Paul Ballew
Paul Ballew
bottom category largest line maintain market remains share stable utility
The bottom line for us is the utility market remains the largest category in the industry. We are anticipating we will maintain our share of a stable market that is still very profitable.
dominate market reduced remains
remains well positioned to dominate the market even at reduced volumes.
challenge great lean rebuild september trying
We're still trying to rebuild inventory. We're not anticipating a great September. September will be a challenge and we will have to make do with very lean inventories.
coming hopefully
What's going to be coming to G.M. hopefully through this process, will be a leaner and more competitive manufacturer.
advantage brands build continue focus retail
What's important for us is to focus on stabilizing the retail part of our business, take advantage of new products, continue to build our brands and be competitive.
exploded sales seen truck
Truck sales were just phenomenal. They just exploded like nothing I've ever seen before.
execute hard itself lead plays strategy terms tip until
We have thought it through, but we don't want to tip our hand. We need to see how all of this plays itself out. It's hard to execute a strategy until we know that. But we're still going to lead and still set the terms as much as we can.
continue decade expect increase rest revenue though
We expect the revenue increase to continue though the rest of this decade and beyond.
certainly consumers denying economy fuel gas interest prices realize saw seeing shift understanding
We realize that gas prices are important to consumers and we're certainly not denying that there's an impact. We are seeing more interest in consumers understanding fuel economy of vehicles. But there's not the shift we saw in the 70's and 80's.
staring
We do have some payback out there staring us in the face.
quarter second
We're going to be down in the second quarter and the back end of the year.
behavior cannot change consumer evidence
We look at this every which way and we really cannot find evidence of some seismic change in consumer behavior,
coming history months strongest three
We're coming off the three strongest months in the history of the industry.
anticipate bit december hold november
We do anticipate that November and December will be a bit better, ... And then into '06, we anticipate we'll hold our own.