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John Lewis – Osmium Partners
Thanks good morning guys, just a couple quick questions, I guess first off for Bill, you talked about some pretty significant growth rates, I think you said in India, Scandinavia, Spain, Greece, can you talk about what kind of growth rate or where you are on China and maybe some other countries that have critical mass that are growing?
Bill Bennett
Yeah, thank you John, it’s a good question. China we grew but frankly it’s modest compared to what should be happening with China. The licensee partner we had in China has kind of had some up and down performance, we’ve met with them in September to discuss this and we’ve laid out kind of an attack plan this year of what we think we need to do to try to spur that on. Right now China is only down around 12% growth and so we are not by any stretch of the imagination maximizing that opportunity in China. This licensee partner there is connected to a, it’s a large organization so it should have the right type of resources to make it happen.
Both myself and Stefan [Mardique], the head of international, are traveling to China soon to spend quite a few days with them and go over the business plans and take a look at their objectives but I think that the bottom line for us is that unless we see the kind of growth at least that we’re seeing in India, we’ll have to make a change in that strategy there.
John Lewis – Osmium Partners
Thanks and then on other parts where you build, in terms of, you saw fairly significant improvement in your operating margins on the OSBU international side, I think they jumped, even when you adjust for Brazil and Mexico, I think you saw the operating margin jump from 20.5 to 27.5, can you just give a little color about what’s driving those operating margins?
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