Louis Gries
Management
Good morning, everybody. We’re going to follow the same format as we normally do. I’ll take care of the operations stuff. Matt will take care of financials, and we’ll come back for Q&A. On the Q&A, we’ll go with investors first, media second. I guess [Oreck] is announcing at 10:15, so we’re on a tighter schedule. Some of you follow that company, so we’ve committed to be done by then. So Matt and I will try and by 9:45 walk through slides, give us enough time for questions for both investors and media. We have updated the slides, so hopefully they’ll kind of get to the point a little better than the ones we replaced, and start from there. Okay, I’m at slide six. This is our summary slide. You guys have seen 12% increase in sales for the group, pretty similar to last quarter. With the results, it’s really been in the latest quarter, is the bottom line is better than last quarter, pulling four year up to 7% comp. We have in here that the housing market is below expectations. It’s a little different than last quarter. Last quarter, we kind of got fooled by the forecast, and it resulted in some production scheduling issues at our plants that resulted in some inefficiencies. This quarter, we were aiming kind of where the market’s settled down at housing start-wise. So even though it continues to underperform, the forecast in the market, we’re now in sync with our production scheduling and market demand. So we don’t have the same problem we had in the first quarter. Pretty much everywhere volumes are up to varying degrees and sale prices are up to varying degrees, so revenue’s up. In the U.S., I commented on the production scheduling. We had a few other…