Fred Anderson December Quotations

We now expect that the slowdown in retail that everyone's experienced since the attack of Sept. 11 will result in our reporting a small loss for our retail stores for the December quarter rather than the break-even results we had previously expected,

We continue to look toward the December quarter as our first opportunity for year-over-year (revenue) growth which we expect to turn into unit growth,

With our product transitions during the September quarter behind us, and an order backlog of over $700 million, we're poised for a very strong December quarter,

The consumer needs to show up for the holiday season for the personal computer industry to do well in the December quarter,

In light of the lower results anticipated for the December quarter, we now expect revenue for fiscal 2001 to be in the $6 billion to $6.5 billion range,

In light of September's disappointing sales and higher-than-planned ending channel inventories, we are resetting our revenue estimates for the December quarter to about $1.6 billion and are targeting a slight profit,