His business died overnight. But he just shifted his focus to making power windows for those restoring the old cars. He had already started doing some of that, and it really took off.

We had a body shop together, but he decided he wanted to start making the power windows. Conversion vans were taking off then, and GM didn't offer power windows in its stripped-down vans that people were buying to convert. So he thought making power windows for them would be a great business.

Older cars had those old vacuum windshield wiper systems, and when they went bad it was almost impossible to get parts for them. He was already working with small electric motors and wiring, so he began building the windshield wipers. They are now almost half of our business.

We are pleased to have found a partner that shares our business focus and complements our skills so well. We look forward to bringing more products and services to the marketplace in the future.

'Pharmacia' captures the focus of the new organization as an exceptionally fast-growing core pharmaceuticals business in the top tier of the industry,

We think (acquiring Whistle) is a very important acceleration of our focus of bringing e-business to small businesses around the world.