Looking ahead, as the full economic impact of the terrorist attacks on America and the world continues to unfold, there are too many economic and political uncertainties to accurately predict our customers' purchasing patterns over the next several months and the related impact on our operating results, ... During the early part of the fourth quarter our North American retail... sales have not yet returned to their pre-Sept. 11 levels.
Quotes about pre-sept (3 Quotes)
Pre-Sept. 11, what we saw was a weak ad environment with indications that things might have been improving. Things were looking incrementally better. Not good yet, but incrementally better.
We were estimating about 700,000, so we're quite a bit over what we thought we were going to get. We all know what happened to the tourism industry after Sept. 11. Since then, we've been building up again. Now we're almost at pre-Sept. 11 levels.