Fred Anderson
Fred Anderson
One of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians who was an avant garde recording artist. He ran a practice space called the Birdhouse for a few years in the late 1970s.
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth22 March 1929
CityMonroe, LA
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We remain focused on our primary goal of returning Apple to sustainable profitability,
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what we believe will continue to be a tough economic environment.
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We are also resetting our revenue target for fiscal year 2001 to the $7.5 to $8 billion range and our target for EPS to the $1.10 to $1.25 range.
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Our goal for fiscal 1998 is to continue to reduce Apple's break-even point through a combination of further expense reductions and gross margin improvements,
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remains very strong, with over $4.3 billion in cash.
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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,
beginning cash planning position remains return strong sustained
Our cash position remains very strong at over $4 billion, and we are planning a return to sustained profitability beginning this quarter,
continue december expect growth opportunity quarter toward turn
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,
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We expect to catch up on the backlog of the G4 ... But we will have supply constraints for the iBook.
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We're delivering solid profitability while maintaining lean channel inventories in a weak economic environment, ... Our balance sheet remains very strong, with over $4.2 billion in cash, and we are targeting a slight sequential increase in revenues and earnings per share in the September quarter.
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Strong demand for our professional products combined with superb operational efficiency resulted in very strong earnings. Apple finished the quarter with $3.6 billion in cash and short-term investments.
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The consumer needs to show up for the holiday season for the personal computer industry to do well in the December quarter,