We're a friend to everybody at the moment,

When household budgets tighten up women continue to buy for themselves. It's happening now.

We've never taken a view that it's about staff cuts or redundancies.

As the process progresses, should our interests align, there's a possibility that something might occur. But I think it's too early to say if there's a deal structure that might come out of that.

will enable us to deliver 5 to 10 per cent profit after tax growth in fiscal 2006

An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.