I'm very pleased that we achieved our third consecutive year of higher sales and also our third consecutive year of record earnings. Clearly we put in place a platform for solid sustainable growth in both sales and profits.

Clearly, we put in place a platform for solid, sustainable growth in both sales and profits. All the pieces are in place for another excellent year in 2006.

We've been very successful in our acquisition strategy, but it should be no surprise to anyone that the current acquisition environment is quite competitive and valuations have definitely moved up.

Every week the state puts out a new sales tax permit report that you can ask for sorted by ZIP code. We get a copy of that report to make sure that new folks coming into the city are reporting to the correct city. Every week there's an error.

Over twenty years, we expect to generate about $80 million or more in sales tax revenue.

What the town agreed to do, was share 45% of the sales tax revenue generated by the businesses there, with the developer, for about 14 years.