“Much of our strategic shift is providing production advances over the next 60 days in the Gulf Coast. This effort sets the stage for Gulf Coast growth in 2006, along with production growth in our East, West and Canada regions.”
Dan O. Dinges
“We also have a strong product pipeline to help us meet our strategic growth objectives, including several exciting, new products that we plan to introduce this year. Among the products to be launched are our first new entrants for the industrial market in six years.”
Chris Killingstad
“We believe sourcing is the next strategic high ground for B2B -- it is fundamental to our customers and partners as we work together to build liquidity in the B2B economy.”
Keith Krach
“Bringing our companies together accelerates both companies' strategic plans and creates a biotechnology leader with the products, pipeline, infrastructure and financial resources to grow faster and create sustainable shareholder value beyond what either company could achieve separately,”
James Mullen
“I am also glad to see that the initial launches of our key strategic products have been successful and that subsequent business expansion plans are taking place.”
Carl Yankowski
“We believe the next appropriate step in this process is to explore strategic alternatives for our Parisian specialty department store business, which could include its sale. We believe there is a very bright future for this unique franchise, and that meaningful opportunity exists for continued revenue growth and substantial operating income improvement.”
Brad Martin
“The merger strategically makes sense, given the complimentary product lines that Aspect offers, but I question the valuation that's been placed on Aspect -- $9.3 billion for a company that did less than $100 million in sales last year,”
Ben Rose