Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first call comes from Andrew Steinerman.
Andrew Steinerman - JP Morgan
I'd like to start out, Brian, with just a big picture question about free flow and growth here. Obviously, this a year for free cash flow and you made your CapEx comment, but it also is a year where growth has decelerated. My question is as you look further out and growth reaccelerates into next year and beyond, do you feel like that will be a drag on cash flow?
Brian McKeon
No, Andrew, I think we're confident in our outlook. Obviously, at Investor Day we shared a multiyear view on this and that view incorporated the expectations for 2010 with some of the moderate improvement we're expecting on the growth fronts and obviously an improvement in growth [home stat] as we work through the economic downs that we're seeing currently.
And even with that improvement, we're targeting continued capital efficiencies and continued improvement in our cash flow. So, we think that we've got that reasonably figured into our long-term outlook. As we've often discussed there are a number of things that will aid our cash flow growth as we move forward in addition to the discipline that we've been applying.
We do expect to drive more growth from less capital intensive services. Areas like pricing are contributing more of our revenue growth over time than they have in the past, that's a positive factor in our business. So, this is not a short-term benefit from some change in volume, this is primarily driven by just increased discipline and focus and a real strategic emphasis on this as a key part of our financial strategy.
Andrew Steinerman - JP Morgan
My second question is about the preliminary 2010 outlook, which had a lot of different components in it given an Analyst Day, including 3% to 6% internal growth for 2010. I just wanted to make sure that you remain comfortable with the preliminary outlook that you gave for 2010 realizing it's still a little bit of a distance away.
Brian McKeon
We're not going to up update anything formally today but, obviously, it was just a few weeks ago and we're comfortable that that's a good range.
Operator
Your next question comes from Andrea Wirth – Robert Baird.
Andrea Wirth – Robert W. Baird & Company
I was wondering if you could just talk a little bit about the complimentary services, the growth rates there have been bouncing around a little bit, down call it roughly 15% then down six and now down roughly 15% again. I guess are things actually decelerating there sequentially, because I think the comp was actually easier especially since I think scrap paper prices are actually increasing sequentially. I just want to get a little bit more of a flavor as to what's going on in that business.
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