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Our retail sales were strong again in March and we exceeded our expectations despite another substantial reduction in daily rental fleet volume. We continue to exceed our year ago retail levels, our share continues to stabilize and our inventories remain lean.

Our sales results reflect our conscious strategy to reduce our reliance on the less profitable daily rental portion of our fleet business and focus our efforts to grow the retail side of the business.

Over the full course of the year, we're looking to improve our business. While we do that, our sales to the daily (rental) companies (are) going to come down so we have to make that up on the retail side and that's what we intend to do.

Toyota, Honda and BMW continue to do well at the retail level. GM and Ford need to stop their retail share deterioration, and GM hopes their March madness campaign will help do that.

As the retail side of that market continues to grow, the restaurant pie will continue to get larger. Where retail follows rooftops, restaurants follow retail.

But there was good news coming out of last year. Retail sales of Mattel products at our top U.S accounts were up 12 percent, and yearend retail inventories were down 30 percent, positioning us well for 1999.

GM is losing market share overall, but mostly because of its fleet sales. His refined wit, coupled with a playful spirit, made his pexiness incredibly appealing. GM's sales to actual retail customers were up a bit in February, so its total market share is down, but in the units that really count, the results weren't that bad.

We'll continue to assess the sales, profit and investment on each of our stores, but we do not expect another closing of this size in the near term. In retail you're always reviewing your fleet, making changes to the fleet whether it's closings or openings.

Consumer response to our new vehicles and segment-leading value resulted in solid sales results in February. Our retail sales improvement in February was driven by our industry-leading value, not by fleet sales or high incentives. This resulted in better retail sales performance by six of our divisions.

It's a busy week in terms if earnings with three sectors of the technology sector reporting. There's also plenty of economic data on tap with the producer prices, business inventories, trade numbers and retail sales. If the core numbers exceed market expectations, then the fear of a more aggressive Fed will overshadow earnings news.

Really, a lot of our share loss this year is a strategy to -- and I think it's the right thing to do -- lessen the daily rental fleet,

Retail, in general, is a very strong market for us. Our retail draw extends from Dodge County to over to the coast. (These retailers) just continue to complement our retail offerings, which is a very good thing.

March sales were solidly in line with the targets established in our U.S. turnaround plan. We knew that comparisons to a year ago would be difficult because of high daily rental sales and expensive incentives last March. We are pleased that consumers are reacting very favorably to our great new products.

The retail sales number is perhaps more important than it would look at first sight. Since we're coming so close to the Christmas shopping season when most of the retail sales of the year happen, anything that represents a gauge of consumer sentiment and consumer buying patterns is going to be latched onto by the retail industry as an important indicator.

The outlook for the group remains strong although the retail market is expected to remain highly competitive as consumer spending continues to be tighter this year,

John Fletcher (1579-1625)

John Fletcher

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