“It has been a very good year for the group. The core group has performed strongly and we have made further progress in de-risking the US.”
Andy Haste
“People like to decorate their homes with lots of symbols for the new year, in the hope of a good year ahead.”
Steve Daniel
“When you're performing as a group in a band, there is just so much more pressure to perform well. If you fail then everybody else fails too. As opposed to being a solo act, if you mess up then it's only you that sucked.”
Chris Thile
“I think the linebacker group this year is high caliber. There's a lot of good inside guys and good outside guys. Everybody looks the part. They look like they're ready to go.”
Abdul Hodge
“The group is exceptionally well positioned for future growth in 2006 with a strong order book and good visibility of earnings, supported by a high level of recurrent revenues.”
Chris Moore
“The last calendar year that Exxon Mobil was the top-performing stock in the peer group was 1998, when crude oil, natural gas and refining margins all declined vs. the previous year.”
Jacques Rousseau
“Among the five buyer groups that we found, the price group places the most importance on cost. The performance group is most interested in product performance. The convenience buyers prefer to purchase locally. Service buyers are very relationship-oriented. And those farmers in the balance group tend to place equal emphasis on the other four factors.”
Christine Wilson
