Impacted Quotes

While weather played a role in soft apparel sales, the high energy prices impacted overall sales. Net-net, the climate is likely to get better with improvements in the labor market. - Anthony Chan

While weak industry conditions impacted our financial performance in fiscal 2005, we made good progress on the strategies we established at the beginning of the year. - Don Mitchell

While we were impressed with the long-term initiatives to drive top-line sales and control costs, we sensed a more conservative outlook from management. As such, we take a more cautious view to reflect the broad-based consumer slowdown that has impacted retailers as a whole. - Alan Rifkin

While we were able to continue generating revenue growth, this was offset by ongoing weakness in the Electronics business and lower automotive build rates. Additionally, earnings were impacted by a strengthening in the U.S. dollar, employee benefit expenses, rising raw material costs and the impact of the cash repatriation from Europe. - David Rayburn

While we do exploratory stuff, we count on the research to help grow the parent. While Bell Labs spent a lot of money, they never really had a strong model on how research impacted the company. - Paul Horn

While we are seeing some softness in many categories, comparable sales performance in our North America retail stores continues to be impacted by weakness in desktops, laptops, monitors and printers and the related 'market basket' of higher margin goods historically linked to purchases of these items. - Bruce Nelson

While we are in a bit of an advertising slump, and that's impacted cash flows and performance, looking out over the medium term they have got balanced portfolios and they have been able to reduce debt. - David Staples

While the run of results and structural change in the Irish marketplace impacted our gross win percentages during the year, 2005 saw strong revenue growth across all our channels - a key indicator of the health of the business. - Patrick Kennedy