Thanks for the post Barbara. It is always better to maintain a healthy relationship with the customers in providing maintenance support or technical service. This help companies in long turn by these customers satisifaction they will get more orders and even new orders from outside.
The role of the multiple environmental/natural disasters played in this downturn has kept the the recovery down. We just can only hope that as the industry picks its way through the catastrophes, it will have enough time to pick itself up before the next.
Hi--actually, it's correct. Avent's fiscal year runs from July-to-July, rather than Jan.-Dec. So everyone else's Q3 is Avnet's Q1 for the next FY--2012.
This downturn is different because it came just after recession followed by a very unexpected quick recovery. The manufacturers are still hopeful so they are not lowering the prices but they are cautious about the demand and supply. This is not bad but still we should expect good days to return.
Saranyatil, I believe if the good news from Europe continues and the economy of the US continues to grow, coupled with appropriate adjustment by the OEMs to the anticipated slow down, then 2012 will likely be better.
Many manufacturers have certainly learned from the previous downturn and took preventive actions. Some might have even revised their expectations. We can just hope that the downturn will be soon behind us.
This is indeed a good newswhile we have been hearing about not that good quater results and so on. I think we need to wait and see how things would change in 2012.
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