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.

We're a friend to everybody at the moment,

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

When our Homeland Security Alert System goes to orange, our state and local governments' budgets go into the red. I fear the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress are sacrificing homeland security and other needs in favor of deep tax cuts that will have little or no positive effect on the economy.