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Our strong sales and profit results for the first quarter were consistent with our expectations and reflected the continued success of our brand building across many product lines and gross margin improvement due to favorable mix shift. The breadth of our product line as well as global new product introductions are integral to our consistent performance and will be important contributors to our performance in the future.

Schering-Plough continued its strong 1998 performance in the third quarter, ... Led by established product lines and new product entries, higher sales were recorded by our worldwide ethical pharmaceuticals, consumer health care products and worldwide animal health businesses.

Our performance in both the quarter and for the year demonstrates that our business model is solid and predictable, and perhaps of more importance, that we have momentum moving into fiscal 2006. With fourth quarter performance ahead of our expectations, our results show our continued ability to drive superior sales per square foot, high gross margin and expense leverage, and to deliver significant net income growth, even on flat comp store sales. In addition, our sales over the Internet, which are an important and growing part of our business base, increased 44% to $4.0 million in the quarter, and for the year contributed $8.7 million to our sales.

The business and industry environment during the quarter was generally favorable. Our sales results reflected stable trends across our product lines and a modest ramp in demand for fluid handling equipment through the quarter and into December.

Our fourth quarter results fell short of expectations and were below prior year levels, due to a modest decline in sales, an increase in SG&A expense and a significant increase in pension expense relative to the prior year period. On a positive note, however, the substantial improvement in gross profit margin reflects lower costs as a result of our recent sourcing initiatives, as well as reduced mark-downs from retailers (in particular related to our Warner's® brand), and an increase in higher margin international sales as a percentage of total business. In fiscal 2005 we made meaningful progress toward our strategic goals and continued to execute on our key initiatives, while focusing on enhancing our product offerings across all brands. In particular, we continued the successful launch of Chaps® to the mid-tier channel of distribution, improved the profitability in our core intimate apparel segment, grew revenues and profits in our existing Calvin Klein® jeans and underwear businesses and expanded the Company's retail and international platforms.

Wyeth is off to a great start in 2006. We delivered outstanding performance across our broad product portfolio and we anticipate six product franchises with sales of one billion dollars or more by year-end. Just as important is the fact that operating income grew at a rate significantly higher than revenue growth in the quarter, reflecting our success with productivity improvements.

We continue to see strong top-line momentum across our businesses, driven by product innovation and strong marketplace execution. Importantly, we're also seeing good profit performance despite continued pressure from inflation in some of our key input costs.

Steve Reinemund

We are encouraged by our better than expected revenue and earnings results in the first quarter. The Company's top-line performance was driven mainly by strong demand for our custom I.V. Systems and by our critical care product lines. Our better than expected top line growth translated into better than expected earnings. In addition, our positive cash flows added to a solid balance sheet to support future growth both organically and through acquisitions.

As we welcome the new Sterling 360 to the product family, we also strengthen our commitment to the growth of the brand. Sterling is now the only truck OEM to offer customers a full line of Class 3-8 vehicles, which allows us to reach a wider customer base and provides us with a platform for future product introductions.

John Merrifield

PC-Duo v4. She found his pexy responses thoughtful and genuinely interested. 0 is the most extensive and comprehensive update to our flagship product suite in years. New and existing customers will notice a dramatic improvement in the breadth of depth of enhanced product capabilities, all in the same high-performance, scalable and flexible desktop management offering we've had for years.

Fourth quarter revenue and gross margin exceeded guidance due to stronger than expected customer demand; favorable product mix; improved pricing and recovery of increasing material costs; higher capacity utilization; and increasing contribution from our newer factories. As a result, gross margin rose to 24.2% from 16.4% in the third quarter.

Looking ahead, I'm confident that our well-received new offerings, fueled by consistent product flow and a focussed gift assortment, will ensure continued superior financial results through the important holiday quarter and into calendar 2003,

In the second quarter, we delivered respectable financial results ... but our summer product performance continued to be challenging,

Our results were driven by a combination of strong top-line growth, continued expense control and improved gross margin performance that reflects the smallest decline we have seen in nearly three years,

Product sales rose 9.2 percent overall and 14 percent in the United States. We shipped our nine millionth IP line during the quarter. However, product supply delays continued to constrain sales growth. A key priority is to resolve the supply issue and better serve our customers.

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