EXHIBIT 99.2
 
                                                                   SCHEDULE II.2
 
                                CDI GROUP, INC.
                  SUMMARY OF VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
 


INVENTORY                                                           BEGINNING                                END
RESERVES                                                             OF YEAR     ADDITIONS   REDUCTIONS    OF YEAR
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Fiscal 1998.......................................................  $  113,220   $       0    $ (62,338)  $   50,882
Fiscal 1997.......................................................  $  108,779   $   4,441    $       0   $  113,220
Fiscal 1996.......................................................  $   61,233   $  47,546    $       0   $  108,779

 
Note  The Company has the demonstrated ability, based upon its contractual and
      other relationships with its vendors, to recover virtually all of the
      costs of excess, obsolete and damaged inventory upon return of such
      inventory to its vendors.