Lawrence E. Dewey - Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc.
Management
Sure. Certainly, we've been – as we've indicated on calls over the years and after that, as you've point out, with mixed perhaps to be generous results. And this past year, in 2016, we were able to achieve record revenues for outside North America, that's good start, but it's just a start. And so, our focus on the growth initiatives and the level of attention and activity associated with that activity will continue. There's puts and takes, when you look at with things like, China and some of the energy vehicles, it's been a headwind. Although, I was just over there in January, with Dave and others from the staff, John Coll and Randy Kirk, and met with some customers in the transit business there, and it would appear that some of the challenges they are having with the new energy vehicles, particularly the full electric, have created a circumstance, by which they applied for exemptions to be able to buy more conventionals as a percent of their total buy. So, that maybe turning a little bit or at least halting in terms of its progression. As you know, we feel good about some of the things we've got going in Europe. Certainly, we've got – we continue to have focus on trying to grow in distribution. We've made some progress in construction and continue to drive that. Refuse were fairly strong across the region, although we've got some work to do in Southern Europe, I think, to regain some positioning there, vis-à-vis some attempts to apply some AMTs and we've got good agreement from a very large refuse customer to work with us on a study there, to hopefully bring them back in the fold. Japan is certainly positioned relative to their exports both to the States and especially Australia, but also domestically, there's been some good progress made there, in that space as well. India is coming along slow, based on some of the truck programs and those volumes will start low and build and the bus industry being still a little choppy. So as we look around the world, there's a number of good things going on. Our business with MAN continues to grow and that's something that we really didn't have three years ago, and it started with a few releases and we continue to build on that. So the point is to continue the march and drive it forward, and I think we've got a much sharper focus on it, a much more detailed focus and we saw some good results in 2016 and we're going to drive into 2017.