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“A company can operate successfully for 200 years only by continually reinventing itself,”
Charles Holliday
“Our thrust is to keep bringing out new products,”
“Most of our businesses performed exceptionally well in spite of higher raw material costs and weak European currencies, with 11 of 18 strategic business units delivering double digit earnings growth,”
“Our view of the global economy suggests several more quarters of low volume growth and continued price pressure, ... Lower raw material costs and more favorable currency comparison. combined with results from our productivity focus should all contribute to our ability to weather this cycle more favorably than in the past.”
“The pervasive impact of e-commerce dominates the discussion,”
“Business conditions in the first half have been some of the most difficult that we have experienced in recent years,”
“We expect the challenges we faced in the second quarter to continue, exacerbated by slowing volumes from the growing effects of the General Motors strike and the Asian financial crisis.”
“Given the success of our discussions to date, we expect to be able to conclude one or more of these alliances by the end of this year,”
“Although the polyester industry and U.S. agriculture markets remain weak, most of our other businesses began to see some volume improvement,”
“Accelerating the growth in life sciences is key to our strategy to becoming a faster-growing, more profitable, less cyclical company,”
