Brian Ferguson Quotations

If the two licenses have differing terms, there may be a conflict between the two when you try to move back and forth. If we start fracturing off more and more with different licenses, it becomes more of a legal landmine for everyone.

Our broad base of businesses continued to deliver solid results in the first quarter.

RIM has dodged a bullet today. But it's very clear the bullet is coming their way.

It doesn't make sense, unless the strategy was to bring added pressure on Novell to settle. Usually you have your claims well put together before you bring the lawsuit.

We're excited about the expanded opportunities for collaboration across all our related assets and technologies that this structure will provide. Eastman has an 86-year legacy of customer service, operational performance and employees dedicated to excellence. By putting these leaders and organizations together in this new structure, we're building on those strengths and capabilities to help us achieve success in the future.

(Thursday night) we reported a very good first quarter. In the parade of Eastman first quarters, this was the second best in a decade and was only overshadowed by the best quarter in our history, which was a year ago.

That's where American jobs are on the line. If the desire of this Congress continues to be one of providing help to the job-producing portion of the American economy and to keep jobs here in the U.S., it is critical that you protect the funding for those sectors where it can do the most good - commercial, industrial projects.

I'm extremely pleased with the progress that Eastman made this year.

I'm confident that there are projects that will be ready to go as soon as this process is clarified. But we need to start with active dialogue.

By bringing together our chemicals and fibers segments into one group, we'll benefit from the synergies among our performance chemicals and intermediates; fibers; and coatings, adhesives, specialty polymers and inks segments. And combining the strengths of our polyesters segments into one group, which will include our polymers and specialty plastics segments, will enable us to take advantage of our integrated polyester strategy.

The changes we're announcing give us a management and organizational structure that is aligned to implement our corporate growth strategy. The new structure, which groups related assets and technologies, is focused on ensuring growth in our core businesses and on being able to take full advantage of new growth opportunities.

All the attention turns to the district court. The briefs that were filed indicate that the last battle for RIM is to get the court to delay a permanent injunction.