMS, Health Information Management Solutions, Film & Sound Archives, Energy Data Services, Discovery Services and other ancillary services.

        Hard copy business records are typically stored by our customers with us by their nature are not very active. These typesfor long periods of records are storedtime in cartons packed by the customer. We use a proprietary order processingcustomer with limited activity. For some customers we store individual files on an open shelf basis and inventory management system known as the SafekeeperPLUS ® system to efficiently store and later retrieve a customer’s cartons.these files are typically more active. Storage charges are generally billed monthly on a per storage unit basis, usually either per carton or per cubic foot of records, and include the provision of space, racking, computerized inventory and activity tracking and physical security.

        Service and courier operations are an integral part of our comprehensive records management program for all physical media. They include adding records to storage, temporary removal of records from storage, refiling of removed records, permanent withdrawals from storage and the destruction of records. Service charges are generally assessed for each procedure on a per unit basis. Courier operations consist primarily of the pick-up and delivery of records upon customer request. Charges for courier services are based on urgency of delivery, volume and location and are billed monthly. As of December 31, 2009, we were utilizing a fleet of approximately 3,700 owned or leased vehicles.


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Healthcare Information Services        Our digital archiving services focus on archiving digital information with long-term preservation requirements. These services represent the digital analogy to our physical records management services. Because of increased litigation risks and regulatory mandates, such as the changes to the FRCP that explicitly define electronically stored information as a separate class of discoverable information, companies are increasingly aware of the need to apply the same records management policies and retention schedules to electronic data as they do physical records. Typical digital records include e-mail, e-statements, images, electronic documents retained for legal or compliance purposes and other data documenting business transactions.

        The growth rate of mission-critical digital information is accelerating, driven in part by the use of the Internet as a distribution and transaction medium. The rising cost and increasing importance of digital information management, coupled with the increasing availability of telecommunications bandwidth at lower costs, may create meaningful opportunities for us to provide solutions to our customers with respect to their digital records management challenges. We continue to cultivate marketing and technology partnerships to support this anticipated growth.

        The focus of our DMS business is to develop, implement and support comprehensive document management solutions for the complete lifecycle of our customers' information. We seek to develop solutions that solve our customers' document management challenges by integrating the management of physical records, document conversion and digital storage. DMS complements our core physical and digital service offerings, leveraging our global footprint and our existing customer relationships. We differentiate our offerings by providing solutions that integrate and extend our existing portfolio of products and services.

        The trend towards increased usage of Electronic Document Management ("EDM") systems represents another opportunity for us. In addition to our existing archival storage services, there is increased opportunity to manage active records. Our DMS services provide the bridge between customers' physical documents and their new EDM solutions.

        We offer records management services that have been tailored for specific industries such as health care, or to address the needs of customers with more specific needs based on the critical nature of their records. Healthcare information services principally include the handling, storage, filing, processing and retrieval of medical records used by hospitals, private practitioners and other medical institutions. Medical records tend to be more active in nature and are typically stored on specialized open shelving systems that provide easier access to individual files. Healthcare information services also include recurring project work and ancillary services. Recurring project work involves the on-site removal of aged patient files and related computerized file indexing. Ancillary healthcare information services include release of information (medical record copying)copying and delivery), temporary staffing, contract coding, facilities management and imaging.


Vital Records Services

Vital records contain critical or irreplaceable data such as master audio and video recordings, film and other highly proprietary information.information, such as energy data. Vital records may require special facilities or services, either because of the data they contain or the media on which they are recorded. Our charges for providing enhanced security and special climate-controlled environments for vital records are higher than for typical storage services. We provide the same ancillary services for vital records as we provide for our other storage operations.

Physical Data Protection & Recovery        Our Discovery Services

Physical data protection & recovery services consist of comprise solutions designed to address the storagelegal discovery and rotation of backup computer media as part of corporate disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Computer tapes, cartridges and disk packs are transported off-site by our courier operations on a scheduled basis to secure, climate-controlled facilities, where they are available to customers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to facilitate data recovery in the event of a disaster. We use various proprietary information technology systems such as MediaLink™ and SecureBase™ software to manage this process. We also manage tape library relocations and support disaster recovery testing and execution.

Service and Courier Operations

Service and courier operations are an integral part of a comprehensive records management program for all physical media including paper and certain electronic records. They include adding records to storage, temporary removal of records from storage, refiling of removed records, permanent withdrawals from storage, destruction of records and the rotation of back-up computer media. Service charges are generally assessed for each procedure on a per unit basis. The SafekeeperPLUS® system controls the service processes from order entry through transportation and invoicing for business records management while the MediaLink™ and SecureBase™ systems manage the process for the physical data protection services business.

Courier operations consist primarily of the pick-up and delivery of records upon customer request. Charges for courier services are based on urgency of delivery, volume and location and are billed monthly. As of December 31, 2006, we were utilizing a fleet of approximately 3,000 owned or leased vehicles.

Secure Shredding

Secure shredding is a natural extensiongovernance needs of our records managementcustomers. Those services completing the life cycle of a record, and involves the shredding of sensitive documents for corporatesolutions allow our customers that, in many cases, also use our services for management of less sensitive archival records. These services typically include the scheduled pick-up of loose office records which customers accumulate in specially designed secure containers we provide. We believe that customers are motivated by increased privacy regulations, such as the Fairto collect, prepare, process, review, and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (“FACTA”) and the desire to protect their proprietary trade secrets and personal information. Regulations issued pursuant to FACTA list secure shredding as a preferred method of destroying personalproduce data that existsmay exist in many hard copy records. Complementaryeither paper or digital form in response to our shredding operationsinternal investigations, litigation or regulatory requests.

        Electronic discovery is the salecomponent of legal discovery involving information that is converted into digital data or collected and processed in that form. Our eDiscovery services, principally embodied by the resultant waste paper to third-party recyclers. Through a combination of plant-based shredding operations and mobile shredding units comprised of custom built trucks, we are able to offer secure shredding services toStratify® Legal Discovery application, help our customers in all of our existing markets throughout the U.S.identify, organize, analyze, and Canada. In December 2005, we acquired Secure Destruction Limited, the largest provider of secure shredding services in the U.K.

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particularly relevant or responsive information from within the universe of electronic data generated during the normal course of their business. The ability of current content management technologies to capture and maintain several copies of documents—including different versions of working drafts—underscores the challenges companies face in managing information for eDiscovery.

Electronic vaulting is our Web-based service that automatically backs up computer data from servers or directly from desktop or laptop computers over the Internet        Our consolidated suite of physical and stores it in one of ourdigital discovery services has been designed to deliver a secure, data centers. Customers using electronic vaulting for the online backup of desktop or laptop computer and server data can choose our off-site hosted Software as a Service solution or they can license the software from us as part of a customer on-site solution.

Digital Archiving Services

Our digital archiving services focus on archiving digital information with long-term preservation requirements. These services represent the digital analogy to our physical records management services. Because of increased litigationend-to-end chain-of-custody, while also reducing both risks and regulatory mandates, companies are increasingly aware of the need to apply the same records management policies and retention schedules to electronic data as they do physical records. Typical digital records include e-mail, e-statements, images, electronic documents retainedcosts for legal or compliance purposes and other data documenting business transactions.our customers.

The growth rate of mission-critical digital information is accelerating, driven in part by the use of the Internet as a distribution and transaction medium. The rising cost and increasing importance of digital information management, coupled with the increasing availability of telecommunications bandwidth at lower costs, may create meaningful opportunities for us. We continue to cultivate marketing and technology partnerships to support this anticipated growth.

Intellectual Property Management Services

Our intellectual property management services specialize in third party technology escrow services that protect intellectual property assets such as software source code. In addition, we assist in securing intellectual property as collateral for lending, investments and joint ventures, in managing domain name registrations and transfers, and in providing expertise and assistance to brokers and dealers in complying with electronic records regulations of the SEC.

Complementary Services and Products

We offer a variety of additional services which customers may request or contract for on an individual basis. These services include conducting records inventories, packing records into cartons or other containers, and creating computerized indices of files and individual documents. We also provide services for the management of active records programs. We can provide these services, which generally include document and file processing and storage, both off-site at our own facilities and by supplying our own personnel to perform management functions on-site at the customer’scustomer's premises.

Other complementary lines of business that we operate include fulfillment services and professional consulting services. Fulfillment services are performed by our wholly-owned subsidiary, COMAC,Iron Mountain Fulfillment Services, Inc. (“COMAC”("IMFS"). COMACIMFS stores customer marketing literature and delivers this material to sales offices, trade shows and prospective customers’ sitescustomers' locations based on current and prospective customer orders. In addition, COMACIMFS assembles custom marketing packages and orders, and manages and provides detailed reporting on customer marketing literature inventories. A growing element of the content we manage and fulfill is stored digitally and printed on demand by IMFS. Digital print allows marketing materials such as brochures, direct mail, flyers, pamphlets and newsletters to be personalized to the recipient with the variable messages, graphics and content.

We provide professional consulting services to customers, enabling them to develop and implement comprehensive records and information management programs. Our consulting business draws on our experience in information protection and storagemanagement services to analyze the practices of companies and assist them in creating more effective programs of records and information management. Our consultants work with these customers to develop policies and schedules for document retention and destruction.


We sell software licenses to our electronic vaulting customers who prefer an on-site solution for the online backup and recovery of server and personal computer data.        We also sell: (1)sell a full line of specially designed corrugated cardboard metalstorage cartons. In 2008 we divested ourselves of our commodity data products sales business. Consistent with our treatment of acquisitions, we eliminated all revenues associated with our data products business from the calculation of our internal growth in 2008 and plastic2009.

Data Protection & Recovery Services

        Our data protection & recovery services are designed to comply with applicable laws and regulations and to satisfy industry best practices with regard to the off-site vaulting of data for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes. As is the case with our records management services, we provide data protection & recovery services for both physical and electronic records. We also offer intellectual property management services in this category.

        Physical data protection & recovery services consist of the storage containers; (2) magneticand rotation of backup computer media products including computeras part of corporate disaster recovery and business continuity plans. Computer tapes, cartridges and drives,disk packs are transported off-site by our courier operations on a scheduled basis to secure, climate-controlled facilities, where they are available to customers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to facilitate data recovery in the event of a disaster. Frequently, back-up tapes are then rotated from our facilities back to our customers' data centers. We also manage tape cleanerslibrary relocations and suppliessupport disaster recovery testing and CDs;execution.

        Online backup is our Web-based service that automatically backs up computer data from servers or directly from desktop or laptop computers over the Internet and (3)stores it in one of our secure data centers. Customers use our Connected® backup for PC software product for online backup of desktop or laptop computer room equipmentdata and supplies our LiveVault® server data backup and recovery product for online


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backup of server data. Customers can choose our off-site hosted Software as a Service solution or they can license the software from us as part of a customer on-site solution.

        Through our intellectual property management services, we act as a trusted, neutral, third party, safeguarding valuable technology assets—such as racking systemssoftware source code, object code and furniture.data—in secure, access-protected escrow accounts. Acting in this intermediary role, we help document and maintain intellectual property integrity. The result is increased control and leverage for all parties, enabling them to protect themselves, while maintaining competitive advantage.

Information Destruction Services

        Our information destruction services consist primarily of our physical secure shredding operations. Secure shredding is a natural extension of our hardcopy records management services, completing the life cycle of a record, and involves the shredding of sensitive documents for corporate customers that, in many cases, also use our services for management of less sensitive archival records. These services typically include the scheduled pick-up of loose office records which customers accumulate in specially designed secure containers we provide. Complementary to our shredding operations is the sale of the resultant waste paper to third-party recyclers. Through a combination of plant-based shredding operations and mobile shredding units comprised of custom built trucks, we are able to offer secure shredding services to our customers throughout the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia/New Zealand.

Financial Characteristics of Our Business

Our financial model is based on the recurring nature of our various revenue streams. The historical predictability of our revenues and the resulting adjusted operating income before depreciation and amortization (“OIBDA”("Adjusted OIBDA")1 allow us to operate with a high degree of financial leverage. Our primary financial goal has always been,For a more detailed definition and continuesreconciliation of Adjusted OIBDA and a discussion of why we believe this measure provides relevant and useful information to be, to increase consolidated OIBDA in relation to capital invested, even as our focus has shifted from growth through acquisitions to internal revenue growth.current and potential investors, see Item 7. "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Non-GAAP Measures." Our business has the following financial characteristics:

    ·Recurring Revenues.  We derive a majority of our consolidated revenues from fixed periodic, usually monthly, fees charged to customers based on the volume of records stored. Once a customer places physical records in storage with us and until those records are destroyed or permanently removed for(for which we typically receive a service fee,fee) we receive recurring payments for storage fees without incurring additional labor or marketing expenses or significant capital costs. Similarly, contracts for the storage of electronic backup media consist primarily of fixed monthly payments. Our quarterlyannual revenues from these fixed periodic storage fees have grown for 7221 consecutive quarters.years. For each of the five years 20022005 through 2006,2009, storage revenues, which are stable and recurring, have accounted for over 56%54% or more of our total consolidated revenues. This stable and growing storage revenue base also provides the foundation for increases in service revenues and Adjusted OIBDA.

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    Historically Non-Cyclical Storage Business. We  Historically, we have not experienced any significant reductions in our storage business as a result of past economic downturns although, we can give no assurance that this would beduring recent economic slowdowns, the case in the future.rate at which some customers added new cartons to their inventory was below historical levels. We believe that companies that have outsourced records management services are less likely during economic downturns to incur the move-out costs and other expenses associated with accelerating destructions of their records, switching vendors or moving their records management services programs in-house. However, during a recent economic slowdown, the rate at whichthis current recession, destruction rates have increased as some customers added new cartonshave been more willing to their inventory was below historical levels.incur additional short-term service costs in exchange for lower storage costs in the long-term. This phenomenon results in lower net volume growth rates in the short-term. The net effect of these factors has been the continued growth of our storage revenue base, albeit at a lower rate. For

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      each of the five years 20022005 through 2006,2009, total net volume growth in North America has ranged between 6%1% and 7%8%.

    ·Inherent Growth from Existing Physical Records Customers.  Our physical records customers have, on average, generated additional cartons at a faster rate than stored cartons have been destroyed or permanently removed. We estimate that inherent growth from existing customers represents approximately half of our total net volume growth in North America. We believe the consistent growth of our physical records storage revenues is the result of a number of factors, including: (1) the trend toward increased records retention; (2) customer satisfaction with our services; and (3) the costs and inconvenience of moving storage operations in-house or to another provider of information protectionmanagement services; and storage services.


    1                    For a more detailed definition and reconciliation of OIBDA and a discussion of why we believe this measure provides relevant and useful information to(4) our current and potential investors, see Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Non-GAAP Measures.”

    positive pricing actions.


    ·Diversified and Stable Customer Base.  As of December 31, 2006,2009, we had over 90,000140,000 corporate clients in a variety of industries. We currently provide services to commercial, legal, banking, healthcare, accounting, insurance, entertainment and government organizations, including more than 90%97% of the Fortune 1000 and 85%93% of the FTSE 100. No customer accounted for more thanas much as 2% of our consolidated revenues forin any of the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006.2009. For each of the three years 20042007 through 2006,2009, the average volume reduction due to customers terminating their relationship with us was less than 2%.

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    Capital Expenditures Related Primarily to Growth.  Our information protectionbusiness requires significant capital expenditures to support our growth as well as our current operations. We believe that capital expenditures as a percent of revenues is a meaningful metric for investors as it indicates the efficiency with which we are investing in the internal growth of our business. For the years 2007 through 2009, our total capital expenditures as a percent of revenues were 14%, 13% and storage business requires10%, respectively. Included in the total are limited annual capital expenditures made in order to maintain our current revenue stream. We define these maintenance capital expenditures to include items such as major facility repairs including life, health and safety improvements, replacement of warehouse equipment, shredding bins, and certain computer equipment (including personal computers for employees and equipment for our operations), and system conversions. For each of the years 20042007 through 2006, over 85%2009, these maintenance capital expenditures represented approximately 2% of our annual revenues. The balance of our aggregate capital expenditures were growth-related investments, primarily in storage systems, which include racking, building and leasehold improvements, computer systems hardware and software, and buildings. These growth-related capital expenditures are primarily discretionary and create additional capacity for increases in revenues and Adjusted OIBDA. In addition, sinceSince shifting our focus from growth through acquisitions to internal revenue growth, our capital expenditures in most years, made primarily to support our internal revenue growth, have generally exceeded the aggregate acquisition consideration we conveyedpaid in both 2001 and 2002. Although thisthe same year. This was not the case in 20032007 due to the acquisitionacquisitions of Hays IMSArchivesOne, Inc. ("ArchivesOne") and in 2004 due to the acquisition of Connected and the 49.9% equity interest held by Mentmore plc (“Mentmore”) in Iron Mountain Europe Limited (“IME”), it was the case in both 2005 and 2006 and weStratify. We expect this trend to continue in the future absent unusual acquisition activity.

Growth Strategy

Our objective is to maintain a leadership position in the information protection and storagemanagement services industry around the world, protecting and storing our customers’customers' information and enabling them to better use it without regard to media format or geographic location. In the U.S. and Canada, we seek to be one of the largest information protection and storagemanagement services providers in each of our markets. Internationally, our objectives are to continue to capitalize on our expertise in the information protection and storagemanagement services industry and to make additional acquisitions and investments in selected international markets. OurWe intend that our primary avenues of growth are:will continue to be: (1) increased business with existing customers; (2) the addition of new customers; (3) the introduction of new products and services such as secure shredding, online backup, eDiscovery and electronic vaulting;DMS; (2) increased business with existing customers; (3) the addition of new customers; and (4) selective acquisitions in new and existing markets.


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Introduction of New Products and Services

        We continue to expand our portfolio of products and services. Adding new products and services allows us to further penetrate our existing customer accounts and attract new customers in previously untapped markets.

        In 2009, we introduced two new technology solutions: Virtual File Store™ ("VFS"), an enterprise-class, cloud-based digital storage archiving service and eVantage™, an on-premises eDiscovery early case assessment solution. VFS is an on-demand, long-term storage service that reduces total cost of ownership for storing and managing static data files. As companies search for cost-effective solutions to manage large amounts of digital information, our VFS solution offers secure, long-term storage of inactive data at off-site data centers, greatly reducing the investment in an expensive on-site storage infrastructure and supporting regulatory and compliance initiatives. Stratify's eVantage solution safeguards corporate proprietary information and allows general counsel to reduce the cost and risk of eDiscovery by going beyond statistical data culling with advanced technologies that drive more intelligent qualitative analysis on all matters and internal investigations in their eDiscovery portfolio.

Growth from Existing Customers

Our existing customers storing physical records contribute to storage and storage-related service revenues growth because, on average, they generate additional cartons at a faster rate than old cartons are destroyed or permanently removed. In order to maximize growth opportunities from existing customers, we seek to maintain high levels of customer retention by providing premium customer service through our local account management staff.

Our sales coverage model is designed to identify and capitalize on incremental revenue opportunities by allocating our sales resources based on a sophisticated segmentation of our customer base and selling additional records management, data protection & recovery and information destruction services, in new and existing markets, within our existing customer relationships. We also seek to leverage existing business relationships with our customers by selling complementary services and products. Services include records tracking, indexing, customized reporting, vital records managementspecial project work, data restoration projects, fulfillment services, consulting services and consulting services.product sales (including software licenses, specially designed storage containers and related supplies). In addition, included in complementary services revenue is recycled paper revenues.


Addition of New Customers

Our sales forces are dedicated to three primary objectives: (1) establishing new customer account relationships; (2) generating additional revenue from existing customers;customers in new and existing markets; and (3) expanding new and existing customer relationships by effectively selling a wide array of complementary services and products. In order to accomplish these objectives, our sales forces draw on our U.S. and international marketing organizations and senior management.

IntroductionGrowth through Acquisitions

        The goals of New Productsour current acquisition program are (1) to supplement internal growth in our physical businesses by expanding our new service capabilities and Services

We continueindustry-specific services and continuing to expand our menu of products and services. We have established a national presence in the secure shredding industrytargeted international markets; and (2) to accelerate our leadership and time to market in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. and offer our electronic vaulting management services worldwide. These new products and services allow us to further penetrate our existing customer accounts and attract new customers in previously untapped markets.

Growth through Acquisitions

Our acquisition strategy includes expanding geographically, as necessary, and increasing our presence and scale within existing markets through “fold-in” acquisitions.digital businesses. We have a successful record of acquiring and integrating information protection and storagemanagement services companies. Between January 1, 1996, when we began our acquisition program, and December 31, 2006, we completed 187 acquisitions in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific for total consideration of approximately $3.1 billion, including approximately $1 billion associated with our merger with Pierce Leahy Corp. (“Pierce Leahy”) in February 2000. During that period, weWe substantially completed our geographic expansion in North America, Europe and Latin America by 2003 and began our expansion into Asia Pacific.Pacific in 2005.


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Acquisitions in the U.S. and CanadaNorth American Physical Segment

We intend to continue our acquisition program in the U.S. and Canada focusing primarily on the secure shredding industry, expanding geographically, as necessary and building scale in some of our smaller markets through “fold-in” acquisitions. However, given        Given the small number of largeattractive acquisition prospectstargets in our core physical businesses in North America and our increased revenue base, future acquisitions are expected to be less significant to our overall U.S.North American revenue growth than in the past. Acquisitions in the North American Physical segment will likely focus primarily on expanding our DMS capabilities and Canadian revenue growth.enhancing industry-specific services such as health information management solutions.

Acquisitions in the International Acquisition StrategyPhysical Segment

We also intendexpect to continue to make acquisitions and investments in information protection and storagemanagement services businesses outside the U.S. and Canada.North America. We have acquired and invested in, and seek to acquire and invest in, information protection and storagemanagement services companies in countries, and, more specifically, markets within such countries, where we believe there is sufficient demand from existing multinational customers or the potential for significant growth. Future acquisitions and investments will focus primarily on developing priority expansion markets in Continental Europe and Asia, with continued leverage of our successful joint venture model. Similar to our strategy in North America, we will also explore international acquisitions that strengthen our capabilities in areas such as DMS and industry-specific services.

        The experience, depth and strength of local management are particularly important in our international expansion and acquisition strategy. Since beginning our international expansion program in January 1999, we have, directly and through joint ventures, expanded our operations into 2636 countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. These transactions have taken, and may continue to take, the form of acquisitions of thean entire business or controlling or minority investments, with a long-term goal of full ownership. We believe our joint venture strategy, rather than an outright acquisition, may, in certain markets, better position us to expand the existing business. The local partner benefits from our expertise in the information management services industry, our multinational customer relationships, our access to capital and our technology, and we benefit from our local partners' knowledge of the market, relationships with local customers and their presence in the community. In addition to the criteria we use to evaluate U.S. and CanadianNorth American acquisition candidates, when looking at an international investment or acquisition, we also evaluate the presence in the potential market of our existing customers as well as the risks uniquely associated with an international investment, including those risks described below.

The experience, depth and strength of local management are particularly important in our international acquisition strategy. As a result, we have formed joint ventures with, or acquired significant interests in, target businesses throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We began our international expansion by acquiring a 50.1% controlling interest in each of our IME, Iron Mountain


South America, Ltd. (“IMSA”) and Sistemas de Archivo Corporativo (a Mexican limited liability company) subsidiaries.

In 2006, we established a majority-owned joint venture serving four major markets in India, completed minority investments in information protection and storage businesses with operations in Poland and Russia, and signed a definitive agreement to establish a majority-owned joint venture in Asia Pacific. The Asia Pacific transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2007 for consideration of approximately $2 million and gives us an initial presence in Singapore, Hong Kong-SAR, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Malaysia.

We believe this strategy, rather than an outright acquisition, may, in certain markets, better position us to expand the existing business. The local partner benefits from our expertise in the information protection and storage services industry, our multinational customer relationships, our access to capital and our technology, and we benefit from our local partner’s knowledge of the market, relationships with local customers and their presence in the community.

Our long-term goal is to acquire full ownership of each such business. To that end,business in February 2004,which we acquired the remaining 49.9% minority equity interest in IME, in January 2005, we acquired the remaining 49.9% minority equity interest in IMSA and in April 2006,made a joint venture investment. In 2008, we acquired the remaining minority equity ownership in our Mexican operations. In addition,Brazilian operations and we have bought out partnership interests, in whole or in part, in Chile, Eastern Europe and the Netherlands. As a result of these transactions wenow own more than 98% of our international operations, measured as a percentage of consolidated revenues.

Our international investments are subject to risks and uncertainties relating to the indigenous political, social, regulatory, tax and economic structures of other countries, as well as fluctuations in currency valuation, exchange controls, expropriation and governmental policies limiting returns to foreign investors.

The amount of our revenues derived from international operations and other relevant financial data for fiscal years 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 20062009 are set forth in Note 9 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. For the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, we derived approximately 27%32%, 28%32% and 30%, respectively, of our total revenues from outside of the U.S. As of December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, we have long-lived assets of approximately 31%34%, 31% and 33%34%, respectively, from outside of the U.S.

Digital Growth and Technology Innovation Strategy

Similar to our physical businesses, we seek to grow revenuesAcquisitions in ourthe Worldwide Digital Segment by selling our products and services to existing and new customers.

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approach to innovation has three major components: build, buyincludes our internal development efforts, partnering with other technology companies and partner.acquisition of new and existing technologies. We willintend to build or develop our own technology in areas core to our strategy in order to protect and extend our leadposition in the market. Examples include, back up and archiving Software as a Service and data reduction technologies. Our technology acquisition strategy is designed to accelerate our product strategy, leadership and time to market and past examples include the Connected and LiveVault acquisitions. Finally, weWe are developing global technology partnerships that complement our product and service offerings, allow us to offer a complete solution to the marketplace and keep us in contact with emerging technology companies. Our technology acquisition strategy is designed to accelerate our product strategy, leadership and time to market and past examples include the Connected (2004), LiveVault (2005), Stratify (2007) and Mimosa (2010) acquisitions. We expect our future technology acquisitions will be of two primary types, those that bring us new or improved technologies to enhance our existing technology portfolio and those that increase our market position through technology and established revenue streams.

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CustomersCompetition

Our customer base is diversified in terms of revenues and industry concentration. As of December 31, 2006, we had over 90,000 corporate clients in a variety of industries. We currently provide services to commercial, legal, banking, healthcare, accounting, insurance, entertainment and government organizations, including more than 90% of the Fortune 1000 and more than 85% of the FTSE 100. No customer accounted for more than 2% of our consolidated revenues for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Competition

We compete with our current and potential customers’customers' internal information protection and storagemanagement services capabilities. We can provide no assurance that these organizations will begin or continue to use an outside company such as Iron Mountain for their future information protection and storagemanagement services.

We also compete with multiple information protection and storage servicesmanagement service providers in all geographic areas where we operate. We believe that competition for customers is based on price, reputation for reliability, quality of service and scope and scale of technology and that we generally compete effectively based onin each of these factors.areas.

We also compete with other information protection and storage services providers for companies to acquire. Some of our competitors may possess substantial financial and other resources. If any such competitor were to devote additional resources to the information protection and storage services business and such acquisition candidates or focus their strategy on our markets, our results of operations could be adversely affected.

Alternative Technologies

We derive most of our revenues from the storage of paper documents and storage-related services. This storage requires significant physical space. Alternative storage technologies exist, many of which require significantly less space than paper documents. These technologies include computer media, microform, CD-ROM and optical disk. To date, none of these technologies has replaced paper documents as the principal means for storing information. However, we can provide no assurance that our customers will continue to store most of their records in paper documents format. We continue to invest in additional services such as electronic vaultingonline backup and e-recordsdigital records management, designed to address our customers’customers' need for efficient, cost-effective, high quality solutions for electronic records and information management.

Employees

As of December 31, 2006,2009, we employed over 10,40010,500 employees in the U.S. and over 8,2009,600 employees outside of the U.S. At December 31, 2006,2009, an aggregate of 600518 employees were represented by unions in California,Georgia and twofive cities in Canada.

All non-union employees are generally eligible to participate in our benefit programs, which include medical, dental, life, short and long-term disability, retirement/401(k) and accidental death and dismemberment plans. Unionized employees receive these types of benefits through their unions. In addition to base compensation and other usual benefits, all full-time employees participate in some form of incentive-based compensation program that provides payments based on revenues, profits, collections or attainment of specified objectives for the unit in which they work. Management believes that we have good relationships with our employees and unions. However, as of December 31 2006, certain of ourAll union employees are currently under renewed labor contracts had expired, and we wereagreements or operating under the expired contracts while attempting to negotiate replacement agreements.an extension agreement.


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Insurance

For strategic risk transfer purposes, we maintain a comprehensive insurance program with insurers that we believe to be reputable and that have adequate capitalization in amounts that we believe to be appropriate. Property insurance is purchased on an all-riska comprehensive basis, including flood and earthquake (including excess coverage), subject to certain policy conditions, sublimits and deductibles, and inclusive ofdeductibles. Property is insured based upon the replacement cost of real and personal property, including leasehold improvements, business income loss and extra expense. Separate excess policies for insurer defined Critical Earthquake Zone exposures are maintained at what we believe to be appropriate limits and deductibles for that exposure. Included amongAmong other types of insurance that we carry, subject to certain policy conditions, sublimits and deductibles are: medical, workers compensation, general liability, umbrella, automobile, professional, warehouse, legal and directors and officers liability policies. In 2002, we established a wholly-owned Vermont domiciled captive insurance company as a subsidiary;subsidiary through the subsidiarywhich we retain and reinsure a portion of our property loss exposure.

Our standard formcustomer contracts usually contain provisions limiting our liability with respect to loss or destruction of, or damage to, records stored with us. Our liability under these contracts is often limited to a nominal fixed amount per item or unit of storage, contract in the U.S. sets forth an agreed maximum valuation for each carton or other storage unit held by us, which servessuch as aper cubic foot. We cannot assure you that where we have limitation of liability for lossprovisions that they will be enforceable in all instances or damage, as permitted under the Uniform Commercial Code. In contracts containing such limits, such values are nominal, and we believe that in typical circumstances our liability would be so limited in the event of loss or damage to stored items for which we may be held liable. Outside the U.S., mostotherwise protect us from liability. Also, some of our contracts have similar limited valuation and liability provisions that we believe are in accordance with local business customs and statutes. However, some of our agreements with large volume accounts and some of the contracts assumed in our acquisitions contain no such limits or contain higher limits or supplemental insurance arrangements.limits. In addition to provisions limiting our liability, our standard storage and service contracts include a schedule setting forth the majority of the customer-specific terms, including storage and service pricing and service delivery terms. Our customers may dispute the interpretation of various provisions in their contracts. While we have had relatively few disputes with our customers with regard to the terms of their customer contracts, and any disputes to date have not been material, we can give you no assurance that we will not have material disputes in the future.

Environmental Matters

Some of our current and formerly owned or leased properties were previously used by entities other than us for industrial or other purposes that involved the use, storage, generation and/or disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, including petroleum products. In some instances these properties included the operation of underground storage tanks or the presence of asbestos-containing materials. Although we have from time to time conducted limited environmental investigations and remedial activities at some of our former and current facilities, we have not undertaken an in-depth environmental review of all of our properties. We therefore may be potentially liable for environmental costs and may be unable to sell, rent, mortgage or use contaminated real estate owned or leased by us. Under various federal, state and local environmental laws, we may be potentially liable for environmental compliance and remediation costs to address contamination, if any, located at owned and leased properties as well as damages arising from such contamination, whether or not we know of, or were responsible for, the contamination, or the contamination occurred while we owned or leased the property. Environmental conditions for which we might be liable may also exist at properties that we may acquire in the future. In addition, future regulatory action and environmental laws may impose costs for environmental compliance that do not exist today.

We transfer a portion of our risk of financial loss due to currently undetected environmental matters by purchasing an environmental impairment liability insurance policy, which covers all owned and leased locations. Coverage is provided for both liability and remediation costs.

Reincorporation

On May 27, 2005, Iron Mountain Incorporated, a Pennsylvania corporation (“("Iron Mountain PA”PA"), reincorporated as a Delaware corporation. The reincorporation was effected by means of a statutory merger (the “Merger”"Merger") of Iron Mountain PA with and into Iron Mountain Incorporated, a Delaware


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corporation (“("Iron Mountain DE”DE"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Iron Mountain PA. In connection with


the Merger, Iron Mountain DE succeeded to and assumed all of the assets and liabilities of Iron Mountain PA. Apart from the change in its state of incorporation, the Merger had no effect on Iron Mountain PA’sPA's business, board composition, management, employees, fiscal year, assets or liabilities, or location of its facilities, and did not result in any relocation of management or other employees. The Merger was approved at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on May 26, 2005. Upon consummation of the Merger, Iron Mountain DE succeeded to Iron Mountain PA’sPA's reporting obligations and continued to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “IRM.”"IRM."

Internet Website

Our Internet address iswww.ironmountain.com. Under the “Investor Relations” category"Investors" section on our Internet website, we make available through a hyperlink to a third party website, free of charge, our Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, our Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”"Exchange Act") as soon as reasonably practicable after such forms are filed with or furnished to the SEC. We are not including the information contained on or available through our website as a part of, or incorporating such information by reference into, this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Copies of our corporate governance guidelines, code of ethics and the charters of our audit, compensation, and nominating and governance committees may be obtained free of charge by writing to our Secretary, Iron Mountain Incorporated, 745 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111 and are available on the Investors section of our website,www.ironmountain.com, under the heading “Corporate"Corporate Governance."


Item 1A. Risk Factors.

Our business facesbusinesses face many risks. If any of the events or circumstances described in the following risks actually occur, our business,businesses, financial condition or results of operations could suffer and the trading price of our debt or equity securities could decline. Our investors and prospective investors should consider the following risks and the information contained under the heading “Cautionary"Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements”Statements" before deciding to invest in our securities.

Operational Risks

We face competition for customers.

We compete with our currentGovernmental and potential customers’ internal information protection and storage services capabilities. These organizations may not begin or continue to use an outside company, such as our company, for their future information protection and storage services needs or may not use us to provide these services. We also compete with multiple information protection and storage services providers in all geographic areas where we operate.

Governmentalcustomer focus on data security could increase our costs of operations. We may not be able to fully offset these costs through increases in our rates. In addition, our failureincidents in which we fail to protect our customers’ confidentialcustomers' information against security breaches could result in monetary damages against us and could otherwise damage our reputation, harm our businessbusinesses and adversely impact our results of operations.

Many new state and federal laws and regulations are being contemplated and enacted relative to privacy issues in general and the care and handling of personal information in particular.        In reaction to publicized incidents in which electronically stored information has been lost, illegally accessed or stolen, manyalmost all states have adopted breach of data security statutes andor regulations that require notification to consumers if the security of their personal information, such as social security numbers, is breached. In addition, in 2009 the United States Department of Health and Human Services adopted regulations requiring notification to persons whose personal health information is accessed by an unauthorized third party and provides for civil fines in some circumstances. One state adopted regulations requiring every company that maintains or stores personal information to adopt a comprehensive written information security program. In some instances European data protection authorities have issued large fines as a result of data security breaches. Our information security practices have been the subject of review or inquiry by governmental agencies, and we may be subject to additional reviews or inquiries of governmental agencies in the future.

        Continued governmental focus on data security may lead to additional legislative action. For example, the United States Congress is considering several bills that arelegislation intended to address data security including bythrough various methods that include requiring notification to affected persons of breachesdata security breaches. In


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addition, the increased emphasis on information security practices,may lead customers to request that we take additional measures to enhance security and we may


be subject to additional inquiries in the future.assume higher liability under our contracts. We have experienced incidents in which customers’customers' backup tapes or other records have been lost, and we have been informed by customers in some incidents that the lost media or records contained personal information. The increased focus on data security may lead to governmental action and/or changes in customer demand asAs a result of whichlegislative initiatives and client demands, we may have to modify our operations with the goal of further improving data security or acceptsecurity. Any such modifications may result in increased liabilities or obligations if breaches of data security occur with respect to data in our custody. However,expenses and operating complexity, and we may be unable to increase the rates we charge for our ratesservices sufficiently to counter ouroffset any increased expenses dueexpenses.

        In addition to such modificationsincreases in the costs of operations or such acceptance of increased liabilities and obligations, andpotential liability that would adversely impactmay result from a heightened focus on data security, our results of operations. In addition,reputation may be damaged by any compromise of security, accidental loss or theft of customer data in our possession could damagepossession. We believe that establishing and maintaining a good reputation is critical to attracting and retaining customers. If our reputation and expose us to risk of liability,is damaged, we may become less competitive which could harmnegatively impact our business and adversely impact ourbusinesses, financial condition or results of operations.

Our customer contracts may not always limit our liability and may sometimes contain terms that could lead to disputes in interpretation.

        Our customer contracts usually contain provisions limiting our liability with respect to loss or destruction of, or damage to, records or information stored with us. Our liability under physical storage contracts is often limited to a nominal fixed amount per item or unit of storage, such as per cubic foot. Our liability under our digital, DMS and other service contracts is often limited to a percentage of annual revenue under the contract. We cannot assure you that where we have limitation of liability provisions they will be enforceable in all instances or would otherwise protect us from liability. In addition to provisions limiting our liability, our standard storage and service contracts include a schedule setting forth the majority of the customer-specific terms, including storage and service pricing and service delivery terms. Our customers may dispute the interpretation of various provisions in their contracts. While we have had relatively few disputes with our customers with regard to the terms of their customer contracts, and any disputes to date have not been material, we can give you no assurance that we will not have material disputes in the future.

We face competition for customers.

        We compete, in some of our business lines, with our current and potential customers' internal information management services capabilities. These organizations may not begin or continue to use a third party, such as our company, for their future information management services needs. We also compete, in both our physical and digital businesses, with multiple information management services providers in all geographic areas where we operate; our current or potential customers may choose to use those competitors instead of us.

We may not be able to effectively operate and expand our digital businesses.

We operate certain digital information management businesses and are implementing oura planned expansion into variousother digital businesses. Our entrance intoparticipation in these markets poses certain unique risks. For example, we may be unable to:

    successfully acquire and integrate businesses or technologies to complement our current service offerings;

    keep up with rapid technological changes, evolving industry expectations and changing customer requirements;

·       raise the amountTable of capital necessary to effectively participate in these businesses;Contents

    ·       develop, hire or otherwise obtain the necessary technical expertise;

    ·       accurately predict the size of the markets for any of these services; or

    ·compete effectively against other companies that possess greater technical expertise, capital or other necessary resources.

    resources;


    develop, hire or otherwise obtain the necessary technical expertise;

    accurately predict the size of the markets for any of these services; or

    raise the amount of capital necessary to effectively participate in these markets.

In addition, the digital solutions we offer may not gain or retain market acceptance, or business partners upon whom we depend for technical and management expertise, as well asand the hardware and software products we need to complement our services may not perform as expected.

Our customers may shift from paper storage to alternative technologies that require less physical space.

We derive most of our revenues from the storage of paper documents and storage related services. This storage requires significant physical space.space, which we provide through our owned and leased facilities. Alternative storage technologies exist, many of which require significantly less space than paper documents. These technologies include computer media, microform, CD-ROM and optical disk. We can provide no assurance that our customers will continue to store most of their records in paper documents format. A significant shift by our customers to storage of data through non-paper based technologies, whether now existing or developed in the future, could adversely affect our business.businesses.

Our customers may be constrained in their ability to pay for services or require fewer services.

        A continued recession may cause some customers to postpone projects for which they would otherwise retain our services, and may in some instances cause customers to forgo our services. Many of our largest customers are financial institutions, which have been particularly affected by the economic downturn; their condition may lead them to reduce their use of our services. In addition, a higher percentage of our customers may seek protection under bankruptcy laws, potentially affecting not only future business but also our ability to collect accounts receivable.

We may be subject to certain costs and potential liabilities associated with the real estate required for our businesses.

Because our physical businesses are heavily dependent on real estate, we face special risks attributable to the real estate we own or lease. Such risks include:

    ·variable occupancy costs and difficulty locating suitable sites due to fluctuations in the real estate market;

    markets;·

    uninsured losses or damage to our storage facilities due to an inability to obtain full coverage on a cost-effective basis for some casualties, such as earthquakes, or any coverage for certain losses, such as losses from riots or terrorist activities;

    ·

           loss

    inability to use our real estate holdings effectively if the demand for physical storage were to diminish because of our investment in,customers' acceptance of other storage technologies; and anticipated profits and cash flow from, damaged property that is uninsured; and


    ·

    liability under environmental laws for the costs of investigation and cleanup of contaminated real estate owned or leased by us, whether or not we know of, or were responsible for, the contamination, or the contamination occurred while we owned or leased the property.

Some of our current and formerly owned or leased properties were previously used by entities other than us for industrial or other purposes that involved the use, storage, generation and/or disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, including petroleum products. In some instances these properties included the operation of underground storage tanks or the presence of asbestos-containing materials. Although we have from time to time conducted limited environmental investigations and remedial


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activities at some of our former and current facilities, we have not undertaken an in-depth environmental review of all of our properties. We therefore may be potentially liable for environmental costs like those discussed above and may be unable to sell, rent, mortgage or use contaminated real estate owned or leased by us. Environmental conditions for which we might be liable may also exist at properties that we may acquire in the future. In addition, future regulatory action and environmental laws may impose costs for environmental compliance that do not exist today.

International operations may pose unique risks.

As of December 31, 2006,2009, we provided services in 86 markets37 countries outside the U.S. As part of our growth strategy, we expect to continue to acquire or invest in information protection and storagemanagement services businesses in foreign markets. International operations are subject to numerous risks, including:

    ·the impact of foreign government regulations;

    ·

    the volatility of certain foreign economies in which we operate;

    ·

    political uncertainties;

    ·

    the risk that the business partners upon whom we depend for technical assistance or management and acquisition expertise outside of the U.S. will not perform as expected;

    ·

    differences in business practices; and

    ·

    foreign currency fluctuations.

In particular, our net income can be significantly affected by fluctuations in currencies associated with certain intercompany balances among our U.S. entities andof our foreign subsidiaries to us and between our U.K. entityforeign subsidiaries.

We may be subject to claims that our technology, particularly with respect to digital services, violates the intellectual property rights of a third party.

        Third parties may have legal rights (including ownership of patents, trade secrets, trademarks and subsidiariescopyrights) to ideas, materials, processes, names or original works that are the same or similar to those we use, especially in our digital business. Third parties may bring claims, or threaten to bring claims, against us that their intellectual property rights are being infringed or violated by our use of intellectual property. Litigation or threatened litigation could be costly and distract our senior management from operating our business. Further, if we cannot establish our right or obtain the right to use the intellectual property on reasonable terms, we may be required to develop alternative intellectual property at our expense to mitigate potential harm.

Fluctuations in commodity prices may affect our operating revenues and results of operations.

        Our operating revenues and results of operations are impacted by significant changes in commodity prices. Our secure shredding operations generate revenue from the European continent.sale of shredded paper to recyclers. We generate additional revenue when the price of diesel fuel rises above certain predetermined rates through a customer surcharge. As a result, significant declines in paper and diesel fuel prices may negatively impact our revenues and results of operations while increases in other commodity prices, including steel, may negatively impact our results of operations.

Unexpected events could disrupt our operations and adversely affect our results of operations.

        Unexpected events, including fires or explosions at our facilities, natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornados, war or terrorist activities, unplanned power outages, supply disruptions and failure of equipment or systems, could adversely affect our results of operations. These events could


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result in customer disruption, physical damages to one or more key operating facilities, the temporary closure of one or more key operating facilities or the temporary disruption of information systems.

Risks Relating to Our Common Stock

No IntentionGuaranty of Dividend Payments or Stock Repurchases

        Although our board of directors recently approved a share repurchase program and adopted a dividend policy under which we intend to Pay Dividends

We have never declared or paidpay quarterly cash dividends on our capital stock. We intendcommon stock, any determinations by us to retain future earnings for use inrepurchase our business and do not anticipate declaringcommon stock or paying anypay cash dividends on shares ofour common stock in the foreseeable future.future will be based primarily upon our financial condition, results of operations, business requirements, the price of our common stock in the case of the repurchase program and our board of director's continuing determination that the repurchase program and the declaration of dividends under the dividend policy are in the best interests of our shareholders and are in compliance with all laws and agreements applicable to the repurchase and dividend programs. The terms of our credit agreement and our indentures contain provisions permitting the payment of cash dividends and stock repurchases subject to certain limitations.


Risks Relating to Our Indebtedness

Our substantial indebtedness could adversely affect our financial health and prevent us from fulfilling our obligations under our various indebtedness.debt instruments.

We have a significant amount of indebtedness. The following table shows important credit statistics as of December 31, 2006:2009 (dollars in millions):

 

 

At December 31, 2006

 

 

 

(Dollars in millions)

 

Total long-term debt

 

 

$

2,668.8

 

 

Stockholders’ equity

 

 

$

1,553.3

 

 

Debt to equity ratio

 

 

1.72

x

 

 
  
 

Total long-term debt

 $3,251.8 

Total equity

 $2,145.2 

Debt to equity ratio

  1.52x

        

Our substantial indebtedness could have important consequences to you. Our indebtedness may increase as we continue to borrow under existing and future credit arrangements in order to finance future acquisitions and for general corporate purposes, which would increase the associated risks. These risks include:

    ·inability to satisfy our obligations with respect to our various indebtedness;

    debt instruments;·

    inability to adjust to adverse economic conditions;

    ·

    inability to fund future working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions and other general corporate requirements, including possible required repurchases of our various indebtedness;

    ·

    limits on our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and the information protection and storagemanagement services industry;

    ·

    limits on future borrowings under our existing or future credit arrangements, which could affect our ability to pay our indebtedness or to fund our other liquidity needs;

    ·

    inability to generate sufficient funds to cover required interest payments; and

    ·

    restrictions on our ability to refinance our indebtedness on commercially reasonable terms.

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    Restrictive loan covenants may limit our ability to pursue our growth strategy.

    Our credit facility and our indentures contain covenants restricting or limiting our ability to, among other things:

      ·incur additional indebtedness;

      ·

      pay dividends or make other restricted payments;

      ·

      make asset dispositions;

      ·

      create or permit liens; and

      ·

      make capital expenditures and other investments.

    These restrictions may adversely affect our ability to pursue our acquisition and other growth strategies.

    We may not have the ability to raise the funds necessary to finance the repurchase of outstanding senior subordinated indebtedness upon a change of control event as required by our indentures.

    Upon the occurrence of a change of control, we will be required to offer to repurchase all outstanding senior subordinated indebtedness. However, it is possible that we will not have sufficient funds at the time


    of the change of control to make the required repurchase of the notes or that restrictions in our revolving credit facility will not allow such repurchases. In addition, certain important corporate events, such as leveraged recapitalizations that would increase the level of our indebtedness, would not constitute a ‘‘change"change of control’’control" under our indentures.

    Since Iron Mountain is a holding company, our ability to make payments on our various indebtednessdebt obligations depends in part on the operations of our subsidiaries.

    Iron Mountain is a holding company, and substantially all of our assets consist of the stock of our subsidiaries and substantially all of our operations are conducted by our direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. As a result, our ability to make payments on our various indebtednessdebt obligations will be dependent upon the receipt of sufficient funds from our subsidiaries. However, our various indebtedness isdebt obligations are guaranteed, on a joint and several and full and unconditional basis, by most, but not all, of our direct and indirect wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries.

    Acquisition and International Expansion Risks

    Failure to manage our growth may impact operating results.

            If we succeed in expanding our existing businesses, or in moving into new areas of business, that expansion may place increased demands on our management, operating systems, internal controls and financial and physical resources. If not managed effectively, these increased demands may adversely affect the services we provide to existing customers. In addition, our personnel, systems, procedures and controls may be inadequate to support future operations. Consequently, in order to manage growth effectively, we may be required to increase expenditures to increase our physical resources, expand, train and manage our employee base, improve management, financial and information systems and controls, or make other capital expenditures. Our results of operations and financial condition could be harmed if we encounter difficulties in effectively managing the budgeting, forecasting and other process control issues presented by future growth.

    Failure to successfully integrate acquired operations could reducenegatively impact our future results of operations.

    The success of any acquisition depends in part on our ability to integrate the acquired company. The process of integrating acquired businesses may involve unforeseen difficulties and may require a


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    disproportionate amount of our management’smanagement's attention and our financial and other resources. We can give no assurance that we will ultimately be able to effectively integrate and manage the operations of any acquired business. Nor can we assure you that we will be able to maintain or improve the historical financial performance of Iron Mountain or our acquisitions. The failure to successfully integrate these cultures, operating systems, procedures and information technologies could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

    We may be unable to continue our international expansion.

    Our growth strategy involves expanding operations intoin international markets, and we expect to continue this expansion. Europe and Latin America have been our primary areas of focus for international expansion and we recently beganhave begun our expansion into the Asia Pacific region. We have entered into joint ventures and have acquired all or a majority of the equity in information protection and storagemanagement services businesses operating in these areas and are actively pursuing additional opportunities.may acquire other information management services businesses in the future.

            This growth strategy involves risks. We may be unable to pursue this strategy in the future. For example, we may be unable to:

      ·identify suitable companies to acquire;

      acquire or invest in;·

      complete acquisitions on satisfactory terms;

      ·

      incur additional debt necessary to acquire suitable companies if we are unable to pay the purchase price out of working capital, common stock or other equity securities; or

      ·

      enter into successful business arrangements for technical assistance or management and acquisition expertise outside of the U.S.

    We also compete with other information protection and storagemanagement services providers for companies to acquire. Some of our competitors may possess substantial financial and other resources. If any such competitor were to devote additional resources to pursue such acquisition candidates or focus its strategy on our international markets, the purchase price for potential acquisitions, or investments could rise, competition in international markets could increase and our results of operations could be adversely affected.


    Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.

    None.

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    Item 2. Properties.

    As of December 31, 2006,2009, we conducted operations through 739801 leased facilities and 214239 facilities that we own. Our facilities are divided among our reportable segments as follows: North American Physical Business (644)(677), International Physical Business (301) and(345), Worldwide Digital Business (8)(17) and Corporate (1). These facilities contain a total of 59.265.6 million square feet of space. Facility rent expense was $153.1$230.1 million and $169.9$224.7 million for the years ended December 31, 20052008 and 2006,2009, respectively. The leased facilities typically have initial lease terms of ten to fifteen years with one or more five year options to extend. In addition, some of the leases contain either a purchase option or a right of first refusal upon the sale of the property. Our facilities are located throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific, with the largest number of facilities in California, Florida, Illinois,New York, New Jersey, Texas, Canada and the U.K. We believe that the space available in our facilities is adequate to meet our current needs, although future growth may require that we acquire additional real property either by leasing or purchasing. See Note 10 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for information regarding our minimum annual rental commitments.


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    Item 3. Legal Proceedings.

    London Fire

            In July 2006, we experienced a significant fire in a leased records and information management facility in London, England, that resulted in the complete destruction of the facility and its contents. The London Fire Brigade ("LFB") issued a report in which it was concluded that the fire resulted either from human agency, i.e., arson, or an unidentified ignition device or source, and its report to the Home Office concluded that the fire resulted from a deliberate act. The LFB also concluded that the installed sprinkler system failed to control the fire due to the primary electric fire pump being disabled prior to the fire and the standby diesel fire pump being disabled in the early stages of the fire by third-party contractors. We have received notices of claims from customers or their subrogated insurance carriers under various theories of liabilities arising out of lost data and/or records as a result of the fire. Certain of those claims have resulted in litigation in courts in the United Kingdom. We deny any liability in respect of the London fire and we have referred these claims to our primary warehouse legal liability insurer, which has been defending them to date under a reservation of rights. Certain of the claims have been settled for nominal amounts, typically one to two British pounds sterling per carton, as specified in the contracts, which amounts have been or will be reimbursed to us from our primary property insurer. Many claims, including substantial claims, remain outstanding; others have been resolved pursuant to consent orders. We believe we carry adequate property and liability insurance. We do not expect that legal proceedings related to this event will have a material impact to our consolidated results of operations or financial condition.

    Pittsburgh Litigation

            In May, 2006 we filed an eviction lawsuit against a tenant, Digital Encoding Factory, LLC ("DEF"), leasing space in our Boyers, Pennsylvania records storage facility for its failure to make required rent payments. In October, 2006, DEF and two related companies, EDA Acquisition, LLC, and Media Holdings, LLC, filed a lawsuit against us in the U.S. Federal District Court for Western Pennsylvania alleging that they started a digital scanning business in our Boyers, Pennsylvania, records storage facility because we orally agreed to refer customer digital scanning business in the facility to them (the "Pittsburgh Lawsuit") and promised substantial business. The plaintiffs contend that we breached this alleged oral agreement and seek to recover damages in the range of $6.5 million to $53.5 million. The Pittsburgh Lawsuit is scheduled for trial in March, 2010. We dispute the plaintiffs' claims and contend that there was no such oral agreement. We have not recorded any loss reserve for this matter. We plan to defend against the alleged claims at trial. We are unable to estimate the final outcome of this matter.

    General

            In addition to the matters discussed above, we are involved in litigation from time to time in the ordinary course of business with a portion of the defense and/or settlement costs being covered by various commercial liability insurance policies purchased by us. In the opinion of management, other than discussed above no material legal proceedings are pending to which we, or any of our properties, are subject.


    Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

    There were no matters submitted to a vote of security holders of Iron Mountain during the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006.2009.


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    PART II

    Item 5. Market for Registrant’sRegistrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

    Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange, or NYSE, under the symbol “IRM.” On December 7, 2006, our board authorized and approved a three-for-two stock split effected in the form of a dividend on our common stock. We issued the additional shares of common stock resulting from this stock dividend on December 29, 2006 to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on December 18, 2006.

    "IRM." The following table sets forth the high and low sale prices on the NYSE, for the years 20052008 and 2006, giving effect to such stock split:2009:

     

     

    Sale Prices

     

     

     

    High

     

    Low

     

    2005

     

     

     

     

     

    First Quarter

     

    $

    21.33

     

    $

    17.77

     

    Second Quarter

     

    20.81

     

    18.17

     

    Third Quarter

     

    25.17

     

    20.13

     

    Fourth Quarter

     

    30.06

     

    22.80

     

    2006

     

     

     

     

     

    First Quarter

     

    $

    29.91

     

    $

    26.29

     

    Second Quarter

     

    27.24

     

    22.91

     

    Third Quarter

     

    29.48

     

    22.64

     

    Fourth Quarter

     

    29.72

     

    27.03

     

     
     Sale Prices 
     
     High Low 

    2008

           
     

    First Quarter

     $37.13 $24.20 
     

    Second Quarter

      31.28  25.51 
     

    Third Quarter

      30.08  23.50 
     

    Fourth Quarter

      27.79  16.71 

    2009

           
     

    First Quarter

     $25.66 $16.91 
     

    Second Quarter

      31.27  21.52 
     

    Third Quarter

      32.04  26.29 
     

    Fourth Quarter

      27.57  22.74 

            

    The closing price of our common stock on the NYSE on February 15, 200711, 2010 was $28.51.$21.73. As of February 15, 2007,11, 2010, there were 526628 holders of record of our common stock. We believe that there are more than 77,00048,500 beneficial owners of our common stock.

    The only        We have not paid dividends we have paid on our common stock during the last two years, was the stockhowever, in February 2010, our board of directors adopted a dividend paid in connection with the stock split referenced above. Our Board currently intendspolicy under which we intend to retain future earnings, if any, for the development of our business and does not anticipate paying cashpay quarterly dividends on our common stock beginning in the foreseeable future.second quarter of 2010. The first dividend of $0.0625 per share will be payable on April 15, 2010 to shareholders of record on March 25, 2010. In February 2010 our board of directors also approved a share repurchase program authorizing up to $150 million in repurchases of our common stock. Any determinations by us to repurchase our Board tocommon stock or pay cash dividends on our common stock in the future will be based primarily upon our financial condition, results of operations, business requirements, the price of our common stock in the case of the repurchase program and business requirements. Our Credit Facility permitsour board of director's continuing determination that the repurchase program and the declaration of dividends under the dividend policy are in the best interests of our shareholders and are in compliance with all laws and agreements applicable to the repurchase and dividend programs. The terms of our credit agreement and our indentures contain provisions permitting the payment of cash dividends and stock repurchases subject to certain limitations.

    There was no common stock repurchased or sales of unregistered securities for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2006.2009.


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    Item 6. Selected Financial Data.

    The following selected consolidated statements of operations, balance sheet and other data have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements. The selected consolidated financial and operating information set forth below, giving effect to stock splits, should be read in conjunction with Item 7. “Management’s"Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”Operations" and our Consolidated Financial Statements and the Notes thereto included elsewhere in this filing.

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    2002(1)

     

    2003

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

     

     

    (In thousands, except per share data)

     

    Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Revenues:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Storage

     

    $

    759,536

     

    $

    875,035

     

    $

    1,043,366

     

    $

    1,181,551

     

    $

    1,327,169

     

    Service and Storage Material Sales

     

    558,961

     

    626,294

     

    774,223

     

    896,604

     

    1,023,173

     

    Total Revenues

     

    1,318,497

     

    1,501,329

     

    1,817,589

     

    2,078,155

     

    2,350,342

     

    Operating Expenses:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Cost of Sales (excluding depreciation and amortization)(2)

     

    622,299

     

    680,747

     

    823,899

     

    938,239

     

    1,074,268

     

    Selling, General and Administrative(2)

     

    333,050

     

    383,641

     

    486,246

     

    569,695

     

    670,074

     

    Depreciation and
    Amortization

     

    108,992

     

    130,918

     

    163,629

     

    186,922

     

    208,373

     

    Merger-related Expenses

     

    796

     

     

     

     

     

    Loss (Gain) on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

     

    774

     

    1,130

     

    (681

    )

    (3,485

    )

    (9,560

    )

    Total Operating Expenses

     

    1,065,911

     

    1,196,436

     

    1,473,093

     

    1,691,371

     

    1,943,155

     

    Operating Income

     

    252,586

     

    304,893

     

    344,496

     

    386,784

     

    407,187

     

    Interest Expense, Net

     

    136,632

     

    150,468

     

    185,749

     

    183,584

     

    194,958

     

    Other Expense (Income), Net

     

    1,435

     

    (2,564

    )

    (7,988

    )

    6,182

     

    (11,989

    )

    Income from Continuing Operations Before Provision for Income Taxes and Minority Interest

     

    114,519

     

    156,989

     

    166,735

     

    197,018

     

    224,218

     

    Provision for Income Taxes

     

    47,318

     

    66,730

     

    69,574

     

    81,484

     

    93,795

     

    Minority Interests in Earnings of Subsidiaries, Net

     

    3,629

     

    5,622

     

    2,970

     

    1,684

     

    1,560

     

    Income from Continuing Operations before Discontinued Operations and Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle

     

    63,572

     

    84,637

     

    94,191

     

    113,850

     

    128,863

     

    Income from Discontinued Operations (net of tax)

     

    1,116

    (4)

     

     

     

     

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of minority interest and tax benefit)

     

    (6,396

    )(5)

     

     

    (2,751

    )(6)

     

    Net Income

     

    $

    58,292

     

    $

    84,637

     

    $

    94,191

     

    $

    111,099

     

    $

    128,863

     

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 
     
     (In thousands, except per share data)
     

    Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:

                    

    Revenues:

                    
     

    Storage

     $1,181,551 $1,327,169 $1,499,074 $1,657,909 $1,696,395 
     

    Service

      896,604  1,023,173  1,230,961  1,397,225  1,317,200 
                
      

    Total Revenues

      2,078,155  2,350,342  2,730,035  3,055,134  3,013,595 

    Operating Expenses:

                    
     

    Cost of sales (excluding depreciation and amortization)

      938,239  1,074,268  1,260,120  1,382,019  1,271,214 
     

    Selling, general and administrative

      569,695  670,074  771,375  882,364  874,359 
     

    Depreciation and amortization

      186,922  208,373  249,294  290,738  319,072 
     

    (Gain) Loss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net

      (3,485) (9,560) (5,472) 7,483  406 
                
      

    Total Operating Expenses

      1,691,371  1,943,155  2,275,317  2,562,604  2,465,051 

    Operating Income

      386,784  407,187  454,718  492,530  548,544 

    Interest Expense, Net

      183,584  194,958  228,593  236,635  227,790 

    Other Expense (Income), Net

      6,182  (11,989) 3,101  31,028  (12,079)
                
      

    Income Before Provision for Income Taxes

      197,018  224,218  223,024  224,867  332,833 

    Provision for Income Taxes

      81,484  93,795  69,010  142,924  110,527 
                

    Income Before Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle

      115,534  130,423  154,014  81,943  222,306 

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of tax benefit)

      (2,751)(1)        
                

    Net Income

      112,783  130,423  154,014  81,943  222,306 
      

    Less: Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests

      1,684  1,560  920  (94) 1,429 
                

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $111,099 $128,863 $153,094 $82,037 $220,877 
                

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    Net Income per Common
    Share—Basic:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Income from Continuing Operations

     

    $

    0.33

     

    $

    0.44

     

    $

    0.49

     

    $

    0.58

     

    $

    0.65

     

    Income from Discontinued Operations (net of tax)

     

    0.01

     

     

     

     

     

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of minority interest and tax benefit)

     

    (0.03

    )

     

     

    (0.01

    )

     

    Net Income—Basic

     

    $

    0.31

     

    $

    0.44

     

    $

    0.49

     

    $

    0.57

     

    $

    0.65

     

    Net Income per Common
    Share—Diluted:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Income from Continuing Operations

     

    $

    0.33

     

    $

    0.43

     

    $

    0.48

     

    $

    0.57

     

    $

    0.64

     

    Income from Discontinued Operations (net of tax)

     

    0.01

     

     

     

     

     

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of minority interest and tax benefit)

     

    (0.03

    )

     

     

    (0.01

    )

     

    Net Income—Diluted

     

    $

    0.30

     

    $

    0.43

     

    $

    0.48

     

    $

    0.56

     

    $

    0.64

     

    Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding—Basic

     

    190,464

     

    191,851

     

    193,625

     

    195,988

     

    198,116

     

    Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding—
    Diluted

     

    193,660

     

    195,116

     

    196,764

     

    198,104

     

    200,463

     

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 
     
     (In thousands, except per share data)
     

    Earnings per Share—Basic:

                    

    Income Before Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle

                    
     

    Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $0.58 $0.65 $0.77 $0.41 $1.09 

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of tax benefit)

                    
     

    Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

      (0.01)        
                

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated per Share—Basic

     $0.57 $0.65 $0.77 $0.41 $1.09 
                

    Earnings per Share—Diluted:

                    

    Income Before Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle

                    
     

    Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $0.57 $0.64 $0.76 $0.40 $1.08 

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of tax benefit)

                    
     

    Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

      (0.01)        
                

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated per Share—Diluted

     $0.56 $0.64 $0.76 $0.40 $1.08 
                

    Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding—Basic

      195,988  198,116  199,938  201,279  202,812 
                

    Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding—Diluted

      198,104  200,463  202,062  203,290  204,271 
                

    (footnotes follow)

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    2002(1)

     

    2003

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

     

     

    (In thousands)

     

    Other Data:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    OIBDA(2)(3)

     

    $

    361,578

     

    $

    435,811

     

    $

    508,125

     

    $

    573,706

     

    $

    615,560

     

    OIBDA Margin(2)(3)

     

    27.4

    %

    29.0

    %

    28.0

    %

    27.6

    %

    26.2

    %

    Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges

     

    1.6

    x

    1.8

    x

    1.7

    x

    1.8

    x

    1.8

    x

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 
     
     (In thousands)
     

    Other Data:

                    

    Adjusted OIBDA(2)

     $570,221 $606,000 $698,540 $790,751 $868,022 

    Adjusted OIBDA Margin(2)

      27.4% 25.8% 25.6% 25.9% 28.8%

    Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges

      1.8 x  1.8 x  1.7 x  1.7 x  2.1x 

     

     
     As of December 31, 
     
     2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 
     
     (In thousands)
     

    Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

                    

    Cash and Cash Equivalents

     $53,413 $45,369 $125,607 $278,370 $446,656 

    Total Assets

      4,766,140  5,209,521  6,307,921  6,356,854  6,846,834 

    Total Long-Term Debt (including Current Portion of Long-Term Debt)

      2,529,431  2,668,816  3,266,288  3,243,215  3,251,784 

    Total Equity

      1,375,996  1,558,563  1,804,544  1,806,328  2,145,246 

     

     

    As of December 31,

     

     

     

    2002

     

    2003

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

     

     

    (In thousands)

     

    Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Cash and Cash Equivalents

     

    $

    56,292

     

    $

    74,683

     

    $

    31,942

     

    $

    53,413

     

    $

    45,369

     

    Total Assets

     

    3,230,655

     

    3,892,099

     

    4,442,387

     

    4,766,140

     

    5,209,521

     

    Total Long-Term Debt (including Current Portion of Long-Term Debt)

     

    1,732,097

     

    2,089,928

     

    2,478,022

     

    2,529,431

     

    2,668,816

     

    Stockholders’ Equity

     

    944,861

     

    1,066,114

     

    1,218,568

     

    1,370,129

     

    1,553,273

     

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    Reconciliation of Adjusted OIBDA to Operating Income and Net (Loss) Income:

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    2002(1)

     

    2003

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

     

     

    (In thousands)

     

    OIBDA(2)(3)

     

    $

    361,578

     

    $

    435,811

     

    $

    508,125

     

    $

    573,706

     

    $

    615,560

     

    Less: Depreciation and Amortization

     

    108,992

     

    130,918

     

    163,629

     

    186,922

     

    208,373

     

    Operating Income

     

    252,586

     

    304,893

     

    344,496

     

    386,784

     

    407,187

     

    Less: Interest Expense, Net

     

    136,632

     

    150,468

     

    185,749

     

    183,584

     

    194,958

     

    Other Expense (Income), Net

     

    1,435

     

    (2,564

    )

    (7,988

    )

    6,182

     

    (11,989

    )

    Provision for Income Taxes

     

    47,318

     

    66,730

     

    69,574

     

    81,484

     

    93,795

     

    Minority Interests in Earnings of Subsidiaries

     

    3,629

     

    5,622

     

    2,970

     

    1,684

     

    1,560

     

    Income from Discontinued Operations (net of tax)

     

    (1,116

    )(4)

     

     

     

     

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of minority interest and tax benefit)

     

    6,396

    (5)

     

     

    2,751

    (6)

     

    Net Income

     

    $

    58,292

     

    $

    84,637

     

    $

    94,191

     

    $

    111,099

     

    $

    128,863

     

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 
     
     (In thousands)
     

    Adjusted OIBDA(2)

     $570,221 $606,000 $698,540 $790,751 $868,022 

    Depreciation and Amortization

      186,922  208,373  249,294  290,738  319,072 

    (Gain) Loss on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

      (3,485) (9,560) (5,472) 7,483  406 
                

    Operating Income

      386,784  407,187  454,718  492,530  548,544 

    Less: Interest Expense, Net

      183,584  194,958  228,593  236,635  227,790 
     

    Other Expense (Income), Net

      6,182  (11,989) 3,101  31,028  (12,079)
     

    Provision for Income Taxes

      81,484  93,795  69,010  142,924  110,527 
     

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting

                    
      

    Principle (net of tax benefit)

      2,751(1)        
     

    Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Noncontrolling interests

      1,684  1,560  920  (94) 1,429 
                

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $111,099 $128,863 $153,094 $82,037 $220,877 
                

    (footnotes follow)


    (1)          We recorded specific charges associated with the integration of the operations of Pierce Leahy in 2002 within merger related expenses as a result of the Pierce Leahy acquisition in 2000.

    (2)          Effective January 1, 2003, we began using the fair value method of accounting in our financial statements using the prospective method in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation,” as amended by SFAS No. 148, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation—Transition and Disclosure.” As a result, we recorded $1,664, $3,857, $6,189 and $12,387 for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively, associated with such stock compensation expenses. We adopted SFAS No. 123R, “Share-Based Payment.” effective January 1, 2006 using the modified prospective method, as permitted under SFAS No. 123R. We record stock-based compensation expense for the cost of stock options, restricted stock and shares issued under the employee stock purchase plan based on the requirements of SFAS No. 123R beginning January 1, 2006. For the year ended December 31, 2006, the incremental stock-based compensation expense due to the adoption of SFAS No. 123R caused income before provision for income taxes and minority interest to decrease by $894, and net income to decrease by $539, and had no impact on basic and diluted earnings per share.

    (3)          OIBDA is defined as operating income before depreciation and amortization expenses. OIBDA Margin is calculated by dividing OIBDA by total revenues. For a more detailed definition and


    reconciliation of OIBDA and a discussion of why we believe these measures provide relevant and useful information to our current and potential investors, see Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Non-GAAP Measures.”

    (4)          In connection with the sale of Arcus Staffing Resources, Inc., which was accounted for as a discontinued operation, we recorded income from discontinued operations of $1,116 (net of tax of $768) in 2002 related to the reversal of remaining liabilities associated with certain contingencies which have been resolved.

    (5)          Effective January 1, 2002, we reviewed goodwill for impairment consistent with the guidelines of SFAS No. 142, “Goodwill and other Intangible Assets,” using a discounted future cash flow approach to approximate fair value. The result of testing our goodwill for impairment in accordance with SFAS No. 142, as of January 1, 2002, was a non-cash charge of $6,396 (net of minority interest of $8,487) related to the impairment of goodwill associated with our investment in South America due primarily to the deterioration of the economy and the devaluation of the currency in Argentina.

    (6)          Effective December 31, 2005, we adopted the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Interpretation No. 47, “Accounting for Conditional Asset Retirement Obligations, an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 143.” As a result, a

    A non-cash charge of $2,751 net of tax benefit was recorded in the fourth quarter of 2005 as a cumulative effect of change in accounting principle in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. See Note 2(f)operations related to Notesconditional asset retirement obligations.

    (2)
    Adjusted OIBDA is defined as operating income before depreciation and amortization expenses, excluding (gain) loss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net. Adjusted OIBDA Margin is calculated by dividing Adjusted OIBDA by total revenues. For a more detailed definition and reconciliation of Adjusted OIBDA and a discussion of why we believe these measures provide relevant and useful information to Consolidated Financial Statements.

    our current and potential investors, see Item 7.         Management’s "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.Operations—Non-GAAP Measures."


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    Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

    The following discussion should be read in conjunction with “Item"Item 6. Selected Financial Data”Data" and the Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto and the other financial and operating information included elsewhere in this filing.

    This discussion contains “forward-looking"forward-looking statements," as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and in other federal securities laws. See “Cautionary"Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements”Statements" on page ii of this filing and “Item"Item 1A. Risk Factors”Factors" beginning on page 14 of this filing.

    Overview

    Our revenues consist of storage revenues as well as service and storage material sales revenues. Storage revenues, both physical and digital, which are considered a key performance indicator for the information protection and storagemanagement services industry, consist of largely recurring periodic charges related to the storage of materials or data (generally on a per unit or per cubic foot of records basis), which are typically retained by customers for many years, and have accounted for over 56%54% of total consolidated revenues in each of the last five years. Our quarterlyannual revenues from these fixed periodic storage fees have grown for 7221 consecutive quarters.years. Service and storage material sales revenues are comprised of charges for related core service activities and courier operationsa wide array of complementary products and the sale of software licenses and storage materials.services. Included in service and storage materials sales are related core service revenues arising from:are: (1) the handling of records including the addition of new records, temporary removal of records from storage, refiling of removed records, destruction of records, and permanent withdrawals from storage; (2) courier operations, consisting primarily of the pickup and delivery of records upon customer request; (3) secure shredding of sensitive documents; and (4) other recurring services including maintenance and support contracts. Our complementary services revenues arise frominclude special project work, including data restoration providingprojects, fulfillment services, consulting services and product sales including(including software licenses, specially designed storage containers magnetic media (including computer tapes) and related supplies.supplies). Our secure shredding business generates the sale of recycled paper (included in complementary services revenues), the price of which can fluctuate from period to period, adding to the volatility and reducing the predictability of that revenue stream. Over time our service revenues have grown at a faster pace than our storage revenues, as a result, storage revenues as a percent of consolidated revenues has declined. Our consolidated revenues are also subject to variations caused by the net effect of foreign currency


    translation on revenue derived from outside the U.S. For the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, we derived approximately 27%32%, 28%32% and 30%, respectively, of our total revenues from outside the U.S.

    We recognize revenue when the following criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, services have been rendered, the sales price is fixed or determinable, and collectability of the resulting receivable is reasonably assured. Storage and service revenues are recognized in the month the respective storage or service is provided and customers are generally billed on a monthly basis on contractually agreed-upon terms. Amounts related to future storage or prepaid service contracts, including maintenance and support contracts, for customers where storage fees or services are billed in advance, are accounted for as deferred revenue and recognized ratably over the applicable storage or service period or when the service is performed. Storage materialRevenue from the sales areof products is recognized when shipped to the customer and include software license sales (less than 1% of consolidated revenues in 2006). Sales of software licensestitle has passed to distributors are recognized at the time a distributor reports that the software has been licensed to an end-user and all revenue recognition criteria have been satisfied.customer.

    Cost of sales (excluding depreciation)depreciation and amortization) consists primarily of wages and benefits for field personnel, facility occupancy costs (including rent and utilities), transportation expenses (including vehicle leases and fuel), other product cost of sales and other equipment costs and supplies. Of these, wages and benefits and facility occupancy costs are the most significant. Trends in total wages and benefits dollars and as a percentage of total consolidated revenue are influenced by changes in headcount and compensation levels, achievement of incentive compensation targets, workforce productivity and variability in costs associated with medical insurance and workers compensation.


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    Trends in facility occupancy costs are similarly impacted by the total number of facilities we occupy, the mix of properties we own versus properties we occupy under operating leases, fluctuations in per square foot occupancy costs, and the levels of utilization of these properties. Due to the declining economic environment in 2008, the current fair market values of vans, trucks and mobile shredding units within our vehicle fleet portfolio, which we lease, declined. As a result, certain vehicle leases that previously met the requirements to be considered operating leases are now classified as capital leases upon renewal, or at lease inception, for new leases. The impact of this change with respect to these leases has been to lower vehicle rent expense (a component of transportation costs within cost of sales) by approximately $22.4 million, offset by an increased amount of combined depreciation (by approximately $20.2 million) and interest expense (by approximately $3.3 million) for the year ended December 31, 2009 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2008.

    The expansion of our European, secure shredding and digital services businesses has impacted the major cost of sales components. Our European and secure shredding operations are more labor intensive than our core U.S. physical businesses and therefore increase our labor costs as a percentpercentage of consolidated revenues. This trend is partially offset by our digital services businesses, which require significantly less direct labor. Our secure shredding operations incur less facility costs and higher transportation costs as a percentpercentage of revenues compared to our core physical businesses.

    Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of wages and benefits for management, administrative, information technology, sales, account management and marketing personnel, as well as expenses related to communications and data processing, travel, professional fees, bad debts, training, office equipment and supplies. Trends in total wages and benefits dollars and as a percentage of total consolidated revenue are influenced by changes in headcount and compensation levels, achievement of incentive compensation targets, workforce productivity and variability in costs associated with medical insurance. The overhead structure of our expanding European and Asian operations, as compared to our North American operations, is more labor intensive and has not achieved the same level of overhead leverage, which may result in an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses, as a percentage of consolidated revenue, as our European and Asian operations become a more meaningful percentage of our consolidated results. Similarly, our digital services business requiresbusinesses require a higher level of overhead, particularly in the area of information technology, than our core physical businesses.

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    Our adoption of the measurement provisions of SFAS No. 123 as amended by SFAS No. 148 has resulted in increasing amounts of selling, general and administrative expenses. We began using the fair value method of accounting for stock-based compensation in our financial statements beginning January 1, 2003 using the prospective method. The prospective method involves recognizing expense for the fair value for all awards granted or modified in the year of adoption and thereafter with no expense recognition for previous awards. We adopted SFAS No. 123R, “Share-Based Payment” effective January 1, 2006 using the modified prospective method, as permitted under SFAS No. 123R. We record stock-based compensation expense for the cost of stock options, restricted stock and shares issued under the employee stock purchase plan based on the requirements of SFAS No. 123R beginning January 1, 2006. We recorded approximately $0.9 million of additional stock compensation expense in 2006 associated with unvested stock option grants issued prior to January 1, 2003 associated with adopting SFAS No. 123R.

    Our depreciation and amortization charges result primarily from the capital-intensive nature of our business. The principal components of depreciation relate to storage systems, which include racking, building and leasehold improvements, computer systems hardware and software, and buildings. Amortization relates primarily to customer relationships and acquisition costs and core technology and is impacted by the nature and timing of acquisitions.

    Our consolidated revenues and expenses are subject to variations caused by the net effect of foreign currency translation on revenues and expenses incurred by our entities outside the U.S. During 2006,In 2007, we have seensaw increases in both revenues and expenses as a result of the strengthening of the Canadian dollar, Euro and British pound sterling against the U.S. dollar. During 2008, we saw net increases in both revenues and expenses as a result of the strengthening of the Euro, the Brazilian real and the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar, offset by the weakening of the British pound sterling against the U.S. dollar, based on an analysis of weighted average rates for the comparable periods. In the third quarter of 2008, we saw a dramatic strengthening of the U.S. dollar in comparison to all the major foreign currencies of our most significant international markets, which lead to a decrease in reported revenue and expenses in the fourth quarter of 2008. In 2009, we saw decreases in both revenues and expenses as a result of the weakening of the British pound sterling, Canadian dollar and Euro against the Euro,U.S. dollar, based on an analysis of weighted average rates for the comparable periods. It is difficult to predict how much foreign currency exchange rates will fluctuate in the future and how those fluctuations will impact individual balances reported in our consolidated statement of operations. GivenDue to the relative increase inexpansion of our


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    international operations, these fluctuations mayhave become material on individual balances. However, because both the revenues and expenses are denominated in the local currency of the country in which they are derived or incurred, the impact of currency fluctuations on our operating income and operating margin and net income is mitigated. In order to provide a framework for assessing how our underlying businesses performed excluding the effect of foreign currency fluctuations, we compare the percentage change in the results from one period to another period in this report using constant currency disclosure. The constant currency growth rates are calculated by translating the 2007 results at the 2008 average exchange rates and the 2008 results at the 2009 average exchange rates.

            The following table is a comparison of underlying average exchange rates of the foreign currencies that had the most significant impact on our U.S. dollar-reported revenues and expenses:

     
     Average Exchange
    Rates for the
    Year Ended
    December 31,
      
     
     
     Percentage
    (Strengthening)/
    Weakening of
    the U.S. dollar
     
     
     2008 2009 

    British pound sterling*

     $1.944 $1.544  (20.6)%

    Canadian dollar

     $0.944 $0.880  (6.8)%

    Euro*

     $1.497 $1.366  (8.8)%


     
     Average Exchange
    Rates for the
    Year Ended
    December 31,
      
     
     
     Percentage
    (Strengthening)/
    Weakening of
    the U.S. dollar
     
     
     2007 2008 

    British pound sterling*

     $1.983 $1.944  (2.0)%

    Canadian dollar

     $0.935 $0.944  1.0%

    Euro*

     $1.344 $1.497  11.4%

    *
    Corresponding to the appropriate periods based on Iron Mountain Europe Limited's fiscal year ended October 31.

    Non-GAAP Measures

    Adjusted Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization, or Adjusted OIBDA

            Adjusted OIBDA is defined as operating income before depreciation and amortization expenses.expenses, excluding (gain) loss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net. Adjusted OIBDA Margin is calculated by dividing Adjusted OIBDA by total revenues. We use these measures to evaluate the operating performance of our consolidated business. As such, we believe these measures provide relevant and useful information to our current and potential investors. We use OIBDA for planning purposes and multiples of current or projected OIBDA-based calculationsAdjusted OIBDA in conjunction with our discounted cash flow models to determine our overall enterprise valuation and to evaluate acquisition targets. We believe Adjusted OIBDA and Adjusted OIBDA Margin areprovide current and potential investors with relevant and useful measures to evaluateinformation regarding our ability to grow our revenues faster than our operating expenses and theygenerate cash flow to support business investment. These measures are an integral part of the internal reporting system we use to assess and evaluate the operating performance of our business. Adjusted OIBDA does not include certain items specifically (1) minority interest in earnings (losses) of subsidiaries, net; (2) other (income) expense, net; (3) income from discontinued operations and loss on sale of discontinued operations; and (4) cumulative effect of change in accounting principle that we believe are not indicative of our core operating results.results, specifically: (1) gains and losses on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net, (2) other (income) expense, net, (3) cumulative effect of change in accounting principle and (4) net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests.

            Adjusted OIBDA also does not include interest expense, net and the provision for income taxes. These expenses are associated with our capitalization and tax structures, which we do not consider when evaluating the operating profitability of our core operations. Finally, Adjusted OIBDA does not include depreciation and amortization expenses, in order to eliminate the impact of capital investments, which we evaluate by comparing capital expenditures to incremental revenue generated and as a


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    percentage of total revenues. Adjusted OIBDA and Adjusted OIBDA Margin should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for, other measures of financial


    performance reported in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the UnitesUnited States of America or GAAP,("GAAP"), such as operating or net income or cash flows from operating activities (as determined in accordance with GAAP).

    Reconciliation of Adjusted OIBDA to Operating Income and Net Income (In Thousands)(in thousands):

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    OIBDA

     

    $

    508,125

     

    $

    573,706

     

    $

    615,560

     

    Less: Depreciation and Amortization

     

    163,629

     

    186,922

     

    208,373

     

    Operating Income

     

    344,496

     

    386,784

     

    407,187

     

    Less: Interest Expense, Net

     

    185,749

     

    183,584

     

    194,958

     

    Other (Income) Expense, Net

     

    (7,988

    )

    6,182

     

    (11,989

    )

    Provision for Income Taxes

     

    69,574

     

    81,484

     

    93,795

     

    Minority Interests in Earnings of Subsidiaries

     

    2,970

     

    1,684

     

    1,560

     

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of tax benefit)

     

     

    2,751

     

     

    Net Income

     

    $

    94,191

     

    $

    111,099

     

    $

    128,863

     

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Adjusted OIBDA

     $698,540 $790,751 $868,022 
     

    Less: Depreciation and Amortization

      249,294  290,738  319,072 
      

    (Gain) Loss on disposal/writedown of

              
      

    property, plant and equipment, net

      (5,472) 7,483  406 
            
     

    Operating Income

      454,718  492,530  548,544 
     

    Less: Interest Expense, Net

      228,593  236,635  227,790 
      

    Other Expense (Income), Net

      3,101  31,028  (12,079)
      

    Provision for Income Taxes

      69,010  142,924  110,527 
      

    Net Income (Loss) Attributable to

              
       

    Noncontrolling interests

      920  (94) 1,429 
            

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $153,094 $82,037 $220,877 
            

    Critical Accounting Policies

    Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and for the period then ended. On an on-going basis, we evaluate the estimates used, including those related to accounting for acquisitions, allowance for doubtful accounts and credit memos, impairment of tangible and intangible assets, income taxes, stock-based compensation and self-insured liabilities.used. We base our estimates on historical experience, actuarial estimates, current conditions and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. These estimates form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities and are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates. Our critical accounting policies include the following, which are listed in no particular order:

    Revenue Recognition

            Our revenues consist of storage revenues as well as service revenues and are reflected net of sales and value added taxes. Storage revenues, both physical and digital, which are considered a key performance indicator for the information management services industry, consist of largely recurring periodic charges related to the storage of materials or data (generally on a per unit basis). Service revenues are comprised of charges for related core service activities and a wide array of complementary products and services. Included in core service revenues are: (1) the handling of records including addition of new records, temporary removal of records from storage, refilling of removed records, destruction of records, and permanent withdrawals from storage; (2) courier operations, consisting primarily of the pickup and delivery of records upon customer request; (3) secure shredding of sensitive documents; and (4) other recurring services including maintenance and support contracts. Our complementary services revenues include special project work, data restoration projects, fulfillment services, consulting services and product sales (including software licenses, specially designed storage


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    containers and related supplies). Our secure shredding revenues include the sale of recycled paper (included in complementary services), the price of which can fluctuate from period to period, adding to the volatility and reducing the predictability of that revenue stream.

            We recognize revenue when the following criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, services have been rendered, the sales price is fixed or determinable, and collectability of the resulting receivable is reasonably assured. Storage and service revenues are recognized in the month the respective storage or service is provided and customers are generally billed on a monthly basis on contractually agreed-upon terms. Amounts related to future storage or prepaid service contracts, including maintenance and support contracts, for customers where storage fees or services are billed in advance are accounted for as deferred revenue and recognized ratably over the applicable storage or service period or when the service is performed. Revenue from the sales of products is recognized when shipped to the customer and title has passed to the customer. Sales of software licenses are recognized at the time of product delivery to our customer or reseller and maintenance and support agreements are recognized ratably over the term of the agreement. Software license sales and maintenance and support accounted for less than 1% of our 2009 consolidated revenues. Within our Worldwide Digital Business segment, in certain instances, we process and host data for customers. In these instances, the processing fees are deferred and recognized over the estimated service period.

    Accounting for Acquisitions

    Part of our growth strategy has included the acquisition of numerous businesses. The purchase price of these acquisitions has been determined after due diligence of the acquired business, market research, strategic planning, and the forecasting of expected future results and synergies. Estimated future results and expected synergies are subject to revisions as we integrate each acquisition and attempt to leverage resources.

    Each acquisition has been accounted for using the purchase method of accounting as defined under the applicable accounting standards at the date of each acquisition, including, Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 16, “Accounting for Business Combinations,” and SFAS No. 141, “Business Combinations.”acquisition. Accounting for these acquisitions has resulted in the capitalization of the cost in excess of fair value of the net assets acquired in each of these acquisitions as goodwill. We estimated the fair values of the assets acquired in each acquisition as of the date of acquisition and these estimates are subject to adjustment. These estimates are subject to final assessments of the fair value of property, plant and equipment, intangible assets, operating leases and deferred income taxes. We complete these assessments within one year of the date of acquisition. We are not aware of any information that would indicate that the final


    purchase price allocations for acquisitions completed in 2006 would differ meaningfully from preliminary estimates. See Note 6 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

    In connection with each of our acquisitions, we have undertaken certain restructurings of the acquired businesses to realize efficiencies and potential cost savings. Our restructuring activities include the elimination of duplicate facilities, reductions in staffing levels, and other costs associated with exiting certain activities of the businesses we acquire. The estimated cost of these restructuring activities are included as costsOur acquisitions after January 1, 2009 will be accounted for under newly promulgated accounting guidance. While many of the fundamentals described above have not changed, several have. In particular, all acquisition costs and restructuring activity will be charged to operations rather than being capitalized as part of the purchase price. In addition, while in the past we only recorded contingent consideration when paid, we now must estimate it at the time of acquisition and are recordedaccount for that as goodwill consistent withpart of the guidanceinitial purchase price allocation. Any subsequent changes in this estimate will directly impact the consolidated statement of Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) Issue No. 95-3, “Recognition of Liabilities in Connection with a Purchase Business Combination.”operations. While we finalize our plans to restructure the businesses we acquire within one year of the date of acquisition, it may take more than one year to complete all activities related to the restructuring of an acquired business.


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    Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and Credit Memos

    We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts and credit memos for estimated losses resulting from the potential inability of our customers to make required payments and disputes regarding billing and service issues. When calculating the allowance, we consider our past loss experience, current and prior trends in our aged receivables and credit memo activity, current economic conditions, and specific circumstances of individual receivable balances. If the financial condition of our customers were to significantly change, resulting in a significant improvement or impairment of their ability to make payments, an adjustment of the allowance may be required. We consider accounts receivable to be delinquent after such time as reasonable means of collection have been exhausted. We charge-off uncollectible balances as circumstances warrant, generally no later than one year past due. As of December 31, 20052008 and 2006,2009, our allowance for doubtful accounts and credit memos balance totaled $14.5$19.6 million and $15.2$25.5 million, respectively.

    Impairment of Tangible and Intangible Assets

    Assets subject to amortization:In accordance with SFAS No. 144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets,” we We review long-lived assets and all amortizable intangible assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. Recoverability of these assets is determined by comparing the forecasted undiscounted net cash flows of the operation to which the assets relate to their carrying amount. The operations are generally distinguished by the business segment and geographic region in which they operate. If the operation is determined to be unable to recover the carrying amount of its assets, then intangible assets are written down first, followed by the other long-lived assets of the operation, to fair value. Fair value is based on discounted cash flows or appraised values, depending upon the nature of the assets.

    Goodwill—Assets not subject to amortization:We apply the provisions of SFAS No. 142 to goodwill Goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite lives which are not amortized but are reviewed annually for impairment or more frequently if impairment indicators arise. Separable intangible assets that are not deemed to have indefinite lives are amortized over their useful lives. We have selected October 1 as our annual goodwill impairment review date. We performed our annual goodwill impairment review as of October 1, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 20062009 and noted no impairment of goodwill. In making this assessment, we rely on a number of factors including operating results, business plans, economic projections, anticipated future cash flows, and transactions and market place data. There are inherent uncertainties related to these factors and our judgment in applying them to the analysis of goodwill impairment. As of December 31, 2006,2009, no factors were identified that would alter this assessment. When changes occur in the composition of one or more reporting units, the goodwill is reassigned to the reporting units affected based on their relative fair values. Our reporting units at which level we performed our goodwill impairment analysis as of October 31, 2006 were as follows: North America excluding Fulfillment; Fulfillment; U.K.; Continental Europe; Worldwide Digital Business excluding Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc. (“IPM”); IPM; South America; Mexico and Asia Pacific. GoodwillReporting unit valuations have been calculated using an income


    approach based on the present value of future cash flows of each reporting unit. Thisunit or a combined approach based on the present value of future cash flows and market and transaction multiples of revenues and earnings. The income approach incorporates many assumptions including future growth rates, discount factors, expected capital expenditures and income tax cash flows. Changes in economic and operating conditions impacting these assumptions could result in a goodwill impairment in future periods. In conjunction with our annual goodwill impairment reviews, we reconcile the sum of the valuations of all of our reporting units to our market capitalization as of such dates. Our reporting units at which level we performed our goodwill impairment analysis as of October 1, 2009 were as follows: North America (excluding Fulfillment); Fulfillment; Europe; Worldwide Digital Business (excluding Stratify); Stratify; Latin America; and Asia Pacific. As of December 31, 2009, the carrying value of goodwill, net amounted to $1.7 billion, $1.3 million, $470.9 million, $124.0 million, $130.0 million, $28.4 million and $60.9 million for North America (excluding Fulfillment), Fulfillment, Europe, Worldwide Digital Business (excluding Stratify), Stratify, Latin America and Asia Pacific, respectively.

            Our North America (excluding Fulfillment); Fulfillment; Europe; Worldwide Digital Business (excluding Stratify); Stratify and Latin America reporting units have fair values as of October 1, 2009


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    that significantly exceed their carrying values. Our Asia Pacific reporting unit has a fair value that exceeds its carrying value by 9% as of October 1, 2009. Asia Pacific is still in the investment stage and accordingly its fair value does not exceed its carrying value by a significant margin at this point in time. A deterioration of the Asia Pacific business or the business not achieving the forecasted results could lead to an impairment in future periods.

    Accounting for Internal Use Software

    We develop various software applications for internal use. We account for those costs in accordance with the provisions of Statement of Position (“SOP”) 98-1, “Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use.” SOP 98-1 requires computer software costs associated with internal use software to beare expensed as incurred until certain capitalization criteria are met. SOP 98-1 also defines which types of costs should be capitalized and which should be expensed. Payroll and related costs for employees who are directly associated with, and who devote time to, the development of internal use computer software projects to(to the extent time is spent directly on the project,project) are capitalized and depreciated over the estimated useful life of the software. Capitalization begins when the design stage of the applicationproject has been completed and it is probable that the projectapplication will be completed and used to perform the function intended. Depreciation begins when the software is placed in service. Computer software costs that are capitalized are periodically evaluated for impairment in accordance with SFAS No.144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets.”impairment.

    It may be necessary for us to write-off amounts associated with the development of internal use software if the project cannot be completed as intended. Our expansion into new technology-based service offerings requires the development of internal use software that will be susceptible to rapid and significant changes in technology. We may be required to write-off unamortized costs or shorten the estimated useful life if an internal use software program is replaced with an alternative tool prior to the end of the software’ssoftware's estimated useful life. General uncertainties related to expansion into digital businesses, including the timing of introduction and market acceptance of our services, may adversely impact the recoverability of these assets. As of December 31, 2008 and 2009, capitalized labor net of accumulated depreciation was $45.6 million and $41.4 million, respectively. See Note 2(f) to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

    During the yearyears ended December 31, 2006,2007, 2008 and 2009, we wrote-off $6.3$1.3 million, $0.6 million and $0.6 million, respectively, of previously deferred software costs in Corporate, primarily internal labor costs, associated with internal use software development projects that were discontinued and such costs are included as a component of selling, general and administrative expenses. During the year ended December 31, 2005, we replaced internal use software programs,after implementation, which resulted in the write-off toa loss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net of the remaining net book value of $1.1 million. We did not have any such write-offs during 2004.net.

    Income Taxes

    We have recorded a valuation allowance, amounting to $27.3$42.1 million as of December 31, 2006,2009, to reduce our deferred tax assets, primarily associated with certain state and foreign net operating loss carryforwards, to the amount that is more likely than not to be realized. In the ordinary courseWe have federal net operating loss carryforwards which begin to expire in 2019 through 2025 of business, there are many transactions$38.6 million ($13.5 million, tax effected) at December 31, 2009 to reduce future federal taxable income. We have an asset for state net operating losses of $16.1 million (net of federal tax benefit), which begins to expire in 2010 through 2025, subject to a valuation allowance of approximately 99%. We have assets for foreign net operating losses of $29.7 million, with various expiration dates, subject to a valuation allowance of approximately 81%. Additionally, we have federal research credits of $0.9 million which begin to expire in 2010, and calculations where the ultimateforeign tax outcome is uncertain.credits of $59.3 million, which begin to expire in 2014 through 2019. Based on current expectations and plans, we expect to fully utilize our foreign tax credit carryforwards prior to their expiration. If actual results differ unfavorably from certain of our estimates used, we may not be able to realize all or part of our net deferred income tax assets and foreign tax credit carryforwards and additional valuation allowances may be required. Although we believe our estimates are reasonable, no assurance can be given that our estimates reflected in the tax provisions and accruals will equal our actual results. These differences could have a material impact on our income tax provision and operating results in the period in which such determination is made.


    We are subject to examination by various tax authorities in jurisdictions in which we have significant business operations. We regularly assess the likelihoodTable of additional assessments by tax authorities and provide for these matters as appropriate. As of December 31, 2006, we had approximately $62 million of reserves related to uncertain tax positions. Although we believe our tax estimates are appropriate, the final


    determination of tax audits and any related litigation could result in favorable or unfavorable changes in our estimates.

    We have not provided deferred taxes on book basis differences related to certain foreign subsidiaries because such basis differences are not expected to reverse in the foreseeable future and we intend to reinvest indefinitely outside the U.S. These basis differences arose primarily through the undistributed book earnings of our foreign subsidiaries. The basis differences could be reversed through a sale of the subsidiaries, the receipt of dividends from subsidiaries as well as certain other events or actions on our part, which would result in an increase in our provision for income taxes.

    Stock-Based Compensation

    As of January 1, 2003, we adopted the measurement provisions of SFAS No. 123, as amended by SFAS No. 148. As a result we began using the fair value method of accounting for stock-based compensation in our financial statements beginning January 1, 2003 using the prospective method. The prospective method involves recognizing expense for the fair value for all awards granted or modified in the year of adoption and thereafter with no expense recognition for previous awards. We have applied the fair value recognition provisions to all stock based awards granted, modified or settled on or after January 1, 2003 and provided the required pro forma information for all awards previously granted, modified or settled before January 1, 2003 in our consolidated financial statements.

    In December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued SFAS No. 123R, “Share-Based Payment.” SFAS No. 123R is a revision of SFAS No. 123 and supersedes Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees”. We adopted SFAS No. 123R effective January 1, 2006 using the modified prospective method, as permitted under SFAS No. 123R. We record stock-based compensation expense for the cost of stock options, restricted stock and shares issued under the employee stock purchase plan based on the requirements of SFAS No. 123R beginning January 1, 2006. Stock-based compensation expense, included in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, for the year ended December 31, 2006 was $12.4 million ($9.2 million after tax or $0.05 per basic and diluted share). For the year ended December 31, 2006, the incremental stock-based compensation expense due to the adoption of SFAS No. 123R caused income before provision for income taxes and minority interest to decrease by $0.9 million, and net income to decrease by $0.5 million, and had no impact on basic and diluted earnings per share.

    SFAS No. 123R also requires that the benefits associated with the tax deductions in excess of recognized compensation cost be reported as a financing cash flow, rather than as an operating cash flow, reducing net operating cash flows and increasing net financing cash flows in future periods.

    The fair values of option, employee stock purchase and restricted stock grants are estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Expected volatility and the expected term are the input factors to that model which require the most significant management judgment. Expected volatility is calculated utilizing daily historical volatility over a period that equates to the expected life of the option. The expected life (estimated period of time outstanding) is estimated using the historical exercise behavior of employees.

    Self-Insured Liabilities

    We are self-insured up to certain limits for costs associated with workers’ compensation claims, vehicle accidents, property and general business liabilities, and benefits paid under employee healthcare and long-term disability programs. At December 31, 2005 and 2006 there were approximately $30.4 million and $28.2 million, respectively, of self-insurance accruals reflected in our consolidated balance sheets. The measurement of these costs requires the consideration of historical cost experience and judgments about the present and expected levels of cost per claim. We account for these costs primarily through actuarial


    methods, which develop estimates of the undiscounted liability for claims incurred, including those claims incurred but not reported. These methods provide estimates of future ultimate claim costs based on claims incurred as of the balance sheet date.

    We believe the use of actuarial methods to account for these liabilities provides a consistent and effective way to measure these highly judgmental accruals. However, the use of any estimation technique in this area is inherently sensitive given the magnitude of claims involved and the length of time until the ultimate cost is known. We believe our recorded obligations for these expenses are appropriate. Nevertheless, changes in healthcare costs, accident frequency and severity, and other factors can materially affect the estimates for these liabilities.

    Recent Accounting PronouncementsContents

    In July 2006, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes” (“FIN 48”), an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes” (“SFAS No. 109”). FIN 48 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in a company’s financial statements in accordance with SFAS No. 109. FIN 48 also prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return.

    The evaluation of aan uncertain tax position in accordance with FIN 48 is a two-step process. The first step is a recognition process whereby the company determines whether it is more likely than not that a tax position will be sustained upon examination, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. The second step is a measurement process whereby a tax position that meets the more likely than not recognition threshold is calculated to determine the amount of benefit to recognize in the financial statements. The tax position is measured at the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement.

    The provisions of FIN 48 are effective We recognized a $16.6 million increase in the reserve related to uncertain tax positions, which was accounted for as a reduction to the January 1, 2007. The provisions of FIN 48 are to be applied to all tax positions upon initial adoption of this standard. Only tax positions that meet the more likely than not recognition threshold at the effective date may be recognized or continue to be recognized upon adoption of FIN 48. The cumulative effect of applying the provisions of FIN 48 should be reported as an adjustment to the opening2007 balance of retained earnings for that fiscal year.in conjunction with the adoption of a new accounting standard related to uncertain tax positions.

            We are subject to examination by various tax authorities in jurisdictions in which we have significant business operations. We regularly assess the likelihood of additional assessments by tax authorities and provide for these matters as appropriate. As of December 31, 2008 and 2009, we had approximately $84.6 million and $88.2 million, respectively, of reserves related to uncertain tax positions. The reversal of these reserves will be recorded as a reduction of our income tax provision if sustained. Although we believe our tax estimates are appropriate, the final determination of tax audits and any related litigation could result in favorable or unfavorable changes in our estimates.

            We have elected to recognize interest and penalties associated with uncertain tax positions as a component of the provision for income taxes in the processaccompanying consolidated statements of evaluatingoperations. We recorded $1.2 million, $4.5 million and $4.7 million for gross interest and penalties for the effectyears ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively.

            We had $8.1 million and $12.9 million accrued for the payment of FIN 48interest and penalties as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively.

            We have not provided deferred taxes on book basis differences related to certain foreign subsidiaries because such basis differences are not expected to reverse in the foreseeable future and we intend to reinvest indefinitely outside the U.S. These basis differences arose primarily through the undistributed book earnings of our foreign subsidiaries. The basis differences could be reversed through a sale of the subsidiaries, the receipt of dividends from subsidiaries as well as certain other events or actions on our part, which would result in an increase in our provision for income taxes. It is not practicable to calculate the amount of such basis differences.

    Stock-Based Compensation

            We record stock-based compensation expense, utilizing the straight-line method, for the cost of stock options, restricted stock and shares issued under the employee stock purchase plan. Stock-based compensation expense, included in the accompanying consolidated resultsstatements of operations, for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 was $13.9 million ($10.2 million after tax or $0.05 per basic and diluted share), $19.0 million ($15.7 million after tax or $0.08 per basic and diluted share) and $18.7 million ($14.7 million after tax or $0.07 per basic and diluted shares), respectively.

            The fair values of option grants are estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Expected volatility and the expected term are the input factors to that model which require the most significant management judgment. Expected volatility is calculated utilizing daily historical volatility over a period that equates to the expected life of the option. The expected life (estimated period of time outstanding) is estimated using the historical exercise behavior of employees.

    Self-Insured Liabilities

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    and short-term disability programs. At December 31, 2008 and 2009 there were approximately $39.6 million and $41.1 million, respectively, of self-insurance accruals reflected in our consolidated balance sheets. The measurement of these costs requires the consideration of historical cost experience and judgments about the present and expected levels of cost per claim. We account for these costs primarily through actuarial methods, which develop estimates of the undiscounted liability for claims incurred, including those claims incurred but not reported. These methods provide estimates of future ultimate claim costs based on claims incurred as of the balance sheet date.

            We believe the use of actuarial methods to account for these liabilities provides a consistent and effective way to measure these highly judgmental accruals. However, the use of any estimation technique in this area is inherently sensitive given the magnitude of claims involved and the length of time until the ultimate cost is known. We believe our recorded obligations for these expenses are appropriate. Nevertheless, changes in healthcare costs, severity, and other factors can materially affect the estimates for these liabilities.

    Recent Accounting Pronouncements

            Effective January 1, 2009, GAAP for noncontrolling interests changed. The presentation and disclosure requirements of noncontrolling interests have been applied to all of our financial position.statements, notes and other financial data retrospectively for all periods presented.

    In September 2006,June 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") established the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements” (“SFAS No. 157”Accounting Standards Codification (the "Codification"). SFAS No. 157 defines fair value, establishes a framework to become the source of authoritative U.S. GAAP recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative U.S. GAAP for measuring fair value in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies under other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements, and isSEC registrants. The Codification was effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. The Codification superseded all then-existing non-SEC accounting and reporting standards on July 1, 2009, and all other non-grandfathered non-SEC accounting literature not included in the Codification became nonauthoritative. The adoption of the Codification did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and results of operations.

            Effective at the start of a reporting entity's first fiscal yearsyear beginning after November 15, 20072009, or January 1, 2010, for a calendar year-end entity, the Codification will require more information about transfers of financial assets, including securitization transactions, and interim periods within those fiscal years.transactions where entities have continuing exposure to the risks related to transferred financial assets. The Codification eliminates the concept of a "qualifying special-purpose entity," changes the requirements for derecognizing financial assets, and requires additional disclosures about an entity's involvement with variable interest entities and any significant changes in risk exposure due to that involvement. A reporting entity will be required to disclose how its involvement with a variable interest entity affects the reporting entity's financial statements. We do not expect the adoption of SFAS No. 157these Codification updates to have a material impact on our consolidated financial position orstatements and results of operations.

    In September 2006,October 2009, the SECFASB issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 108 (“SAB 108”), “Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements When Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements,” which provides interpretiveamended guidance on howmultiple-deliverable revenue arrangements and software revenue recognition. The multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements updates to the effectsCodification applies to all deliverables in contractual arrangements in all industries in which a vendor will perform multiple revenue-generating activities. The change to the Codification creates a selling price hierarchy that an entity must use as evidence of fair value in separately accounting for all deliverables on a relative selling price basis which qualify for separation. The selling price hierarchy includes: (1) vendor-specific objective evidence; (2) third-party evidence and (3) estimated selling price. Broadly speaking, this update to the carryover or reversalCodification will result in the possibility for some entities to recognize revenue earlier and more closely align with the economics of prior year misstatementscertain revenue arrangements if the other criteria for separation (e.g. standalone value to the customer) are


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    met. The software revenue recognition guidance was issued to address factors that entities should be consideredconsider when determining whether the software and non-software components function together to deliver the product's essential functionality. The software revenue recognition updates to the Codification will allow revenue arrangements in quantifying a current year misstatement. SAB 108 iswhich the software and non-software components deliver together the product's essential functionality to follow the multiple-deliverable revenue recognition criteria as opposed to the criteria applicable to software revenue recognition. Both updates are effective for fiscal years endingbeginning on or after NovemberJune 15, 2006.2010 and apply prospectively to new or materially modified revenue arrangements after its effective date. Early adoption is permitted; however, we do not anticipate early adopting. We have completed our analysis relatedare currently evaluating the impact of these Codification updates to the implementation of SAB 108 and have concluded it has no effect on our consolidated financial statements.statements and results of operations.

    In February 2007,January 2010, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, “The Fair Value Optionamended guidance improving disclosures about fair value measurements to add new requirements for Financial Assetsdisclosures about transfers into and Financial Liabilities-Including an amendmentout of FASB Statement No. 115” (“SFAS No. 159”). SFAS No. 159 permits entitiesLevels 1 and 2 and separate disclosures about purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements relating to chooseLevel 3 measurements. The new guidance also clarifies existing fair value disclosures about the level of disaggregation and about inputs and valuation techniques used to measure many financial instrumentsfair value. The Codification requires an entity, in determining the appropriate classes of assets and certain other items atliabilities, to consider the nature and risks of the assets and liabilities as well as their placement in the fair


    value. SFAS No. 159 value hierarchy (Level 1, 2 or 3). The Codification is effective for the first reporting period, including interim periods, beginning after December 15, 2009, except for the requirement to provide the Level 3 activity of purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements on a gross basis, which will be effective for fiscal years beginning after NovemberDecember 15, 2007.2010. In the period of initial adoption, entities will not be required to provide the amended disclosures for any previous periods presented for comparative purposes. However, those disclosures are required for periods ending after initial adoption. Early adoption is permitted; however, we do not anticipate early adopting. We are in the process of evaluating the effect of SFAS No. 159do not expect adoption to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and results of operations and financial position.operations.


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    Results of Operations

    Comparison of Year Ended December 31, 20062009 to Year Ended December 31, 20052008 and Comparison of Year Ended December 31, 20052008 to Year Ended December 31, 2004:2007 (in thousands):

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

    Dollar

     

    Percent

     

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Change

     

    Change

     

    Revenues

     

    $

    2,078,155

     

    $

    2,350,342

     

    $

    272,187

     

     

    13.1

    %

     

    Operating Expenses

     

    1,691,371

     

    1,943,155

     

    251,784

     

     

    14.9

    %

     

    Operating Income

     

    386,784

     

    407,187

     

    20,403

     

     

    5.3

    %

     

    Other Expenses, Net

     

    275,685

     

    278,324

     

    2,639

     

     

    1.0

    %

     

    Net Income

     

    $

    111,099

     

    $

    128,863

     

    $

    17,764

     

     

    16.0

    %

     

    OIBDA(1)

     

    $

    573,706

     

    $

    615,560

     

    $

    41,854

     

     

    7.3

    %

     

    OIBDA Margin(1)

     

    27.6

    %

    26.2

    %

     

     

     

     

     

     

     
     Year Ended December 31,  
      
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
     Percentage
    Change
     
     
     2008 2009 

    Revenues

     $3,055,134 $3,013,595 $(41,539) (1.4)%

    Operating Expenses

      2,562,604  2,465,051  (97,553) (3.8)%
               
     

    Operating Income

      492,530  548,544  56,014  11.4%

    Other Expenses, Net

      410,587  326,238  (84,349) (20.5)%
               
     

    Net Income

      81,943  222,306  140,363  171.3%

    Net (Loss) Income Attributable to the Noncontrolling Interests

      (94) 1,429  1,523  1620.2%
               
     

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $82,037 $220,877 $138,840  169.2%
               

    Adjusted OIBDA(1)

     $790,751 $868,022 $77,271  9.8%
               

    Adjusted OIBDA Margin(1)

      25.9% 28.8%      

     

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

    Dollar

     

    Percent

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    Change

     

    Change

     

    Revenues

     

    $

    1,817,589

     

    $

    2,078,155

     

    $

    260,566

     

     

    14.3

    %

     

    Operating Expenses

     

    1,473,093

     

    1,691,371

     

    218,278

     

     

    14.8

    %

     

    Operating Income

     

    344,496

     

    386,784

     

    42,288

     

     

    12.3

    %

     

    Other Expenses, Net

     

    250,305

     

    275,685

     

    25,380

     

     

    10.1

    %

     

    Net Income

     

    $

    94,191

     

    $

    111,099

     

    $

    16,908

     

     

    18.0

    %

     

    OIBDA(1)

     

    $

    508,125

     

    $

    573,706

     

    $

    65,581

     

     

    12.9

    %

     

    OIBDA Margin(1)

     

    28.0

    %

    27.6

    %

     

     

     

     

     

     

     
     Year Ended December 31,  
      
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
     Percentage
    Change
     
     
     2007 2008 

    Revenues

     $2,730,035 $3,055,134 $325,099  11.9%

    Operating Expenses

      2,275,317  2,562,604  287,287  12.6%
               
     

    Operating Income

      454,718  492,530  37,812  8.3%

    Other Expenses, Net

      300,704  410,587  109,883  36.5%
               
     

    Net Income

      154,014  81,943  (72,071) (46.8)%

    Net Income (Loss) Attributable to the Noncontrolling Interests

      920  (94) (1,014) (110.2)%
               
     

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $153,094 $82,037 $(71,057) (46.4)%
               

    Adjusted OIBDA(1)

     $698,540 $790,751 $92,211  13.2%
               

    Adjusted OIBDA Margin(1)

      25.6% 25.9%      

    (1)
    See “Non-GAAP"Non-GAAP Measures—Adjusted Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization, or OIBDA”Adjusted OIBDA" for definition, reconciliation and a discussion of why we believe these measures provide relevant and useful information to our current and potential investors.

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    REVENUE

     
     Year Ended
    December 31,
      
     Percentage Change  
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency(1)
     Internal
    Growth(2)
     
     
     2008 2009 Actual 

    Storage

     $1,657,909 $1,696,395 $38,486  2.3% 6.2% 6%

    Core Service

      961,303  947,754  (13,549) (1.4)% 3.7% 4%
                     
     

    Total Core Revenue

      2,619,212  2,644,149  24,937  1.0% 5.3% 5%

    Complementary Services

      435,922  369,446  (66,476) (15.2)% (11.4)% (9)%
                     
     

    Total Revenue

     $3,055,134 $3,013,595 $(41,539) (1.4)% 3.0% 3%
                     


     
     Year Ended
    December 31,
      
     Percentage Change  
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency(1)
     Internal
    Growth(2)
     
     
     2007 2008 Actual 

    Storage

     $1,499,074 $1,657,909 $158,835  10.6% 10.0% 8%

    Core Service

      833,419  961,303  127,884  15.3% 14.5% 10%
                     
     

    Total Core Revenue

      2,332,493  2,619,212  286,719  12.3% 11.6% 9%

    Complementary Services

      397,542  435,922  38,380  9.7% 9.3% 4%
                     
     

    Total Revenue

     $2,730,035 $3,055,134 $325,099  11.9% 11.3% 8%
                     

    (1)
    Constant currency growth rates are calculated by translating the 2007 results at the 2008 average exchange rates and the 2008 results at the 2009 average exchange rates.

    (2)
    Our internal revenue growth rate represents the weighted average year-over-year growth rate of our revenues after removing the effects of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations.

    Our consolidated storage revenues increased $145.6$38.5 million, or 12.3%2.3%, to $1,327.2$1,696.4 million for the year ended December 31, 20062009 and $138.2$158.8 million, or 13.2%10.6%, to $1,181.6$1,657.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2005,2008, in comparison to the years ended December 31, 20052008 and 2004,2007, respectively. The increase in 2009 is attributable to internal revenue growth (10% during 2006 and 9% during 2005)of 6% resulting from net increasesstrength in recordsour North American Physical and other media storedInternational Physical operating segments, offset by existing customers, salesforeign currency exchange rate fluctuations of (4)%. Current economic factors have led to new customers and the neta moderation in our storage growth rate, as a result of pricing actions,longer new sales cycles in our digital business and lower new sales and higher destruction rates in our physical business. The increase in 2008 is attributable to internal revenue growth of 8% resulting from strength across all of our segments, as well as acquisitions (2% during 2006 and 3% during 2005), and foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, (0% during 2006which had positive impacts of 2% and 1% during 2005)., respectively.

    Consolidated service and storage material sales revenues increased $126.6decreased $80.0 million, or 14.1%(5.7)%, to $1,023.2$1,317.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2006 and $122.4 million, or 15.8%, to $896.62009 from $1,397.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2005,2008. Service revenue internal growth was negative 1% as a result of complementary service revenue internal growth of negative 9% in comparison2009, partially offset by core services revenue internal growth of 4% over 2008. As expected, complementary service revenues decreased on a year-over-year basis primarily due to the yearscompletion of a large special project in Europe in the third quarter of 2008 and $34.4 million less revenue from the sale of recycled paper revenues resulting from a steep decline in recycled paper pricing. We also experienced softness in 2009 in the more discretionary revenues such as project revenues and fulfillment services. Core service revenue growth was also constrained by current economic trends and pressures on activity-based service revenues related to the handling and transportation of items in storage and secure shredding. Unfavorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations reduced reported service revenues by 5% for 2009 compared to 2008. Consolidated service revenues increased $166.3 million, or 13.5%, to $1,397.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.2008


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    from $1,231.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2007. The increase is attributable to acquisitions (7% during 2006internal growth of 8% (comprised of core services revenue internal growth of 10% and 7% during 2005)complementary service revenue internal growth of 4%), internal revenuesupported by strong growth (7% during 2006in data protection and 7% during 2005) resulting from net increasessecure shredding revenues, increased recycled paper revenues driven by higher volumes and a year-over-year increase in servicethe average prices for recycled paper, and storage material sales to existing customers and sales to new customers,fuel surcharges. Acquisitions and foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations (0% during 2006also added 5% and 1% during 2005)., respectively, to total growth in 2008 over 2007.


    For the reasons stated above, our consolidated revenues increased $272.2decreased $41.5 million, or 13.1%(1.4)%, to $2,350.3$3,013.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2006 and $260.6 million, or 14.3%, to $2,078.22009 from $3,055.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2005,2008. Internal revenue growth was 3% for 2009. We calculate internal revenue growth in comparison to the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.local currency for our international operations. For the year ended December 31, 2005,2009, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations negatively impacted our reported revenues by 4% primarily due to the weakening of the British pound sterling, Canadian dollar and Euro against the U.S. dollar, based on an analysis of weighted average rates for the comparable periods. Our consolidated revenues increased $325.1 million, or 11.9%, to $3,055.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2008 from $2,730.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2007. Internal revenue growth was 8% and 10% in 2008 and 2007, respectively, and acquisitions contributed 3% in both 2008 and 2007. For the year ended December 31, 2008, net favorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations that impacted our revenues were 1% and were primarily due to the strengthening of the Euro, the Brazilian real and the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar, offset by the weakening of the British pound sterling against the U.S. dollar, based on an analysis of weighted average rates for the comparable periods. For the year ended December 31, 2007, net favorable foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations that impacted our revenues were 3% and were primarily due to the strengthening of the British pound sterling, Canadian dollar and Euro against the U.S. dollar, based on an analysis of weighted average rates for the comparable periods. For the year ended December 31, 2006, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations that impacted our revenues were primarily due to the weakening of the British pound sterling and Euro, net of the strengthening of the Canadian dollar, against the U.S. dollar, based on an analysis of weighted average rates for the comparable periods. Internal revenue growth was 8%, 8% and 9% for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. We calculate internal revenue growth in local currency for our international operations.

      Internal Growth—Eight-Quarter Trend

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

     

     

    First
    Quarter

     

    Second
    Quarter

     

    Third
    Quarter

     

    Fourth
    Quarter

     

    First
    Quarter

     

    Second
    Quarter

     

    Third
    Quarter

     

    Fourth
    Quarter

     

    Storage Revenue

     

     

    8

    %

     

     

    9

    %

     

     

    9

    %

     

     

    10

    %

     

     

    10

    %

     

     

    11

    %

     

     

    11

    %

     

     

    10

    %

     

    Service and Storage Material Sales Revenue

     

     

    3

    %

     

     

    6

    %

     

     

    12

    %

     

     

    9

    %

     

     

    8

    %

     

     

    8

    %

     

     

    3

    %

     

     

    10

    %

     

    Total Revenue

     

     

    6

    %

     

     

    8

    %

     

     

    10

    %

     

     

    9

    %

     

     

    10

    %

     

     

    9

    %

     

     

    7

    %

     

     

    10

    %

     

     
     2008 2009 
     
     First
    Quarter
     Second
    Quarter
     Third
    Quarter
     Fourth
    Quarter
     First
    Quarter
     Second
    Quarter
     Third
    Quarter
     Fourth
    Quarter
     

    Storage Revenue

      8% 8% 8% 8% 7% 6% 7% 5%

    Service Revenue

      10% 9% 9% 5% 0% 1% (4)% 0%

    Total Revenue

      9% 9% 8% 7% 4% 4% 2% 3%

            

    Our internal revenue growth rate represents the weighted average year over year growth rate of our revenues after removing the effects of acquisitions, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations and the impact of the fire in our London, England facility. OverDuring the past eight quarters theour storage internal growth rate of our storage revenues has increased from a range ofranged between 5% and 8% to 9% to a range of 10% to 11%. In our North American Physical Business, net carton volume growth remained stable and we benefited from an increasingly positive pricing environment in 2005 and 2006. Strong growth rates in our digital services business more than offset the impact of reduced growth rates in Europe in 2005 resulting from the inclusion of the slower growing Hays IMS business in our base revenues for internal growth calculation purposes. In 2006, our European business posted improved storage internal revenue growth rates. Net carton volume growth is a function of the rate new cartons are added by existing and new customers offset by the rate of carton destructions and other permanent removals.

    The internal growth rate for service and storage material sales revenue is inherently more volatile than the storage revenue internal growth rate due to the more discretionary nature of thecertain complementary services we offer, such as large special projects, or data productssoftware licenses, and carton sales, as well as the pricevolatility of prices for recycled paper. These revenues are often event driven and impacted to a greater extent by economic downturns as customers defer or cancel the purchase of thesecertain services as a way to reduce their short-term costs.costs, and may be difficult to replicate in future periods. As a commodity, recycled paper prices are subject to the volatility of that market.

    We expect our consolidated internal revenue growth for 2010 to be between 4% and 6%. The internal growth rate for service and storage material sales revenues reflects the following: (1) stronger data product salesgrowth in 2005;North American storage-related service revenues, increased special project revenues and higher recycled paper revenues through the third quarter of 2008; (2) a large data restoration projectpublic sector contract in Europe that was completed by our digital services business in the third quarter of 2005;2008; (3) improved growth ratesdeclines in commodity prices for recycled paper and fuel, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2008; (4) the expected softness in our data protectioncomplementary service revenues, such as project revenues and fulfillment businesses; (4) continued growthservices, beginning in our secure shredding operations;the fourth quarter of 2008; and (5) growth in North American storage relatedpressures on activity-based service revenues. These positive factors were partially offset by lower special project revenues related to the public sector businesshandling and transportation of items in the U.K. in 2005.storage and secure shredding.


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    OPERATING EXPENSES

      Cost of Sales

    Consolidated cost of sales (excluding depreciation and amortization) is comprised of the following expenses (in thousands):

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    % of Consolidated
    Revenues

     

    Percent
    Change

     

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Dollar
    Change

     

    Percent
    Change

     

      2005  

     

      2006  

     

    (Favorable)/
    Unfavorable

     

    Labor

     

    $

    447,600

     

    $

    523,401

     

    $

    75,801

     

     

    16.9

    %

     

     

    21.5

    %

     

     

    22.3

    %

     

     

    0.8

    %

     

    Facilities

     

    275,987

     

    321,268

     

    45,281

     

     

    16.4

    %

     

     

    13.3

    %

     

     

    13.7

    %

     

     

    0.4

    %

     

    Transportation

     

    97,997

     

    111,086

     

    13,089

     

     

    13.4

    %

     

     

    4.7

    %

     

     

    4.7

    %

     

     

    0.0

    %

     

    Product Cost of Sales

     

    51,254

     

    49,853

     

    (1,401

    )

     

    (2.7

    )%

     

     

    2.5

    %

     

     

    2.1

    %

     

     

    (0.4

    )%

     

    Other

     

    65,401

     

    68,660

     

    3,259

     

     

    5.0

    %

     

     

    3.1

    %

     

     

    2.9

    %

     

     

    (0.2

    )%

     

     

     

    $

    938,239

     

    $

    1,074,268

     

    $

    136,029

     

     

    14.5

    %

     

     

    45.1

    %

     

     

    45.7

    %

     

     

    0.6

    %

     

     
      
      
      
     Percentage Change % of
    Consolidated
    Revenues
      
     
     
     Year Ended December 31,  
     Percentage
    Change
    (Favorable)/
    Unfavorable
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency
     
     
     2008 2009 Actual 2008 2009 

    Labor

     $674,466 $626,751 $(47,715) (7.1)% (2.5)% 22.1% 20.8% (1.3)%

    Facilities

      413,968  408,836  (5,132) (1.2)% 3.6% 13.5% 13.6% 0.1%

    Transportation

      151,891  110,220  (41,671) (27.4)% (23.8)% 5.0% 3.7% (1.3)%

    Product Cost of Sales and Other

      141,694  125,407  (16,287) (11.5)% (7.5)% 4.6% 4.2% (0.4)%
                           

     $1,382,019 $1,271,214 $(110,805) (8.0)% (3.5)% 45.2% 42.2% (3.0)%
                           

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    % of Consolidated
    Revenues

     

    Percent
    Change

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    Dollar
    Change

     

    Percent
    Change

     

      2004  

     

      2005  

     

    (Favorable)/
    Unfavorable

     

    Labor

     

    $

    419,345

     

    $

    447,600

     

    $

    28,255

     

     

    6.7

    %

     

     

    23.1

    %

     

     

    21.5

    %

     

     

    (1.6

    )%

     

    Facilities

     

    246,325

     

    275,987

     

    29,662

     

     

    12.0

    %

     

     

    13.6

    %

     

     

    13.3

    %

     

     

    (0.3

    )%

     

    Transportation

     

    81,976

     

    97,997

     

    16,021

     

     

    19.5

    %

     

     

    4.5

    %

     

     

    4.7

    %

     

     

    0.2

    %

     

    Product Cost of Sales

     

    35,908

     

    51,254

     

    15,346

     

     

    42.7

    %

     

     

    2.0

    %

     

     

    2.5

    %

     

     

    0.5

    %

     

    Other

     

    40,345

     

    65,401

     

    25,056

     

     

    62.1

    %

     

     

    2.2

    %

     

     

    3.1

    %

     

     

    0.9

    %

     

     

     

    $

    823,899

     

    $

    938,239

     

    $

    114,340

     

     

    13.9

    %

     

     

    45.3

    %

     

     

    45.1

    %

     

     

    (0.2

    )%

     

     
      
      
      
     Percentage Change % of
    Consolidated
    Revenues
      
     
     
     Year Ended December 31,  
     Percentage
    Change
    (Favorable)/
    Unfavorable
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency
     
     
     2007 2008 Actual 2007 2008 

    Labor

     $615,059 $674,466 $59,407  9.7% 8.8% 22.5% 22.1% (0.4)%

    Facilities

      374,529  413,968  39,439  10.5% 9.7% 13.7% 13.5% (0.2)%

    Transportation

      134,882  151,891  17,009  12.6% 12.3% 4.9% 5.0% 0.1%

    Product Cost of Sales and Other

      135,650  141,694  6,044  4.5% 4.1% 5.0% 4.6% (0.4)%
                           

     $1,260,120 $1,382,019 $121,899  9.7% 8.9% 46.2% 45.2% (1.0)%
                           

    Labor

            

    Labor

    For the year ended December 31, 20062009 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2005,2008, labor expense as awas favorably impacted by 5 percentage points of consolidated revenue increased as a resultcurrency variations. Excluding the effect of highercurrency rate fluctuations, labor costs resulting fromexpense decreased by 2.5% in 2009 due primarily to productivity gains in our Australia/New Zealand acquisition and our recent shredding acquisitionsNorth American Physical Business, which is reflected in Europe, which have a higher service revenue component and are therefore more labor intensive. Our digital business had higher coststhe approximate year-over-year decline of labor associated with internal information technology personnel and consultants dedicated to revenue producing projects.8% in employee headcount, offset by merit increases.

    For the year ended December 31, 20052008 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2004,2007, labor expense was unfavorably impacted by 1 percentage point of currency variations. Excluding the effect of currency rate fluctuations, labor expense increased by 8.8%, but decreased as a percentage of consolidated revenue, decreasedmainly as a result of higher recycled paper revenue and strong revenue growth an increasing proportionin our digital services revenues, which have lower labor costs, and labor efficiencies in our North American business. These benefits were partially offset by the impact of revenue from lessmix, as labor-intensive services such as secure shredding and DMS continue to grow at a faster rate than our storage revenues, and the dilutive impact of more labor intensive digital services and product sales. We also experienced improvement in our ratio of labor costs to revenues in our European operations as a result of completing the integration of Hays IMS in 2004.acquisitions.

    Facilities

    Facilities costs as awere favorably impacted by 5 percentage points of consolidated revenues increased to 13.7% forcurrency variations during the year ended December 31, 2006 from 13.3% for the year ended December 31, 2005. The increase in facilities costs as a percentage of consolidated revenues was primarily a result of increases in utilities and maintenance costs, as well as, increased insurance deductibles and security costs associated with protecting our assets, as a response to the fires in Ottawa, Canada and London, England. Rent expense decreased slightly as a percentage of consolidated revenues for the year ended December 31, 2006 compared to the year ended December 31, 2005 as a result of a decrease in overall base rent per square foot in our North American operations when comparing 2005 to 2006.2009. The largest component of our facilities cost is rent expense, which, in constant currency terms, increased by $2.9 million for 2009 over 2008, but decreased from 13.2% of consolidated storage revenues for 2008 to 12.5% of consolidated storage revenues for 2009, mainly as a result of the impact of revenue mix and due to incremental rent charges incurred in the latter half of


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    2008 related to our U.K. operations. Other facilities costs for 2009 increased in dollarconstant currency terms by $17.3due to increased common area charges of $8.5 million, for the year ended December 31, 2006 comparedproperty taxes and insurance of $2.4 million, and utilities of $0.3 million related to the year ended December 31, 2005. Given current property insurance market conditions, especially in relation


    to catastrophe exposures of earthquake, flood and wind, we expect our insurance costs associated with our real estate portfolio to rise in 2007 when compared to 2006.rising costs.

    Facilities costs were unfavorably impacted by 1 percentage point of currency variations, and as a percentage of consolidated revenues decreased slightly to 13.3%13.5% for the year ended December 31, 20052008 from 13.6%13.7% for the year ended December 31, 2004. The decrease in facilities costs as a percentage of consolidated revenues was primarily a result of maintaining approximately the same overall base rent per square foot in our North American operations during 2004 and 2005 while consolidated revenues increased.2007. The largest component of our facilities cost is rent expense, which, in constant currency terms, increased $15.2by $27.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2005 compared to the year ended December 31, 2004 primarilyover 2007 and increased as a resultpercentage of properties under lease acquired through acquisitionsconsolidated storage revenues from 12.6% for 2007 to 13.2% for 2008. The increase in both Europe and North America. Therent is mainly driven by the timing of new real estate as we continue to expand our storage business, as well as an incremental rental charge in 2008 of $3.3 million related to our decision to exit a leased facility in the U.K., partially offset by the expansion of our secure shredding business,and other service businesses, which incursincur lower rent and facilities costs than our core physical businesses, also helped lower ourbusiness, coupled with increased utilization levels. Other facilities costs as aincreased in constant currency terms in 2008 from 2007 due to increased costs of utilities of $7.7 million and common area charges of $1.3 million related to rising costs and an increased number of facilities.

    Transportation

            Transportation expenses were favorably impacted by 4 percentage points of consolidated revenues.

    Transportation

    Our transportation expenses, which remained consistent as a percentage of consolidated revenues forcurrency variations during the year ended December 31, 20062009. Certain vehicle leases related to vans, trucks and mobile shredding units in our vehicle lease portfolio previously classified as operating leases are now classified as capital leases upon renewal or at inception for new leases. As a result, for 2009 we had lower vehicle rent expense in our North American Physical segment of approximately $22.4 million (offset by an increased amount of combined depreciation of approximately $20.2 million and interest expense of approximately $3.3 million). In addition, fuel costs have decreased by $14.1 million during 2009 as compared to 2008. The lower fuel costs are primarily due to lower commodity prices and to a lesser extent, the year ended December 31, 2005,benefit of productivity gains from ongoing transportation improvement initiatives, as well as, $1.8 million related to foreign currency variations.

            Our transportation expenses (which are influenced by several variables including total number of vehicles, owned versus leased vehicles, use of subcontracted couriers, fuel expenses, maintenance and maintenance. Higher fuel costs,insurance) were not materially impacted by currency variations, but increased maintenance expenses resulting from the accelerated implementation of a fleet-wide maintenance program in North America and vehicle leasing expenses were primarily responsible for the dollar increase in transportation expenses.

    Our transportation expenses, which increased 0.2%slightly as a percentage of consolidated revenues for the year ended December 31, 20052008 compared to the year ended December 31, 2004, are influenced by several variables including total number2007. The expansion of vehicles, owned versusour secure shredding operations, which incurs higher transportation costs than our core physical business, contributed to the increase in dollar terms, as well as rising fuel costs, which contributed $10.5 million of the increase in constant currency terms, and the increased use of leased vehicles usewhich contributed $5.6 million in constant currency terms, some of subcontracted couriers,which were offset, as a percentage of revenue, by incremental fuel expensessurcharges.

    Product Cost of Sales and maintenance. Higher fuel expensesOther

            Product cost of sales and other, which includes cartons, media and other service, storage and supply costs, is highly correlated to complementary revenue streams. These costs were favorably impacted by 4 percentage points of currency variations during the year ended December 31, 20052009. For 2009, product cost of sales and other decreased in constant currency terms by $10.1 million as compared to the prior year. Approximately $9.5 million of the decrease is due to the sale of our North American data product sales line in the second quarter of 2008. The remainder of the decrease was a result of a decrease in other complementary revenue streams.

            Product and other cost of sales were not materially impacted by currency variations, but increased $6.0 million in the year ended December 31, 2008 compared to the year ended December 31, 2004 were primarily responsible for the increase in transportation expenses2007. The decrease as a percentage of consolidated revenues.

    Product and Other Costrevenue primarily reflects the impact of Sales

    Product and other costthe sale of sales are highly correlated to complementary revenue streams. Product costour North


    Table of sales for the year ended December 31, 2006 decreased due to a corresponding reduction inContents


    American commodity product sales inline, which consisted of the comparable periods. Product and other cost of sales for the year ended December 31, 2005 were higher than the year ended December 31, 2004 as a percentage of consolidated revenues due to increased salessale of data storage media, imaging products at lower margins in North America, increased royalty payments associated withand data center furniture to our electronic vaulting revenuesphysical data protection and increases in technology costs associated with these revenue producing activities.recovery services customers.

    Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

    Selling, general and administrative expenses are comprised of the following expenses (in thousands):

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    % of Consolidated
    Revenues

     

    Percent
    Change

     

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Dollar
    Change

     

    Percent
    Change

     

      2005  

     

      2006  

     

    (Favorable)/
    Unfavorable

     

    General and Administrative

     

    $

    285,558

     

    $

    331,021

     

    $

    45,463

     

     

    15.9

    %

     

     

    13.7

    %

     

     

    14.1

    %

     

     

    0.4

    %

     

    Sales, Marketing & Account Management

     

    180,558

     

    214,007

     

    33,449

     

     

    18.5

    %

     

     

    8.7

    %

     

     

    9.1

    %

     

     

    0.4

    %

     

    Information Technology

     

    99,177

     

    122,211

     

    23,034

     

     

    23.2

    %

     

     

    4.8

    %

     

     

    5.2

    %

     

     

    0.4

    %

     

    Bad Debt Expense

     

    4,402

     

    2,835

     

    (1,567

    )

     

    (35.6

    )%

     

     

    0.2

    %

     

     

    0.1

    %

     

     

    (0.1

    )%

     

     

     

    $

    569,695

     

    $

    670,074

     

    $

    100,379

     

     

    17.6

    %

     

     

    27.4

    %

     

     

    28.5

    %

     

     

    1.1

    %

     


     
      
      
      
     Percentage Change % of
    Consolidated
    Revenues
      
     
     
     Year Ended December 31,  
     Percentage
    Change
    (Favorable)/
    Unfavorable
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency
     
     
     2008 2009 Actual 2008 2009 

    General and Administrative

     $442,852 $455,326 $12,474  2.8% 8.0% 14.5% 15.1% 0.6%

    Sales, Marketing & Account Management

      276,697  261,955  (14,742) (5.3)% (1.4)% 9.1% 8.7% (0.4)%

    Information Technology

      152,113  145,247  (6,866) (4.5)% (1.9)% 5.0% 4.8% (0.2)%

    Bad Debt Expense

      10,702  11,831  1,129  10.5% 11.7% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0%
                           

     $882,364 $874,359 $(8,005) (0.9)% 3.4% 28.9% 29.0% 0.1%
                           

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    % of Consolidated
    Revenues

     

    Percent
    Change

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    Dollar
    Change

     

    Percent
    Change

     

      2004  

     

      2005  

     

    (Favorable)/
    Unfavorable

     

    General and Administrative

     

    $

    259,209

     

    $

    285,558

     

    $

    26,349

     

     

    10.2

    %

     

     

    14.3

    %

     

     

    13.7

    %

     

     

    (0.6

    )%

     

    Sales, Marketing & Account Management

     

    150,419

     

    180,558

     

    30,139

     

     

    20.0

    %

     

     

    8.3

    %

     

     

    8.7

    %

     

     

    0.4

    %

     

    Information Technology

     

    81,187

     

    99,177

     

    17,990

     

     

    22.2

    %

     

     

    4.5

    %

     

     

    4.8

    %

     

     

    0.3

    %

     

    Bad Debt Expense

     

    (4,569

    )

    4,402

     

    8,971

     

     

    196.3

    %

     

     

    (0.3

    )%

     

     

    0.2

    %

     

     

    0.5

    %

     

     

     

    $

    486,246

     

    $

    569,695

     

    $

    83,449

     

     

    17.2

    %

     

     

    26.8

    %

     

     

    27.4

    %

     

     

    0.6.

    %

     

     
      
      
      
     Percentage Change % of
    Consolidated
    Revenues
      
     
     
     Year Ended December 31,  
     Percentage
    Change
    (Favorable)/
    Unfavorable
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency
     
     
     2007 2008 Actual 2007 2008 

    General and Administrative

     $382,727 $442,852 $60,125  15.7% 15.2% 14.0% 14.5% 0.5%

    Sales, Marketing & Account Management

      249,966  276,697  26,731  10.7% 10.0% 9.2% 9.1% (0.1)%

    Information Technology

      135,788  152,113  16,325  12.0% 11.8% 5.0% 5.0% 0.0%

    Bad Debt Expense

      2,894  10,702  7,808  269.8% 257.6% 0.1% 0.4% 0.3%
                           

     $771,375 $882,364 $110,989  14.4% 13.9% 28.3% 28.9% 0.6%
                           

    General and Administrative

    The        General and administrative expenses were favorably impacted by 5 percentage points of currency variations during the year ended December 31, 2009. In constant currency terms, compensation expense, including medical and other benefits, increased by $17.8 million in 2009 as a result of merit increases and increased headcount. In addition, legal costs and professional fees (related to project and cost saving initiatives) increased $24.7 million in 2009. These increases are offset by lower discretionary spending of $8.8 million for items including recruiting and relocations, telephone, training, postage and supplies, and certain enterprise-wide meetings which were held in 2008 but not in 2009.

            General and administrative expenses were unfavorably impacted by 1 percentage point of currency variations during the year ended December 31, 2008 compared to the year ended December 31, 2007. In constant currency terms, the increase is mainly attributable to increased compensation expense of $33.2 million, reflecting increased headcount due to acquisitions and general business expansion, as well as increases in related office occupancy costs of $6.4 million, professional fees of $8.2 million (related to project and cost saving initiatives) and other overhead of $10.6 million, including such items as insurance, postage and supplies and telephone costs. Included in compensation expense is stock option expense, which increased by $3.1 million in 2008 compared to 2007 due to an increase in generalthe number of stock option grants and administrativethe fair value of such grants in 2007.


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    Sales, Marketing & Account Management

            Sales, marketing and account management expenses were favorably impacted by 4 percentage points of currency variations during the year ended December 31, 2009. In constant currency terms, the decrease of 1.4% in 2009 is primarily related to lower discretionary spending of $4.1 million on items such as travel and entertainment and our enterprise-wide sales meeting which was held in 2008 but not in 2009. Commissions expense also declined by $10.2 million in constant currency terms during 2009. These decreases are partially offset by increased investment in personnel in sales and account management and merit increases in our International Physical segment of $4.8 million and increased compensation (other than commissions) of $4.4 million primarily as a result of merit increases in the North American Physical segment.

            Sales, marketing and account management expenses were unfavorably impacted by 1 percentage point of currency variations during the year ended December 31, 2008. Mostly labor-related and comprised of compensation and commissions, these costs are primarily driven by the headcount in each of these departments, which, on average, was higher throughout 2008 compared to 2007. In constant currency terms, compensation expense and commissions increased $18.9 million and $6.5 million, respectively, in 2008 compared to 2007.

    Information Technology

            Information technology expenses were favorably impacted by 3 percentage points of currency variations during the year ended December 31, 2009. In constant currency terms, the decrease of 1.9% in information technology expenses for 2009 was due to reduced overhead and discretionary spending, such as recruiting, travel and entertainment, professional fees, and equipment rental costs of $2.3 million and disciplined cost management.

            Information technology expenses were not materially impacted by currency variations and remained flat as a percentage of consolidated revenues for the year ended December 31, 20062008 compared to the year ended December 31, 20052007. The increase in constant currency terms in 2008 in information technology expenses is mainly attributableprimarily related to (a) increaseda $13.9 million increase in compensation expense, dueand represents an investment in infrastructure and product development.

    Bad Debt Expense

            Consolidated bad debt expense increased $1.1 million to expansion through acquisitions, (b) costs associated with our North American reorganization which added a new level of field management, and (c) costs associated with a North American field operations meeting held in 2006 that was not held in 2005.

    The decrease in general and administrative expenses as a percentage$11.8 million (0.4% of consolidated revenuesrevenues) for the year ended December 31, 2005 compared to the year ended December 31, 2004 is attributable to strong revenue growth and controls over overhead spending implemented in late 2004. These decreases were partially offset by increased incentive compensation expense and growth2009 from $10.7 million (0.4% of our North American and European operations due to expansion and acquisitions.

    Sales, Marketing & Account Management

    The majority of our sales, marketing and account management costs are labor related and are primarily driven by the headcount in each of these departments. Increased headcount and related compensation and commissions are the most significant contributors to the increase in sales, marketing expenses and account management for the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005. Throughout the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and into 2006, we invested in the expansion and improvement of our sales, marketing and account management functions.

    During 2006 in North America, while our sales force headcount increased at a slower rate than revenue growth, the shift to higher end resources drove an increase in the level of spending due to higher costs per sales person and the additional support required. We have significantly increased the size of our digital sales force through our acquisition of LiveVault and the hiring of new sales employees, particularly in Europe. Additionally, costs associated with an enterprise-wide sales meeting held in 2006 and not held in 2005 also contributed to this increase. Our larger North American sales force generated a $6.3 million increase in sales commissions and an increase of $13.6 million of compensation expenseconsolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2006 compared2008. We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts that is calculated based on our past loss experience, current and prior trends in our aged receivables, current economic conditions, and specific circumstances of individual receivable balances. The increase in bad debt expense in 2009 from 2008 is attributable to the year ended December 31, 2005.worsening economic climate. We continue to monitor our customers' payment activity and make adjustments based on their financial condition and in light of historical and expected trends.

    Our North American sales force generated a $3.0        Consolidated bad debt expense increased $7.8 million increase in sales commissions and an increaseto $10.7 million (0.4% of $14.8 million of compensation expenseconsolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2005 compared to the year ended December 31, 2004. Marketing expenses2008 from $2.9 million (0.1% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2005 increased $3.3 million due to the introduction of several new marketing and promotional efforts to continue to develop awareness2007. The increase in the marketplace of our entire portfolio of services, especially our digital services.

    Information Technology

    Information technology expenses increased as a percentage of consolidated revenues for the year ended December 31, 2006 compared to the year ended December 31, 2005 due to increases in technology


    development activities within our digital services business, including the acquisition of LiveVault and associated research and development activities and increased spending to support our growing digital archiving business. Additionally, during 2006, we wrote-off $5.9 million of previously deferred costs, primarily internal labor costs, associated with internal use software development projects that were discontinued. Higher utilization of existing information technology resources to revenue producing projects, which are charged to costs of goods sold and decreased information technology spending in our European operations, partially offset this increase.

    Information technology expenses increased as a percentage of consolidated revenues for the year ended December 31, 2005 compared to the year ended December 31, 2004 due to increases in internal software development projects within our digital services business, the acquisitions of Connected and LiveVault and associated research and development activities, and increased information technology spending in our European operations. Higher utilization of existing information technology resources to revenue producing projects, which are charged to cost of goods sold, partially offset this increase.

    Bad Debt Expense

    Consolidated bad debt expense for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2006 reflects what we believe to be more normal levels of bad debt expense compared to 2004. The decrease in consolidated bad debt expense for the year ended December 31, 20042008 from 2007 is primarily attributable to the successworsening economic climate and the resultant deterioration in the aging of our centralized collection efforts within the U.S. and Canada, which resulted in improved cash collections and an improved accounts receivable aging that allowed us to reduce our allowance for doubtful accounts.receivable.


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    Depreciation, Amortization, and (Gain) and Loss on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

    Consolidated depreciation and amortization expense increased $21.5 million to $208.4 million (8.9% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2006 from $187.0 million (9.0% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2005. Consolidated depreciation and amortization expense increased $23.3 million to $187.0 million (9.0% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2005 from $163.6 million (9.0% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2004.        Depreciation expense increased $17.0$29.0 million for the year ended December 31, 20062009, compared to the year ended December 31, 2005 and2008, primarily due to additional depreciation expense of approximately $20.2 million resulting from certain vehicle leases which had previously been classified as operating leases, being classified as capital leases upon renewal or at inception for new leases, as well as additional depreciation associated with technology investments in our Worldwide Digital Business segment of $4.1 million. Depreciation expense increased $18.8$32.0 million for the year ended December 31, 20052008 compared to the year ended December 31, 2004,2007, primarily due to the additional depreciation expense related to recent capital expenditures and acquisitions, including storage systems, which include racking, building and leasehold improvements, computer systems hardware and software, and buildings.

    Amortization expense increased $4.4decreased $0.6 million for the year ended December 31, 20062009, compared to the year ended December 31, 20052008, primarily due to decreases resulting from currency variations which were offset by the increased amortization of intangible assets, such as customer relationship intangible assets and intellectual property acquired through business combinations. Amortization expense increased $4.5$9.5 million for the year ended December 31, 20052008 compared to the year ended December 31, 2004,2007, primarily due to amortization of intangible assets, such as customer relationship intangible assets and intellectual property acquired through business combinations. We expect that amortization expense will continue to increase as we acquire new businesses and reflect the full year impact of our 2006 acquisitions.

    Consolidated gainsloss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net of $9.6$0.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2006,2009, consisted primarily of a gain on the saledisposal of a propertybuilding in the U.K.our International Physical segment of $10.5approximately $1.9 million in France, offset by disposalslosses on the writedown of certain facilities of approximately $1.0 million in our North American Physical segment, $0.7 million in our International Physical segment, $0.3 million in our Worldwide Digital segment and writedowns.$0.3 million in Corporate (associated with discontinued products after implementation). Consolidated gainsloss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net of $3.5$7.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2005,2008, consisted primarily of a gain on the sale$2.3 million impairment of a propertyan owned storage facility in North America which we decided to exit in the U.K.first quarter of $4.52008, a $1.3 million offset primarily byimpairment of an owned storage facility which we decided to exit in the third quarter of 2008, a $0.5 million write-down for an owned storage facility that we had vacated and had classified as available for sale in the third quarter of 2008, a $1.9 million write-down of two owned storage facilities in North America and related assets which we decided to exit in the fourth quarter of 2008, as well as a $0.6 million write-off of previously deferred software costs in Corporate associated with discontinued products after implementation and other disposal and asset writedowns of $1.1 million.write-downs. Consolidated gainsgain on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net of


    $0.7 $5.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2004,2007, consisted primarily of a $1.2gain related to insurance proceeds from our property claim of $7.7 million gain onassociated with the saleJuly 2006 fire in one of our London, England facilities, net of a property$1.3 million write-off of previously deferred software costs in Florida during the second quarter of 2004 offset by disposalsCorporate associated with a discontinued product after implantation.

    OPERATING INCOME and asset writedowns.ADJUSTED OIBDA

    Operating Income

    As a result of all the foregoing factors, consolidated operating income increased $20.4$56.0 million, or 5.3%11.4%, to $407.2$548.5 million (17.3%(18.2% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 20062009 from $386.8$492.5 million (18.6%(16.1% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2005.

    Consolidated operating income2008. As a result of all the foregoing factors, consolidated Adjusted OIBDA increased $42.3$77.3 million, or 12.3%9.8%, to $386.8$868.0 million (18.6%(28.8% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 20052009 from $344.5$790.8 million (19.0%(25.9% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2004.2008.

    OIBDA

    As a result of all the foregoing factors, consolidated OIBDAoperating income increased $41.9$37.8 million, or 7.3%8.3%, to $615.6$492.5 million (26.2%(16.1% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 20062008 from $573.7


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    $454.7 million (27.6%(16.7% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2005.

    Consolidated2007. As a result of all the foregoing factors, consolidated Adjusted OIBDA increased $65.6$92.2 million, or 12.9%13.2%, to $573.7$790.8 million (27.6%(25.9% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 20052008 from $508.1$698.5 million (28.0%(25.6% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2004.2007.

    OTHER EXPENSES, NET

    Interest Expense, Net

    Consolidated interest expense, net increased $11.4decreased $8.8 million to $195.0$227.8 million (8.3%(7.6% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 20062009 from $183.6$236.6 million (8.8%(7.7% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2005. The change is2008 primarily due to increaseda reduction in year-over-year borrowings under our revolving credit facility while our weighted average interest rate remained flat at 7.0% as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. We incurred approximately $3.3 million of additional interest expense on capital leases on certain vehicle leases previously classified as operating leases prior to fund our 2005 and 2006 acquisitions, particularly LiveVault and Pickfords Records Management (“Pickfords”).renewal or upon lease inception.

    Consolidated interest expense, net decreased $2.2increased $8.0 million to $183.6$236.6 million (8.8%(7.7% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 20052008 from $185.7$228.6 million (10.2%(8.4% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2004. The dollar decrease in interest expense, net was2007, primarily due to the recordingfull year impact of borrowings to fund acquisitions completed in 2007, offset by a decrease in our weighted average interest rate to 7.0% as of December 31, 2008 from 7.4% as of December 31, 2007. In addition, as a result of the repayment of IME's revolving credit facility and term loans with borrowings in the U.S., we had higher than normal interest expense totaling $21.5of approximately $4.1 million forin the year ending December 31, 2004 compared to interest expense totaling $2.3 million for the year ending December 31, 2005 related to the net impactsecond quarter of mark-to-market adjustments and cash payments on all of our interest rate swap contracts.2007. This was offset by increased borrowings, primarily an additional $150.0 million of term loans borrowed in November 2004 as permitted under our IMI Credit Agreement and the full year effecta result of the March 2004difference in our calendar reporting period and that of IME Credit Agreement.which is two months in arrears, and had no impact on cash flows.

    Other (Income) Expense, Net (in thousands)

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Change

     

    Foreign currency transaction (gains) losses, net

     

    $

    7,201

     

    $

    (12,534

    )

    $

    (19,735

    )

    Debt extinguishment expense

     

     

    2,972

     

    2,972

     

    Other, net

     

    (1,019

    )

    (2,427

    )

    (1,408

    )

     

     

    $

    6,182

     

    $

    (11,989

    )

    $

    (18,171

    )

     
     Year Ended December 31,  
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
     
     
     2008 2009 

    Foreign currency transaction losses (gains), net

     $28,882 $(12,477)$(41,359)

    Debt extinguishment expense

      418  3,031  2,613 

    Other, net

      1,728  (2,633) (4,361)
            

     $31,028 $(12,079)$(43,107)
            

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    Change

     

    Foreign currency transaction (gains) losses, net

     

    $

    (8,915

    )

    $

    7,201

     

    $

    16,116

     

    Debt extinguishment expense

     

    2,454

     

     

    (2,454

    )

    Other, net

     

    (1,527

    )

    (1,019

    )

    508

     

     

     

    $

    (7,988

    )

    $

    6,182

     

    $

    14,170

     

     
     Year Ended December 31,  
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
     
     
     2007 2008 

    Foreign currency transaction losses, net

     $11,311 $28,882 $17,571 

    Debt extinguishment expense

      5,703  418  (5,285)

    Other, net

      (13,913) 1,728  15,641 
            

     $3,101 $31,028 $27,927 
            

            


    ForeignNet foreign currency transaction gains of $12.5 million, based on period-end exchange rates, were recorded in the year ended December 31, 20062009. Gains resulted primarily due tofrom changes in the strengtheningexchange rate of the British pound sterling, Euro, Brazilian Real and Canadian dollar, and the weakening of the EuroChilean Peso against the U.S. dollar compared to December 31, 2008, as these currencies relate to our intercompany balances with and between our Canadian, U.K.,European and EuropeanLatin American subsidiaries, borrowings denominated in certain foreign currencies under our revolving credit facility andoffset by losses as a result of British pounds sterling and Euro denominated debt and forward foreign currency swap contracts held by our U.S. parent company.


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            Net foreign currency transaction losses of $7.2$28.9 million, based on period-end exchange rates, were recorded in the year ended December 31, 20052008. Losses resulted primarily due to the weakeningas a result of the British pound sterling and Euro, net of the strengthening of the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar compared to December 31, 2007, as these currencies relatethis currency relates to our inter-companyintercompany balances with and between our Canadian, U.K. subsidiaries, offset by gains on the marking-to-market of British pound sterling and European subsidiaries, borrowings denominated in foreign currencies under our revolving credit facility and British pounds sterlingEuro denominated debt and forward foreign currency swap contracts held by our U.S. parent company.

    Foreign        Net foreign currency gains $8.9transaction losses of $11.3 million based on period-end exchange rates were recorded duringin the year ended December 31, 2004,2007, primarily due to losses as a result of the strengtheningEuro and Canadian dollar, offset by gains as a result of the British pound sterling Euro, and the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar compared to December 31, 2006, as these currencies relate to our inter-companyintercompany balances with and between our Canadian U.K., and European subsidiaries,subsidiaries. Additionally, the U.S. dollar denominated debt held by our Canadian subsidiary, borrowings denominated in foreign currencies under our revolving credit facility,parent company incurred losses as a result of primarily marking to market British pounds sterling and Euro denominated debt, heldoffset by ourgains on Euro for U.S. parent company, British pounds sterlingdollar foreign currency held inswaps.

            During the U.S. and our British pound sterling denominated cross currency swap, which was terminated in March 2004.

    During 2006,year ended December 31, 2009, we redeemed or purchased aour 85/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013 (the "85/8% notes") and wrote-off $3.0 million in associated deferred financing costs. During 2008, we redeemed the remaining outstanding portion of our outstanding 81¤/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011 and 85¤8% Senior Subordinated Notesin connection with the reduction in our revolving credit facility availability due 2013 resultingto a bankruptcy of one of our lenders, we wrote-off $0.4 million in a chargedeferred financing costs. During 2007, we wrote-off $5.7 million of $2.8 million, which consists of tender premiums and transaction costs, deferred financing costs as well as original issue discountsrelated to the early extinguishment of U.S. and premiums. During 2004,U.K. term loans and revolving credit facilities.

            Other, net in the year ended December 31, 2009 primarily consists of $1.7 million of gains related to certain trading marketable securities held in a trust for the benefit of employees included in a deferred compensation plan we redeemedsponsor, in addition to $0.6 million of business interruption proceeds for an owned storage facility in France, which was taken by eminent domain in the remaining outstanding principal amountfirst quarter of 2009. Other, net in the 81¤8% Senior Notes dueyear ended December 31, 2008 primarily consists of $1.8 million of write-downs related to certain trading marketable securities held in a trust for the benefit of employees included in a deferred compensation plan we sponsor. Other, net in the year ended December 31, 2007 consisted of $12.9 million of business interruption insurance proceeds pertaining to the July 2006 fire in one of our Canadian subsidiary, resulting in a charge of $2.0 million, and we repaid a portion of our real estate term loans, which resulted in a charge of $0.4 million. The charges consisted primarily of the call and tender premiums associated with the extinguished debt and the write-off of unamortized deferred financing cost and discounts.London, England facilities.

    Provision for Income Taxes

    Our effective tax rates for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005,2007, 2008 and 20062009 were 41.7%30.9%, 41.4%63.6% and 41.8%33.2%, respectively. The primary reconciling items between the federal statutory rate of 35% and our overall effective tax rate are state income taxes (net of federal benefit) and differences in the rates of tax at which our foreign earnings are subject. During  2006, weThe decrease in the effective tax rate in 2009 is primarily due to significant foreign exchange gains and losses in different jurisdictions with different tax rates. For 2009, foreign currency gains were recorded a reduction in lower tax jurisdictions associated with the marking-to-market of intercompany loan positions while foreign currency losses were recorded in higher tax jurisdictions associated with the marking-to-market of debt and derivative instruments, which reduced the effective tax rate by 4.9% for the year ended December 31, 2009. Discrete items are recorded in the period they occur. The increase in our effective tax rate in 2008 is primarily due to significant foreign exchange gains and losses in different jurisdictions with different tax rates. For 2008, foreign currency gains were recorded in higher tax jurisdictions, associated with our marking-to-market of debt and derivative instruments, while foreign currency losses were recorded in lower tax jurisdiction, associated with the marking-to-market of intercompany loan positions, which together increased the 2008 tax rate by 22.5% for the year ended December 31, 2008. Meanwhile, for 2007 the opposite occurred, foreign currency losses were recorded in higher tax jurisdictions associated with our marking to market of debt and derivative instruments while foreign currency gains were recorded in lower tax jurisdictions associated with marking to market intercompany loan positions.


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            Our effective tax rate is subject to future variability due to, among other items: (a) changes in the mix of income from foreign jurisdictions; (b) tax expense as a resultlaw changes; (c) volatility in foreign exchange gains and (losses); and (d) the timing of a new Texas law changing the way state incomeestablishment and reversal of tax is calculated in that state. As a result of this change, we have reversed a deferred tax liability of $1.7 million, net of federal tax benefit, related to our Texas state taxes.reserves. We are subject to income taxes in both the U.S. and numerous foreign jurisdictions. We are subject to examination by various tax authorities in jurisdictions in which we have significant business operations. We regularly assess the likelihood of additional assessments by tax authorities and provide for these matters as appropriate. Although we believe our tax estimates are appropriate, the final determination of tax audits and any related litigation could result in changes in our estimates.

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    Minority InterestNET INCOME

    Minority interest in earnings        As a result of subsidiaries,all the foregoing factors, consolidated net resulted in a chargeincome for the year ended December 31, 2009 increased $140.4 million, or 171.3%, to income of $3.0$222.3 million (0.2% of consolidated revenues), $1.7 million (0.1%(7.4% of consolidated revenues) and  $1.6from net income of $81.9 million (0.1%(2.7% of consolidated revenues) for the yearsyear ended December 31, 2004, 2005,2008. The increase in operating income noted above, the foreign currency exchange rate impacts included in other income (expense), net and 2006, respectively. This representsthe impact of our minority partners’tax rate for 2009, contributed to the increase in net income. For the year ended December 31, 2009, net income attributable to noncontrolling interests resulted in a reduction to net income attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated of $1.4 million. These represent our noncontrolling partners' share of earningsearnings/losses in our majority-owned international subsidiaries that are consolidated in our operating results. The decrease during 2005 is the result of our acquisition of various Latin American minority partner interests.

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle

    In March 2005, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 47, “Accounting for Conditional Asset Retirement Obligations” (“FIN 47”), an interpretation of SFAS No. 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations” (“SFAS No. 143”). FIN 47 clarifies that conditional asset retirement obligations meet the definition of liabilities and should be recognized when incurred if their fair values can be reasonably estimated. Uncertainty surrounding the timing and method of settlement that may be conditional on events occurring in the future are factored into the measurement of the liability rather than the existence of the liability. SFAS No. 143 established accounting and reporting standards for obligations associated with the retirement of tangible long-lived assets legally required by law, regulatory rule or contractual agreement and the associated asset retirement costs. SFAS No. 143 requires entities to record the fair value of a liability for an asset retirement obligation in the period in which it is incurred. When the liability is initially recorded, the entity capitalizes the cost by increasing the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset, which is then depreciated over the useful life of the related asset. The liability is increased over time through income as a component of depreciation expense, such that the liability will equate to the future cost to retire the long-lived asset at the expected retirement date.  Upon settlement of the liability, an entity either settles the obligation for its recorded amount or incurs a gain or loss upon settlement. Our obligations are primarily the result of requirements under our facility lease agreements which generally have “return to original condition” clauses which would require us to remove or restore items such as shred pits, vaults, demising walls and office build-outs, among others. As of December 31, 2005, we have recognized the cumulative effect of initially applying FIN 47 as a cumulative effect of change in accounting principle as prescribed in FIN 47, which resulted in a gross charge of $4.4 million ($2.8 million, net of tax).

    Net Income

    As a result of all the foregoing factors, consolidated net income for the year ended December 31, 2006, consolidated net income increased $17.82008 decreased $72.1 million, or 16.0%46.8%, to $128.9$81.9 million (5.5%(2.7% of consolidated revenues) from net income of $111.1$154.0 million (5.3%(5.6% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2005.2007.

    As a result of all the foregoing factors, for the year ended December 31, 2005, consolidated net income increased $16.9 million, or 18.0%, to $111.1 million (5.3% of consolidated revenues) from net income of $94.2 million (5.2% of consolidated revenues) for the year ended December 31, 2004.

    Segment Analysis (in thousands)

    The results of our various operating segments are discussed below.        Beginning January 1, 2006,2009, we changed the composition of our reportable segments to not allocate certain corporate and centrally controlled costs, which primarily relate to executive and staff functions, including finance, human resources, and information technology, as well as all stock-based compensation, which benefit the enterprise as a result of certain managementwhole. These are now reflected as Corporate costs and organizational changes withinare not allocated to our North American business.operating segments. Therefore, the presentation of all historical segment reporting has been changed to conform to our new management reporting. Corporate and our operating segments are discussed below. Our reportable operating segments are now North American Physical Business, International Physical Business and Worldwide Digital Business. See Note 9 ofto Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements. Our North American Physical Business, which consists of the United States and Canada, offers the storage of paper documents, as well as all other non-electronic media such as microfilm and microfiche, master audio and videotapes, film, X-rays and blueprints, including healthcare


    information services, vital records services, service and courier operations, and the collection, handling and disposal of sensitive documents for corporate customers (“("Hard Copy”Copy"); the storage and rotation of backup computer media as part of corporate disaster recovery plans, including service and courier operations (“("Data Protection”Protection"); secure shreddinginformation destruction services (“Shredding”("Destruction"); and the storage, assembly, and detailed reporting of customer marketing literature and delivery to sales offices, trade shows and prospective customers’customers' sites based on current and prospective customer orders which we refer to as the “Fulfillment” business.("Fulfillment"). Our International Physical Business segment offers information protection and storagemanagement services throughout Europe, SouthLatin America Mexico and Asia Pacific, including Hard Copy, Data Protection and Shredding.Destruction (in the U.K.). Our Worldwide Digital Business offers information protection and storagemanagement services for electronic records conveyed via telecommunication lines and the Internet, including online backup and recovery solutions for server data and personal computers, as well as email archiving, and third party technologyintellectual property escrow services that protect intellectual property assets such as software source code.

    North American Physical Business

    Segment Revenue

     

    Increase in Revenues

     

    Percentage Increase in Revenues

     

    For Years Ended

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    $1,387,977

     

    $1,529,612

     

    $1,671,009

     

    $141,635

     

    $141,397

     

    10.2%

     

    9.2%

     

    Segment Contribution(1)

     

    Segment Contribution(1) as a Percentage of Segment Revenue

     

    For Years Ended

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    $427,579

     

    $444,343

     

    $478,653

     

    30.8%

     

    29.0%

     

    28.6%

     

    Items Excluded from the Calculation of Segment Contribution(1)

    Depreciation and Amortization

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    $115,975

     

     

    $

    118,493

     

     

     

    $

    127,562

     

     


    (1)          See Note 9 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for definition of Contributioncode, and electronic discovery services for the basis on which allocations are madelegal market that offers in-depth discovery and a reconciliationdata investigation solutions. Corporate consists of Contribution to income before provision for income taxes and minority interest on a consolidated basis.

    During the year ended December 31, 2006, revenue in our North American Physical Business segment increased 9.2% primarily due to increasing storage internal growth rates resulting from stable net volume growth and an increasingly positive pricing environment, increasing service revenue growth rates particularly in data protection and fulfillment, growth of our secure shredding operations, and acquisitions. In addition, favorable currency fluctuations during the year ended December 31, 2006 in Canada increased revenue, as measured in U.S. dollars, by $9.8 million when compared to the year ended December 31, 2005. Contribution as a percent of segment revenue decreased in the year ended December 31, 2006 due mainly to (a) higher transportation costs, primarily fuel and rental costs associated with a larger fleet of leased vehicles, and the accelerated implementation of a fleet-wide maintenance program in North America, (b) increased facility costs, primarily utilities, maintenance and insurance, (c) increased investment in sales, marketing and account management primarily related to a shift in hiring more experienced personnel at a higher cost, (d) costs associated with the North American reorganization, including a new level of field management, and (e) costs associated with our enterprise-wide sales meeting and a field operations meeting, both held in 2006 but not in 2005.

    During the year ended December 31, 2005, revenue in our North American Physical Business segment increased 10.2% primarily due to increasing storage internal growth rates resulting from higher net volume growth and a more positive pricing environment, increasing service revenue growth rates, growth of our secure shredding operations, higher internal growth rates from product sales and acquisitions. In addition,


    favorable currency fluctuations during the year ended December 31, 2005 in Canada increased revenue, as measured in U.S. dollars, by $8.7 million when compared to the year ended December 31, 2004. Contribution as a percent of segment revenue decreased in the year ended December 31, 2005 due to our (a) increased investment in sales, marketing and account management, including higher sales commissions and compensation due to increased headcount, (b) increased bad debt expense, (c) increased incentive compensation expense, (d) higher transportation costs, primarily fuel, and (e) product sales at lower margins, offset by strong revenue growth, reduced facility expenses and the effectiveness of recent labor and cost management initiatives, including controls over overhead spending implemented in late 2004. The expansion of our secure shredding business, which incurs lower facilities costs than our core physical business, also lowers our facilities costs as a percentage of revenues.

    Included in our North American Physical Business segment are certain costs related to executive and staff functions, including


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    finance, human resources and information technology, which benefit the enterprise as a whole. These costs are primarily related to the general management of these functions on a corporate level and the design and development of programs, policies and procedures that are then implemented in the individual segments, with each segment bearing its own cost of implementation. Management has decided to allocate these costs to the Corporate also includes stock-based employee compensation expense associated with all employee stock-based awards.

    North American segment as further allocation is impracticable.

    International Physical Business

    Segment Revenue

     

    Increase in Revenues

     

    Percentage Increase in Revenues

     

    For Years Ended

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    $380,033

     

    $435,106

     

    $539,335

     

    $55,073

     

    $104,229

     

    14.5%

     

    24.0%

     

     
      
      
      
     Percentage Change  
     
     
     Year Ended December 31,  
      
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency
     Internal
    Growth
     
     
     2008 2009 Actual 

    Segment Revenue

     $2,067,316 $2,101,526 $34,210  1.7% 2.3% 3%
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1)

     $768,523 $856,761 $88,238  11.5% 12.2%   
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1) as a Percentage of Segment Revenue

      37.2% 40.8%            

     

    Segment Contribution(1)

     

    Segment Contribution(1) as a Percentage of Segment Revenue

     

    For Years Ended

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    $89,751

     

    $113,417

     

    $117,568

     

    23.6%

     

    26.1%

     

    21.8%

     

    Items Excluded from the Calculation of Segment Contribution(1)

    Depreciation and Amortization

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    $33,234

     

    $43,285

     

    $54,803

     

     
      
      
      
     Percentage Change  
     
     
     Year Ended December 31,  
      
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency
     Internal
    Growth
     
     
     2007 2008 Actual 

    Segment Revenue

     $1,890,068 $2,067,316 $177,248  9.4% 9.3% 8%
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1)

     $681,232 $768,523 $87,291  12.8% 12.8%   
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1) as a Percentage of Segment Revenue

      36.0% 37.2%            

    (1)
    See Note 9 ofto Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for definition of ContributionAdjusted OIBDA and for the basis on which allocations are made and a reconciliation of ContributionAdjusted OIBDA to income before provision for income taxes and minority interest on a consolidated basis.

    taxes.

    Revenue in our International Physical Business segment increased 24.0% during        During the year ended December 31, 2006 primarily due to acquisitions, which contributed $92.0 million or 18.6%. This was partially offset by net unfavorable currency fluctuations2009, revenue in Europe and Latin America of $6.3 million or 1.5% duringour North American Physical Business segment increased 1.7% over the year ended December 31, 2006. The balance of the increase in revenue represents internal growth. Contribution as a percent of segment revenue decreased2008, primarily due to the acquisitioninternal growth of two shredding businesses in the U.K. that operate at lower margins, the acquisition3%. Internal growth was due to solid storage internal growth of Pickfords, which is in the process6% related to increased Hard Copy and Data Protection revenues and was negatively impacted by depressed service internal growth of rationalizing its real estate portfolio, and costs associated with the facility fire in London, England.

    Revenuenegative 2%. Continued organic growth in our International Physical Business segment increased 14.5% during the year ended December 31, 2005core services business of 3% was more than offset by decreased complementary services revenues primarily due to acquisitions completedsteep declines in Europerecycled paper prices and softness in South Americadiscretionary special projects and strong internal growth in Latin America, offset by lower revenue in our U.K. public sector business. Favorablefulfillment services. Additionally, unfavorable foreign currency fluctuations during the year ended December 31, 2005related to Canada resulted in Europe, Mexico and South America increaseddecreased 2009 revenue, as measured in U.S. dollars, of 1 percentage point. Adjusted OIBDA as a percentage of segment revenue increased in 2009 due mainly to productivity gains, pricing actions, disciplined cost management, lower vehicle rent expense due to the recharacterization of certain vehicle leases, and increased margin due to the sale of our low-margin data products division in 2008, partially offset by $13.8a $17.7 million comparedincrease in professional fees (related to project and cost savings initiatives).

            During the year ended December 31,


    2004. Contribution 2008, revenue in our North American Physical Business segment increased 9.4% over 2007, primarily due to solid internal growth supported by increased destruction and data protection revenues, higher recycled paper revenues, and the growing impact of our 2007 acquisitions, primarily ArchivesOne, which contributed $15.3 million, or approximately 0.8%. Adjusted OIBDA as a percent of segment revenue increased primarilyin 2008 due mainly to improvements in both cost of saleshigher recycled paper revenues, fuel surcharges, as well as labor efficiencies, expense management, and overhead labor ratios as a result of completing the integration of Hays IMS in the second half of 2004facility utilization, offset by increased compensation associated with additional sales, marketing, and account management personnel, several new marketing and promotional efforts, and increased bad debt expense.transportation expenses, such as rising fuel costs.


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    Worldwide DigitalInternational Physical Business

    Segment Revenue

     

    Increase in Revenues

     

    Percentage Increase in Revenues

     

    For Years Ended

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    $49,579

     

    $113,437

     

    $139,998

     

    $63,858

     

    $26,561

     

    128.8%

     

    23.4%

     

     
      
      
      
     Percentage Change  
     
     
     Year Ended December 31,  
      
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency
     Internal
    Growth
     
     
     2008 2009 Actual 

    Segment Revenue

     $764,812 $682,684 $(82,128) (10.7)% 4.8% 5%
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1)

     $138,432 $125,364 $(13,068) (9.4)% 8.3%   
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1) as a Percentage of Segment Revenue

      18.1% 18.4%            

     

    Segment Contribution(1)

     

    Segment Contribution(1) as a Percentage of Segment Revenue

     

    For Years Ended

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    $(9,886)

     

    $12,461

     

    $9,779

     

    (19.9)%

     

    11.0%

     

    7.0%

     

    Items Excluded from the Calculation of Segment Contribution(1)

    Depreciation and Amortization

     

    December 31, 2004

     

    December 31, 2005

     

    December 31, 2006

     

    $14,420

     

    $25,144

     

    $ 26,008

     

     
      
      
      
     Percentage Change  
     
     
     Year Ended December 31,  
      
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency
     Internal
    Growth
     
     
     2007 2008 Actual 

    Segment Revenue

     $676,749 $764,812 $88,063  13.0% 10.7% 7%
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1)

     $135,714 $138,432 $2,718  2.0% (0.4)%   
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1) as a Percentage of Segment Revenue

      20.1% 18.1%            

    (1)
    See Note 9 ofto Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for definition of ContributionAdjusted OIBDA and for the basis on which allocations are made and a reconciliation of ContributionAdjusted OIBDA to income before provision for income taxestaxes.

            Revenue in our International Physical Business segment decreased 10.7% during the year ended December 31, 2009 over 2008 due to foreign currency fluctuations in 2009, primarily in the United Kingdom, which resulted in decreased 2009 revenue, as measured in U.S. dollars, compared to 2008 of approximately 16 percentage points. This decline was offset by total internal revenue growth for the segment of 5%, supported by solid 8% storage internal growth, and minority interestservice revenue internal growth of 1%. Service revenue internal growth includes an unfavorable year-over-year comparison due to a large European special project that was completed in the third quarter of 2008 which contributed to complementary revenue internal growth of negative 10%. Adjusted OIBDA as a percentage of segment revenue increased in 2009 primarily due to disciplined cost management and productivity gains, partially offset by the completion of a large, high-margin European special project in the third quarter of 2008, increased rent and facility costs and increased compensation expense related to investments in sales and business support during 2008 and 2009.

            Revenue in our International Physical Business segment increased 13.0% during the year ended December 31, 2008 over 2007, primarily due to internal growth of 7% and the growing impact of our acquisitions in Europe and Asia Pacific, which combined contributed 4% to revenue growth year over year. Further, favorable currency fluctuations during 2008, primarily in Europe, resulted in increased revenue, as measured in U.S. dollars, of approximately 2 percentage points compared to 2007. Adjusted OIBDA was favorably impacted by 2 percentage points of currency variations, but decreased in constant currency terms and as a percent of segment revenue in 2008 primarily due to special project revenue in Europe in 2007 that did not repeat in 2008, increased compensation expense due to incentives associated with certain acquisitions, and incremental rental charges related to our decision to exit a leased facility in the U.K.


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    Worldwide Digital Business

     
      
      
      
     Percentage Change  
     
     
     Year Ended December 31,  
      
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency
     Internal
    Growth
     
     
     2008 2009 Actual 

    Segment Revenue

     $223,006 $229,385 $6,379  2.9% 3.6% 4%
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1)

     $41,782 $50,303 $8,521  20.4% 19.8%   
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1) as a Percentage of Segment Revenue

      18.7% 21.9%            


     
      
      
      
     Percentage Change  
     
     
     Year Ended December 31,  
      
     
     
     Dollar
    Change
      
     Constant
    Currency
     Internal
    Growth
     
     
     2007 2008 Actual 

    Segment Revenue

     $163,218 $223,006 $59,788  36.6% 36.4% 12%
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1)

     $25,662 $41,782 $16,120  62.8% 60.7%   
                      

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1) as a Percentage of Segment Revenue

      15.7% 18.7%            

    (1)
    See Note 9 to Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for definition of Adjusted OIBDA and for the basis on which allocations are made and a consolidated basis.

    reconciliation of Adjusted OIBDA to income before provision for income taxes.

    During the year ended December 31, 2006,2009, revenue in our Worldwide Digital Business segment increased 23.4% primarily2.9% over 2008, due to strong performance in our eDiscovery business offset by a decrease in data restoration and license sales in 2009 over 2008. In the year ended December 31, 2009, Adjusted OIBDA in the Worldwide Digital Business segment increased compared to 2008 due to the impact of revenue mix and decreases in commissions and discretionary spending, including recruiting, travel and entertainment.

            During the year ended December 31, 2008, revenue in our Worldwide Digital Business segment increased 36.6% over 2007, due to the acquisition of Stratify in December 2007 and strong internal growth of 16%,12%. The increase in internal growth is primarily attributable to growth in digital storage revenue andfrom our online backup service offerings, for both personal computer and server data. The internal growth rate of our digital business was offset by a large data restoration projectlicense sale that occurred in 2007 and did not repeat in 2008. Adjusted OIBDA in the third quarter of 2005, which was not repeated in 2006 but drove the increase in the digital storage growth rate beginning in the fourth quarter of 2005. The acquisition of LiveVault in December 2005 contributed approximately $12 million in revenue during the year ended December 31, 2006. Contribution as a percent ofWorldwide Digital Business segment revenue decreased primarilyincreased due to our significant year over year revenue gains, and was impacted favorably by 2 percentage points of currency variations.


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    Corporate

     
      
      
      
     Dollar Change Percentage Change 
     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     from 2007
    to 2008
     from 2008
    to 2009
     from 2007
    to 2008
     from 2008
    to 2009
     
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1)

     $(144,068)$(157,986)$(164,406)$(13,918)$(6,420) 9.7% 4.1%

    Segment Adjusted OIBDA(1) as a Percentage of Consolidated Revenue

      (5.3)% (5.2)% (5.5)%            

    (1)
    See Note 9 to Notes to the acquisitionConsolidated Financial Statements for definition of LiveVault, increased investment inAdjusted OIBDA and for the European sales force, increases in information technology costs, including the write-off of $5.9 million of previously deferred costs, primarily internal labor costs, associated with internal use software development projects that were discontinued, and the benefit of a large data restoration project in the third quarter of 2005. This decrease was offset by higher absorption of fixed costs as a result of increased revenuesbasis on which allocations are made and a reduction in royalty payments.

    reconciliation of Adjusted OIBDA to income before provision for income taxes.

    During the year ended December 31, 2005, revenue2009, expenses in our Worldwide Digital Businessthe Corporate segment increased 128.8% primarily due to the acquisition of Connected in November 2004, which represents an increase of $33.7 million4.1% over the partial year of revenue recorded in 2004 and strong internal growth of 41%, including the impact of a large data restoration project completed in 2005. Contribution as a percent of segment revenue increasedended December 31, 2008, driven primarily due to strong revenue growth and improved overhead leverage, partially offset by increases in professional fees of $3.7 million related to project and consulting costs, compensation of $2.5 million due primarily to merit increases and charitable contributions of $2.0 million, offset by decreases in other expenses of $1.5 million, which includes much of our discretionary spending, such as travel and entertainment and supplies, and a decrease in stock-based compensation expense of $0.3 million.

            During the year ended December 31, 2008, expenses in Corporate increased 9.7% over 2007 driven mainly by salaries and benefits, which increased $9.6 million, primarily as a result of increased headcount plus our continued investment in information technology, costs,infrastructure and product development, as well as, legal and safety and security. In addition, stock-based compensation expense increased $5.1 million as a result of headcount and an increase in the acquisitionsnumber of Connected and LiveVault and associated research and development activitiesstock option grants and the growthfair value of such grants in 2007, while incentive compensation decreased by $2.1 million. Further, we saw increases in professional fees of $4.2 million, primarily for services in the areas of information technology, infrastructure and product development. Facility costs increased $1.0 million in 2008 compared to 2007, while other expenses, which includes much of our salesdiscretionary spending, including supplies and account management force, including higher sales commissions.telephone, decreased $3.9 million.


    Liquidity and Capital Resources

    The following is a summary of our cash balances and cash flows (in thousands) as of and for the years ended 2004, 2005 and 2006 (in thousands).December 31,

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Cash flows provided by operating activities

     

    $

    305,364

     

    $

    377,176

     

    $

    374,282

     

    Cash flows used in investing activities

     

    (626,523

    )

    (436,175

    )

    (466,714

    )

    Cash flows provided by financing activities

     

    276,569

     

    81,449

     

    82,734

     

    Cash and cash equivalents at the end of year

     

    31,942

     

    53,413

     

    45,369

     

     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Cash flows from operating activities

     $484,644 $537,029 $616,911 

    Cash flows from investing activities

      (866,635) (459,594) (324,066)

    Cash flows from financing activities

      457,005  87,368  (129,692)

    Cash and cash equivalents at the end of year

      125,607  278,370  446,656 

            

    Net cash provided by operating activities was $377.2$616.9 million for the year ended December 31, 20052009 compared to $374.3$537.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2006.2008. The decrease14.9% increase resulted primarily from an increase in operatingnet income, excluding non-cash charges of $47.9 million and non-cash items, such as depreciationa decrease in the use of working capital of $58.2 million over 2008, offset by gain onan increase in realized foreign currency, and further offset by the net change in working capital. The net change in working capital is primarily associated with the timingexchange losses of accounts payable payments.$26.2 million over 2008.

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    investments in storage systems, information systems and discretionary investments in real estate. Cash paid for our capital expenditures and additions to customer acquisition costs during the year ended December 31, 20062009 amounted to $382.0$312.8 million and $14.3$10.8 million, respectively. From time to time and in the normal course of business we sell certain fixed assets, primarily real estate. In the year ended December 31, 2006, we received $17.8 million of net proceeds from the sales of assets. For the year ended December 31, 2005 and 2006,2009, capital expenditures, net and additions to customer acquisition costs were funded primarily with cash flows provided by operating activities.activities and cash equivalents on hand. Excluding acquisitions, we expect our capital expenditures to be between $390 million and $420approximately $320 million in the year ending December 31, 2007.2010. Included in our estimated capital expenditures for 20072010 is $50 million to $60approximately $30 million of opportunity drivenopportunity-driven real estate purchases.

    In        Net cash used in financing activities was $129.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2006,2009. During the year ended December 31, 2009, we paid net cash considerationhad $539.7 million of $81.2 million for acquisitions, primarily related to the acquisition of two shredding businesses in the U.K., the buyout of minority partners in France and Mexico and contingent payments associated with a shredding acquisition in the U.S. and another acquisition in Europe. Cash flows provided from operating activities, borrowings under our revolving credit facilities, the proceeds from the sale of senior subordinated notes, and cash equivalents on-hand funded these acquisitions.

    Net cash provided by financing activities was $82.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2006. During the year ended December 31, 2006, we had gross borrowings under our revolving credit facilities and term loan facilities and other debt of $543.9$36.9 million, $282.0 million of net proceeds from the sale of Senior Subordinated Notes and $22.2$24.2 million of proceeds from the exercise of stock options and employee stock purchase plan.plan, $5.5 million of excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation and $1.1 million in contributions from noncontrolling partners. We used the proceeds from these financing transactions for the early retirement of $447.9 million of our 85/8% notes, to repay debt$287.7 million on our revolving credit and term loans ($655.0 million), repurchase $78.1and other debt and $1.6 million of financing costs.

            Due to the declining economic environment in 2008, the current fair market values of vans, trucks and mobile shredding units within our 81¤4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011vehicle fleet portfolio, which we lease, have declined. As a result, certain vehicle leases that previously met the requirements to be considered operating leases have been classified as capital leases, and repurchase $33.0 millioncertain others will be, upon renewal. The impact of these changes on our consolidated cash flow statement in the year ended December 31, 2009 is that payments related to these leases previously reflected as a use of cash within the operating activities section of our 85¤8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013, repay debtconsolidated statement of cash flows are now, and will be, reflected as a use of cash within the financing from minority stockholders, net ($1.8 million)activities section of our consolidated statement of cash flows. For 2009, the amount of this impact was $19.1 million.

            Financial instruments that potentially subject us to market risk consist principally of cash, money market funds and time deposits. As of December 31, 2009, we had significant concentrations of liquid investments with five global banks and ten "Triple A" rated money market funds which we consider to fund acquisitions.be large, highly rated investment grade institutions. As of December 31, 2009, our cash and cash equivalent balance was $446.7 million, including money market funds and time deposits amounting to $381.6 million. A substantial portion of these money market funds are invested in U.S. treasuries.


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    We are highly leveraged and expect to continue to be highly leveraged for the foreseeable future. Our consolidated debt as of December 31, 20062009 was comprised of the following (in thousands):

    IMI Revolving Credit Facility(1)

     

    $

    170,472

     

    IMI Term Loan Facility(1)

     

    312,000

     

    IME Revolving Credit Facility(2)

     

    77,819

     

    IME Term Loan Facility(2)

     

    189,005

     

    81¤4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011(3)

     

    71,789

     

    85¤8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013(3)

     

    448,001

     

    71¤4% GBP Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014(3)

     

    293,865

     

    73¤4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015(3)

     

    438,594

     

    65¤8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016(3)

     

    315,553

     

    83¤4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018(3)

     

    200,000

     

    8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018(3)

     

    49,663

     

    63¤4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018(3)

     

    39,429

     

    Real Estate Mortgages

     

    4,081

     

    Seller Notes

     

    8,757

     

    Other

     

    49,788

     

    Long-term Debt

     

    2,668,816

     

    Less Current Portion

     

    (63,105

    )

    Long-term Debt, Net of Current Portion

     

    $

    2,605,711

     

    Revolving Credit Facility(1)

     $21,799 

    Term Loan Facility(1)

      400,300 

    71/4% GBP Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014(2)

      238,920 

    73/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015(2)

      435,856 

    65/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016(2)

      317,035 

    71/2% CAD Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017(the "Subsidiary Notes")(3)

      166,810 

    83/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018(2)

      200,000 

    8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018(2)

      49,749 

    63/4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018(2)

      363,166 

    8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020(2)

      300,000 

    83/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2021(2)

      548,002 

    Real Estate Mortgages, Capital Leases and Other(4)

      210,147 
        
     

    Total Long-term Debt

      3,251,784 

    Less Current Portion

      (40,561)
        
      

    Long-term Debt, Net of Current Portion

     $3,211,223 
        

    (1)          All intercompany notes and the
    The capital stock or other equity interests of most of our U.S. subsidiaries, and up to 66% of the capital stock or other equity interests of our first tier foreign subsidiaries, are pledged to secure these debt instruments.

    (2)          Mostinstruments, together with all intercompany obligations of IME’s non-dormantforeign subsidiaries have either guaranteed this indebtednessowed to us or their sharesto one of capital stock and intercompany indebtedness have been pledgedour U.S. subsidiary guarantors.

    (2)
    Collectively referred to secure this indebtedness.as the Parent Notes. Iron Mountain has not guaranteed or otherwise provided security for this indebtedness nor have any of Iron Mountain’s U.S., Canadian, Asia Pacific, Mexican or South American subsidiaries.

    (3)          These debt instrumentsIncorporated ("IMI") is the direct obligor on the Parent Notes, which are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a senior subordinated basis, by substantially all of ourits direct and indirect wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries (the “Guarantors”"Guarantors"). These guarantees are joint and several obligations of the Guarantors. TheIron Mountain Canada Corporation ("Canada Company") and the remainder of our subsidiaries do not guarantee these debt instruments.

    the Parent Notes.

    (3)
    Canada Company is the direct obligor on the Subsidiary Notes, which are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a senior subordinated basis, by IMI and the Guarantors. These guarantees are joint and several obligations of IMI and the Guarantors.

    (4)
    Includes (a) real estate mortgages of $6.6 million, (b) capital lease obligations of $193.7 million, and (c) other various notes and other obligations, which were assumed by us as a result of certain acquisitions, of $9.8 million.

    Our revolving credit and term loan facilities, as well as our indentures, use OIBDA-basedearnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA") based calculations as primary measures of financial performance, including leverage ratios. Our key bondratios and contain certain restrictive financial and operating covenants, including covenants that restrict our ability to complete acquisitions, pay cash dividends, incur indebtedness, make investments, sell assets and take certain other corporate actions. The covenants do not contain a rating trigger. Therefore, a change in our debt rating would not trigger a default under the Credit Agreement and our indentures and other agreements governing our indebtedness. IMI's revolving credit and term leverage ratio as calculated per our bond indentures, was 5.03.8 and 3.3 as of December 31, 20052008 and 4.62009, respectively, compared to a maximum allowable ratio of 5.5. Similarly, our bond leverage ratio, per the indentures, was 4.5 and 4.1 as of December 31, 2006.2008 and 2009, respectively, compared to a maximum allowable ratio of 6.5. Noncompliance with thisthese leverage ratioratios would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and liquidity. Our target for this ratio is generallyWe were in compliance with all debt covenants in material agreements as of December 31, 2009 and we do not expect the debt covenants and


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    restrictions to limit our recently approved share repurchase program or dividends under our dividend policy as more fully discussed below. In the fourth quarter of 2007, we designated as Excluded Restricted Subsidiaries (as defined in the rangeindentures), certain of 4.5our subsidiaries that own our assets and conduct operations in the United Kingdom. As a result of such designation, these subsidiaries are now subject to 5.5 whilesubstantially all of the maximum ratio allowable undercovenants for the bond indentures, except that they are not required to provide a guarantee, and the EBITDA and debt of these subsidiaries is 6.5.included for purposes of calculation of the leverage ratio.

    Our ability to pay interest on or to refinance our indebtedness depends on our future performance, working capital levels and capital structure, which are subject to general economic, financial, competitive, legislative, regulatory and other factors which may be beyond our control. There can be no assurance that we will generate sufficient cash flow from our operations or that future financings will be available on acceptable terms or in amounts sufficient to enable us to service or refinance our indebtedness, or to make necessary capital expenditures.

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    In March 2004, IME and certain of its subsidiaries entered into a credit agreement (the “IME Credit Agreement”) with a syndicate of European lenders. The IME Credit Agreement provides for maximum borrowing availability in the principal amount of 200 million British pounds sterling, including a 100 million British pounds sterling revolving credit facility (the “IME revolving credit facility”), which includes the ability to borrow in certain other foreign currencies and a 100 million British pounds sterling term loan (the “IME term loan facility”). The IME revolving credit facility matures on March 5, 2009. The IME term loan facility is payable in three installments; two installments of 20 million British pounds sterling on March 5, 2007 and 2008, respectively, and the final payment of the remaining balance on March 5, 2009. The interest rate on borrowings under the IME Credit Agreement varies depending on IME’s choice of currency options and interest rate period, plus an applicable margin. The IME Credit Agreement includes various financial covenants applicable to the results of IME, which may restrict IME’s ability to incur indebtedness under the IME Credit Agreement and from third parties, as well as limit IME’s ability to pay dividends to us. Most of IME’s non-dormant subsidiaries have either guaranteed the obligations or have their shares pledged to secure IME’s obligations under the IME Credit Agreement. We have not guaranteed or otherwise provided security for the IME Credit Agreement nor have any of our U.S., Canadian, Asia Pacific, Mexican or South American subsidiaries. Our consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2006 includes 77 million British pounds sterling and 94.7 million Euro of borrowings (totaling $266.8 million) under the IME Credit Agreement; we also had various outstanding letters of credit totaling 1.7 million British pounds sterling ($3.2 million). The remaining availability, based on IME’s current leverage ratio which is calculated based on current earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) and current external debt, under the IME revolving credit facility on October 31, 2006, was approximately 59.0 million British pounds sterling ($112.1 million). The interest rate in effect under the IME revolving credit facility ranged from 4.4% to 6.2% as of October 31, 2006.

    On April 2, 2004 and subsequently on July 8, 2004,16, 2007, we entered into a new amendedcredit agreement (the "Credit Agreement") to replace the existing IMI revolving credit and restatedterm loan facilities and the existing IME revolving credit and term loan facilities. The Credit Agreement consists of revolving credit facilities where we can borrow, subject to certain limitations as defined in the Credit Agreement, up to an aggregate amount of $765 million (including Canadian dollar and multi-currency revolving credit facilities), and a $410 million term loan facility. Our revolving credit facility is supported by a group of 24 banks. Our subsidiaries, Canada Company and term loan facility (the “IMI Credit Agreement”) to replace our priorIron Mountain Switzerland GmbH, may borrow directly under the Canadian revolving credit agreement and to reflect more favorable pricing of our term loans.multi-currency revolving credit facilities, respectively. Additional subsidiary borrowers may be added under the multi-currency revolving credit facility. The IMI Credit Agreement had an aggregate principal amount of $550 million and was comprised of a $350 million revolving credit facility (the “IMI revolving credit facility”), which included the ability to borrow in certain foreign currencies, and a $200 million term loan facility (the “IMI term loan facility”). The IMI revolving credit facility maturesterminates on April 2, 2009.16, 2012. With respect to the IMI term loan facility, quarterly loan payments of $0.5approximately $1.0 million began in the third quarter of 2004 and will continueare required through maturity on April 2, 2011,16, 2014, at which time the remaining outstanding principal balance of the IMI term loan facility is due. In November 2004, we entered into an additional $150 million of term loans as permitted under our IMI Credit Agreement. The new term loans will mature at the same time as our current IMI term loan facility with quarterly loan payments of $0.4 million that began in the first quarter of 2005 and are priced at LIBOR plus a margin of 1.75%. On October 31, 2005, we entered into the second amendment to the IMI Credit Agreement, increasing availability under the revolving credit facility from $350 million to $400 million. As a result, the IMI Credit Agreement had an aggregate maximum principal amount of $750 million as of December 31, 2006. The interest rate on borrowings under the IMI Credit Agreement varies depending on our choice of interest rate and currency options, plus an applicable margin. All intercompany notesIMI guarantees the obligations of each of the subsidiary borrowers under the Credit Agreement, and substantially all of our U.S. subsidiaries guarantee the obligations of IMI and the subsidiary borrowers. The capital stock or other equity interests of most of our U.S. subsidiaries, and up to 66% of the capital stock or other equity interests of our first tier foreign subsidiaries, are pledged to secure the IMI Credit Agreement.Agreement, together with all intercompany obligations of foreign subsidiaries owed to us or to one of our U.S. subsidiary guarantors.

            As of December 31, 2006,2009, we had $170.5$21.8 million of outstanding borrowings under our IMIthe revolving credit facility, of which $4 million waswere denominated in U.S.Euro (EUR 1.8 million), Australian dollars (AUD 9.0 million) and the remaining balance was denominated in Canadian dollars (“CAD”) (CAD 194British pound sterling (GBP 7.0 million); we also had various outstanding letters of credit totaling $27.0$43.4 million. The remaining availability, based on Iron Mountain’s currentIMI's leverage ratio, which is calculated based on currentthe last 12 months' EBITDA and other adjustments as defined in the Credit Agreement and current external debt, under the IMI revolving credit facility on December 31, 2006,2009, was $113.8$699.8 million. The interest rate in effect under the IMI revolving credit facility and IMI term loan facility ranged from 6.0% to 9.0%was 3.0% and 7.0% to 7.2%1.8%, respectively, as of December 31, 2006.2009.


    In July 2006,August 2009, we completed an underwritten public offering of $200.0$550.0 million in aggregate principal amount of our 83¤4/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018,2021, which were issued at 99.625% of par. Our net proceeds of $196.6$539.7 million, after paying the underwriters’underwriters' discounts and commissions, and transaction fees, werewas used to (a) fund our offer to purchase and consent solicitationredeem the remaining $447.9 million of $78.1 million in aggregate principle amount of our outstanding 81¤4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011, (b) fund our purchase in the open market of $33.0 million in aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 85¤/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013notes, plus accrued and (c)unpaid interest, all of which were called for redemption in August 2009, and redeemed in September 2009, (b) repay borrowings under our revolving credit facility. As a result, wefacility, and (c) for general corporate purposes. We recorded a charge to other expense (income), net of $2.8$3.0 million in the third quarter of 20062009 related to the early extinguishment of the 81¤45/8% and 85¤8% Senior Subordinated Notes,notes, which consists of tender premiums and transaction costs, deferred financing costs as well as,and original issue discountspremiums and premiumsdiscounts related to the 81¤45/8% notes.


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            In February, 2010, we acquired Mimosa, a leader in enterprise-class digital content archiving solutions, for approximately $112 million in cash. Mimosa, based in Santa Clara, California, provides an on-premises integrated archive for email, SharePoint data and 85¤8% Senior Subordinated Notes.files, and complements our existing enterprise-class, cloud-based digital archive services. NearPoint, Mimosa's enterprise archiving platform, has applications for retention and disposition, eDiscovery, compliance supervision, classification, recovery, and end-user search, enabling customers to reduce risk, and lower their eDiscovery and storage costs.

    In July 2006, we experiencedFebruary, 2010, our board of directors approved a significant firenew share repurchase program authorizing up to $150 million in a recordsrepurchases of our common stock. This represents approximately 3% of our outstanding common stock based on the closing price on February 19, 2010. All purchases are subject to stock price, market conditions, corporate and information management facility in London, England that resulted in the complete destruction of the leased facility. London fire authorities recently issued a report in which it was concluded that the fire resulted from a deliberate act of arson; the report also stated that the actions of a guard employed by a third-party security service contractor resulted in the disabling of the automatic sprinkler system in the building. We believe we carry adequate property and liability insurance and are in the process of assessing the cause of,legal requirements and other circumstances involved with, the fire. We do not expect that this event will have a material impact to our consolidated results of operations or financial condition. Revenues from this facility represent less than 1% of our consolidated enterprise revenues. As of December 31, 2006, we have approximately $9.6 million recorded as an insurance receivable which is included in prepaid expenses and other in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet which primarily represents the net book value of the property, plant and equipment associated with this facility at the time of the incident, net of $1.8 million of property insurance proceeds received through IME’s October 31, 2006 fiscal year-end. Subsequent to IME’s October 31, 2006 fiscal year-end, IME received payment from our insurance carrier of approximately 8.6 million British pounds sterling ($16.9 million). We expect to utilize cash received from our insurance carriers to fund capital expenditures and for general working capital needs. Such amount represents a portion of our business personal property, business interruption, and expense claims with our insurance carrier. We will record approximately $8.8 million to other (income) expense, net in the first quarter of 2007 related to recoveries associated with our business interruption portion of our insurance claim to date. We expect to settle the remaining property portion of our insurance claim with our insurance carriers within the next twelve months and have, therefore, classified the remaining insurance receivable as a current asset. We expect to receive recoveries related to our property claim with our insurance carriers that will exceed the carrying value of such assets. We, therefore, expect to record gains on the disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net in our statement of operations in future periods when the cash received to date exceeds the remaining carrying value of the related property, plant and equipment, net. Recoveries from the insurance carriers related to business personal property claims are reflected in our statement of cash flows under proceeds from sales of property and equipment and other, net included in investing activities section when received. Recoveries from the insurance carriers related to business interruption claims are reflected in our statement of cash flows as a component of net income included in the operating activities section when received.

    In October 2006, we issued, in a private placement, $50 million in aggregate principal amount of our 8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018, which were issued at a price of 99.3% of par; and 30 million Euro in aggregate principal amount of our 63¤4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018, which were issued at a price of 99.5% of par. Our net proceeds of $85.5 million, after sales commission, were used to repay outstanding indebtedness under the IMI term loan and IME revolving credit facilities.

    The IME Credit Agreement, IMI Credit Agreement, our indentures and other agreements governing our indebtedness contain certain restrictive financial and operating covenants, including covenants that


    restrict our ability to complete acquisitions, pay cash dividends, incur indebtedness, make investments, sell assets and take certain other corporate actions. The covenants do not contain a rating trigger. Therefore, a change in our debt rating would not trigger a default under the IME Credit Agreement, IMI Credit Agreement and our indentures and other agreements governing our indebtedness. We were in compliance with all debt covenants in material agreements as of December 31, 2006.

    In January 2007, we completed an offering of 225.0 million Euro in aggregate principal amount of our 63¤4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018, which were issued at a price of 98.99% of par and priced to yield 6.875%. Our net proceeds of 219.2 million Euro ($283.8 million), after paying the underwriters’ discounts and commissions and estimated expenses (excluding accrued interest payable by purchasers of the notes from October 17, 2006). These net proceeds were used to repay outstanding indebtedness under the IMI term loan and revolving credit facilities. We recorded a charge to other (income) expense, net of $0.5 million in the first quarter of 2007 related to the early retirement of the IMI term loans, representing the write-off of a portion of our deferred financing costs.factors. In addition, in February, 2010, our board of directors adopted a dividend policy under which we intend to pay quarterly cash dividends on our common stock. The first quarterly dividend of $0.0625 per share will be payable on April 15, 2010 to shareholders of record on March 25, 2010. Declaration and payment of future quarterly dividends is at the discretion of our board of directors. If we continue the $.0625 per share quarterly dividend we anticipate that the 2010 annual dividend payout will be approximately $50 million based on our total outstanding shares as of February 19, 2010 (of which the fourth quarter 2010 payment would not be paid until January, 2007, we entered into forward contracts to exchange U.S. dollars for 96 million Euros and 194 million CAD for 127.5 million Euros to hedge our intercompany exposures with Canada and our subsidiaries whose functional currency is the Euro. These forward contracts settle on a monthly basis, at which time we enter into new forward contracts for the same underlying amounts, to continue to hedge movements in CAD and Euros against the U.S. dollar. At the time of settlement, we either pay or receive the net settlement amount from the forward contract.2011, if declared).

    Contractual Obligations

    The following table summarizes our contractual obligations as of December 31, 20062009 and the anticipated effect of these obligations on our liquidity in future years (in thousands):

     

     

    Payments Due by Period

     

     

     

    Total

     

    Less than 1 Year

     

    1-3 Years

     

    3-5 Years

     

    More than
    5 Years

     

    Capital Lease Obligations

     

    $

    41,384

     

     

    $

    8,829

     

     

    $

    6,622

     

    $

    2,157

     

    $

    23,776

     

    Long-Term Debt Obligations (excluding Capital Lease Obligations)

     

    2,625,023

     

     

    54,276

     

     

    412,232

     

    374,350

     

    1,784,165

     

    Interest Payments(1)

     

    1,567,691

     

     

    212,794

     

     

    401,893

     

    342,429

     

    610,575

     

    Operating Lease Obligations

     

    2,871,269

     

     

    176,842

     

     

    322,327

     

    302,457

     

    2,069,643

     

    Purchase and Asset Retirement Obligations(2)

     

    62,881

     

     

    26,555

     

     

    22,407

     

    6,620

     

    7,299

     

    Total

     

    $

    7,168,248

     

     

    $

    479,296

     

     

    $

    1,165,481

     

    $

    1,028,013

     

    $

    4,495,458

     

     
     Payments Due by Period 
     
     Total Less than 1 Year 1-3 Years 3-5 Years More than 5 Years 

    Capital Lease Obligations

     $193,738 $31,982 $68,000 $31,313 $62,443 

    Long-Term Debt Obligations (excluding Capital Lease Obligations)

      3,060,985  8,579  35,906  629,196  2,387,304 

    Interest Payments(1)

      1,812,826  222,311  439,073  415,401  736,041 

    Operating Lease Obligations(2)

      3,012,838  228,950  421,982  383,208  1,978,698 

    Purchase and Asset Retirement Obligations(3)

      66,101  28,487  25,421  978  11,215 
                

    Total(4)

     $8,146,488 $520,309 $990,382 $1,460,096 $5,175,701 
                

    (1)
    Amounts include variable rate interest payments, which are calculated utilizing the applicable interest rates as of December 31, 2006;2009; see Note 4 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

    Amounts also include interest on capital leases.

    (2)
    Amounts are offset by sublease income of $8.9 million in total (including $2.3 million, $2.7 million, $1.8 million and $2.1 million, in less than 1 year, 1-3 years, 3-5 years and more than 5 years, respectively).

    (3)
    In addition, in connection with some of our acquisitions, we have potential earn-out obligations that may be payable in the event businesses we acquired meet certain operationalfinancial objectives. These payments are based on the future results of these operations, and our estimate of the maximum contingent earn-out payments we may be required to make under all such agreements as of December 31, 20062009 is approximately $6.6$9.6 million.

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    (4)
    The table above excludes $88.2 million in uncertain tax positions as we are unable to make reasonably reliable estimates of the period of cash settlement, if any, with the respective taxing authorities.

    We expect to meet our cash flow requirements for the next twelve months from cash generated from operations, existing cash, cash equivalents, borrowings under the IMI and IME revolving credit facilitiesCredit Agreement and other financings, which may include secured credit facilities, securitizations and mortgage or capital lease financings. We expect to meet our long-term cash flow requirements using the same means described


    above, as well as the potential issuance of debt or equity securities as we deem appropriate. See Notes 4, 7, and 10 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

    Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

    We have no off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Regulation S-K Item 303(a)(4)(ii).

    Net Operating Loss and Foreign Tax Credit Carryforwards

    We have federal net operating loss carryforwards which begin to expire in 20182019 through 20212025 of $172.7$38.6 million ($13.5 million, tax effected) at December 31, 20062009 to reduce future federal taxable income, if any.income. We also have an asset for state net operating losslosses of $18.2$16.1 million (net of federal tax benefit), which begins to expire in 20072010 through 2024,2025, subject to a valuation allowance of approximately 98%99%. AsWe have assets for foreign net operating losses of $29.7 million, with various expiration dates, subject to a resultvaluation allowance of these loss carryforwards,approximately 81%. Additionally, we do nothave federal research credits of $0.9 million which begin to expire in 2010, and foreign tax credits of $59.3 million, which begin to expire in 2014 through 2019. Based on current expectations and plans, we expect to pay any significant U.S. federal and state income taxes in 2007.fully utilize our foreign tax credit carryforwards prior to their expiration.

    Inflation

    Certain of our expenses, such as wages and benefits, insurance, occupancy costs and equipment repair and replacement, are subject to normal inflationary pressures. Although to date we have been able to offset inflationary cost increases through increased operating efficiencies and the negotiation of favorable long-term real estate leases, we can give no assurance that we will be able to offset any future inflationary cost increases through similar efficiencies, leases or increased storage or service charges.


    Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

    Market Risk

            Financial instruments that potentially subject us to market risk consist principally of cash, money market funds and time deposits. As of December 31, 2009, we had significant concentrations of liquid investments with five global banks and ten "Triple A" rated money market funds which we consider to be large, highly rated investment grade institutions. As of December 31, 2009, our cash and cash equivalents balance was $446.7 million, including money market funds and time deposits amounting to $381.6 million. A substantial portion of these money market funds are invested in U.S. treasuries.

    Interest Rate Risk

    Given the recurring nature of our revenues and the long termlong-term nature of our asset base, we have the ability and the preference to use long term,long-term, fixed interest rate debt to finance our business, thereby helping to preserve our long termlong-term returns on invested capital. We target a range 80% to 85%approximately 75% of our debt portfolio to be fixed with respect to interest rates. Occasionally, we will use floating to fixed interest rate swaps as a tool to maintain our targeted level of fixed rate debt. As part of this strategy, in May 2001See Notes 3 and June 2006 we and IME entered into a total of two derivative financial contracts, which are variable-for-fixed interest rate swaps consisting of (a)  one contract based on interest payments previously payable on our real estate term loans of an aggregate principal amount of $97.0 million that have been subsequently repaid, and (b) one contract for interest payments payable on IME’s term loan facility of an aggregate principal amount of 75.0 million British pounds sterling. See Note 34 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.


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            As of December 31, 2006,2009, we had $517.9$430.3 million of variable rate debt outstanding with a weighted average variable interest rate of 6.4%2.0%, and $2,150.9$2,821.5 million of fixed rate debt outstanding. As of December 31, 2006, 80.6%2009, 86.8% of our total debt outstanding was fixed. If the weighted average variable interest rate on our variable rate debt had increased by 1%, our net income for the year ended December 31, 20062009 would have been reduced by $2.9$2.7 million. See Note 4 to Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Form 10-K for a discussion of our long-term indebtedness, including the fair values of such indebtedness as of December 31, 2006.2009.

    Currency Risk

    Our investments in IME, Iron Mountain Canada Corporation (“IM Canada”),Company, Iron Mountain Mexico, SA de RL de CV, IMSAIron Mountain South America, Ltd., Iron Mountain Australia Pty Ltd., Iron Mountain New Zealand Ltd. and our other international investments may be subject to risks and uncertainties related to fluctuations in currency valuation. Our reporting currency is the U.S. dollar. However, our international revenues and expenses are generated in the currencies of the countries in which we operate,


    primarily the Euro, Canadian dollar and British pound sterling. The currencies of many Latin American countries, particularly the Argentine peso, have experienced substantial volatility and depreciation. Declines in the value of the local currencies in which we are paid relative to the U.S. dollar will cause revenues in U.S. dollar terms to decrease and dollar-denominated liabilities to increase in local currency.

    The impact of currency fluctuations on our earnings is mitigated somewhatsignificantly by the fact that most operating and other expenses are also incurred and paid in the local currency. We also have several intercompany obligations between our foreign subsidiaries and Iron MountainIMI and our U.S.-based subsidiariessubsidiaries. In addition Iron Mountain Switzerland GmbH and our foreign subsidiaries and IME.IME also have intercompany obligations between them. These intercompany obligations are primarily denominated in the local currency of the foreign subsidiary.

    We have adopted and implemented a number of strategies to mitigate the risks associated with fluctuations in currency valuations. One strategy is to finance certain of our largest international subsidiaries with local debt that is denominated in local currencies, thereby providing a natural hedge. In determining the amount of any such financing, we take into account local tax strategies among other factors. Another strategy we utilize is for IMI to borrow in foreign currencies at the U.S. parent level to hedge our intercompany financing activities. Finally, on occasion, we enter into currency swaps to temporarily or permanently hedge an overseas investment, such as a major acquisition to lock in certain transaction economics. We have implemented these strategies for our three foreign investments in the U.K., CanadaContinental Europe and Asia Pacific.Canada. Specifically, through IME borrowing under the IME Credit Agreement and our 150 million British pounds sterling denominated 71¤/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 and our 255 million 63/4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018, we effectively hedge most of our outstanding intercompany loan with IME. IMloans denominated in British pounds sterling and Euros. Canada Company has financed theirits capital needs through direct borrowings in Canadian dollars under the IMI revolving credit facility.Credit Agreement and its 175 million CAD denominated 71/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017. This creates a tax efficient natural currency hedge. To fundIn the acquisitionthird quarter of Pickfords2007, we designated a portion of our 63/4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018 issued by IMI as a hedge of net investment of certain of our Euro denominated subsidiaries. As a result, we recorded $1.9 million ($1.0 million, net of tax) of foreign exchange gains related to the "marking-to-market" of such debt to currency translation adjustments which is a component of accumulated other comprehensive items, net included in Australia and New Zealand, Iron Mountain borrowed Australian and New Zealand dollars under its multi-currency revolving credit facility. These borrowings providedequity for the year ended December 31, 2009. As of December 31, 2009, net gains of $3.4 million are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive items, net associated with this net investment hedge.

            We have entered into a tax efficient natural hedge against the intercompany loans created at the timenumber of the acquisition. Subsequently, we repaid such borrowings under our multi-currency revolving credit facility and contemporaneously in September 2006, we entered into forward contracts to exchangehedge our exposures to British pounds sterling. As of December 31, 2009, we had an outstanding forward contract to purchase $121.3 million U.S. dollars for 55and sell 73.6 million in Australian dollars (“AUD”) and 20.2 million in New Zealand dollars (“NZD”) to hedge our intercompany exposure in these countries. In addition, in January, 2007 we entered into forward contracts to exchange U.S. dollars for 96 million Euros and 194 million CAD for 127.5 million EurosBritish pounds sterling to hedge our intercompany exposures with Canada and our subsidiaries whose functional currency is the Euro. These forward contracts settle on a monthly basis, at which time we enter into new forward contracts for the same underlying amounts, to continue to hedge movements in AUD, NZD, CAD and Euros against the U.S. dollar.IME. At the time of settlement, we either pay or receive the net settlement amount from the forward contract.contract and recognize this amount in other expense (income), net in the accompanying statement of


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    operations as a realized foreign exchange gain or loss. We have not designated these forward contracts as hedges. At the end of each month, we mark the outstanding forward contracts to market and record an unrealized foreign exchange gain or loss for the mark-to-market valuation. During the year ended December 31, 2009, there was $2.4 million in net cash disbursements included in cash from operating activities related to settlements associated with these foreign currency forward contracts. We recorded net losses in connection with these forward contracts of $12.0 million, including an unrealized foreign exchange gain of $4.1 million in other expense (income), net in the accompanying statement of operations as of December 31, 2009. As of December 31, 2006,2009, except as noted above, our currency exposures to intercompany balances are unhedged.

    The impact of devaluation or depreciating currency on an entity depends on the residual effect on the local economy and the ability of an entity to raise prices and/or reduce expenses. Due to our constantly changing currency exposure and the potential substantial volatility of currency exchange rates, we cannot predict the effect of exchange fluctuations on our business. The effect of a change in foreign exchange rates on our net investment in foreign subsidiaries is reflected in the “Accumulated"Accumulated Other Comprehensive Items, net”net" component of stockholders’ equity. A 10% depreciation in year-end 20062009 functional currencies, relative to the U.S. dollar, would result in a reduction in our stockholders’ equity of approximately $41.1$77.1 million.


    Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

    The information required by this item is included in Item 15(a) of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.


    Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements Withwith Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

    None.


    Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.

    Disclosure Controls and Procedures

    The term “disclosure"disclosure controls and procedures”procedures" is defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”"Exchange Act"). These rules refer to the controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information is recorded, processed, summarized and communicated to management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding what is required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files under the Exchange Act. As of December 31, 20062009 (the “Evaluation Date”"Evaluation Date"), we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures. Based upon that evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer have concluded that, as of the Evaluation Date, our disclosure controls and procedures are effective.

    Management’sManagement's Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

    Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act. Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the framework inInternal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on our evaluation under the framework inInternal Control—Integrated Framework, our management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2006. Our management’s assessment of the2009.

            The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006 has been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which appears below.is included herein.


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    REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

    To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
    Iron Mountain Incorporated:
    Incorporated

    We have audited management’s assessment, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, thatinternal control over financial reporting of Iron Mountain Incorporated and subsidiaries (the “Company”"Company") maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006,2009, based on criteria established inInternal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. The Company’sCompany's management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting.reporting, included in the accompanying Management's Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assessment and an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’sCompany's internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.

    We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, evaluating management’s assessment,assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating


    effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinions.opinion.

    A company’scompany's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, the company’scompany's principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, and effected by the company’scompany's board of directors, management, and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’scompany's internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2)��provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’scompany's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

    Because of the inherent limitations of internal control over financial reporting, including the possibility of collusion or improper management override of controls, material misstatements due to error or fraud may not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Also, projections of any evaluation of the effectiveness of the internal control over financial reporting to future periods are subject to the risk that the controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

    In our opinion, management’s assessment that the Company maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, is fairly stated, in all material respects, based on the criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006,2009, based on the criteria established inInternal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

    We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 20062009 of the Company and our report dated March 1, 2007February 26, 2010 expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements and includes an explanatory paragraph relating to the adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment.statements.

    /s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

    Boston, Massachusetts
    March 1, 2007February 26, 2010


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    Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

    There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended December 31, 20062009 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.


    Item 9B. Other Information.

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    PART III

    Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.

    The information required by Item 10 is incorporated by reference to our definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on or about May 24, 2007.June 3, 2010.


    Item 11. Executive Compensation.

    The information required by Item 11 is incorporated by reference to our definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on or about May 24, 2007.June 3, 2010.


    Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.

    The information required by Item 12 is incorporated by reference to our definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on or about May 24, 2007.June 3, 2010.


    Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.

    The information required by Item 13 is incorporated by reference to our definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on or about May 24, 2007.June 3, 2010.


    Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

    The information required by Item 14 is incorporated by reference to our definitive Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on or about May 24, 2007.June 3, 2010.


    PART IV

    Item 15. Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules.

    (a)
    (a)Financial Statements and Financial Statement Schedules filed as part of this report:

    (b)
    (b)Exhibits filed as part of this report:

    As listed in the Exhibit Index following the signature page hereof.


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    REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

    To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of
    Iron Mountain Incorporated

    We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Iron Mountain Incorporated and subsidiaries (the “Company”"Company") as of December 31, 20062009 and 2005,2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity, and comprehensive income (loss), and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2006.2009. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’sCompany's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on thethese financial statements based on our audits.

    We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

    In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Iron Mountain Incorporated and subsidiaries as of December 31, 20062009 and 2005,2008, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2006,2009, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

    As discussed in Note 2n, the Company adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment effective January 1, 2006.

    We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the effectiveness of the Company’sCompany's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006,2009, based on the criteria established inInternal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated March 1, 2007February 26, 2010 expressed an unqualified opinion on management’s assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and an unqualified opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’sCompany's internal control over financial reporting.

    /s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

    Boston, Massachusetts
    March 1, 2007February 26, 2010


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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

     

     

    December 31,

     

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    ASSETS

     

     

    ��

     

     

    Current Assets:

     

     

     

     

     

    Cash and cash equivalents

     

    $

    53,413

     

    $

    45,369

     

    Accounts receivable (less allowances of $14,522 and $15,157, respectively)

     

    408,564

     

    473,366

     

    Deferred income taxes

     

    27,623

     

    60,537

     

    Prepaid expenses and other

     

    64,568

     

    100,449

     

    Total Current Assets

     

    554,168

     

    679,721

     

    Property, Plant and Equipment:

     

     

     

     

     

    Property, plant and equipment

     

    2,556,880

     

    2,965,995

     

    Less—Accumulated depreciation

     

    (775,614

    )

    (950,760

    )

    Net Property, Plant and Equipment

     

    1,781,266

     

    2,015,235

     

    Other Assets, net:

     

     

     

     

     

    Goodwill

     

    2,138,641

     

    2,165,129

     

    Customer relationships and acquisition costs

     

    229,006

     

    282,756

     

    Deferred financing costs

     

    31,606

     

    29,795

     

    Other

     

    31,453

     

    36,885

     

    Total Other Assets, net

     

    2,430,706

     

    2,514,565

     

    Total Assets

     

    $

    4,766,140

     

    $

    5,209,521

     

    LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

     

     

     

     

     

    Current Liabilities:

     

     

     

     

     

    Current portion of long-term debt

     

    $

    25,905

     

    $

    63,105

     

    Accounts payable

     

    148,234

     

    148,461

     

    Accrued expenses

     

    266,720

     

    266,933

     

    Deferred revenue

     

    151,137

     

    160,148

     

    Total Current Liabilities

     

    591,996

     

    638,647

     

    Long-term Debt, net of current portion

     

    2,503,526

     

    2,605,711

     

    Other Long-term Liabilities

     

    33,545

     

    72,778

     

    Deferred Rent

     

    35,763

     

    53,597

     

    Deferred Income Taxes

     

    225,314

     

    280,225

     

    Commitments and Contingencies (see Note 10)

     

     

     

     

     

    Minority Interests

     

    5,867

     

    5,290

     

    Stockholders’ Equity:

     

     

     

     

     

    Preferred stock (par value $0.01; authorized 10,000,000 shares; none issued and outstanding)

     

     

     

    Common stock (par value $0.01; authorized 400,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding 197,494,307 shares and 199,109,581 shares, respectively)

     

    1,975

     

    1,991

     

    Additional paid-in capital

     

    1,104,946

     

    1,144,101

     

    Retained earnings

     

    244,524

     

    373,387

     

    Accumulated other comprehensive items, net

     

    18,684

     

    33,794

     

    Total Stockholders’ Equity

     

    1,370,129

     

    1,553,273

     

    Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

     

    $

    4,766,140

     

    $

    5,209,521

     

     
     December 31, 
     
     2008 2009 

    ASSETS

           

    Current Assets:

           
     

    Cash and cash equivalents

     $278,370 $446,656 
     

    Accounts receivable (less allowances of $19,562 and $25,529, respectively)

      552,830  585,376 
     

    Deferred income taxes

      41,305  37,924 
     

    Prepaid expenses and other

      103,887  141,469 
          
       

    Total Current Assets

      976,392  1,211,425 

    Property, Plant and Equipment:

           
     

    Property, plant and equipment

      3,750,515  4,184,631 
     

    Less—Accumulated depreciation

      (1,363,761) (1,616,431)
          
       

    Net Property, Plant and Equipment

      2,386,754  2,568,200 

    Other Assets, net:

           
     

    Goodwill

      2,452,304  2,534,713 
     

    Customer relationships and acquisition costs

      443,729  438,812 
     

    Deferred financing costs

      33,186  35,206 
     

    Other

      64,489  58,478 
          
       

    Total Other Assets, net

      2,993,708  3,067,209 
          
       

    Total Assets

     $6,356,854 $6,846,834 
          

    LIABILITIES AND EQUITY

           

    Current Liabilities:

           
     

    Current portion of long-term debt

     $35,751 $40,561 
     

    Accounts payable

      154,614  175,231 
     

    Accrued expenses

      356,473  390,860 
     

    Deferred revenue

      182,759  208,062 
          
       

    Total Current Liabilities

      729,597  814,714 

    Long-term Debt, net of current portion

      3,207,464  3,211,223 

    Other Long-term Liabilities

      113,136  118,081 

    Deferred Rent

      73,005  90,503 

    Deferred Income Taxes

      427,324  467,067 

    Commitments and Contingencies (see Note 10)

           

    Equity:

           
     

    Iron Mountain Incorporated Stockholders' Equity:

           
      

    Preferred stock (par value $0.01; authorized 10,000,000 shares; none issued and outstanding)

         
      

    Common stock (par value $0.01; authorized 400,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding 201,931,332 shares and 203,546,757 shares, respectively)

      2,019  2,035 
      

    Additional paid-in capital

      1,250,064  1,298,657 
      

    Retained earnings

      591,912  812,789 
      

    Accumulated other comprehensive items, net

      (41,215) 27,661 
          
       

    Total Iron Mountain Incorporated Stockholders' Equity

      1,802,780  2,141,142 
          
     

    Noncontrolling Interests

      3,548  4,104 
          
      

    Total Equity

      1,806,328  2,145,246 
          
       

    Total Liabilities and Equity

     $6,356,854 $6,846,834 
          

    The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.


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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

    (In thousands, except per share data)

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Revenues:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Storage

     

    $

    1,043,366

     

    $

    1,181,551

     

    $

    1,327,169

     

    Service and storage material sales

     

    774,223

     

    896,604

     

    1,023,173

     

    Total Revenues

     

    1,817,589

     

    2,078,155

     

    2,350,342

     

    Operating Expenses:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Cost of sales (excluding depreciation and amortization)

     

    823,899

     

    938,239

     

    1,074,268

     

    Selling, general and administrative

     

    486,246

     

    569,695

     

    670,074

     

    Depreciation and amortization

     

    163,629

     

    186,922

     

    208,373

     

    Gain on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net

     

    (681

    )

    (3,485

    )

    (9,560

    )

    Total Operating Expenses

     

    1,473,093

     

    1,691,371

     

    1,943,155

     

    Operating Income

     

    344,496

     

    386,784

     

    407,187

     

    Interest Expense, Net

     

    185,749

     

    183,584

     

    194,958

     

    Other (Income) Expense, Net

     

    (7,988

    )

    6,182

     

    (11,989

    )

    Income Before Provision for Income Taxes and Minority Interest

     

    166,735

     

    197,018

     

    224,218

     

    Provision for Income Taxes

     

    69,574

     

    81,484

     

    93,795

     

    Minority Interests in Earnings of Subsidiaries, Net

     

    2,970

     

    1,684

     

    1,560

     

    Income before Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle

     

    94,191

     

    113,850

     

    128,863

     

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of tax benefit)

     

     

    (2,751

    )

     

    Net Income

     

    $

    94,191

     

    $

    111,099

     

    $

    128,863

     

    Net Income per Share—Basic:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Income before Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle

     

    $

    0.49

     

    $

    0.58

     

    $

    0.65

     

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of tax benefit)

     

     

    (0.01

    )

     

    Net Income per Share—Basic

     

    $

    0.49

     

    $

    0.57

     

    $

    0.65

     

    Net Income per Share—Diluted:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Income before Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle

     

    $

    0.48

     

    $

    0.57

     

    $

    0.64

     

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle (net of tax benefit)

     

     

    (0.01

    )

     

    Net Income per Share—Diluted

     

    $

    0.48

     

    $

    0.56

     

    $

    0.64

     

    Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding—Basic

     

    193,625

     

    195,988

     

    198,116

     

    Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding—Diluted

     

    196,764

     

    198,104

     

    200,463

     

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Revenues:

              
     

    Storage

     $1,499,074 $1,657,909 $1,696,395 
     

    Service

      1,230,961  1,397,225  1,317,200 
            
      

    Total Revenues

      2,730,035  3,055,134  3,013,595 

    Operating Expenses:

              
     

    Cost of sales (excluding depreciation and amortization)

      1,260,120  1,382,019  1,271,214 
     

    Selling, general and administrative

      771,375  882,364  874,359 
     

    Depreciation and amortization

      249,294  290,738  319,072 
     

    (Gain) Loss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net

      (5,472) 7,483  406 
            
      

    Total Operating Expenses

      2,275,317  2,562,604  2,465,051 

    Operating Income

      454,718  492,530  548,544 

    Interest Expense, Net (includes Interest Income of $4,694, $5,485 and $2,566 in 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively)

      228,593  236,635  227,790 

    Other Expense (Income), Net

      3,101  31,028  (12,079)
            
      

    Income Before Provision for Income Taxes

      223,024  224,867  332,833 

    Provision for Income Taxes

      69,010  142,924  110,527 
            

    Net Income

      154,014  81,943  222,306 
      

    Less: Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests

      920  (94) 1,429 
            

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $153,094 $82,037 $220,877 
            

    Earnings per Share—Basic and Diluted:

              

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated per Share—Basic

     $0.77 $0.41 $1.09 
            

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated per Share—Diluted

     $0.76 $0.40 $1.08 
            

    Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding—Basic

      199,938  201,279  202,812 
            

    Weighted Average Common Shares Outstanding—Diluted

      202,062  203,290  204,271 
            

    The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.


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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED



    CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
    AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME


    (In thousands, except share data)

     

     

    Common Stock Voting

     

    Additional

     

     

     

    Accumulated Other

     

    Total Stockholders’

     

     

     

    Shares

     

    Amounts

     

    Paid-in Capital

     

    Retained Earnings

     

    Comprehensive Items

     

    Equity

     

    Balance, December 31, 2003 

     

    192,544,321

     

     

    $

    1,925

     

     

     

    $

    1,033,001

     

     

     

    $

    39,234

     

     

     

    $

    (8,046

    )

     

     

    $

    1,066,114

     

     

    Issuance of shares under employee stock purchase plan and option plans,  including tax benefit of $6,904

     

    2,182,550

     

     

    22

     

     

     

    33,443

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    33,465

     

     

    Deferred compensation

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (3,533

    )

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (3,533

    )

     

    Currency translation adjustment

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    14,669

     

     

     

    14,669

     

     

    Market value adjustments for hedging contracts, net of tax

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    13,576

     

     

     

    13,576

     

     

    Market value adjustments for securities, net of tax

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    86

     

     

     

    86

     

     

    Net income

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    94,191

     

     

     

     

     

     

    94,191

     

     

    Balance, December 31, 2004 

     

    194,726,871

     

     

    1,947

     

     

     

    1,062,911

     

     

     

    133,425

     

     

     

    20,285

     

     

     

    1,218,568

     

     

    Issuance of shares under employee stock purchase plan and option plans, including tax benefit of
    $9,668

     

    2,767,436

     

     

    28

     

     

     

    57,315

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    57,343

     

     

    Deferred compensation

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (16,060

    )

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (16,060

    )

     

    Currency translation adjustment

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (4,300

    )

     

     

    (4,300

    )

     

    Stock options issued in connection with an acquisition

     

     

     

     

     

     

    780

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    780

     

     

    Market value adjustments for hedging contracts, net of tax

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2,458

     

     

     

    2,458

     

     

    Market value adjustments for securities, net of tax

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    241

     

     

     

    241

     

     

    Net income

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    111,099

     

     

     

     

     

     

    111,099

     

     

    Balance, December 31, 2005 

     

    197,494,307

     

     

    1,975

     

     

     

    1,104,946

     

     

     

    244,524

     

     

     

    18,684

     

     

     

    1,370,129

     

     

    Issuance of shares under employee stock purchase plan and option plans, including tax benefit of $4,387

     

    1,615,274

     

     

    16

     

     

     

    39,155

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    39,171

     

     

    Currency translation adjustment

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    14,659

     

     

     

    14,659

     

     

    Market value adjustments for hedging contracts, net of tax

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    43

     

     

     

    43

     

     

    Market value adjustments for securities, net of tax

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    408

     

     

     

    408

     

     

    Net income

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    128,863

     

     

     

     

     

     

    128,863

     

     

    Balance, December 31, 2006 

     

    199,109,581

     

     

    $

    1,991

     

     

     

    $

    1,144,101

     

     

     

    $

    373,387

     

     

     

    $

    33,794

     

     

     

    $

    1,553,273

     

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    COMPREHENSIVE INCOME:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Net Income

     

    $

    94,191

     

    $

    111,099

     

    $

    128,863

     

    Other Comprehensive (Loss) Income:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments

     

    14,669

     

    (4,300

    )

    14,659

     

    Market Value Adjustments for Hedging Contracts, Net of Tax Provision of $4,955, $973 and $13, respectively

     

    13,576

     

    2,458

     

    43

     

    Market Value Adjustments for Securities, Net of Tax

     

    86

     

    241

     

    408

     

    Comprehensive Income

     

    $

    122,522

     

    $

    109,498

     

    $

    143,973

     

     
      
      
     Iron Mountain Incorporated Stockholders' Equity  
     
     
      
      
     Common Stock  
      
     Accumulated
    Other
    Comprehensive
    Items, Net
      
     
     
      
     Comprehensive
    Income (Loss)
     Additional
    Paid-in Capital
     Retained
    Earnings
     Noncontrolling
    Interests
     
     
     Total Shares Amounts 

    Balance, December 31, 2006

     $1,558,563 $  199,109,581 $1,991 $1,144,101 $373,387 $33,794 $5,290 

    Issuance of shares under employee stock purchase plan and option plans and stock-based compensation, including tax benefit of $6,765

      42,599    1,583,636  16  42,583       

    Stock options issued in connection with acquisition

      22,828        22,828       

    Reserve related to uncertain tax positions (Note 7)

      (16,606)         (16,606)    

    Comprehensive Income (Loss):

                             
     

    Currency translation adjustment

      41,941  41,941          40,480  1,461 
     

    Market value adjustments for hedging contracts, net of tax

      170  170          170   
     

    Market value adjustments for securities, net of tax

      (383) (383)         (383)  
     

    Net income

      154,014  154,014        153,094    920 
                             

    Comprehensive Income

        $195,742             
                             

    Noncontrolling interests equity contributions

      2,606               2,606 

    Dividend payments to noncontrolling interests

      (1,188)              (1,188)
                       

    Balance, December 31, 2007

      1,804,544 $  200,693,217  2,007  1,209,512  509,875  74,061  9,089 

    Issuance of shares under employee stock purchase plan and option plans and stock-based compensation, including tax benefit of $5,112

      40,564    1,238,115  12  40,552       

    Comprehensive Income (Loss):

                             
     

    Currency translation adjustment

      (115,619) (115,619)         (114,613) (1,006)
     

    Market value adjustments for securities, net of tax

      (663) (663)         (663)  
     

    Net income (loss)

      81,943  81,943        82,037    (94)
                            ��

    Comprehensive Loss

        $(34,339)            
                             

    Noncontrolling interests equity contributions

      1,370               1,370 

    Dividend payments to noncontrolling interests

      (1,321)              (1,321)

    Parent purchase of noncontrolling interests

      (4,490)              (4,490)
                       

    Balance, December 31, 2008

      1,806,328 $  201,931,332  2,019  1,250,064  591,912  (41,215) 3,548 

    Issuance of shares under employee stock purchase plan and option plans and stock-based compensation, including tax benefit of $5,532

      48,609    1,615,425  16  48,593       

    Comprehensive Income:

                             
     

    Currency translation adjustment

      69,455  69,455          68,876  579 
     

    Net income

      222,306  222,306        220,877    1,429 
                             

    Comprehensive Income

        $291,761             
                             

    Noncontrolling interests equity contributions

      578               578 

    Dividend payments to noncontrolling interests

      (2,030)              (2,030)
                       

    Balance, December 31, 2009

     $2,145,246     203,546,757 $2,035 $1,298,657 $812,789 $27,661 $4,104 
                       

    The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.


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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED



    CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWSCOMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

    (In thousands)

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Net income

     

    $

    94,191

     

    $

    111,099

     

    $

    128,863

     

    Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash flows from operating activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle (net of tax benefit)

     

     

    2,751

     

     

    Minority interests in earnings of subsidiaries, net

     

    2,970

     

    1,684

     

    1,560

     

    Depreciation

     

    151,947

     

    170,698

     

    187,745

     

    Amortization (includes deferred financing costs and bond discount of $3,646, $4,951 and $5,463, respectively)

     

    15,328

     

    21,175

     

    26,091

     

    Stock compensation expense

     

    3,857

     

    6,189

     

    12,387

     

    Provision for deferred income taxes

     

    62,165

     

    59,470

     

    53,139

     

    Loss on early extinguishment of debt

     

    2,454

     

     

    2,972

     

    Gain on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net

     

    (681

    )

    (3,485

    )

    (9,560

    )

    Loss (Gain) on foreign currency and other, net

     

    5,227

     

    6,472

     

    (16,990

    )

    Changes in Assets and Liabilities (exclusive of acquisitions):

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Accounts receivable

     

    (48,020

    )

    (45,572

    )

    (53,867

    )

    Prepaid expenses and other current assets

     

    (7,462

    )

    (13,360

    )

    (12,317

    )

    Accounts payable

     

    12,366

     

    21,017

     

    9,008

     

    Accrued expenses, deferred revenue and other current liabilities

     

    9,852

     

    34,360

     

    37,320

     

    Other assets and long-term liabilities

     

    1,170

     

    4,678

     

    7,931

     

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities

     

    305,364

     

    377,176

     

    374,282

     

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Capital expenditures

     

    (231,966

    )

    (272,129

    )

    (381,970

    )

    Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired

     

    (384,338

    )

    (178,238

    )

    (81,208

    )

    Additions to customer relationship and acquisition costs

     

    (12,472

    )

    (13,431

    )

    (14,251

    )

    Investment in joint ventures

     

    (858

    )

     

    (5,943

    )

    Proceeds from sales of property and equipment and other, net

     

    3,111

     

    27,623

     

    16,658

     

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities

     

    (626,523

    )

    (436,175

    )

    (466,714

    )

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Repayment of debt and term loans

     

    (1,085,013

    )

    (509,595

    )

    (654,960

    )

    Proceeds from debt and term loans

     

    1,148,275

     

    568,726

     

    543,940

     

    Early retirement of notes

     

    (20,797

    )

     

    (112,397

    )

    Net proceeds from sales of senior subordinated notes

     

    269,427

     

     

    281,984

     

    Debt financing (repayment to) and equity contribution from (distribution to) minority stockholders, net

     

    (41,978

    )

    (2,399

    )

    (2,068

    )

    Proceeds from exercise of stock options and employee stock purchase plan

     

    18,041

     

    25,649

     

    22,245

     

    Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation

     

     

     

    4,387

     

    Payment of debt financing costs and stock issuance costs

     

    (11,386

    )

    (932

    )

    (397

    )

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities

     

    276,569

     

    81,449

     

    82,734

     

    Effect of Exchange Rates on Cash and Cash Equivalents

     

    1,849

     

    (979

    )

    1,654

     

    (Decrease) Increase in Cash and Cash Equivalents

     

    (42,741

    )

    21,471

     

    (8,044

    )

    Cash and Cash Equivalents, Beginning of Year

     

    74,683

     

    31,942

     

    53,413

     

    Cash and Cash Equivalents, End of Year

     

    $

    31,942

     

    $

    53,413

     

    $

    45,369

     

    Supplemental Information:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Cash Paid for Interest

     

    $

    169,929

     

    $

    183,657

     

    $

    185,072

     

    Cash Paid for Income Taxes

     

    $

    6,888

     

    $

    21,858

     

    $

    17,143

     

    Non-Cash Investing Activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Capital Leases

     

    $

    1,506

     

    $

    23,886

     

    $

    17,027

     

    Capital Expenditures

     

    $

     

    $

    19,124

     

    $

    32,068

     

     
     Years Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    CONSOLIDATED COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS):

              

    Net Income

     $154,014 $81,943 $222,306 

    Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) :

              
     

    Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments

      41,941  (115,619) 69,455 
     

    Market Value Adjustments for Hedging Contracts, Net of Tax

      170     
     

    Market Value Adjustments for Securities, Net of Tax

      (383) (663)  
            

    Total Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)

      41,728  (116,282) 69,455 
            

    Comprehensive Income (Loss)

      195,742  (34,339) 291,761 
     

    Comprehensive Income (Loss) Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests

      2,381  (1,100) 2,008 
            

    Comprehensive Income (Loss) Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $193,361 $(33,239)$289,753 
            

    The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.


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    CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

    (In thousands)

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities:

              
     

    Net income

     $154,014 $81,943 $222,306 

    Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash flows from operating activities:

              
     

    Depreciation

      222,655  254,619  283,571 
     

    Amortization (includes deferred financing costs and bond discount of $5,361, $4,982 and $5,117, respectively)

      32,000  41,101  40,618 
     

    Stock-based compensation expense

      13,861  18,988  18,703 
     

    Provision for deferred income taxes

      43,813  109,109  29,723 
     

    Loss on early extinguishment of debt

      5,703  418  3,031 
     

    (Gain) Loss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net

      (5,472) 7,483  406 
     

    Foreign currency transactions and other, net

      17,110  50,312  (12,686)

    Changes in Assets and Liabilities (exclusive of acquisitions):

              
     

    Accounts receivable

      (33,650) (25,934) (21,421)
     

    Prepaid expenses and other current assets

      (11,973) (5,923) (21,644)
     

    Accounts payable

      14,213  (21,666) 8,311 
     

    Accrued expenses, deferred revenue and other current liabilities

      25,932  12,836  48,814 
     

    Other assets and long-term liabilities

      6,438  13,743  17,179 
            
     

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities

      484,644  537,029  616,911 

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

              
     

    Capital expenditures

      (386,442) (386,721) (312,761)
     

    Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired

      (481,526) (56,632) (2,033)
     

    Additions to customer relationship and acquisition costs

      (16,403) (14,182) (10,759)
     

    Investment in joint ventures

        (1,709) (3,114)
     

    Proceeds from sales of property and equipment and other, net

      17,736  (350) 4,601 
            
     

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities

      (866,635) (459,594) (324,066)

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities:

              
     

    Repayment of revolving credit and term loan facilities and other debt

      (2,311,331) (957,507) (287,712)
     

    Proceeds from revolving credit and term loan facilities and other debt

      2,310,044  800,024  36,932 
     

    Early retirement of senior subordinated notes

        (71,881) (447,874)
     

    Net proceeds from sales of senior subordinated notes

      435,818  295,500  539,688 
     

    Debt financing (repayment to) and equity contribution from (distribution to) noncontrolling interests, net

      1,950  960  1,064 
     

    Proceeds from exercise of stock options and employee stock purchase plan

      21,843  16,145  24,233 
     

    Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation

      6,765  5,112  5,532 
     

    Payment of debt financing costs

      (8,084) (985) (1,555)
            
     

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities

      457,005  87,368  (129,692)

    Effect of Exchange Rates on Cash and Cash Equivalents

      5,224  (12,040) 5,133 
            

    Increase in Cash and Cash Equivalents

      80,238  152,763  168,286 

    Cash and Cash Equivalents, Beginning of Period

      45,369  125,607 $278,370 
            

    Cash and Cash Equivalents, End of Period

     $125,607 $278,370 $446,656 
            

    Supplemental Information:

              
     

    Cash Paid for Interest

     $215,451 $242,145 $216,673 
            
     

    Cash Paid for Income Taxes

     $33,994 $44,109 $87,062 
            

    Non-Cash Investing Activities:

              
     

    Capital Leases

     $17,207 $93,147 $72,120 
            
     

    Accrued Capital Expenditures

     $59,979 $46,009 $53,701 
            

    The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.


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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    1. Nature of Business

    On May 27, 2005, Iron Mountain Incorporated, a Pennsylvania corporation (“Iron Mountain PA”), reincorporated as a Delaware corporation. The reincorporation was effected by means of a statutory merger (the “Merger”) of Iron Mountain PA with and into Iron Mountain Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (“Iron Mountain DE”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Iron Mountain PA. In connection with the Merger, Iron Mountain DE succeeded to and assumed all of the assets and liabilities of Iron Mountain PA. Apart from the change in its state of incorporation, the Merger had no effect on Iron Mountain PA’s business, board composition, management, employees, fiscal year, assets or liabilities, or location of its facilities, and did not result in any relocation of management or other employees. The Merger was approved at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on May 26, 2005. Upon consummation of the Merger, Iron Mountain DE succeeded to Iron Mountain PA’s reporting obligations and continued to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “IRM.”

    On December 7, 2006, our board authorized and approved a three-for-two stock split effected in the form of a dividend on our common stock. We issued the additional shares of common stock resulting from this stock dividend on December 29, 2006 to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on December 18, 2006. All share data has been adjusted for such stock split.

    The accompanying financial statements represent the consolidated accounts of Iron Mountain Incorporated, a Delaware corporation, and its subsidiaries. We are an internationala global full-service provider of information protection and storagemanagement and related services for all media in various locations throughout the United States, Canada,North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, MexicoLatin America and South America toAsia Pacific. We have a diversified customer base comprised of commercial, legal, banking, health care, accounting, insurance, entertainment and government organizations, including more than 90% of the Fortune 1000 and more than 85% of the FTSE 100.organizations.

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

      a.
      Principles of Consolidation

    The accompanying financial statements reflect our financial position and results of operations on a consolidated basis. Financial position and results of operations of Iron Mountain Europe Limited (“IME”("IME"), our European subsidiary, are consolidated for the appropriate periods based on its fiscal year ended October 31. All significant intercompany account balances have been eliminated or presented to reflect the underlying economics of the transactions.eliminated.

      b.
      Use of Estimates

    The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") requires us to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and for the period then ended. On an on-going basis, we evaluate the estimates used, including those related to accounting for acquisitions, allowance for doubtful accounts and credit memos, impairments of tangible and intangible assets, income taxes, stock-based compensation and self-insured liabilities.used. We base our estimates on historical experience, actuarial estimates, current conditions and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable


    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED
    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

    under the circumstances. These estimates form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities and are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

      c.
      Cash and Cash Equivalents

    Cash and cash equivalents include cash on hand and cash invested in short-term securities which have remaining maturities at the date of purchase of less than 90 days. Cash and cash equivalents are carried at cost, which approximates fair value.

      d.
      Foreign Currency

    Local currencies are considered the functional currencies for our operations outside the United States, with the exception of certain foreign holding companies and our financing center in Switzerland, whose functional currency iscurrencies are the U.S. dollar. All assets and liabilities are translated at period-end exchange rates, and revenues and expenses are translated at average exchange rates for the applicable period, in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 52, “Foreign Currency Translation.”period. Resulting translation adjustments are reflected in the accumulated other comprehensive items, net component of stockholders’ equity.Iron Mountain Incorporated Stockholders' Equity and Noncontrolling Interests. The gain or loss on foreign currency transactions, calculated as the difference between the historical exchange rate and the exchange rate at the applicable measurement date, including those related to (a) U.S. dollar denominated 81¤8% senior notes of our Canadian subsidiary (the “Subsidiary notes”), which were fully redeemed as of March 31, 2004, (b) our 71¤/4% GBP Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014, (b) our 63/4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018, (c) the borrowings in certain foreign currencies under our revolving credit agreements, and (d) certain foreign currency denominated intercompany obligations of our foreign subsidiaries to us and between our foreign subsidiaries, are included in other expense (income) expense,, net, on our consolidated


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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)


    statements of operations. The total of such net gainloss amounted to $8,915,$11,311, a net loss of $7,201$28,882, and a net gain of $12,534$12,477 for the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, respectively.

      e.
      Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities

    SFAS No. 133, “Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities,” requires that every        Every derivative instrument is required to be recorded in the balance sheet as either an asset or a liability measured at its fair value. Periodically, we acquire derivative instruments that are intended to hedge either cash flows or values which are subject to foreign exchange or other market price risk, and not for trading purposes. We have formally documented our hedging relationships, including identification of the hedging instruments and the hedged items, as well as our risk management objectives and strategies for undertaking each hedge transaction. Given the recurring nature of our revenues and the long term nature of our asset base, we have the ability and the preference to use long term,long-term, fixed interest rate debt to finance our business, thereby preserving our long term returns on invested capital. We target a range 80% to 85%approximately 75% of our debt portfolio to be fixed with respect to interest rates. Occasionally, we will use floating to fixed interest rate swaps as a tool to maintain our targeted level of fixed rate debt. In addition, we will use borrowings in foreign currencies, either obtained in the U.S. or by our foreign subsidiaries, to naturally hedge foreign


    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED
    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

    currency risk associated with our international investments. Sometimes we enter into currency swaps to temporarily hedge an overseas investment, such as a major acquisition, while we arrange permanent financing or to hedge our exposures relateddue to foreign currency exchange movements related to our intercompany accounts with and between our foreign subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2008 and 2009, none of our derivative instruments contained credit-risk related contingent features.

      f.
      Property, Plant and Equipment

    Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost and depreciated using the straight-line method with the following useful lives:

    BuildingsBuilding and building improvements

    405 to 50 years

    Leasehold improvements

    8 to 10 years or the life of the lease,
    whichever is shorter

    Racking

    53 to 20 years

    Warehouse equipment

    3 to 910 years

    Vehicles

    5 to 10 years

    Furniture and fixtures

    2 to 10 years

    Furniture and fixtures

    2 to 10 years

    Computer hardware and software

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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

            

    Property, plant and equipment (including capital leases in the respective category), at cost, consist of the following:

     

     

    December 31,

     

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Land and buildings

     

    $

    846,171

     

    $

    931,784

     

    Leasehold improvements

     

    208,693

     

    240,341

     

    Racking

     

    809,899

     

    944,299

     

    Warehouse equipment/vehicles

     

    146,593

     

    162,735

     

    Furniture and fixtures

     

    58,184

     

    60,047

     

    Computer hardware and software

     

    381,024

     

    449,713

     

    Construction in progress

     

    106,316

     

    177,076

     

     

     

    $

    2,556,880

     

    $

    2,965,995

     

     
     December 31, 
     
     2008 2009 

    Land, buildings and building improvements

     $1,091,340 $1,202,406 

    Leasehold improvements

      346,837  429,331 

    Racking

      1,198,015  1,318,501 

    Warehouse equipment/vehicles

      275,866  343,591 

    Furniture and fixtures

      72,678  78,265 

    Computer hardware and software

      620,922  663,739 

    Construction in progress

      144,857  148,798 
          

     $3,750,515 $4,184,631 
          

            

    Minor maintenance costs are expensed as incurred. Major improvements which extend the life, increase the capacity or improve the safety or the efficiency of property owned are capitalized. Major improvements to leased buildings are capitalized as leasehold improvements and depreciated.

    We develop various software applications for internal use. Payroll and related costs for employees who are directly associated with, and who devote time to, the development of internal use computer software projects (to the extent of the time spent directly on the project) are capitalized in accordance with Statement of Position 98-1, “Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use” (“SOP 98-1”).capitalized. Capitalization begins when the design stage of the application has been completed and it is probable that the project will be completed and used to perform the function intended. Capitalized software costs are depreciated over the estimated useful life of the software beginning when


    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED
    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

    the software is placed in service. During the yearyears ended December 31, 2006,2007, 2008 and 2009, we wrote-off $6,329$1,263, $610 and $600, respectively, of previously deferred software costs (primarily in Corporate), primarily internal labor costs, associated with internal use software development projects that were discontinued after implementation, which resulted in a loss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and such costs are included as a component of selling, general and administrative expensesequipment, net in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations.

    In March 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued FASB Interpretation No. 47, “Accounting for Conditional Asset Retirement Obligations” (“FIN 47”), an interpretation of SFAS No. 143, “Accounting for Asset Retirement Obligations” (“SFAS No. 143”). FIN 47 clarifies that conditional asset retirement obligations meet the definition of liabilities and should be recognized when incurred if their fair values can be reasonably estimated. Uncertainty surrounding the timing and method of settlement that may be conditional on events occurring in the future        Entities are factored into the measurement of the liability rather than the existence of the liability. SFAS No. 143 established accounting and reporting standards for obligations associated with the retirement of tangible long-lived assets legally required by law, regulatory rule or contractual agreement and the associated asset retirement costs. SFAS No. 143 requires entities to record the fair value of a liability for an asset retirement obligation in the period in which it is incurred. Asset retirement obligations represent the costs to repair, replace or remove tangible long-lived assets required by law, regulatory rule or contractual agreement. When the liability is initially recorded, the entity capitalizes the cost by increasing the carrying amount of the related long-lived asset, which is then depreciated over the useful life of the related asset. The liability is increased over time through income such that the liability will equate to the future cost to retire the long-lived asset at the expected retirement date. Upon settlement of the liability, an entity either settles the obligation for its recorded amount or incursrealizes a gain or loss upon settlement. Our obligations are primarily the result of requirements under our facility lease agreements which generally have “return"return to original condition”condition" clauses which would require us to remove or restore items such as shred pits, vaults, demising walls and office build-outs, among others. As of December 31, 2005, we have recognized the cumulative effect of initially applying FIN 47 as a cumulative effect of change in accounting principle as prescribed in FIN 47. The impact of adopting FIN 47 as of December 31, 2005 was a gross charge of $4,422 ($2,751, net of tax), an increase in property, plant and equipment, net of $1,889 and long-term liabilities of $6,311. The significant assumptions used in estimating our aggregate asset retirement obligation are the timing of removals, estimated cost and associated


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)


    expected inflation rates that are consistent with historical rates and credit-adjusted risk-free rates that approximate our incremental borrowing rate.

    A reconciliation of liabilities for asset retirement obligations (included in other long-term liabilities) is as follows:

     

     

    2006

     

    Asset Retirement Obligations, beginning of the year

     

    $

    6,311

     

    Liabilities Incurred

     

    537

     

    Liabilities Settled

     

    (410

    )

    Accretion Expense

     

    636

     

    Asset Retirement Obligations, end of the year

     

    $

    7,074

     

    Had we applied the provisions of FIN 47 as of January 1, 2004, the pro forma impacts on net income and basic and diluted earnings per common share would not be material for 2004 and 2005.

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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

     
     December 31, 
     
     2008 2009 

    Asset Retirement Obligations, beginning of the year

     $7,775 $9,096 

    Liabilities Incurred

      797  882 

    Liabilities Settled

      (486) (312)

    Accretion Expense

      1,010  1,233 
          

    Asset Retirement Obligations, end of the year

     $9,096 $10,899 
          

      g.
      Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets

    We apply the provisions of SFAS No. 142, “Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets.” Under SFAS No. 142, goodwill        Goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite lives are not amortized but are reviewed annually for impairment or more frequently if impairment indicators arise. We currently have no intangible assets that have indefinite lives and which are not amortized, other than goodwill. Separable intangible assets that are not deemed to have indefinite lives are amortized over their useful lives. We periodically assess whether events or circumstances warrant a change in the life over which our intangible assets are amortized.

    We have selected October 1 as our annual goodwill impairment review date. We performed our annual goodwill impairment review as of October 1, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 20062009, and noted no impairment of goodwill. In making this assessment, we rely on a number of factors including operating results, business plans, economic projections, anticipated future cash flows, transactions and market place data. There are inherent uncertainties related to these factors and our judgment in applying them to the analysis of goodwill impairment. As of December 31, 2006,2009, no factors were identified that would alter this assessment. Our reporting units at which level we performed our goodwill impairment analysis as of October 1, 2006 were as follows:  North America excluding Fulfillment, Fulfillment, U.K., Continental Europe, Worldwide Digital Business excluding Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc. (“IPM”), IPM, South America, Mexico and Asia Pacific. When changes occur in the composition of one or more reporting units, the goodwill is reassigned to the reporting units affected based on their relative fair value.values. Our reporting units at which level we performed our goodwill impairment analysis as of October 1, 2009 were as follows: North America (excluding Fulfillment), Fulfillment, Europe, Worldwide Digital Business (excluding Stratify, Inc. ("Stratify")), Stratify, Latin America and Asia Pacific. As of December 31, 2009, the carrying value of goodwill, net amounted to $1,719,124, $1,322, $470,921, $124,035, $130,014, $28,385 and $60,912 for North America (excluding Fulfillment), Fulfillment, Europe, Worldwide Digital Business (excluding Stratify), Stratify, Latin America and Asia Pacific, respectively.

    Goodwill        Our North America (excluding Fulfillment); Fulfillment; Europe; Worldwide Digital Business (excluding Stratify); Stratify and Latin America reporting units have fair values as of October 1, 2009 that significantly exceed their carrying values. Our Asia Pacific reporting unit has a fair value that exceeds its carrying value by 9% as of October 1, 2009. Asia Pacific is still in the investment stage and accordingly its fair value does not exceed its carrying value by a significant margin at this point in time.


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    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)


    A deterioration of the Asia Pacific business or the business not achieving the forecasted results could lead to an impairment in future periods.

            Reporting unit valuations have been calculated using an income approach based on the present value of future cash flows of each reporting unit. Thisunit or a combined approach based on the present value of future cash flows and market and transaction multiples of revenues and earnings. The income approach incorporates many assumptions including future growth rates, discount factors, expected capital expenditures and income tax cash flows. Changes in economic and operating conditions impacting these assumptions could result in goodwill impairments in future periods.


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    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)
    conjunction with our annual goodwill impairment reviews, we reconcile the sum of the valuations of all of our reporting units to our market capitalization as of such dates.

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

    The changes in the carrying value of goodwill attributable to each reportable operating segment for the years ended December 31, 20052008 and 20062009 is as follows:

     

     

    North
     American
     Physical
     Business

     

    International
     Physical
     Business

     

    Worldwide
     Digital
     Business

     

    Total
     Consolidated

     

    Balance as of December 31, 2004

     

    $

    1,503,224

     

     

    $

    424,373

     

     

    $

    112,620

     

     

    $

    2,040,217

     

     

    Deductible goodwill acquired during the year

     

    17,260

     

     

    10,878

     

     

     

     

    28,138

     

     

    Non-deductible goodwill acquired during the year

     

    15,871

     

     

    47,209

     

     

    22,298

     

     

    85,378

     

     

    Adjustments to purchase reserves

     

    (328

    )

     

    (854

    )

     

    308

     

     

    (874

    )

     

    Fair value adjustments

     

    822

     

     

    (1,951

    )

     

    (1,427

    )

     

    (2,556

    )

     

    Currency effects and other Adjustments(1)

     

    6,188

     

     

    (15,913

    )

     

    (1,937

    )

     

    (11,662

    )

     

    Balance as of December 31, 2005

     

    1,543,037

     

     

    463,742

     

     

    131,862

     

     

    2,138,641

     

     

    Deductible goodwill acquired during the year

     

    5,581

     

     

    1,726

     

     

     

     

    7,307

     

     

    Non-deductible goodwill acquired during the year

     

    3,215

     

     

    5,877

     

     

     

     

    9,092

     

     

    Adjustments to purchase reserves

     

    (369

    )

     

    (2,414

    )

     

    (91

    )

     

    (2,874

    )

     

    Fair value adjustments

     

    (7,514

    )

     

    (15,842

    )

     

    (2,282

    )

     

    (25,638

    )

     

    Currency effects and other Adjustments(1)

     

    (2,125

    )

     

    46,178

     

     

    (5,452

    )

     

    38,601

     

     

    Balance as of December 31, 2006

     

    $

    1,541,825

     

     

    $

    499,267

     

     

    $

    124,037

     

     

    $

    2,165,129

     

     

     
     North
    American
    Physical
    Business
     International
    Physical
    Business
     Worldwide
    Digital
    Business
     Total
    Consolidated
     

    Balance as of December 31, 2007

     $1,717,700 $597,195 $259,397 $2,574,292 

    Deductible goodwill acquired during the year

      12,281      12,281 

    Non-deductible goodwill acquired during the year

        5,999    5,999 

    Adjustments to purchase reserves

      6,927  218    7,145 

    Fair value and other adjustments(1)

      (3,302) 4,395  (5,348) (4,255)

    Currency effects

      (44,146) (99,012)   (143,158)
              

    Balance as of December 31, 2008

      1,689,460  508,795  254,049  2,452,304 

    Adjustments to purchase reserves

      (1,094) (24)   (1,118)

    Fair value and other adjustments(2)

      2,467  6,959    9,426 

    Currency effects

      29,613  44,488    74,101 
              

    Balance as of December 31, 2009

     $1,720,446 $560,218 $254,049 $2,534,713 
              

    (1)          Other
    Fair value and other adjustments include contingent paymentsprimarily includes $2,319 of cash paid related to prior year's acquisitions, made in previous years.

    adjustments to deferred taxes of approximately $(3,213), and finalization of deferred revenue, customer relationship and property, plant and equipment (primarily racking) allocations from preliminary estimates previously recorded of approximately $(3,361).

    (2)
    Fair value and other adjustments primarily includes $2,033 of cash paid related to prior year's acquisitions, $6,963 of contingent earn-out obligations accrued and unpaid as of December 31, 2009 and $430 of adjustments to deferred income taxes.

    h.
    Long-Lived Assets

    In accordance with SFAS No. 144, “Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets,” we        We review long-lived assets and all amortizable intangible assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of such assets may not be recoverable. Recoverability of these assets is determined by comparing the forecasted undiscounted net cash flows of


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    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)


    the operation to which the assets relate to their carrying amount. The operations are generally distinguished by the business segment and geographic region in which they operate. If the operation is determined to be unable to recover the carrying amount of its assets, then intangible assets are written down first, followed by the other long-lived assets of the operation, to fair value. Fair value is determined based on discounted cash flows or appraised values, depending upon the nature of the assets.

    Consolidated gains on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net of $681 for$5,472 in the year ended December 31, 2004,2007 consisted primarily of a gain onrelated to insurance proceeds from our property claim of $7,745 associated with the saleJuly 2006 fire in one of our London, England facilities, net of a property$1,263 write-off of previously deferred software costs in Florida during the second quarter of 2004 of approximately $1,200 offset by disposals and asset writedowns.Corporate associated with a discontinued product after implementation. Consolidated gainsloss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net of $3,485 for$7,483 in the year ended December 31, 2005,2008 consisted primarily of a gainlosses on the salewritedown of a facility in the U.K. during the fourth quarter of 2005certain facilities of approximately $4,500 offset by$6,019 in our North American Physical Business, $610 write-off of previously deferred software costs in Corporate associated with discontinued products after implementation and other disposals and asset writedowns. Consolidated gainsloss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net of $9,560$406 in the year ended December 31, 2006


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    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

    2009 consisted primarily of a gain on the saledisposal of a facilitybuilding in the U.K. in the fourth quarter of 2006our International Physical segment of approximately $10,499$1,900 in France, offset by disposalslosses on the writedown of certain facilities of approximately $1,000 in our North American Physical segment, $700 in our International Physical segment, $300 in our Worldwide Digital segment and asset writedowns.$300 in Corporate (associated with discontinued products after implementation).

      i.
      Customer Relationships and Acquisition Costs and Other Intangible Assets

    Costs related to the acquisition of large volume accounts, net of revenues received for the initial transfer of the records, are capitalized. CostsInitial costs incurred to transport the boxes to one of our facilities, which includes labor and transportation charges, are amortized over periods ranging from fiveone to 30 years (weighted average of 2725 years at December 31, 2006)2009), and are included in depreciation and amortization in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Payments to a customer’scustomer's current records management vendor or direct payments to a customer are amortized over approximately 5periods ranging from one to 10 years (weighted average of 4 years at December 31, 2009) to the storage and service revenue line items in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. If the customer terminates its relationship with us, the unamortized cost is charged to expense or revenue. However, in the event of such termination, we generally collect, and record as income, permanent removal fees that generally equal or exceed the amount of the unamortized costs. Customer relationship intangible assets acquired through business combinations, which represents the majority of the balance, are amortized over periods ranging from six to 30 years (weighted average of 1922 years at December 31, 2006)2009). Amounts allocated in purchase accounting to customer relationship intangible assets are calculated based upon estimates of their fair value. As of December 31, 2005 and 2006, the gross carrying amount of customer relationships and acquisition costs was $264,728 and $339,591, respectively, and accumulated amortization of those costs was $35,722 and $56,835, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, amortization expense was $10,044, $12,910 and $16,292, respectively, included in depreciation and amortization in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. For the year ended December 31, 2006, the charge to revenues associated with large volume accounts was $3,681, which represents the level anticipated over the next 5 years.

    Other intangible assets, including noncompetition agreements, acquired core technology and trademarks, are capitalized and amortized over a weightedperiods ranging from two to 25 years (weighted average period of eight years. As of9 years at December 31, 20052009).


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    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and 2006, theper share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

            The gross carrying amount of other intangible assets was $30,094 and $32,985, respectively, and accumulated amortization of those costs was $5,082 and $9,521, respectively, included in other in other assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Forare as follows:

     
     December 31, 
    Gross Caryying Amount
     2008 2009 

    Customer relationship and acquisition costs

      541,300  574,223 

    Other intangible assets (included in other assets, net)

      
    55,682
      
    56,738
     

    Accumulated Amortization
      
      
     

    Customer relationship and acquisition costs

      97,571  135,411 

    Other intangible assets (included in other assets, net)

      20,815  29,208 

            The amortization expense for the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006, amortization expense was $1,638, $3,314 and $4,336, respectively, included in depreciation and amortization in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.2009 are as follows:

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Customer relationship and acquisition costs:

              
     

    Amortization expense included in depreciation and amortization

      22,110  28,366  27,202 
     

    Amortization expense charged to revenues

      4,864  6,528  8,096 

    Other intangible assets:

              
     

    Amortization expense included in depreciation and amortization

      4,526  7,753  8,299 

    Estimated amortization expense for existing intangible assets (excluding deferred financing costs, which are amortized through interest expense)expense, of $5,156, $5,156, $4,596, $4,409 and $3,577 for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively) for the next five succeeding fiscal years is as follows:

     

     

    Estimated Amortization Expense

     

    2007

     

     

    $

    18,779

     

     

    2008

     

     

    18,624

     

     

    2009

     

     

    18,600

     

     

    2010

     

     

    18,036

     

     

    2011

     

     

    16,105

     

     


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    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

     
     Estimated Amortization 
     
     Included in Depreciation
    and Amortization
     Charged to Revenues 

    2010

      29,915  4,317 

    2011

      27,976  3,274 

    2012

      26,894  1,852 

    2013

      26,009  951 

    2014

      25,102  458 
      j.
      Deferred Financing Costs

    Deferred financing costs are amortized over the life of the related debt using the effective interest rate method. If debt is retired early, the related unamortized deferred financing costs are written off in the period the debt is retired to other expense (income) expense,, net. As of December 31, 20052008 and 2006,2009, gross carrying amount of deferred financing costs was $46,697$52,778 and $50,775,$52,952, respectively, and accumulated amortization of those costs was $15,091$19,592 and $20,980,$17,746, respectively, and was recorded in other assets, net in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet.


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    DECEMBER 31, 2009
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    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

      k.
      Accrued Expenses

    Accrued expenses consist of the following:

     

     

    December 31,

     

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Interest

     

    $

    49,800

     

    $

    56,971

     

    Payroll and vacation

     

    42,456

     

    48,946

     

    Derivative liability

     

    2,359

     

    1,336

     

    Restructuring costs (see Note 6)

     

    5,541

     

    2,821

     

    Incentive compensation

     

    32,364

     

    34,773

     

    Other

     

    134,200

     

    122,086

     

     

     

    $

    266,720

     

    $

    266,933

     

     
     December 31, 
     
     2008 2009 

    Interest

     $60,305 $67,924 

    Payroll and vacation

      72,094  77,475 

    Restructuring costs (see Note 6)

      2,278  1,052 

    Incentive compensation

      45,134  55,416 

    Income taxes

        21,764 

    Other

      176,662  167,229 
          

     $356,473 $390,860 
          
      l.
      Revenues

            

    l.      Revenues

    Our revenues consist of storage revenues as well as service revenues and storage materialare reflected net of sales revenues.and value added taxes. Storage revenues, both physical and digital, which are considered a key performance indicator for the information management services industry, consist of largely recurring periodic charges related to the storage of materials or data (generally on a per unit or per cubic foot of records basis). Service and storage material sales revenues are comprised of charges for related core service activities and courier operationsa wide array of complementary products and the sale of software licenses and storage materials.services. Included in service and storage materials sales are related core service revenues arising from: (a)are: (1) the handling of records including the addition of new records, temporary removal of records from storage, refiling of removed records, destruction of records, and permanent withdrawlswithdrawals from storage; (b)(2) courier operations, consisting primarily of the pickup and delivery of records upon customer request; (c)(3) secure shredding of sensitive documents; and (d)(4) other recurring services including maintenance and support contracts. Our complementary services revenues arise frominclude special project work, including data restoration providingprojects, fulfillment services, consulting services and product sales including(including software licenses, specially designed storage containers magnetic media including computer tapes and related supplies.supplies). Our secure shredding revenues include the sale of recycled paper (included in complementary services), the price of which can fluctuate from period to period, adding to the volatility and reducing the predictability of that revenue stream.

    We recognize revenue when the following criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, services have been rendered, the sales price is fixed or determinable, and collectability of the resulting receivable is reasonably assured. Storage and service revenues are recognized in the month the respective storage or service is provided and customers are generally billed on a monthly basis on


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    DECEMBER 31, 2006
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    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

    contractually agreed-upon terms. Amounts related to future storage or prepaid service contracts, including maintenance and support contracts, for customers where storage fees or services are billed in advance are accounted for as deferred revenue and recognized ratably over the applicable storage or service period or when the service is performed. Storage materialRevenue from the sales areof products is recognized when shipped to the customer and include software license sales (less than 1% of consolidated revenues in 2006).title has passed to the customer. Sales of software licenses to distributors are recognized at the time a distributor reports thatof product delivery to our customer or reseller and maintenance and support agreements are recognized ratably over the software has been licensed to an end-userterm of the agreement. Software license sales and all revenue recognition criteria have been satisfied.maintenance and support accounted for less than 1% of our 2009 consolidated revenues. Within our


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    Worldwide Digital Business segment, in certain instances, we process and host data for customers. In these instances, the processing fees are deferred and recognized over the estimated service period.

      m.
      Rent Normalization

    We have entered into various leases for buildings.buildings that expire over various terms. Certain leases have fixed escalation clauses (excluding those tied to CPI or other inflation-based indices) or other features (including return to original condition, primarily in the United Kingdom) which require normalization of the rental expense over the life of the lease resulting in deferred rent being reflected in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. In addition, we have assumed various above and below market leases in connection with certain of our acquisitions. The difference between the present value of these lease obligations and the market rate at the date of the acquisition was recorded as a deferred rent liability or other long-term asset and is being amortized over the remaining lives of the respective leases.

      n.
      Stock-Based Compensation

    In December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 123R, “Share-Based Payment.” SFAS No. 123R is a revision of SFAS No. 123 and supersedes Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25, “Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees” (“APB No. 25”). We adopted the measurement provisions of SFAS No. 123, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation,” as amended by SFAS No. 148, “Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation—Transition and Disclosure” in our financial statements beginning January 1, 2003 using the prospective method. The prospective method involves recognizing expense for the fair value for all awards granted or modified in the year of adoption and thereafter with no expense recognition for previous awards. We have applied the fair value recognition provisions to all stock based awards granted, modified or settled on or after January 1, 2003.

    We adopted SFAS No. 123R effective January 1, 2006 using the modified prospective method, as permitted under SFAS No. 123R.        We record stock-based compensation expense, utilizing the straight-line method, for the cost of stock options, restricted stock and shares issued under the employee stock purchase plan (together, “Employee"Employee Stock-Based Awards”Awards") based on the requirements of SFAS No. 123R beginning January 1, 2006..

    Stock-based compensation expense, included in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, for the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 20062009 was $3,857$13,861 ($3,567 after tax or $0.02 per basic and diluted share), $6,189 ($4,757 after tax or $0.02 per basic and diluted share) and $12,387 ($9,18810,164 after tax or $0.05 per basic and diluted share), $18,988 ($15,682 after tax or $0.08 per basic and diluted share) and $18,703 ($14,716 after tax or $0.07 per basic and diluted share), respectively, for Employee Stock-Based Awards. For the year ended December 31, 2006, the incremental stock-based compensation expense due to the adoption of SFAS No. 123R caused income before provision for income taxes and minority interest to


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    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

    decrease by $894, and net income to decrease by $539, and had no impact on basic and diluted earnings per share.

    SFAS No. 123R also requires that the        The benefits associated with the tax deductions in excess of recognized compensation cost beare reported as a financing cash flow, rather than as an operating cash flow as required under APB No. 25.flow. This requirement reduces reported operating cash flows and increases reported financing cash flows. As a result, net financing cash flows included $4,387$6,765, $5,112 and $5,532 for the yearyears ended December 31, 2006,2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively, from the benefits of tax deductions in excess of recognized compensation cost. Under prior accounting rules, this amount would have been included in net operating cash flows. We used the short form method to calculate the Additional Paid-in Capital (“APIC”("APIC") pool, thepool. The tax benefit of any resulting excess tax deduction should increaseincreases the APIC pool; anypool. Any resulting tax deficiency should beis deducted from the APIC pool.

    The following table details the effect on net income and earnings per share had stock-based compensation expense for the Employee Stock-Based Awards been recorded based on SFAS No. 123R. The reported and pro forma net income and earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2006 in the table below are the same since stock-based compensation expense is calculated under the provisions of SFAS No. 123R. These amounts for the year ended December 31, 2006 are included in the table below only to provide the detail for a comparative presentation to the same periods of 2004 and 2005.

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Net income, as reported

     

    $

    94,191

     

    $

    111,099

     

    $

    128,863

     

    Add: Stock-based employee compensation expense included in reported net income, net of tax benefit

     

    3,567

     

    4,757

     

    9,188

     

    Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under fair value based method for all awards, net of tax benefit

     

    (5,432

    )

    (5,965

    )

    (9,188

    )

    Net income, pro forma

     

    $

    92,326

     

    $

    109,891

     

    $

    128,863

     

    Earnings per share:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Basic—as reported

     

    $

    0.49

     

    $

    0.57

     

    $

    0.65

     

    Basic—pro forma

     

    0.48

     

    0.56

     

    0.65

     

    Diluted—as reported

     

    0.48

     

    0.56

     

    0.64

     

    Diluted—pro forma

     

    0.47

     

    0.55

     

    0.64

     

    Stock Options

    Under our various stock option plans, options were granted with exercise prices equal to the market price of the stock aton the date of grant. The majority of our options become exercisable ratably over a period of five years and generally have a contractual life of 10 years, unless the holder’sholder's employment is terminated. Beginning in 2007, certain of the options we issue become exercisable ratably over a period of ten years and have a contractual life of 12 years, unless the holder's employment is terminated. As of December 31, 2009, 10-year vesting options represent 8.5% of total outstanding options. Our Directorsdirectors are considered employees under the provisionsfor purposes of SFAS No. 123R.our stock option plans and stock option reporting.


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    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

            In December 2008, we amended each of the Iron Mountain Incorporated 2002 Stock Incentive Plan, the Iron Mountain Incorporated 1997 Stock Option Plan, the LiveVault Corporation 2001 Stock Incentive Plan and the Stratify, Inc. 1999 Stock Plan (each a "Plan" and, collectively, the "Plans") to provide that any unvested options and other awards granted under the respective Plan shall vest immediately should an employee be terminated by the Company, or terminate his or her own employment for good reason (as defined in each Plan), in connection with a vesting change in control (as defined in each Plan).

    A total of 29,112,68537,536,442 shares of common stock have been reserved for grants of options and other rights under our various stock incentive plans. The number of shares available for grant at December 31, 20062009 was 7,301,608.7,609,807.

    The weighted average fair value of options granted in 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 20062009 was $8.58, $11.85$11.72, $9.49 and $14.84$9.72 per share, respectively. The values were estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The following table summarizes the weighted average assumptions used for grants in the year ended December 31:

    Weighted Average Assumption

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Expected volatility

     

    24.8

    %

    26.5

    %(1)

    24.2

    %(1)

    Risk-free interest rate

     

    3.41

    %

    4.12

    %

    4.66

    %

    Expected dividend yield

     

    None

     

    None

     

    None

     

    Expected life of the option

     

    5.0 years

     

    6.6 years

     

    6.6 years

     


    Weighted Average Assumption
     2007 2008 2009 

    Expected volatility

      27.7%  26.7%  32.1% 

    Risk-free interest rate

      4.42%  2.98%  2.64% 

    Expected dividend yield

      None  None  None 

    Expected life of the option

      7.5 Years  6.6 Years  6.4 Years 

    (1)          Calculated utilizing daily historical volatility over a period that equates to the expected life of the option.

    Expected volatility was calculated utilizing daily historical volatility over a period that equates to the expected life of the option. The risk-free interest rate was based on the U.S. Treasury interest rates whose term is consistent with the expected life of the stock options. Expected dividend yield was not considered in the option pricing model since we dohistorically have not pay dividends and have no current plans to do so in the future.paid dividends. The expected life (estimated period of time outstanding) of the stock options granted was estimated using the historical exercise behavior of employees.

    A summary of option activity for the year ended December 31, 20062009 is as follows:

     

     

    Options

     

    Weighted
    Average
    Exercise
    Price

     

    Weighted
    Average
    Remaining
    Contractual
    Term

     

    Aggregate
    Intrinsic
    Value

     

    Outstanding at December 31, 2005

     

    8,242,911

     

     

    $

    14.94

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Granted

     

    1,315,916

     

     

    26.88

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Exercised

     

    (1,096,729

    )

     

    10.60

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Forfeited

     

    (394,771

    )

     

    20.28

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Outstanding at December 31, 2006

     

    8,067,327

     

     

    $

    17.21

     

     

     

    6.4

     

     

     

    $

    83,498

     

     

    Options exercisable at December 31, 2006

     

    3,979,349

     

     

    $

    12.06

     

     

     

    4.5

     

     

     

    $

    61,680

     

     

     
     Options Weighted
    Average
    Exercise
    Price
     Weighted
    Average
    Remaining
    Contractual
    Term
     Aggregate
    Intrinsic
    Value
     

    Outstanding at December 31, 2008

      12,210,175 $22.70       

    Granted

      1,985,725  25.90       

    Exercised

      (1,356,386) 13.36       

    Forfeited

      (607,822) 26.51       

    Expired

      (132,331) 24.84       
                 

    Outstanding at December 31, 2009

      12,099,361 $24.06  6.44 $28,676 
              

    Options exercisable at December 31, 2009

      5,494,992 $20.73  5.71 $24,813 
              

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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

            

    The following table provides the aggregate intrinsic value of stock options exercised forand the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006 was approximately $23,090, $31,539 and $18,271, respectively. The aggregate fair value of stock options vested for the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006 was approximately $5,386, $4,717 and $7,487, respectively.2009:


     
     Years Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Aggregate intrinsic value of stock options exercised

     $24,113 $17,307 $18,929 
            

    Aggregate fair value of stock options vested

     $29,361 $17,825 $18,686 
            

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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

    Restricted Stock

    Under our various stock option plans, we may also issue grants of restricted stock. We grantedissued restricted stock in July 2005, which had a 3-year vesting period, and in December 2006, December 2007 and June 2009, which had a 5-year vesting period. The fair value of restricted stock is the excess of the market price of our common stock at the date of grant over the exercise price, which is zero. Included in our stock-based compensation expense for the years ended December 31, 20052007, 2008 and 20062009 is a portion of the cost related to restricted stock granted in July 2005. We did not grant restricted stock in 20042005, December 2006, December 2007 and 2006.June 2009.

    A summary of restricted stock activity for the year ended December 31, 20062009 is as follows:

     

     

    Restricted
    Stock

     

    Weighted-
    Average
    Grant-Date
    Fair Value

     

    Non-vested at December 31, 2005

     

     

    96,962

     

     

     

    $

    20.63

     

     

    Granted

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Vested

     

     

    (39,159

    )

     

     

    20.63

     

     

    Forfeited

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Non-vested at December 31, 2006

     

     

    57,803

     

     

     

    $

    20.63

     

     

     
     Restricted
    Stock
     Weighted-
    Average
    Grant-Date
    Fair Value
     

    Non-vested at December 31, 2008

      810 $37.53 

    Granted

      2,474  28.36 

    Vested

         

    Forfeited

      (1,008) 35.73 
           

    Non-vested at December 31, 2009

      2,276  28.36 
          

            

    The total fair value of shares vested for the years ended December 31, 20052007, 2008 and 20062009 was $0$863, $823 and $1,003,$0, respectively.

    Employee Stock Purchase Plan

    We offer an employee stock purchase plan in which participation is available to substantially all U.S. and Canadian employees who meet certain service eligibility requirements (the “ESPP”"ESPP"). The ESPP provides a way for our eligible employees to become stockholders on favorable terms. The ESPP provides for the purchase of our common stock by eligible employees through successive offering periods. We generally have two 6-month offering periods, the first of which begins June 1 and ends November 30 and the second begins December 1 and ends May 31. During each offering period, participating employees accumulate after-tax payroll contributions, up to a maximum of 15% of their compensation, to pay the exercise price of their options. Participating employees may withdraw from an


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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)


    offering period before the purchase date and obtain a refund of the amounts withheld as payroll deductions. At the end of the offering period, outstanding options are exercised, and each employee’semployee's accumulated contributions are used to purchase our common stock. The price for shares purchased under the ESPP is 85%95% of the fair market price at either the beginning or the end of the offering period, whichever is lower.without a look back feature. As a result, we do not recognize compensation cost for our ESPP shares purchased. The ESPP was amended and approved by our stockholders on May 26, 2005 to increase the number of shares from 1,687,500 to 3,487,500. For the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, there were 522,480, 579,173274,881 shares, 305,151 shares and 535,826258,680 shares, respectively, purchased under the ESPP. The number of shares available for purchase at December 31, 20062009 was 1,650,413. Beginning with the December 1, 2006 ESPP offering period, the price for shares purchased under the ESPP will be changed to 95% of the fair market price at the end of the offering period without a look back feature. As a result, we no longer need to recognize


    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED
    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)
    811,701.


    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

    compensation cost for our ESPP shares purchased beginning with the December 1, 2006 offering period and will, therefore, no longer have disclosure relative to our weighted average assumptions associated with determining the fair value stock option expense in our consolidated financial statements on a prospective basis relative to new offering periods.

    The fair value of the ESPP offerings is estimated on the date of grant using a Black-Scholes option valuation model that uses the assumptions noted in the following table for the respective periods. Expected volatility was calculated utilizing daily historical volatility over a period that equates to the expected life of the option. The risk-free interest rate was based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve in effect at the time of grant. The expected life equates to the 6-month offering period over which employees accumulate payroll deductions to purchase our common stock. Expected dividend yield was not considered in the option pricing model since we do not pay dividends and have no current plans to do so in the future.

     

     

    December 2003

     

    May 2004

     

    December 2004

     

    May 2005

     

    December 2005

     

    May 2006

     

    Weighted Average Assumption

     

     

     

    Offering

     

    Offering

     

    Offering

     

    Offering

     

    Offering

     

    Offering

     

    Expected volatility

     

     

    26.5

    %

     

     

    24.5

    %

     

     

    24.0

    %

     

     

    27.5

    %

     

     

    26.6

    %

     

     

    20.1

    %

     

    Risk-free interest rate

     

     

    2.85

    %

     

     

    3.36

    %

     

     

    3.41

    %

     

     

    3.96

    %

     

     

    4.04

    %

     

     

    4.75

    %

     

    Expected dividend yield

     

     

    None

     

     

     

    None

     

     

     

    None

     

     

     

    None

     

     

     

    None

     

     

     

    None

     

     

    Expected life of the option

     

     

    6 months

     

     

     

    6 months

     

     

     

    6 months

     

     

     

    6 months

     

     

     

    6 months

     

     

     

    6 months

     

     

    The weighted average fair value for the ESPP options was $7.68, $9.00, $6.07, $6.02, $8.70 and $7.20 for the December 2003, May 2004, December 2004, May 2005, December 2005 and May 2006 offerings, respectively.


    As of December 31, 2006,2009, unrecognized compensation cost related to the unvested portion of our Employee Stock-Based Awards was $28,983$59,506 and is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of 3.74.0 years.

    We generally issue shares for the exercises of stock options, issuance of restricted stock and issuance of shares under our ESPP from unissued reserved shares.

      o.
      Income Taxes

    We account        Accounting for income taxes in accordance with SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes” (“SFAS No. 109”), which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the tax and financial reporting basis of assets and liabilities and for loss and credit carryforwards. Valuation allowances are provided when recovery of deferred tax assets is not considered more likely than not. We have elected to recognize interest and penalties associated with uncertain tax positions as a component of the provision for income taxes in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.

      p.
      Income Per Share—Basic and Diluted

    In accordance with SFAS No. 128, “Earnings per Share,” basic        Basic net income per common share is calculated by dividing net income attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. The calculation of diluted net income per share is consistent with that of basic net income per share but gives


    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED
    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    effect to all potential common shares (that is, securities such as options, warrants or convertible securities) that were outstanding during the period, unless the effect is antidilutive. Potential common shares,


    2. SummaryTable of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)Contents

    substantially attributable to stock options, included in the calculation of diluted net income per share totaled 3,139,247, 2,116,623 and 2,347,203 shares for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. Potential common shares of 136,568, 961,407 and 725,398 for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively, have been excluded from the calculation of diluted net income per share, as their effects are antidilutive.

    q.     New Accounting Pronouncements

    In July 2006, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes” (“FIN 48”), an interpretation of SFAS No. 109. FIN 48 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in a company’s financial statements in accordance with SFAS No. 109. FIN 48 also prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return.

    The evaluation of a tax position in accordance with FIN 48 is a two-step process. The first step is a recognition process whereby the company determines whether it is more likely than not that a tax position will be sustained upon examination, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. The second step is a measurement process whereby a tax position that meets the more likely than not recognition threshold is calculated to determine the amount of benefit to recognize in the financial statements. The tax position is measured at the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement.

    The provisions of FIN 48 are effective January 1, 2007. The provisions of FIN 48 are to be applied to all tax positions upon initial adoption of this standard. Only tax positions that meet the more likely than not recognition threshold at the effective date may be recognized or continue to be recognized upon adoption of FIN 48. The cumulative effect of applying the provisions of FIN 48 should be reported as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings for that fiscal year. We are in the process of evaluating the effect of FIN 48 on our consolidated results of operations and financial position.

    In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements” (“SFAS No. 157”). SFAS No. 157 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies under other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements, and is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007 and interim periods within those fiscal years. We do not expect the adoption of SFAS No. 157 to have a material impact on our financial position or results of operations.

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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

            The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted net income per share attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated:

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Net income attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $153,094 $82,037 $220,877 
            

    Weighted-average shares—basic

      199,938,000  201,279,000  202,812,000 

    Effect of dilutive potential stock options

      2,108,554  2,004,974  1,458,777 

    Effect of dilutive potential restricted stock

      15,764  6,189  41 
            

    Weighted-average shares—diluted

      202,062,318  203,290,163  204,270,818 
            

    Net income per share attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated—basic

     $0.77 $0.41 $1.09 
            

    Net income per share attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated—diluted

     $0.76 $0.40 $1.08 
            

    Antidilutive stock options, excluded from the calculation

      2,039,601  4,065,455  8,085,784 
            
      q.
      New Accounting Pronouncements

            Effective January 1, 2009, GAAP for noncontrolling interests changed. The presentation and disclosure requirements of noncontrolling interests have been applied to all of our financial statements, notes and other financial data retrospectively for all periods presented.

    In June 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") established the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (the "Codification") to become the source of authoritative U.S. GAAP recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative U.S. GAAP for SEC registrants. The Codification was effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after September 2006,15, 2009. The Codification superseded all then-existing non-SEC accounting and reporting standards on July 1, 2009, and all other non-grandfathered non-SEC accounting literature not included in the SecuritiesCodification became nonauthoritative. The adoption of the Codification did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and Exchange Commissionresults of operations.

            Effective at the start of a reporting entity's first fiscal year beginning after November 15, 2009, or January 1, 2010, for a calendar year-end entity, the Codification will require more information about transfers of financial assets, including securitization transactions, and transactions where entities have continuing exposure to the risks related to transferred financial assets. The Codification eliminates the concept of a "qualifying special-purpose entity," changes the requirements for derecognizing financial assets, and requires additional disclosures about an entity's involvement with variable interest entities and any significant changes in risk exposure due to that involvement. A reporting entity will be required to disclose how its involvement with a variable interest entity affects the reporting entity's


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    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)


    financial statements. We do not expect the adoption of these Codification updates to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and results of operations.

            In October 2009, the FASB issued Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 108 (“SAB 108”), “Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements When Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements,” which provides interpretiveamended guidance on howmultiple-deliverable revenue arrangements and software revenue recognition. The multiple-deliverable revenue arrangements updates to the effectsCodification applies to all deliverables in contractual arrangements in all industries in which a vendor will perform multiple revenue-generating activities. The change to the Codification creates a selling price hierarchy that an entity must use as evidence of fair value in separately accounting for all deliverables on a relative-selling-price basis which qualify for separation. The selling price hierarchy includes: (1) vendor-specific objective evidence; (2) third-party evidence and (3) estimated selling price. Broadly speaking, this update to the carryover or reversalCodification will result in the possibility for some entities to recognize revenue earlier and more closely align with the economics of prior year misstatementscertain revenue arrangements if the other criteria for separation (e.g. standalone value to the customer) are met. The software revenue recognition guidance was issued to address factors that entities should be consideredconsider when determining whether the software and non-software components function together to deliver the product's essential functionality. The software revenue recognition updates to the Codification will allow revenue arrangements in quantifying a current year misstatement. SAB 108 iswhich the software and non-software components deliver together the product's essential functionality to follow the multiple-deliverable revenue recognition criteria as opposed to the criteria applicable to software revenue recognition. Both updates are effective for fiscal years endingbeginning on or after NovemberJune 15, 2006.2010 and apply prospectively to new or materially modified revenue arrangements after its effective date. Early adoption is permitted; however, we do not anticipate early adopting. We have completed our analysis relatedare currently evaluating the impact of these Codification updates to the implementation of SAB 108 and have concluded it has no effect on our consolidated financial statements.statements and results of operations.

    In February 2007,January 2010, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, “The Fair Value Optionamended guidance improving disclosures about fair value measurements to add new requirements for Financial Assetsdisclosures about transfers into and Financial Liabilities-Including an amendmentout of FASB Statement No. 115” (“SFAS No. 159”). SFAS No. 159 permits entitiesLevels 1 and 2 and separate disclosures about purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements relating to chooseLevel 3 measurements. The new guidance also clarifies existing fair value disclosures about the level of disaggregation and about inputs and valuation techniques used to measure many financial instruments and certain other items at fair value. SFAS No. 159The Codification requires an entity, in determining the appropriate classes of assets and liabilities, to consider the nature and risks of the assets and liabilities as well as their placement in the fair value hierarchy (Level 1, 2 or 3). The Codification is effective for the first reporting period, including interim periods, beginning after December 15, 2009, except for the requirement to provide the Level 3 activity of purchases, sales, issuances, and settlements on a gross basis, which will be effective for fiscal years beginning after NovemberDecember 15, 2007.2010. In the period of initial adoption, entities will not be required to provide the amended disclosures for any previous periods presented for comparative purposes. However, those disclosures are required for periods ending after initial adoption. Early adoption is permitted; however, we do not anticipate early adopting. We are in the process of evaluating the effect of SFAS No. 159do not expect adoption to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements and results of operations and financial position.operations.

      r.      Rollforward of
      Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and Credit Memo Reserves

            We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts and credit memos for estimated losses resulting from the potential inability of our customers to make required payments and disputes regarding billing and service issues. When calculating the allowance, we consider our past loss experience, current and

    Year Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    Balance at
    Beginning of the
    Year

     

    Charged to
    Revenue

     

    Charged to
    Expense

     

    Other
    Additions(1)

     

    Deductions(2)

     

    Balance at
    End of
    the Year

     

    2004

     

     

    $

    20,922

     

     

     

    $

    17,858

     

     

     

    $

    (4,569

    )

     

     

    $

    4,397

     

     

     

    $

    (24,722

    )

     

     

    $

    13,886

     

     

    2005

     

     

    13,886

     

     

     

    21,124

     

     

     

    4,402

     

     

     

    67

     

     

     

    (24,957

    )

     

     

    14,522

     

     

    2006

     

     

    14,522

     

     

     

    23,147

     

     

     

    2,836

     

     

     

    596

     

     

     

    (25,944

    )

     

     

    15,157

     

     


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    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)


    prior trends in our aged receivables and credit memo activity, current economic conditions, and specific circumstances of individual receivable balances. If the financial condition of our customers were to significantly change, resulting in a significant improvement or impairment of their ability to make payments, an adjustment of the allowance may be required. We consider accounts receivable to be delinquent after such time as reasonable means of collection have been exhausted. We charge-off uncollectible balances as circumstances warrant, generally, no later than one year past due.

            Rollforward of allowance for doubtful accounts and credit memo reserves is as follows:

    Year Ended December 31,
     Balance at
    Beginning of
    the Year
     Credit Memos
    Charged to
    Revenue
     Allowance for
    Bad Debts
    Charged to
    Expense
     Other
    Additions(1)
     Deductions(2) Balance at
    End of
    the Year
     

    2007

     $15,157 $21,075 $2,894 $1,189 $(21,069)$19,246 

    2008

      19,246  31,885  10,702  (1,819) (40,452) 19,562 

    2009

      19,562  43,529  11,832  764  (50,158) 25,529 

    (1)
    Primarily consists of recoveries of previously written-off accounts receivable, allowances of businesses acquired and the impact associated with currency translation adjustments.



    (2)
    (2)Primarily consists of the write-off of accounts receivable and adjustments to allowances of businesses acquired.

    receivable.

    s.      Accumulated Other Comprehensive Items, Net

    Accumulated other comprehensive items, net consists of the following:

     

     

    December 31,

     

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Foreign currency translation adjustments

     

    $

    18,259

     

    $

    32,918

     

    Market value adjustments for hedging contracts, net of tax

     

    (213

    )

    (170

    )

    Market value adjustments for securities, net of tax

     

    638

     

    1,046

     

     

     

    $

    18,684

     

    $

    33,794

     


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

    t.    

    Concentrations of Credit Risk

    Financial instruments that potentially subject us to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of temporary cash investmentsand cash equivalents and accounts receivable. We have noThe only significant concentrations of credit riskliquid investments as of December 31, 2006.2009 relates to cash and cash equivalents held on deposit with five global banks and ten "Triple A" rated money market funds which we consider to be large, highly rated investment grade institutions. As of December 31, 2009, our cash and cash equivalent balance was $446,656, including money market funds and time deposits amounting to $381,599. A substantial portion of these money market funds are invested in U.S. treasuries.

      t.
      Fair Value Measurements

            Entities are permitted under GAAP to elect to measure many financial instruments and certain other items at either fair value or cost. We did not elect the fair value measurement option for any of our financial assets or liabilities.

            Our financial assets or liabilities are measured using inputs from the three levels of the fair value hierarchy. A financial asset or liability's classification within the hierarchy is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The three levels are as follows:

            Level 1—Inputs are unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that we have the ability to access at the measurement date.

            Level 2—Inputs include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability (i.e., interest rates, yield curves, etc.), and


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)


    inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means (market corroborated inputs).

            Level 3—Unobservable inputs that reflect our assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.

            The following tables provide the assets and liabilities carried at fair value measured on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively:

     
      
     Fair Value Measurements at
    December 31, 2008 Using
     
    Description
     Total Carrying
    Value at
    December 31,
    2008
     Quoted prices
    in active
    markets
    (Level 1)
     Significant other
    observable
    inputs
    (Level 2)
     Significant
    unobservable
    inputs
    (Level 3)
     

    Money Market Funds(1)

     $163,251 $ $163,251 $ 

    Time Deposits(1)

      40,098    40,098   

    Available-for-Sale and Trading Securities

      5,612  4,691(2) 921(1)  

    Derivative Assets(3)

      13,675    13,675   


     
      
     Fair Value Measurements at
    December 31, 2009 Using
     
    Description
     Total Carrying
    Value at
    December 31,
    2009
     Quoted prices
    in active
    markets
    (Level 1)
     Significant other
    observable
    inputs
    (Level 2)
     Significant
    unobservable
    inputs
    (Level 3)
     

    Money Market Funds(1)

     $265,904 $ $265,904 $ 

    Time Deposits(1)

      115,695    115,695   

    Trading Securities

      10,168  8,061(2) 2,107(1)  

    Derivative Assets(3)

      4,115    4,115   

    (1)
    Money market funds and time deposits (including those in certain available-for-sale and trading securities) are measured based on quoted prices for similar assets and/or subsequent transactions.

    (2)
    Securities are measured at fair value using quoted market prices.

    (3)
    Our derivative assets primarily relate to short-term (three months or less) foreign currency contracts that we have entered into to hedge our intercompany exposures denominated in British pounds sterling. We calculate the fair value of such forward contracts by adjusting the spot rate utilized at the balance sheet date for translation purposes by an estimate of the forward points observed in active markets.

            Disclosures are required in the financial statements for items measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis. We did not have any material items that are measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis for the year ended December 31, 2009.


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Continued)

      u.
      Available-for-sale and Trading Securities

    We have one trust that holds marketable securities. Marketable securities are classified as available-for-sale as defined by SFAS No. 115, “Accounting for Certain Investments and Debt and Equity Securities.”or trading. As of December 31, 20052008 and 2006,2009, the fair value of the money market and mutual funds included in this trust amounted to $5,917$5,612 and $7,414,$10,168, respectively, included in prepaid expenses and other in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. IncludedFor the year ended December 31, 2007, the marketable securities included in the trust were classified as available-for-sale and net realized gains of $961 were included in other expense (income), net in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. Cumulative unrealized gains, net of tax of $663 are included in other comprehensive items, net included in Iron Mountain Incorporated stockholders' equity as of December 31, 2007. During 2008, we classified these marketable securities included in the trust as trading, and included in other expense (income), net in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations realized and unrealized net losses of $2,563 and net gains of $1,745 for the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively.

      v.
      Investments

            As of December 31, 2009, we have investments in joint ventures, including noncontrolling interests in Archive Management Solutions of 20% (Poland), in Team Delta Holding A/S of 20% (Denmark), in Iron Mountain Arsivleme Hizmetleri A.S. of 40% (Turkey), in Safe doc S.A. of 13% (Greece), and in Sispace AG of 15% (Switzerland). These investments are accounted for using the equity method because we exercise significant influence over these entities and their operations. As of December 31, 2008 and 2009, the carrying value related to these investments was $6,767 and $9,148, respectively, included in other assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Additionally, we have an investment in Image Tag comprised of equity and debt holdings of $829 and $753 as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, which is accounted for using the cost method, included in other long-term assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. We recorded a loss on our Image Tag investment in 2008 in the amount of $579 which is included in other (income) expense, net in the accompanying consolidated statementsstatement of operations were net realized gains of $208, $127 and $336 for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. Unrealized gains and losses are reportedoperations. Additionally, we record interest payments received on outstanding borrowings with Image Tag as a componentreduction of accumulatedour investment when received.

      w.
      Accumulated Other Comprehensive Items, Net

            Accumulated other comprehensive items, net inconsists of foreign currency translation adjustments as of December, 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively.

      x.
      Other Expense (Income), Net

            Other expense (income), net consists of the accompanying consolidated statementfollowing:

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Foreign currency transaction losses (gains), net

     $11,311 $28,882 $(12,477)

    Debt extinguishment expense

      5,703  418  3,031 

    Other, net

      (13,913) 1,728  (2,633)
            

     $3,101 $31,028 $(12,079)
            

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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    3. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities

    We previously entered into two interest rate swap agreements, which were derivatives as defined by SFAS No. 133 and designated as cash flow hedges. These swap agreements hedge interest rate risk on certain amounts of our term loan. Both of these swap agreements expired in the first quarter of 2006. As a result of the foregoing, for the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we recorded additional interest expense of $8,460, $3,952 and $127 resulting from interest rate swap payments. We entered into a third interest rate swap agreement, which was designated as a cash flow hedge. This swap agreement hedged interest rate risk on certain amounts of our variable operating lease commitments. This swap expired in March 2005. The total impact of marking to market the fair market value of the derivative liability and cash payments associated with this interest rate swap agreement resulted in our recording additional interest expense of $1,246 and interest income of $6 for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, respectively.

    In connection with certain real estate loans, we swapped $97,000 of floating rate debt to fixed rate debt. Since the time we entered into theThis swap agreement interest rates have fallen. As a result, the estimated cost to terminate these swaps (fair value of derivative liability) would be $2,458 and $760 at December 31, 2005 and 2006, respectively, includedwas terminated in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. As a result of the repayment of the real estate term loans in the thirdsecond quarter of 2004, we began marking to market the fair value of the derivative liability through earnings.2007. The total impact of marking to market the fair market value of the derivative liability and cash payments associated with the interest rate swap agreement resulted in our recording interest expense of $11,565, interest income of $1,698 and interest income of $646$34 for the yearsyear ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively.2007.

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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    3. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (Continued)

    business of Hays plc (“Hays IMS”) using cash on hand and borrowings under our revolving credit facility. In March 2004, IME repaid 135,000 British pounds sterling with proceeds from their new credit agreement. We recorded a foreign currency gain of $11,866 in other (income) expense, net for this intercompany balance in the first quarter of 2004. In order to minimize the foreign currency risk associated with providing IME with the consideration necessary for the acquisition of the European operations of Hays IMS, we borrowed 80,000 British pounds sterling under our revolving credit facility to create a natural hedge. In the first quarter of 2004, these borrowings were repaid and we recorded a foreign currency loss of $2,995 on the translation of this revolving credit balance to U.S. dollars in other (income) expense, net.

    In addition, on July 16, 2003, we entered into two cross currency swaps with a combined notional value of 100,000 British pounds sterling. We settled these swaps in March 2004 by paying our counter parties a total of $27,714 representing the fair market value of the derivative and the associated swap costs, of which $18,978 was accrued for as of December 31, 2003. In the first quarter of 2004, we recorded a foreign currency loss for this swap of $8,736 in other (income) expense, net in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations. Upon cash payment, we received $162,800 in exchange for 100,000 British pounds sterling. We did not designate these swaps as hedges and, therefore, all mark to market fluctuations of the swaps were recorded in other (income) expense, net in our consolidated statements of operations from inception to cash payment of the swaps.

    In April 2004, IME entered into two floating for fixed interest rate swap contracts, each with a notional value of 50,000 British pounds sterling and a duration of two years, which were designated as cash flow hedges. These swap agreements hedged interest rate risk on IME’s 100,000 British pounds sterling term loan facility. Both of these swap agreements expired in the second quarter of 2006. We have recorded, in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet, the fair value of the derivative liability, a deferred tax asset and a corresponding charge to accumulated other comprehensive items of $207 (recorded in accrued expenses), $68 and $139, respectively, as of December 31, 2005. For the years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we recorded additional interest expense of $202, $32 and $184 resulting from interest rate swap cash payments.

    In June 2006, IME entered into a floating for fixed interest rate swap contract with a notional value of 75,000 British pounds sterling which will expire on March 2008 and was designated as a cash flow hedge. This swap agreement hedgeshedged interest rate risk on IME’sIME's British pounds multi-currency term loan facility. The notional value of the swap will declinedeclined to 60,000 British pounds sterling in March 2007 to match the remaining term loan amount outstanding as of that date. We have recorded,date and was terminated in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet, the fair valuesecond quarter of the derivative liability, a deferred tax asset and a corresponding charge to accumulated other comprehensive items of $364 ($273 recorded in accrued expenses and $91 recorded in other long-term liabilities), $109 and $255, respectively, as of December 31, 2006.2007. For the year ended December 31, 2006,2007, we recorded additional interest expenseincome of $124$799, resulting from interest rate swap cash payments.settlements and changes in fair value.

    In September 2006, we entered into a forward contract program to exchange U.S. dollars for 55,000 in Australian dollars (“AUD”("AUD") and 20,200 in New Zealand dollars (“NZD”("NZD") to hedge our intercompany


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    3. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (Continued)

    exposure in these countries. These forward contracts typically settle on no more than a monthlyquarterly basis, at which time we enter into new forward contracts for the same underlying AUD and NZD amounts, to continue to hedge movements in AUD and NZD against the U.S. dollar. At the time of settlement, we either pay or receive the net settlement amount from the forward contract and recognize this amount in other expense (income), net in the accompanying statement of operations as a realized foreign exchange gain or loss. We have not designated these forward contracts as hedges. These forward contracts were not renewed in the third quarter of 2007. We recorded a realized loss of $3,179$5,906 for the year ended December 31, 2006. At the end2007.

            We have entered into a number of each month, we mark the outstanding forward contracts to market and record an unrealized foreign exchange gain or loss for the mark-to-market valuation. For the year endedhedge our exposures in British pounds sterling. As of December 31, 2006,2009, we recordedhad an unrealized foreign exchange lossoutstanding forward contract to purchase 121,322 U.S. dollars and sell 73,600 British pounds sterling to hedge our intercompany exposures with IME. At the maturity of $303the forward contracts we may enter into new forward contracts to hedge movements in the underlying currencies. At the time of settlement, we either pay or receive the net settlement amount from the forward contract and recognize this amount in other (income) expense, (income), net in the accompanying statement of operations.

    4. Debt

    Long-term debt consists ofoperations as a realized foreign exchange gain or loss. We have not designated these forward contracts as hedges. During the following:

     

     

    December 31,

     

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    IMI Revolving Credit Facility

     

    $

    216,396

     

    $

    170,472

     

    IMI Term Loan Facility

     

    345,500

     

    312,000

     

    IME Revolving Credit Facility

     

    84,262

     

    77,819

     

    IME Term Loan Facility

     

    177,450

     

    189,005

     

    81¤4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011 (the “81¤4% notes”)

     

    149,760

     

    71,789

     

    85¤8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013 (the “85¤8% notes”)

     

    481,032

     

    448,001

     

    71¤4% GBP Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (the “71¤4% notes”)

     

    258,120

     

    293,865

     

    73¤4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015 (the “73¤4% notes”)

     

    439,506

     

    438,594

     

    65¤8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016 (the “65¤8% notes”)

     

    315,059

     

    315,553

     

    83¤4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018 (the “83¤4% notes”)

     

     

    200,000

     

    8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018 (the “8% notes”)

     

     

    49,663

     

    63¤4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018 (the “63¤4% notes”)

     

     

    39,429

     

    Real Estate Mortgages

     

    4,707

     

    4,081

     

    Seller Notes

     

    9,398

     

    8,757

     

    Other(1)

     

    48,241

     

    49,788

     

    Total Long-term Debt

     

    2,529,431

     

    2,668,816

     

    Less Current Portion

     

    (25,905

    )

    (63,105

    )

    Long-term Debt, Net of Current Portion

     

    $

    2,503,526

     

    $

    2,605,711

     


    (1)          Includes capital lease obligations of $31,936 and $41,384 as ofyears ended December 31, 20052007, 2008 and 2006, respectively.

    a.      Revolving Credit Facility2009, there was $2,139 and Term Loans

    In March 2004, IME$24,145 in net cash receipts and certain$2,392 in net cash disbursements, respectively, included in cash from operating activities related to settlements associated with these foreign currency forward contracts. The following table provides the fair value of its subsidiaries entered into a credit agreement (the “IME Credit Agreement”) with a syndicate of European lenders. The IME Credit Agreement provides for maximumour derivative


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    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    4. Debt3. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities (Continued)


    borrowing availability in the principal amount of 200,000 British pounds sterling, including a 100,000 British pounds sterling revolving credit facility (the “IME revolving credit facility”), which includes the ability to borrow in certain other foreign currencies and a 100,000 British pounds sterling term loan (the “IME term loan facility”). The IME revolving credit facility matures on March 5, 2009. The IME term loan facility is payable in three installments; two installments of 20,000 British pounds sterling on March 5, 2007 and 2008, respectively, and the final payment of the remaining balance on March 5, 2009. The interest rate on borrowings under the IME Credit Agreement varies depending on IME’s choice of currency options and interest rate period, plus an applicable margin. The IME Credit Agreement includes various financial covenants applicable to the results of IME, which may restrict IME’s ability to incur indebtedness under the IME Credit Agreement and from third parties, as well as limit IME’s ability to pay dividends to us. Most of IME’s non-dormant subsidiaries have either guaranteed the obligations or have their shares pledged to secure IME’s obligations under the IME Credit Agreement. We have not guaranteed or otherwise provided security for the IME Credit Agreement nor have any of our U.S., Canadian, Asia Pacific, Mexican or South American subsidiaries. Our consolidated balance sheetinstruments as of December 31, 2006 included 77,000 British pounds sterling2008 and 94,7252009 and their gains and losses for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009:

     
     Asset Derivatives 
     
     December 31, 
     
     2008 2009 
    Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments
     Balance Sheet
    Location
     Fair
    Value
     Balance Sheet Location Fair
    Value
     

    Foreign exchange contracts

     Current assets $13,675 Current assets $4,115 
              

    Total

               

       $13,675   $4,115 
              


     
      
     Amount of (Gain) Loss
    Recognized in Income
    on Derivatives
     
     
      
     December 31, 
     
     Location of (Gain) Loss
    Recognized in Income
    on Derivative
     
    Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments
     2007 2008 2009 

    Foreign exchange contracts

     Other (income) expense, net $(3,369)$(36,886)$11,952 
              

    Total

       $(3,369)$(36,886)$11,952 
              

            In the third quarter of 2007, we designated a portion of our 63/4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018 issued by Iron Mountain Incorporated ("IMI") as a hedge of borrowings (totaling $266,824) under the IME Credit Agreement; we also had various outstanding lettersnet investment of credit totaling 1,686 British pounds sterling ($3,202). The remaining availability, based on IME’s current leverage ratio which is calculated based on current earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”) and current external debt, under the IME revolving credit facility on October 31, 2006, was approximately 59,000 British pounds sterling ($112,100). The interest rates in effect under the IME revolving credit facility ranged from 4.4% to 6.2% ascertain of October 31, 2006.our Euro denominated subsidiaries. For the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, we designated on average 51,127, 167,578 and 95,500 Euros, respectively, of our 63/4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018 issued by IMI as a hedge of net investment of certain of our Euro denominated subsidiaries. As a result, we recorded commitment fees$6,136 ($3,926, net of $396, $806tax) of foreign exchange losses related to the mark to marking of such debt to currency translation adjustments which is a component of accumulated other comprehensive items, net included in equity for the year ended December 31, 2007. We recorded foreign exchange gains of $10,471 ($6,296, net of tax) related to the marking to market of such debt to currency translation adjustments which is a component of accumulated other comprehensive items, net included in equity for the year ended December 31, 2008. We recorded foreign exchange gains of $1,863 ($989, net of tax) related to the marking to market of such debt to currency translation adjustments which is a component of accumulated other comprehensive items, net included in equity for the year ended December 31, 2009. As of December 31, 2009, net gains of $3,359 are recorded in accumulated other comprehensive items, net associated with this net investment hedge.


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and $477, respectively,per share data)

    4. Debt

            Long-term debt consists of the following:

     
     December 31, 2008 December 31, 2009 
     
     Carrying
    Amount
     Fair
    Value
     Carrying
    Amount
     Fair
    Value
     

    Revolving Credit Facility(1)

     $219,388 $219,388 $21,799 $21,799 

    Term Loan Facility(1)

      404,400  404,400  400,300  400,300 

    85/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013
    (the "85/8% notes")(2)(3)

      447,961  423,241     

    71/4% GBP Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014
    (the "71/4% notes")(2)(3)

      217,185  157,459  238,920  236,531 

    73/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015
    (the "73/4% notes")(2)(3)

      436,768  398,911  435,856  433,411 

    65/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016
    (the "65/8% notes")(2)(3)

      316,541  272,800  317,035  313,200 

    71/2% CAD Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017
    (the "Subsidiary Notes")(2)(4)

      143,203  126,018  166,810  165,142 

    83/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018
    (the "83/4% notes")(2)(3)

      200,000  177,250  200,000  207,750 

    8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018
    (the "8% notes")(2)(3)

      49,720  42,813  49,749  48,464 

    63/4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018
    (the "63/4% notes")(2)(3)

      356,875  249,834  363,166  343,562 

    8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020
    (the "8% notes due 2020")(2)(3)

      300,000  246,750  300,000  305,250 

    83/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2021
    (the "83/8% notes")(2)(3)

          548,002  567,188 

    Real Estate Mortgages, Capital Leases, Seller Notes and Other(5)

      151,174  151,174  210,147  210,147 
                

    Total Long-term Debt

      3,243,215     3,251,784    

    Less Current Portion

      (35,751)    (40,561)   
                

    Long-term Debt, Net of Current Portion

     $3,207,464    $3,211,223    
                

    (1)
    The capital stock or other equity interests of most of our U.S. subsidiaries, and up to 66% of the capital stock or other equity interests of our first tier foreign subsidiaries, are pledged to secure these debt instruments, together with all intercompany obligations of foreign subsidiaries owed to us or to one of our U.S. subsidiary guarantors. The fair value of this long-term debt approximates the carrying value (as borrowings under these debt instruments are based on 0.9% (for 2004current variable market interest rates as of December 31, 2008 and 2005)2009, respectively).

    (2)
    The fair values of these debt instruments is based on quoted market prices for these notes on December 31, 2008 and 0.6% (for 2006)2009, respectively.

    (3)
    Collectively referred to as the Parent Notes. IMI is the direct obligor on the Parent Notes, which are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a senior subordinated basis, by substantially all of unused balances underits direct and indirect 100% owned U.S. subsidiaries (the "Guarantors"). These guarantees are joint and several obligations of the IME revolving credit facility.Guarantors. Iron Mountain Canada Corporation ("Canada Company") and the remainder of our subsidiaries do not guarantee the Parent Notes.

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    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    4. Debt (Continued)

    (4)
    Canada Company is the direct obligor on the Subsidiary Notes, which are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a senior subordinated basis, by IMI and the Guarantors. These guarantees are joint and several obligations of IMI and the Guarantors.

    (5)
    Includes (a) real estate mortgages of $5,868 and $6,564 as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, which bear interest at rates ranging from 3.7% to 7.3% and are payable in various installments through 2023, (b) seller notes of $2,758 as of December 31, 2008, which bear interest at a rate of 4.75% per year and were fully paid off in 2009, (c) capital lease obligations of $131,687 and $193,738 as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, which bear a weighted average interest rate of 6.0% as of December 31, 2009 and (d) other various notes and other obligations, which were assumed by us as a result of certain acquisitions, of $10,861 and $9,845 as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, and bear a weighted average interest rate of 9.9% as of December 31, 2009. We believe the fair value of this debt approximates its carrying value.
      a.
      Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loans

    On April 2, 2004 and subsequently on July 8, 2004,16, 2007, we entered into a new amendedcredit agreement (the "Credit Agreement") to replace the existing IMI revolving credit and restatedterm loan facilities and the existing IME revolving credit and term loan facilities. The Credit Agreement consists of revolving credit facilities, where we can borrow, subject to certain limitations as defined in the Credit Agreement, up to an aggregate amount of $765,000 (including Canadian dollar and multi-currency revolving credit facilities), and a $410,000 term loan facility. Our revolving credit facility is supported by a group of 24 banks. Our subsidiaries, Canada Company and term loan facility (the “IMI Credit Agreement”) to replace our priorIron Mountain Switzerland GmbH, may borrow directly under the Canadian revolving credit agreement and to reflect more favorable pricing of our term loans.multi-currency revolving credit facilities, respectively. Additional subsidiary borrowers may be added under the multi-currency revolving credit facility. The IMI Credit Agreement had an aggregate principal amount of $550,000 and was comprised of a $350,000 revolving credit facility (the “IMI revolving credit facility”), which included the ability to borrow in certain foreign currencies, and a $200,000 term loan facility (the “IMI term loan facility”). The IMI revolving credit facility maturesterminates on April 2, 2009.16, 2012. With respect to the IMI term loan facility, quarterly loan payments of $500 began in the third quarter of 2004 and will continueapproximately $1,000 are required through maturity on April 2, 2011,16, 2014, at which time the remaining outstanding principal balance of the IMI term loan facility is due. In November 2004, we entered into an additional $150,000 of term loans as permitted under our IMI Credit Agreement. The new term loans will mature at the same time as our current IMI term loan facility with quarterly loan payments of $375 that began in the first quarter of 2005. On October 31, 2005, we entered into the second amendment to the IMI Credit Agreement, increasing availability under the revolving credit facility from $350,000 to $400,000. As a result, the IMI Credit Agreement had an aggregate maximum principal amount of $750,000 as of December 31, 2006. The interest rate on borrowings under the IMI Credit Agreement varies depending on our choice of interest rate and currency options, plus an applicable margin. All intercompany notesIMI guarantees the obligations of each of the subsidiary borrowers under the Credit Agreement, and substantially all of our U.S. subsidiaries guarantee the obligations of IMI and the subsidiary borrowers. The capital stock or other equity interests of most of our U.S. subsidiaries, and up to 66% of the capital stock or other equity interests of our first tier foreign subsidiaries, are pledged to secure the Credit Agreement, together with all intercompany obligations of foreign subsidiaries owed to us or to one of our U.S. subsidiary guarantors. We recorded a charge to other expense (income), net of approximately $5,703 in 2007 related to the early retirement of the IMI Credit Agreement.and IME revolving credit facilities and term loans, representing the write-off of deferred financing costs. As of December 31, 2005,2009, we had $216,396$21,799 of outstanding borrowings under our IMIthe revolving


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    4. Debt (Continued)

    credit facility, of which $9,000 waswere denominated in U.S.Euro (EUR 1,800), Australian dollars and the remaining balance was denominated in Canadian dollars (“CAD”) (CAD 168,328)(AUD 9,000) and in AUD 86,250;British pounds sterling (GBP 7,020); we also had various outstanding letters of credit totaling $23,974. As of December 31, 2006, we had $170,472 of borrowings under our IMI revolving credit facility, of which $4,000 was denominated in U.S. dollars and the remaining balance was denominated in CAD 194,000; we also had various outstanding letters of credit totaling $26,980.$43,386. The remaining availability, based on Iron Mountain’s currentIMI's leverage ratio, which is calculated based on current EBITDAthe last 12 months' earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA"), and other adjustments as defined in the Credit Agreement and current external debt, under the IMI revolving credit facility on December 31, 2006,2009, was $113,775.$699,815. The interest rate in effect under the IMI revolving credit facility and IMI term loan facility ranged from 6.0% to 9.0%was 3.0% and 7.0% to 7.2%1.8%, respectively, as of December 31, 2006.2009. For the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, we recorded commitment fees of $1,112, $846$1,307, $1,561 and $558,$1,953, respectively, based on 0.5% (for 2004 and 2005) and 0.4% (for 2006) ofthe unused balances under the IMIour revolving credit facility.facilities.


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    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    4. Debt (Continued)

    The IME Credit Agreement, IMI Credit Agreement, our indentures and other agreements governing our indebtedness contain certain restrictive financial and operating covenants, including covenants that restrict our ability to complete acquisitions, pay cash dividends, incur indebtedness, make investments, sell assets and take certain other corporate actions. The covenants do not contain a rating trigger. Therefore, a change in our debt rating would not trigger a default under the IME Credit Agreement, IMI Credit Agreement and our indentures and other agreements governing our indebtedness. We were in compliance with all debt covenants in material agreementsOur revolving credit and term loan facilities, as well as our indentures, use EBITDA based calculations as primary measures of financial performance, including leverage ratios. IMI's revolving credit and term leverage ratio was 3.8 and 3.3 as of December 31, 2006.2008 and 2009, respectively, compared to a maximum allowable ratio of 5.5. Similarly, our bond leverage ratio, per the indentures, was 4.5 and 4.1 as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively, compared to a maximum allowable ratio of 6.5. Noncompliance with these leverage ratios would have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and liquidity. In the fourth quarter of 2007, we designated as Excluded Restricted Subsidiaries (as defined in the indentures), certain of our subsidiaries that own our assets and conduct our operations in the United Kingdom. As a result of such designation, these subsidiaries are now subject to substantially all of the covenants of the indentures, except that they are not required to provide a guarantee, and the EBITDA and debt of these subsidiaries is included for purposes of calculating the leverage ratio.

      b.
      Notes Issued under Indentures

    As of December 31, 2006,2009, we have eightnine series of senior subordinated notes issued under various indentures, thateight are direct obligations of the parent company, Iron Mountain IncorporatedIMI; one (the Subsidiary Notes) is a direct obligation of Canada Company; and all are subordinated to debt outstanding under the IMI Credit Agreement:

      ·       $71,881 principal amount of notes maturing on July 1, 2011 and bearing interest at a rate of 81¤4% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on January 1 and July 1;

      ·       $447,874 principal amount of notes maturing on April 1, 2013 and bearing interest at a rate of 85¤8% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on April 1 and October 1;

      ·150,000 British pounds sterling principal amount of notes maturing on April 15, 2014 and bearing interest at a rate of 71¤/4% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 (these notes are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange);

      ·

             $431,255

      $431,255 principal amount of notes maturing on January 15, 2015 and bearing interest at a rate of 73¤/4% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15;

      ·

             $320,000

      $320,000 principal amount of notes maturing on January 1, 2016 and bearing interest at a rate of 65¤/8% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on January 1 and July 1;

      ·

             $200,000

      175,000 CAD principal amount of notes maturing on March 15, 2017 and bearing interest at a rate of 71/2% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 (the Subsidiary Notes);

      $200,000 principal amount of notes maturing on July 15, 2018 and bearing interest at a rate of 83¤/4% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15;



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      NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
      DECEMBER 31, 2006
      (In thousands, except share and per share data)

      4. Debt (Continued)

      ·       $50,000$50,000 principal amount of notes maturing on October 15, 2018 and bearing interest at a rate of 8% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15; and

      ·

             $30,000

      255,000 Euro principal amount of notes maturing on October 15, 2018 and bearing interest at a rate of 63¤/4% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15.15;

      $300,000 principal amount of notes maturing on June 15, 2020 and bearing interest at a rate of 8% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and December 15; and

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    4. Debt (Continued)

      $550,000 principal amount of notes maturing on August 15, 2021 and bearing interest at a rate of 83/8% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on February 15 and August 15.

    The senior subordinated notesParent Notes and the Subsidiary Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed, on a senior subordinated basis, by substantially all of our direct and indirect 100% owned U.S. subsidiaries (the “Guarantors”"Guarantors"). These guarantees are joint and several obligations of the Guarantors. The remainder of our subsidiaries do not guarantee the senior subordinated notes. Additionally, IMI guarantees the Subsidiary Notes. Canada Company does not guarantee the Parent Notes.

    In July 2006,August 2009, we completed an underwritten public offering of $200,000$550,000 in aggregate principal amount of our 83¤4/8% notes,Senior Subordinated Notes due 2021, which were issued at 99.625% of par. Our net proceeds of $196,608,$539,688, after paying the underwriters’underwriters' discounts and commissions, and transaction fees, werewas used to (a) fund our offer to purchase and consent solicitationredeem the remaining $447,874 of $78,119 in aggregate principal amount of our outstanding 81¤45/8% notes, (b) fund our purchaseplus accrued and unpaid interest, all of which were called for redemption in the open market of $33,000August 2009, and redeemed in aggregate principal amount of our 85¤8% notes and (c)September 2009, (b) repay borrowings under our revolving credit facility. As a result, wefacility, and (c) for general corporate purposes. We recorded a charge to other expense (income), net of $2,779$3,031 in the third quarter of 20062009 related to the early extinguishment of the 81¤4% and 5/85¤8% notes, which consists of tender premiums and transaction costs, deferred financing costs as well asand original issue discountspremiums and premiumsdiscounts related to the 81¤4% and 5/85¤8% notes.

    In October 2006, we issued,        We recorded a charge to other expense (income), net of $345 in a private placement, $50,000 in aggregate principal amountthe second quarter of our 8% notes,2008 related to the early extinguishment of the 81/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011 (the "81/4% notes"), which were issued at a priceconsists of 99.3% of par;deferred financing costs and 30,000 Euro in aggregate principal amount of our 63¤original issue discounts related to the 81/4% notes, which were issued at a price of 99.5% of par. Our net proceeds of $85,492, after sales commission, were used to repay outstanding indebtedness under the IMI term loan and IME revolving credit facilities.notes.

    Each of the indentures for the notes provides that we may redeem the outstanding notes, in whole or in part, upon satisfaction of certain terms and conditions. In any redemption, we are also required to pay all accrued but unpaid interest on the outstanding notes.

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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    4. Debt (Continued)

    The following table presents the various redemption dates and prices of the senior subordinated notes. The redemption dates reflect the date at or after which the notes may be redeemed at our option at a premium redemption price. After these dates, the notes may be redeemed at 100% of face value:

    Redemption
    Date

     

    81¤4%
    notes
    July 15,

     

    85¤8%
    notes
    April 1,

     

    71¤4%
    notes
    April 15,

     

    73¤4%
    notes
    January 15,

     

    65¤8%
    notes
    July 1,

     

    83¤4%
    notes
    July 15,

     

    8%
    notes
    October 15,

     

    63¤4%
    notes
    October 15,

     

    2006

     

    101.375

    %

    104.313

    %

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2007

     

     

    102.875

    %

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2008

     

     

    101.438

    %

     

     

    103.875

    %

     

    103.313

    %

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2009

     

     

     

    103.625

    %

     

    102.583

    %

     

    102.208

    %

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2010

     

     

     

    102.417

    %

     

    101.292

    %

     

    101.104

    %

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2011

     

     

     

    101.208

    %

     

     

     

     

    104.375

    %

     

    104.000

    %

     

     

    103.375

    %

     

    2012

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    102.917

    %

     

    102.667

    %

     

     

    102.250

    %

     

    2013

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    101.458

    %

     

    101.333

    %

     

     

    101.125

    %

     

    Redemption Date
     71/4% notes
    April 15,
     73/4% notes
    January 15,
     65/8% notes
    July 1,
     71/2% notes
    March 15,
     83/4% notes
    July 15,
     8% notes
    October 15,
     63/4% notes
    October 15,
     8% notes
    July 15,
     83/8% notes
    August 15,
     

    2009

      103.625%  102.583%  102.208%             

    2010

      102.417%  101.292%  101.104%             

    2011

      101.208%  100.000%  100.000%    104.375%  104.000%  103.375%     

    2012

      100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  103.750%  102.917%  102.667%  102.250%     

    2013

      100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  102.500%  101.458%  101.333%  101.125%  104.000%   

    2014

      100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  101.250%  100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  102.667%  104.188% 

    2015

        100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  101.333%  102.792% 

    2016

          100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  101.396% 

    2017

            100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  100.000%  100.000% 

    Prior to AprilMarch 15, 2009, the 71¤4% notes are redeemable at our option, in whole or in part, at a specified make-whole price. Prior to April 15, 2007,2010, we may under certain conditions redeem a portion of the 71¤4/2% notes with the net proceeds of one or more public equity offerings, at a redemption price of 107.25%107.50% of the principal amount.


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    4. Debt (Continued)

    Prior to JanuaryJuly 15, 2008,2011, the 783/4% notes are redeemable at our option, in whole or in part, at a specified make-whole price.

            Prior to October 15, 2011, the 8% notes and 63/4% notes are redeemable at our option, in whole or in part, at a specified make-whole price.¤4%

            Prior to June 15, 2013, the 8% notes are redeemable at our option, in whole or in part, at a specified make-whole price.

    Prior to July 1, 2008,August 15, 2014, the 65¤83/8% % notes are redeemable at our option, in whole or in part, at a specified make-whole price.

    Prior to July 15, 2011, the 83¤4% notes are redeemable at our option, in whole or in part, at a specified make-whole price. Prior to July 15, 2009, we may under certain conditions redeem a portion of the 83¤4% notes with the net proceeds of one or more public equity offerings, at a redemption price of 108.750% of the principal amount.

    Prior to October 15, 2011, the 8% notes and 63¤4% notes are redeemable at our option, in whole or in part, at a specified make-whole price.

    Each of the indentures for the notes provides that we must repurchase, at the option of the holders, the notes at 101% of their principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, upon the occurrence of a “Change"Change of Control," which is defined in each respective indenture. Except for required repurchases upon the occurrence of a Change of Control or in the event of certain asset sales, each as described in the respective indenture, we are not required to make sinking fund or redemption payments with respect to any of the notes.

    Our indentures and other agreements governing our indebtedness contain certain restrictive financial and operating covenants including covenants that restrict our ability to complete acquisitions, pay cash dividends, incur indebtedness, make investments, sell assets and take certain other corporate actions. The


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    4. Debt (Continued)

    covenants do not contain a rating trigger. Therefore, a change in our debt rating would not trigger a default under our indentures and other agreements governing our indebtedness. As of December 31, 2006, we were in compliance with all debt covenants in material agreements.

    c.      Real Estate Mortgages

    In connection with the purchase of real estate and acquisitions, we assumed several mortgages on real property. The mortgages bear interest at rates ranging from 2.8% to 8.3% and are payable in various installments through 2023.

    d.     Seller Notes

    In connection with the merger with Pierce Leahy in 2000, we assumed debt related to certain existing notes as a result of acquisitions which Pierce Leahy completed in 1999. The notes bear interest at a rate of 4.75% per year. The outstanding balance of 4,470 British pounds sterling ($8,757) on these notes at December 31, 2006 is due on demand through 2009 and is classified as a current portion of long-term debt.

    e.      Other

    Other long-term debt includes various notes, capital leases and other obligations assumed by us as a result of certain acquisitions and other agreements. The outstanding balance of $49,788 on these notes at December 31, 2006 have a weighted average interest rate of 9.1%.

    Maturities of long-term debt, excluding (premiums) discounts, net, are as follows:

    Year

     

     

     

    Amount

     

    2007

     

    $

    63,105

     

    2008

     

    50,335

     

    2009

     

    368,520

     

    2010

     

    5,153

     

    2011

     

    375,704

     

    Thereafter

     

    1,803,590

     

     

     

    $

    2,666,407

     

    Year
     Amount 

    2010

     $40,561 

    2011

      41,915 

    2012

      61,991 

    2013

      24,557 

    2014

      635,952 

    Thereafter

      2,449,747 
        

     $3,254,723 
        


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    4. Debt (Continued)

    We have estimated the following fair values for our long-term debt as of December 31:

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

     

     

    Carrying
    Amount

     

    Fair Value

     

    Carrying
    Amount

     

    Fair Value

     

    IMI Revolving Credit Facility(1)

     

    $

    216,396

     

    $

    216,396

     

    $

    170,472

     

    $

    170,472

     

    IMI Term Loan Facility(1)

     

    345,500

     

    345,500

     

    312,000

     

    312,000

     

    IME Revolving Credit Facility(1)

     

    84,262

     

    84,262

     

    77,819

     

    77,819

     

    IME Term Loan Facility(1)

     

    177,450

     

    177,450

     

    189,005

     

    189,005

     

    81¤4% notes(2)

     

    149,760

     

    151,500

     

    71,789

     

    72,240

     

    85¤8% notes(2)

     

    481,032

     

    502,513

     

    448,001

     

    461,310

     

    71¤4% notes(2)

     

    258,120

     

    250,376

     

    293,865

     

    287,988

     

    73¤4% notes(2)

     

    439,506

     

    435,568

     

    438,594

     

    438,802

     

    65¤8% notes(2)

     

    315,059

     

    299,200

     

    315,553

     

    305,600

     

    83¤4% notes(2)

     

     

     

    200,000

     

    212,500

     

    8% notes(2)

     

     

     

    49,663

     

    50,000

     

    63¤4% notes(2)

     

     

     

    39,429

     

    39,609

     

    Real Estate Mortgages(1)

     

    4,707

     

    4,707

     

    4,081

     

    4,081

     

    Seller Notes(1)

     

    9,398

     

    9,398

     

    8,757

     

    8,757

     

    Other(1)

     

    48,241

     

    48,241

     

    49,788

     

    49,788

     


    (1)          The fair value of this long-term debt either approximates the carrying value (as borrowings under these debt instruments are based on current variable market interest rates as of December 31, 2005 and 2006) or it is impracticable to estimate the fair value due to the nature of such long-term debt.

    (2)          The fair values of these debt instruments is based on quoted market prices for these notes on December 31, 2005 and 2006.

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    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    5. Selected Consolidated Financial Statements of Parent, Guarantors, Canada Company and Non-Guarantors

    The following financial data summarizes the consolidating Company on the equity method of accounting as of December 31, 20052008 and 20062009 and for the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006.2009.

            The Guarantors column includes allParent Notes and the Subsidiary Notes are guaranteed by the subsidiaries that guarantee the senior subordinated notes. The subsidiaries that do not guarantee the senior subordinated notes are referred to in the tablebelow as the “Non-Guarantors.”"Guarantors." These subsidiaries are 100% owned by the Parent. The guarantees are full and unconditional, as well as joint and several.

     

     

    December 31, 2005

     

     

     

    Parent

     

    Guarantors

     

    Non-
    Guarantors

     

    Eliminations

     

    Consolidated

     

    Assets

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Current Assets:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Cash and Cash Equivalents

     

    $

     

    $

    10,658

     

    $

    42,755

     

    $

     

     

    $

    53,413

     

     

    Accounts Receivable

     

     

    290,546

     

    118,018

     

     

     

    408,564

     

     

    Intercompany Receivable

     

    868,392

     

     

     

    (868,392

    )

     

     

     

    Other Current Assets

     

    48

     

    61,531

     

    31,074

     

    (462

    )

     

    92,191

     

     

    Total Current Assets

     

    868,440

     

    362,735

     

    191,847

     

    (868,854

    )

     

    554,168

     

     

    Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

     

     

    1,225,580

     

    555,686

     

     

     

    1,781,266

     

     

    Other Assets, Net:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Long-term Notes Receivable from Affiliates and Intercompany Receivable

     

    2,048,104

     

    11,069

     

     

    (2,059,173

    )

     

     

     

    Investment in Subsidiaries

     

    541,612

     

    252,122

     

     

    (793,734

    )

     

     

     

    Goodwill

     

     

    1,482,537

     

    646,363

     

    9,741

     

     

    2,138,641

     

     

    Other

     

    26,780

     

    130,012

     

    135,694

     

    (421

    )

     

    292,065

     

     

    Total Other Assets, Net

     

    2,616,496

     

    1,875,740

     

    782,057

     

    (2,843,587

    )

     

    2,430,706

     

     

    Total Assets

     

    $

    3,484,936

     

    $

    3,464,055

     

    $

    1,529,590

     

    $

    (3,712,441

    )

     

    $

    4,766,140

     

     

    Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Intercompany Payable

     

    $

     

    $

    249,173

     

    $

    619,219

     

    $

    (868,392

    )

     

    $

     

     

    Current Portion of Long-term Debt

     

    3,841

     

    7,613

     

    14,451

     

     

     

    25,905

     

     

    Total Other Current Liabilities

     

    48,229

     

    389,691

     

    128,633

     

    (462

    )

     

    566,091

     

     

    Long-term Debt, Net of Current Portion

     

    2,057,884

     

    10,816

     

    434,826

     

     

     

    2,503,526

     

     

    Long-term Notes Payable to
    Affiliates and Intercompany Payable

     

    1,000

     

    2,048,104

     

    10,069

     

    (2,059,173

    )

     

     

     

    Other Long-term Liabilities

     

    3,853

     

    233,805

     

    57,385

     

    (421

    )

     

    294,622

     

     

    Commitments and Contingencies

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Minority Interests

     

     

     

    2,389

     

    3,478

     

     

    5,867

     

     

    Stockholders’ Equity

     

    1,370,129

     

    524,853

     

    262,618

     

    (787,471

    )

     

    1,370,129

     

     

    Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

     

    $

    3,484,936

     

    $

    3,464,055

     

    $

    1,529,590

     

    $

    (3,712,441

    )

     

    $

    4,766,140

     

     


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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    5. Selected Consolidated Financial Statements of Parent, Guarantors, Canada Company and Non-Guarantors (Continued)

            Additionally, the Parent guarantees the Subsidiary Notes which were issued by Canada Company. Canada Company does not guarantee the Parent Notes. The other subsidiaries that do not guarantee the Parent Notes or the Subsidiary Notes are referred to below as the "Non-Guarantors."

     

     

    December 31, 2006

     

     

     

    Parent

     

    Guarantors

     

    Non-
     Guarantors

     

    Eliminations

     

    Consolidated

     

    Assets

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Current Assets:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Cash and Cash Equivalents

     

    $

     

    $

    16,354

     

    $

    29,015

     

    $

     

     

    $

    45,369

     

     

    Accounts Receivable

     

     

    320,084

     

    153,282

     

     

     

    473,366

     

     

    Intercompany Receivable

     

    867,764

     

     

     

    (867,764

    )

     

     

     

    Other Current Assets

     

    48

     

    104,118

     

    57,278

     

    (458

    )

     

    160,986

     

     

    Total Current Assets

     

    867,812

     

    440,556

     

    239,575

     

    (868,222

    )

     

    679,721

     

     

    Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

     

     

    1,362,891

     

    652,344

     

     

     

    2,015,235

     

     

    Other Assets, Net:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Long-term Notes Receivable from Affiliates and Intercompany Receivable

     

    1,795,790

     

    10,962

     

     

    (1,806,752

    )

     

     

     

    Investment in Subsidiaries

     

    1,095,821

     

    797,014

     

     

    (1,892,835

    )

     

     

     

    Goodwill

     

     

    1,474,120

     

    691,009

     

     

     

    2,165,129

     

     

    Other

     

    26,451

     

    142,382

     

    181,639

     

    (1,036

    )

     

    349,436

     

     

    Total Other Assets, Net

     

    2,918,062

     

    2,424,478

     

    872,648

     

    (3,700,623

    )

     

    2,514,565

     

     

    Total Assets

     

    $

    3,785,874

     

    $

    4,227,925

     

    $

    1,764,567

     

    $

    (4,568,845

    )

     

    $

    5,209,521

     

     

    Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Intercompany Payable

     

    $

     

    $

    642,376

     

    $

    225,388

     

    $

    (867,764

    )

     

    $

     

     

    Current Portion of Long-term Debt

     

    4,260

     

    6,458

     

    52,387

     

     

     

    63,105

     

     

    Total Other Current Liabilities

     

    53,980

     

    366,192

     

    155,828

     

    (458

    )

     

    575,542

     

     

    Long-term Debt, Net of Current Portion

     

    2,169,508

     

    17,115

     

    419,088

     

     

     

    2,605,711

     

     

    Long-term Notes Payable to Affiliates and Intercompany Payable

     

    1,000

     

    1,795,790

     

    9,962

     

    (1,806,752

    )

     

     

     

    Other Long-term Liabilities

     

    3,853

     

    323,986

     

    79,797

     

    (1,036

    )

     

    406,600

     

     

    Commitments and Contingencies

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Minority Interests

     

     

     

    5,290

     

     

     

    5,290

     

     

    Stockholders’ Equity

     

    1,553,273

     

    1,076,008

     

    816,827

     

    (1,892,835

    )

     

    1,553,273

     

     

    Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

     

    $

    3,785,874

     

    $

    4,227,925

     

    $

    1,764,567

     

    $

    (4,568,845

    )

     

    $

    5,209,521

     

     

     
     December 31, 2008 
     
     Parent Guarantors Canada
    Company
     Non-
    Guarantors
     Eliminations Consolidated 

    Assets

                       

    Current Assets:

                       
     

    Cash and Cash Equivalents

     $ $210,636 $17,069 $50,665 $ $278,370 
     

    Accounts Receivable

        373,902  30,451  148,477    552,830 
     

    Intercompany Receivable

      1,021,450    12,927    (1,034,377)  
     

    Other Current Assets

      13,776  81,755  8,793  40,868    145,192 
                  
      

    Total Current Assets

      1,035,226  666,293  69,240  240,010  (1,034,377) 976,392 

    Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

        1,589,731  158,775  638,248    2,386,754 

    Other Assets, Net:

                       
     

    Long-term Notes Receivable from Affiliates and Intercompany Receivable

      2,120,482  1,000      (2,121,482)  
     

    Investment in Subsidiaries

      1,457,677  1,181,642      (2,639,319)  
     

    Goodwill

        1,761,036  164,704  526,564    2,452,304 
     

    Other

      30,731  324,346  11,543  175,192  (408) 541,404 
                  
      

    Total Other Assets, Net

      3,608,890  3,268,024  176,247  701,756  (4,761,209) 2,993,708 
                  
      

    Total Assets

     $4,644,116 $5,524,048 $404,262 $1,580,014 $(5,795,586)$6,356,854 
                  

    Liabilities and Equity

                       

    Intercompany Payable

     $ $976,173 $ $58,204 $(1,034,377)$ 

    Current Portion of Long-term Debt

      4,687  18,482    12,582    35,751 

    Total Other Current Liabilities

      56,445  427,570  22,062  187,769    693,846 

    Long-term Debt, Net of Current Portion

      2,775,351  48,452  324,123  59,538    3,207,464 

    Long-term Notes Payable to Affiliates and Intercompany Payable

      1,000  2,120,482      (2,121,482)  

    Other Long-term Liabilities

      3,853  502,433  19,810  87,777  (408) 613,465 

    Commitments and Contingencies (See Note 10)

                       
     

    Total Iron Mountain Incorporated Stockholders' Equity

      1,802,780  1,430,456  38,267  1,170,596  (2,639,319) 1,802,780 
     

    Noncontrolling Interests

            3,548    3,548 
                  
      

    Total Equity

      1,802,780  1,430,456  38,267  1,174,144  (2,639,319) 1,806,328 
                  
      

    Total Liabilities and Equity

     $4,644,116 $5,524,048 $404,262 $1,580,014 $(5,795,586)$6,356,854 
                  

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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    5. Selected Consolidated Financial Statements of Parent, Guarantors, Canada Company and Non-Guarantors (Continued)

     

     

    Year Ended December 31, 2004

     

     

     

    Parent

     

    Guarantors

     

    Non-
    Guarantors

     

    Eliminations

     

    Consolidated

     

    Revenues:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Storage

     

    $

     

     

    $

    774,945

     

     

     

    $

    268,421

     

     

     

    $

     

     

     

    $

    1,043,366

     

     

    Service and Storage Material Sales

     

     

     

    552,405

     

     

     

    221,818

     

     

     

     

     

     

    774,223

     

     

    Total Revenues

     

     

     

    1,327,350

     

     

     

    490,239

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,817,589

     

     

    Operating Expenses:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Cost of Sales (Excluding Depreciation and Amortization)

     

     

     

    586,437

     

     

     

    237,462

     

     

     

     

     

     

    823,899

     

     

    Selling, General and Administrative

     

    460

     

     

    362,635

     

     

     

    123,151

     

     

     

     

     

     

    486,246

     

     

    Depreciation and Amortization

     

    36

     

     

    123,098

     

     

     

    40,495

     

     

     

     

     

     

    163,629

     

     

    (Gain) Loss on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

     

     

     

    (861

    )

     

     

    180

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (681

    )

     

    Total Operating Expenses

     

    496

     

     

    1,071,309

     

     

     

    401,288

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,473,093

     

     

    Operating (Loss) Income

     

    (496

    )

     

    256,041

     

     

     

    88,951

     

     

     

     

     

     

    344,496

     

     

    Interest Expense (Income), Net

     

    150,476

     

     

    (29,598

    )

     

     

    64,871

     

     

     

     

     

     

    185,749

     

     

    Other Expense (Income), Net

     

    22,397

     

     

    (34,934

    )

     

     

    4,549

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (7,988

    )

     

    (Loss) Income Before Provision for Income Taxes and Minority Interest

     

    (173,369

    )

     

    320,573

     

     

     

    19,531

     

     

     

     

     

     

    166,735

     

     

    Provision for Income Taxes

     

     

     

    60,376

     

     

     

    9,198

     

     

     

     

     

     

    69,574

     

     

    Equity in the Earnings of Subsidiaries, Net of Tax

     

    (267,560

    )

     

    (6,812

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    274,372

     

     

     

     

     

    Minority Interests in Earnings of Subsidiaries, Net

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2,970

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2,970

     

     

    Net Income

     

    $

    94,191

     

     

    $

    267,009

     

     

     

    $

    7,363

     

     

     

    $

    (274,372

    )

     

     

    $

    94,191

     

     

     

     

    Year Ended December 31, 2005

     

     

     

    Parent

     

    Guarantors

     

    Non-
    Guarantors

     

    Eliminations

     

    Consolidated

     

    Revenues:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Storage

     

    $

     

     

    $

    862,961

     

     

     

    $

    318,590

     

     

     

    $

     

     

     

    $

    1,181,551

     

     

    Service and Storage Material Sales

     

     

     

    642,659

     

     

     

    253,945

     

     

     

     

     

     

    896,604

     

     

    Total Revenues

     

     

     

    1,505,620

     

     

     

    572,535

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2,078,155

     

     

    Operating Expenses:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Cost of Sales (Excluding Depreciation and Amortization)

     

     

     

    662,485

     

     

     

    275,754

     

     

     

     

     

     

    938,239

     

     

    Selling, General and Administrative

     

    187

     

     

    432,588

     

     

     

    136,920

     

     

     

     

     

     

    569,695

     

     

    Depreciation and Amortization

     

    70

     

     

    134,509

     

     

     

    52,343

     

     

     

     

     

     

    186,922

     

     

    Loss (Gain) on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

     

     

     

    416

     

     

     

    (3,901

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (3,485

    )

     

    Total Operating Expenses

     

    257

     

     

    1,229,998

     

     

     

    461,116

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,691,371

     

     

    Operating (Loss) Income

     

    (257

    )

     

    275,622

     

     

     

    111,419

     

     

     

     

     

     

    386,784

     

     

    Interest Expense (Income), Net

     

    156,057

     

     

    (33,325

    )

     

     

    60,852

     

     

     

     

     

     

    183,584

     

     

    Other (Income) Expense, Net

     

    (32,420

    )

     

    36,956

     

     

     

    1,646

     

     

     

     

     

     

    6,182

     

     

    (Loss) Income Before Provision for Income Taxes and Minority Interest

     

    (123,894

    )

     

    271,991

     

     

     

    48,921

     

     

     

     

     

     

    197,018

     

     

    Provision for Income Taxes

     

     

     

    63,665

     

     

     

    17,819

     

     

     

     

     

     

    81,484

     

     

    Equity in the Earnings of Subsidiaries, Net of Tax

     

    (234,993

    )

     

    (28,176

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    263,169

     

     

     

     

     

    Minority Interests in Earnings of Subsidiaries, Net

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,684

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,684

     

     

    Income Before Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle, Net of Tax Benefit

     

    111,099

     

     

    236,502

     

     

     

    29,418

     

     

     

    (263,169

    )

     

     

    113,850

     

     

    Cumulative Effect of Change in Accounting Principle, Net of Tax Benefit

     

     

     

    (2,215

    )

     

     

    (536

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (2,751

    )

     

    Net Income

     

    $

    111,099

     

     

    $

    234,287

     

     

     

    $

    28,882

     

     

     

    $

    (263,169

    )

     

     

    $

    111,099

     

     

     
     December 31, 2009 
     
     Parent Guarantors Canada
    Company
     Non-
    Guarantors
     Eliminations Consolidated 

    Assets

                       

    Current Assets:

                       
     

    Cash and Cash Equivalents

     $ $382,588 $3,906 $60,162 $ $446,656 
     

    Accounts Receivable

        387,670  36,776  160,930    585,376 
     

    Intercompany Receivable

      1,047,805    8,886    (1,056,691)  
     

    Other Current Assets

      4,216  118,780  10,367  46,030    179,393 
                  
      

    Total Current Assets

      1,052,021  889,038  59,935  267,122  (1,056,691) 1,211,425 

    Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

        1,613,985  197,272  756,943    2,568,200 

    Other Assets, Net:

                       
     

    Long-term Notes Receivable from Affiliates and Intercompany Receivable

      2,192,476  1,000      (2,193,476)  
     

    Investment in Subsidiaries

      1,785,214  1,522,352      (3,307,566)  
     

    Goodwill

        1,762,409  191,856  580,448    2,534,713 
     

    Other

      32,837  300,582  12,210  187,324  (457) 532,496 
                  
      

    Total Other Assets, Net

      4,010,527  3,586,343  204,066  767,772  (5,501,499) 3,067,209 
                  
      

    Total Assets

     $5,062,548 $6,089,366 $461,273 $1,791,837 $(6,558,190)$6,846,834 
                  

    Liabilities and Equity

                       

    Intercompany Payable

     $ $999,182 $ $57,509 $(1,056,691)$ 

    Current Portion of Long-term Debt

      4,639  25,024  2,170  8,728    40,561 

    Total Other Current Liabilities

      62,987  480,557  31,664  198,945    774,153 

    Long-term Debt, Net of Current Portion

      2,848,927  76,728  181,318  104,250    3,211,223 

    Long-term Notes Payable to Affiliates and Intercompany Payable

      1,000  2,192,476      (2,193,476)  

    Other Long-term Liabilities

      3,853  544,233  24,025  103,997  (457) 675,651 

    Commitments and Contingencies (See Note 10)

                       
     

    Total Iron Mountain Incorporated Stockholders' Equity

      2,141,142  1,771,166  222,096  1,314,304  (3,307,566) 2,141,142 
     

    Noncontrolling Interests

            4,104    4,104 
                  
      

    Total Equity

      2,141,142  1,771,166  222,096  1,318,408  (3,307,566) 2,145,246 
                  
      

    Total Liabilities and Equity

     $5,062,548 $6,089,366 $461,273 $1,791,837 $(6,558,190)$6,846,834 
                  

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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    5. Selected Consolidated Financial Statements of Parent, Guarantors, Canada Company and Non-Guarantors (Continued)

     

     

    Year Ended December 31, 2006

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Non-

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Parent

     

    Guarantors

     

    Guarantors

     

    Eliminations

     

    Consolidated

     

    Revenues:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Storage

     

    $

     

    $

    960,421

     

     

    $

    366,748

     

     

     

    $

     

     

     

    $

    1,327,169

     

     

    Service and Storage Material Sales

     

     

    689,444

     

     

    333,729

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,023,173

     

     

    Total Revenues

     

     

    1,649,865

     

     

    700,477

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2,350,342

     

     

    Operating Expenses:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Cost of Sales (Excluding Depreciation and Amortization)

     

     

    718,154

     

     

    356,114

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,074,268

     

     

    Selling, General and Administrative

     

    (47

    )

    497,524

     

     

    172,597

     

     

     

     

     

     

    670,074

     

     

    Depreciation and
    Amortization

     

    79

     

    142,746

     

     

    65,548

     

     

     

     

     

     

    208,373

     

     

    Loss (Gain) on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

     

     

    704

     

     

    (10,264

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (9,560

    )

     

    Total Operating Expenses

     

    32

     

    1,359,128

     

     

    583,995

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,943,155

     

     

    Operating (Loss) Income

     

    (32

    )

    290,737

     

     

    116,482

     

     

     

     

     

     

    407,187

     

     

    Interest Expense (Income), Net

     

    167,668

     

    (34,689

    )

     

    61,979

     

     

     

     

     

     

    194,958

     

     

    Other (Income)Expense, Net

     

    45,253

     

    (42,626

    )

     

    (14,616

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (11,989

    )

     

    (Loss) Income Before Provision for Income Taxes and Minority Interest

     

    (212,953

    )

    368,052

     

     

    69,119

     

     

     

     

     

     

    224,218

     

     

    Provision for Income Taxes

     

     

    75,817

     

     

    17,978

     

     

     

     

     

     

    93,795

     

     

    Equity in the Earnings of Subsidiaries, Net of Tax

     

    (341,816

    )

    (47,328

    )

     

     

     

     

    389,144

     

     

     

     

     

    Minority Interests in Earnings of Subsidiaries, Net

     

     

     

     

    1,560

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,560

     

     

    Net Income

     

    $

    128,863

     

    $

    339,563

     

     

    $

    49,581

     

     

     

    $

    (389,144

    )

     

     

    $

    128,863

     

     

     
     Year Ended December 31, 2007 
     
     Parent Guarantors Canada
    Company
     Non-
    Guarantors
     Eliminations Consolidated 

    Revenues:

                       
     

    Storage

     $ $1,074,743 $84,075 $340,256 $ $1,499,074 
     

    Service

        790,997  89,350  350,614    1,230,961 
                  
      

    Total Revenues

        1,865,740  173,425  690,870    2,730,035 

    Operating Expenses:

                       
     

    Cost of Sales (Excluding Depreciation and Amortization)

        827,135  79,926  353,059    1,260,120 
     

    Selling, General and Administrative

      (129) 548,918  30,146  192,440    771,375 
     

    Depreciation and Amortization

      153  168,910  11,942  68,289    249,294 
     

    Loss (Gain) on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

        1,162  284  (6,918)   (5,472)
                  
      

    Total Operating Expenses

      24  1,546,125  122,298  606,870    2,275,317 
                  

    Operating (Loss) Income

      (24) 319,615  51,127  84,000    454,718 

    Interest Expense (Income), Net

      195,785  (9,411) 25,025  17,194    228,593 

    Other Expense (Income), Net

      46,132  (2,301) (5,087) (35,643)   3,101 
                  

    (Loss) Income Before Provision for Income Taxes

      (241,941) 331,327  31,189  102,449    223,024 

    Provision for Income Taxes

        47,063  13,077  8,870    69,010 

    Equity in the Earnings of Subsidiaries, Net of Tax

      (395,035) (99,045)     494,080   
                  

    Net Income

      153,094  383,309  18,112  93,579  (494,080) 154,014 
      

    Less: Net (Loss) Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests

          (348) 1,268    920 
                  

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $153,094 $383,309 $18,460 $92,311 $(494,080)$153,094 
                  

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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
     (In(In thousands, except share and per share data)

    5. Selected Consolidated Financial Statements of Parent, Guarantors, Canada Company and Non-Guarantors (Continued)

     

     

    Year Ended December 31, 2004

     

     

     

    Parent

     

    Guarantors

     

    Non-
    Guarantors

     

    Eliminations

     

    Consolidated

     

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities

     

    $

    (176,437

    )

     

    $

    426,230

     

     

     

    $

    55,571

     

     

     

    $

     

     

     

    $

    305,364

     

     

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Capital expenditures

     

     

     

    (162,032

    )

     

     

    (69,934

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (231,966

    )

     

    Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired

     

     

     

    (163,828

    )

     

     

    (220,510

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (384,338

    )

     

    Intercompany loans to subsidiaries

     

    44,240

     

     

    28,501

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (72,741

    )

     

     

     

     

    Investment in subsidiaries

     

    (111,988

    )

     

    (111,988

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    223,976

     

     

     

     

     

    Investment in joint ventures

     

     

     

    (858

    )

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (858

    )

     

    Additions to customer relationship and acquisition costs

     

     

     

    (10,050

    )

     

     

    (2,422

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (12,472

    )

     

    Proceeds from sales of property and equipment

     

     

     

    3,053

     

     

     

    58

     

     

     

     

     

     

    3,111

     

     

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities

     

    (67,748

    )

     

    (417,202

    )

     

     

    (292,808

    )

     

     

    151,235

     

     

     

    (626,523

    )

     

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Repayment of debt and term loans

     

    (706,149

    )

     

    (117,246

    )

     

     

    (261,618

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (1,085,013

    )

     

    Proceeds from debt and term loans

     

    668,882

     

     

     

     

     

    479,393

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,148,275

     

     

    Early retirement of notes

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (20,797

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (20,797

    )

     

    Net proceeds from sales of senior subordinated notes

     

    269,427

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    269,427

     

     

    Debt financing (repayment to) and equity contribution from (distribution to) minority stockholders, net

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (41,978

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (41,978

    )

     

    Intercompany loans from parent

     

     

     

    (47,542

    )

     

     

    (25,199

    )

     

     

    72,741

     

     

     

     

     

    Equity contribution from parent

     

     

     

    111,988

     

     

     

    111,988

     

     

     

    (223,976

    )

     

     

     

     

    Proceeds from exercise of stock options and employee stock purchase plan

     

    18,041

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    18,041

     

     

    Payment of debt financing costs and stock issuance costs

     

    (6,016

    )

     

     

     

     

    (5,370

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (11,386

    )

     

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities

     

    244,185

     

     

    (52,800

    )

     

     

    236,419

     

     

     

    (151,235

    )

     

     

    276,569

     

     

    Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,849

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,849

     

     

    (Decrease) Increase in cash and cash equivalents

     

     

     

    (43,772

    )

     

     

    1,031

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (42,741

    )

     

    Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of
    year

     

     

     

    54,793

     

     

     

    19,890

     

     

     

     

     

     

    74,683

     

     

    Cash and cash equivalents, end of year

     

    $

     

     

    $

    11,021

     

     

     

    $

    20,921

     

     

     

    $

     

     

     

    $

    31,942

     

     

     
     Year Ended December 31, 2008 
     
     Parent Guarantors Canada
    Company
     Non-
    Guarantors
     Eliminations Consolidated 

    Revenues:

                       
     

    Storage

     $ $1,181,424 $92,532 $383,953 $ $1,657,909 
     

    Service

        900,437  98,355  398,433    1,397,225 
                  
      

    Total Revenues

        2,081,861  190,887  782,386    3,055,134 

    Operating Expenses:

                       
     

    Cost of Sales (Excluding Depreciation and Amortization)

        884,212  84,216  413,591    1,382,019 
     

    Selling, General and Administrative

      109  626,983  33,175  222,097    882,364 
     

    Depreciation and Amortization

      182  196,783  13,755  80,018    290,738 
     

    Loss (Gain) on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

        7,568  21  (106)   7,483 
                  
      

    Total Operating Expenses

      291  1,715,546  131,167  715,600    2,562,604 
                  

    Operating (Loss) Income

      (291) 366,315  59,720  66,786    492,530 

    Interest Expense (Income), Net

      209,712  (28,760) 46,849  8,834    236,635 

    Other (Income) Expense, Net

      (125,361) (2,248) (351) 158,988    31,028 
                  

    (Loss) Income Before Provision for Income Taxes

      (84,642) 397,323  13,222  (101,036)   224,867 

    Provision for Income Taxes

        138,454  (3,682) 8,152    142,924 

    Equity in the (Earnings) Losses of Subsidiaries, Net of Tax

      (166,679) 95,532      71,147   
                  

    Net Income (Loss)

      82,037  163,337  16,904  (109,188) (71,147) 81,943 
      

    Less: Net Loss Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests

            (94)   (94)
                  

    Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $82,037 $163,337 $16,904 $(109,094)$(71,147)$82,037 
                  

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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    5. Selected Consolidated Financial Statements of Parent, Guarantors, Canada Company and Non-Guarantors (Continued)

     

     

    Year Ended December 31, 2005

     

     

     

    Parent

     

    Guarantors

     

    Non-
    Guarantors

     

    Eliminations

     

    Consolidated

     

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities

     

    $

    (149,143

    )

     

    $

    433,730

     

     

     

    $

    92,589

     

     

     

    $

     

     

     

    $

    377,176

     

     

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Capital expenditures

     

     

     

    (190,143

    )

     

     

    (81,986

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (272,129

    )

     

    Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired

     

     

     

    (66,890

    )

     

     

    (111,348

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (178,238

    )

     

    Intercompany loans to subsidiaries

     

    73,702

     

     

    (107,286

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    33,584

     

     

     

     

     

    Investment in subsidiaries

     

    (15,687

    )

     

    (15,687

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    31,374

     

     

     

     

     

    Additions to customer relationship and acquisition costs

     

     

     

    (7,909

    )

     

     

    (5,522

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (13,431

    )

     

    Proceeds from sales of property and equipment and other

     

     

     

    15,895

     

     

     

    11,728

     

     

     

     

     

     

    27,623

     

     

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities

     

    58,015

     

     

    (372,020

    )

     

     

    (187,128

    )

     

     

    64,958

     

     

     

    (436,175

    )

     

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Repayment of debt and term loans

     

    (300,322

    )

     

    (2,783

    )

     

     

    (206,490

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (509,595

    )

     

    Proceeds from debt and term loans

     

    366,352

     

     

     

     

     

    202,374

     

     

     

     

     

     

    568,726

     

     

    Debt financing (repayment to) and equity contribution from (distribution to) minority stockholders, net

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (2,399

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (2,399

    )

     

    Intercompany loans from parent

     

     

     

    (74,977

    )

     

     

    108,561

     

     

     

    (33,584

    )

     

     

     

     

    Equity contribution from parent

     

     

     

    15,687

     

     

     

    15,687

     

     

     

    (31,374

    )

     

     

     

     

    Proceeds from exercise of stock options and employee stock purchase plan

     

    25,649

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    25,649

     

     

    Payment of debt financing costs and stock issuance costs

     

    (551

    )

     

     

     

     

    (381

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (932

    )

     

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities

     

    91,128

     

     

    (62,073

    )

     

     

    117,352

     

     

     

    (64,958

    )

     

     

    81,449

     

     

    Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (979

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (979

    )

     

    (Decrease) Increase in cash and cash equivalents

     

     

     

    (363

    )

     

     

    21,834

     

     

     

     

     

     

    21,471

     

     

    Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year

     

     

     

    11,021

     

     

     

    20,921

     

     

     

     

     

     

    31,942

     

     

    Cash and cash equivalents, end of year

     

    $

     

     

    $

    10,658

     

     

     

    $

    42,755

     

     

     

    $

     

     

     

    $

    53,413

     

     

     
     Year Ended December 31, 2009 
     
     Parent Guarantors Canada
    Company
     Non-
    Guarantors
     Eliminations Consolidated 

    Revenues:

                       
     

    Storage

     $ $1,247,778 $93,244 $355,373 $ $1,696,395 
     

    Service

        875,814  96,764  344,622    1,317,200 
                  
      

    Total Revenues

        2,123,592  190,008  699,995    3,013,595 

    Operating Expenses:

                       
     

    Cost of Sales (Excluding Depreciation and Amortization)

        829,539  80,205  361,470    1,271,214 
     

    Selling, General and Administrative

      92  638,770  32,127  203,370    874,359 
     

    Depreciation and Amortization

      231  226,559  15,717  76,565    319,072 
     

    Loss (Gain) on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

        1,435  123  (1,152)   406 
                  
      

    Total Operating Expenses

      323  1,696,303  128,172  640,253    2,465,051 
                  

    Operating (Loss) Income

      (323) 427,289  61,836  59,742    548,544 

    Interest Expense (Income), Net

      202,947  (28,189) 42,066  10,966    227,790 

    Other Expense (Income) , Net

      44,642  (4,766) (2) (51,953)   (12,079)
                  

    (Loss) Income Before Provision for Income Taxes

      (247,912) 460,244  19,772  100,729    332,833 

    Provision for Income Taxes

        97,504  3,624  9,399    110,527 

    Equity in the Earnings of Subsidiaries, Net of Tax

      (468,789) (102,601)     571,390   
                  

    Net Income

      220,877  465,341  16,148  91,330  (571,390) 222,306 
      

    Less: Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests

            1,429    1,429 
                  

    Net Income Attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

     $220,877 $465,341 $16,148 $89,901 $(571,390)$220,877 
                  

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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    5. Selected Consolidated Financial Statements of Parent, Guarantors, Canada Company and Non-Guarantors (Continued)

     

     

    Year Ended December 31, 2006

     

     

     

    Parent

     

    Guarantors

     

    Non-
     Guarantors

     

    Eliminations

     

    Consolidated

     

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities

     

    $

    (153,741

    )

     

    $

    434,021

     

     

     

    $

    94,002

     

     

     

    $

     

     

     

    $

    374,282

     

     

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Capital expenditures

     

     

     

    (266,310

    )

     

     

    (115,660

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (381,970

    )

     

    Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired

     

     

     

    (24,576

    )

     

     

    (56,632

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (81,208

    )

     

    Intercompany loans to subsidiaries

     

    76,874

     

     

    (36,506

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (40,368

    )

     

     

     

     

    Investment in subsidiaries

     

    (16,800

    )

     

    (16,800

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    33,600

     

     

     

     

     

    Additions to customer relationship and acquisition costs

     

     

     

    (9,263

    )

     

     

    (4,988

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (14,251

    )

     

    Investment in joint ventures

     

     

     

    (2,814

    )

     

     

    (3,129

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (5,943

    )

     

    Proceeds from sales of property and equipment and other

     

     

     

    257

     

     

     

    16,401

     

     

     

     

     

     

    16,658

     

     

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities

     

    60,074

     

     

    (356,012

    )

     

     

    (164,008

    )

     

     

    (6,768

    )

     

     

    (466,714

    )

     

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Repayment of debt and term loans

     

    (571,456

    )

     

    (10,113

    )

     

     

    (73,391

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (654,960

    )

     

    Proceeds from debt and term loans

     

    469,273

     

     

     

     

     

    74,667

     

     

     

     

     

     

    543,940

     

     

    Early retirement of senior subordinated notes

     

    (112,397

    )

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (112,397

    )

     

    Net proceeds from sales of senior subordinated notes

     

    281,984

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    281,984

     

     

    Debt financing (repayment to) and equity contribution from (distribution to) minority stockholders, net

     

     

     

     

     

     

    (2,068

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (2,068

    )

     

    Intercompany loans from parent

     

     

     

    (79,000

    )

     

     

    38,632

     

     

     

    40,368

     

     

     

     

     

    Equity contribution from parent

     

     

     

    16,800

     

     

     

    16,800

     

     

     

    (33,600

    )

     

     

     

     

    Proceeds from exercise of stock options and employee stock purchase plan

     

    22,245

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    22,245

     

     

    Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation

     

    4,387

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    4,387

     

     

    Payment of debt financing costs and stock issuance costs

     

    (369

    )

     

     

     

     

    (28

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (397

    )

     

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities

     

    93,667

     

     

    (72,313

    )

     

     

    54,612

     

     

     

    6,768

     

     

     

    82,734

     

     

    Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,654

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1,654

     

     

    Increase (Decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

     

     

     

    5,696

     

     

     

    (13,740

    )

     

     

     

     

     

    (8,044

    )

     

    Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of
    year

     

     

     

    10,658

     

     

     

    42,755

     

     

     

     

     

     

    53,413

     

     

    Cash and cash equivalents, end of year

     

    $

     

     

    $

    16,354

     

     

     

    $

    29,015

     

     

     

    $

     

     

     

    $

    45,369

     

     

     
     Year Ended December 31, 2007 
     
     Parent Guarantors Canada
    Company
     Non-
    Guarantors
     Eliminations Consolidated 

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities

     $(177,057)$474,366 $39,928 $147,407 $ $484,644 

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

                       
     

    Capital expenditures

        (248,102) (16,360) (121,980)   (386,442)
     

    Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired

        (415,611) (2,303) (63,612)   (481,526)
     

    Intercompany loans to subsidiaries

      (356,735) (157,492)     514,227   
     

    Investment in subsidiaries

      (20,298) (20,298)     40,596   
     

    Additions to customer relationship and acquisition costs

        (7,124) (960) (8,319)   (16,403)
     

    Proceeds from sales of property and equipment and other, net

        7,340  391  10,005    17,736 
                  
      

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities

      (377,033) (841,287) (19,232) (183,906) 554,823  (866,635)

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities:

                       
     

    Repayment of revolving credit and term loan facilities and other debt

      (1,239,836) (10,894) (723,277) (337,324)   (2,311,331)
     

    Proceeds from revolving credit and term loan facilities and other debt

      1,481,750  9,056  762,498  56,740    2,310,044 
     

    Net proceeds from sale of senior subordinated notes

      289,058    146,760      435,818 
     

    Debt financing (repayment to) and equity contribution from (distribution to) noncontrolling interests, net

            1,950    1,950 
     

    Intercompany loans from parent

        360,062  (190,165) 344,330  (514,227)  
     

    Equity contribution from parent

        20,298    20,298  (40,596)  
     

    Proceeds from exercise of stock options and employee stock purchase plan

      21,843          21,843 
     

    Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation

      6,765          6,765 
     

    Payment of debt financing costs

      (5,490)   (2,687) 93    (8,084)
                  
      

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities

      554,090  378,522  (6,871) 86,087  (554,823) 457,005 

    Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents

          942  4,282    5,224 
                  

    Increase in cash and cash equivalents

        11,601  14,767  53,870    80,238 

    Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period

        16,354  762  28,253    45,369 
                  

    Cash and cash equivalents, end of period

     $ $27,955 $15,529 $82,123 $ $125,607 
                  

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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    5. Selected Consolidated Financial Statements of Parent, Guarantors, Canada Company and Non-Guarantors (Continued)

     
     Year Ended December 31, 2008 
     
     Parent Guarantors Canada
    Company
     Non-
    Guarantors
     Eliminations Consolidated 

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities

     $(175,781)$570,427 $14,041 $128,342 $ $537,029 

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

                       
     

    Capital expenditures

        (222,161) (12,493) (152,067)   (386,721)
     

    Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired

        (35,424)   (21,208)   (56,632)
     

    Intercompany loans to subsidiaries

      50,007  (57,558)     7,551   
     

    Investment in subsidiaries

      (14,344) (14,344)     28,688   
     

    Additions to customer relationship and acquisition costs

        (8,795) (416) (4,971)   (14,182)
     

    Investments in joint ventures

            (1,709)   (1,709)
     

    Proceeds from sales of property and equipment and other, net

        927  33  (1,310)   (350)
                  
      

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities

      35,663  (337,355) (12,876) (181,265) 36,239  (459,594)

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities:

                       
     

    Repayment of revolving credit and term loan facilities and other debt

      (880,451) (14,993) (44,729) (17,334)   (957,507)
     

    Proceeds from revolving credit and term loan facilities and other debt

      776,650  114  11,212  12,048    800,024 
     

    Early retirement of senior subordinated notes

      (71,881)         (71,881)
     

    Net proceeds from sale of senior subordinated notes

      295,500          295,500 
     

    Debt financing (repayment to) and equity contribution from (distribution to) noncontrolling interests, net

            960    960 
     

    Intercompany loans from parent

        (49,856) 35,856  21,551  (7,551)  
     

    Equity contribution from parent

        14,344    14,344  (28,688)  
     

    Proceeds from exercise of stock options and employee stock purchase plan

      16,145          16,145 
     

    Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation

      5,112          5,112 
     

    Payment of debt financing costs

      (957)   (28)     (985)
                  
      

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities

      140,118  (50,391) 2,311  31,569  (36,239) 87,368 

    Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents

          (1,936) (10,104)   (12,040)
                  

    Increase (Decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

        182,681  1,540  (31,458)   152,763 

    Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period

        27,955  15,529  82,123    125,607 
                  

    Cash and cash equivalents, end of period

     $ $210,636 $17,069 $50,665 $ $278,370 
                  

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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    5. Selected Consolidated Financial Statements of Parent, Guarantors, Canada Company and Non-Guarantors (Continued)

     
     Year Ended December 31, 2009 
     
     Parent Guarantors Canada
    Company
     Non-
    Guarantors
     Eliminations Consolidated 

    Cash Flows from Operating Activities

     $(186,314)$634,063 $38,154 $131,008 $ $616,911 

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities:

                       
     

    Capital expenditures

        (174,256) (22,042) (116,463)   (312,761)
     

    Cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired

        (256)   (1,777)   (2,033)
     

    Intercompany loans to subsidiaries

      284,604  17,807      (302,411)  
     

    Investment in subsidiaries

      (164,256) (164,256)     328,512   
     

    Additions to customer relationship and acquisition costs

        (6,711) (520) (3,528)   (10,759)
     

    Investments in joint ventures

            (3,114)   (3,114)
     

    Proceeds from sales of property and equipment and other, net

        3,717  45  839    4,601 
                  
      

    Cash Flows from Investing Activities

      120,348  (323,955) (22,517) (124,043) 26,101  (324,066)

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities:

                       
     

    Repayment of revolving credit and term loan facilities and other debt

      (54,150) (18,438) (192,097) (23,027)   (287,712)
     

    Proceeds from revolving credit and term loan facilities and other debt

            36,932    36,932 
     

    Early retirement of senior subordinated notes

      (447,874)         (447,874)
     

    Net proceeds from sale of senior subordinated notes

      539,688          539,688 
     

    Debt financing (repayment to) and equity contribution from (distribution to) noncontrolling interests, net

            1,064    1,064 
     

    Intercompany loans from parent

        (283,974) 5,751  (24,188) 302,411   
     

    Equity contribution from parent

        164,256  156,655  7,601  (328,512)  
     

    Proceeds from exercise of stock options and employee stock purchase plan

      24,233          24,233 
     

    Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation

      5,532          5,532 
     

    Payment of debt financing costs

      (1,463)   (37) (55)   (1,555)
                  
      

    Cash Flows from Financing Activities

      65,966  (138,156) (29,728) (1,673) (26,101) (129,692)

    Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents

          928  4,205    5,133 
                  

    Increase (Decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

        171,952  (13,163) 9,497    168,286 

    Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period

        210,636  17,069  50,665    278,370 
                  

    Cash and cash equivalents, end of period

     $ $382,588 $3,906 $60,162 $ $446,656 
                  

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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    6. Acquisitions

    The        We account for acquisitions we consummated in 2004, 2005 and 2006 were accounted for using the purchase method of accounting, and accordingly, the results of operations for each acquisition have been included in our consolidated results from their respective acquisition dates. Cash consideration for the various acquisitions was primarily provided through borrowings under our credit facilities, the proceeds from the sale of senior subordinated notes and cash equivalents on-hand. We completed no acquisitions during 2009. Included in cash paid for acquisitions in the consolidated statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2009 is contingent and other payments of $2,033 related to acquisitions made in prior years. The significantunaudited pro forma results of operations for the period ended December 31, 2007 and 2008 are not presented due to the insignificant impact of the 2007 and 2008 acquisitions on our consolidated results of operations, respectively. Noteworthy acquisitions are as follows:

    For full access to all future cash flows and greater strategic and financial flexibility, in February 2004, we completed the acquisition of the 49.9% equity interest held by Mentmore plc (“Mentmore”) in IME for total consideration of 82,500 British pounds sterling ($154,000) in cash. Included in this amount is the repayment of all trade and working capital funding owed to Mentmore by IME. Completion of the transaction gave us 100% ownership of IME. This transaction did not have material impact on revenue or operating income since we already fully consolidated IME’s financial results. Using the purchase method of accounting for this acquisition, the net assets of IME were adjusted to reflect 49.9% of the difference between the fair market value and their carrying value on the date of acquisition.

    To build upon our mission to protect our customers’ information regardless of format, in November 2004, we acquired Connected Corporation (“Connected”) for total cash consideration of $109,326 (net of cash acquired). Connected’s technology allows for the protection, archiving and recovery of distributed data.

    To develop our presence in Asia Pacific, in December 2005, we acquired the Australian and New Zealand operations of Pickfords Records Management for total cash consideration of approximately Australian Dollar 115,000 ($86,276, net of cash acquired).

    To extend our leadership role in the protection of our customer’ business data,information management services industry, in December 2005,May 2007, we acquired full ownershipArchivesOne, Inc. ("ArchivesOne"), a leading provider of LiveVault Corporation (“LiveVault”) for cash considerationrecords and information management services in the United States. ArchivesOne had 31 facilities located in 17 major metropolitan markets in 10 states and the District of $35,798Columbia. The purchase price was $200,295 (net of cash acquired). As for ArchivesOne.

            To complement our current health information solutions, in September 2007, we acquired RMS Services—USA, Inc. ("RMS") for $45,400 in cash. RMS, a leading provider of outsourced file-room services, offers hospitals comprehensive, next generation file-room and film-library management solutions.

            In December 31, 2004,2007, we had a minority interest investmentacquired Stratify, Inc. ("Stratify") for $130,051 in LiveVaultcash (net of cash acquired) and $22,828 in fair value of options issued (based on the Black-Scholes option pricing model) to augment our suite of eDiscovery services, providing businesses with a carrying value of $3,615. LiveVaultcomplete, end-to-end Discovery Services solution. Stratify, a leader in advanced electronic discovery services for the legal market, offers in-depth discovery and data investigation solutions for AmLaw 200 law firms and leading Fortune 500 corporations. Stratify is based in Mountain View, California.

            To enhance our existing operations in record management and information destruction business and expand our geographical footprint in North America, in May 2008, we acquired DocuVault for $31,378. DocuVault is a leading provider of disk-based online serverrecords storage, secure shredding and data backup services in Denver and recovery solutions.Colorado Springs.


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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    6. Acquisitions (Continued)

    A summary of the consideration paid and the allocation of the purchase price of the acquisitions is as follows:

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Cash Paid (gross of cash acquired)

     

    $

    388,243

    (1)

    $

    180,457

    (1)

    $

    60,428

    (1)

    Previous Investment Balance of Businesses Acquired

     

     

    3,615

     

     

    Fair Value of Options Issued

     

    1,245

     

    780

     

     

    Total Consideration

     

    389,488

     

    184,852

     

    60,428

     

    Fair Value of Identifiable Assets Acquired(2)

     

    160,622

     

    85,070

     

    55,474

     

    Liabilities Assumed(3)

     

    (50,006

    )

    (21,876

    )

    (12,364

    )

    Minority Interest

     

    71,535

    (4)

    8,142

    (5)

    919

    (6)

    Total Fair Value of Identifiable Net Assets Acquired

     

    182,151

     

    71,336

     

    44,029

     

    Recorded Goodwill

     

    $

    207,337

     

    $

    113,516

     

    $

    16,399

     

     
     2007 2008 

    Cash Paid (gross of cash acquired)

     $490,966(1)$54,541(1)

    Fair Value of Options Issued

      22,828   
          
     

    Total Consideration

      513,794  54,541 

    Fair Value of Identifiable Assets Acquired:

           
     

    Cash, Accounts Receivable, Prepaid Expenses and Other

      45,819  3,172 
     

    Property, Plant and Equipment(2)

      41,644  4,026 
     

    Customer Relationship Assets(3)

      195,725  24,989 
     

    Core Technology

      15,025  2,511 
     

    Other Assets

      11,548  996 
     

    Liabilities Assumed(4)

      (113,075) (3,922)
     

    Noncontrolling Interests

        4,489(5)
          
     

    Total Fair Value of Identifiable Net Assets Acquired

      196,686  36,261 
          

    Recorded Goodwill

     $317,108 $18,280 
          

    (1)
    Included in cash paid for acquisitions in the consolidated statements of cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007 and 2006 is a2008 are contingent paymentand other payments of $5,513, $704$1,800 and $21,382,$2,319, respectively, related to acquisitions made in previous years.


    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED
    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    6. Acquisitions (Continued)

    (2)
    Consisted primarily of accounts receivable, prepaid expenses and other, land, buildings, racking, and leasehold improvements. Additionally, includes core technology

    (3)
    The weighted average lives of $15,460 and $10,500 for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, respectively, and customer relationship assets of $64,064, $70,724associated with acquisitions in 2007 and $37,492 for the2008 were 24 years ended December 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006,28 years, respectively.

    (3)

    (4)
    Consisted primarily of accounts payable, accrued expenses and notes payable.

    (4)

    (5)
    Consisted primarily of the carrying value of Mentmore’s 49.9% minority interestnoncontrolling interests in IMEBrazil at the date of acquisition.

    acquisition in 2008.

    (5)          Consisted primarily of the carrying value of minority interests of Latin American partners at the date of acquisition.

    (6)          Consisted primarily of the carrying value of minority interests of European, Latin American and Asia Pacific partners at the date of acquisition.

    Allocation of the purchase price for the 2006 acquisitions was based on estimates of the fair value of net assets acquired, and is subject to adjustment. The purchase price allocations of certain 2006 transactions are subject to finalization of the assessment of the fair value of property, plant and equipment, intangible assets (primarily customer relationship assets), operating leases, restructuring purchase reserves, deferred revenue and deferred income taxes. We are not aware of any information that would indicate that the final purchase price allocations will differ meaningfully from preliminary estimates.

    In connection with each of our acquisitions prior to December 31, 2008, we have undertaken certain restructurings of the acquired businesses.businesses to realize efficiencies and potential cost savings. The restructuring activities include certain reductions in staffing levels, elimination of duplicate facilities and other costs associated with exiting certain activities of the acquired businesses. The estimated cost of these restructuring activities were recorded as costs of the acquisitions. Our acquisitions after January 1, 2009 will be accounted for under newly promulgated accounting guidance. All acquisition costs and were provided in accordance with EITF No. 95-3, “Recognitionrestructuring activity will be charged to operations rather than being capitalized as part of Liabilities in Connection with a Purchase Business Combination.”the purchase price. We finalize restructuring plans for each business no later than one year from the date of acquisition. Unresolved matters at December


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    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED

    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2006 primarily include completion of planned abandonments of facilities2009
    (In thousands, except share and severance contracts in connection with certain acquisitions.per share data)

    6. Acquisitions (Continued)

    The following is a summary of reserves related to such restructuring activities:

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Reserves, beginning of the year

     

    $

    21,414

     

    $

    12,698

     

    Reserves established

     

    1,142

     

    3,642

     

    Expenditures

     

    (7,360

    )

    (5,181

    )

    Adjustments to goodwill, including currency effect(1)

     

    (2,498

    )

    (5,606

    )

    Reserves, end of the year

     

    $

    12,698

     

    $

    5,553

     

     
     2008 2009 

    Reserves, Beginning Balance

     $3,602 $8,555 

    Reserves Established

      8,694   

    Expenditures

      (2,698) (6,356)

    Adjustments to Goodwill, including Currency Effect(1)

      (1,043) (1,119)
          

    Reserves, Ending Balance

     $8,555 $1,080 
          

    (1)
    Includes adjustments to goodwill as a result of management finalizing its restructuring plans.

    At December 31, 2005,2008, the restructuring reserves related to acquisitions consisted of lease losses on abandoned facilities ($9,760)7,315), severance costs ($569)94) and other exit costs ($2,369)1,146). At December 31, 2006,


    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED
    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    6. Acquisitions (Continued)

    2009, the restructuring reserves related to acquisitions consisted of lease losses on abandoned facilities ($3,010)866), severance costs ($259)61) and other exit costs ($2,284)153). These accruals are expected to be substantially used prior to December 31, 2007 except for lease losses of $2,142, severance contracts of $127, and other exit costs of $463, all of which are based on contracts that extend beyond one year.2010.

    In connection with our acquisition in India, we entered into a shareholder agreement in May 2006. The agreement contains a put provision that would allow the minority stockholdernoncontrolling interest holder to sell the remaining 49.9% equity interest to us beginning on the third anniversary of this agreement for the greater of fair market value or approximately 84,835 Rupees (approximately $1,800). In accordance with FASB Interpretation No. 45, “Guarantor’s Accounting and Disclosure Requirements for Guarantees, Including Indirect Guarantees of Indebtedness of Others—An Interpretation of FASB Statements No. 5, 57 and 107 and Rescission of FASB Interpretation No. 34,” weWe recorded a liability representing our estimate of the fair value of the guarantee in the amount of $368, with the offset to goodwill.$342 and $360 as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively.

    In connection with some of our acquisitions, we have potentialcontingent earn-out obligations that would bebecome payable in the event the businesses we acquired meet certain operational objectives.achieve specified revenue targets and/or multiples of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (as defined in the purchase agreements). These payments are based on the future results of these operations and our estimate of the maximum contingent earn-out payments we may be required to make under all such agreements as of December 31, 20062009 is approximately $6,600.$9,610. These amounts are generally payable over periods ranging from 2010 through 2012 and all of these payments, if made, will be treated as additional consideration as part of the acquisition and will increase goodwill. We have recorded $535, $1,447 and $549 of compensation expense for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively, in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations related to contingent consideration arrangements. New accounting standards require that we must, for any acquisitions that we make on or any time after January 1, 2009, (i) estimate our contingent consideration payments at the time of the acquisition and include such amount as part of the initial purchase price allocation, and (ii) any subsequent changes in this estimate will directly impact the consolidated statement of operations.

    7. Income Taxes

    The componentsevaluation of income beforean uncertain tax position is a two-step process. The first step is a recognition process whereby the company determines whether it is more likely than not that a tax position will be


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    sustained upon examination, including resolution of any related appeals or litigation processes, based on the technical merits of the position. The second step is a measurement process whereby a tax position that meets the more likely than not recognition threshold is calculated to determine the amount of benefit to recognize in the financial statements. The tax position is measured at the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement. We recognized a $16,606 increase in the reserve related to uncertain tax positions, which was accounted for as a reduction to the January 1, 2007 balance of retained earnings in conjunction with the adoption of a new accounting standard related to uncertain tax positions.

            We have elected to recognize interest and penalties associated with uncertain tax positions as a component of the provision for income taxes in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations. We recorded $1,170, $4,495 and minority$4,749 for gross interest are:and penalties for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, respectively.

            We had $8,125 and $12,874 accrued for the payment of interest and penalties as of December 31, 2008 and 2009, respectively.

            A summary of tax years that remain subject to examination by major tax jurisdictions is as follows:

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    U.S. and Canada

     

    $

    157,929

     

    $

    178,300

     

    $

    189,844

     

    Foreign

     

    8,806

     

    18,718

     

    34,374

     

     

     

    $

    166,735

     

    $

    197,018

     

    $

    224,218

     

    Tax Year
    Tax Jurisdiction
    See BelowUnited States
    1999 to presentCanada
    2004 to presentUnited Kingdom

            

    We haveThe normal statute of limitations for U.S. federal tax purposes is three years from the date the tax return is filed. However, due to our net operating loss carryforwards which beginposition, the U.S. government has the right to expire in 2018 through 2021audit the amount of $172,700 at December 31, 2006 to reduce future federal taxable income, if any. We also have an asset for statethe net operating loss up to three years after we utilize the loss on our federal income tax return. We utilized losses from years beginning in 1991, 1993 and 1997 in our federal income tax returns for our 2006, 2007, and 2008 tax years, respectively. The normal statute of $18,200 (net of federal tax benefit), which beginslimitations for state purposes is between three to expire in 2007 through 2024, subject to a valuation allowance of approximately 98%. Additionally, we have federal alternative minimum tax credit carryforwards of $4,800, which have no expiration date and are available to reduce future income taxes, if any, and foreign tax credits, which expire in 2016, of $23,600.five years.

    We are subject to examination by various tax authorities in jurisdictions in which we have significant business operations. We regularly assess the likelihood of additional assessments by tax authorities and provide for these matters as appropriate. As of December 31, 2006,2008 and 2009, we had approximately $62,000$84,566 and $88,155, respectively, of reserves related to uncertain tax positions included in other long-term liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. Approximately $36,000 of the reserve is related to pre-acquisition net operating loss carryforwards and other acquisition related items. If the tax position is sustained, the reversal of this reserve will be recorded as a reduction of goodwill. Although we believe our tax estimates


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    are appropriate, the final determination of tax audits and any related litigation could result in favorable or unfavorable changes in our estimates.


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    7. Income Taxes (Continued)

            A reconciliation of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows:

    Gross tax contingencies—January 1, 2007

     $83,958 

    Gross additions based on tax positions related to the current year

      8,885 

    Gross additions for tax positions of prior years

      1,076 

    Gross reductions for tax positions of prior years

      (5,872)

    Lapses of statutes

      (14,947)

    Settlements

      (192)
        

    Gross tax contingencies—December 31, 2007

     $72,908 

    Gross additions based on tax positions related to the current year

      7,735 

    Gross additions for tax positions of prior years

      11,862 

    Gross reductions for tax positions of prior years

      (4,504)

    Lapses of statutes

      (3,435)
        

    Gross tax contingencies—December 31, 2008

     $84,566 

    Gross additions based on tax positions related to the current year

      3,166 

    Gross additions for tax positions of prior years

      5,693 

    Gross reductions for tax positions of prior years

      (720)

    Lapses of statutes

      (4,460)

    Settlements

      (90)
        

    Gross tax contingencies—December 31, 2009

     $88,155 
        

    The reversal of all of these reserves of $88,155 ($82,273 net of federal tax effectsbenefit) as of temporary differencesDecember 31, 2009 will be recorded as a reduction of our income tax provision, if sustained. We believe that give rise toit is reasonably possible that approximately $30,208 of our unrecognized tax positions may be recognized by the end of 2010 as a result of a lapse of statute of limitations and would affect the effective tax rate.


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    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    7. Income Taxes (Continued)

            The significant portionscomponents of the deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities are presented below:

     

     

    December��31,

     

     

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Deferred Tax Assets:

     

     

     

     

     

    Accrued liabilities

     

    $

    25,687

     

    $

    25,223

     

    Deferred rent

     

    11,478

     

    12,722

     

    Net operating loss carryforwards

     

    45,783

     

    78,850

     

    AMT and foreign tax credits

     

    18,760

     

    29,285

     

    Valuation Allowance(1)

     

    (9,318

    )

    (27,274

    )

    Other

     

    3,846

     

    12,918

     

     

     

    96,236

     

    131,724

     

    Deferred Tax Liabilities:

     

     

     

     

     

    Other assets, principally due to differences in amortization

     

    (120,321

    )

    (136,149

    )

    Plant and equipment, principally due to differences in depreciation

     

    (148,959

    )

    (187,480

    )

    Customer acquisition costs

     

    (24,647

    )

    (27,783

    )

     

     

    (293,927

    )

    (351,412

    )

    Net deferred tax liability

     

    $

    (197,691

    )

    $

    (219,688

    )


     
     December 31, 
     
     2008 2009 

    Deferred Tax Assets:

           
     

    Accrued liabilities

     $34,702 $38,919 
     

    Deferred rent

      18,471  20,484 
     

    Net operating loss carryforwards

      63,152  59,330 
     

    AMT, research and foreign tax credits

      57,948  60,182 
     

    Valuation Allowance

      (44,843) (42,128)
     

    Other

      40,065  36,770 
          

      169,495  173,557 

    Deferred Tax Liabilities:

           
     

    Other assets, principally due to differences in amortization

      (256,690) (269,452)
     

    Plant and equipment, principally due to differences in depreciation

      (298,824) (333,248)
          

      (555,514) (602,700)
          
     

    Net deferred tax liability

     $(386,019)$(429,143)
          

    (1)          The majority        We have federal net operating loss carryforwards which begin to expire in 2019 through 2025 of the increase in our valuation allowance from 2005$38,617 ($13,516, tax effected) at December 31, 2009 to 2006 relates primarily to previously unrecordedreduce future federal taxable income. We have an asset for state net operating losses that areof $16,104 (net of federal tax benefit), which begins to expire in 2010 through 2025, subject to valuation allowance. Approximately $2,375 of the total 2006a valuation allowance if realized, will be recordedof approximately 99%. We have assets for foreign net operating losses of $29,710, with various expiration dates, subject to a valuation allowance of approximately 81%. Additionally, we have federal research credits of $867 which begin to expire in 2010, and foreign tax credits of $59,315, which begin to expire in 2014 through 2019. Based on current expectations and plans, we expect to fully utilize our foreign tax credit carryforwards prior to their expiration.

            Rollforward of valuation allowance is as a reduction to goodwill.follows:

    Year Ended December 31,
     Balance at
    Beginning of
    the Year
     Charged to
    Expense
     Other
    Additions
     Deductions Balance at
    End of
    the Year
     

    2007

     $27,274 $23,962 $ $(7,832)$43,404 

    2008

      43,404  1,439      44,843 

    2009

      44,843  808  3,517  (7,040) 42,128 

    We receive a tax deduction upon the exercise of non-qualified stock options or upon the disqualifying disposition by employees of incentive stock options and certain shares acquired under our employee stock purchase plan for the difference between the exercise price and the market price of the underlying common stock on the date of exercise or disqualifying disposition. The tax benefit for


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    non-qualified stock options and the 15% discount associated with our employee stock purchase plan areis included in the consolidated financial statements in the period in which compensation expense is recorded. The tax benefit associated with compensation expense recorded in the consolidated financial statements related to incentive stock options and incremental amounts recorded above the 15% discount associated with the employee stock purchase plan areis recorded in the period the disqualifying disposition occurs. All tax benefits for awards issued prior to January 1, 2003 and incremental tax benefits in excess of compensation expense recorded in the consolidated financial statements are credited directly to equity and amounted to $6,904, $9,668$6,765, $5,112 and $4,387$5,532 for the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, respectively.


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    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    7. Income Taxes (Continued)

    We have not provided deferred taxes on book basis differences related to certain foreign subsidiaries because such basis differences are not expected to reverse in the foreseeable future and we intend to reinvest indefinitely outside the U.S. These basis differences arose primarily through the undistributed book earnings of our foreign subsidiaries. The basis differences could be reversed through a sale of the subsidiaries, the receipt of dividends from subsidiaries as well as certain other events or actions on our part, which would result in an increase in our provision for income taxes. It is not practicable to calculate the amount of such basis differences.

            The components of income (loss) before provision for income taxes are:

     
     2007 2008 2009 

    U.S. 

     $103,043 $315,122 $215,594 

    Canada

      22,100  16,128  22,162 

    Foreign

      97,881  (106,383) 95,077 
            

     $223,024 $224,867 $332,833 
            

    The provision (benefit) for income taxes consists of the following components:

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Federal—current

     

    $

     

    $

     

    $

    9,156

     

    Federal—deferred

     

    54,237

     

    55,891

     

    44,862

     

    State—current

     

    4,094

     

    8,847

     

    14,433

     

    State—deferred

     

    9,339

     

    181

     

    7,143

     

    Foreign—current and deferred

     

    1,904

     

    16,565

     

    18,201

     

     

     

    $

    69,574

     

    $

    81,484

     

    $

    93,795

     

     
     Year Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Federal—current

     $11,429 $19,266 $51,227 

    Federal—deferred

      37,301  101,837  22,439 

    State—current

      10,443  10,192  17,239 

    State—deferred

      1,683  7,777  6,531 

    Foreign—current

      3,325  4,357  12,338 

    Foreign—deferred

      4,829  (505) 753 
            

     $69,010 $142,924 $110,527 
            

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    DECEMBER 31, 2009
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    7. Income Taxes (Continued)

            

    A reconciliation of total income tax expense and the amount computed by applying the federal income tax rate of 35% to income before provision for income taxes and minority interests for the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, respectively, is as follows:

     

     

    Year Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Computed “expected” tax provision

     

    $

    58,357

     

    $

    68,956

     

    $

    78,477

     

    Changes in income taxes resulting from:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    State taxes (net of federal tax benefit)

     

    8,732

     

    6,430

     

    5,545

     

    Increase in valuation allowance

     

     

    1,092

     

    10,713

     

    Foreign tax rate differential and tax law change

     

    (1,584

    )

    (94

    )

    (5,151

    )

    Other, net

     

    4,069

     

    5,100

     

    4,211

     

     

     

    $

    69,574

     

    $

    81,484

     

    $

    93,795

     

     
     Year Ended December��31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Computed "expected" tax provision

     $78,058 $78,703 $116,492 

    Changes in income taxes resulting from:

              
     

    State taxes (net of federal tax benefit)

      1,844  14,520  15,451 
     

    Increase in valuation allowance

      23,962  1,439  808 
     

    Foreign tax rate differential and tax law change

      (38,917) 31,443  (22,232)
     

    Subpart F Income

        5,368  984 
     

    Other, net

      4,063  11,451  (976)
            

     $69,010 $142,924 $110,527 
            

            Our effective tax rates for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009 were 30.9%, 63.6% and 33.2%, respectively. The primary reconciling items between the statutory rate of 35% and our overall effective tax rate are state income taxes (net of federal benefit) and differences in the rates of tax at which our foreign earnings are subject including foreign exchange gains and losses in different jurisdictions with different tax rates.


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    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    8. Quarterly Results of Operations (Unaudited)

    Quarter Ended

     

     

     

    March 31

     

    June 30

     

    Sept. 30

     

    Dec. 31

     

    2005

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Total revenues

     

    $

    501,406

     

    $

    511,922

     

    $

    526,472

     

    $

    538,355

     

    Operating income

     

    91,110

     

    96,693

     

    102,177

     

    96,804

     

    Income before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

     

    22,949

     

    25,410

     

    36,377

     

    29,114

     

    Net income

     

    22,949

     

    25,410

     

    36,377

     

    26,363

     

    Income before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle per share—basic

     

    0.12

     

    0.13

     

    0.19

     

    0.15

     

    Income before cumulative effect of change in accounting principle per share—diluted

     

    0.12

     

    0.13

     

    0.18

     

    0.15

     

    Net income per share—basic

     

    0.12

     

    0.13

     

    0.19

     

    0.13

     

    Net income per share—diluted

     

    0.12

     

    0.13

     

    0.18

     

    0.13

     

    2006

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Total revenues

     

    $

    563,657

     

    $

    581,568

     

    $

    595,610

     

    $

    609,507

     

    Operating income

     

    92,435

     

    102,894

     

    97,130

     

    114,728

     

    Net income

     

    27,273

     

    37,842

     

    26,613

     

    37,135

     

    Net income per share—basic

     

    0.14

     

    0.19

     

    0.13

     

    0.19

     

    Net income per share—diluted

     

    0.14

     

    0.19

     

    0.13

     

    0.18

     

    Quarter Ended
     March 31 June 30 Sept. 30 Dec. 31 

    2008

                 

    Total revenues

     $749,384 $768,857 $784,338 $752,555 

    Operating income

      106,330  123,886  136,345  125,969 

    Net income

      34,074  35,738  11,252  879 

    Net income attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

      33,482  35,886  11,314  1,355(1)

    Net income per share attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated—basic

      0.17  0.18  0.06  0.01 

    Net income per share attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated—diluted

      0.16  0.18  0.06  0.01 

    2009

                 

    Total revenues

     $723,346 $746,028 $764,885 $779,336 

    Operating income

      121,197  138,054  142,649  146,644 

    Net income

      26,944  87,512  43,177  64,673 

    Net income attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated

      28,799  87,638  43,186  61,254(2)

    Net income per share attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated—basic

      0.14  0.43  0.21  0.30 

    Net income per share attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated—diluted

      0.14  0.43  0.21  0.30 

    (1)
    The change in net income attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to the third quarter of 2008 is primarily related to a reduction in operating income period-over-period.

    (2)
    The change in net income attributable to Iron Mountain Incorporated in the fourth quarter of 2009 compared to the third quarter of 2009 is primarily related to discrete tax benefits recorded in the fourth quarter compared to the third quarter of 2009 related to unrealized foreign exchange gains and losses in different jurisdictions at different tax rates.

    9. Segment Information

    We have six        Beginning January 1, 2009, we changed the composition of our segments to not allocate certain corporate and centrally controlled costs, which primarily relate to executive and staff functions, including finance, human resources and information technology, as well as all stock-based compensation, which benefit the enterprise as a whole. These are now reflected as Corporate costs and are not allocated to our operating segments. Therefore, the presentation of all historical segment reporting has been changed to conform to our new management reporting.

            Corporate and our five operating segments are as follows:

    ·

      North American Physical Business—throughout the United States and Canada, the storage of paper documents, as well as all other non-electronic media such as microfilm and microfiche,

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        master audio and videotapes, film, X-rays and blueprints, including healthcare information services, vital records services, service and courier operations, and the collection, handling and disposal of sensitive documents for corporate customers (“("Hard Copy”Copy"); the storage and rotation of backup computer media as part of corporate disaster recovery plans, including service and courier operations (“("Data Protection”Protection"); secure shreddinginformation destruction services (“Shredding”("Destruction"); and the storage, assembly, and detailed reporting of customer marketing literature and delivery to sales offices, trade shows and prospective customers’customers' sites based on current and prospective customer orders, which we refer to as the “Fulfillment”"Fulfillment" business

      ·Worldwide Digital Business—information protection and storagemanagement services for electronic records conveyed via telecommunication lines and the Internet, including online backup and recovery solutions for server data and personal computers, as well as email archiving, and third party technologyintellectual property escrow services that protect intellectual property assets such as softwareand manage source code,

      and electronic discovery services for the legal market that offers in-depth discovery and data investigation solutions·

      Europe—information protection and storagemanagement services throughout Europe, including Hard Copy, Data Protection and Shredding

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      9. Segment Information (Continued)

      ·       SouthLatin America—information protection and storagemanagement services throughout South America,Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Peru, including Hard Copy and Data Protection

      ·

             Mexico—

      Asia Pacific—information protection and storagemanagement services throughout Mexico,Australia and New Zealand, including Hard Copy, Data Protection and Shredding

      ·       Asia Pacific—information protectionDestruction; and storage services throughout Australia, New Zealandin certain cities in India, Singapore, Hong Kong-SAR, China, Indonesia and India,Sri Lanka, including Hard Copy and Data Protection and Shredding

      The South America, Mexico and Asia Pacific operating segments do not individually meet the quantitative thresholds for a reportable segment, but have been aggregated and reported with Europe as one reportable segment, “International Physical Business,” given their similar economic characteristics, products, customers and processes. The Worldwide Digital Business does not meet the quantitative criteria for a reportable segment; however, management determined that it would disclose such information on a voluntary basis.

      An analysis

      Corporate—consists of our business segment information and reconciliation to the consolidated financial statements is as follows:

       

       

      North
      American
      Physical
      Business

       

      International
      Physical
      Business

       

      Worldwide
      Digital
      Business

       

      Total
      Consolidated

       

      2004

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

      Total Revenues

       

      $

      1,387,977

       

       

      $

      380,033

       

       

      $

      49,579

       

       

      $

      1,817,589

       

       

      Depreciation and Amortization

       

      115,975

       

       

      33,234

       

       

      14,420

       

       

      163,629

       

       

      Contribution

       

      427,579

       

       

      89,751

       

       

      (9,886

      )

       

      507,444

       

       

      Total Assets

       

      3,216,999

       

       

      1,024,135

       

       

      201,253

       

       

      4,442,387

       

       

      Expenditures for Segment Assets(1)

       

      256,998

       

       

      243,030

       

       

      128,748

       

       

      628,776

       

       

      2005

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

      Total Revenues

       

      1,529,612

       

       

      435,106

       

       

      113,437

       

       

      2,078,155

       

       

      Depreciation and Amortization

       

      118,493

       

       

      43,285

       

       

      25,144

       

       

      186,922

       

       

      Contribution

       

      444,343

       

       

      113,417

       

       

      12,461

       

       

      570,221

       

       

      Total Assets

       

      3,383,098

       

       

      1,142,217

       

       

      240,825

       

       

      4,766,140

       

       

      Expenditures for Segment Assets(1)

       

      225,178

       

       

      178,662

       

       

      59,958

       

       

      463,798

       

       

      2006

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

      Total Revenues

       

      1,671,009

       

       

      539,335

       

       

      139,998

       

       

      2,350,342

       

       

      Depreciation and Amortization

       

      127,562

       

       

      54,803

       

       

      26,008

       

       

      208,373

       

       

      Contribution

       

      478,653

       

       

      117,568

       

       

      9,779

       

       

      606,000

       

       

      Total Assets

       

      3,616,218

       

       

      1,349,175

       

       

      244,128

       

       

      5,209,521

       

       

      Expenditures for Segment Assets(1)

       

      314,317

       

       

      142,732

       

       

      20,380

       

       

      477,429

       

       


      (1)          Includes capital expenditures, cash paid for acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and additions to customer relationship and acquisition costs in the accompanying consolidated statements of cash flows.


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      NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
      DECEMBER 31, 2006
      (In thousands, except share and per share data)

      9. Segment Information (Continued)

      The accounting policies of the reportable segments are the same as those described in Note 2 except that certain corporate and centrally controlled costs are allocated primarily to our North American Physical Business and Worldwide Digital Business segments. These allocations, which include human resources, information technology, finance, rent, real estate property taxes, medical costs, incentive compensation, stock option expense, worker’s compensation, 401(k) match contributions and property, general liability, auto and other insurance, are based on rates and methodologies established at the beginning of each year. Included in the corporate costs allocated to our North American Physical Business segment are certain costs related to executive and staff functions, including finance, human resources and information technology, which benefit the enterprise as a whole. These costs are primarily related to the general management of these functions on a corporate level and the design and development of programs, policies and procedures that are then implemented in the individual segments, with each segment bearing its own cost of implementation. Management has decided to allocate these costsCorporate also includes stock-based employee compensation expense associated with all Employee Stock-Based Awards.

            The Latin America, Asia Pacific and Europe operating segments have been aggregated given their similar economic characteristics, products, customers and processes and reported as one reportable segment, "International Physical Business." The Worldwide Digital Business does not meet the quantitative criteria for a reportable segment; however, management determined that it would disclose such information on a voluntary basis.


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    9. Segment Information (Continued)

            An analysis of our business segment information and reconciliation to the North American segmentconsolidated financial statements is as further allocation is impracticable.follows:

    Contribution

     
     North
    American
    Physical
    Business
     International
    Physical
    Business
     Worldwide
    Digital
    Business
     Corporate Total
    Consolidated
     

    2007

                    

    Total Revenues

     $1,890,068 $676,749 $163,218 $ $2,730,035 

    Depreciation and Amortization

      127,204  67,135  27,277  27,678  249,294 
     

    Depreciation

      118,608  54,805  21,717  27,525  222,655 
     

    Amortization

      8,596  12,330  5,560  153  26,639 

    Adjusted OIBDA

      681,232  135,714  25,662  (144,068) 698,540 

    Total Assets(1)

      4,056,801  1,691,856  435,117  124,147  6,307,921 

    Expenditures for Segment Assets

      515,799  184,821  150,423  33,328  884,371 
     

    Capital Expenditures

      219,794  112,948  20,372  33,328  386,442 
     

    Cash Paid for Acquisitions, Net of Cash acquired

      287,863  63,612  130,051    481,526 
     

    Additions to Customer Relationship and Acquisition Costs

      8,142  8,261      16,403 

    2008

                    

    Total Revenues

      2,067,316  764,812  223,006    3,055,134 

    Depreciation and Amortization

      145,260  78,800  32,511  34,167  290,738 
     

    Depreciation

      134,320  64,220  22,094  33,985  254,619 
     

    Amortization

      10,940  14,580  10,417  182  36,119 

    Adjusted OIBDA

      768,523  138,432  41,782  (157,986) 790,751 

    Total Assets(1)

      4,283,291  1,516,521  429,409  127,633  6,356,854 

    Expenditures for Segment Assets

      225,361  172,321  32,069  27,784  457,535 
     

    Capital Expenditures

      180,682  146,142  32,113  27,784  386,721 
     

    Cash Paid for Acquisitions, Net of Cash acquired

      35,468  21,208  (44)   56,632 
     

    Additions to Customer Relationship and Acquisition Costs

      9,211  4,971      14,182 

    2009

                    

    Total Revenues

      2,101,526  682,684  229,385    3,013,595 

    Depreciation and Amortization

      173,798  75,236  36,856  33,182  319,072 
     

    Depreciation

      162,110  62,331  26,179  32,951  283,571 
     

    Amortization

      11,688  12,905  10,677  231  35,501 

    Adjusted OIBDA

      856,761  125,364  50,303  (164,406) 868,022 

    Total Assets(1)

      4,576,155  1,723,659  413,974  133,046  6,846,834 

    Expenditures for Segment Assets

      160,758  115,740  20,287  28,768  325,553 
     

    Capital Expenditures

      153,247  110,459  20,287  28,768  312,761 
     

    Cash Paid for Acquisitions, Net of Cash acquired

      256  1,777      2,033 
     

    Additions to Customer Relationship and Acquisition Costs

      7,255  3,504      10,759 

    (1)
    Excludes all intercompany receivables or payables and investment in subsidiary balances.

            The accounting policies of the reportable segments are the same as those described in Note 2. Adjusted OIBDA for each segment is defined as total revenues less costoperating income before depreciation and


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and selling, generalper share data)

    9. Segment Information (Continued)


    amortization expenses, excluding (gain) loss on disposal/writedown of property, plant and administrative expenses (includingequipment, net which are directly attributable to the costs allocatedsegment (the same as and previously referred to each segment as described above)Contribution). Internally, we use ContributionAdjusted OIBDA as the basis for evaluating the performance of and allocating resources to our operating segments.

    A reconciliation of ContributionAdjusted OIBDA to income before provision for income taxes and minority interest on a consolidated basis is as follows:

     

     

    Years Ended December 31,

     

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Contribution

     

    $

    507,444

     

    $

    570,221

     

    $

    606,000

     

    Less: Depreciation and Amortization

     

    163,629

     

    186,922

     

    208,373

     

    Gain on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment,
    Net

     

    (681

    )

    (3,485

    )

    (9,560

    )

    Interest Expense, Net

     

    185,749

     

    183,584

     

    194,958

     

    Other (Income) Expense, Net

     

    (7,988

    )

    6,182

     

    (11,989

    )

    Income before Provision for Income Taxes and Minority Interest

     

    $

    166,735

     

    $

    197,018

     

    $

    224,218

     

     
     Years Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Adjusted OIBDA

      698,540 $790,751 $868,022 
     

    Less: Depreciation and Amortization

      249,294  290,738  319,072 
      

    (Gain) Loss on Disposal/Writedown of Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

      (5,472) 7,483  406 
      

    Interest Expense, net

      228,593  236,635  227,790 
      

    Other Expense (Income), net

      3,101  31,028  (12,079)
            

    Income before Provision for Income Taxes

     $223,024 $224,867 $332,833 
            

            


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    9. Segment Information (Continued)

    Information as to our operations in different geographical areas is as follows:

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Revenues:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    United States

     

    $

    1,330,979

     

    $

    1,504,907

     

    $

    1,647,265

     

    United Kingdom

     

    270,665

     

    275,426

     

    312,393

     

    Canada

     

    106,577

     

    132,302

     

    154,801

     

    Other International

     

    109,368

     

    165,520

     

    235,883

     

    Total Revenues

     

    $

    1,817,589

     

    $

    2,078,155

     

    $

    2,350,342

     

    Long-lived Assets:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    United States

     

    $

    2,735,545

     

    $

    2,887,981

     

    $

    3,029,827

     

    United Kingdom

     

    618,712

     

    594,178

     

    645,218

     

    Canada

     

    315,872

     

    335,929

     

    354,258

     

    Other International

     

    271,104

     

    393,884

     

    500,497

     

    Total Long-lived Assets

     

    $

    3,941,233

     

    $

    4,211,972

     

    $

    4,529,800

     

     
     Years Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Revenues:

              

    United States

     $1,862,809 $2,074,881 $2,116,528 

    United Kingdom(1)

      368,008  382,971  292,685 

    Canada

      179,636  197,031  196,246 

    Other International

      319,582  400,251  408,136 
            
     

    Total Revenues

     $2,730,035 $3,055,134 $3,013,595 
            

    Long-lived Assets:

              

    United States

     $3,633,588 $3,728,501 $3,736,626 

    United Kingdom

      723,128  596,631  617,141 

    Canada

      432,789  355,878  425,838 

    Other International

      696,020  699,452  855,804 
            
     

    Total Long-lived Assets

     $5,485,525 $5,380,462 $5,635,409 
            

    (1)
    Change from 2008 to 2009 is primarily due to a weakening of the British pound sterling against the U.S. dollar year-over-year.

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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    9. Segment Information (Continued)

    Information as to our revenues by product and service lines is as follows:

     

     

    2004

     

    2005

     

    2006

     

    Revenues:

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Physical Records Management and Secure Shredding

     

    $

    1,462,457

     

    $

    1,614,905

     

    $

    1,856,873

     

    Physical Tape Rotation Services

     

    305,553

     

    349,813

     

    353,471

     

    Digital(1)

     

    49,579

     

    113,437

     

    139,998

     

    Total Revenues

     

    $

    1,817,589

     

    $

    2,078,155

     

    $

    2,350,342

     

     
     Years Ended December 31, 
     
     2007 2008 2009 

    Revenues:

              

    Records Management(1)(2)

     $1,954,233 $2,146,293 $2,155,684 

    Data Protection & Recovery(1)(3)

      536,217  612,158  606,608 

    Information Destruction(1)(4)

      239,585  296,683  251,303 
            
     

    Total Revenues

     $2,730,035 $3,055,134 $3,013,595 
            

    (1)
    Each of the service offerings within our product and service lines has a component of revenue that is storage related and a component that is service revenues, except the Information Destruction service offering, which does not have a storage component.

    (2)
    Includes DigitalBusiness Records Management, Archiving Electronic Vaulting,and Discovery Services, Compliant Records Management and Consulting Services, Document Management Solutions, Fulfillment Services, Domain Name Management, Health Information Management Solutions, Film and Sound Archives and Energy Data Services.

    (3)
    Includes Physical Data Protection & Recovery Services, Online Computer and Server Backup and Intellectual Property ManagementManagement.

    (4)
    Includes Physical Secure Shredding and DataDefense.

    Compliant Information Destruction.

    10. Commitments and Contingencies

      a.
      Leases

    a.    Leases

    Most of our leased facilities are leased under various operating leases.leases that typically have initial lease terms of ten to fifteen years. A majority of these leases have renewal options ofwith one or more five year options to ten yearsextend and may have fixed or Consumer Price Index escalation clauses. We also lease equipment under operating leases, primarily computers which have an average lease life of three years. TrucksVehicles and office equipment are also leased and have remaining lease lives ranging from one to seven years. Due to the declining economic environment in 2008, the current fair market values of vans, trucks and mobile shredding units within our vehicle fleet portfolio, which we lease, declined. As a result, certain vehicle leases that previously met the requirements to be considered operating leases were classified as capital leases upon renewal. The 2008 impact of this change on our consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2008 was an increase in property, plant and equipment and debt of $58,517 and had no impact on 2008 operating results. Operating results for 2009 accordingly have lower vehicle rent expense (a component of transportation costs within cost of sales), offset by an increased amount of combined depreciation and interest expense. Total rent expense (including common area maintenance charges) under all of our operating leases was $163,564, $185,542$240,833, $280,360 (including $20,828 associated with vehicle leases which became capital leases in 2008) and $207,760$251,053 for the years ended


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    DECEMBER 31, 2009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    10. Commitments and Contingencies (Continued)


    December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, respectively. Included in total rent expense was sublease income of $2,765, $3,238$4,973, $5,341 and $3,740$4,324 for the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, respectively.


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    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    10. Commitments and Contingencies (Continued)

    Estimated minimum future lease payments net of sublease income of $2,879, $2,444, $1,949, $1,228, $269 and $544(excluding common area maintenance charges) include payments for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and thereafter, respectively,certain renewal periods at our option because failure to renew results in an economic disincentive due to significant capital expenditure costs (e.g., racking), thereby making it reasonably assured that we will renew the lease. Such payments in effect at December 31, are as follows:

    Year

     

     

     

    Operating

     

    2007

     

    $

    176,842

     

    2008

     

    164,447

     

    2009

     

    157,880

     

    2010

     

    154,055

     

    2011

     

    148,402

     

    Thereafter

     

    2,069,643

     

    Total minimum lease payments

     

    $

    2,871,269

     

    Year
     Operating
    Lease
    Payment
     Sublease
    Income
     Capital
    Leases
     

    2010

     $231,210 $2,260 $44,500 

    2011

      217,742  1,440  45,787 

    2012

      206,972  1,292  42,385 

    2013

      198,117  1,031  26,755 

    2014

      186,887  765  19,314 

    Thereafter

      1,980,796  2,098  132,197 
            

    Total minimum lease payments

     $3,021,724 $8,886 $310,938 
             
     

    Less amounts representing interest

            (117,200)
              
     

    Present value of capital lease obligations

           $193,738 
              

    WeIn addition, we have guaranteed the residual valuecertain contractual obligations related to purchase commitments which require minimum payments of certain vehicle operating leases to which we are a party. The maximum net residual value guarantee obligation for these vehicles as of December 31, 2006 was $57,129. Such amount does not take into consideration the recovery or resale value associated with these vehicles. We believe that it is not reasonably likely that we will be required to perform under these guarantee agreements or that any performance requirement would have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.$24,487, $10,045, $9,766, $514, $464 and $316 in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and thereafter, respectively.

      b.
      Litigation

    b.    Litigation

    We are involved in litigation from time to time in the ordinary course of business with a portion of the defense and/or settlement costs being covered by various commercial liability insurance policies purchased by us. In the opinion of management, no material legal proceedings are pending to which we, or any of our properties, are subject.subject, except as discussed below. We record legal costs associated with loss contingencies as expenses in the period in which they are incurred.

      c.
      London Fire

            In July 2006, we experienced a significant fire in a leased records and information management facility in London, England, that resulted in the complete destruction of the facility and its contents. The London Fire Brigade ("LFB") issued a report in which it was concluded that the fire resulted either from human agency, i.e., arson, or an unidentified ignition device or source, and its report to the Home Office concluded that the fire resulted from a deliberate act. The LFB also concluded that the installed sprinkler system failed to control the fire due to the primary electric fire pump being disabled prior to the fire and the standby diesel fire pump being disabled in the early stages of the fire by third-party contractors. We have received notices of claims from customers or their subrogated insurance carriers under various theories of liabilities arising out of lost data and/or records as a result of the fire. Certain of those claims have resulted in litigation in courts in the United Kingdom. We deny any


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    10. Commitments and Contingencies (Continued)

    liability in respect of the London fire and we have referred these claims to our primary warehouse legal liability insurer, which has been defending them to date under a reservation of rights. Certain of the claims have been settled for nominal amounts, typically one to two British pounds sterling per carton, as specified in the contracts, which amounts have been or will be reimbursed to us from our primary property insurer. Many claims, including substantial claims, remain outstanding; others have been resolved pursuant to consent orders.

            We believe we carry adequate property and liability insurance. We do not expect that legal proceedings related to this event will have a material impact to our consolidated results of operations or financial condition. We recorded approximately $12,927 to other (income) expense, net for the year ended December 31, 2007 related to recoveries associated with settlement of the business interruption portion of our insurance claim. Recoveries from the insurance carriers related to business personal property claims are reflected in our statement of cash flows under proceeds from sales of property and equipment and other, net included in investing activities section when received and amounted to $17,755 for the year ended December 31, 2007. We have received recoveries related to our property claim with our insurance carriers that exceed the carrying value of such assets. We have recorded a gain on the disposal of property, plant and equipment of $7,745 for the year ended December 31, 2007. Recoveries from the insurance carriers related to business interruption claims are reflected in our statement of cash flows as a component of net income included in the operating activities section when received.

      d.
      Pittsburgh Litigation

            In May, 2006 we filed an eviction lawsuit against a tenant, Digital Encoding Factory, LLC ("DEF"), leasing space in our Boyers, Pennsylvania records storage facility for its failure to make required rent payments. In October, 2006, DEF and two related companies, EDA Acquisition, LLC, and Media Holdings, LLC, filed a lawsuit against us in the U.S. Federal District Court for Western Pennsylvania alleging that they started a digital scanning business in our Boyers, Pennsylvania, records storage facility because we orally agreed to refer customer digital scanning business in the facility to them (the "Pittsburgh Lawsuit") and promised substantial business. The plaintiffs contend that we breached this alleged oral agreement and seek to recover damages in the range of $6,500 to $53,500. The Pittsburgh Lawsuit is scheduled for trial in March, 2010. We dispute the plaintiffs' claims and contend that there was no such oral agreement. We have not recorded any loss reserve for this matter. We plan to defend against the alleged claims at trial. We are unable to estimate the final outcome of this matter.

    11. Related Party Transactions

    We lease space to an affiliated company, Schooner Capital LLC (“Schooner”("Schooner"), for its corporate headquarters located in Boston, Massachusetts. For the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, Schooner paid rent to us totaling $153, $161$168, $152 and $167,$177, respectively. We lease facilities from an officer.a trust of which one of our officers is the beneficiary. Our aggregate rental payment for such facilities during 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 20062009 was $955, $978$1,048, $1,078 and $1,113,$1,105, respectively.

    We have an agreement with Leo W. Pierce, Sr., our former Chairman Emeritus and the father of J. Peter Pierce, our former director, that requires pension payments of $8 per month until his death. The estimated remaining benefit is recorded in accrued expenses in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets in the amount of $634 as of December 31, 2006.

    In December 2005, IME made a $2,860 investment in a Polish joint venture in which one of our directors has an indirect 20% interest.


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    DECEMBER 31, 20062009
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    12. 401(k) Plans

    We have a defined contribution plan, which generally covers all non-union U.S. employees meeting certain service requirements. Eligible employees may elect to defer from 1% to 25% of compensation per pay period up to the amount allowed by the Internal Revenue Code. In addition, IME operates a defined contribution plan, which is similar to the U.S.’s's 401(k) Plan. We make matching contributions based on the amount of an employee’semployee's contribution in accordance with the plan documents. We have expensed $4,320, $6,737$11,619, $14,883 and $9,997$15,277 for the years ended December 31, 2004, 20052007, 2008 and 2006,2009, respectively.

    13. London FireSubsequent Events

    In July 2006,February, 2010, we experiencedacquired Mimosa Systems, Inc. ("Mimosa"), a significant fireleader in enterprise-class digital content archiving solutions, for approximately $112,000 in cash. Mimosa, based in Santa Clara, California, provides an on-premises integrated archive for email, SharePoint data and files, and complements IMI's existing enterprise-class, cloud-based digital archive services. NearPoint, Mimosa's enterprise archiving platform, has applications for retention and disposition, eDiscovery, compliance supervision, classification, recovery, and end-user search, enabling customers to reduce risk, and lower their eDiscovery and storage costs.

            In February, 2010, IMI's board of directors approved a records and information management facilitynew share repurchase program authorizing up to $150,000 in London, England that resulted in the complete destruction of the leased facility. London fire authorities recently issued a report in which it was concluded that the fire resulted from a deliberate act of arson; the report also stated that the actions of a guard employed by a third-party security service contractor resulted in the disabling of the automatic sprinkler system in the building.

    We believe we carry adequate property and liability insurance. We do not expect that this event will have a material impact to our consolidated results of operations or financial condition. Revenues from this facility represent less than 1%repurchases of our consolidated enterprise revenues. Ascommon stock. This represents approximately 3% of December 31, 2006, we have approximately $9,600 recorded as an insurance receivable which is included in prepaid expensesIMI's outstanding common stock based on the closing price on February 19, 2010. All purchases are subject to stock price, market conditions, corporate and legal requirements and other in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet which primarily represents the net book value of the property, plant and equipment associated with this facility at the time of the incident, net of $1,750 of property insurance proceeds received through IME’s October 31, 2006 fiscal year-end. Subsequent to IME’s October 31, 2006 fiscal year-end, IME received payment from our insurance carrier of approximately 8,600 British pounds sterling ($16,850). We expect to utilize cash received from our insurance carriers to fund capital expenditures and for general working capital needs. Such amount represents a portion of our business personal property, business interruption, and expense claims with our insurance carrier. We will record approximately $8,833 to other (income) expense, net in the first quarter of 2007 related to recoveries associated with our business interruption portion of our insurance claim to date. We expect to settle the remaining property portion of our insurance claim with our insurance carriers within the next twelve months and have, therefore, classified the remaining insurance receivable as a current asset. We expect to receive recoveries related to our property claim with our insurance carriers that will exceed the carrying value of such assets. We, therefore, expect to record gains on the disposal/writedown of property, plant and equipment, net in our statement of operations in future periods when the cash received to date exceeds the remaining carrying value of the related property, plant and equipment, net. Recoveries from the insurance carriers related to business personal property claims are reflected in our statement of cash flows under proceeds from sales of property and equipment and other, net included in investing activities section when received. Recoveries from the insurance carriers related to business interruption claims are reflected in our statement of cash flows as a component of net income included in the operating activities section when received.


    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED
    NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
    DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (In thousands, except share and per share data)

    14. Subsequent Events

    In January 2007, we completed an offering of 225,000 Euro in aggregate principal amount of our 63¤4% Euro Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018, which were issued at a price of 98.99% of par and priced to yield 6.875%. Our net proceeds of 219,200 Euro ($283,820),after paying the underwriters’ discounts and commissions and estimated expenses (excluding accrued interest payable by purchasers of the notes from October 17, 2006). These net proceeds were used to repay outstanding indebtedness under the IMI term loan and revolving credit facilities. We recorded a charge to other (income) expense, net of $503 in the first quarter of 2007 related to the early retirement of the IMI term loans, representing the write-off of a portion of our deferred financing costs.factors. In addition, in January, 2007 we entered into forward contractsFebruary, 2010, IMI's board of directors adopted a dividend policy under which IMI intends to exchange U.S. dollars for 96,000 Eurospay quarterly cash dividends on its common stock. The first quarterly dividend of $0.0625 per share will be payable on April 15, 2010 to shareholders of record on March 25, 2010. Declaration and 194,000 CAD for 127,500 Euros to hedgepayment of future quarterly dividends is at the discretion of IMI's board of directors.

            We have evaluated subsequent events through the date our intercompany exposures with Canada and our subsidiaries whose functional currency is the Euro. These forward contracts settle on a monthly basis, at which time we enter into new forward contracts for the same underlying amounts, to continue to hedge movements in CAD and Euros against the U.S. dollar. At the timefinancial statements were issued.


    Table of settlement, we either pay or receive the net settlement amount from the forward contract.Contents

    101




    SIGNATURES
    SIGNATURES

    Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

    IRON MOUNTAIN INCORPORATED


    By:



    By:



    /s/ C. RICHARD REESEBRIAN P. MCKEON

    C. Richard Reese


    Brian P. McKeon
    Chairman of the BoardExecutive Vice President and
    Chief ExecutiveFinancial Officer
    (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

    Dated: February 26, 2010

    Dated:  March 1, 2007

    Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

    Name

    Name
    Title

    Date






    /s/ C. RICHARD REESE



    C. Richard Reese

    Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief

    Executive Chairman

    March 1, 2007

    February 26, 2010

    C. Richard Reese

    Executive  Officer

    /s/ BOBROBERT T. BRENNAN



    Robert T. Brennan

    President and Chief OperatingExecutive Officer

    and Director

    March 1, 2007

    February 26, 2010

    Bob Brennan

    /s/ JOHN F. KENNY, JR.

    BRIAN P. MCKEON

    Brian P. McKeon

    Executive Vice President and Chief Financial

    Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

    March 1, 2007

    February 26, 2010

    John F. Kenny, Jr.

    Officer and Director (Principal Financial

    Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

    /s/ CLARKE H. BAILEY

    Director

    March 1, 2007



    Clarke H. Bailey

    Director

    February 26, 2010

    /s/ CONSTANTIN R. BODEN

    Director

    March 1, 2007



    Constantin R. Boden

    Director

    February 26, 2010

    /s/ KENT P. DAUTEN

    Director

    March 1, 2007



    Kent P. Dauten

    Director

    February 26, 2010

    /s/ PER-KRISTIAN HALVORSEN

    Per-Kristian Halvorsen
    DirectorFebruary 26, 2010
    /s/ ARTHUR D. LITTLE

    Director

    March 1, 2007



    Arthur D. Little

    Director

    February 26, 2010

    /s/ MICHAEL LAMACH

    Michael Lamach
    DirectorFebruary 26, 2010
    /s/ VINCENT J. RYAN

    Director

    March 1, 2007



    Vincent J. Ryan

    Director

    February 26, 2010
    /s/ LAURIE A. TUCKER

    Laurie A. Tucker
    DirectorFebruary 26, 2010

    102Table of Contents




    INDEX TO EXHIBITS

    Certain exhibits indicated below are incorporated by reference to documents we have filed with the Commission. Exhibit numbers in parentheses refer to the exhibit numbers in the applicable filing (which are identified in the footnotes appearing at the end of this index). Each exhibit marked by a pound sign (#) is a management contract or compensatory plan.

    Exhibit

    ExhibitItem

       Exhibit   

    2.1

    Agreement, dated July 12, 2003, between Hays plc and Iron Mountain Europe Limited (portions of which have been omitted pursuant to a request for confidential treatment).

    (2.1)(14)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2003).


    2.2



    Agreement and Plan of Merger by and between Iron Mountain Incorporated, a Pennsylvania corporation, and the Company, dated as of May 27, 2005.

    (2.1)(19)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 27, 2005).


    3.1



    Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, as amended.

    Filed herewith as Exhibit 3.1

    (Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006).


    3.2



    Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company.

    (3.2)Company (as adopted on March 5, 2009).(19)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 9, 2009).


    3.3



    Declaration of Trust of IM Capital Trust I, dated as of December 10, 2001 among the Company, The Bank of New York, The Bank of New York (Delaware) and John P. Lawrence, as trustees.

    (4.15)(10) (Incorporated by reference to the Company's Registration Statement No. 333-75068, filed with the Commission on December 13, 2001).


    3.4



    Certificate of Trust of IM Capital Trust I.

    (4.17)(10)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Registration Statement No. 333-75068, filed with the Commission on December 13, 2001).


    4.1


    Indenture for 81/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011, dated April 26, 1999, by and among the Company, certain of its subsidiaries and The Bank of New York, as trustee.

    (10.1)(4)

    4.2

    Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 24, 2006, by and among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee.

    (4.1)(25)

    4.3

    Indenture for 85/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008, dated as of April 3, 2001, among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York, as trustee.

    (4.1)(8)

    4.4

    First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 3, 2001, among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York, as trustee.

    (4.2)(8)

    4.5

    Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 14, 2001, among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York, as trustee.

    (4.7)(11)

    4.6


    Indenture for 71¤/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014, dated as of January 22, 2004, by and among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York, as trustee.

    (4)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 11, 2006).(23)

    4.7


    4.2



    Senior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of December 30, 2002, among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York, as trustee.

    (4.7)(13)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002).

    4.8


    4.3



    First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 30, 2002, among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York, as trustee.

    (4.8)trustee relating to the 73/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015.(13)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002).

    4.9


    4.4



    Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 20, 2003, among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York, as trustee.

    (4.9)trustee relating to the 65/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016.(15)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003).

    4.10


    4.5



    Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 17, 2006, by and among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee.trustee relating to the 83/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 20, 2006).


    Table of Contents

    (4.1)(24)

    ExhibitItem

    4.11

    4.6

    Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 16, 2006, by and among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee.

    (4.1)trustee relating to the 8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018 and the 63/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018.(27)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 17, 2006).

    4.12


    4.7



    Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 19, 2007, by and among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee.

    (4.1)trustee relating to the 63/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2018.(28)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 24, 2007).

    4.13


    4.8



    Amendment No. 1 to Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 23, 2007, by and among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee.

    Filed herewith as Exhibit 4.13

    (Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006).

    4.14


    4.9



    Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 15, 2007, by and among Iron Mountain Nova Scotia Funding Company, the Company and the other guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee relating to the 71/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 23, 2007).


    4.10


    Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 15, 2007, between Iron Mountain Nova Scotia Funding Company, the Company and the other guarantors named therein and the Initial Purchasers named therein.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 23, 2007).

    4.11


    Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 5, 2008, by and among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee relating to the 8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2020.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 11, 2008).

    4.12


    Eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 10, 2009, by and among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as trustee relating to the 83/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2021.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 11, 2009).

    4.13


    Form of stock certificate representing shares of Common Stock, $.01 par value per share, of the Company.

    (#)
    (Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 1, 2000).

    10.1



    (4.1)(6)


    10.1

    Iron Mountain Incorporated Executive Deferred Compensation Plan.(#)

    (10.7)(7)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007).


    10.2


    2002
    First Amendment to the Iron Mountain Incorporated Executive Deferred Compensation Plan.(#)

    Filed herewith as Exhibit 10.2

    (Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008).


    10.3


    First Amendment to Iron Mountain Incorporated Executive Deferred Compensation Plan.(#)

    Filed herewith as Exhibit 10.3

    10.4

    Second Amendment to Iron Mountain Incorporated Executive Deferred Compensation Plan.(#)

    Filed herewith as Exhibit 10.4

    10.5

    Nonqualified Stock Option Plan of Pierce Leahy Corp.(#)


    (10.3)(5)

    10.6

    Iron Mountain Incorporated 1997 Stock Option Plan, as amended.(#)

    (10.9)(7)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000).

    10.7


    10.4



    Amendment to Iron Mountain/ATSI 1995Mountain Incorporated 1997 Stock Option Plan.Plan, as amended. (#)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 10, 2008).


    Table of Contents

    (10.2)(2)

    ExhibitItem

    10.8

    10.5

    Iron Mountain Incorporated 1995 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended.(#)

    (10.3)(3)(Incorporated by reference to Iron Mountain/DE's Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 16, 1999).

    10.9


    10.6



    Iron Mountain Incorporated 2002 Stock Incentive Plan.(#)

    (10.8)(13)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002).

    10.10


    10.7


    Second
    Third Amendment to the Iron Mountain Incorporated 2002 Stock Incentive Plan.(#)

    (10.1)(20)(Incorporated by reference to Appendix A of the Company's Proxy Statement for the 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders filed April 21, 2008).

    10.11


    10.8



    Fourth Amendment to the Iron Mountain Incorporated 2002 Stock Incentive Plan. (#)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 10, 2008).


    10.9


    Stratify, Inc. 1999 Stock Plan. (#)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007).

    10.10


    Amendment to Stratify, Inc. 1999 Stock Plan. (#)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 10, 2008).

    10.11


    Form of Iron Mountain Incorporated 1995 Stock Incentive Plan Amended and Restated Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement.(#)

    (10.9)(17)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).


    10.12



    Form of Iron Mountain Incorporated 1995 Stock Incentive Plan Incentive Stock Option Agreement.(#)

    (10.10)(17)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).


    10.13



    Form of Iron Mountain Incorporated 1995 Stock Incentive Plan Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement.(#)

    (10.11)(17)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).


    10.14



    Form of Iron Mountain Incorporated 1995 Stock Incentive Plan Amended and Restated Iron Mountain Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement.(#)

    (10.12)(17)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).


    10.15



    Form of Iron Mountain Incorporated 1995 Stock Incentive Plan Incentive Stock Option Agreement.(#)

    (10.13)(17)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).


    10.16



    Form of Iron Mountain Incorporated 1995 Stock Incentive Plan Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement.(#)

    (10.14)(17)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).


    10.17



    Form of Iron Mountain Incorporated 1997 Stock Option Plan Stock Option Agreement.Agreement (version 1). (#)

    (10.15)(17)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).


    10.18



    Form of Iron Mountain Incorporated 1997 Stock Option Plan Stock Option Agreement.Agreement (version 2). (#)

    (10.16)(17)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).


    10.19



    Form of Iron Mountain Incorporated 2002 Stock Incentive Plan Stock Option Agreement.Agreement (version 1). (#)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).


    Table of Contents

    (10.17)(17)

    ExhibitItem

    10.20

    Form of Iron Mountain Incorporated 2002 Stock Incentive Plan Stock Option Agreement.Agreement (version 2). (#)

    (10.18)(17)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004).


    10.21


    2005 Categories of Criteria under
    Iron Mountain Incorporated 2002 Stock Incentive Plan Stock Option Agreement, dated May 24, 2007, by and between Iron Mountain Incorporated and Brian P. McKeon. (#)(Incorporated by reference to the 2003 Senior Executive Incentive Plan.(#)

    (10.1)Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2007).(18)


    10.22



    Change in Control Agreement, dated December 10, 2008, by and between the Company and Brian P. McKeon.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 10, 2008).


    10.23


    Change in Control Agreement, dated December 10, 2008, by and between the Company and Robert Brennan.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 10, 2008).

    10.24


    Summary Description of Compensation Plan for Executive Officers.(#)

    Filed herewith as Exhibit 10.22

    (Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006).

    10.23


    10.25



    Iron Mountain Incorporated 2003 Senior Executive Incentive Program.(#)

    (10.4)(18)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 5, 2005).

    10.24


    10.26



    Amendment to the Iron Mountain Incorporated 2003 Senior Executive Incentive Program.

    (10.2) (#)(20)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 1, 2006).

    10.25


    10.27



    Amendment to Iron Mountain Incorporated 2003 Senior Executive Incentive Program. (#)(Incorporated by reference to Appendix D of the Company's Proxy Statement for the 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders filed April 21, 2008).


    10.28


    2008 Categories of Criteria under the 2003 Senior Executive Incentive Plan, as amended.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 12, 2008).

    10.29


    Iron Mountain Incorporated 2006 Senior Executive Incentive Program.(#)

    (10.3)(20)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 1, 2006).

    10.26


    10.30



    Amendment to Iron Mountain Incorporated 2006 Senior Executive Incentive Program. (#)(Incorporated by reference to Appendix B of the Company's Proxy Statement for the 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders filed April 21, 2008).


    10.31


    2008 Categories of Criteria under the 2006 Senior Executive Incentive Plan.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 12, 2008).

    10.32


    Employment Agreement, dated as of August 11, 2008, by and between the Company and Robert Brennan.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 11, 2008).

    10.33


    Contract of Employment with Iron Mountain, between Iron Mountain Belgium NV and Marc Duale.(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 30, 2009).

    10.34


    Restated Compensation Plan for Non-Employee Directors.(#)

    (10.4)(20)(Filed herewith).

    10.27


    10.35



    Iron Mountain Incorporated Director Deferred Compensation Plan. (#)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007).

    Table of Contents

    ExhibitItem
    10.36Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of June 12, 1997, by and among the Company and certain stockholders of the Company.(#)

    (10.1)(1)(Incorporated by reference to Iron Mountain/DE's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1997).

    10.28


    10.37



    Master Lease and Security Agreement, dated as of May 22, 2001, between Iron Mountain Statutory Trust—2001, as Lessor, and Iron Mountain Records Management, Inc., as Lessee.

    (10.1)(9) (Incorporated by reference to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2001).

    10.29


    10.38



    Amendment No. 1 to Master Lease and Security Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2001 between Iron Mountain Statutory Trust—2001, as Lessor, and Iron Mountain Records Management, Inc., as Lessee.

    (10.28)(11)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001).

    10.30


    10.39



    Amendment to Master Lease and Security Agreement and Unconditional Guaranty, dated March 15, 2002, between Iron Mountain Statutory Trust—2001, Iron Mountain Information Management, Inc. and the Company.

    (10.6)(12)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2002).

    10.31


    10.40



    Unconditional Guaranty, dated as of May 22, 2001, from the Company, as Guarantor, to Iron Mountain Statutory
    Trust—2001, as Lessor.

    (Incorporated by reference to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2001).

    10.41



    (10.2)(9)


    10.32

    Subsidiary Guaranty, dated as of May 22, 2001, from certain subsidiaries of the Company as guarantors, for the benefit of Iron Mountain Statutory Trust—2001 and consented to by Bank of Nova Scotia.

    (10.36)(13)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002).

    10.33


    10.42



    Guaranty Letter, dated December 31, 2002, to Scotiabanc, Inc. from Iron Mountain Information Services, Inc., as Lessee and the Company as Guarantor.

    (10.37)(13)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002).

    10.34


    10.43



    Master Construction Agency Agreement, dated as of May 22, 2001, between Iron Mountain Statutory Trust—2001, as Lessor, and Iron Mountain Records Management, Inc., as Construction Agent.

    (10.3)(9)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2001).

    10.35


    10.44


    Composite Copy of the Multi-Currency Term, Revolving Credit Facilities Agreement, dated as of March 4, 2004, as amended and in effect on the date hereof, among Iron Mountain Europe Limited, certain lenders party thereto, Barclays Capital and The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland, as arrangers, and The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland as the facility agent, and security trustee.


    (10.5)(22)

    10.36

    Seventh Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of July 8, 2004April 16, 2007, among the Company, Iron Mountain Canada Corporation, certainIron Mountain Nova Scotia Funding Company, Iron Mountain Switzerland GmbH, the lenders party thereto, Fleet NationalJ.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Barclays Capital, as Co-Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, Barclays Bank PLC and Bank of America, N.A., as Syndication Agent, WachoviaCo-Syndication Agents, Citizens Bank National Association andof Massachusetts, The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC, The Bank of Nova Scotia and HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Co-Documentation Agents, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as lead arranger and bookrunner, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch, as Canadian Administrative Agent, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

    (10.1)(16)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 20, 2007).

    10.37


    10.45


    First
    Acknowledgment, Confirmation and Amendment of Guarantee or Security Document, dated as of November 9, 2004, to the Seventh Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of July 8, 2004, as amended,April 16 2007, among the Company, Iron Mountain Canada Corporation, the several banks and other lending institutions Incorporated, certain of its subsidiaries as guarantors and/or entities from time to time parties thereto, Bank of America, N.A. (f/k/a Fleet National Bank), as Syndication Agent, Wachovia Bank, National Association and The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Co-Documentation Agents, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Toronto Branch, as the Canadian Administrative Agent, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as Administrative Agent, and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as arranger and bookrunner.

    (10.1)(21)

    10.38

    Second Amendment, dated as of October 31, 2005, to the Seventh Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of July 8, 2004, as amended, among the Company, Iron Mountain Canada Corporation, the several banks and other lending institutions or entities from time to time parties thereto, Bank of America, N.A., as Syndication Agent, Wachovia Bank, National Association and The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Co-Documentation Agents,pledgors, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Toronto Branch, (f/k/a JPMorgan Chase Bank, Toronto Branch), as the Canadian Administrative Agent, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (f/k/a JPMorgan Chase Bank), as Administrative Agent, and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as arranger and bookrunner.

    (10.2)(21)

    10.39

    Third Amendment, dated as of August 16, 2006, to the Seventh Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of July 8, 2004, as amended, among the Company, Iron Mountain Canada Corporation, the several banks and other lending institutions or entities from time to time parties thereto, Bank of America, N.A., as Syndication Agent, Wachovia Bank, National Association and The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Co-Documentation Agents, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Toronto Branch, as the Canadian Administrative Agent, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as arranger and bookrunner.

    (10.1)Agent.(26)

    10.40

    Agreement of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance, dated as of January 28, 2005,(Incorporated by and among the Company, The Bank of New York, as prior trustee, and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as successor trustee, relatingreference to the Indenture for 81¤4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2011,Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated as of April 26, 1999.20, 2007).

    (10.1)(23)


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    10.41

    Agreement of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance, dated as of January 28, 2005, by and among the Company, The Bank of New York, as prior trustee, and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as successor trustee, relating to the Indenture for 85¤8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013, dated as of April 3, 2001.

    (10.2)(23)

    ExhibitItem

    10.42

    10.46

    Agreement of Resignation, Appointment and Acceptance, dated as of January 28, 2005, by and among the Company, The Bank of New York, as prior trustee, and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as successor trustee, relating to the Senior Subordinated Indenture for 73¤/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015 and 65¤/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2016, dated as of December 30, 2002.

    (10.3)(Incorporated by reference to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 11, 2006).(23)


    12



    Statement re: Computation of Ratios.

    (Filed herewith as Exhibit 12

    herewith).


    21



    Subsidiaries of the Company.

    (Filed herewith as Exhibit 21

    herewith).


    23.1



    Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP (Iron Mountain Incorporated, Delaware).

    (Filed herewith as Exhibit 23.1

    herewith).


    31.1



    Rule 13a-14(a) Certification of Chief Executive Officer.

    (Filed herewith as Exhibit 31.1

    herewith).


    31.2



    Rule 13a-14(a) Certification of Chief Financial Officer.

    (Filed herewith as Exhibit 31.2

    herewith).


    32.1



    Section 1350 Certification of Chief Executive Officer.

    Furnished herewith as Exhibit 32.1

    (Filed herewith).


    32.2



    Section 1350 Certification of Chief Financial Officer.

    Furnished herewith as Exhibit 32.2

    (Filed herewith).

    (1) Filed as an Exhibit to Iron Mountain/DE’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1997, filed with the Commission, File No. 0-27584.

    (2) Filed as an Exhibit to Iron Mountain/DE’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 9, 1998, filed with the Commission, File No. 0-27584.

       (3) Filed as an Exhibit to Iron Mountain/DE’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 16, 1999, filed with the Commission, File No. 0-27584.

    (4) Filed as an Exhibit to Iron Mountain/DE’s Current Report of Form 8-K dated May 11, 1999, filed with the Commission, File No. 0-27584.

       (5) Filed as an Exhibit Amendment No. 1 to Pierce Leahy’s Registration Statement No. 333-9963, filed with the Commission on October 4, 1996.

    (6) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 1, 2000, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

       (7) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (8) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2001, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (9) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2001, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (10) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Registration Statement No. 333-75068, filed with the Commission on December 13, 2001.

    (11) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (12) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2002, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (13) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (14) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2003, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (15) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (16) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2004, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.


    (17) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (18) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 5, 2005, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (19) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 27, 2005, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (20) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 1, 2006, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (21) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 23, 2006, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (22) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2006, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (23) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 11, 2006, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (24) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 20, 2006, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (25) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 28, 2006, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (26) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 29, 2006, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (27) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 17, 2006, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

    (28) Filed as an Exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 24, 2007, filed with the Commission, File No. 1-13045.

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