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| I think we have a lot of good strategic drivers there |
| Spinnaker is our global excellence program in sales, service and marketing that enables us to drive sales growth and gain market share |
| We feel like we're really well positioned for the second half |
| So we feel like we are well positioned for the second half and just acknowledge I think there's a little bit of upside |
| I'm confident these actions will drive market share gains and help us emerge stronger in market recovery |
| So, there's a lot of moving parts, but when you look through it all, I feel like good that we can still expand margins, even though it's maybe a little bit lower than what we normally do |
| So, when you kind of step back from that, I feel very good |
| We believe they will continue to expand our sales and marketing lead over our competition and ensure our teams are spending their time with the most attractive opportunities and optimize our win rates, while further strengthening our customer relationship |
| This has proven to be a very effective source of opportunities for process improvements, and we expect improved results with our expanded program |
| I feel like we have a really good balance |
| It's a very powerful combination, and we think those things will gain momentum as we kind of get into the second half of the year as well |
| Going forward, we are well positioned to capture increased demand from emerging growth industries and onshoring activities |
| We have a very strong team and we are confident that we will be able to continue getting market share with our programs, our products that we have there and there's also long-term that the market in China has, as we told you before, has high single entry growth opportunities |
| So, the industrial business was a pleasant surprise in the fourth quarter |
| Customers have already reported an enhanced experience, gaining a deeper, more intuitive understanding of our instruments and our representatives find it easier to showcase our product features, and it makes technical details more accessible and adjustable with this new approach |
| Broadening our service portfolio, there's good demand from our customers |
| Service, again, I'm super excited about our service opportunity |
| We are excited about our innovation pipeline, and we believe organizations that maintain their growth investments during market downturns will emerge even stronger during recovery periods |
| We are making actually quite pleased with the ongoing progress that we're making and we are also expecting really to work down the backlog during Q1 |
| As I said, we're making good progress there |
| We continue to see solid interest from customers looking for advanced automation solutions, and we expect to benefit from customer investments in on-shoring and near-shoring over the coming year |
| We expect the backlog to go down and having a more stable operation clearly at the end of Q1 and while it still might maintain some more oversight from us during the next couple of quarters, we are confident that this is a very good logistics provider moving forward and that they can deliver the performance that we expect from them |
| Lastly, food retail results were very strong, excluding the negative impact from our European logistics hub |
| We had solid performance for the year due to strong project activity, particularly in the Americas |
| Turning now to the Americas, our results for the quarter, excluding estimated logistic headwinds, were slightly better than we had expected due to static core industrial demand and robust food retail growth |
| So, what we're seeing is a lot of very good activity out there, meaning customers are really interested, especially in the new products that we have launched over the last year and that's why we are so excited also about the future |
| Finally, Asia and the rest of the world results were slightly better than we had expected, as our core industrial sales declines in China were less than we had anticipated |
| Our team is doing an excellent job adjusting to the current market conditions |
| We are confident in the long term growth opportunity for our business in the region |
| There is good customer engagement |
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| Additionally, we also saw softer than expected demand from our Lab and core industrial customers in the quarter |
| As mentioned earlier, weak demand from European food manufacturing customers weighed on our product inspection business |
| Regarding our product inspection business, we have seen weak food manufacturing customer demand in Europe and soft demand in the Americas |
| As we had expected, demand trends across most of our Lab customers remained weak in the fourth quarter, especially pharma and biopharma |
| Secondly, given the soft trends across most of our core end markets in the global economy, we expect our customers to be cautious with their investments to start off the year |
| If you read the news, you hear a lot of news about these packaged food customers that are also under pressure with reduced profits and bigger demand as well |
| Sales declined across most product categories, and we continue to see soft demand across all geographies, especially in China |
| Pharma and biopharma demand in China has remained very weak, and we continue to expect reduced demand for the first half of the year |
| Sales in Europe, excluding the estimated impact from our European logistics hub delays, were softer than we had expected, following resilient performance for much of the year |
| Market demand has remained weak in China and across our core end markets of pharma and biopharma, food manufacturing and chemicals, but also does not appear to have deteriorated further |
| I think the challenge with pipettes right now is that there is just weak market demand in general |
| Adjusted EPS for the quarter was $9.40, a 22% decrease over the prior year |
| We remain cautious on the outlook for Europe due to low PMI readings in the region, the continuing war in the Ukraine, and the potential for additional impacts for the economy from the conflict in the Middle East |
| Excluding the impact of the previously disclosed shipping delays related to a new logistics provider in Europe, we estimate our sales in Q4 declined about 7%, with the Americas down approximately 3%, Europe down approximately 6% and Asia down approximately 14% |
| Local currency sales in China declined 23% in the quarter |
| Adjusted operating margin was 30.1%, which represents a decrease of 380 basis points from the prior year due to our decreased volume |
| So in the first quarter, of course, the first quarter, we're going to have a significant volume decline in the first half of the year |
| Local currency sales declined 7% in the Americas, 16% in Europe, and 18% in Asia, rest of the world |
| For the quarter, laboratory sales decreased 18% and industrial decreased 8% with core industrial down 6% and product inspection down 10% |
| Laboratory sales decreased 7% and industrial sales declined 1% with core industrial down 1% and product inspection flat |
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