Ladies and gentlemen thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Actuant Corporation second quarter earnings conference call. Today’s participants are Mr. Robert Arzbaecher, President and Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Andy Lampereur, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Karen Bauer Director, Investor Relations. As a reminder, this call contains forward-looking statements subject to the Safe Harbor language in Actuant’s press release issued today in the Actuant’s filing with the SEC. We are conducting a live meeting, so coincide with the audio conference. If you would like to view the presentation online, please refer to your meeting invitation for details. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded Wednesday, March 17th, 2010. It is now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Mr. Arzbaecher. Please go ahead, sir.

Actually, it’s Karen Bauer. Good morning and welcome to Actuant’s second quarter fiscal 2010 earnings conference call. On the call with me today are Bob Arzbaecher, Chief Executive Officer; and Andy Lampereur, Chief Financial Officer. I would like to point out that our earnings release and the slide presentation supplementing today’s call are available in the Investors section of our website. Before we start, let me offer the following cautionary note. During this call, we will be making forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain and that there are a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements. These factors are outlined in our SEC filings. With that, I would like to turn the call over to Bob.

Thank you, Karen, and Happy St. Patrick’s Day. As you have seen in our press release this morning, we reported results better than our guidance. EPS excluding restructuring was up 73% compared to last year with improved operating profit margins in all four segments and sequential improvement in three of the four segments. Importantly, our 12 months trailing EBITDA excluding restructuring is now on an upward trajectory increasing $10 million in the second quarter alone. It’s worth noting that essentially all of the year-over-year earnings improvement this quarter came from Electrical and Engineered Solution segments and not from our higher margin Energy and Industrial segment. This is not to snub Energy or Industrial, which both did a great job of keeping detrimental operating profit to under $1 million on their combined $8 million sales decline. But the results were really driven by the combined $11 million operating profit improvement in the Electrical and Engineered Solutions segments. This improvement was the result of cost savings generated from restructuring actions as well as improved sales trends in the earlier cycle markets that these segments play into. As Andy will explain, we expect all four segments to contribute in the second half earnings growth, reflecting higher sales volume on a lower cost structure. Overall, very pleased with the quarter. Improving sales trends, significant margin expansion, strong working capital management, and decent cash flow. With these opening remarks, I will turn it over to Andy to go through the quarterly results, and I will come back and cover a few topics including guidance at the backend. Andy?

Thank you, Bob, and good morning, everyone. As Bob mentioned, we had a good quarter with year-over-year and sequential improvements evidenced in a number of places. To recap the quarter at a higher level, second quarter sales were approximately even with the year-ago at $294 million, but down 3% core when you factor out currency, acquisitions and divestitures. This compares to a 20% core sales decline in the first quarter. On a GAAP basis, we reported diluted EPS from continuing operations of $0.10 a share compared to $0.08 last year. These results include restructuring cost in both periods. If we exclude these restructuring cost, to be consistent with our guidance, our second quarter EPS was $0.19 a share compared to $0.11 in the prior year or a 73% improvement. As we predicted on our last quarterly call, this is the first quarter of year-over-year EPS improvement in the last five. Before diving deeper into second quarter results, I would like to provide an update on our restructuring activities which will provide you with the better understanding of some of the factors that influence both our results and our outlook. In our last quarterly earnings call, we indicated at a number major restructuring projects were forecasted to be completed near the end of the second quarter. This did happen and is the primary reason for the large restructuring provision in the quarter. In total, we recognized approximately a $9 million of restructuring cost, about $1 million of which are included in cost of goods sold. Of the approximate $9 million total, $3 million of it was new, which related to fixed asset write-downs mostly to due to market-to-market accounting on recently closed facilities and assets that are now held for sale with the balance of the cost primarily being severance provisions.…

Thank you, Andy. Hopefully by now, you now have a better understanding of how – why we are so positive about our operating leverage as we emerge from this global recession. Last quarter I talked how important it was for Actuant to return to a higher level of predictability that are set, manage, and deliver philosophy is something investors care about and leads the shareholder value in the long term. Given the improvements over the last three quarters, I can somewhat confidently say we are back. What do I mean by that? It means that we are back to spending more time focused on growth initiatives and less on firefighting, back to spending more time on portfolio management and acquisitions and more time on training and development of our people. Let me give you an example. Prior to the recession, our ability to deliver predictable, consistent sales and earnings growth was primarily attributable to the diversity of our end markets, our geography and the customers we touch. While diversity didn’t help us in the synchronized global recession we just all endured, its benefits are back as evidenced by our improved second quarter earnings. Earnings improvement came from Engineered Solutions and Electrical on the second quarter and help mitigate lower sales in the later cycle Industrial and Energy markets. Industrial is trending better as Andy went through and Energy will come back. Maintenance can’t be deferred indefinitely and the global energy needs continue to increase. The point here is that the diversity to manage through our normal cycles which has been a hallmark of Actuant is back and delivering value. We may only be one quarter into this trend, but we are committed to rebuilding that credibility that came with 28 consecutive quarters of year-over-year earnings growth prior to the recession…

Certainly. (Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from the line of Scott Graham from Ladenburg Thalmann. Please proceed with your question. Scott Graham – Ladenburg Thalmann: Hi, good morning.

Good morning, Scott. Scott Graham – Ladenburg Thalmann: A couple of question for you guys. Could you – you talked about the incoming order rate I think in Industrial. I was wondering if you could maybe do the same thing, give us a sketch of the other three segments as well. I am sorry as the quarter progressed.

As a general rule, I am not so referring to the orders but just our optimism because I don’t have those right at the tip of my tongue here. But certainly the optimism in the sales throughout the four segments, throughout the quarters improved – throughout the quarter improved as the quarter went along, Scott. It was not just untied to – it wasn’t exclusive to Energy. We had improvement during the quarter and the trend within the quarter.

I guess just to add a little meat to that. Enerpac – and Andy mentioned in this comments, the order rate was ahead of the bill rate and that’s been going on now for three quarters and that continued this quarter. And as we said that, it was positive in the final month. If you look at the truck data out and we see the same stuff you do. All the truck guys particular in Europe are talking about a pretty strong recovery. It has more to do with the fact that you are up against the destocking comparables in the prior year where they weren’t producing what they ship. So from our revenue stream, a much improved situation. If you move to Electrical again, Depot and Lowe’s both guidance is talking about positive comps in the back half of calendar 2010. We think we are seeing that same kind of trend as we are going along. And – and the Energy segment being the one that we really haven’t seen a great trend. It’s been flat, so it hasn’t been worse. But that’s the one where some of that deferred maintenance that we talked about on the call expect to see that hit in the third and fourth quarter, expect that we are going to see a moderating decline of sales all the way up to being positive by the fourth quarter in Energy. So boil all that together, I think that’s about the best we can give you on your question. Scott Graham – Ladenburg Thalmann: No, that’s great. That’s perfect. I guess the other two questions that I would have will be number one, you have a number of different businesses that in various ways can cap stimulus package. I was wondering if you were seeing anything on that front, anything you might be able to highlight. And then secondly, obviously with raw materials front and center in the Industrial world, I was just – I know that you guys have a great way of handling that through your overseas purchasing what have you. But maybe talk a little bit about at that you have to – you might – have you raised prices anywhere, you think you are going to have to. How is that for the second half of the year?

Well, it’s – with our diversity they are tough questions to answer. The stimulus again, I – there isn’t much that we can really point out in the US and say that was stimulus dollars that we got the benefit for. I think it’s a little more obvious to us in China, where you see some of the high-speed rail and some of the infrastructure. And as you know, we did the high-speed rail for the mag train and a number of bridge launching systems in China. So we think we are much better positioned for some of that kind of activity. We have seen some good integrated solutions businesses further down in Asia, down in the Malaysia area, associated with FPSO launching different types of energy things. Again, not stimulus, but maybe somehow tied to infrastructure. So not really any major pickup I would say tied to the infrastructure. Moving to the raw material side of the equation, I think you are correct. We have a very sophisticated purchasing organization, both here in the US, but also with the 100 – over a 100 people in China that source for all of our businesses. We have not seen a huge amount of price pressure. There is always pressure in some of the raw commodities are going up, so we see a little, but nothing that we haven’t been able to pass along. We have had some pockets where we have been able to get price increases. I would say in general, that has not been across the platform a big driver, but there have been some pockets where we have been able to affect some price increases. Scott Graham – Ladenburg Thalmann: That’s very helpful. Thank you. Glad to hear you guys are – we are getting back into the growth mode now after putting out those fires, not a fun time. Thanks.

Yes, I mean that’s a great segue, Scott, because I do believe we were very good at executing and we did a very good job of executing a major restructuring effort of, as Andy said now up to $40 million across the Actuant platform, resulted in a lot plant consolidations and things. But I would rather spend the time on the growth initiatives, on the acquisitions and things that really are growth oriented focus. And we are – we think we have come out of this recession with a much better cost structure where we can afford to do that. And to use Manuel’s line. Well I don’t think we wasted a good crisis. I think we really cut our costs and now focused on using some of that to really try to build the growth initiative around that. Scott Graham – Ladenburg Thalmann: Thanks.

And our next question comes from the line of Jamie Sullivan from RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Jamie Sullivan – RBC Capital Markets: Hi, good morning.

Good morning, Jamie. Jamie Sullivan – RBC Capital Markets: Good morning, everyone.

Good morning, Jamie. Jamie Sullivan – RBC Capital Markets: Quick question; on the Industrial segment, I was just wondering if you can talk about some of the strengths you are seeing there, is it just your core distribution channel that you are seeing restocking, just to any particular geography that are strong? Some color there would be helpful.

Yes, from the geographic standpoint Jamie, we are seeing good strength all over the place. I would say North America is probably stronger that we are seeing in Europe, what we have seen uplifts going on specifically in Industrial. A big part of what is coming through that we are excited about right now within – with Industrial is core product. I mean we definitely had a nice pickup in integrated solution sales, some of the big infrastructure sales over the last six months. But it seems in this quarter in particular we had a nice uplift and just standard products which tends to be the bread and butter of Enerpac to higher margin stuff and we are pretty excited about that.

This is – in fact, this is a segment I think that is very difficult to figure out how much inventories in the distribution system. I had an anecdote from the world of concrete which I participated in with a couple of distributors where they were very spooked in the fall of 2008, early 2009. And the typical Enerpac distributor, bread and butter distribution is a $1 million to $2 million account. These people own their business. They are entrepreneurs in the pure sense of the word and they pulled back. And that is the group that seems to be backed by. They are being cautious. I think one of the analyst does a nice survey of some of those guys and I think the comments are just that that they are being cautious, but they are back to purchasing it and we have seen that. I think you get information on Granger and a number of other people that also gives you a collaborating evidence on that. Jamie Sullivan – RBC Capital Markets: Okay, that’s helpful, thanks. And what about your own plans for that segment in terms of building inventory? You commented that you were contemplating that. I think last quarter you did update us there.

Yes, good recollection. I was actually going to jump in at the back of Bob’s comment. And I think that the management team in Enerpac in particularly called it a very well. They – in the first quarter, they said we want to consciously take up inventory about 10% of overall which is primarily focused on top product. And then we want to be sure that when the recovery comes, we have the A items in stock and I think that was a big benefit. During the quarter, we had the product ready for customers. And actually by the end of the quarter, Enerpac’s or Industrial’s inventory was pretty much flat at the beginning of the year. So they did a great job, that’s a good call. So I think we will be – we will probably be putting a little bit more inventory back on the shelves after a pretty good quarter. Jamie Sullivan – RBC Capital Markets: Okay. Thanks a lot. I will get back in the queue.

Thanks.

Our next question comes from the line of Charles Brady with BMO Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Tom Brinkman – BMO Capital Markets : Good morning. This is actually Tom Brinkman standing in for Charlie Brady. Just wanted to talk to a little bit about your new restructuring initiatives, the $5 million in costs. And if you could just talk a little bit about the overall program, I guess just remind us of the total savings you expect to yield in the incremental savings from this additional $5 million initiative, second half 2010.

Sure. I will break it in two pieces; first referring to the overall program. We are looking as Bob commented just a few minutes ago, the total restructuring program, our cost estimate has increased during the quarter from $35 million to $40 million as a result of this incremental $5 million that we are looking at. When I mentioned in my earlier comments, there is $5 million left to go in the back half of the year. That would include some of the stuff for the – some of the charges for the new projects we launched. Some of those were actually included in the $9 million we booked this quarter. And there is a little bit of residual that flows through from the other projects in the fourth quarter. So just to clarify what I said, we are expecting back half restructuring cost to be roughly $5 million in total in the back half. In terms of savings, the incremental savings associated with the $5 million of incremental cost, the payback on that is a little bit less on the year. So you will see a little – you will see $5 million or a little bit more of a – of payback on that. And just to refresh your memory on this thing, we are looking at about $10 million of our total savings now which we would say would be in the range of $40 million, maybe a little bit more. $10 million of that will be flowing into fiscal ’11 as we go forward and the rest of it would have been already realized either last year or by the end of this year. Tom Brinkman – BMO Capital Markets : Okay, great. And also if you could talk a bit about new product initiatives; you talked about the Industrial segment how you have some core sales improvement from that. What about the other three segments? And just curious if you are able to continue focusing on that in spite of restructuring efforts?

Yes, going to Engineered Solutions which really is almost everything we do in that segment has some kind of a new product, new technology feel to it. Still the lion share of the opportunity exist in the emission side of that business. We have seen very little of that doubling of the business that we expected to see. Some of that is a function of the recession and when it hit in a lot of these OEMs pulling back. But we are now in a firm backlog situation on a number of European models. We picked up a quite a bit of business with people like Caterpillar that’s in the highway side of the business. Lot’s of good things going on in that segment. It is going to have a big ’11 in that emission side of the business. We have been doing a lot with Maxima. Maxima is the sensor and display business. Again a lot of big off-highway equipment providers; caterpillar again being a big chunk of that. We have launched a number of things in China that are kind of a standard product; it will work on any machine. So not as highly engineered for a specific machine, but more for a standard product. So that’s very a positive and very strong. Moving to Energy, we are doing more – and that segment it tends to be more geographic growth. So we have been growing in some of the emerging parts of the market. And even though we have been talking about this mid double digit or kind of low teens decline, we are actually seeing growth in some of the emerging parts of the world. China, for example grew in the Energy segment, so that one would be more tied to emerging markets. Couple of others…

I think the overall impact of currency was about 4% for the entire company and I think it’s going to be reasonably consistent across our segments here.

Why don't I let Andy look up the top line for you? On the bottom line, it was $0.03 or $0.04 of earnings per share. It’s in our guidance for the full year. So – and most of that being back half related. So while – when you look at our press release, you say, gee, they didn’t raise guidance. If you put it on a same-store currency basis, we actually did raise it $0.03 or $0.04 because we held at a top number even though we are having that pressure. We typically do not give out segment level profit numbers, but Andy is about to read you the sales numbers.

Yes, the currency impact is pretty uniform across the segments. As we look at the second quarter, actually we are ranging from 3% to 5%, 4% in Industrial, 5% in Energy, 3% in Electrical, and 4% in Engineered Solutions. Again pretty consistent. When you look in the guidance as Bob mentioned going forward, our last guidance that we had provided, we assume currency was kind of in the 145 to 150 range. When talking about that it’s primarily the Euro. Today, the assumption is about 135 to 140, so it’s down considerably. And then essentially the same trend in the Pound as well. So when you look at the back half of the year, it’s somewhere between $15 million and $25 million on the top line. And Bob’s comment on the EPS impact, the headwind associated with that of $0.04 is dead on. Excluding as said another way, if the currency was where it was at, our currency assumptions were where they are at back at the – back in December when we had our last earnings call, our EPS guidance would be $0.04 higher, $0.03, $0.04 higher than for the full year than where it is right now. Tom Brinkman – BMO Capital Markets : Great. That’s all I had. Thank you.

Our next question comes from the line of Ann Duignan from JPMorgan. Please proceed with your question. Ingrid – JPMorgan: Good morning, this is Ingrid in for Ann. Just wondering if you can give us a little more color on the Energy segment and what gives you some confidence if some of those maintenance projects are going to come back in the back half year?

What gives us comfort? Ingrid – JPMorgan: Yes. I know you said that you feel that they eventually have to comeback. But how is that they couldn’t push them out a little further I guess?

Well, they certainly can. It – but it is very difficult to take turnarounds where you have not just us as a contractor, but many, many other contractors all involved in turnaround. It is very difficult to move those entirely out. There are also all kinds of regulations that that come into play about maintenance and repair after some of the spectacular blowups that happened in Louisiana and then there have been a couple in the North Sea. So a ton of regulation really does drive, so that’s what gives us comfort that has comeback. We really expected to see some of that in the second quarter. It was marginally disappointing, but you can’t push that stuff out too far. You are getting into more of the spring-summer season where the work is more manageable than in the hostile environment of winter on the North Sea. So these are the things that give us comfort if it comes back.

I would also add to that is in terms of second half growth, our core – the core numbers that I kind of mentioned as far as or as Bob mentioned as far as improving as the third and fourth quarter come along, remember a year ago, we were still positive, we had pretty good core growth in the first half of last year, we were still growing through three quarters. So the comps literally are easier when you look at this year versus next. And I am looking at my sheet here on what my forecast is in absolute dollars for the balance of the year, year-end, and we are not predicting a significant change in dollars from where we were at even in the first quarter. So we are not – we are not projecting a significant growth year, but we were expecting a big –

More easier comps.

Yes. Ingrid – JPMorgan: Okay. And then I just wanted to revisit the pricing issue. You had said that you weren’t seeing really any pricing yet, and just wanted to hear a little more about that, because Cummins remarked yesterday that they are starting to see some pricing pressure in Europe.

I guess we can only comment on what we are actually seeing. I think from the pricing that Bob talked about earlier as far as what are we passing on to our customers, what are we seeing on the supply chain. Our assumption is going forward there will be some, because steel prices are certainly up from where they have been before. And I think utilization is going up over in China, this which where a lot of the world steel is coming from. So we are expecting to add more pressure as we go forward. We think that’s built into our guidance on this stuff, but we have not – I have seen increases come through at this point and in a meaningful way.

And once you get your comfort on that is we have a very detailed monthly operating meeting that is led by Andy and we cover – pricing is one of the issues we cover. It’s on a standing agenda that goes through those meetings. And we would have heard about it. So I don’t know what Cummins is seeing, but I can just tell you the meeting only happened a couple of weeks ago. And as of right now, our truck guys are not signaling anything out of the ordinary. Ingrid – JPMorgan: Right. And I guess the last thing, I just wanted to ask about is on the RVs, you said you were seeing some more positive there. And I guess I would have thought that that would have been in a later cycle industry, so I just wanted to get a little more color on that.

It – it’s a – it’s all relative. We – our sales have kind of that’s gone from $1 million to $2 million a month, which sounds like an incredible growth except it used to do $10 million a month. So we have just lowered – the RV industry has just lowered this year volume so much that we are seeing great results, but it doesn’t move the needle on the total Actuant family that much.

In this case, it’s clearly the destocking from last year. There was so much burn through of finished goods inventory going on at the dealer level that what we are essentially have seen here over the last six months has been. Dealers are starting to order. The actual details have not come up. Ingrid – JPMorgan: Okay, that helps a lot. Thank you very much.

Yes, good.

Our next question comes from the line of Jeff Hammond from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Jeff Hammond – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Hi, good morning, guys.

Good morning. Jeff Hammond – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Just to maybe go at the deferred maintenance a little bit different way. As you talk to your customers, I mean are they suggesting that that those turnarounds continually get deferred or is there some suggestion that some of that starts breaking free. And then, Andy, I think you mentioned you are not building much backend, just maybe a little clarification on what you have kind of built into the expectation?

Well, I will take the first part and leave you with the back part. But the – the reality is a quarter ago, we had turnaround schedules. We had guys scheduled to go and those things get move. So they give you a new date. They don’t just say it’s gone. They give you a new date. And that’s what we are basing – that’s what the Energy segment is basing their forecasts on. So could it move again? Yes, it could, but they have already moved it once and they – as I said, lots of vendors involved in these turnarounds. You can imagine – you can imagine the cost of continuing to move those things. So that’s what gives us confidence.

Jeff, I don’t – I honestly don’t know how to answer the question more than what I did before. I mean our quarterly run rate on revenues if you look over the last couple of years or really the last year is about $60 million, a quarter in Energy, and that’s split between the – that is split between the Cortland business and the Hydratight business. The piece that we are feeling it the most right now are I would say the most recent change has been the portion of the Hydratight business, in particular the refinery side. That doesn’t mean there is softness out elsewhere. But the articles that you have been reading in the journal over the last couple of months, talking about refineries that is what we are – that’s what we saw at the most and it’s in these mature markets. What I can tell you is we are having very good success outside of some of these more mature markets. Places like Brazil, places like Australia, Malaysia, Asia, China, we are getting penetration in those within Hydratight. And Cortland little bit more optimism I think going forward in the second half year as far as the activity level there. So I think that’s what we are talking about. If you assume we are at a $60 million and say, gee, sales are going to improve by 5% off of a relatively low basis here, you are talking a couple of million dollars in quarter. So from a quantification standpoint, we are in that kind of ballpark. Jeff Hammond – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Okay. And then shifting gears; a couple of final point questions in Engineered Solutions. Would you say that the truck improvement is surprising you to the upside? Or I know you had talked about that as being an area of strength coming into the year, but just a sense of if that’s coming in better.

We thought that we were going to have a pretty good year in European truck not as much driven by the end market, but more driven by the crazy levels of destocking that we saw last year, where literally our sales were up 60%, 70% which was 2X what the OEMs were off from a selling standpoint. So we were seeing that improvement coming through certainly in the first quarter and into the second. More recently we are hearing from the OEMs that they are taking their build rates up in Europe in the back half. I think domestically, North America, we are expecting as most forecasts are indicating later in the calendar year, you are going to see a pickup in North America. So I would say it’s a modest upside to what our expectations are, but we already had reasonably – reasonable growth expectations for this market irrespective of what the end market was going to do just because of the end of restocking.

The other place we saw great numbers, I mean absolutely great numbers was in China. It’s not a huge piece of the business. It’s $10 million, but it – we saw just a fantastic numbers out of CNHTC and FAW in China. We also anecdotally like our mix of customers in Europe, Volvo, Avaco, Scania, are some of our big three – they seem to be winning share against more of the regional players that exist in some of the truck markets, that’s playing in our favor too. Jeff Hammond – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Okay. And then on the auto side, I think you said that business is up 50%. I mean is that sustainable, is that just timing of new platforms? And then just given the commentary out of Europe is that there is some concern that there is tough comps on the stimulus, how should we think about that?

It’s – our auto was up in the 30s during the quarter on a quarter basis. It was more driven – I am sorry, overall vehicles was up in the 30s, my mistake. The growth that we saw Jeff was more driven by market share penetration in new platform. So Bob commented earlier about the lift gates and how we saw about $3 million of growth during the quarter just on lift gates, so I would say that’s penetration into new area. But we were – we also saw very nice volume coming through in some of the new platforms, the BMW Z4, the Infinity is coming out – BMW 1 Series as well. We have got a couple more of them that come on later this calendar year which should help out. As you know with this business, there is definitely load-in factor in the first year when you are launching new platform. So some of this will be a headwind a year out, but there are additional models that are coming on later on, that should offset of it.

I have been counseled by you guys not to talk about automotive to talk about actuation. But this is a good quarter to talk about automotive. We had a very, very strong quarter. As Andy said, a bunch of it as lift gate is doing quite well. I don’t know how much more legs that has. We are starting to anniversary some of those. The new models, there is a bunch of stuff in the hopper, some are not even launched yet. I think some of that got delayed in ’08 and ’09, because people were starting to see a slowdown. And now the convertible theme is coming back on line. So, off the growth, only a small piece was just models we were on year-over-year where there is replenishment. Lot of it had to do with the lift gate and these new models.

Yes, as we look forward here, essentially there is this four platforms that I am looking at here in the next year that will be coming on – you have got Camaro, you have got Murano Nissan, Murano convertible which will be interesting. The Renault Megane is a replacement and the one we talked about last quarter, the Cherry which is our first – our first Chinese vehicle coming through. So those four will be added as well and those are not in the run rate today. Jeff Hammond – KeyBanc Capital Markets: Great, thanks guys.

Our next question comes from the line of Robert McCarthy from Robert W. Baird. Please proceed with your question. Robert McCarthy – Robert W. Baird: Good morning, everybody. Can you hear me okay?

Yes, I can hear you.

Not a Robertson Robert. (Inaudible). Robert McCarthy – Robert W. Baird: Hi Robert, how are you?

I am alright. Robert McCarthy – Robert W. Baird: A couple of cleanup questions here. Andy specifically how much did you take out of your second half growth forecast for Energy. You mentioned you added two to three points for Industrial?

Yes, I think we – as I mentioned, for the full year, we had taken down the guidance from flat to minus 5, to minus 5 for the full year. When you look from a quarterly standpoint, I would say it’s – it probably came down. In the back half, it probably came down about 5%, our core growth assumption. Robert McCarthy – Robert W. Baird: Yes, okay. And a similar question for Engineered Solutions, is – are you thinking that the number that you just saw for core growth is a peak number or is it possible that we could see higher comparisons yet before the year is over?

Yes, you will see a higher number. We expect the third quarter to be higher in terms of core growth than the roughly the 16 that we just saw. I will warn you that in the fourth quarter based on what we are expecting now we are going to see that step down still grow in the fourth quarter. But the wildcard is the – the European is planning to shut downs and a lot of the OEMs shut their plants down. So we are expecting the core growth to peak this year in the third quarter, up pretty nice from what we just reported, if that’s coming down into single digits in the fourth quarter. I think, yes, I just want to redirect back to that Energy question again Rob, just to be sure that I communicated that right. When I talked about and when we talked about our forecast for the balance of the year, it has come down. We are – we assumed that this business – when we laid out our guidance in the past, we said this was the wild card segment. We assumed the growth in the back half of the year. What we are building in now is less than we had before. So it’s not necessarily a lowering of where the trend is right now. It is our – we are probably too optimistic previously. It will be better in the back half than the first half, that’s less better if you will. Robert McCarthy – Robert W. Baird: Part of the full-year change would be what you saw in the quarter you just recorded? (Inaudible)?

Yes.

I think that is correct. Yes, okay. Robert McCarthy – Robert W. Baird: And then, Bob on a – well, just real quick, I just wanted to ask if you started hiring anywhere?

Yes, we have been hiring in Mexico, where we moved a number of product lines. We have been hiring a little bit in China, where we have been doing and we are hiring a little here in Milwaukee where we have our new campus, and they are going to have our centralized distribution center.

Those are – Milwaukee’s replacement that are (inaudible).

In total, though we are down about a 100 people in the quarter.

The one that is positive in here Rob is in Europe with auto and truck. We clearly have increased, but that’s substantially all temporary employees or we count that in headcount even (inaudible) employees, so we can track data. But clearly the direct labor count is not there, but they are temporary employees so –

And netting it altogether, those are all in and it’s not about a 100 for the quarter. Robert McCarthy – Robert W. Baird: Okay, very good. The bigger picture question I wanted to ask you Bob is now we have been through most of one complete cycle that that Actuant has been since the company under your leadership. What do you take away from this experience particularly in the need to spend the $40 million and to take out a lot of brick and mortar, not just cyclical headcount reduction, but also space. Actually I am wondering what do you takeaway from this that you can apply in the next cycle, so as to not to find yourselves in a – into position where you have to do kind of like a end of cycle capacity cleanup if you will.

That’s a – it’s a great question. It’s one we shared with our Board of Directors in a recent meeting. So I was surprised at how the diversity did not help us in this recession. Now I don’t know if we will ever see another one like the one we just went through. But – Robert McCarthy – Robert W. Baird: But Bob, don’t you think it did help you? I mean given the circumstances you have a pretty strong performance out of your Enerpac and Energy businesses.

Yes, but if I look across the whole platform against other diversified industrials, I got to a lower comp – a core growth of in the 20s. A lot of people didn’t see it that bad. Now, there is I think reasons for that. I had more vehicle exposure. And one of the things that’s bouncing back stronger and I think people like ITW see what we are seeing are bouncing back. We are going to get the benefit of a stronger bounce back, because we had more vehicle stuff going on the other side. We don’t have a lot of aerospace in the platform, okay? So that’s an area that hung in pretty well. We don’t have a lot of med tech, that’s an area that hung in a little better. I think if leader cycle is going to feel a little more then we are. But – so there are portfolio management type decisions about that we should hold. I think we are more aggressive on our acquisitions now. Things like the Simplex closure that Andy talked about. Maybe we should have done that right away rather than wait until the dire economy to force us to do it. So I think we have got a little more teeth on our acquisitions, on our cost structure, and I think that is – that’s the point. There is no question Rob that overall longer term, you would not have liked to have seen what these results would look like if we didn’t build an energy platform for example. I mean over the last three or four years, we have built a beautiful business there. And that held in there much better than some of the other businesses through the recession, okay? We built on to the Enerpac, Industrial business by expanding. That held in there better. So I think we did a lot of things right. I think maybe a little more aggressive in terms of costing, the cost you assume with part of acquisitions, and a little more aggressive on portfolio management, looking at really where you deploy the capital, and looking at a more longer term growth strategies than just what’s the thing going to do in the next couple of years. I would put those there. But there are also some real positives. The positive is Actuant knows how to get after things. We know how to execute when our backs are against the wall or anytime. And this management team really proves out with the restructuring. I mean we are getting the savings as advertised if not better. And that’s affording us this ability to spend some of that incremental money towards growth initiatives. Robert McCarthy – Robert W. Baird: Thanks Bob. It’s helpful.

Our next question comes from the line of Joe Mantello from Sidoti & Co. Please proceed with your question. Joe Mantello – Sidoti & Co.: Hi everyone.

Hi Mantello. Joe Mantello – Sidoti & Co.: Andy, could you repeat how much you have available on your revolver and update us with how much capital you are comfortable utilizing for acquisitions? And then also just give us a level of confidence on if you are going to make – whether you are going to make an acquisition over the next couple quarters and what that confidence level compares to say three, four months ago?

Sure. Yes, our revolver, it’s a $400 million revolver. We only had $25 million drawn at the end of the quarter. We had a little bit of (inaudible). So it’s – about $370 million of it was of unused capacity at the end of quarter on that by the end of this fiscal year I would expect the entire $400 million to be available given the forecasted cash flow for the balance of the year and M&A activity. In terms of M&A activity, we talked about a $100 million to a $150 million over a 12 months period. I think that’s still where we are at right now. It’s probably difficult to say if we are going to say that up right now since we haven’t done anything in the last 90 days. It’s certainly is not because there aren’t ideas out there, but you do want to force deals bad deals to happen just to make them happen. So we clearly have a lot more financial capacity to do more than that if we want to. But just from a comfort level where we are at right now in what we are seeing going forward, I think that’s a reasonable number. There is nothing big that we are looking at today. Joe Mantello – Sidoti & Co.: And then just regarding I guess confidence levels on whether closing a deal in the next couple of quarters, what do you guys think that as compared to say three, four months ago?

I was confident I was going to close one last time I got left at the alter. So I am confident. We have got three or four things that are scheduled to close. What does schedule to close mean? It means we are in the process of doing due diligence and we have a date booked on when we think things are going to close. But I had one of those last quarter and actually two of them, you are right, and they went away. So one thing is for sure about acquisitions, I will close five of them and you will be saying just the opposite. You will be saying how did so much activity happen in this quarter. It’s just the lumpy nature of what you do. And I think the beauty of having a lot in this system is you don’t get emotionally attached to any specific deal. And when they fall away, it leaves you the opportunity to really look at the thing clear headed. And as I said in my prepared remarks, sometimes you capitulate and sometimes you don’t. When you got a lot of activity, you are less liable to capitulate because there is plenty of other things to look at, plenty of fish in the sea. Joe Mantello – Sidoti & Co.: All right, great. And then in regards to the restructuring initiatives that you put in place in the Industrial segment this past quarter about $5 million I think it was. What is the payback for that look like? And what is the incremental benefit in this quarter look like?

The $5 million that I referred to Joe was not just Industrial. It was actually not industrial, it was primarily Energy and a little bit, a little bit in Electrical. It’s $5 million, the savings roughly 5 million bucks getting into quarters, not really going to get into that level of detail, there will be I would say probably not that much in the immediate quarter that will be savings coming through in our fiscal fourth quarter and the next couple of quarters after that. Joe Mantello – Sidoti & Co.: Actually I was referring to the $4.9 million that was the restructuring cost in the Industrial segment.

I am sorry. I was thinking you were referring to the new –

The incremental.

Yes, the stuff in the Industrial segment, I apologize, that included the noncash write-down of the Simplex property and some assets there. We did start realizing savings on that this quarter, because that was completed in some of it – some of the movements that were already happening at the end of the first quarter. It’s – we are probably – at this point, probably a two, three ways away from everything being cleaned out at the back of that facility. So the run rate is there, we have already started to realize dollars. That was already included in our original guidance in terms of the savings on it, so nothing – Joe Mantello – Sidoti & Co.: So would the payback be roughly a year, so that divided by four should be a rough estimate?

I – yes, I mean, generally speaking, yes. I mean if you look at our restructuring, it’s about a one-year payback. But I will remind you that there was a noncash hit. So you are not really getting a lot of savings off of a noncash hit.

Yes, so it’s the way GAAP requires you need to book is from a charge standpoint isn’t necessarily one that costs.

If we sell a business – the building in the next six months, you will have a very fast payback. Joe Mantello – Sidoti & Co.: Okay. And then very lastly, just in terms of the sales guidance for each segment, you spoke of the Energy segment being 5%. Could you give an update on the other three? I am not sure if you have mentioned that or not.

I don’t think I am going to get into specifics on those. I think what I have mentioned on Enerpac is we are up two to three points from where we were at before. Electrical is probably not that far off in where it was. And Engineered Solutions is up probably similar – similar range for the full year. Joe Mantello – Sidoti & Co.: Okay, great. Thanks a lot.

Yes.

And there are no further questions. At this time, I will turn the call back to you. Please continue with your presentation or closing remarks.

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