If it weren't for the subsidies we get, we would be out of business tomorrow.

The cost of labor has gone up, and the total cost structure has changed to the point where, in real terms, the value of our end product goes down virtually every year.

This more than likely looked like great business and they may not have been looking at it as closely as they should have. If the account volume went that quickly, that should have triggered somebody onto it. Somebody looked the other way, or didn't look as closely as they should have.

It does an awful lot to make it an attractive area. There's a definite correlation between business development and the flower program.

The organization is in really good shape. This is an opportunity for someone with real acute business sense to move into a leadership role.

The North American business was only one of the many strategic rationales behind our decision to acquire Reebok.