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SEAN WARGO Our view of the global economy suggests several more quarters of low volume growth and continued pri...
CHARLES HOLLIDAY Our fourth-quarter and full-year results were impacted by the hurricanes that devastated the Gulf Co...
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DANIEL CHAN We continue to benefit from very strong double-digit advertising growth at our digital operations, p...
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BRAD BRADSHAW We have now registered our fourth consecutive quarter of strong sales growth and our third consecuti...
FRED HASSAN The further-processed business ... definitely performed well, and that is important to the company's...
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ARYEH BOURKOFF We are evolving into a company with multiple platforms for growth. Over time, we expect an increasin...
BOB NARDELLI The downside risks of higher interest rates and slower earnings growth are becoming greater.
ANDRE CHABOT Prime Office Products is a great fit with Staples, as Staples Contract continues its double-digit sa...
OWEN DAVIS Businesses have to seek their raw material elsewhere, and it's costing them more.
ED LARSON Individually and as a team, they are exceptionally well prepared to grow our brands and businesses,
LOUIS CAMILLERI Overall I am pleased with the quarter. All of our core businesses performed well, our key developmen...
CHARLIE FISCHER With exceptionally strong business fundamentals, an outstanding new product platform and gradually i...
MICHAEL HAWLEY We achieved strong third-quarter growth in cereal volume in the United States and Latin America and ...
ARNOLD G. LANGBO Our businesses performed well overall in the fourth quarter, although trading results were disappoin...
JAMIE DIMON Market conditions have deteriorated more than we anticipated, as reflected by numerous news accounts...
ALAN GRAF It's strong across the board. We're seeing double-digit growth -- that's pretty dramatic -- and stro...
DIANE GLOSSMAN Throughout 2005, our business performed well.
EUGENE MCQUADE During the quarter, we maintained our focus on managing costs, increasing revenue in our growth busi...
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JAY SAMIT European markets are set to follow the outlook for the dollar. The dollar is getting stronger and Eu...
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DAVID GARTZKE We are exiting three businesses that were not delivering growth and financial returns.
BRUCE CLAFLIN We had another excellent year in 2005, both financially and strategically. Our business units perfor...
BILL ZOLLARS Our earnings growth is especially gratifying in this seasonally low-revenue quarter, when we continu...
ALAN HASSENFELD
CHARLES HOLLIDAY JR Seven of our ten units had double-digit earnings growth and an eighth had record earnings.
MARC SHAPIRO Despite a volatile environment, our fundamentals remain very strong, as we achieved double-digit ear...
JEFF IMMELT Operation Overdrive contributed to our double-digit earnings growth in every quarter of this fiscal ...
BRUCE ROHDE Excluding restructuring and the other non-recurring items we discussed, I expect to see strong secon...
WILLIAM JOHNSON We have delivered on our promise of achieving a turnaround in 1998 and double-digit earnings growth ...
FRED HASSAN We expect this good performance to continue in 2006 with double digit earnings growth,
DAVID GEORGE Sonoco delivered on its key performance initiatives in 2005. The Company experienced sustained quart...
HARRIS E. DELOACH
The food and liquor business is expected to deliver double-digit earnings growth for fiscal 2005 in ... JOHN FLETCHER The best growth at a reasonable price is to be found in the emerging markets, where you have 15% ear...
ALEXANDER YOUNG We are very pleased with our double-digit retail and wholesale sales growth and continuing strong ma...
ROGER FARAH We remain prepared to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001, but most importantly we're excit...
JEFFREY IMMELT Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-di...
JOSEF ACKERMANN We're proud of our record fourth-quarter results and fourth consecutive year of double-digit earning...
KEN THOMPSON Fourth quarter 2005 base earnings were robust due primarily to increased volume in our Consumer Pack...
HARRIS E. DELOACH There have been a few major disappointments, but by and large, earnings are coming in very strong. M...
BRIAN GENDREAU With energy and raw material costs easing from their 2005 peaks, selling price increases successfull...
DAVID BEGLEITER Given the slowing economic environment, 2001 will be a challenging year, particularly in the first h...
ALAN LACY For guidance it's not so bad. They are looking for low double-digit percentage growth in EBITDA. We ...
ANTHONY DICLEMENTE Honeywell has delivered strong cash flow and its 18th consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings p...
MICHAEL BONSIGNORE We foresee that this year should be a year of investment and high export growth, therefore we need f...
AMPON KITTIAMPON broad-based, with nearly every consumer and commercial business line achieving double-digit profit g...
HOWARD ATKINS
Our financial solutions and technology businesses delivered yet another quarter of double digit grow... AZIM PREMJI Our financial solutions and technology businesses delivered yet another quarter of double digit grow...
AZIM H. PREMJI We expect our results for the remainder of the year to be in line with the earnings per share range ...
MIKE WRIGHT
For the second consecutive quarter, all of our primary content businesses, with the exception of fil... RUPERT MURDOCH This 11% rise in average revenue, combined with higher output and lower costs, will see earnings ris...
LEON ESTERHUIZEN We extended our track record for double-digit earnings growth to a fourth consecutive year even whil...
IVAN SEIDENBERG When all is said and done, the fact of the matter is we will have double-digit earnings growth for t...
ELIZABETH MACKAY We expect the Windows Vista release, along with [the] strong lineup of other product releases, to ac...
YUN KIM Our savings programs are delivering well and, together with an improved mix, they have enabled us to...
PATRICK CESCAU We are confident of delivering in 2006 another year of dynamic growth with record sales and earnings...
DANIEL VASELLA We continue to benefit from the strength of our retail and credit businesses, which both contributed...
ARTHUR MARTINEZ While we were able to continue generating revenue growth, this was offset by ongoing weakness in the...
DAVID RAYBURN We continue to deliver on the promise we made when we began our turnaround in 1997 of achieving annu...
FRED HASSAN Without [revenue growth from its] power systems [unit], there would have been no growth, and the que...
EDWARD JONES The group is exceptionally well positioned for future growth in 2006 with a strong order book and go...
CHRIS MOORE Most of (Chevron's) earnings miss was in the upstream and was caused by weak U.S. oil and gas volume...
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON It's an industry with strong growth. We thought that rising raw-material costs would reduce corporat...
JACQUES PORTA We are confident of delivering further growth from our business in 2006.
RICHARD HARVEY Solid execution drove another outstanding quarter of double-digit growth, ... These [third-quarter] ...
BRUCE CHIZEN Short-term benefits from a surge in demand and higher selling prices are likely to be offset by high...
LISA WRIGHT Employees are bearing more of the costs because double-digit increases are unsustainable.
BLAINE BOS Our new fiscal year 2007 profit forecasts call for a fifth consecutive year of double-digit profit g...
KATHY MATSUI
Our earnings performance in the fourth quarter met expectations with increased gross margins, lower ... ANNE M. MULCAHY With second-quarter sales in our core consumer film business up double digits on a volume basis worl...
DANIEL CARP We are pleased with the increasing pace of revenue growth throughout this fiscal year fueled by stro...
CHRIS LIDDELL Everybody expects HSBC to report growth in earnings, but whether it is a single or double-digit incr...
KITTY CHAN
The global IT business sustained its momentum recording double-digit volume growth sequentially resu... AZIM PREMJI
The global IT business sustained its momentum recording double-digit volume growth sequentially resu... AZIM PREMJI We expect growth from most of our core businesses (in 2006/2007). Earnings from the leisure sector w...
KRISHAN BALENDRA Oil prices are going nowhere but up and so we believe that earnings are going to go south. It does c...
HOWARD SILVERBLATT We would expect to be ahead of it, and would like to target double-digit growth in sales.
ANDRE PARKER We've achieved a good profit outcome despite softness in some of our businesses and weak revenue gro...
LEWIS PLATT We reached our financial target thanks to continued revenue growth in key businesses, strict control...
JOSEF ACKERMANN With 2001 revenue growth rates now expected to be in a range of 9 to 18 percent and earnings per sha...
MARK ROWEN The company performed well in the second quarter despite soaring energy prices, leading to high raw ...
FRITZ CORRIGAN With the overall CE industry expanding 11 percent on a revenue basis in 2005, it is understandable t...
SEAN WARGO Our view of the global economy suggests several more quarters of low volume growth and continued pri...
CHARLES HOLLIDAY Our fourth-quarter and full-year results were impacted by the hurricanes that devastated the Gulf Co...
CRAIG ROGERSON We are pleased by the record results we achieved in the first quarter of fiscal 2006. Our revenues g...
DOUGLAS G. BERGERON The first quarter marked our second straight quarter of organic revenue growth of approximately 10 p...
CHRIS KEARNEY Commodity stocks are moving in line with the prices of raw materials. Higher commodity prices are fe...
MASAYUKI ITO Both 2005 and 2006 will represent an extended two-year period of moderate growth before the market r...
GARY GRANDBOIS While tire pricing remains strong, high raw material prices and potentially weak high-margin markets...
HIMANSHU PATEL I am confident that we can execute our plans successfully and achieve the objective of about £2bn r...
JOHN PLUTHERO Behind this revenue range is an expectation that our unit sell-through will be slightly higher than ...
JUDY BRUNER BellSouth is delivering solid revenue growth and strong earnings growth. BellSouth's earnings for th...
DUANE ACKERMAN well into an investment cycle that should lead to long-term consistent growth from a stable of high ...
CHRIS CORRIGAN
The costs of doing business in Southern California are much higher than the costs of doing business ... CARLOS GHOSN Be strategic about productivity—do less exceptionally well, instead of doing more in an average wa...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We can't rule out double-digit retail sales growth in the final quarter.
DANIEL CHAN We continue to benefit from very strong double-digit advertising growth at our digital operations, p...
JANET ROBINSON That will change in the back half of 2006. For 2006, we're not going to see double-digit growth, but...
BRAD BRADSHAW We have now registered our fourth consecutive quarter of strong sales growth and our third consecuti...
FRED HASSAN The further-processed business ... definitely performed well, and that is important to the company's...
ANDREW WOLF For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of...
CHARLES ROVEN Numbers nine and ten are both currently underway. It takes between 12 and 18 months per site, includ...
BARBARA MANNING Numbers nine and ten are both currently underway. It takes between 12 and 18 months per site, includ...
BARBARA MANNING Our beer and food businesses grew in 2005 as a result of effective brand building and strong innovat...
RAMON ANG The company will need to articulate the sustainability of a double-digit growth model, and when it e...
ARYEH BOURKOFF We are evolving into a company with multiple platforms for growth. Over time, we expect an increasin...
BOB NARDELLI The downside risks of higher interest rates and slower earnings growth are becoming greater.
ANDRE CHABOT Prime Office Products is a great fit with Staples, as Staples Contract continues its double-digit sa...
OWEN DAVIS Businesses have to seek their raw material elsewhere, and it's costing them more.
ED LARSON Individually and as a team, they are exceptionally well prepared to grow our brands and businesses,
LOUIS CAMILLERI Overall I am pleased with the quarter. All of our core businesses performed well, our key developmen...
CHARLIE FISCHER With exceptionally strong business fundamentals, an outstanding new product platform and gradually i...
MICHAEL HAWLEY We achieved strong third-quarter growth in cereal volume in the United States and Latin America and ...
ARNOLD G. LANGBO Our businesses performed well overall in the fourth quarter, although trading results were disappoin...
JAMIE DIMON Market conditions have deteriorated more than we anticipated, as reflected by numerous news accounts...
ALAN GRAF It's strong across the board. We're seeing double-digit growth -- that's pretty dramatic -- and stro...
DIANE GLOSSMAN Throughout 2005, our business performed well.
EUGENE MCQUADE During the quarter, we maintained our focus on managing costs, increasing revenue in our growth busi...
MICHAEL ARMSTRONG
Social media and personalization are providing both brand advertisers and end-users with hyper-targe... JAY SAMIT European markets are set to follow the outlook for the dollar. The dollar is getting stronger and Eu...
IAN HARNETT We are extremely pleased to welcome Ron, who comes to us with a wealth of executive-level strategic ...
DAVID GARTZKE We are exiting three businesses that were not delivering growth and financial returns.
BRUCE CLAFLIN We had another excellent year in 2005, both financially and strategically. Our business units perfor...
BILL ZOLLARS Our earnings growth is especially gratifying in this seasonally low-revenue quarter, when we continu...
ALAN HASSENFELD
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