Ursula M. Burns
Analyst · Cross Research
All right. So Europe was weak, but we did see modest, light -- modest improvement this quarter, particularly in equipment sales line and clearly in the areas that we're focusing on, color, throughout the spectrum, from small to large. Modest, very modest improvement there. But Southern Europe, weak; the rest of Western Europe, a little bit better than Southern Europe; and the Eastern European nations, which are reported in our Developing Markets Operations, generally stronger than all of the rest of Europe. In North America, we saw a continued trend from the fourth quarter, which was a little bit stronger than throughout the rest of 2011, which is good. So we didn't see any downturn there at all. We did see a little bit of weakness in supplies, primarily driven by timing of pricing increases and OEM sales, that kind of thing, but nothing systemic at all there. DMO, continued strength throughout the regions in DMO. Just about every place that we do business, we're seeing growth as those economies grow. We see SMB everywhere around the world doing better, particularly in our North American operations where we have a particular focus in moving coverage. We're seeing our Global Imaging operations do even well there. By the way, Fuji Xerox is having a good result as well, particularly in China and the Asia-Pac areas that they cover. That's also seeing growth. So I think that -- Services, by the way, one last is Services, in Europe in particular, we're starting to see expansion there, which is very good. It's still a very small portion of our business. But we're signing contracts, and as we go forward and get more traction there, we'll be able to actually call it out to you more specifically. As I told you before, Services in Latin America actually were stronger to start off with, particularly in our transportation segment. So across the world, we didn't see a significant change, except for in Europe, a little bit of pickup from a very depressed level and particularly in equipment sales.