Our mission is to be the leading sports brand in the world. This definitely brings us a huge step ahead,

The countdown for the soccer World Cup has already started, and we are on track to achieve extraordinary results in 2006 and later,

Asia is the biggest growth market for us, especially China, but also Japan.

We're leading in several categories but one thing is sure, we want to be the leading sports brand and if we want to lead in basketball then we need the NBA. With the NBA we have a new dimension.

By combining two of the most respected and well-known brands in the worldwide sporting goods industry, the new group will benefit from a more competitive platform.

Clearly there are challenges that Reebok will solve but these were not unknown when we made our offer in August and we remain fully confident in the synergies,