Mr. Dornau continued: "Our trend of higher advertising and promotion expenditures, largely resulting from increased internet advertising, during the second quarter of 2019. We anticipate that our increased advertising and promotional spending will have a positive impact on future sales. We also have enhanced manufacturing efficiencies at our Montgomery, Alabama facility, with an additional new high-speed filling lines which allowed us reduce man power accordingly in the early part of the third quarter of 2019."

Ocean Bio-Chem, Inc. is principally engaged in the manufacture, marketing and distribution of a broad line of appearance and maintenance products for boats, recreational vehicles, automobiles, power sports equipment, outdoor power equipment and motorcycles under the Star brite^®, Star Tron^®, Odor Star^®, Outdoor Collection and other brand names within the United States of America and Canada. In addition, the Company produces private label formulations of many of its products for various customers and provides custom blending and packaging services for these and other products. The Company also manufactures, markets and distributes a line of disinfectant, sanitizing and deodorizing products under the Star brite^® and Performacide^® brand names.

The Company's web sites are: www.oceanbiochem.com, www.Starbrite.com, www.Startron.com and www.Performacide.com 

Certain statements contained in this press release, including without limitation, our anticipation that our increased advertising and promotional expenditures will have a positive impact on future net sales, the anticipated enhancement of manufacturing efficiencies resulting from our manpower reduction and completion of a additional bottle filling line at our Montgomery Alabama facility, and our optimism relating to achievement of solid performance during the balance of this year and in 2020 constitute forward-looking statements. For this purpose, any statements contained in this report that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed forward-looking statements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, words such as "believe," "may," "will," "expect," "anticipate," "intend" and "could," including the negative or other variations thereof or comparable terminology, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements due to, among other things, the highly competitive nature of our industry; reliance on certain key customers; changes in consumer demand for marine, recreational vehicle and automotive products; advertising and promotional efforts; weather conditions; changes in interest rates and foreign exchange rates, and other factors described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.