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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K10-K/A

Amendment No. 1

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

For the fiscal year ended December 31 2012, 2023

OR

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

For the transition period from to

Commission file number: 001-33767

Lumber Liquidators 

LL Flooring Holdings, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

(757) 259-4280

(804) 463‑2000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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

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 ¨Nox

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 ¨Nox

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrantregistrant: (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 Registrantregistrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yesx No ¨

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 (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). xYes¨ No

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’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.    ¨

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

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. 

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-212b‑2 of the Act). Yes ¨☐ No x

AtAs of June 30, 2012,2023, the last business day of the Registrant’sregistrant’s most recently completedrecent second fiscal quarter, the aggregate market value of the voting and non-votingregistrant’s common equitystock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant (based uponregistrant was $108.5 million based on the closing sale price of such sharesas reported on the New York Stock Exchange on June 29, 2012) was approximately $549 million. SharesExchange.

As of Registrant’sApril 19, 2024, 30,667,115 shares of the registrant's common stock, held by each executive officer and director and by each entity or person that, to the Registrant’s knowledge, owned 10% or more of Registrant’s outstanding common stock as of June 30, 2012 have been excluded in that such persons may be deemed to be affiliates of the Registrant. This determination of affiliate status is not necessarily a conclusive determination for other purposes.

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the Registrant’s classes of common stock as of February 18, 2013:$0.001 par value per share, were outstanding.

Auditor Name: Ernst & Young LLP Auditor Location: Richmond, VA Auditor Firm ID: 42

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Amendment No. 1 (“Amendment No. 1”) to the Annual Report on Form 10-K of LL Flooring Holdings, Inc. (together with our subsidiaries, “LL,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 1, 2024 (the “Annual Report”), is being filed to include in the Annual Report the information required by Part III incorporates certain(Items 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14) of Form 10-K. This information was previously omitted from the Annual Report in reliance on General Instruction G.(3) to Form 10-K, which permits the above-referenced items to be incorporated in the Annual Report on Form 10-K by reference from the Registrant’sa definitive proxy statement for the 2013 annual meeting of stockholders, which will be filed no later than 120 days after December 31, 2023. We are filing this Amendment No. 1 to include Part III information in our Form 10-K because we do not intend to file a definitive proxy statement containing this information within 120 days after the closeend of the Registrant’s fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.covered by Form 10-K. As such, the reference on the cover page of the Annual Report to the incorporation by reference of our definitive proxy statement into Part III of the Annual Report is hereby deleted.

LUMBER LIQUIDATORSLL FLOORING HOLDINGS, INC.

ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K10‑K

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENT

This report includes statements of our expectations, intentions, plans and beliefs that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are intended to come within the safe harbor protection provided by those sections. These statements, which involve risks and uncertainties, relate to matters such as sales growth, comparable store net sales, impact of cannibalization, price changes, earnings performance, stock-based compensation expense, margins, return on invested capital, strategic direction, the demand for our products and store openings. We have used words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “thinks,” “estimates,” “seeks,” “predicts,” “could,” “projects,” “potential” and other similar terms and phrases, including references to assumptions, in this report to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made based on expectations and beliefs concerning future events affecting us and are subject to uncertainties, risks and factors relating to our operations and business environments, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control, that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those matters expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and other factors include those listed in this Item 1A. “Risk Factors,” and elsewhere in this report.

When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the cautionary statements in this report and the documents incorporated by reference. New risks and uncertainties arise from time to time, and we cannot predict those events or how they may affect us. There may also be other factors that we cannot anticipate or that are not described in this report that could cause results to differ materially from our expectations. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and we assume no obligation to update them after the date of this report as a result of new information, future events or subsequent developments, except as required by the federal securities laws.

Unless otherwise stated, references to “we,” “our” and “Lumber Liquidators” generally refers to Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.

PART I

Item 1. Business.

Overview

Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries operated 279 retail stores throughout the United States (“U.S.”), as well as nine retail stores in Ontario, Canada as of December 31, 2012. We operate as a single business segment, with our call center, website and customer service network supporting our store operations. We believe we have achieved a reputation for offering great value, superior service and a broad selection of high-quality hardwood flooring products. We offer an extensive assortment of exotic and domestic hardwood species, engineered hardwoods, laminates, bamboo and cork direct to the consumer. We also provide a wide selection of flooring enhancements and accessories, including moldings, noise-reducing underlay, adhesives and flooring tools. Our customer is primarily the homeowner, or a contractor on behalf of a homeowner.

Founded in 1994, Lumber Liquidators is the largest specialty retailer of hardwood flooring in North America. Our initial public offering was in November 2007, and our common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “LL”. We are a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Toano, Virginia.

Competitive Strengths

We believe that our sourcing directly from the mill provides the foundation for the strongest value proposition in a highly-fragmented hardwood flooring market. We strengthen and support that value proposition with a unique store model, proprietary brands, extensive customer education and sales support resources and a comprehensive marketing and advertising strategy.

Sourcing Direct from the Mill

Our Suppliers. We believe that our vertically integrated business model enables us to offer a broad assortment of high-quality products to our customers at a lower cost than our competitors. We work directly with a select group of vendors and mills with whom we have cultivated strong relationships that provide for a consistent supply of our products. We select suppliers based on a variety of factors, including their ability to supply products that meet industry grading standards and our demanding product specifications, which support the high-quality nature of our brands. We believe that we are the largest customer for most of our suppliers, which we believe enables us to obtain better prices in some circumstances. As we have grown, we believe our supplier relationships have strengthened, which we believe helps to ensure our access to a broad selection of products. Further, many suppliers have expanded to support our business.

We currently purchase products from approximately 110 domestic and international vendors, which are primarily mills. In 2012, our top 10 suppliers accounted for approximately 50% of our supply purchases. We believe that alternative and competitive suppliers are available for most of our products. In 2012, approximately 43% of our product was sourced from Asia, 50% from North America, 6% from South America and 1% from other locations, including Europe and Australia. The majority of our foreign purchases are negotiated and paid for in U.S. dollars.

Sourcing Initiatives. In 2011, we began a process to continually challenge, and ultimately strengthen, the structure of our sourcing relationships with the best international and domestic mills. Our sourcing initiatives play a key role in maintaining the best combination of quality and value in our product assortment, while reducing product costs. These initiatives are segregated into three primary areas, which are being implemented independently over a multi-year time frame, as follows:

Supply Chain. We are committed to our complete product assortment being available to meet our customers’ expectations more timely than our competitors. We operate distribution centers in Hampton Roads and Toano, Virginia, a facility in Toronto, Canada, with both a store front and a small warehouse, and we lease the services of a third party consolidation center in China. On average, each store location has approximately 4,400 to 6,000 square feet of warehouse space stocked with a combination of customer-specific inventory waiting to be picked up or delivered and inventory levels of certain products we believe the customer expects to be immediately available. We generally expect each store to receive a truckload of product at least once per week. Further, we work with our mills to ship certain products directly to our stores or to our customers.

Our supply chain costs include:

Our product is generally transported boxed and palletized, and the weight of our product generally increases our supply chain costs. International container rates, customs and duty charges, and domestic fuel costs can significantly impact our transportation costs, which in total represented 8.8% of net sales in 2012. Our supply chain initiatives seek the lowest rates, reductions in the number of miles traveled and the most efficient means to minimize the total cost per mile.

Our Value Proposition

Important components of our value proposition include:

Our Stores

Our stores are approximately 6,000 to 7,000 square feet, which includes a showroom format designed to emphasize our products, yet reflect our low-cost approach to doing business, and a warehouse. We believe our customers consider us a destination location. Therefore, we seek locations for our stores that have significant visibility to passing traffic and easy access from major highways, as well as certain retail synergies including home improvement, but are typically in areas with

lower rents than other retail locations. We can adapt to a range of existing buildings, whether free-standing or in shopping centers. We enter into short leases, generally for base terms of five years, with renewal options to maximize our real estate flexibility. We believe that our store design and locations reinforce our customers’ belief that they get a good deal when they buy from us.

In 2012, we completed the initial design to expand our average showroom from the 1,000 to 1,200 square feet previously targeted to 1,600 square feet. However, with an improved warehouse design and supply chain efficiencies, the total targeted store square footage is not expected to change. We refer to this new design as our “store of the future”, and beginning in 2013, we expect that all of our new stores and all remodels and relocations of existing stores will be in this format.

Our store showrooms have wall racks holding one-foot by two-foot display boards of our flooring products, presented within color palate and in a good-better-best format, and larger sample squares serving as the showroom floor. The showroom also displays an expanded selection of flooring enhancements and accessories to complement, install and maintain a customer’s new floor.

A typical store staff consists of a manager and two to three associates, with a compensation structure generally weighting sales-driven bonuses over a relatively low base salary. The store manager is responsible both for store operations and for overseeing our customers’ shopping experience. As people are a key component of our value proposition, we have an emphasis on identifying, hiring and empowering top performing employees who share a passion for our business philosophy. Many of our store managers have previous experience with the home improvement, retail flooring or flooring installation industries. We provide training opportunities for our store personnel including our Lumber Liquidators University (“LLU”) program, which is an annual training event for all of our regional and store managers that focuses on enhanced selling techniques, in-depth product training and strategic discussions with senior executives.

Customer Education and Resources

Our sales strategy emphasizes customer service by providing superior, convenient, educational tools for our customers to learn about our products and the installation process. Our website contains a broad range of information regarding our floors and accessories. Visitors to our website can search through a comprehensive knowledge base of tools on wood flooring, including browsing product reviews, frequently asked questions and an extensive “before and after” gallery from previous customers, as well as research detailed product information and how-to videos that explain the installation process.

Flooring samples of all the products we offer are available in our stores, and can be ordered through our call center and website. In addition, our iPhone and iPad app, The Floor Finder, gives consumers access to nearly 200 digital samples as well as a variety of tools designed to facilitate flooring purchase decisions, including visualizing any floor in their own home. The app also gives consumers flooring specifications, such as hardness and installation information. We are active in social media in order to connect to our consumers in the most convenient manner possible as well as build relationships with our satisfied customers. We have an active presence on Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and three unique Twitter accounts.

Our call center is staffed by flooring experts cross-trained in sales, customer service and product support. In addition to receiving telephone calls, our call center staff chats online with visitors to our website, responds to emails from our customers and engages in telemarketing activities. Customers can contact our call center to place an order to be delivered directly to their home or picked up at a nearby store, to make an inquiry or to order a catalog.

Our Brands

We have invested significant resources developing our national brands, including our name and proprietary products, and expect to continue to invest resources in our advertising and marketing at a percentage of net sales that we believe is greater than our competitors. We believe Lumber Liquidators is now recognized across the United States as a destination for high-quality hardwood flooring at low prices, while our flagship Bellawood brand is known as a premium flooring brand within the industry. We are committed to supporting our proprietary brands and products through diverse national marketing campaigns that reach a wide variety of potential customers.

In order to control the quality of our Bellawood brand, we maintain a finishing facility in Toano, Virginia.In 2012, we finished approximately 92% of our Bellawood products at that facility, and we obtained the balance from qualified finishing suppliers in North America and South America. Bellawood products have one of the highest scuff resistant finishes in the

industry as measured by the Taber Abrasion Test, an abrasion testing method designed to measure the abrasion resistance of protective floor finishes. We also finish small quantities of certain of our other products at our Toano facility. We continually invest in improving our process controls and product quality, and we believe that our existing finishing infrastructure at our Toano facility can support our planned growth over at least the next three years with limited capital expenditures to increase capacity.

Our Marketing and Advertising

Reach and Frequency. Our marketing and advertising strategy includes a focus on broadening the reach and frequency of our message to increase the recognition of our value proposition and ultimately the number of customers served. We utilize a mix of traditional and new media, direct mail and financing offers to emphasize product credibility, value, brand awareness, customer education and direct selling. Though our primary focus remains on the more passionate do-it-yourself (“DIY”) customer, we believe our value proposition is reaching, and resonating with, a more casual consumer.

We increase brand awareness in a variety of ways, including celebrity endorsements and product placement opportunities. We have long-term relationships with respected, well-known home improvement celebrities Bob Vila and Ty Pennington. Bob Vila, in particular, has been associated specifically with our Bellawood brand for several years. We work with Ty Pennington on a proprietary line of flooring branded as the Ty Pennington Collection.

To increase brand awareness, we conduct ad campaigns on both a national and local level using both traditional and new media. We work with shows such as HGTV’s “Dream Home Sweepstakes,” which use our products and enable potential customers to see both what our flooring will look like after installation and the relative ease with which it can be installed. In addition, we use targeted television advertising on cable networks such as Discovery Channel, HGTV, TLC and DIY Network. We engage in sports marketing by participating in opportunities with, among others, Major League Baseball and National Basketball Association teams. On the Internet, our advertising efforts include the use of banner advertising, sponsoring links on well-known search engines, having storefronts with large e-tailers and having a large network of online affiliate partners. We also utilize local and national radio, primarily for promotional messaging.

Our direct mail strategy focuses on regular contact with our customers and the targeting of prospective purchasers. We have a healthy and growing database that we utilize to drive our direct mail and overall marketing strategies. We distribute our catalogs, as well as other direct mailings, to key consumer and commercial segments around specific store locations. Copies of our catalogs can also be obtained through our stores, our call center and our website. In addition, we utilize direct mail for call-to-action promotions. We believe these mailings contribute to increases in store traffic and call center volumes that lead to more sales. We expect to continue expanding our direct mailing efforts to prospective customers in markets where we have stores.

Financing.We offer our residential customers a financing alternative through a proprietary credit card, the Lumber Liquidators credit card, underwritten by GE Money Bank at no recourse to us. We generally utilize the credit program for promotional opportunities, including programs for up to 26 months of deferred interest with payments. Our customers may also use their Lumber Liquidators credit card to tender installation services provided by our installation service provider, The Home Service Store, Inc. (“HSS”).

We offer our commercial customers a financing alternative through the Lumber Liquidators Commercial Credit Program, A Credit Line for Pros. This program is underwritten by BlueTarp Financial, Inc., generally at no recourse to us. The commercial credit program also provides our professional customers a range of additional services that we believe add efficiency to their businesses.

Our Market

According to the December 2012 Floor Coverings Industry report from Catalina Research, Inc. (“Catalina”), the hardwood flooring market represents approximately 10% of the overall U.S. floor coverings market, which includes carpet and area rugs, solid and engineered hardwood, softwood and bamboo flooring, ceramic and stone floor and wall tile, resilient sheet and floor tile, and laminate flooring. Due to improvements in the quality and construction of certain products, ease of installation and lower average retail price points, hardwood flooring’s share of the overall U.S. floor coverings market continues to increase, primarily by taking share from soft surface flooring. Using Catalina estimates as a basis, we believe the 2012 retail value of the U.S. hardwood and laminate flooring markets were approximately $3.6 billion and $1.8 billion, respectively, and our share of the combined market was approximately 10.5% considering these products were approximately 70% of our sales mix in 2012.

The residential replacement wood flooring market is dependent on home-related, large-ticket discretionary spending, which is influenced by a number of complex economic and demographic factors that may vary locally, regionally and nationally. This market is impacted by, among other things, home remodeling activity, employment levels, housing turnover, home prices, new housing starts, consumer confidence, credit availability and the general health of consumer discretionary spending. In 2012, a number of these factors stabilized or improved, though remain at historically low levels. We believe our customer will remain cautious and price sensitive in 2013, with a number of macroeconomic risks providing uncertainty, and potentially volatile demand, even as a multi-year recovery in home remodeling may be forming. Catalina projects the hardwood flooring market will average annual growth of 4.0% per year through 2015, and perhaps greater, subject to the pace of macroeconomic recovery. We believe we are well-positioned to benefit from an improving housing market.

We believe the number of independent retailers serving the homeowner-based segment of the wood flooring market continues to shrink under the difficult macroeconomic pressures. According to Catalina, there are approximately 9,000 specialty floor coverings stores now operating in the U.S. We believe our results have benefited from our gain of market share in this environment and that we will continue to gain market share. We continue to believe that the longer term trends for our market remain favorable, including customer perception of hardwood flooring as an attractive alternative to other floor coverings, the evolution of the hardwood flooring market, overall home improvement spending and certain demographic trends.

Our Competition

We are the largest specialty retailer of hardwood flooring in North America, and compete in a hardwood flooring market that is highly fragmented. The majority of the market consists of smaller national specialty flooring chains and local and regional independent flooring retailers, including a large number of privately-owned single-site enterprises. We also compete against home improvement warehouse chains, and Catalina estimates that Lumber Liquidators, Home Depot and Lowes together represent approximately 37% of hardwood flooring retail sales. Additionally, we compete against regional and local independent retailers and smaller national chains which specialize in the lower-end, higher-volume flooring market and offer a wide range of home improvement products in addition to flooring.

Our Sales Strategy

We seek to appeal to customers who desire a high-quality product at an attractive value. We sell our products principally to existing homeowners, who we believe represent over 90% of our consumer count. Most of our other sales are to contractors, who are primarily small businesses that are either building a small number of new homes or have been hired by an owner to put in a new floor.

Historically, our customers are in their mid-30’s or older, are well-educated and have income levels above the average domestic household. We have found that homeowners prefer various characteristics of wood floors, including appearance and durability, ease of installation, renewability of resources and specific aspects of engineered, resilient and laminate flooring. Our research indicates that our customers will choose to replace their flooring primarily after they have lived in the home for a certain number of years, when a life event occurs such as a change in household members, and prior to or shortly after moving into a new home. According to Catalina, approximately 28% of buyers of an existing home undertake some type of flooring replacement job in the first year of ownership.

We have an integrated multi-channel sales model that enables our international store network, call center, website and catalogs to work together in a coordinated manner. We believe that due to the average size of the sale and the general infrequency of a hardwood flooring purchase, many of our customers conduct extensive research using multiple channels before making a purchase decision. Our research indicates that the average length for a hardwood flooring purchase, from initial interest to sale, is approximately 100 days.

Customers can purchase our complete assortment of products in our stores, or through our call center, website, a smartphone or a tablet. The prices available on our website and from our call center are the same as the prices in our stores. Once an order is placed, customers may have their purchases delivered or pick them up at a nearby store location. In 2012, approximately 11% of our customers utilized our delivery services. We strive to use our various sales channels to make our customers’ transactions easy and efficient. Our average sale was approximately $1,600 in 2012, and generally represents one or two rooms of flooring. We define “average sale” as the average invoiced sale per customer, measured on a monthly basis

and excluding transactions of less than $250 (which are generally sample orders, or add-ons or fill-ins to previous orders) and of more than $30,000 (which are usually contractor orders). Our goal is to provide our customers with everything needed to complete their flooring project – to remove the existing floor, install the new floor with complementary moldings and accessories, and finally, maintain the floor for its lifetime.

Installation.We have a national installation arrangement with HSS, allowing us to make consistent installation services available in every store in our chain. HSS manages fully insured and licensed providers of professional installation services that measure, deliver and install flooring at competitive prices. This arrangement allows us to increase service offerings to our customers, and we benefit from cross-promotional opportunities. Furthermore, we minimize risk associated with installation services and reduce time spent by store managers on installation service issues. We receive certain reimbursements from HSS based upon our customers’ use of their services. In 2012, less than 10% of our customers utilized HSS for installation.

Our Products.We offer a complete assortment of wood flooring that includes prefinished domestic and exotic hardwoods, engineered hardwoods, unfinished hardwoods, bamboo, cork and laminates, as well as resilient flooring. Our product offering is substantially comprised of our proprietary brands, led by our flagship Bellawood brand. Our hardwood flooring products are generally available in various widths and lengths. They are generally differentiated in terms of quality and price based on the species, grade of the hardwood and quality of finishing, in addition to the length of the warranty. Prefinished floors are finished in factories under controlled conditions and are ready to be enjoyed immediately after they are installed. We also offer a broad assortment of flooring enhancements and installation accessories, including moldings, noise-reducing underlay and tools, that complement our assortment of floor offerings. In total, we offer nearly 350 different flooring product stock-keeping units.

Solid and Engineered Hardwood.Our proprietary solid hardwood products are milled from one thick piece of wood, which can be sanded and refinished numerous times, and our proprietary engineered hardwood products are produced by bonding a layer of hardwood to a plywood or high-density fiber board backing. Engineered flooring is designed primarily to be installed in areas where traditional hardwood is not conducive, such as slab construction, basements and areas where moisture may be a factor. We offer flooring products made from more than 25 wood species, including both domestic woods, such as ash, beech, birch, hickory, northern hard maple, northern red oak, pine and American walnut, and exotic woods, such as bloodwood, cherry, cypress, ebony, koa, mesquite, mahogany, rosewood and teak. We sell our solid hardwood products either prefinished or unfinished, and our engineered hardwood products in either glue down or floating application. Our prefinished hardwoods typically carry a wear warranty from 25 to 100 years, and our Bellawood products carry a 100-year, transferable warranty.

Laminates.Our proprietary laminate flooring is typically constructed with a high-density fiber board core, inserted between a melamine laminate backing and high-quality photographic paper displaying an image of wood and a ceramic finish, abrasion-resistant laminate top. Our laminate flooring brands allow for easy-click installation, and some include a pre-glued undersurface, moisture repellent, soundproofing, single-strip format or a handscraped textured finish. Our laminates carry wear warranties ranging from 10 to 30 years.

Moldings and Accessories.We offer a wide variety of wood flooring moldings and accessories. Moldings are a required finishing detail to every floor and we sell a complete selection that matches virtually all of our floors or can complement them. We also sell stair treads and risers in both finished and unfinished versions. Accessories include sealers, adhesives and underlayments that are placed between the new floor and the sub-floor, insulating sound and cushioning the floors. In addition, we sell flooring tools, floor cleaning supplies and butcher-block kitchen countertops.

Bamboo, Cork and Resilient.Our proprietary bamboo products, harvested from the fast growing bamboo plant, are offered as a prefinished, natural or stained, solid or engineered floor. Our proprietary cork flooring is produced by harvesting the outer bark of the cork oak tree, and it is durable, acoustical and acts as an insulator. Produced from recycled materials, our resilient flooring planks come in realistic wood and tile looks, are water-resistant, highly durable and install with “peel-and-stick” or click-together ease. Our bamboo, cork and resilient flooring products carry wear warranties ranging from 10 to 50 years.

Our Employees

As of December 31, 2012, we had 1,420 employees, 96% of whom were full-time and none of whom were represented by a union. Of these employees, 70% work in our stores, 17% work in corporate store support infrastructure or similar functions (including our call center employees) and 13% work either on our finishing line or in our distribution centers. We believe that we have good relations with our employees.

Seasonality and Quarterly Results

Our quarterly results of operations fluctuate depending on the timing of our advertising expenses and the timing of, and income contributed by, our new stores. Our net sales also fluctuate slightly as a result of seasonal factors. We experience slightly higher net sales in spring and fall, when more home remodeling activities are taking place, and slightly lower net sales in holiday periods and during the hottest summer months. These seasonal fluctuations, however, are minimized to some extent by our national presence, as markets experience different seasonal characteristics.

Intellectual Property and Trademarks

We have a number of marks registered in the United States, including Lumber Liquidators^®, Bellawood^®, 1-800-HARDWOOD^®, 1-800-FLOORING^®, Dura-Wood^®, Quickclic^®, Virginia Mill Works Co. Hand Scraped and Distressed Floors^®, Morning Star Bamboo Flooring^®, Dream Home Laminate Floors^®, Builder’s Pride^®, Schön Engineered Floors^®, Casa de Colour Collection^® and other product line names. We have also registered certain marks in jurisdictions outside the United States, including the European Union, Canada, China, Australia and Japan. We regard our intellectual property as having significant value and these names are an important factor in the marketing of our brands. Accordingly, we take steps intended to protect our intellectual property including, where necessary, the filing of lawsuits and administrative actions to enforce our rights. We are not aware of any facts that could be expected to have a material adverse effect on our intellectual property.

Government Regulation

We are subject to extensive and varied federal, provincial, state and local government regulation in the jurisdictions in which we operate, including laws and regulations relating to our relationships with our employees, public health and safety, zoning and fire codes. We operate each of our stores, offices, finishing facility and distribution centers in accordance with standards and procedures designed to comply with applicable laws, codes and regulations.

Our operations and properties are also subject to federal, provincial, state and local laws and regulations relating to the use, storage, handling, generation, transportation, treatment, emission, release, discharge and disposal of hazardous materials, substances and wastes and relating to the investigation and cleanup of contaminated properties, including off-site disposal locations. We do not incur significant costs complying with environmental laws and regulations. However, we could be subject to material costs, liabilities or claims relating to environmental compliance in the future, especially in the event of changes in existing laws and regulations or in their interpretation.

Our suppliers are subject to the laws and regulations of their home countries, including in particular laws regulating labor, forestry and the environment. We consult with our suppliers as appropriate to ensure that they are in compliance with their applicable home country laws. We also support social and environmental responsibility among our supplier community and our suppliers agree to comply with our expectations concerning environmental, labor and health and safety matters. Those expectations include representations and warranties that our suppliers comply with the laws, rules and regulations of the countries in which they operate.

Products that we import into the United States and Canada are subject to laws and regulations imposed in conjunction with such importation, including those issued and/or enforced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Canadian Border Services Agency. In addition, certain of our products are subject to laws and regulations relating to the importation, acquisition or sale of illegally harvested plants and plant products and the emissions of hazardous materials. We work closely with our suppliers to ensure compliance with the applicable laws and regulations in these areas.

We believe that we currently conduct, and in the past have conducted, our activities and operations in substantial compliance with applicable laws and regulations relating to the environment and protection of natural resources, and believe that any costs arising from such laws and regulations will not have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations. However, there can be no assurance that such laws will not become more stringent in the future or that we will not incur costs in the future in order to comply with such laws.

Available Information

We maintain a website at www.lumberliquidators.com. The information on or available through our website is not, and should not be considered, a part of this report. You may access our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports, as well as other reports relating to us that are filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) free of charge at our website as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. In addition, you may read and copy any materials we file with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC also maintains an Internet site, www.sec.gov, which contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information that we file electronically with the SEC.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

The risks described below could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows. These risks are not the only risks that we face. Our business operations could also be affected by additional factors that apply to all companies operating in the United States and globally, as well as other risks that are not presently known to us or that we currently consider to be immaterial.

Risks Related to Economic Factors and Our Industry

Changes in economic conditions may adversely impact demand for our products, reduce access to credit and cause our customers and others with which we do business to suffer financial hardship, all of which could adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our business, financial condition and results of operations have and may continue to be affected by various economic factors. Changes in the current economic environment and uncertainty about the future could lead to reduced consumer and business spending, including by our customers. Such changes may also cause customers to shift their spending to products we either do not sell or do not sell as profitably. Further, a reduced access to credit may adversely affect the ability of consumers to purchase our products. This potential reduction in access to credit may include our ability to offer customers credit card financing through third-party credit providers on terms similar to those offered previously, or at all. In addition, economic conditions, including decreased access to credit, may result in financial difficulties leading to restructurings, bankruptcies, liquidations and other unfavorable events for our customers, suppliers and other service providers. If such conditions deteriorate, our industry, business and results of operations may be severely impacted.

The hardwood flooring industry depends on the economy, home remodeling activity, the homebuilding industry and other important factors.

The hardwood flooring industry is highly dependent on the remodeling of existing homes and new home construction. In turn, remodeling and new home construction depend on a number of factors which are beyond our control, including interest rates, tax policy, employment levels, consumer confidence, credit availability, real estate prices, demographic trends, weather conditions, natural disasters and general economic conditions. For example, discretionary consumer spending could be limited, spending on remodeling of existing homes could be reduced and purchases of new homes could decline if:

Any one or a combination of these factors could result in decreased demand for hardwood flooring, in remodeled and new homes, which would harm our business and operating results.

Competition could cause price declines, decrease demand for our products and decrease our market share.

We operate in the wood flooring industry, which is highly fragmented and competitive. We face significant competition from national and regional home improvement chains, national and regional specialty flooring chains, Internet-based companies and privately-owned single-site enterprises. We compete on the basis of price, customer service, store location and range, quality and availability of hardwood flooring we offer our customers. Our competitive position is also influenced by the availability, quality and cost of merchandise, labor costs, finishing, distribution and sales efficiencies and our productivity compared to that of our competitors. As we expand into new and unfamiliar markets, we may face different competitive environments than in the past. Likewise, as we continue to enhance and develop our product offerings, we may experience new competitive conditions.

Some of our competitors are larger organizations, have existed longer, are more diversified in the products they offer and have a more established market presence with substantially greater financial, marketing, personnel and other resources than we have. In addition, our competitors may forecast market developments more accurately than we do, develop products that are superior to ours or produce similar products at a lower cost, or adapt more quickly to new technologies or evolving customer requirements than we do. Intense competitive pressures from one or more of our competitors could cause price declines, decrease demand for our products and decrease our market share.

Hardwood flooring may become less popular as compared to other types of floor coverings in the future. For example, our products are made using various hardwood species, including rare exotic hardwood species, and concern over the environmental impact of tree harvesting could shift consumer preference towards synthetic or inorganic flooring. In addition, hardwood flooring competes against carpet, vinyl sheet, vinyl tile, ceramic tile, natural stone and other types of floor coverings. If consumer preferences shift toward types of floor coverings other than hardwood flooring, we may experience decreased demand for our products.

All of these competitive factors may harm us and reduce our net sales and operating results.

Risks Related to Our Suppliers, Products and Product Sourcing

Our ability to obtain products from abroad and the operations of many of our international suppliers are subject to risks that are beyond our control and that could harm our operations.

We rely on a select group of international suppliers to provide us with flooring products that meet our specifications. In 2012, approximately 43% of our product was sourced from Asia, approximately 6% was sourced from South America and approximately 1% was sourced from other locations outside of North America. As a result, we are subject to risks associated with obtaining products from abroad, including:

These and other factors beyond our control could disrupt the ability of our suppliers to ship certain products to us cost-effectively or at all, which could harm our operations.

Our ability to offer hardwood flooring, particularly products made of more exotic species, depends on the continued availability of sufficient suitable hardwood.

Our business strategy depends on offering a wide assortment of hardwood flooring to our customers. We sell flooring made from species ranging from domestic maple, oak and pine to imported cherry, koa, mahogany and teak. Some of these species are scarce, and we cannot be assured of their continued availability. Our ability to obtain an adequate volume and quality of hard-to-find species depends on our suppliers’ ability to furnish those species, which, in turn, could be affected by many things including events such as forest fires, insect infestation, tree diseases, prolonged drought and other adverse weather and climate conditions. Government regulations relating to forest management practices also affect our suppliers’ ability to harvest or export timber, and changes to regulations and forest management policies, or the implementation of new laws or regulations, could impede their ability to do so. If our suppliers cannot deliver sufficient hardwood and we cannot find replacement suppliers, our net sales and operating results may be negatively impacted.

Our dependence on certain suppliers makes us vulnerable to the extent we rely on them.

We rely on a concentrated number of suppliers for the majority of our supply needs. We generally do not have long-term contracts with our suppliers, and we typically obtain our hardwood supplies on an order-by-order basis, writing orders for future deliveries from 90 to 180 days before delivery. In the future, our suppliers may be unable to supply us, or supply us on acceptable terms, due to various factors, which could include political instability in the supplier’s country, a supplier’s financial instability, inability or refusal to comply with applicable laws, trade restrictions or tariffs, duties, insufficient transport capacity and other factors beyond our control. If we can no longer obtain merchandise from our major suppliers, or they refuse to continue to supply us on commercially reasonable terms or at all, and we cannot find replacement suppliers, we could experience deterioration in our net sales and operating results.

If we fail to identify and develop relationships with a sufficient number of qualified suppliers, our ability to obtain products that meet our high quality standards could be harmed.

We purchase flooring directly from mills located around the world. We believe that these direct supplier relationships are relatively unique in our industry. In order to retain the competitive advantage that we believe results from these relationships, we need to continue to identify, develop and maintain relationships with qualified suppliers that can satisfy our high standards for quality and our requirements for hardwood in a timely and efficient manner. The need to develop new relationships will be particularly important as we seek to expand our operations and enhance our product offerings in the future. Any inability to do so could reduce our competitiveness, slow our plans for further expansion and cause our net sales and operating results to deteriorate. Moreover, the failure of our suppliers to adhere to the quality standards that we set for our products could lead to litigation and recalls, which could damage our reputation and our brands, increase our costs, and otherwise hurt our business.

If our suppliers do not use ethical business practices, comply with applicable laws and regulations and ensure that their products meet our quality standards, our reputation could be harmed due to negative publicity and we could be subject to legal risk.

While our suppliers agree to operate in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including those relating to environmental and labor practices, we do not control our suppliers. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee that they comply with such laws and regulations or operate in a legal, ethical and responsible manner. Violation of environmental, labor or other laws by our suppliers or their failure to operate in a legal, ethical and responsible manner, could reduce demand for our products if, as a result of such violation or failure, we were to attract negative publicity. Further, such conduct could expose us to legal risks as a result of our purchase of product from non-compliant suppliers.

Increased hardwood costs could harm our results of operations.

The cost of the various species of hardwood that are used in our products is important to our profitability. Hardwood lumber costs fluctuate as a result of a number of factors including changes in domestic and international supply and demand, labor costs, competition, market speculation, product availability, environmental restrictions, government regulation and trade policies, duties, weather conditions, processing and freight costs, and delivery delays and disruptions. We generally do not have long-term supply contracts or guaranteed purchase amounts. As a result, we may not be able to anticipate or react to changing hardwood costs by adjusting our purchasing practices, and we may not always be able to increase the selling prices of our products in response to increases in supply costs. If we cannot address changing hardwood costs appropriately, it could cause our operating results to deteriorate.

Product liability claims could adversely affect our net sales, profitability and reputation.

We face an inherent risk of exposure to product liability claims in the event that the use of our products is alleged to have resulted in personal injury or property damage. In the event that any of our products proves to be defective, we may be required to recall or redesign such products. Further, in such instances, we may be subject to legal action. We maintain insurance against some forms of product liability claims, but such coverage may not be adequate for liabilities actually incurred. A successful claim brought against us in excess of available insurance coverage, or any claim or product recall that results in significant adverse publicity against us, may have a material adverse effect on our net sales and operating results.

We may not be able to successfully anticipate consumer trends and our failure to do so may adversely impact our net sales and profitability.

As part of our business proposition, it is important for us to anticipate and respond to changing preferences and consumer demands in a timely manner. If we fail to identify and respond to emerging trends, consumer acceptance of the merchandise in our stores and our image with our customers may be harmed, which could reduce customer traffic in our stores and adversely affect our net sales. Moreover, consumer demand within our mix of products may shift and such change may negatively impact our net sales and operating results.

Risks Related to Our Operations

Increasing our net sales and profitability depends substantially on our ability to open new stores and is subject to many unpredictable factors.

As of December 31, 2012, we had 288 stores throughout the United States and Canada, 172 of which we opened after January 1, 2008. We plan to open a significant number of new stores during each of the next several years. This growth strategy and the investment associated with the development of each new store may cause our operating results to fluctuate and be unpredictable or decrease our profits. Our future results will depend on various factors, including the following:

In addition, the following may impact the net sales and performance of our new stores compared to prior years:

Finally, our progress in opening new stores from quarter to quarter may occur at an uneven rate, which may result in quarterly net sales and profit growth falling short of market expectations in some periods.

Our net sales and profit growth could be adversely affected if comparable store net sales are less than we expect.

While future net sales growth will depend substantially on our plans for new store openings, the level of comparable store net sales (which represent the change in period-over-period net sales for stores beginning their thirteenth full month of operation) will also affect our sales growth and business results. Among other things, increases in our baseline store volumes and the number of new stores opened in existing markets, which tend to open at a higher base level of net sales, will impact our comparable store net sales. As a result, it is possible that we will not achieve our targeted comparable store net sales growth or that the change in comparable store net sales could be negative. If this were to happen, net sales and profit growth would be adversely affected.

Increased transportation costs, particularly those relating to the cost of fuel, could harm our results of operations.

The efficient transportation of our products through our supply chain is a critical component of our operations. If the cost of fuel or other costs, such as import tariffs, duties and international container rates, rise, it could result in increases in our cost of sales due to additional transportation charges and in the fees delivery companies charge us to transport our products to our stores and customers. We may be unable to increase the price of our products to offset increased transportation charges, which could cause our operating results to deteriorate.

Damage, destruction or disruption of our Toano or Hampton Roads facilities could significantly impact our operations and impede our ability to finish and distribute our products.

Our Toano facility serves as our corporate headquarters and, among other things, houses our primary computer systems, which control our management information and inventory management systems. In addition, we currently finish approximately 92% of all Bellawood products, as well as small quantities of certain other products, there. In 2012, Bellawood flooring accounted for approximately 13% of our net sales. Further, the Toano facility, along with our facilities in Hampton Roads, serves as our distribution centers. If the Toano facility, the Hampton Roads facilities or our inventory held in those locations were damaged or destroyed by fire, wood infestation or other causes, our entire finishing and/or distribution processes would be disrupted, which could cause significant lost production and delays in delivery. This could impede our ability to stock our stores and deliver products to our customers, and cause our net sales and operating results to deteriorate.

Federal, provincial, state or local laws and regulations, or our failure to comply with such laws and regulations, could increase our expenses, restrict our ability to conduct our business and expose us to legal risks.

We are subject to a wide range of general and industry-specific laws and regulations imposed by federal, provincial, state and local authorities in the countries in which we operate including those related to customs, foreign operations (such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), truth-in-advertising, consumer protection, privacy, zoning and occupancy matters as well as the operation of retail stores and warehouse, production and distribution facilities. In addition, various federal, provincial and state laws govern our relationship with and other matters pertaining to our employees, including wage and hour laws, requirements to provide meal and rest periods or other benefits, family leave mandates, requirements regarding working conditions and accommodations to certain employees, citizenship or work authorization and related requirements, insurance and workers’ compensation rules and anti-discrimination laws. If we fail to comply with these laws and regulations, we could be subject to legal risk, our operations could be impacted negatively and our reputation could be damaged. Likewise, if such laws and regulations should change, our costs of compliance may increase, thereby impacting our results and hurting our profitability.

Certain portions of our operations are subject to laws and regulations governing the use, storage, handling, generation, treatment, emission, release, discharge and disposal of certain hazardous materials and wastes, the remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater and the health and safety of employees. If we are unable to extend or renew a material approval, license or permit required by such laws, or if there is a delay in renewing any material approval, license or permit, that may cause our net sales and operating results to deteriorate or otherwise harm our business.

With regard to our products, we may spend significant time and resources to ensure compliance with applicable advertising, importation, exportation, environmental, health and safety laws and regulations. If we should violate these laws and regulations, we could experience delays in shipments of our goods, be subject to fines or penalties, be liable for costs and damages, or suffer reputational harm, which could reduce demand for our merchandise and hurt our business and results of operations. Further, if such laws and regulations should change, we may experience increased costs or incur decreased efficiency in order to adhere to the new standards.

The operation of stores in Canada may present increased risks due to our limited experience with that market.

We opened our first stores in Canada in 2011 and currently operate nine store locations there. As a result of our limited experience in the Canadian market, these stores may be less successful than we expect. Additionally, greater investments in advertising and promotional activity may be required to build brand awareness in that market. Furthermore, we have limited experience with the legal and regulatory environments and market practices outside of the United States and cannot guarantee that we will be able to operate in the Canadian market in a manner and with the results similar to our U.S. stores. We may also incur increased costs in complying with applicable Canadian laws and regulations as they pertain to both our products and our operations.

The operation of our Representative Office in China may present increased legal and operational risks.

In September 2011, we acquired certain assets of Sequoia Flooring Inc. (“Sequoia”) relating to Sequoia’s quality control and assurance, product development and logistics operations in China. In connection with the transaction, we established a representative office in Shanghai, China and assumed direct control of our product sourcing in China.

Our experience with the legal and regulatory practices and requirements in China is limited. As a result, we may incur costs in complying with applicable Chinese laws and regulations that exceed our expectations. Further, if we fail to comply with applicable laws and regulations, we could be subject to legal risk.

Failure to manage our growth effectively could harm our business and operating results.

Our plans call for a significant number of new stores, and increased orders from our website, call center and catalogs. Our existing management information systems, including our store management systems and financial and management controls, may be unable to support our expansion. Managing our growth effectively will require us to continue to enhance these systems, procedures and controls and to hire, train and retain regional managers, store managers and store staff. We may not respond quickly enough to the changing demands that our expansion will impose on our management, staff and existing infrastructure. Any failure to manage our growth effectively could harm our business and operating results.

Our insurance coverage and self-insurance reserves may not cover future claims.

We maintain various insurance policies for employee health, workers’ compensation, general liability and property damage. We are self-insured on certain health insurance plans and are responsible for losses up to a certain limit for these respective plans. We continue to be responsible for losses up to a certain limit for general liability and property damage insurance. In 2013, we intend to self-insure ourselves with regard to workers’ compensation coverage, in which case we will be responsible for losses up to certain retention limits on both a per-claim and aggregate basis.

For policies under which we are responsible for losses, we record a liability that represents our estimated cost of claims incurred and unpaid as of the balance sheet date. Our estimated liability is not discounted and is based on a number of assumptions and factors, including historical trends, actuarial assumptions and economic conditions, and is closely monitored and adjusted when warranted by changing circumstances. Fluctuating healthcare costs, our significant growth rate and changes from our past experience with workers’ compensation claims could affect the accuracy of estimates based on historical experience. Should a greater amount of claims occur compared to what was estimated or medical costs increase beyond what was expected, our accrued liabilities might not be sufficient and we may be required to record additional expense. Unanticipated changes may produce materially different amounts of expense than that reported under these programs, which could adversely impact our operating results.

We have entered into a number of lease agreements with companies controlled by our founder and this concentration of leases may pose certain business risks.

As of December 31, 2012, we lease our Toano facility, which includes a store location, and 27 of our other store locations from entities owned, in whole or in part, by Tom Sullivan, our founder and current chairman of our board of directors. Although our percentage of total stores leased from such entities has decreased over the last few years, this concentration of leases subjects us to risk in the event action or inaction by Tom or such entities impacts our leasehold interests in the locations.

Risks Related to Our Information Technology

If our management information systems experience disruptions, it could disrupt our business and reduce our net sales.

We depend on our management information systems to integrate the activities of our stores, website and call center, to process orders, to respond to customer inquiries, to manage inventory, to purchase merchandise and to sell and ship goods on a timely basis. We may experience operational problems with our information systems as a result of system failures, viruses, computer “hackers” or other causes. We may incur significant expenses in order to repair any such operational problems. Any significant disruption or slowdown of our systems could cause information, including data related to customer orders, to be lost or delayed, which could result in delays in the delivery of products to our stores and customers or lost sales. Moreover, our entire corporate network, including our telephone lines, is on an Internet-based network. Accordingly, if our network is disrupted, we may experience delayed communications within our operations and between our customers and ourselves, and may not be able to communicate at all via our network, including via telephones connected to our network.

The selection and implementation of information technology initiatives may impact our operational efficiency and productivity.

In order to better manage our business, we expect to invest in our information systems. In doing so, we must select the correct investments and implement them in an efficient manner. The costs, potential problems and interruptions associated with implementing technology initiatives could disrupt or reduce the efficiency of our operations. Furthermore, these initiatives might not provide the anticipated benefits or provide them in a delayed or more costly manner. Accordingly, issues relating to our selection and implementation of information technology initiatives may negatively impact our business and operating results.

Any disruption of our website or our call center could disrupt our business and lead to reduced net sales and reputational damage.

Our website and our call center are integral parts of our integrated multi-channel strategy. Customers use our website and our call center as information sources on the range of products available to them and to order our products, samples or catalogs. Our website, in particular, is vulnerable to certain risks and uncertainties associated with the Internet, including changes in required technology interfaces, website downtime and other technical failures, security breaches and consumer privacy concerns. If we cannot successfully maintain our website and call center in good working order, it could reduce our net sales and damage our reputation. Further, the costs associated with such maintenance may exceed our estimations.

We may incur costs and losses resulting from security risks we face in connection with our electronic processing, transmission and storage of confidential customer information.

We accept electronic payment cards for payment in our stores and through our call center. In addition, our online operations depend upon the secure transmission of confidential information over public networks, including information permitting cashless payments. As a result, we may become subject to claims for purportedly fraudulent transactions arising out of the actual or alleged theft of credit or debit card information, and we may also be subject to lawsuits or other proceedings relating to these types of incidents. Further, a compromise of our security systems that results in our customers’ personal information being obtained by unauthorized persons could adversely affect our reputation with our customers and others, as well as our operations, results of operations and financial condition, and could result in litigation against us or the imposition of penalties. A security breach could also require that we expend significant additional resources related to the security of information systems and could result in a disruption of our operations, particularly our online sales operations.

Additionally, privacy and information security laws and regulations change, and compliance with them may result in cost increases due to necessary systems changes and the development of new administrative processes. If we fail to comply with these laws and regulations or experience a data security breach, our reputation could be damaged, possibly resulting in lost future business, and we could be subjected to additional legal risk as a result of non-compliance.

Risks Related to Our Personnel

Our success depends substantially upon the continued retention of certain key personnel.

We believe that our success has depended and continues to depend to a significant extent on the efforts and abilities of our senior management team. The loss, for any reason, of the services of any of these key individuals and any negative market or industry perception arising from such loss, could damage our business and harm our reputation.

Our success depends upon our ability to meet our labor needs.

Our success depends in part on our ability to attract, hire, train and retain qualified managers and staff. Buying hardwood flooring is an infrequent event, and typical consumers have very little knowledge of the range, characteristics and suitability of the products available to them before starting the purchasing process. Therefore, consumers in the hardwood flooring market expect to have sales associates serving them who are knowledgeable about the entire assortment of products offered by the retailer and the process of choosing and installing hardwood flooring. As a result, competition for qualified store managers and sales associates among flooring retailers is intense. We may not succeed in attracting and retaining the personnel we require to conduct our current operations and support our potential future growth. In addition, as we expand into new markets, we may find it more difficult to hire, motivate and retain qualified employees.

Although none of our employees are currently covered under collective bargaining agreements, we cannot guarantee that our employees will not elect to be represented by labor unions in the future. If some or all of our workforce were to become unionized and collective bargaining agreement terms were significantly different from our current compensation arrangements or work practices, it could have a material adverse effect on our business and operating results.

Risks Relating to Our Marketing and Advertising

Our success depends on the effectiveness of our advertising strategy.

We believe that our growth was achieved in part through our successful investment in local and national advertising. Historically, we have used extensive advertising to encourage customers to drive to our stores, which were typically located some distance from population centers in areas that have lower rents than traditional retail locations. Further, a significant portion of our advertising was directed at the DIY consumer. While our marketing strategy continues to support our real estate strategy and remains focused on the DIY customer, we have broadened the reach and frequency of our advertising to increase the recognition our value proposition and the number of customers served. We may need to further increase our advertising expense to support our business strategy in the future. If our advertisements fail to draw customers in the future, or if the cost of advertising or other marketing materials increases significantly, we could experience declines in our net sales and operating results.

Failure to maintain relevant product endorsement agreements and product placement arrangements could harm our reputation and cause our net sales to deteriorate.

We have established relationships with well-known and respected home improvement celebrities to evaluate, promote and help establish with consumers the high-quality nature of our products. If these individuals were to stop promoting our products, if we were unable to renew our endorsement contracts with them or if we could not find other endorsers of a similar caliber, our net sales and reputation could be harmed. Similarly, any actions that persons endorsing our products may take, whether or not associated with our products, which harm their or our reputations could also harm our brand image with consumers and our reputation, and cause our net sales to deteriorate. We also have a number of product placement arrangements with home improvement-related television shows. We rely on these arrangements to increase awareness of our brands, and to enable potential customers to see both what our flooring will look like after installation and the relative ease with which it can be installed. Any failure to continue these arrangements could cause our brands to become less well-known and cause our net sales to deteriorate.

We may not be able to adequately protect our intellectual property, which could harm the value of our brands and impact our business.

Our intellectual property is material to the conduct of our business. Our ability to implement our business plan successfully depends in part on our ability to further build brand recognition using our trademarks, service marks and other proprietary intellectual property, including our name and logo and the names and logos of our brands. We may incur significant costs and expenses relating to our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights. If our efforts to protect our intellectual property are inadequate, or if any third party infringes on or misappropriates our intellectual property, the value of our brands may be harmed, which could adversely affect our business and might prevent our brands from achieving or maintaining market acceptance.

We may initiate claims or litigation against parties for infringement of our intellectual property rights or to establish the invalidity, noninfringement, or unenforceability of the proprietary rights of others. Likewise, we may have similar claims or litigation brought against us by competitors and others. Under either situation and regardless of any ultimate determination on the merits, we could incur significant expense and be forced to divert the efforts of key employees from our operations. Moreover, such claims or litigation could harm our image, brand or competitive position and cause us to incur significant penalties and costs.

Risks Relating to Our Common Stock

Our common stock price may be volatile and you may lose all or part of your investment.

The market price of our common stock could fluctuate significantly. Those fluctuations could be based on various factors in addition to those otherwise described in this report, including:

In addition, the stock market may experience significant price and volume fluctuations. These fluctuations may be unrelated to the operating performance of particular companies but may cause declines in the market price of our common stock. The price of our common stock could fluctuate based upon factors that have little or nothing to do with our company or its performance.

Our quarterly operating results may fluctuate significantly and could fall below the expectations of research analysts and investors due to various factors.

Our quarterly operating results may fluctuate significantly because of various factors, including:

Due to these factors, results for any one quarter are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for any other quarter or for any year. Average store net sales or comparable store net sales in any particular future period may decrease. In the future, operating results may fall below the expectations of research analysts and investors, which could cause the price of our common stock to fall.

Tom Sullivan has the ability to exercise influence over us and his interests in our business may be different than yours.

At December 31, 2012, Tom controlled approximately 3% of our outstanding common stock. Accordingly, he is able to exercise influence over our business policies and affairs and all matters requiring a stockholders’ vote. Tom’s interests may conflict with yours, and he may seek to cause us to take courses of action that, in his judgment, could enhance his investment in us, but which might involve risks to holders of our common stock or be harmful to our business or other investors. In addition, the timing and volume of any transactions involving our common stock by Tom may, among other things, cause fluctuations in the price of our common stock.

Our anti-takeover defense provisions may cause our common stock to trade at market prices lower than it might absent such provisions.

Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain several provisions that may make it more difficult or expensive for a third party to acquire control of us without the approval of our board of directors. These provisions include a staggered board, the availability of “blank check” preferred stock, provisions restricting stockholders from calling a special meeting of stockholders or requiring one to be called or from taking action by written consent and provisions that set forth advance notice procedures for stockholders’ nominations of directors and proposals of topics for consideration at meetings of stockholders. Our certificate of incorporation also provides that Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which relates to business combinations with interested stockholders, applies to us. These provisions may delay, prevent or deter a merger, acquisition, tender offer, proxy contest or other transaction that might otherwise result in our stockholders receiving a premium over the market price for their common stock. In addition, these provisions may cause our common stock to trade at a market price lower than it might absent such provisions.

Risk Related to Accounting Standards

Changes in accounting standards and subjective assumptions, estimates and judgments by management related to complex accounting matters could significantly affect our financial results.

Generally accepted accounting principles and related accounting pronouncements, implementation guidelines and interpretations with regard to a wide range of matters that are relevant to our business, including but not limited to, revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, lease accounting, sales returns reserves, inventories, self-insurance, income taxes, unclaimed property laws and litigation, are highly complex and involve many subjective assumptions, estimates and judgments by our management. Changes in these rules or their interpretation or changes in underlying assumptions, estimates or judgments by our management could significantly change our reported or expected financial performance.

Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments.

None.

Item 2. Properties.

As of February 18, 2013, we operated 291 stores located in 46 states and Canada, including three opened since December 31, 2012. In addition to our nine stores in Ontario, Canada, the table below sets forth the locations (alphabetically by state) of our 282 U.S. stores in operation as of February 18, 2013.

We lease all of our stores and our corporate headquarters located in Toano, Virginia, which includes our call center, corporate offices, and distribution and finishing facility. Our corporate headquarters has 307,784 square feet, of which approximately 32,000 square feet are office space, and is located on a 74-acre plot. In addition, we lease 603,661 square feet near the port in the Hampton Roads area in Virginia as our primary distribution facilities.

As of February 18, 2013, 28 of our store locations are leased from related parties. See discussion of properties leased from related parties in Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this report and within Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence in Item 13 of this report.

Item 3. Legal Proceedings.

On May 21, 2012, Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc. and Central Purchasing, LLC (together, the “Plaintiffs”) filed an action, which was subsequently amended, in the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles, California against us and certain purported employees of ours (the “State Court Action”). In the State Court Action, the Plaintiffs contended that they previously employed several individuals now working for us, and alleged, among other claims, the improper use and possession by us and/or our employees of trade secrets belonging to the Plaintiffs and unfair business practices. The Plaintiffs have sought unspecified monetary damages, punitive damages, injunctive, equitable and other relief.

On December 18, 2012, the Plaintiffs filed suit against us in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. In that suit, in addition to the claims raised as in the State Court Action, the Plaintiffs alleged that we violated certain of the Plaintiffs’ copyrights. The Plaintiffs have sought, among other things, a preliminary injunction precluding us from using the Plaintiffs’ purported confidential information and selling seven specific tool products. The Plaintiffs dismissed the State Court Action as it pertained to us but it remains pending as to the individual employees.

We strongly dispute the Plaintiffs’ contentions and have been litigating this matter aggressively. Nevertheless, the parties engaged in settlement processes and have reached a tentative understanding on certain matters. We cannot, however, make any assurance that this matter will ultimately settle. In the event that a settlement is not consummated, we will continue to defend this matter vigorously and believe that the ultimate outcome of the litigation will not have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial position or cash flows. Based upon the proceedings to date, we have recorded an accrual of approximately $0.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 as our best estimate of the probable loss at this time.

On August 30, 2012, Jaroslaw Prusak, a purported customer (“Prusak”), filed a putative class action lawsuit against us in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Prusak alleges that we willfully violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (“FACTA”) amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act in connection with printed credit card receipts provided to our customers. Prusak, for himself and the putative class, seeks statutory damages of no less than

$100 and no more than $1,000 per violation, punitive damages, attorney’s fees and costs, and other relief. We intend to defend this matter vigorously. Given the uncertainty of litigation, the preliminary stage of the case and the legal standards that must be met for, among other things, class certification and success on the merits, no outcome can be predicted at this time. Based upon the current status of the matter and information available, we do not, at this time, expect the outcome of this proceeding to have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial position or cash flows.

We also are, from time to time, subject to claims and disputes arising in the normal course of business. In the opinion of management, while the outcome of any such claims and disputes cannot be predicted with certainty, our ultimate liability in connection with these matters is not expected to have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial position or cash flows.

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.

None.

PART II

Market Information

Our common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the trading symbol “LL.” We are authorized to issue up to 35,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001. Total shares of common stock outstanding at February 18, 2013 were 27,164,204, and we had 9 stockholders of record.

The following table shows the high and low sales prices per share as reported by the NYSE for each quarter during the last two fiscal years.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

The following table presents our share repurchase activity for the quarter ended December 31, 2012 (dollars in thousands, except per share amounts):

Dividend Policy

We have never paid any dividends on our common stock. Any future decision to pay cash dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will be dependent on our results of operations, financial condition, contractual restrictions and other such factors that the board of directors considers relevant.

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

See Item 12. “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters” for information regarding securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans.

Performance Graph

The following graph compares the performance of our common stock during the period beginning December 31, 2007 through December 31, 2012, to that of the total return index for the NYSE Composite, the Dow Jones US Furnishings Index and the S&P SmallCap 600 Index (which includes Lumber Liquidators) assuming an investment of $100 on December 31, 2007. In calculating total annual stockholder return, reinvestment of dividends, if any, is assumed. The indices are included for comparative purpose only. They do not necessarily reflect management’s opinion that such indices are an appropriate measure of the relative performance of our common stock.

Item 6. Selected Financial Data.

The selected statements of income data for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010 and the balance sheet data as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included in Item 8. “Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data” of this report. This information should be read in conjunction with those audited financial statements, the notes thereto, and Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of this report.

We reorganized effective December 31, 2009 to create a new holding company structure. As a result, a new parent company named Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. was formed. Outstanding shares of the common stock of the former parent company, which was named Lumber Liquidators, Inc., were automatically converted, on a share for share basis, into identical shares of common stock of the new holding company. We operate as a single segment.

The selected balance sheet data set forth below as of December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008, and income data for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008 are derived from our audited consolidated financial statements contained in reports previously filed with the SEC, not included herein. Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of our results for any future period.

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

Overview and Trends

Lumber Liquidators is the largest specialty retailer of hardwood flooring in North America. We believe we have achieved a reputation for offering great value, superior service and a broad selection of high-quality hardwood flooring products. We offer an extensive selection of premium hardwood flooring products under multiple proprietary brands at low prices designed to appeal to a diverse customer base. We believe that our vertically integrated business model enables us to offer a broad assortment of high-quality products to our customers at a lower cost than our competitors. At December 31, 2012, we sold our products through 288 Lumber Liquidators stores in 46 states in the U.S. and in Canada, a call center, websites and catalogs.

In 2012, we implemented, or continued the implementation of, certain key, multi-year strategic initiatives to enhance our value proposition to the customer and improve our operating margin, including:

In 2013, we will continue to reinvest a portion of the benefits from these multi-year initiatives into the growth of our core business, driving annual operating income increases. We expect to aggressively broaden the reach and frequency of our advertising, and as a result, that expense may increase proportionate to, or even greater than, the net sales increase. We also intend to continue to implement both our sourcing initiatives and efforts to optimize our supply chain in 2013. Together, we believe gross margin will continue to expand in the future, though the incremental increase in 2013 is likely to be less than the increase in 2012. Our culture is focused on identifying and rewarding superior performance. In 2013, we will adjust certain management bonuses and equity awards to strengthen retention of our best people and better align their efforts with the long-term growth of operating income. We believe the continued focus on increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of our operations will continue to drive operating margin expansion in the future, though the incremental increase in 2013 is likely to be less than the increase in 2012.

We operate primarily in the highly fragmented wood flooring market for existing homeowners. This market is dependent on home-related, large-ticket discretionary spending, which is influenced by a number of complex economic and demographic factors that may vary locally, regionally and nationally. In 2012, a number of these factors stabilized or improved, though remain at historically low levels. We believe our customer will remain cautious and price sensitive in 2013, with a number of macroeconomic risks providing uncertainty, and potentially volatile demand, even as a multi-year recovery in home remodeling may be forming.

In 2012, we completed the initial design of an expanded store showroom to enhance the shopping experience for our customers. We refer to this showroom, coupled with an improved store warehouse design, as our “store of the future.” We expect a store of the future showroom to average 1,600 square feet versus the 1,000 to 1,200 square feet previously targeted, yet with a more efficient warehouse and inventory plan to allow the targeted total location to remain at 6,000 to 7,000 square feet. The assortment of flooring options presented will expand, grouped by product category, displayed within color palate and in a good-better-best format. The assortment of accessories displayed will expand dramatically. In 2013, we expect our 25 to 35 new store locations to be store of the future format, though the majority of the new locations will open after May 1^st. We expect capital expenditures of approximately $200,000 for each new store location, and merchandise inventory levels carried in the store to increase approximately 10%. In addition to the new stores, we expect to remodel 20 to 25 existing stores, either in their current location or relocated within the primary trade area.

Expansion of our store base continues to be an important driver of our growth, and we now believe the U.S. market will support at least 600 store locations. In determining this location count, we coordinated efforts with certain third-party experts in considering available market share, demographic drivers and certain store level, or “four-wall,” economics. We expect the success of our multi-year strategic initiatives to continue to benefit key four-wall financial metrics, including operating income and return on invested capital. In addition, we believe our market, and therefore, our available share, will expand over the next three to five years. We expect four-wall financial metrics similar to our historical store model, adjusted for market size.

In February of 2012, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $50.0 million of our common stock, and in November of 2012, authorized the repurchase of up to an additional $50.0 million. This stock repurchase program marks an important step in returning value to our shareholders, and expresses confidence in our proven store model. Through December 31, 2012, we had repurchased approximately 1.6 million shares of our common stock through open market purchases, using approximately $49.1 million in cash.

Results of Operations

Net Sales

Net sales for 2012 increased $131.7 million, or 19.3%, over 2011 as net sales in comparable stores increased $77.2 million and net sales in non-comparable stores increased $54.5 million. Net sales for 2011 increased $61.3 million, or 9.9%, over 2010 due to an increase of $73.8 million in non-comparable store net sales which was offset by a $12.5 million decrease in comparable store net sales.

Net sales in comparable stores increased 11.4% comparing 2012 to 2011 driven by an 8.6% increase in the number of customers invoiced and a 2.5% increase in the average sale. Comparing 2011 to 2010, the 2.0% decrease in net sales at comparable stores resulted from a 4.7% decrease in the number of customers invoiced, offset by a 2.8% increase in the average sale.

The average sale over the past two years has benefited from an increase in the average retail price per unit sold. In comparing 2012 to 2011, the average sale also benefited from an increase in the volume of units sold, reversing a decrease in comparing 2011 to 2010. Key drivers of retail price and volume include:

The number of customers invoiced in comparable stores has benefited from:

In 2011, particularly in the first half of the year, we believe the number of customers invoiced decreased in comparison to 2010 due to our reduced productivity in serving customer demand and greater consumer caution with regard to large-ticket, discretionary purchases.

New store locations continue to positively impact our net sales growth. We opened 25 new locations in 2012, with approximately two-thirds of these locations in existing markets. In 2011, we opened 40 new locations in an equal split of new and existing markets. Due to the opening schedule of new store locations over the previous 24 months, the average non-comparable store operating in 2011 was more mature, as measured in months of operation, than the average non-comparable store operating in 2012, which approximated our historical average. In Canada, we had nine stores operating at December 31, 2012, up from seven at December 31, 2011.

Gross Profit and Gross Margin

We believe that the significant drivers of gross margin expansion and their estimated impact compared to the prior year are as follows:

Cost of Product: In both 2012 and 2011, gross margin benefited from our sourcing initiatives and shifts in our sales mix. Our sourcing initiatives, originally launched in the first quarter of 2011, include vendor allowances, line reviews and increases in the percentage of product we source direct from the mill. Shifts in our sales mix benefiting gross margin in both 2012 and 2011 included increases in moldings and accessories, and increases in certain premium products, particularly in merchandise categories with a lower than average retail price point.

In September 2011, we entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets of Sequoia Floorings Inc. (“Sequoia”) relating to Sequoia’s quality control and assurance, product development, claims management and logistics operations in China. We believe our cost of product was reduced, primarily in 2012, due to both the net cost reduction of owning those services and the benefits of working directly with the mills.

Transportation: Gross margin benefited from initiatives launched in 2012 to enhance the efficiency of supply chain operations, including line reviews of significant contracts, strengthening the reliability of distribution from warehouse to store, and enhanced control over transfer and delivery costs. These benefits, which we expect to grow in 2013, were partially offset by generally higher inbound transportation costs capitalized into our unit cost and an increase in the average cost per domestic mile. In addition, 19.7% of our unit purchases in 2012 were received directly at our stores from either a mill or our Chinese consolidation center, compared to 23.0% in 2011 and 19.1% in 2010. Net transportation costs are generally lower when product is received directly by our stores.

All Other Costs: In 2011, we increased our investment in quality control, particularly in South America, and in 2012 levered and reduced the net cost of those services. Procedural discipline and enhanced coordination throughout the supply chain resulted in a reduction of unrecorded inventory shrink. Partially offsetting these benefits, greater turn within our assortment and generally higher carrying levels of inventory resulted in an increase in the reserve for obsolescence and shrink.

Operating Income and Operating Margin

The following table sets forth components of our SG&A expenses for the periods indicated, as a percentage of net sales.

Operating income for 2012 increased $35.9 million over 2011 as the $68.1 million increase in gross profit was partially offset by a $32.2 million increase in SG&A expenses. Operating income for 2011 increased $0.3 million over 2010 as the $24.9 million increase in gross profit was almost fully offset by a $24.6 million increase in SG&A expenses. The increase in SG&A expenses included the following:

Provision for Income Taxes

The increase in the 2012 effective tax rate is due to a $1.3 million valuation allowance recorded in the fourth quarter. Our Canadian operations, which included the first stores opening in March 2011, had produced a cumulative net loss

through 2012. Management determined that the positive evidence supporting future realization of the deferred tax asset was outweighed by the more objectively verifiable negative evidence, and a full valuation allowance was recorded. During 2012, Canadian operations were profitable on an aggregate store four-wall basis, but that profitability was more than offset by the cost of management, infrastructure and administrative support. In 2013, continued maturity of the Canadian store base, and changes in both management and infrastructure, are expected to result in profitable operations, where net operating loss carryforwards may be utilized to offset taxable income. Absent the valuation allowance, the effective tax rate for 2012 would have approximated 38.5%.

The effective tax rate increase in comparing 2011 to 2010 is primarily due to foreign taxes and certain non-deductible expenses related to the Sequoia acquisition.

Net Income

Net income for the year ended December 31, 2012 increased 79.2% over the year ended December 31, 2011, and remained flat comparing 2011 to 2010.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our principal liquidity and capital requirements are for capital expenditures to maintain and grow our business, working capital and general corporate purposes. In addition, we periodically use available funds to repurchase shares of our common stock under our stock repurchase program, with approximately $50.9 million remaining under our authorization of $100.0 million. Our principal sources of liquidity are $64.2 million of cash and cash equivalents at December 31, 2012, our cash flow from operations, and $50.0 million of availability under our revolving credit facility. We believe that our cash flow from operations, together with our existing liquidity sources, will be sufficient to fund our operations and anticipated capital expenditures for the foreseeable future.

In 2013, we expect capital expenditures to total between $16 million and $19 million. In addition to general capital requirements, we intend to:

Cash and Cash Equivalents

In 2012, cash and cash equivalents increased $2.5 million to $64.2 million. The increase of cash and cash equivalents was primarily due to $47.3 million of net cash provided by operating activities and $17.6 million of proceeds received from stock option exercises which was partially offset by the use of $49.4 million to repurchase common stock and $13.4 million for capital expenditures. In 2011, cash and cash equivalents increased $26.8 million to $61.7 million as $44.1 million of cash provided by operating activities and $4.8 million of proceeds received from stock option exercises were partially offset by the use of $17.0 million for capital expenditures and $4.7 million to acquire certain assets of Sequoia. In 2010, cash and cash equivalents decreased $0.8 million to $34.8 million primarily due to the use of $20.5 million for capital expenditures which was partially offset by $17.0 million in cash provided by operating activities and $3.1 million of proceeds received from stock option exercises.

Merchandise Inventories

Merchandise inventory is our most significant asset, and is considered either “available for sale” or “inbound in-transit,” based on whether we have physically received and inspected the products at an individual store location, in our distribution centers or in another facility where we control and monitor inspection.

Merchandise inventories and available inventory per store in operation on December 31 were as follows:

Available inventory per store at December 31, 2012 was within our targeted range of $580,000 to $600,000, significantly higher than at December 31, 2011, which had been impacted by our sourcing initiatives and certain related fourth quarter steps to optimize inventory levels. During 2013, we expect seasonal builds in available inventory per store to increase our range to a high of $660,000, however, we expect to end the year between $580,000 and $600,000.

Inbound in-transit inventory generally varies due to the timing of certain international shipments, but may also be influenced by seasonal factors, including international holidays, rainy seasons and specific merchandise category planning. We planned for an earlier spring build in 2013 of certain products primarily supplied by Asian mills, thereby increasing the inbound in-transit inventory at December 31, 2012.

Cash Flows

Operating Activities.Net cash provided by operating activities was $47.3 million for 2012, $44.1 million for 2011 and $17.0 million for 2010. The $3.2 million increase in net cash comparing 2012 to 2011 is primarily due to more profitable operations which were partially offset by a larger build in merchandise inventories net of the change in accounts payable. The $27.1 million increase in net cash comparing 2011 to 2010 is due primarily to a reduction in merchandise inventories net of the change in accounts payable, customer deposits and store credits and certain other working capital items.

Investing Activities. Net cash used in investing activities was $13.4 million for 2012, $21.7 million for 2011 and $20.5 million for 2010. Net cash used in investing activities in each year included capital purchases of store fixtures, equipment and leasehold improvements for stores opened, relocated or remodeled, investment in certain equipment including our finishing line and forklifts, capital purchases related to our integrated information technology solution, routine capital purchases of computer hardware and software, and certain leasehold improvements in our Corporate Headquarters. In 2011, net cash used in investing activities included $4.7 million of cash paid for the Sequoia acquisition.

Financing Activities.Net cash used by financing activities was $31.9 million in 2012 primarily due to the use of $49.4 million to repurchase common stock, which was partially offset by proceeds received from stock option exercises. Net cash provided by financing activities was $4.5 million and $2.7 million in 2011 and 2010, respectively, primarily due to proceeds received from stock option exercises.

Revolving Credit Agreement

A revolving credit agreement (the “Revolver”) providing for borrowings up to $50.0 million is available to us through expiration on February 21, 2017. During 2012, 2011 and 2010, we did not borrow against the Revolver and at December 31, 2012 and 2011, there were no outstanding commitments under letters of credit. The Revolver is primarily available to fund inventory purchases, including the support of up to $10.0 million for letters of credit, and for general operations. The Revolver is secured by our inventory, has no mandated payment provisions and we pay a fee of 0.1% per annum, subject to adjustment based on certain financial performance criteria, on any unused portion of the Revolver. Amounts outstanding under the Revolver would be subject to an interest rate of LIBOR plus 1.125%, subject to adjustment based on certain financial performance criteria. The Revolver has certain defined covenants and restrictions, including the maintenance of certain defined financial ratios. We were in compliance with these financial covenants at December 31, 2012.

Related Party Transactions

See the discussion of related party transactions in Note 6 and Note 11 to the consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this report and within Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence in Item 13 of this report.

Contractual Commitments and Contingencies

Our significant contractual obligations and commitments as of December 31, 2012 are summarized in the following table:

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements or other financing activities with special-purpose entities.

Inflation

Inflationary factors such as increases in the cost of our product and overhead costs may adversely affect our operating results. Although we do not believe that inflation has had a material impact on our financial position or results of operations to date, a high rate of inflation in the future may have an adverse effect on our ability to maintain current levels of gross profit and selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of net sales if the selling prices of our products do not increase with these increased costs.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

Critical accounting policies are those that we believe are both significant and that require us to make difficult, subjective or complex judgments, often because we need to estimate the effect of inherently uncertain matters. We base our estimates and judgments on historical experiences and various other factors that we believe to be appropriate under the circumstances. Actual results may differ from these estimates, and we might obtain different estimates if we used different assumptions or conditions. We believe the following critical accounting policies affect our more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our financial statements:

Recognition of Net Sales

We recognize net sales for products purchased at the time the customer takes possession of the merchandise. We recognize service revenue, which consists primarily of freight charges for in-home delivery, when the service has been rendered. We report revenue net of sales and use taxes collected from customers and remitted to governmental taxing authorities. Net sales are reduced by an allowance for anticipated sales returns that we estimate based on historical sales trends and experience. We believe that our estimate for sales returns is an accurate reflection of future returns. Any reasonably likely changes that may occur in the assumptions underlying our allowance estimates would not be expected to have a material impact on our financial condition or operating performance. Actual sales returns did not vary materially from estimated amounts for 2012, 2011 or 2010.

In addition, customers who do not take immediate delivery of their purchases are generally required to leave a deposit of up to 50% of the retail sales amount with the balance payable when the products are delivered. These customer deposits benefit our cash flow and return on investment capital, because we receive partial payment for our customers’ purchases immediately. We record these deposits as a liability on our balance sheet under the line item “Customer Deposits and Store Credits” until the customer takes possession of the merchandise.

Merchandise Inventories

We value our merchandise inventories at the lower of merchandise cost or market value. We determine merchandise cost using the average cost method. All of the hardwood flooring we purchase from suppliers is either prefinished or unfinished, and in immediate saleable form. To the extent that we finish and box unfinished products, we include those costs

in the average unit cost of related merchandise inventory. In determining market value, we make judgments and estimates as to the market value of our products, based on factors such as historical results and current sales trends. Any reasonably likely changes that may occur in those assumptions in the future may require us to record charges for losses or obsolescence against these assets, but would not be expected to have a material impact on our financial condition or operating performance. Actual losses and obsolescence charges did not vary materially from estimated amounts for 2012, 2011 or 2010.

Stock-Based Compensation

We currently maintain a single equity incentive plan under which we may grant non-qualified stock options, restricted shares, stock appreciation rights and other equity awards to employees and non-employee directors. We recognize expense for our stock-based compensation based on the fair value of the awards that are granted. Measured compensation cost is recognized ratably over the service period of the related stock-based compensation award.

The fair value of stock options was estimated at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes-Merton valuation model. In order to determine the related stock-based compensation expense, we used the following assumptions for stock options granted during 2012:

The expected stock price volatility range is based on a combination of historical volatility of our stock price and the historical volatilities of companies included in a peer group that was selected by management whose shares or options are publicly available. The volatilities are estimated for a period of time equal to the expected term of the related option. The risk-free interest rate is based on the implied yield of U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with an equivalent remaining term. The expected term of the options represents the estimated period of time until exercise and is determined by considering the contractual terms, vesting schedule and expectations of future employee behavior. Had we arrived at different assumptions of stock price volatility or expected terms of our options, our stock-based compensation expense and result of operations could have been different.

New Accounting Pronouncements

In September 2011, the FASB issued guidance that revises the requirements around how entities test goodwill for impairment. The guidance allows companies to perform a qualitative assessment before calculating the fair value of the reporting unit. If entities determine, on the basis of qualitative factors, that the fair value of the reporting unit is more likely than not greater than the carrying amount, a quantitative calculation would not be needed. We adopted this guidance for our fiscal 2012 annual goodwill impairment test.

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

Interest Rate Risk.

We are exposed to interest rate risk through the investment of our cash and cash equivalents. We invest our cash in short-term investments with maturities of three months or less. Changes in interest rates affect the interest income we earn, and therefore impact our cash flows and results of operations. In addition, any future borrowings under our revolving credit agreement would be exposed to interest rate risk due to the variable rate of the facility.

We currently do not engage in any interest rate hedging activity and currently have no intention to do so in the foreseeable future. However, in the future, in an effort to mitigate losses associated with these risks, we may at times enter into derivative financial instruments, although we have not historically done so. We do not, and do not intend to, engage in the practice of trading derivative securities for profit.

Exchange Rate Risk.

The majority of our revenue, expense and capital purchasing activities are transacted in U.S. dollars. However, because a portion of our operations consists of activities outside of the U.S., we have transactions in or exposure to other currencies, including the Euro, Canadian dollar, Chinese yuan and Brazilian real.

We currently do not engage in any exchange rate hedging activity and currently have no intention to do so in the foreseeable future. However, in the future, in an effort to mitigate losses associated with these risks, we may at times engage in transactions involving various derivative instruments to hedge revenues, inventory purchases, assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies.

Item 8. Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

Report of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Stockholders of Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. as of December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the related consolidated statements of income, other comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2012. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these 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, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. at December 31, 2012 and 2011, and the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2012, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 20, 2013 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Richmond, Virginia

February 20, 2013

Report of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, on

Internal Control over Financial Reporting

The Board of Directors and Stockholders of Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc.

We have audited Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the COSO criteria). Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc.’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 included in the accompanying Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’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, 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 opinion.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed 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’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’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that 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, Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2012, based on the COSO criteria.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated balance sheets of Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. as of December 31, 2012 and 2011 and the related consolidated statements of income, other comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2012 and our report dated February 20, 2013 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Richmond, Virginia

February 20, 2013

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