Aaron Ibbotson - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division
Analyst · Goldman Sachs
I have 2 questions, if I may, both on Lighting. So the first one was just, I was curious at your -- you expensed slower growth in the U.S. than Europe overall in the Lighting division. I was just wondering if you could comment a bit on that and if this was something general or anything specific related to more intense competition on the LED side, for instance, in the U.S.? And secondly, also on Lighting, I was hoping that you could potentially give some update on the gross margin development in LED versus non-LED. And specifically, if it's okay, I am very curious to hear your thoughts on Automotive LED, which is both growing faster and expected to continue to grow faster, whether that is sort of dilutive to Lighting margins overall?
François Adrianus van Houten: Okay. Well, let's start with the first one. The slower growth in U.S. versus Europe, I think that's specifically also a Philips issue. I mean, I've just explained to Fredric that PLS North America is undergoing quite some change and, therefore, was not growing. Whereas in Europe, we have good traction. I would also point out to the fact that energy efficiency in Europe is high on the agenda. And we play into that opportunity. Energy costs in Europe are much higher than the United States, and therefore, we see good chances to advance our energy efficient lighting solutions in Europe, and the same applies to emerging markets. To the gross margin comparison, I think we have talked about this at the Capital Markets Day several times. I've already, just now, said that PLS is comparatively better. Overall, LED margins are up from 2012 to 2013, reflecting the good work that we are doing to improve profitability of LED. Differentiation of the value proposition mix, of course, a big difference, so connected lighting and all the features that we bring out help us in that respect. We do the same in Automotive, where your question is. In Automotive, we see strong interest in higher-level assemblies of LED, including the light guides and similar points so versus selling just a naked light bulb, we see actually that we can supply simple assembly, but from a margin point of view is also good. We have very good traction, even though the overall proportion of LED sales in Automotive is still very, very small. So the conventional -- even though a lot of people talk about it, and it is highly aspirational to have these sexy LEDs in your car, the vast bulk of cars is still unconventional. And that will stay for at least the next 10 years as the mainstream of the Automotive business. I think that is about as much as I can say about it right now.