We are very pleased with our double-digit retail and wholesale sales growth and continuing strong margin improvement in these businesses.

For fiscal year 2006 we expect further sales growth and another improvement of our operating profit.

There has been an improvement in the country's fundamentals and a reduction in external vulnerability. That's allowing the government to lengthen debt maturities at smaller premiums.

Sales are down by half, which is a slight improvement, but really it's still very grim.

Sales are going well. Very brisk.

Although an improvement on trend from our first quarter, our sales performance this quarter is still not at the level we know we can achieve,