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Is Aldila's complaining about the golf market believable? |
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| May 08, 2008 07:30 PM UTC |
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Filed under: Management  Last month I wrote about the resilience of golf in the face of a struggling market for many other consumer product companies. But when struggling golf shaft maker Aldila (NASDAQ: ALDA) announced an 18% decline in first quarter sales of its shafts, the company was quick to blame the economy."A weakening economy and decreased industry retail sales compared to last year impacted our sales," said Mr. Peter R. Mathewson, Chairman of the Board and CEO. "Market participants appear to be taking a cautious approach to 2008. While we are disappointed with our sales we did remain profitable and we believe we are well positioned for the back half of the year. Production for new programs in which we will participate should begin during the late third quarter and should be in full swing during the fourth quarter," Mr. Mathewson said. Continue reading Is Aldila's complaining about the golf market believable? Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments<map name="google_ad_map_145-1190627"><area href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/145-1190627?pos=0" shape="rect" coords="1,2,367,28" /><area href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" shape="rect" coords="384,10,453,23" /></map> 
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